Re: Register allocation

Hi
      My question was more about knowing if any register promotion pass
is needed to remove such redundant load/stores of induction variables.
  Or would standard optimizations like strength reduction/ code motion
be good enough.


                When comparing between gcc for sparc and the code produced by
gcc cross compiler for MCORE, I found the former doing a better job.
The example was a simple loop with an assignment A[i] = i, 'A' being
an array and i being the induction vsriable. ideally it should be
possible to do this using just one store inside the loop but that
doesnt happen. gcc-sparc uses 2 loads/stores, gcc-MCORE uses 3. Is
there any exisiting technique which can be used to eliminate the
redundant store of the induction variable in the loop.


regards
Sumesh


TOUATI Sid <touati@prism.uvsq.fr> wrote
> It is hard to say why a compiler didn't make this or that optimization.
> Maybe the number of free registers isn't sufficient (I am not familiar
> with the MCORE platform).
> However, be sure that gcc isn't the most efficient compiler in terms of
> code optimization, especially with backend opptimization. Maybe by using
> the keywork "register" for your global variables, you can help gcc to
> decide.

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