> You still have the issue that // regular stuff may appear to possibly > clobber any_dump_enabled_p and thus repeated any_dump_enabled_p > checks are not optimized by the compiler (we don't have predicated > value-numbering (yet)).
> So I prefer the guard. I suppose after this discussion I prefer > a any_dump_enabled_p () guard instead of one with (repeated) flags. I have updated 'dump_enabled_p ()' a little bit in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-10/msg01690.html to avoid checking of flags. If this looks better, I can update the guard conditions in vectorization passes from 'if (dump_kind_p (...))' to 'if (dump_enabled_p ())'. Thanks, Sharad
