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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias@virtutech.se>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request of new __attribute__ for switch statements (elimination of the bounds check)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210151129.g9FBTIs24008@virtutech.se> (raw)

>There is a value-range-propagation branch that will do it.  Comes at a
>considerable cost in compile time though.

VRP, while definitely desirable for other reasons, should not be needed just
for determining that the range test for a fully populated switch can be
skipped. Even stuff like 

    switch (x & 127) { case 0: ... case 127: ... }

should not need full VRP, or am I mistaken?

Both Sun WorkShop C and Intel C understand this code right away with no extra
hints. Microsoft Visual C needs the hint __assume(0) in the default: branch,
but at least it's possible to eliminate the range test that way.

             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-15  6:43 Mattias Engdegård [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-16  9:19 Robert Dewar
2002-10-15 22:40 Robert Dewar
2002-10-15 23:57 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-11 13:22 Robert Dewar
2002-10-11 15:12 ` Kevin Lawton
2002-10-12 10:43   ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-10-11 13:20 Kevin Lawton
2002-10-12  4:18 ` Ralph Loader
2002-10-14  8:31 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-10-14 10:09   ` Dale Johannesen
2002-10-14 21:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-14 22:01   ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-15  8:12     ` Michael Matz
2002-10-15 19:15       ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-15 19:18         ` Dale Johannesen
2002-10-16 14:07           ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-15 21:16         ` Kevin Lawton
2002-10-15 23:40           ` Tim Hollebeek
2002-10-16  3:40             ` Michael Matz
2002-10-16 13:38               ` Tim Hollebeek
2002-10-16 14:23                 ` Michael Matz
2002-10-16 13:27             ` Hartmut Schirmer
2002-10-16  3:25         ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-10-16  7:57           ` Fergus Henderson
2002-10-16 11:19           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-10-15  7:54   ` Michael Matz
2002-10-15 13:29     ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-15 14:06       ` Kevin Lawton
2002-10-15 15:32         ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-15 14:28       ` Michael Matz
2002-10-15 15:19         ` Jamie Lokier

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