Re: Missed possible branch elimination

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Stefan Ring wrote: > While poring over the Transport Tycoon Deluxe disassembly, commonly > known to have been hand-written in assembler, I stumbled across this > tidbit, which I think is kinda neat: > > 004057F7 83 7D B8 01 cmp dwo

Missed possible branch elimination

While poring over the Transport Tycoon Deluxe disassembly, commonly known to have been hand-written in assembler, I stumbled across this tidbit, which I think is kinda neat: 004057F7 83 7D B8 01 cmp dword ptr [ebp-48h],1 004057FB 1B C0sbb eax,eax 004057FD F

Re: Building on gcc112 is stuck in msgfmt

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Martin Liška wrote: > On 08/28/2017 09:15 PM, Martin Liška wrote: >> On 08/28/2017 04:06 PM, Jeff Law wrote: >>> On 08/28/2017 01:16 AM, Martin Liška wrote: Hello. I've just repeatedly seen stuck in build process: make[5]: Entering director

misleading "-Wmisleading-indentation" warning on break in switch/case?

atement, but the latter is misleadingly indented > as if it were guarded by the 'if' >) out = 1; break; > ^ > d.c:6:7: warning: variable 'out' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] >int out = 0; >^~~ Droping/aligning the second break on its own line silences the warning, but I see no reason to do so. Pls. advise! Stefan

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:15 PM, David Brown wrote: > Great link, thanks!

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:15 PM, David Brown wrote: > The "t" is thumb, "e" means "DSP-like extensions", and I suspect the "l" > is a misprint for "j", meaning the Jazelle (Java) acceleration instructions. I doubt that as "armv5tejl" is also quite common.

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > The point is to permit the compiler to use interworking compatible > sequences of code when generating ARM code, not to force users to use > Thumb code. The necessary instruction (BX) is available in armv5 and > armv5e, even thou

Re: nonnull, -Wnonnull, and do/while

> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:04:38AM +0100, Marek Polacek wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:43:08AM +0100, Stefan Sobernig wrote: >>> Under a recent gcc 6 [*], we run into -Wnonnull warnings using the >>> nonnull attribute: >> >> Yes, this warning has b

nonnull, -Wnonnull, and do/while

} while (s != NULL); } Under a recent gcc 6 [*], we run into -Wnonnull warnings using the nonnull attribute: test.c: In function 'f': test.c:16:14: warning: nonnull argument 's' compared to NULL [-Wnonnull] } while (s != NULL); Am I missing sth.? Is this a false positive

Re: how to tweak x86 code generation to instrument certain opcodes with CC trap?

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Yasser Shalabi wrote: > So back to square one. Any tips on what code/config-files I need to > modify with to get GCC to emit additional opcodes for certain > instructions? Maybe you should try cross-compiling. It looks like you have already succeeded with the inst

Re: gcc-4.9.2: Assembly for i386 Target

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Abhishek Aggarwal wrote: > @Jonathan: The reason I started this discussion is due to my suspicion > of a potential bug in gcc-4.9.2. However, I may be wrong. Here is the > explanation: I think everything is alright. The code is only emitted for the main function,

Re: gcc-4.9.2: Assembly for i386 Target

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Abhishek Aggarwal wrote: > I was befuddled by the following 3 assembly instructions (generated > right in the beginning of 'main' function): >lea 0x4(%esp), %ecx >and 0xfff0, %esp >pushl -0x4(%ecx) > > I am not able to understand the p

AW: g++keeps unused objects with virtual functions

= === == call_count 00100128 next_counter (common) ENTRY ADDRESS REF BY = === == main 8138 __main (?CSTARTUP) Lg Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: gcc-ow...@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-ow...@gcc.gnu.org] Im Auftrag von Stefan Ehrlich Gesendet: Mittwoch, 08

AW: g++keeps unused objects with virtual functions

That means, that there is no chance to find this in the next future GCC releases :-( But anyway... Thanks so far Stefan PS: Hope dies last -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Richard Biener [mailto:richard.guent...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 08. April 2015 13:27 An: Stefan Ehrlich Cc

