From: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@inria.fr>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
"gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
"law@redhat.com" <law@redhat.com>,
"cl-c-memory-object-model@lists.cam.ac.uk"
<cl-c-memory-object-model@lists.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: C provenance semantics proposal
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190419111548.11a551a0@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHWkzRQuCdEcSKL4E8TPDnDso1WymoM_motD=izoS0nJNpdfRg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello Peter,
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:11:43 +0100 Peter Sewell
<Peter.Sewell@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 19/04/2019, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:19:28AM +0200, Jens Gustedt wrote:
> [...]
> > That penalizes quite a few optimizations though.
> > If you have
> > ptr != ptr2
> > and points-to analysis finds a set of variables ptr as well as ptr2
> > points to and the sets would be disjoint, it would be nice to be
> > able to optimize that comparison away (gcc does); similarly, if one
> > of the pointers is &object or &object + sizeof (object).
> > By requiring what you request above, it can be pretty much never
> > optimized, unless the points-to analysis is able to also record if
> > the pointer points to the start, middle or end of object and only
> > if it is known to be in the middle it can safely optimize, for
> > start or end it would need to prove the other pointer is to end or
> > start and only non-zero sized objects are involved.
>
> A possible compromise position might be to make it
> implementation-defined whether round-trip casts of a one-past pointer
> into integer and back preserve provenance. I don't know whether
> that corner case crops up in real code...
Wouldn't that impose to keep track of some provenance information in
integers?
Jens
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-19 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-02 8:11 Peter Sewell
2019-04-12 14:51 ` Jeff Law
2019-04-12 15:31 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-17 9:06 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-17 9:15 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-17 9:41 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-17 11:53 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-17 12:41 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-17 12:56 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-17 13:35 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-17 14:12 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-17 17:31 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-18 9:32 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-18 9:56 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-18 10:48 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-18 11:57 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-18 12:31 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-18 13:25 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-18 10:45 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-18 12:20 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-18 12:42 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-18 12:47 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-04-18 12:51 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-04-18 13:29 ` Jeff Law
2019-04-24 10:12 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-18 13:49 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-19 8:19 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-04-19 8:49 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-04-19 9:09 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-04-19 9:34 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-04-21 8:15 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-04-24 10:24 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-24 18:43 ` Jeff Law
2019-04-24 19:21 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-04-19 9:11 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-19 9:15 ` Jens Gustedt [this message]
2019-04-19 9:35 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-19 10:35 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-19 10:01 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-18 13:42 ` Jeff Law
2019-04-18 13:54 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-18 14:49 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-18 15:09 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-24 10:19 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-24 18:41 ` Jeff Law
2019-04-24 19:30 ` Philipp Klaus Krause
2019-04-24 19:55 ` Uecker, Martin
2019-04-24 19:33 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-04-24 21:19 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-25 12:42 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-25 13:03 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-25 13:13 ` Richard Biener
2019-04-25 13:20 ` Peter Sewell
2019-04-29 14:31 ` Joseph Myers
2019-04-25 12:39 ` Richard Biener
2019-05-09 11:26 ` Ralf Jung
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