On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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
Thank you, Mr. Law. I think that this is something I'd really like to work on. As I start to take a peak into how hard/easy this is to implement, I may circle back and ask some additional technical questions. Thanks for your quick response! Will
