Re: -O4 in SunOS compiler

khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup)
Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:55:28 GMT

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From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup)
Organization: Sun MegaSystems
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:55:28 GMT
Keywords: C, optimize
References: 92-08-164

jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes:


      What does the -O4 switch do to the SunOS compiler?


Helps to be more precise about the version of the compiler in
question.


                                        4 Same as -O3, but trace the effects of
                                                  pointer assignments, gather aliasing
                                                  information, do parameter propagation,
                                                  and perform inlining.


is the text in C1.1.


By tracing the effects of pointer assignments it is sometimes
possible to perform "f77 style" optimizations.


The inlining works when the caller and the callee are in the same file
and a variety of heuristics regarding the expansion are satisfied.
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