"Dennis, CHENG Renquan" <crquan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > And what does IPA mean ? 3 initial letter of "Inter Procedual A..." ? > What does 'A' stand for? > > /* Interprocedural optimization passes. */ > p = &all_small_ipa_passes; IPA => interprocedural analysis. It's approximately the same thing as interprocedural optimization. The distinction is that historically gcc separated some of the tasks. E.g., when the ipa-inline pass was introduced, it did not actually do any inlining; instead, it decided which functions should be inlined, and the actual inlining was done later. That separation is no longer as clean as it was, but the name persists. Ian
