[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC]Move is-align-a-power-of-two test up

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes:

> > > My guess: In this mode, icc only generates some intermediate code but no
> > > actual object code and does the real optimization, converting to asm
> > > and then to object code at the linking stage.
> > 
> > And without knowing much about compilers, I don't understand how ipo should
> > work differently.
> 
> It could (and IMO should) generate proper executable data in the .o file and
> use the intermediate format only in addition.

I understand, but this is not how icc -ipo currently works, afaict.

Carl Eugen