implementing escape analysis

Thu Feb 16 18:00:00 GMT 2006

David Daney wrote:
> I keep threatening to do this for gcj, but was thinking that the best 
> place to do it may be the front end. Once in tree-ssa form it is more 
> difficult to figure out that a call to _Jv_AllocObject followed by a 
> call to the constructor is the equivalent of the 'new' operator.

Why is that relevant to escape analysis? A constructor is just
another method, in this context.
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