On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:09 PM Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches
<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 08:58:20AM -0600, Jeff Law via Gcc-patches wrote:
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> > On 3/18/2021 8:37 AM, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Similar issue as in strlenopt-73.c, various spots in this test rely
> > > on MOVE_MAX >= 8, this time it uses a target selector to pick up a couple
> > > of targets, and all of them but powerpc 32-bit satisfy it, but powerpc
> > > 32-bit have MOVE_MAX just 4.
> > >
> > > Tested on x86_64-linux and powerpc64-linux -m32/-m64, ok for trunk?
> > >
> > > 2021-03-18  Jakub Jelinek  <ja...@redhat.com>
> > >
> > >     PR testsuite/99636
> > >     * gcc.dg/strlenopt-80.c: For powerpc*-*-*, only enable for lp64.
> >
> > OK.  But it'd sure be nice to be able to do something like force a value of
> > MOVE_MAX using a --param to make this kind of hack unnecessary.
>
> I fear such a param would be quite dangerous, dunno what would happen if
> somebody chose a length that can't be backed up by some integral or SIMD
> type.  Maybe for the gimple-fold.c case
>               tree type = lang_hooks.types.type_for_size (ilen * 8, 1);
>               if (type
>                   && is_a <scalar_int_mode> (TYPE_MODE (type), &mode)
>                   && GET_MODE_SIZE (mode) * BITS_PER_UNIT == ilen * 8
> would fail (so we couldn't handle that way the 16 byte case anyway on all
> targets), but there are other parts of the compiler that use MOVE_MAX.
>
> I think maybe better would be to instead improve the optimization so that
> it would work even with the non-lowered memcpy calls.  But that would be
> a GCC12 thing probably.

And/or relax the conditions under which we do the transform.

Richard.

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>         Jakub
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