Re: [PATCH] [libstdc++] [testsuite] disable SRA for compare_exchange_padding

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 04:49, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com> wrote:
>
>
> On arm-vx7r2, the uses of as.load() as initializer get SRAed, so the
> padding bits in the tests are not what we might expect from full-word
> struct copies.

Aha, I was wondering why this was failing on ARM!


> I tried adding a function to perform bitwise copying, but even taking
> the as.load() argument by const&, we'd still construct a temporary
> with SRAed field-wise copying.  Unable to find another way to ensure
> we wouldn't get a temporary, I went for disabling SRA.
>
> Regstrapped on x86_64-linux-gnu.  Also tested with gcc-13 on arm-,
> aarch64-, x86- and x86_64-vxworks7r2.  Ok to install?

Yes, thanks.

>
>
> for  libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
>
>         * testsuite/29_atomics/atomic/compare_exchange_padding.cc:
>         Disable SRA.
> ---
>  .../29_atomics/atomic/compare_exchange_padding.cc  |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/29_atomics/atomic/compare_exchange_padding.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/29_atomics/atomic/compare_exchange_padding.cc
> index 2f18d426e7f7e..a6081968ca869 100644
> --- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/29_atomics/atomic/compare_exchange_padding.cc
> +++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/29_atomics/atomic/compare_exchange_padding.cc
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  // { dg-do run { target c++20 } }
>  // { dg-require-atomic-cmpxchg-word "" }
>  // { dg-add-options libatomic }
> +// { dg-additional-options "-fno-tree-sra" }
>
>  #include <atomic>
>  #include <cstring>
> @@ -26,10 +27,10 @@ main ()
>    s.s = 42;
>
>    std::atomic<S> as{ s };
> -  auto ts = as.load();
> +  auto ts = as.load(); // SRA might prevent copying of padding bits here.
>    VERIFY( !compare_struct(s, ts) ); // padding cleared on construction
>    as.exchange(s);
> -  auto es = as.load();
> +  auto es = as.load(); // SRA might prevent copying of padding bits here.
>    VERIFY( compare_struct(ts, es) ); // padding cleared on exchange
>
>    S n;
>
> --
> Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker            https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/
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