AW: g++keeps unused objects with virtual functions

Dear Richard, The optimization step for doing it does already exist --> it is used for stack variables/objects, but unfortunately not for the global ones. The same optimization should work for the global variables/objects, too. Or am I wrong? Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

AW: g++keeps unused objects with virtual functions

le, the virtual function, and the 100 ints are present in the executable. class CObject { public: virtual void virtFunction() {} public: int SomeData[100]; }; //CObject NotUsedObject; int main() { CObject UsedObject; UsedObject.virtFunction(); return 0; } So what ca

AW: g++keeps unused objects with virtual functions

t without any effect. Is here something missing or too much? Lg Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Richard Biener [mailto:richard.guent...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 07. April 2015 18:42 An: Stefan Ehrlich; gcc@gcc.gnu.org Betreff: Re: g++keeps unused objects with virtual functi

g++keeps unused objects with virtual functions

there a plan to add this feature to the linker? greetings from Austria Stefan

Re: no response to cfarm request

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jay Foad wrote: > I've pinged again and waited another week with no response. Is there > no-one else who can administer compile farm accounts? Maybe you should try the gcc-cfarm mailing list: https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gcc-cfarm-users It seems very responsive

successfully built and installed GCC 4.9.1 armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf

$ ../gcc-4.9.1/config.guess armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf $ /opt/gcc/4.9.1/bin/gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/opt/gcc/4.9.1/bin/gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/opt/gcc/4.9.1/libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.1/lto-wrapper Target: arm-linux-gnueabihf Configured with: ../gcc-4.9.1/con

Re: RedHat patch not found in mainline gcc

>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-06/msg00368.html > > That thread is from 2009. > >> it seems that the actually committed fix for the bug that the >> gcc41-unwind-restore-state.patch was meant to fix was >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-01/msg00617.html committed as >> http://gcc.

Re: RedHat patch not found in mainline gcc

> I don't remember it well, but from re-reading the gcc-patches threads around > that time like: > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-06/msg00368.html That thread is from 2009. > it seems that the actually committed fix for the bug that the > gcc41-unwind-restore-state.patch was meant to fix

RedHat patch not found in mainline gcc

At the company where I work, we have a large program using Boost Python (1.54). We do our product builds for RHEL 5 and recently started building using gcc 4.8 from RedHat devtoolset 2 for performance. This works well, except for one system where it would deterministically crash. I traced it to an

Re: clang and FSF's strategy

> up a larger related question I've been meaning to open for a while: Are the > FSF's goals best served by continuing to technically restrict GCC? Let me repeat: please stop discussing such things on this list. There are things like gnu.misc.discuss for that. Stefan

Re: wie kann Ich gcc herunterladen ?

Am 25.09.2009 um 07:38 schrieb gerhard gangl: hallo gcc_team suche gcc zum downloaden wer kann mir helfen ? liebe grüße u. danke im vorraus _gerhard_ gangl, reichsstr. 77, 8045 graz Fast alle Linux Distributionen bringen gcc mit, man muss ihn nur mit dem Paketmanager installieren. Ansonste

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Ok, Alexandre hasn't changed his opinion, the function attrib is ok with him. I attached another version of the patch, this time adding some testcases. Two more questions though: *) How can I skip the tests if msvc_prologue is not available because as doesn't support the swap suffix? I think it

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Am Saturday 05 September 2009 17:08:19 schrieb Ross Ridge: > If this patch is essentially only for one application, maybe the idea > of implementing a more generally useful naked attribute would be the > way to go. I implemented a naked attribute in my private sources to > do something similar, al

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Are there non-Microsoft DLLs that expect to be hooked this way? If so, I think the patch is interesting for gcc independent of whether it is useful for Wine. I haven't seen any so far. Its certainly possible some server apps have the 2 byte nop at the beginning of functions for a similar hot-

Re: CVS/SVN binutils and gcc on MacOS X?

