On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Jan Hubicka <hubi...@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> > Are these supposed to be fixed by Richard's change to not use
>> > useless_type_conversion for VCE, or is it another issue?
>>
>> Richard's change not to use useless_type_conversion for VCE was causing
>> additional GIMPLE verification failures so I didn't pursue; I can try again,
>> but all the known regressions are now fixed thanks to Richard's latest change
>> to useless_type_conversion_p itself.
>
> I see, you re-instantiated the TYPE_CANONICAL check for aggregates instead.  I
> guess it is most practical way to go right now even though it would be really 
> nice
> to separate this from TBAA machinery.
> At the moment LTO doesn't do globbing where calling conventions should care.
> One such case is the globing of array containing char and char which is 
> required
> by Fortran standard, but that IMO is a defect in standard - if types are 
> passed
> differently by target ABI one can't expect them to be fuly interoperable as 
> Fortran
> would like.

Note that I can't see how non-register type defs/uses will ever
"change" their type
during optimization so I think using TYPE_CANONICAL for the aggregate type case
is fine.

Richard.

> Thank you very much for looking into this!
> Honza
>>
>> --
>> Eric Botcazou

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