PING for this cfgexpand.cc + expr.cc change by Roger.

This is a pre-requisite for Roger's nvptx patch to avoid an ICE during
bootstrap:

* https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-February/590250.html
  "[PATCH] nvptx: Back-end portion of a fix for PR target/104489."
  (see patch for additional reasoning for this patch)

* See also https://gcc.gnu.org/PR104489
   nvptx, sm_53: internal compiler error: in gen_rtx_SUBREG, at
emit-rtl.cc:1022

Thanks,

Tobias

On 09.02.22 21:12, Roger Sayle wrote:
This patch adds middle-end support for target ABIs that pass/return
floating point values in integer registers with precision wider than
the original FP mode.  An example, is the nvptx backend where 16-bit
HFmode registers are passed/returned as (promoted to) SImode registers.
Unfortunately, this currently falls foul of the various (recent?) sanity
checks that (very sensibly) prevent creating paradoxical SUBREGs of
floating point registers.  The approach below is to explicitly perform the
conversion/promotion in two steps, via an integer mode of same precision
as the floating point value.  So on nvptx, 16-bit HFmode is initially
converted to 16-bit HImode (using SUBREG), then zero-extended to SImode,
and likewise when going the other way, parameters truncated to HImode
then converted to HFmode (using SUBREG).  These changes are localized
to expand_value_return and expanding DECL_RTL to support strange ABIs,
rather than inside convert_modes or gen_lowpart, as mismatched
precision integer/FP conversions should be explicit in the RTL,
and these semantics not generally visible/implicit in user code.

This patch has been tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu with make bootstrap
and make -k check with no new failures, and on nvptx-none, where it is
the middle-end portion of a pair of patches to allow the default ISA to
be advanced.  Ok for mainline?


2022-02-09  Roger Sayle  <ro...@nextmovesoftware.com>

gcc/ChangeLog
        * cfgexpand.cc (expand_value_return): Allow backends to promote
        a scalar floating point return value to a wider integer mode.
        * expr.cc (expand_expr_real_1) [expand_decl_rtl]: Likewise, allow
        backends to promote scalar FP PARM_DECLs to wider integer modes.


Thanks in advance,
Roger
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