Re: Automaticly eliminating redundant zero initialisers

From: Martin v. Loewis (martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 16:03:14 EST


> > So does anyone know how we would go about convincing gcc to
> > perform the optimisation of redundant zero initialisers in Linux
> > kernel code?
>
> Come up with a summary of all points made, pro and con, post it, ask
> for additional comments, if any, and then the people that can decide
> the issue can read it, make up their mind... It may come out how you
> want, or it may not.

Taking his question literally, I'd like to point to

http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/fom.cgi?file=12

i.e. to have gcc behave differently, the best approach is to change
the gcc source code...

Regards,
Martin

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