Jan Hubicka wrote: > I though the comment was more reffering to fact that we will happily > generate > movl $0x0, place1 > movl $0x0, place2 > ... > movl $0x0, placeMillion > > rather than shorter > xor %eax, %eax > movl %eax, ...
Yes, that would be an improvement, but, as you say, at some point we want to call memset. > With the repeated mov issue unforutnately I don't know what would be the > best place: we obviously don't want to constrain register allocation too > much and after regalloc I guess only machine dependent pass I would hope that we could notice this much earlier than that. Wouldn't this be evident even at the tree level or at least after stack-allocation in the RTL layer? I wouldn't expect the zeroing to be coming from machine-dependent code. One possibility is that we're doing something dumb with arrays. Another possibility is that we're SRA-ing a lot of small structures, which add up to a ton of stack space. I realize that we need a full bug report to be sure, though. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713