On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Daniel Berlin wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 21:49 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > > > > I guess the fix for PR tree-optimization/22555 could make some difference > > if fortran uses a lot of structures with embedded arrays. Basically this > > enables decomposing these structures for aliasing purposes and should > > generate better code. > > I'm still not convinced it's worth it, but apparently Diego was :). > > Except for tramp code, i've never really seen code that heavily uses > small arrays with constant index accesses.
Again, this is another patch you are thinking of. But this kind of array access is quite common in C/C++ array and vector manipulating code in graphics applications, f.i. Richard.