On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:11 PM Prathamesh Kulkarni
<prathamesh.kulka...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 15:10, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 10:37 AM Prathamesh Kulkarni
> > <prathamesh.kulka...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > This patch adds two transforms to match.pd to CSE erf/erfc pair.
> > > erfc(x) is canonicalized to 1 - erf(x) and is then reversed to 1 -
> > > erf(x) when canonicalization is disabled and result of erf(x) has
> > > single use within 1 - erf(x).
> > >
> > > The patch regressed builtin-nonneg-1.c. The following test-case
> > > reproduces the issue with patch:
> > >
> > > void test(double d1) {
> > > if (signbit(erfc(d1)))
> > > link_failure_erfc();
> > > }
> > >
> > > ssa dump:
> > >
> > > <bb 2> :
> > > _5 = __builtin_erf (d1_4(D));
> > > _1 = 1.0e+0 - _5;
> > > _6 = _1 < 0.0;
> > > _2 = (int) _6;
> > > if (_2 != 0)
> > > goto <bb 3>; [INV]
> > > else
> > > goto <bb 4>; [INV]
> > >
> > > <bb 3> :
> > > link_failure_erfc ();
> > >
> > > <bb 4> :
> > > return;
> > >
> > > As can be seen, erfc(d1) is folded to 1 - erf(d1).
> > > forwprop then transforms the if condition from _2 != 0
> > > to _5 > 1.0e+0 and that defeats DCE thus resulting in link failure
> > > in undefined reference to link_failure_erfc().
> > >
> > > So, the patch adds another transform erf(x) > 1 -> 0.
> >
> > Ick.
> >
> > Why not canonicalize erf (x) to 1-erfc(x) instead?
> Sorry I didn't quite follow, won't this cause similar issue with erf ?
> I changed the pattern to canonicalize erf(x) -> 1 - erfc(x)
> and 1 - erfc(x) -> erf(x) after canonicalization is disabled.
>
> This caused undefined reference to link_failure_erf() in following test-case:
>
> extern int signbit(double);
> extern void link_failure_erf(void);
> extern double erf(double);
>
> void test(double d1) {
> if (signbit(erf(d1)))
> link_failure_erf();
> }
But that's already not optimized without any canonicalization
because erf returns sth in range [-1, 1].
I suggested the change because we have limited support for FP
value-ranges and nonnegative is one thing we can compute
(and erfc as opposed to erf is nonnegative).
> forwprop1 shows:
>
> <bb 2> :
> _5 = __builtin_erfc (d1_4(D));
> _1 = 1.0e+0 - _5;
> _6 = _5 > 1.0e+0;
> _2 = (int) _6;
> if (_5 > 1.0e+0)
> goto <bb 3>; [INV]
> else
> goto <bb 4>; [INV]
>
> <bb 3> :
> link_failure_erf ();
>
> <bb 4> :
> return;
>
> which defeats DCE to remove call to link_failure_erf.
>
> Thanks,
> Prathamesh
> >
> > > which resolves the regression.
> > >
> > > Bootstrapped+tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.
> > > Cross-testing on arm and aarch64 variants in progress.
> > > OK for trunk if passes ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Prathamesh
