From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds@codesourcery.com>
To: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emit more REG_EQUIV notes for function args (PR42235)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3E2C62.40808@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3E07EF.1030306@redhat.com>
On 07/14/2010 08:54 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 07/14/10 05:14, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
>> When moving arguments into pseudos, we are being very careful not to
>> emit any instructions that could possibly clobber other argument
>> registers. Currently, we generate unnecessarily complicated sequences
>> of code for simple zero or sign extensions.
>>
>> With this patch, we check can_extend_p and the necessary predicates to
>> see if an extend insn is available for the conversion we have to do.
> Right, but what guarantee do we have that the conversion insn doesn't
> clobber a function argument register? ISTM that to be safe you
> actually have to scan the insns created by gen_extend_insn to ensure
> they don't clobber something important.
>
> I'm not an expert on what ports do these days, but I did work on a port
> (mn10200) where conversion "insns" where implemented as special function
> calls under the hood. I don't recall if we allowed those special
> function calls to have visible side effects, but if they did, they'd
> show up as clobbers/uses attached to the normal conversion insn. Of
> course the mn102 is dead, but I think it's method for implementing
> conversions was valid and if another port were to do something similar
> it would likely not interact well with your change.
Hmm, ok. That's awful, but I kind of expected someone would say that.
Did this really happen for integer zero/sign extend, or only for
floating point stuff?
If necessary I can try to test for a single insn with single_set and
push it to the sequence otherwise.
Bernd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-14 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-14 11:14 Bernd Schmidt
2010-07-14 18:54 ` Jeff Law
2010-07-14 21:30 ` Bernd Schmidt [this message]
2010-07-14 22:28 ` Jeff Law
2010-07-15 17:14 ` Bernd Schmidt
2010-07-15 21:26 ` Jeff Law
2010-07-19 9:55 ` Bernd Schmidt
2010-07-19 16:51 ` Jeff Law
2010-07-19 16:53 ` Bernd Schmidt
2010-07-19 16:59 ` Richard Henderson
2010-07-19 17:09 ` Jeff Law
2010-07-19 19:06 ` John David Anglin
2010-07-21 22:53 ` Bernd Schmidt
2010-07-14 21:48 ` Bernd Schmidt
2010-07-14 22:22 ` Jeff Law
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