On 05/16/2017 12:24 PM, Will Hawkins wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I apologize if this is not the right venue to ask this question and/or > this is a waste of your time. > > I was just wondering if there are statistics that gcc can emit that > includes either a) the average number of instructions per basic block > and/or b) the average size (in bytes) per basic block in a compilation > unit. > > If nothing like this exists, I am more than happy to code something up > if people besides me think that it might be interesting. > > I promise that I googled for information before asking, but I can't > guarantee that I didn't miss anything. Again, I apologize if I just > needed to RTFM better. I don't think we have anything which inherently will give you this information.
It'd be a useful thing to have though. Implementation may be made more difficult by insns that generate > 1 instruction. Jeff
