Re: Cgraph alias reorg 15/14 (New infrastructure for same body aliases)

[Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>]

> On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > this patch complettes the same body alias rework by removing the old same body
> > alias code and adding new representation.  Same body aliases are now separate
> > function nodes that have IPA_REF_ALIAS reference to the node they are alias of.
> >
> > I am still getting one failure:
> > FAIL: g++.dg/torture/pr43879-1_1.C
> >
> > It tests IPA PTA in presence of same body aliases.  I honestly have no idea
> > what is wrong there.  I decided to go ahead with the patch anyway, given the
> > current state of affair of aliases and IPA-PTA. Hope Richard will help me
> > fixing this on Monday.
> 
> Still there, see again PR49373.  Anything better than a xfail in the works?

Yes, we discussed the problem with Richi and the issue is that ipa-pta gets
confused by inliner redirecting edge from alias to the real inline clone.
The proper fix is to teach passmanager to do small ipa passes before final
compilation.  I am currently at the GCC gathering, so I plan to implement
this day after tomorrow after returning.

Honza
> 
> brgds, H-P