>Number:         9703
>Category:       middle-end
>Synopsis:       Accessing data through constant pool more times could be solved in less instructions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          pessimizes-code
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 14 09:46:01 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     László Vidács
>Release:        gcc version 3.3 20030210 (prerelease)
>Organization:
>Environment:
BUILD & HOST: Linux 2.4.20 i686 unknown
TARGET: arm-unknown-elf
>Description:
Each data access through constant pool requires 2 instructions: (1) to access constant pool element (data address) and (2) to access the data. Storing the constant pool base address in a register could save one instruction per subsequent data accesses. (See attached files.)
>How-To-Repeat:
Use the command line below to compile the specified source code:
arm-elf-gcc -S -g0 -Os -o 02.s ./02.c

Attached is the original assembly output where accessing globalvar1 can be solved in one less instructions as shown in the manually edited assembly file.

// 01.c:

# 1 "01.c"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command line>"
# 1 "01.c"
unsigned int globvar1=0;
unsigned int globvar2=0;
+C1
int f1()
{
    globvar1=11;
    globvar2=12;
    return globvar1;
}

int main ()
{
  return f1();
}
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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