We seem to have lost much of the optimization of compare -> test insns at some point.  While the H8 does not have a test style insn like the m68k, a nop move is an excellent substitute as it'll set the condition codes in an appropriate way.

A nop move is 2 bytes for QI, HI and SI modes, while cmp<size> #0,rX is 2, 4 or 6 bytes for QI, HI and SI modes respectively.  Obviously this can be a significant space savings. It'll help performance on real hardware as well, though I don't expect it to directly help simulator performance.

This patch twiddles how we lower/split conditional branches so that we generate those nop moves instead of compares against zero when we're testing the Z and N bits.  Note that these nop moves always clear the V bit, but leave C bit in whatever state it previously was, so effectively C is unknown.  With ZN set and V always cleared, we can support things like LE 0 or GT 0 in addition to the more obvious EQ 0, NE 0, LT 0 and GE 0.

In the process of testing this patch it became apparent that the "simple_memory_operand" predicate I added a while ago was allowing auto-inc modes that I wasn't aware the H8 supported (or I'd simply forgotten, it's been a while).  So this patch fixes this minor goof as well.

Committed to the trunk after the usual testing.


Jeff
commit 73c49ff53235d92aba4ee748fcb06b06e83e0b8f
Author: Jeff Law <jeffreya...@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 6 10:55:53 2021 -0400

    Use H8 nop moves as tst insns
    
    gcc
            * config/h8300/jumpcall.md (*branch): When possible, generate
            the comparison in CCZN mode.
            * config/h8300/predicates.md (simple_memory_operand): Reject all
            auto-increment addressing modes.

diff --git a/gcc/config/h8300/jumpcall.md b/gcc/config/h8300/jumpcall.md
index 7b6a66a96ef..e1f04183564 100644
--- a/gcc/config/h8300/jumpcall.md
+++ b/gcc/config/h8300/jumpcall.md
@@ -23,13 +23,32 @@
   ""
   "#"
   "&& reload_completed"
-  [(set (reg:H8cc CC_REG)
-       (compare:H8cc (match_dup 1) (match_dup 2)))
+  [(set (match_dup 4)
+       (match_dup 5))
    (set (pc)
        (if_then_else (match_op_dup 0
-                      [(reg:H8cc CC_REG) (const_int 0)])
+                      [(match_dup 4) (const_int 0)])
                      (label_ref (match_dup 3)) (pc)))]
-  "")
+  "
+{
+  machine_mode mode;
+
+  if (REG_P (operands[1])
+      && operands[2] == const0_rtx
+      && (GET_CODE (operands[0]) == EQ
+         || GET_CODE (operands[0]) == NE
+         || GET_CODE (operands[0]) == LT
+         || GET_CODE (operands[0]) == GE
+         /* Our tstxx insns will set ZN and clear V, so we can handle
+            a couple additional cases.  */
+         || GET_CODE (operands[0]) == LE
+         || GET_CODE (operands[0]) == GT))
+    mode = E_CCZNmode;
+  else
+    mode = E_CCmode;
+  operands[4] = gen_rtx_REG (mode, CC_REG);
+  operands[5] = gen_rtx_COMPARE (mode, operands[1], operands[2]);
+}")
 
 (define_insn "*branch_1"
   [(set (pc)
diff --git a/gcc/config/h8300/predicates.md b/gcc/config/h8300/predicates.md
index f4e3ed4f562..bed23e9a3e0 100644
--- a/gcc/config/h8300/predicates.md
+++ b/gcc/config/h8300/predicates.md
@@ -506,6 +506,8 @@
 {
   if (GET_MODE (op) == mode
       && (GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 0)) != PRE_DEC
+         && GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 0)) != PRE_INC
+         && GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 0)) != POST_DEC
          && GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 0)) != POST_INC))
     return 1;
   return 0;

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