From: Peter Bigot <bigotp@acm.org>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: approaches to carry-flag modelling in RTL
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPOJ94N-6Ek4-s6RJXDLHUCTN3EssVuYnh8xTZaeQR-0_cE3Og@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I'm rewriting a back-end originally based on AVR to eliminate insns for
multi-word operations (output templates like "add\;addc") and to use MODE_CC
instead of an unusual attribute-based approach. The motivation is that I've
mostly found gcc does a better job than the existing back-end if it's shown
what's actually going on.
Part of this update requires correctly modelling the carry flag, for
plus/minus and for rotate through carry. As noted in recent email here,
preserving the correct instruction order when expanding multi-word expressions
requires a set/use relation between the word-mode insns rather than a
simple clobber/use relation.
I've found several examples where back-ends model the carry in RTL.
Sparc does:
(plus:SI
(plus:SI
(match_operand:SI 1 "arith_operand" "%r")
(match_operand:SI 2 "arith_operand" "rI"))
(ltu:SI (reg:CC_NOOV 100) (const_int 0))))]
RX does:
(plus:SI
(plus:SI
(ltu:SI (reg:CC CC_REG) (const_int 0))
(match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "%0,0,0,0,0,0"))
(match_operand:SI 2 "rx_source_operand"
"r,Sint08,Sint16,Sint24,i,Q")))
stormy16 does:
(plus:HI
(plus:HI
(match_operand:HI 1 "register_operand" "%0,0,0")
(zero_extend:HI (reg:BI CARRY_REG)))
(match_operand:HI 2 "xs_hi_nonmemory_operand" "L,Ir,i")))
The variation points are:
(a) where the carry operand appears in the plus expressions;
(b) whether it's expressed as an ltu zero comparison or a zero_extend.
I'm inclined to follow sparc's lead, but is one or another of the choices
more likely to help combine/reload/etc do a better job?
Thanks.
Peter
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 17:00 Peter Bigot [this message]
2011-10-29 14:17 ` Richard Henderson
2011-10-29 17:34 ` Peter Bigot
2011-10-29 21:30 ` Richard Henderson
2011-10-29 22:22 ` Peter Bigot
2011-10-31 12:01 ` Paulo J. Matos
2011-10-31 9:39 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2011-10-31 12:35 ` Paulo J. Matos
2011-11-01 2:43 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2011-11-01 13:51 ` Paulo J. Matos
2011-11-01 21:59 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2011-11-02 20:03 ` Richard Henderson
2012-02-07 22:42 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2011-10-31 14:58 ` Joern Rennecke
2011-10-31 9:40 ` Paulo J. Matos
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