optimization by as

[Virendra Kumar Pathak]

Hi Ian,

Could you please give some information on why MAO project is dead ?

Thanks.



On 11 August 2015 at 19:52, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Matthew Fortune
> <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com> wrote:
>> Virendra Kumar Pathak <kumarvir.pathak@gmail.com> writes:
>>> What other types of optimization can be handled by the assembler ?
>>> Are they capable of re-ordering the instructions ?
>>> For example inserting other instruction between two loads (on machine
>>> with one load unit) to avoid pipeline stall.
>>
>> No, that would then be a compiler/recompiler as it needs to do so much
>> analysis for safety. You 'can' do anything you like in the assembler
>> but probably shouldn't as it is not geared up for that kind of processing.
>
> Although for a while there was the MAO project:
> http://code.google.com/p/mao/ .  As far as I know, though, it is dead.
>
> Ian



-- 
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak