Andrew MacLeod wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 19:32 -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: >> Aldy Hernandez wrote: >>> Hi folks. >>> >> Also, one thing to throw on your todo list about gimple >> temporaries/ssa_names is that a *lot* of places create one var per >> ssa_name for no good reason. >> >> IE >> foo = create_tmp_var (type); >> fooname = make_ssa_name (foo); >> >> This is a waste of time and VAR_DECL's unless type is always different, >> which in most of these cases, it's not. > > We could simply make make_ssa_name() smart enough that if we pass it a > type instead of a VAR_DECL that we'll get a canonical tmp variable for > that type. Thats pretty trivial...
Sure, the grunt part isn't doing that, it's auditing the places that call make_ssa_name to see if they can use this or not. :) > > Andrew >
