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Does gcc hoist memory-reference based loop invariant?

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For the below simple case, I think poly1[i] should be hoisted to outermost loop to avoid loading from innermost loop at each iteration.
But for arm-none-eabi target like cortex-m4, gcc fails to do so. I this a normal case or a missing optimization? Please advise.

void
PolyMul (float *poly1, unsigned int n1,
 float *poly2, unsigned int n2,
 float *polymul, unsigned int *nmul)
{
 unsigned int i, j;

 for (i = 0; i for (j = 0; j polymul[i+j] += poly1[i] * poly2[j];
}
posted Jun 13, 2013 by anonymous

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Unless you use 'restrict' qualifier to the pointer type, I don't think compiler can do such optimization due to aliasing issue.

answer Jun 13, 2013 by anonymous
Also I don't think -fstrict-aliasing could help for your case. Becase poly1, poly2, and polymul are all 'float *' pointer type.
commented Jun 13, 2013 by anonymous
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