From d8ca8edbd382425e96d424c33e8d5ee99dfc6391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam James Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 09:02:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: explicitly say 'lifetime' for DCE Say 'memory lifetime' rather than 'memory life' as lifetime is the more standard term nowadays (indeed we have e.g. -fno-lifetime-dse). It's also easier to grep for if someone is looking for the documentation on where we do that. gcc/ChangeLog: * doc/passes.texi (Dead code elimination): Explicitly say 'lifetime' as this has become the standard term for what we're doing here. Signed-off-by: Sam James --- gcc/doc/passes.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gcc/doc/passes.texi b/gcc/doc/passes.texi index eb2bb6062834..470ac498a132 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/passes.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/passes.texi @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ and is defined by @code{pass_early_warn_uninitialized} and @item Dead code elimination This pass scans the function for statements without side effects whose -result is unused. It does not do memory life analysis, so any value +result is unused. It does not do memory lifetime analysis, so any value that is stored in memory is considered used. The pass is run multiple times throughout the optimization process. It is located in @file{tree-ssa-dce.cc} and is described by @code{pass_dce}. -- 2.47.2