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From: "gabravier at gmail dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug tree-optimization/90838] Detect table-based ctz implementation
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:41:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-90838-4-N5DnTRLIFw@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-90838-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90838

--- Comment #19 from Gabriel Ravier <gabravier at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #14)
> The patch does:
> +      bool zero_ok = CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO (TYPE_MODE (type), ctzval)
> == 2;
> +
> +      /* Skip if there is no value defined at zero, or if we can't easily
> +        return the correct value for zero.  */
> +      if (!zero_ok)
> +       return false;
> +      if (zero_val != ctzval && !(zero_val == 0 && ctzval == type_size))
> +       return false;
> For CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO == 1 we could support it the same way but we'd
> need
> to emit into the IL an equivalent of val == 0 ? zero_val : .CTZ (val) (with
> GIMPLE_COND and a separate bb - not sure if anything in forwprop creates new
> basic blocks right now), where there is a high chance that RTL opts would
> turn it back into unconditional
> ctz.
> That still wouldn't help non--mbmi x86, because CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO is
> 0 there.
> We could handle even that case by doing the branches around, but those would
> stay there
> in the generated code, at which point I wonder whether it would be a win. 
> The original
> code is branchless...

If the original code being branchless makes it faster, wouldn't that imply that
we should use the table-based implementation when generating code for
`__builtin_ctz` ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-17 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-90838-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
2019-06-11 22:47 ` wdijkstr at arm dot com
2023-02-17  2:20 ` gabravier at gmail dot com
2023-02-17  2:44 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-02-17 10:34 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-02-17 12:57 ` wilco at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-02-17 13:03 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-02-17 14:27 ` wilco at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-02-17 14:33 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-02-17 14:41 ` gabravier at gmail dot com [this message]
2023-02-17 14:45 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-02-17 16:32 ` wilco at gcc dot gnu.org

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