Its been a while that I have not added anything to this category. So its a good time that I give a short update on it here (I don’t know who actually reads my stuff here and that too if its GCC specific). Anyways, currently the work on Gimple FE is going on in full [...]
Archive for the ‘GIMPLE FE Project’ Category
GCC, with its current release (4.5) has added a very important feature to the compiler, that of Link time optimization (LTO). This feature enables GCC to perform global optimizations on many object files at the time of linking. This has made possible for efficient inter procedural analysis (IPA) and whole program analysis (WPA). Internally LTO [...]