Block auto increment on frame pointer references. This is never beneficial since the SFP expands into SP+C or FP+C during register allocation. The generated code for the testcase is now as expected:
str x30, [sp, -32]! strb w0, [sp, 31] add x0, sp, 31 bl foo3 ldr x30, [sp], 32 ret On SPEC2017 codesize improves uniformly across the board. ChangeLog: 2017-07-20 Wilco Dijkstra <wdijk...@arm.com> PR middle-end/46932 * auto-inc-dec.c (parse_add_or_inc): Block autoinc on sfp. gcc/testsuite/ * gcc.dg/pr46932.c: New testcase. -- diff --git a/gcc/auto-inc-dec.c b/gcc/auto-inc-dec.c index 91fa5cf0bbe04b8a2c2c2b9209d245a327de0ffd..db1bd5bba2cee9fbf24d6d522505ac292688aab9 100644 --- a/gcc/auto-inc-dec.c +++ b/gcc/auto-inc-dec.c @@ -769,6 +769,12 @@ parse_add_or_inc (rtx_insn *insn, bool before_mem) inc_insn.pat = pat; inc_insn.reg_res = SET_DEST (pat); inc_insn.reg0 = XEXP (SET_SRC (pat), 0); + + /* Block any auto increment of the frame pointer since it expands into + an addition and cannot be removed by copy propagation. */ + if (inc_insn.reg0 == frame_pointer_rtx) + return false; + if (rtx_equal_p (inc_insn.reg_res, inc_insn.reg0)) inc_insn.form = before_mem ? FORM_PRE_INC : FORM_POST_INC; else diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr46932.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr46932.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b96febcc095fbec2cc4e02d1155871220d17cc99 --- /dev/null +++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr46932.c @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +/* { dg-options "-O2 -fdump-rtl-auto_inc_dec" } */ + +/* Check that accesses based on the frame pointer do not + use auto increment. */ + +extern void foo (char*); +void t01 (char t) +{ + char c = t; + foo (&c); +} + +/* { dg-final { scan-rtl-dump-not "success" "auto_inc_dec" } } */