On Jan 23, 2008 8:18 AM, Bingfeng Mei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > We are porting GCC 4.2.1 for our VLIW processor. To improve performance, > support of restrict keyword is imperative. From what I learn from GCC > documentation, "restrict" should be well supported since GCC3. Somehow, > I found it doesn't improve schedule even for simple example.
> Any hint to produce efficient code with "restrict" keyword? Thank in > advance. You should try the trunk which has improved restrict support via the merging of the pointer plus infrastructure. There is still more to support restrict after the tree-ssa merge but those are waiting until 4.4. Thanks, Andrew Pinski