> So sorry to be awkward, but I don't think this is the way to go.  I think
> we'll just end up playing whack-a-mole and adding df_note_add_problem to
> lots of passes.

We have doing that for the past 15 years though, so what has changed?

> (FTR, I'm not saying passes have to avoid false negatives, just false
> positives.  If a pass updates an instruction with a REG_UNUSED note,
> and the pass is no longer sure whether the register is unused or not,
> the pass can just delete the note.)

Reintroducing the manual management of such notes would be a step backward.

-- 
Eric Botcazou


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