Re: open64 versus gcc

Gary Oblock <mwso@earthlink.net>
3 Dec 2006 21:34:35 -0500

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From: Gary Oblock <mwso@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Dec 2006 21:34:35 -0500
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Keywords: GCC, arithmetic
Posted-Date: 03 Dec 2006 21:34:35 EST

Diego Novillo wrote:


> dz wrote on 11/29/06 00:52:
>> The criteria I am looking for is stability and the strength of some
>> basic analysis in the compiler such as alias analysis. Can anyone
>> comment on that ?
>
> For alias analysis, GCC uses a fairly sophisticated constraint-based
> points-to analysis and complements it with type-based disambiguation.
> You can read about it in the various GCC Summit proceedings over the
> last 2-3 years. You can find them in http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki
>
> I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "some basic analysis", but you
> will find GCC a fairly featureful compiler. In terms of strength, GCC
> is the system compiler of every Linux distribution out there, so it is
> thoroughly tested and breaking it takes a bit of effort.


I was worked on a custom VLIW scheduler grafted into gcc 4.x and at the
RTL level the alias information available wasn't all that great in my
opinion. I think there is a fundementail lack of communication between
the tree level and the RTL levels because though the initial RTL
generated has a way to get at the tree level information the subsequent
optimizations need to preserve it (which they don't.)


-- Gary


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