From: Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com>
To: gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: PING 2 [PATCH] fix up compute_objsize (including PR 103143)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:41:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5d892ee-ad25-def9-b0ff-ec0189da2e4b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06573dbb-19ff-d8dd-7a7c-c4e2a47a57a5@gmail.com>
Ping:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-November/583735.html
On 11/15/21 9:49 AM, Martin Sebor wrote:
> Ping for the following cleanup patch:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-November/583735.html
>
> On 11/8/21 7:34 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
>> The pointer-query code that implements compute_objsize() that's
>> in turn used by most middle end access warnings now has a few
>> warts in it and (at least) one bug. With the exception of
>> the bug the warts aren't behind any user-visible bugs that
>> I know of but they do cause problems in new code I've been
>> implementing on top of it. Besides fixing the one bug (just
>> a typo) the attached patch cleans up these latent issues:
>>
>> 1) It moves the bndrng member from the access_ref class to
>> access_data. As a FIXME in the code notes, the member never
>> did belong in the former and only takes up space in the cache.
>>
>> 2) The compute_objsize_r() function is big, unwieldy, and tedious
>> to step through because of all the if statements that are better
>> coded as one switch statement. This change factors out more
>> of its code into smaller handler functions as has been suggested
>> and done a few times before.
>>
>> 3) (2) exposed a few places where I fail to pass the current
>> GIMPLE statement down to ranger. This leads to worse quality
>> range info, including possible false positives and negatives.
>> I just spotted these problems in code review but I haven't
>> taken the time to come up with test cases. This change fixes
>> these oversights as well.
>>
>> 4) The handling of PHI statements is also in one big, hard-to-
>> follow function. This change moves the handling of each PHI
>> argument into its own handler which merges it into the previous
>> argument. This makes the code easier to work with and opens it
>> to reuse also for MIN_EXPR and MAX_EXPR. (This is primarily
>> used to print informational notes after warnings.)
>>
>> 5) Finally, the patch factors code to dump each access_ref
>> cached by the pointer_query cache out of pointer_query::dump
>> and into access_ref::dump. This helps with debugging.
>>
>> These changes should have no user-visible effect and other than
>> a regression test for the typo (PR 103143) come with no tests.
>> They've been tested on x86_64-linux.
>>
>> Martin
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-09 2:34 Martin Sebor
2021-11-15 16:49 ` PING " Martin Sebor
2021-11-22 16:41 ` Martin Sebor [this message]
2021-11-29 15:49 ` PING 3 " Martin Sebor
2021-12-04 0:00 ` Jeff Law
2021-12-06 17:31 ` [PATCH v2] fix PR 103143 Martin Sebor
2021-12-06 20:14 ` Jeff Law
2021-12-06 21:44 ` Martin Sebor
2021-12-06 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] fix up compute_objsize: move bndrng into access_data Martin Sebor
2021-12-08 18:47 ` Jeff Law
2021-12-06 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] fix up compute_objsize: pass GIMPLE statement to it Martin Sebor
2021-12-08 18:48 ` Jeff Law
2021-12-06 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] fix up compute_objsize: factor out PHI handling Martin Sebor
2021-12-08 20:08 ` Jeff Law
2021-12-09 16:57 ` Martin Sebor
2021-12-06 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] fix up compute_objsize: refactor it into helpers Martin Sebor
2021-12-08 19:12 ` Jeff Law
2021-12-06 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] fix up compute_objsize: add a dump function Martin Sebor
2021-12-08 19:15 ` Jeff Law
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