http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47000
Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Target Milestone|--- |4.5.3 --- Comment #27 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-12-28 14:57:37 UTC --- (In reply to comment #24) > VCE is often very expensive though (often a memory store followed by memory > load into a different register, etc.), so 0 unconditionally is IMHO wrong. > Perhaps for some TYPE_MODE combinations at most. I think assuming VCE is zero-cost on the tree level makes sense though, as they tend to get away usually (that is, when they appear in regular code, not as a result of weird type punnings).