On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Ondřej Bílka <nel...@seznam.cz> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 05:12:06PM +0100, Marc Glisse wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Ondřej Bílka wrote: >> >> >gcc currently does not even optimize following fragment: >> > >> >int foo(){ >> > char *x=malloc(64); >> > free(x); >> >} >> >> Yes it does. >> (not that more optimizations aren't possible, but it does this one) > Sorry I did checked this only with old gcc. Recent gcc does eliminates > this by DCE which was not point of that example. > > This is correct example. > > int foo(){ > char *x=malloc(64); > x[3]=4; > int z=x[3]; > free(x); > return z; > }
There is a bug that tracks this already. Richard. >> >> -- >> Marc Glisse >