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From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>,
	mark@codesourcery.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compiler uses a lot of memory for large initialized arrays
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <425929.1102007117190.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@extimap.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412021631560.26457@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Dec 02, 2004 05:34 PM, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> > This test case works fine with 2.95.3.  Looking into the patches I
> > came across this note from you from four years ago:
> >     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg00937.html
> 
> And hopefully you came across the November part of the thread as well: C99 
> designated initializers allow
> 
> int i[10000000] = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, /* ... */
> 9999998, 9999999, [0] = -1 };
> 
> which stops optimizing in the simplest way by writing out initializers to 
> the assembler output before the whole initializer has been parsed.

Ouch.

Do we disable this if -std!=c99?

Gr.
Steven

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 16:08 Ian Lance Taylor
2004-12-02 16:34 ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-12-02 17:03   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-12-02 17:05   ` Steven Bosscher [this message]
2004-12-02 17:12     ` Richard Guenther
2004-12-02 17:17       ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-12-02 17:29         ` Peter Barada
2004-12-02 17:39           ` Mark Mitchell
2004-12-02 17:42           ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-12-02 17:49           ` Dave Korn
2004-12-02 17:36       ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-02 18:18   ` Joe Buck
2004-12-02 18:23     ` Mark Mitchell
2004-12-02 17:31 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-12-02 17:33 ` Giovanni Bajo

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