Re: Eliminate break/continue statements in loops

It's standard practice to invert the condition and jump to the loop
exit code to "eliminate breaks and continues.


Roland Lei_a wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently working on a optimization algorithm. So far it works on
> simple programs with a linear control flow, if-else-constructs, simple
> while loops and simple do-while loops. The constructs may be nested.
> With a simple loop I mean a loop which does not make use of continue,
> break or even goto.
>
> I know that irreducible CFGs can be transformed to reducible ones by
> node splitting. So I don't have to worry about cross edges if I
> implement that. But my question is whether there has been done some
> research to eliminate continue and break statements out of loops so an
> equivalent program results which does only make use of simple loops.

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