On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Rather than using unspecs in doloop insns to stop combine creating
>>> these insns, use legitimate_combined_insn.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why the original patch implementing
>>> legitimate_combined_insn did not store the result of recog to the insn
>>> but it seems good to me, and would allow the recog call in
>>> ix86_legitimate_combined_insn to be omitted.  (I tested that too, not
>>> shown here.)
>>
>> IIRC, I copied operand scanning loop from recog.c (around line 2580)
>> and the function was later enhanced with preferred alternatives
>> handling. The function worked well, and not being an expert in this
>> area, I didn't try to "optimize" the code that worked...
>>
>> So, there is no particular reason for the current implementation.
>
> FYI, the following patch immediately crashed build:

Bah, it would help if I actually saved source with proposed combine.c change.

Testing the patch...

Uros.

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