The Linux Kernel Targets Aren't Used by the Linux Kernel Targets

Last year I helped stabilize a so on xd6 Um, if you want to compile a program that's kind of like designed for a bare metal There's now a new target called xd6 64 dash unknown dash none which is appropriate for um if you're doing a kernel level stuff. The mere constant propagation Now has some data flow analysis going through where it can detect more cases where Values in your program actually are derived from constants in your program Which in turn enables other optimizers down the road. It knows that x has the value of zero. It's not runtime dependent and can run optimization space on That was a neat improvement to mere that was worth calling out.

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