>>>>> Richard Biener wrote: >> "This would mean the pass should get its own non-Optimization flag >> initialized by targets where section anchors are usually used" >> IIUC should we add a new option -fno-increase_alignment and gate the >> pass on it ? Um sorry I didn't understand why targets >> with section anchors (arm, aarch64, ppc) should initialize this option ? > > Currently the pass is only run for targets with section anchors (and there > by default if they are enabled by default). So it makes sense to > run on those by default and the pass is not necessary on targets w/o > section anchors as the vectorizer can easily adjust alignment itself on > those.
PPC does not always enable section anchors -- it depends on the code model. Shouldn't this be tied to use of section anchors? Thanks, David
