On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Rahul Kharche wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> We would like to hang on to 4.4 for a little while. I was hoping I could
> grab only the alias analysis improvements from the trunk. Do you suspect
> this would be troublesome?

Uh, definitely - it's not easy to grab them in isolation.

Richard.

> Cheers,
> Rahul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Guenther [mailto:richard.guent...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 30 October 2009 14:50
> To: Rahul Kharche
> Cc: rgue...@gcc.gnu.org; gcc@gcc.gnu.org; sdkteam-gnu
> Subject: Re: RFC PRE-ing REFERENCE expressions
> 
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Rahul Kharche <ra...@icerasemi.com> wrote:
> > Hi Richi,
> >
> > Following up your suggestion on PR41488, I am continuing to test with
> > loop header copy before FRE in GCC 4.4.1. One regression I am trying
> > to tackle is from the test case below.
> >
> > typedef struct {
> >  int degree;
> >  int c[(256)];
> > } swbcht_Polynomial;
> >
> >
> > typedef struct {
> >  int m;
> >  int n;
> >  const swbcht_Polynomial *primPoly;
> >  unsigned short alpha[(1 << (13))];
> > } swbcht_GF;
> >
> >
> > typedef struct {
> >  swbcht_GF gf;
> > } swbcht_Handle;
> >
> >
> > static const swbcht_Polynomial _primPoly13;
> >
> > void _ComputeGFLookupTables (swbcht_Handle *bchH, int m)
> > {
> >  int i, j;
> >
> >  swbcht_GF *gf = &bchH->gf;
> >
> >  gf->m = m;
> >  gf->n = (1 << m) - 1;
> >
> >  gf->primPoly = &_primPoly13;
> >
> >  for (i = 0; i < gf->m; i++) {
> >    gf->alpha[gf->m] ^= (gf->primPoly->c[i] * gf->alpha[i]);
> >  }
> > }
> >
> >
> > The dump after CH - FRE looks like
> >
> > _ComputeGFLookupTables (struct swbcht_Handle * bchH, int m)
> > {
> >  int i;
> >  short unsigned int D.1241;
> >  short int D.1240;
> >  short int D.1239;
> >  short unsigned int D.1238;
> >  short unsigned int D.1237;
> >  short unsigned int D.1236;
> >  const int D.1235;
> >  const struct swbcht_Polynomial * D.1233;
> >  short int D.1232;
> >  short unsigned int D.1231;
> >  int D.1230;
> >  int D.1229;
> >  int D.1228;
> >
> > <bb 2>:
> >  bchH_2(D)->gf.m = m_4(D);
> >  D.1228_5 = 1 << m_4(D);
> >  D.1229_6 = D.1228_5 + -1;
> >  bchH_2(D)->gf.n = D.1229_6;
> >  bchH_2(D)->gf.primPoly = &_primPoly13;
> >  if (m_4(D) > 0)
> >    goto <bb 5>;
> >  else
> >    goto <bb 6>;
> >
> > <bb 6>:
> >  goto <bb 4>;
> >
> > <bb 5>:
> >
> > <bb 3>:
> >  # i_35 = PHI <0(5), i_23(7)>
> >  D.1230_10 = bchH_2(D)->gf.m;
> >  D.1231_11 = bchH_2(D)->gf.alpha[D.1230_10];
> >  D.1232_12 = (short int) D.1231_11;
> >  D.1233_13 = bchH_2(D)->gf.primPoly;
> >  D.1235_15 = D.1233_13->c[i_35];
> >  D.1236_16 = (short unsigned int) D.1235_15;
> >  D.1237_18 = bchH_2(D)->gf.alpha[i_35];
> >  D.1238_19 = D.1236_16 * D.1237_18;
> >  D.1239_20 = (short int) D.1238_19;
> >  D.1240_21 = D.1239_20 ^ D.1232_12;
> >  D.1241_22 = (short unsigned int) D.1240_21;
> >  bchH_2(D)->gf.alpha[D.1230_10] = D.1241_22;
> >  i_23 = i_35 + 1;
> >  D.1230_8 = bchH_2(D)->gf.m;
> >  if (i_23 < D.1230_8)
> >    goto <bb 7>;
> >  else
> >    goto <bb 8>;
> >
> > <bb 7>:
> >  goto <bb 3>;
> >
> > <bb 8>:
> >
> > <bb 4>:
> >  return;
> >
> > }
> >
> > 1. Why does FRE miss eliminating expression bchH_2(D)->gf.primPoly in
> > bb 3 with &_primPoly13. This is normally the case if we ran FRE then
> > CH.
> >
> > Further PRE identifies bchH_2(D)->gf.primPoly as a partially redundant
> > expression and hoists it into predecessor bb 7 and we get
> >
> > <bb 3>:
> >  # i_35 = PHI <0(5), i_23(7)>
> >  # prephitmp.25_49 = PHI <m_4(D)(5), D.1230_8(7)>
> >  # prephitmp.27_51 = PHI <&_primPoly13(5), pretmp.26_50(7)>
> >  D.1230_10 = prephitmp.25_49;
> >  D.1231_11 = bchH_2(D)->gf.alpha[D.1230_10];
> >  D.1232_12 = (short int) D.1231_11;
> >  D.1233_13 = prephitmp.27_51;
> >  D.1235_15 = D.1233_13->c[i_35];
> >  D.1236_16 = (short unsigned int) D.1235_15;
> >  D.1237_18 = bchH_2(D)->gf.alpha[i_35];
> >  D.1238_19 = D.1236_16 * D.1237_18;
> >  D.1239_20 = (short int) D.1238_19;
> >  D.1240_21 = D.1239_20 ^ D.1232_12;
> >  D.1241_22 = (short unsigned int) D.1240_21;
> >  bchH_2(D)->gf.alpha[D.1230_10] = D.1241_22;
> >  i_23 = i_35 + 1;
> >  D.1230_8 = bchH_2(D)->gf.m;
> >  if (D.1230_8 > i_23)
> >    goto <bb 7>;
> >  else
> >    goto <bb 8>;
> >
> > <bb 7>:
> >  pretmp.26_50 = bchH_2(D)->gf.primPoly;
> >  goto <bb 3>;
> >
> >
> > Clearly prephitmp.27_51 will make a redundant induction variable.
> > Stepping through the insert_into_preds_of_block in tree-ssa-pre.c
> > I can see the value numbers for expression bchH_2(D)->gf.primPoly
> > available through bb 3 and through bb 2 are different.
> >
> > 2. Is this because alias analysis cannot determine bchH_2(D)->gf
> > has a unique target?
> 
> You should move to GCC 4.5 - the alias-oracle in GCC 4.4 is too weak
> to discover all this and virtual operands are not helpful because these
> are all indirect accesses through pointers without points-to information.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Rahul
> >
> >
> 
> 

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Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de>
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