On 6/6/2022 7:50 AM, Roger Sayle wrote:
This patch fixes both ICE regressions PR middle-end/105853 and
PR target/105856 caused by my recent patch to expand small const structs
as immediate constants. That patch updated code generation in three
places: two in expr.cc that call store_constructor directly, and the
third in calls.cc's load_register_parameters that expands its CONSTRUCTOR
via expand_expr, as store_constructor is local/static to expr.cc, and
the "public" API, should usually simply forward the constructor to the
appropriate store_constructor function.
Alas, despite the clean regression testing on multiple targets, the above
ICEs show that expand_expr isn't a suitable proxy for store_constructor,
and things that (I'd assumed) shouldn't affect how/whether a struct is
placed in a register [such as whether the struct is considered packed/
aligned or not] actually interfere with the optimization that is being
attempted.
The (proposed) solution is to export store_constructor (and it's helper
function int_expr_size) from expr.cc, by removing their static qualifier
and prototyping both functions in expr.h, so they can be called directly
from load_register_parameters in calls.cc. This cures both ICEs, but
almost as important produces much better code generation than GCC 12.
For PR 105853, GCC 12 generates:
compose_nd_na_ipv6_src:
movzx eax, WORD PTR eth_addr_zero[rip+2]
movzx edx, WORD PTR eth_addr_zero[rip]
movzx edi, WORD PTR eth_addr_zero[rip+4]
sal rax, 16
or rax, rdx
sal rdi, 32
or rdi, rax
xor eax, eax
jmp packet_set_nd
eth_addr_zero: .zero 6
where now (with this fix) GCC 13 generates:
compose_nd_na_ipv6_src:
xorl %edi, %edi
xorl %eax, %eax
jmp packet_set_nd
Likewise, for PR 105856 on ARM, we'd previously generate:
g_329_3:
movw r3, #:lower16:.LANCHOR0
movt r3, #:upper16:.LANCHOR0
ldr r0, [r3]
b func_19
but with this optimization we now generate:
g_329_3:
mov r0, #6
b func_19
This patch has been tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu with make bootstrap
and make -k check with no new failures. I've also confirmed that on a
cross-compiler to arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch=armv6 this fixes the
target specific ICE in PR105856. The make check is currently running
with --target_board=unix{-m32}, OK for mainline if that also passes?
My sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
2022-06-06 Roger Sayle <ro...@nextmovesoftware.com>
gcc/ChangeLog
PR middle-end/105853
PR target/105856
* calls.cc (load_register_parameters): Call store_constructor
(and int_Expr_size) directly instead of expanding via expand_expr.
* expr.cc (static void store_constructor): Don't prototype here.
(static HOST_WIDE_INT int_expr_size): Likewise.
(store_constructor): No longer static.
(int_expr_size): Likewise, no longer static.
* expr.h (store_constructor): Prototype here.
(int_expr_size): Prototype here.
gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
PR middle-end/105853
PR target/105856
* gcc.dg/pr105853.c: New test case.
* gcc.dg/pr105856.c: New test case.
OK
jeff
