On 6/6/19 1:31 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
[ Big snip ]

> 
>> I was primarily concerned with the ones in the evrp simplification
>> engine which are easy to fix in-place.  Looking at gimple-fold.c I agree
>> we do need to address the walking problem.
>>
>> I'm not sure we can drop to varying though -- my first twiddle of this
>> did precisely that, but that'll likely regress vrp47 where we know the
>> resultant range after simplification is just [0,1].
> 
> Of course we do not need to drop the original LHS to VARYING, only
> the defs we didn't already visit.
I was referring to the newly created def.  There's a case (seen in vrp47
IIRC) where the new temporary has a known range [0,1] and we need to
know that for subsequent simplifications.  But if your change passes
regression testing, then we're still picking that up properly.


> 
>> Ideally we wouldn't have the simplifiers creating new names or we'd have
>> a more robust mechanism for identifying when we've created a new name
>> and doing the right thing.  I suspect whatever we do here right now is
>> going to be a bandaid and as long as we keep creating new names in the
>> simplifier we're likely going to be coming back and applying more bandaids.
> 
> Re-visiting the stmts would be possible if we'd split registering ranges 
> derived
> from uses of a stmt from those of defs (IIRC I had incomplete patches to do 
> that
> when trying to derive X != 0 from Y / X because otherwise we miscompile 
> stuff).
> 
> Meanwhile I have bootstrapped / tested the following which does the VARYING
> thing.
> 
> Applied to trunk.  I think we need to backport this since this is a latent
> wrong-code issue.  We can see to improve things on the trunk incrementally.
Works for me.

jeff

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