From: Andre Vieira <Andre.SimoesDiasVieira@arm.com>
To: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][GCC] Make stackalign test LTO proof
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5649C158.50903@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiYyc0416DpS2RwWRAOC2HoUPP1U2DSwfksektXwyB2=bRT0w@mail.gmail.com>
On 13/11/15 10:34, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Andre Vieira
> <Andre.SimoesDiasVieira@arm.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch changes this testcase to make sure LTO will not optimize away
>> the assignment of the local array to a global variable which was introduced
>> to make sure stack space was made available for the test to work.
>>
>> This is correct because LTO is supposed to optimize this global away as at
>> link time it knows this global will never be read. By adding a read of the
>> global, LTO will no longer optimize it away.
>
> But that's only because we can't see that bar doesn't clobber it, else
> we would optimize away the check and get here again. Much better
> to mark 'dummy' with __attribute__((used)) and go away with 'g' entirely.
>
> Richard.
>
>> Tested by running regressions for this testcase for various ARM targets.
>>
>> Is this OK to commit?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andre Vieira
>>
>> gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
>> 2015-11-06 Andre Vieira <andre.simoesdiasvieira@arm.com>
>>
>> * gcc.dg/torture/stackalign/builtin-return-1.c: Added read
>> to global such that a write is not optimized away by LTO.
>
Hi Richard,
That would be great but __attribute__ ((used)) can only be used for
static variables and making dummy static would defeat the purpose here.
Cheers,
Andre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-16 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 15:07 Andre Vieira
2015-11-13 10:34 ` Richard Biener
2015-11-16 11:43 ` Andre Vieira [this message]
2015-11-16 13:33 ` Richard Biener
2015-11-16 14:08 ` Andre Vieira
2015-11-16 14:31 ` Richard Biener
2015-11-16 15:34 Joern Wolfgang Rennecke
2015-11-16 15:48 ` Andre Vieira
2015-11-17 12:29 ` Bernd Schmidt
2015-11-17 16:30 ` Andre Vieira
2015-12-04 15:19 ` Andre Vieira
2015-12-04 17:34 ` Bernd Schmidt
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