Re: GCC still keeps empty loops? (was: [patch 4/21] fix ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH)

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 02:45:48 EST

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On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 09:07:18PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Unbelievably, 3.1 doesn't remove empty loops either.
> I think there's a case for a compiler flag, `-fremove-empty-loops'.

Indeed ... It's sad having to scatter ifdefs over the code just because
gcc lacks this optimization ...

Ralf
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