On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:53:30AM -0000, Wolfram Gloger wrote: > Surely you agree that in my second example, "*p = 0" _cannot_ be moved > after the call to destroy_something_and_allocate_anotherthing(p)?
It can't be moved after, but it could be removed entirely as dead code. I don't think we have a pass that will do that presently, but I see no reason why it couldn't happen some day, more or less automatically, with a pass that analyzes lifetimes of dynamic allocations. r~
