[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] prog_optimize: Add reads without writes optimization pass

[Eric Anholt]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:59:31 -0700, Tom Stellard <tstellar at gmail.com> wrote:
> This pass scans programs for instructions that read registers that have
> not been written and replaces these reads with a read from a constant
> register with the value of zero.  This pass prevents phantom
> dependencies from being introduced by the register allocator and
> improves the efficiency of subsequent optimization passes.

I'm not sure why optimizing a program with undefined behavior (using
undefined register values) is interesting.  It just seems like an
opportunity to make a mistake and break programs that should have
defined behavior.
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