[M3devel] optimizer problems

[Jay K]

I already tried that.. :(
 
 
 - Jay


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> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:37:45 -0400
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] optimizer problems
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> You should be able to mark it as used.
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> On 4 Jun 2010, at 12:29, Jay K wrote:
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>> Just a note that I have found at least two pieces of code that fail to compile with optimization enabled, even in the release branch.
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>> One is a simple case involving unused nested functions.
>> One is a complicated not really understood case.
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>> To fix these I have pessimized the optimizer in the release branch but turning off two optimizations.
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>> It would be nice to find a better fix for the first.
>> Even something sleazy like having the front end report up front to the backend if there are any nested functions in the unit, and only pessimizing such units.
>> There is probably also a fix to gcc around preserving nested functions. I thought code in varasm.c was suspicious but couldn't get it to work quickly.
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