It is generally as easy as just adding the problem and calling
df_analyze. You tend to get into trouble if the rtl is not good, i.e.
there is improper sharing or other violations of the canonical rtl
rules. DF does not like improperly shared rtl and it has not been
uncommon for port specific passes to play loose with these rules. I
would suggest that first you try a build where you turn on all of the
rtl checking and see if that comes out clean.
Kenny
On 02/24/2015 06:41 AM, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
Hi, in order to fix PR64331 I tried to implement new target-specific
passes whose sole purpose is to recompute REG_DEAD notes.
The avr BE relies on correct dead notes which are used in
avr.c:reg_unused_after which uses dead_or_set_p. avr BE needs correct
dead notes in ADJUST_INSN_LENGTH, get_attr_length,
get_attr_min_length, etc.
After trying for more than one day I am really frustrated; each
approach ended up in seg_faults somewhere in df.
Following the source comments in df-core.c, recomputing dead notes
should be as easy as
df_note_add_problem ();
df_analyze ();
in the execute() method of the new pass.
As this (and many many other tries using df_scan_alloc, df_scan_blocks
df_finish_pass, df_insn_rescan_all, etc.) always crashes the compiler,
I must do something completely wrong...
Could you give me some advice on correct usage of df or even more
preferred point me to a comprehensible documentation of df which is
more complete than in df-core.c?
Internals don't treat df, and the source comments are not really
helpful, e.g. the complete documentation of df_analyze is /* Analyze
dataflow info. */. Not a single word about prerequisites (except
that it must run after df_init and before df_finish and needs correct
cfg).
One example of a crash is that df->insns[uid] is being accessed and
dereferenced where uid is a valid uid but df->insns[uid] is NULL.
df-core.c mentions "given instances of df". How do I get one? The
only instance I can find is the global struct df_f *df. Does this
mean one has to mess around with that global variable?
