[LLVMdev] Box removal

[Eli Friedman]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:56 AM, James Molloy <james.molloy at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
>
> LLVM cannot remove the malloc calls, as malloc() has a sideeffect and that
> would be changing the behaviour of the program.

Wrong; LLVM can and will remove calls to malloc().  There isn't any
way for a program to observe whether a particular malloc() call runs.

-Eli