Archive for the ‘GIMPLE FE Project’ Category

Update on Gimple FE

Posted: August 10, 2010 in GIMPLE FE Project

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 [...]

LTO in GCC

Posted: May 15, 2010 in GIMPLE FE Project

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 [...]