Am Friday 04 September 2009 23:50:11 schrieb Stefan Dösinger: > Unfortunately I need support for the swap suffix in as, so using the system > binaries is not an option. Is the only thing I can do to find the source of > the as version, backport the swap suffix and hope for the best? Ok,

Re: CVS/SVN binutils and gcc on MacOS X?

Am Friday 04 September 2009 23:35:55 schrieb Andreas Tobler: > No, you don't do anything wrong. It is simply not supported, the > binutils from gnu. > > You can rely on gcc being able to work with the MacOS-X 'binutils' aka: > ld, as. But don't try to build it for yourself. It's somehow like sparc

CVS/SVN binutils and gcc on MacOS X?

is a known problem? Am I doing something wrong here? Do I need any special Darwin patches for as or gcc? Thanks, Stefan

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Am Friday 04 September 2009 14:49:42 schrieb Stefan Dösinger: > I attached another version of the patch - I restarted the compile, so I > still don't know if it fully works. Seems to be working - gcc compiles fine, my test function has the right starting bytes. Wine compiles and runs

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Am Friday 04 September 2009 14:23:39 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > The parallel is implicit in define_insn, so it is not different. It > does not make any harm I guess, but it looks "weird" to a more familiar > eye. :-) Ok, I removed it again :-) > +#ifdef HAVE_AS_IX86_SWAP > + { "msvc_prologue", 0,

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Am Friday 04 September 2009 13:47:20 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > > I guess the error isn't about the const_int 0, but about operand 0. Any > > ideas? > > Yes, you need this: > > [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=r") >(match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "r")) > (u

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Am Thursday 03 September 2009 00:04:43 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > (define_insn "vswapmov" > [(set (match_operand 0 "register_operand" "0") >(match_operand 1 "register_operand" "1") > (unspec_volatile [] UNSPECV_VSWAPMOV)] I ran into a problem with this: build/genattrtab doesn't like the emp

Re: MSVC hook function prologue

Am Thursday 03 September 2009 00:04:43 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: >> *) The stack alignment code + msvc_prologue is used by Wine on osx though. >> ... > I don't think this would prevent the patch from getting the patch in. Ok, I'll read the patch contribution guidelines again and hope for the best. I

MSVC hook function prologue

at other changes are needed to get a functionality like this into mainline? Thank you, Stefan Dösinger Index: gcc/configure.ac === --- gcc/configure.ac (revision 151348) +++ gcc/configure.ac (working copy) @@ -3035,6 +3035,12

template instantiation and anonymous namespaces

correct. For the program I was working on I use named namespaces to provide the right semantics. Thanks for your time, Stefan -- nonsingleton.hpp #ifndef NON_SINGLETON #define NON_SINGLETON #include namespace { class Dummy {}; } template class Singleton { static ObjectT* object; p

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

> Have you thought about making .s an assembler command-line flag, so > that > this flag could be passed automatically by the compiler under mingw? Yes. For my purposes it is not really suitable, because we have to make sure that the push %ebp and mov %esp, %ebp are there, no matter what the compi

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

Here's some code attached that actually works, but is far from perfect. The 'msvc_prologue' attribute is limited to 32 bit. None of the applications that try to place hooks are ported to Win64 yet, so it is impossible to tell what they'll need. Besides, maybe I am lucky that when they appear I can

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

> If ebp needs to be saved because it contains a user variable, it is > better > not to pop it in the prologue - pop it in the epilogue instead, and you > don't > need to have another save/restore. Sounds reasonable. Is there any flag I can set to make the epilogue pop ebp? > This can be done wit

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

> You don't need to force the frame pointer on, it is sufficient to say > that > ebp needs restoring at the end of the function no matter if it looks > otherwise > used or not - and you have to take the frame size impact of the saved > ebp into > account. How does this fit together with the stack

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

> >> But since you have to have a new gas anyway, wouldn't it be simpler > to > >> have > >> a new option for gas to instruct it to choose the opcodes that are > >> expected > >> by the win32 applications? > > This was my first idea, but Alexandre Julliard(the Wine maintainer) > disliked > > it and

