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Fran Baena wrote:

> The issue i dont understand is why alias analysis is done before the
> SSA pass

It isn't.  You are reading very stale documentation.  That was the 
status when we were only doing type-based alias analysis.  You should 
read the current implementation and documents.  See 
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted.


Diego.