On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 10:03 AM Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Say 'memory lifetime' rather than 'memory life' as lifetime is the more
> standard term nowadays (indeed we have e.g. -fno-lifetime-dse).
>
> It's also easier to grep for if someone is looking for the documentation on
> where we do that.
OK
> gcc/ChangeLog:
> * doc/passes.texi (Dead code elimination): Explicitly say 'lifetime'
> as this has become the standard term for what we're doing here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <s...@gentoo.org>
> ---
> gcc/doc/passes.texi | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gcc/doc/passes.texi b/gcc/doc/passes.texi
> index eb2bb6062834..470ac498a132 100644
> --- a/gcc/doc/passes.texi
> +++ b/gcc/doc/passes.texi
> @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ and is defined by @code{pass_early_warn_uninitialized} and
> @item Dead code elimination
>
> This pass scans the function for statements without side effects whose
> -result is unused. It does not do memory life analysis, so any value
> +result is unused. It does not do memory lifetime analysis, so any value
> that is stored in memory is considered used. The pass is run multiple
> times throughout the optimization process. It is located in
> @file{tree-ssa-dce.cc} and is described by @code{pass_dce}.
> --
> 2.42.0
>
