Re: Is PRE architecture dependent? aarch64 vs x86_64

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* David Brown:

> I am guessing that this transformation is being done on internal
> representation of the code - but I don't know the details of how these
> work in gcc.  (One day, I'd love to have the time to learn.)  It might
> well be that there is no way in that representation to request that
> these multiplies be two's complement wrapping when the main context is
> UB overflow.  If that's the case, then I can understand how that
> optimisation is not applied - but that would be a limitation of the
> internal representation rather than a fundamental issue with the
> optimisation.

Yes, that's what I meant.  It's a limitation of GCC's IR, I think.
(Obviously no expert in this matter.)

Thanks,
Florian




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