* nops
@ 2009-05-21 4:52 Jamie Prescott
2009-05-21 9:16 ` nops Ian Lance Taylor
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From: Jamie Prescott @ 2009-05-21 4:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc
Under which conditions GCC generates nops?
I noticed that with 4.4.0, gen_nop() is required, thing that wasn't with 4.3.3.
Can I just define an empty insn for nop, of GCC requires a one-byte insn for its
own alignment purposes?
- Jamie
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* Re: nops
2009-05-21 4:52 nops Jamie Prescott
@ 2009-05-21 9:16 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-05-21 15:47 ` nops Jamie Prescott
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From: Ian Lance Taylor @ 2009-05-21 9:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jamie Prescott; +Cc: gcc
Jamie Prescott <jpresss@yahoo.com> writes:
> Under which conditions GCC generates nops?
It depends entirely on the target. For many targets, gcc will never
generate a nop instruction, except as a byproduct of alignment.
> I noticed that with 4.4.0, gen_nop() is required, thing that wasn't with 4.3.3.
> Can I just define an empty insn for nop, of GCC requires a one-byte insn for its
> own alignment purposes?
Normally gcc does alignment by issuing an assembler directive, and the
assembler is responsible for generating nop instructions when necessary.
Ian
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* Re: nops
2009-05-21 9:16 ` nops Ian Lance Taylor
@ 2009-05-21 15:47 ` Jamie Prescott
2009-05-21 16:12 ` nops Andrew Pinski
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From: Jamie Prescott @ 2009-05-21 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Lance Taylor; +Cc: gcc
----- Original Message ----
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
> To: Jamie Prescott <jpresss@yahoo.com>
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:50:50 PM
> Subject: Re: nops
>
> Jamie Prescott writes:
>
> > Under which conditions GCC generates nops?
>
> It depends entirely on the target. For many targets, gcc will never
> generate a nop instruction, except as a byproduct of alignment.
My target does not have anything special WRT alignment. I even set the function
alignment to 8, and it still issues gen_nop().
This seem to happen only with -O0, or at least I noticed it only under such condition
so far.
> > I noticed that with 4.4.0, gen_nop() is required, thing that wasn't with
> 4.3.3.
> > Can I just define an empty insn for nop, of GCC requires a one-byte insn for
> its
> > own alignment purposes?
>
> Normally gcc does alignment by issuing an assembler directive, and the
> assembler is responsible for generating nop instructions when necessary.
Did a quick grep and the one you mention (ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN_WITH_NOP) is
not defined in my backend. And such directive does not even have a default.
So, in theory, I should not see any nops.
The problem is different. The error is at link-time, if gen_nop() is not defined, so it
means that the insn is generated programmatically.
Grepping the source, I noticed a few files that issue gen_nop() directly, thing that
was not happening with 4.3.3.
So my questions are. Is there a way to disable it? If not, can I define an empty-issue
instruction for 'nop'?
- Jamie
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* Re: nops
2009-05-21 15:47 ` nops Jamie Prescott
@ 2009-05-21 16:12 ` Andrew Pinski
2009-05-21 17:29 ` nops Jamie Prescott
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From: Andrew Pinski @ 2009-05-21 16:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jamie Prescott; +Cc: Ian Lance Taylor, gcc
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Jamie Prescott <jpresss@yahoo.com> wrote:
> My target does not have anything special WRT alignment. I even set the function
> alignment to 8, and it still issues gen_nop().
> This seem to happen only with -O0, or at least I noticed it only under such condition
> so far.
so it happens at -O0 so that the debugger is able to place a
breakpoint at some gotos.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
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* Re: nops
2009-05-21 16:12 ` nops Andrew Pinski
@ 2009-05-21 17:29 ` Jamie Prescott
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From: Jamie Prescott @ 2009-05-21 17:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Pinski; +Cc: Ian Lance Taylor, gcc
> From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
> To: Jamie Prescott <jpresss@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:22:00 AM
> Subject: Re: nops
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Jamie Prescott wrote:
> > My target does not have anything special WRT alignment. I even set the
> function
> > alignment to 8, and it still issues gen_nop().
> > This seem to happen only with -O0, or at least I noticed it only under such
> condition
> > so far.
>
> so it happens at -O0 so that the debugger is able to place a
> breakpoint at some gotos.
Thanks! Makes sense, and it means that I can define to an empty insn for the
version of the VM that does not have 'nop'.
- Jamie
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