http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56541
Bug #: 56541 Summary: vectorizaton fails in conditional assignment of a constant Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.8.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: tree-optimization AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: vincenzo.innoce...@cern.ch this loop does not vectorize #include<cmath> float a,b,c,d; float z[1024]; bool ok[1024]; constexpr float rBig = 150.; void foo() { for (int i=0;i!=1024;++i) { float rR = a*z[i]; float rL = b*z[i]; float rMin = (rR<rL) ? rR : rL; float rMax = (rR<rL) ? rL : rR; //rMin = (rMax>0) ? rMin : rBig+std::abs(z[i]); // this vectorize (sic...) rMin = (rMax>0) ? rMin : rBig; // comment to vectorize rMin = (rMin>0) ? rMin : rMax; ok[i] = rMin-c<rMax+d; } } c++ -std=c++11 -Ofast -march=corei7 -c range.cc -ftree-vectorizer-verbose=1 Analyzing loop at range.cc:8 range.cc:7: note: vectorized 0 loops in function. range.cc:16: note: vect_recog_bool_pattern: detected: range.cc:16: note: pattern recognized: VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<unsigned char>(ok[i_22]) = patt_15; range.cc:16: note: additional pattern stmt: patt_13 = _14 < _16 ? 1 : 0; adding to "rBig" std::abs(z[i]) it does c++ -std=c++11 -Ofast -march=corei7 -c range.cc -ftree-vectorizer-verbose=1 Analyzing loop at range.cc:8 range.cc:8: note: vect_recog_bool_pattern: detected: range.cc:8: note: pattern recognized: VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<unsigned char>(ok[i_24]) = patt_16; range.cc:8: note: additional pattern stmt: patt_14 = _15 < _17 ? 1 : 0; Vectorizing loop at range.cc:8 range.cc:8: note: LOOP VECTORIZED. range.cc:7: note: vectorized 1 loops in function.