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

> An example of an unspec_volatile instruction pattern in > config/i386/i386.md > is "cld". I ran across that, your hints should give me some information to chew on for the next hours. Currently I am compiling with this code to see what happens: (define_insn "movnop" [(unspec_volatile [(const_int

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

> You can make a new instruction pattern with an UNSPEC_VOLATILE pattern. > For a quick prototype you could also use an assembler prologue, > although > if you need not experiment with different insn sequences, this will > likely > be more work in the long run if/when assembler prologues are eventu

RE: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

> -Original Message- > From: H.J. Lu [mailto:hjl.to...@gmail.com] Nice to see a familiar face, or better, mail address :-) > You need to check assembler feature with autconf before using them. > See HAVE_AS_IX86_SAHF as example. Thanks! Does that look ok? It seems to detect the support

Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog

e has it. Does gcc attempt to detect binutils features, or does it just assume that everything it needs is there? Thanks for your help, Stefan Dösinger gcc.diff Description: Binary data

Re: Temporary object omits constructor

ays the same. But the object has to be cv-unqualified and/or unnamed. Thanks for your hint! Best regards Stefan

Temporary object omits constructor

leave 0x08048457 : leaesp,[ecx-0x4] 0x0804845a : ret Only three times the constructor is called but four times the destructor and a magic call to "0x8048480 <_ZN1AplERKS_>". Can someone explain these results? Best regards Stefan

Re: machine learning for loop unrolling

re are the questions - how can I actually insert the code (I need to do this during the loop-unrolling phase, when the code is already in RTL form)? - what performance measurement should I try? - what other related work is out there? Thanks, Stefan Ciobaca On 6/8/07, Stefan Ciobaca <[EMAIL PR

machine learning for loop unrolling

etermine the correlations between loop features and best unroll factor - integrate the result into gcc and measure the benchmarks again Do you think it is ok to only consider inner-most loops? What about the unroll factors? Should I consider bigger unroll factors? Do you think the above setup is ok? I welcome any feedback on this. Thank you, Stefan Ciobaca

machine learning for loop unrolling

etermine the correlations between loop features and best unroll factor - integrate the result into gcc and measure the benchmarks again Do you think it is ok to only consider inner-most loops? What about the unroll factors? Should I consider bigger unroll factors? Do you think the above setup is ok? I welcome any feedback on this. Thank you, Stefan Ciobaca

Re: Problem with type safety and the "sentinel" attribute

...); > that's for instance a function which is called in many projects. > putting the burden on the caller is clearly the wrong trade off here. > > so please take this as a vote for the worthiness of a fix ;) Good. Of course I would be happy if somebody with knowledge of the compiler source could implement it. I never hacked gcc code before. But since you suggested sending a patch, I'll at least try to implement a new __null_terminated__ attribute, and ask for help if I can't figure out what to do. Cu... Stefan -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

Problem with type safety and the "sentinel" attribute

can have both? By the way, there is already an existing gcc bug, which is about the same thing (NULL passed within named args), but wants to have it the way it works now: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21911 so if it gets changed, then gcc might need to support both - NULL

Comparisons between GCC and other compilers

Does someone know of any comparisons (with regard to optimization, standard conformance, etc.) made between GCC and other, comercial, compilers? I'm primarily interested in comparisons made for ARM and PowerPC targets, but x86 is also of interest. -- Stefan

Re: Bug in PPC inline assembly?

Thanks for your help: using constraint "b" instead of "r" solved my problem. -- Stefan > Try using 'b' for the constraint - that selects for an "address base > register", as opposed to 'r' that is any of the general registers (inc

Bug in PPC inline assembly?

