[LLVMdev] Correctness of Optimization Phases

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, [UTF-8] Rafael Esp?ndola wrote:
>> From a practical point of view, I think that the original question was:
>
> Are the different optimizations "expected" to work in any order or do
> they have some inter dependencies?
> (I don't know the answer)

There are some interdependencies, which they self enforce.

To put it another way any list of optimizations specified to 'opt' is 
expected to produce good code and not crash, if you stick to supported 
optimizations (e.g. those run by gccas or gccld).

-Chris

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