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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: "Christian Ehrhardt" <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
Cc: nejataydin@superonline.com, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: optimization/7799: [3.2/3.3 regression] Loop bug with optimization flag -Os in gcc
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212131449.01528.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021213133626.29733.qmail@theseus.mathematik.uni-ulm.de>

> This transformation is IMHO illegal because there is no way to make the
> comparison in general equivialent to that in the original for loop.
> If p is initially 0x7ffffffc the comparison must be treated as unsigned,
> however, if p is initially 0xfffffffc the comparison must be treated as
> signed.

Well-known deficiency of the strength reduction pass (see the testcase 
testsuite/gcc.c-torture/execute/loop-2e.c which is XFAILed on x86 at -Os).

-- 
Eric Botcazou

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-13 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-13  5:57 Christian Ehrhardt
2002-12-13  6:13 ` Eric Botcazou [this message]
2002-12-13  7:34   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-12-13 10:28     ` Eric Botcazou
2002-12-13  6:52 ` Andrew Haley
2002-12-13  7:35   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-12-13  7:44     ` Andreas Schwab
2002-12-19 22:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2002-12-20  5:46   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-12-20  1:24 Joern Rennecke
2002-12-20 21:08 Robert Dewar

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