On 20/05/15 14:37, David Howells wrote:
Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

I was thinking of "y" as a simple variable, but if it is something more
complex, then the compiler could do this, right?

        char *x;

        y;
        x = z;

Yeah.  I presume it has to maintain the ordering, though.

The scheduler for e.g. is free to reorder if it can prove there is no dependence (or indeed side-effects for y) between insns produced for y and `x = z'.

regards
Ramana


David

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