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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@foss.arm.com>
Cc: tbsaunde+gcc@tbsaunde.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] start converting POINTER_SIZE to a hook
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150730001438.GA28541@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B8A808.3020303@foss.arm.com>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:16:40AM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> I'm getting a bit worried about the potential performance impact from
> all these indirect function call hooks.  This is a good example of when
> it's probably somewhat unnecessary.  I doubt that the compiler could
> function correctly if this ever changed in the middle of a function.

It is also very ugly and much harder to read: it is longer, with more
useless interpunction, and there is nothing that makes clear it is a
constant.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-30  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-27  3:10 tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:10 ` [PATCH 9/9] emit-rtl.c: switch to targetm.pointer_size () tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:10 ` [PATCH 2/9] add pointer_size target hook tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:10 ` [PATCH 7/9] stor-layout.c: switch to targetm.pointer_size () tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:10 ` [PATCH 4/9] varasm.c: switch from POINTER_SIZE " tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  9:32   ` Richard Biener
2015-07-27  3:10 ` [PATCH 3/9] target.h: change to use targetm.pointer_size instead of POINTER_SIZE tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:10 ` [PATCH 1/9] remove POINTER_SIZE_UNITS macro tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:10 ` [PATCH 5/9] ubsan.c: switch from POINTER_SIZE to targetm.pointer_size () tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:42 ` [PATCH 6/9] tree-chkp.c: switch " tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  3:49 ` [PATCH 8/9] tree.c: " tbsaunde+gcc
2015-07-27  9:26 ` [PATCH 0/9] start converting POINTER_SIZE to a hook Richard Biener
2015-07-27 16:20   ` Jeff Law
2015-07-27 20:15     ` Richard Sandiford
2015-07-28  5:52       ` Trevor Saunders
2015-07-28 20:36         ` Richard Sandiford
2015-07-29  4:44           ` Trevor Saunders
2015-07-29  8:32             ` Richard Sandiford
2015-07-30  8:13               ` Trevor Saunders
2015-07-30 22:30                 ` Richard Sandiford
2015-07-28  3:47     ` Trevor Saunders
2015-07-29 10:40 ` Richard Earnshaw
2015-07-30  4:55   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2015-07-30 13:42 David Edelsohn
2015-07-30 22:26 ` Richard Sandiford

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