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From: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@redhat.com>, Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-patches List <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Nathan Sidwell	<nathan@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: PATCH to consider MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT for targetm.absolute_biggest_alignment
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y42uzbkd.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8738fdb-c5fc-5d49-9cfc-50cec8768f72@redhat.com>

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Hi!

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:27:39 +0200, Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/13/2016 04:24 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:
> 
> > But we could define TARGET_ABSOLUTE_BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT on nvptx instead
> > of on x86; is this OK?
> 
> That's what I had in mind. It would be good if Thomas or Nathan could 
> give this patch a spin, I'm not currently really set up for it. But it 
> looks like a reasonable try to me.

I'm happy to report that this patch doesn't cause any changes in test
results both for nvptx target testing, and for nvptx offloading testing.
But I have not examined in detail what it actually does ;-) -- currently
occupied with too much other work already.

> > I'm still not sure why you need an alignment cap on nvptx, but I'm not
> > going to worry about it anymore.  :)
> 
> I think it was the cfgexpand machinery that uses dynamic allocations 
> when a variable has a bigger alignment than the stack, and you really 
> don't want these on ptx.

It will be good to document that, next to the definition in
gcc/config/nvptx/nvptx.h maybe?


Grüße
 Thomas

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-12 19:00 Jason Merrill
2016-09-13 11:03 ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-09-13 14:27   ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-13 14:34     ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-09-14 16:43       ` Thomas Schwinge [this message]

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