From: Oleg Endo <oleg.endo@t-online.de>
To: Jeff Law <jlaw@ventanamicro.com>,
"gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: Jivan Hakobyan <jivanhakobyan9@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] New pass for sign/zero extension elimination
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:22:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b865c34a380c7d08514ce5da8956d798e3478a8.camel@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d5f8ba7-0c60-4789-87ae-68617ce6ac2c@ventanamicro.com>
On Sun, 2023-11-19 at 17:47 -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
> This is work originally started by Joern @ Embecosm.
>
> There's been a long standing sense that we're generating too many
> sign/zero extensions on the RISC-V port. REE is useful, but it's really
> focused on a relatively narrow part of the extension problem.
>
> What Joern's patch does is introduce a new pass which tracks liveness of
> chunks of pseudo regs. Specifically it tracks bits 0..7, 8..15, 16..31
> and 32..63.
>
> If it encounters a sign/zero extend that sets bits that are never read,
> then it replaces the sign/zero extension with a narrowing subreg. The
> narrowing subreg usually gets eliminated by subsequent passes (it's just
> a copy after all).
>
Have you tried it on SH, too? (and if so any numbers?)
It sounds like this one would be great to remove some of the sign/zero
extension removal hackery that I've accumulated in the SH backend.
Cheers,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-20 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-20 0:47 Jeff Law
2023-11-20 1:22 ` Oleg Endo [this message]
2023-11-20 2:51 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-20 2:57 ` Oleg Endo
2023-11-20 2:23 ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-11-20 2:46 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-20 2:52 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-20 3:32 ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-11-20 3:48 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-20 18:26 ` Richard Sandiford
2023-11-22 17:59 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-27 20:15 ` Richard Sandiford
2023-11-20 18:56 ` Dimitar Dimitrov
2023-11-22 22:23 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-26 16:42 ` rep.dot.nop
2023-11-27 16:14 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-27 11:30 ` Andrew Stubbs
2023-11-27 16:16 ` Jeff Law
2023-12-01 1:08 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2023-12-01 15:09 ` Jeff Law
2023-12-01 16:17 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2023-11-27 17:36 Joern Rennecke
2023-11-27 17:57 ` Joern Rennecke
2023-11-27 20:03 ` Richard Sandiford
2023-11-27 20:18 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-28 13:36 ` Joern Rennecke
2023-11-28 14:09 ` Joern Rennecke
2023-11-30 17:33 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-28 13:13 ` Joern Rennecke
2023-11-28 5:50 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-27 18:19 Joern Rennecke
2023-11-28 5:51 ` Jeff Law
2023-11-29 17:37 Joern Rennecke
2023-11-29 19:13 ` Jivan Hakobyan
2023-11-30 15:37 ` Jeff Law
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