-- which means that the machine will actually try to store the value at address 0x0. Is this a bug in GCC or is it my code that is messed up? -- Stefan

Re: Questions about a constant array reference in the C++ front end

Nathan Sidwell schrieb: Stefan Strasser wrote: I don't know anything about fold but in general a c++ array in the frontend is cv-qualified, not its elements. this is untrue. the elements hold the qualification. right I have been processing large source codes including STL, boost and custom

Re: Questions about a constant array reference in the C++ front end

codes including STL, boost and custom code including function bodies and I have never seen a RANGE_EXPR. I suppose it's only used at later stages or only in other language's frontends. Regards, -- Stefan Strasser

Re: GCC 4.0 Status Report (2005-04-05)

bug on the list is known to cause silent miscompilation of Qt, a very major package, and it's not easy to know where the problem is. what is the workaround to this? (in the case the class the pointer target is a member of is a template parameter, unlike in the PR test case) -- Stefan Strasser

Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

Andrew Pinski schrieb: On Apr 2, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Stefan Strasser wrote: gcc-Version 4.0.0 20041218 (experimental) this 4.0.0 is almost 4 months old. That is not a far comparison as there was speedups after that and other bug fixes. you're right, I wasn't prepared to do performance

Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

file a PR. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20733 -- Stefan Strasser

Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

tual tables involved. are there any known performance bugs in this area or should I file a PR? any suggestions on how to simplify the testcase? (preprocessed is ~60k lines) -- Stefan Strasser

Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

Mike Stump schrieb: On Friday, April 1, 2005, at 08:48 AM, Stefan Strasser wrote: if gcc uses more memory than physically available it spends a _very_ long time swapping Swapping, what's that? Here's $20, go buy a gigabyte. expect memory to become a problem again with the advent of

Re: i want to connect gcc's front-end to my'back-end

> my project is change EDG's front-end to GCC's front-end because GPL expect some work to do. gcc does some transformations while parsing already, e.g. when calling virtual functions -- Stefan Strasser

Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

p here since it is a generational collector. -- Stefan Strasser

Re: i want to connect gcc's front-end to my'back-end

ttp://www.gccxml.org if you want to port gcc to another CPU or similar I'm sure there is some backend-howto on gcc website, but gimple trees are not the right way. there are more than one IRs in gcc so you need to be more clear. and note that gcc debugging outputs are not designed to be processed. -- Stefan Strasser

inefficient code output?

no "volatile" involved. -- Stefan Strasser

Re: GCC3 to GCC4 performance regression. Bug?

_s *) malloc (sizeof (struct dpmatrix_s)); AllocPlan7Body(hmm, 10); for (i = 0; i < 60; i++) { P7Viterbi(500, 10, hmm, mx->mmx); } } -- Stefan Strasser

Re: MetaC++ announcement

compatible with unprocessed source. it does not read any variable alignment information(except c++ bitfield size) and I don't see a reason to do that. but in case you need that it can be added quite easily, search for "Parse(object -- Stefan Strasser

MetaC++ announcement

y language constructs(its name, what namespace it is in, etc.) XML format? - You can use the library for reading and writing. However, the xml format is automatically derived from the object model,data field "isVirtual" in class "BaseSpecifier" is called "BaseSpecifier.IsVirtual" in xml files. Normal fields and pointer<>'s are attributes, element<>'s and list<>'s are subnodes. -- Stefan Strasser

Re: gcc leaking?

not used at all(at least when compiling c++). would it help to do leak checking on libiberty alloc functions or is than done regularily anyway? -- Stefan Strasser

gcc leaking?

(gc pages are released). Thanks, -- Stefan Strasser

Re: C++ math optimization problem...

edx cmpl $1000, %eax mulsd %xmm0, %xmm1 addsd %xmm1, %xmm0 addsd %xmm0, %xmm2 jne .L124 -- Stefan Strasser

Re: C++ math optimization problem...

NNER; // calc result result=0; for (int i = 0; i < OUTER; ++i) for (int j = 1; j < INNER; ++j) result += d[j]*d[j-1] + d[j-1]; } else exit(-1); printf("result = %f\n",result); return 0; } --- end testcase -- -- Stefan Strasser

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