[PATCH][PPC] Remove unnecessary local variable mptwo

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
Thu Jan 10 19:03:00 GMT 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:06:39AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> It seems appropriate to check.  In many cases an initialized local like
> that gets folded into its uses and occupies no stack space and uses less
> code compared to the load from a global.

I just checked now and it's dead code; removing it makes absolutely no
difference.  The compiler somehow picked up the global variable all
along.

Siddhesh



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