[cfe-dev] "You don't pay for what you don't use" principle violation?

[Fernando Pelliccioni]

Sorry, here the assembly code

http://pastebin.com/aY8rAXyQ


On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Fernando Pelliccioni <fpelliccioni at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there any reason why the following code produces the attached assembly
> code?
>
>     struct X { int v; };
>
>     int func( X** x, int n )
>     {
>         int sum = 0;
>
>         while ( n > 0 )
>         {
>             sum += (*x)->v;
>             ++x;
>             --n;
>         }
>         return sum;
>     }
>
>     int main() {}
>
> The "func" function is not used, I think it should be omitted by the
> compiler.
>
> If I change the function to a template function
>
>     template <typename T>
>     int func( T** x, int n )
>     {
>         int sum = 0;
>
>         while ( n > 0 )
>         {
>             sum += (*x)->v;
>             ++x;
>             --n;
>         }
>         return sum;
>     }
>
> Then, no code is generated.
>
>
> Compiled using:
>     clang++ -S -O3 -std=c++11 -S code.cpp
>
> clang++ --version
>     clang version 3.5 (trunk 200620)
>     Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
>     Thread model: posix
>
>
> Best,
> Fernando.
>
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