From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Reiner.Steib@gmx.de
Subject: Re: Variable "foo" is not available
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c5394c$Blat.v2.4$e4580a80@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050404133743.GA32163@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:37:44 -0400)
> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:37:44 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Reiner.Steib@gmx.de
>
> int foo();
> int foo2 (int *);
> int bar(int a)
> {
> foo ();
> a += 3;
> foo2 (&a);
> return a + foo();
> }
>
> 0: 55 push %ebp
> 1: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp
> 3: 83 ec 08 sub $0x8,%esp
> 6: e8 fc ff ff ff call 7 <bar+0x7>
> b: 83 45 08 03 addl $0x3,0x8(%ebp)
> f: 8d 45 08 lea 0x8(%ebp),%eax
> 12: 89 04 24 mov %eax,(%esp)
> 15: e8 fc ff ff ff call 16 <bar+0x16>
> 1a: e8 fc ff ff ff call 1b <bar+0x1b>
> 1f: 8b 55 08 mov 0x8(%ebp),%edx
> 22: 89 ec mov %ebp,%esp
> 24: 5d pop %ebp
> 25: 01 d0 add %edx,%eax
> 27: c3 ret
>
> See the instruction at 0xb?
But this kind of code is only possible if the compiler examines all
the callers of `bar' and finds that none of them uses the value of
`bar's argument after `bar' returns. So such code is probably only
possible in practice with static functions, right? Or am I missing
something?
Also, is such optimizations really worth it? I mean, the more
traditional code will mov the argument into a register and do the math
there; is adding to a memory location really faster than a mov and a
register-based add?
> GCC won't reuse the slot for an unrelated variable at present.
> However, in the future, it would be a valid optimization.
Again, only if the compiler has enough information about the callers,
right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-04 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-01 16:40 Reiner Steib
2005-04-01 17:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-02 9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-02 13:53 ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-02 14:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-06 16:25 ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-02 14:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-02 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-02 18:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-02 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-02 21:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-04 5:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-04 6:00 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-04-04 7:58 ` Daniel THOMPSON
2005-04-04 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-04 13:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-04 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-04-04 19:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-03 18:16 ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-08 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-04 9:26 ` Reiner Steib
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