implementing escape analysis

Thu Feb 16 16:40:00 GMT 2006

Paul Biggar writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I've been looking at escape analysis in the past few days, and can't
 > find a decent reference implementation. I see on the project page that
 > escape analysis is wanted in gcj, and I thought I'd take a look
 > implementing it. Has anybody made any efforts at it before, or perhaps
 > does a prototype exists?
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/gupta/escape.ps
But I probably wouldn't recommend you to do it in a gcj-specific way.
gcj is merely the Java language front-end for gcc, and there may be a
plan for escape analysis that will suit all gcc's languages that can
use it.
Paging Diego Novillo...
Andrew.