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From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: memrefs_conflict_p omission?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 23:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6275.876264736@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199710061344.JAA24923@no-knife.MIT.EDU>

  In message < 199710061344.JAA24923@no-knife.MIT.EDU >you write:
  > 
  > > Something that came to mind a bit ago while fixing AND nonsense,
  > > was that perhaps this was an omission?
  > 
  > That code came from sched.c and I don't think I changed it (at least
  > not in the final version -- I remember working on that code but I
  > later decided the base-address aliasing was better done elsewhere).
It looks like it was just lifed from sched.c unchanged.

  I
  > suspect that the block controlled by the condition you changed in the
  > second part of your patch is no longer needed with the new base
  > address alias code.
  > 
  > The change is at least half correct: the argument pointer itself can
  > never alias a global symbol.  One thing to check is whether in any of
  > the targets the argument pointer can be variable.  If so your change
  > might not be safe.  The scheduler would not realize that the two
  > memory references in
  > 
  > 	[arg pointer + 4] = x
  > 	arg pointer += 4
  > 	[arg pointer] = y
  > 
  > are to the same address.
Well, where do we want to go?  I'm going to lean on you for most alias
problems :-)

Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~1997-10-07 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-06  0:17 Richard Henderson
1997-10-06  6:44 ` John Carr
1997-10-07 23:14   ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1997-10-07 23:14     ` Richard Henderson
1997-10-08  4:25 meissner

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