From: Agner Fog <agner@agner.org>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it OK that gcc optimizes away overflow check?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2D8DD3.1050001@agner.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2D3AA9.1050207@redhat.com>
On 25-07-2011 11:43, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 23/07/11 21:13, Agner Fog wrote:
>> 5). I have tested many different C++ compilers, and gcc turned out to be
>> the one that optimizes best.
> Well yes, and one of the reasons for this is that we take advantage of
> integer overflow being undefined. There is an entire class of
> optimizations (loop induction variable optimization) that is difficult
> of impossible without taking advantage of this. We don't do this kind
> of thing without good reason.
Actually, I think we can have the cake and eat it here. If gcc behaves
reasonably safe by default and then makes warnings in case of missed
optimization opportunities. The programmer should then have the
opportunity to enable the desired optimizations, for example with
pragmas at the critical places in the code. If the programmer doesn't
need the best optimization then he would not enable those warnings and
would be safe without having to care.
We already have the opportunity to allow the optimizer to ignore pointer
aliasing at specific places with the 'restrict' keyword. It would be
nice to have a similar opportunity to tell the compiler where it can
ignore overflow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-25 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 20:14 Agner Fog
2011-07-23 21:06 ` Jeffrey Walton
2011-07-25 6:07 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-07-25 6:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-07-25 8:32 ` Agner Fog
2011-07-25 17:18 ` me22
2011-07-25 17:50 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-07-26 9:39 ` Agner Fog
2011-07-26 10:35 ` Andrew Haley
2011-07-26 17:31 ` Andrew Haley
2011-07-27 15:03 ` Agner Fog
2011-07-26 14:55 ` Jeffrey Walton
[not found] ` <4E2E6CC6.3040106@agner.org>
2011-07-26 14:44 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-07-26 16:24 ` Agner Fog
2011-07-26 18:17 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-07-25 9:43 ` Andrew Haley
2011-07-25 15:38 ` Agner Fog [this message]
2011-07-25 16:22 ` Andrew Haley
2011-07-30 23:30 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-01 8:59 ` Andrew Haley
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