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@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Objective-C and Objective-C++ Dialects}.
-fsignaling-nans -fsingle-precision-constant -fspeculative-prefetching @gol
-fstrength-reduce -fstrict-aliasing -ftracer -fthread-jumps @gol
-funroll-all-loops -funroll-loops -fpeel-loops @gol
--funswitch-loops @gol
+-fsplit-ivs-in-unroller -funswitch-loops @gol
-ftree-pre -ftree-ccp -ftree-dce -ftree-loop-optimize @gol
-ftree-loop-linear -ftree-loop-im -ftree-loop-ivcanon -fivopts @gol
-ftree-dominator-opts -ftree-dse -ftree-copyrename @gol
@@ -4696,6 +4696,20 @@ the loop is entered. This usually makes programs run more slowly.
@option{-funroll-all-loops} implies the same options as
@option{-funroll-loops},
+@item -fsplit-ivs-in-unroller
+@opindex -fsplit-ivs-in-unroller
+Enables expressing of values of induction variables in later iterations
+of the unrolled loop using the value in the first iteration. This breaks
+long dependency chains, thus improving efficiency of the scheduling passes
+(for best results, @option{-fweb} should be used as well).
+
+Combination of @option{-fweb} and CSE is often sufficient to obtain the
+same effect. However in cases the loop body is more complicated than
+a single basic block, this is not reliable. It also does not work at all
+on some of the architectures due to restrictions in the CSE pass.
+
+This optimization is enabled by default.
+
@item -fprefetch-loop-arrays
@opindex fprefetch-loop-arrays
If supported by the target machine, generate instructions to prefetch
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