Tom Lane wrote:
Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:3.2 optimizes away the pointer alignment test, but then doesn't pipeline the "x*x" calculation. It might be due to a known (and now fixed) bug in gcc where is lost track of constants, and thus didn't succeed in optimizing long calculations.
After some massaging, I've succeeded in generating bad code using a slightly modified MemSetAligned macro (parameters -O2 -fstrict-aliasing): gcc pipelined the x*x around the memset.
As I already explained, we do not care about the MemSetAligned case. Is gcc 3.3 smart enough to optimize away the pointer alignment test in the full macro?
I don't have gcc 3.3 installed, but IMHO it would be insane to leave strict alias analysis enabled - writing to *(int32*)addr violates the alias rules, the bad code generated with MemSetAligned proved that.
Is someone around with 3.3 who could test MemSet?
I have it on my cygwin installation - that's how this whole mess arose in the first place ;-)
All this is interesting, but the real problem remains that we don't know what else might be affected because gcc apparently doesn't promise to tell us. IMO the gcc team made a bad mistake by turning this on by default for -O2 without reliable accompanying diagnostics.
cheers
andrew
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