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From: Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Simple SSA status
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 21:37:17 +0100
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Hi Luc,

On 4 September 2017 at 21:07, Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> wrote:

> About the phi-sources, I agree strongly with this. To me these
> phi-sources are just a nuisance. Once things will be in better
> shape, I'll see what can be done to get rid of them (quite a bit
> of the logic depends on them for the moment, though).
>

As you know the backend relies upon the phisrc instruction and treats
it like a 'store' while treating the phi instructions as 'loads'.
Selfishly I would like this to remain as it seems changing it is not
necessary, but nice to have?

Regards
Dibyendu