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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
Cc: Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@redhat.com>,
	       John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indirect memory addresses vs. lra
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 19:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190808190927.GJ31406@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE15867C-3D9B-402B-830E-7C0EC72DE332@comcast.net>

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 01:25:27PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> > On Aug 8, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:43:52PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >> Indirect addressing is a key feature in size-optimized code.
> > 
> > That doesn't mean that LRA has to support it, btw, not necessarily; it
> > may well be possible to do a good job of this in the later passes?
> > Maybe postreload, maybe some peepholes, etc.?
> 
> Possibly.  But as Vladimir points out, indirect addressing affects
> register allocation (reducing register pressure).

Yeah, good point, esp. if you have only one or two registers that you
can use for addressing at all.  So it will have to happen during (or
before?) RA, alright.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-08 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-04 19:18 John Darrington
2019-08-08 16:25 ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-08 16:44   ` Paul Koning
2019-08-08 17:21     ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-08 17:25       ` Paul Koning
2019-08-08 19:09         ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-08-08 17:30       ` Paul Koning
2019-08-08 19:19         ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-08 19:57           ` Jeff Law
2019-08-09  8:14             ` John Darrington
2019-08-09 14:17               ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-09 14:23                 ` Paul Koning
2019-08-10  6:10                 ` John Darrington
2019-08-10 16:15                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-09 16:07               ` Jeff Law
2019-08-09 17:34               ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-10  6:06                 ` John Darrington
2019-08-10 16:12                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-12  6:47                     ` John Darrington
2019-08-12  8:40                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-12 13:35                   ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-15 16:29                   ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-15 16:38                     ` Richard Biener
2019-08-15 17:41                       ` John Darrington
2019-08-15 18:30                       ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-15 21:22                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-15 17:36                     ` John Darrington
2019-08-15 18:23                       ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-16 11:24                         ` Special Memory Constraint [was Re: Indirect memory addresses vs. lra] John Darrington
2019-08-16 14:50                           ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-19  7:36                             ` John Darrington
2019-08-19 13:14                               ` Vladimir Makarov
2019-08-19 15:07                                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-19 18:06                                   ` John Darrington
2019-08-20  6:56                                     ` Richard Biener
2019-08-20  7:07                                       ` John Darrington
2019-08-20  7:30                                         ` Richard Biener
2019-08-08 18:46     ` Indirect memory addresses vs. lra Vladimir Makarov

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