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* [Bug middle-end/82898] Aliasing knowledge is not used to replace memmove with memcpy
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@ 2020-03-20 21:05 ` msebor at gcc dot gnu.org
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From: msebor at gcc dot gnu.org @ 2020-03-20 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82898
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
See Also| |https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzill
| |a/show_bug.cgi?id=93745
Resolution|--- |INVALID
--- Comment #6 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
Just to clarify, since I keep forgetting this myself. The memmove -> memcpy
transformation for the test case isn't viable in GCC because the middle end
doesn't distinguish between the C test case in comment #3 and the following
valid C++ equivalent that changes the dynamic type of i[0] from int to float:
void* operator new (__SIZE_TYPE__, void *p) { return p; }
void foo(int* i, const float* f)
{
// i[0] = f[0]; // in C implies i != f
new (&i[0]) float (f[0]); // in C++ doesn't rule out that i == f
__builtin_memmove(i, f, 1024*1024);
}
(pr93745 discusses the same limitation.)
But even if GCC could make the assumption that i != f, it still wouldn't be
safe to transform he memmove call to memcpy because the overlap between the two
arrays could be inexact, as in:
void bar (void)
{
float *p = new float[1024 * 1024 + 1]{ };
foo ((int*)p, p + 1);
}
With that, I think this report can be resolved.
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