On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> Il 15/10/2012 14:53, Steven Bosscher ha scritto: >>>> I think I've shown above that we're all looking at the wrong pass... >>> >>> I think you have... so we want a patch like this? >> >> I don't think so. df_kill_notes is already supposed to take care of this. > > But it doesn't because if the SET_DEST of an insn is the same as the > register dieing in the insn's REG_EQUAL note, the reg is live at the > end of the insn and so the note stays: > > Breakpoint 2, df_kill_notes (insn=0x7ffff5e3e7e0, live=0x7fffffffda90) > at ../../trunk/gcc/df-problems.c:2833 > 2833 rtx *pprev = ®_NOTES (insn); > 1: debug_rtx(insn) = (insn 79 50 52 8 (set (reg:DI 72 [ ivtmp.17D.1758 ]) > (reg:DI 103 [ ivtmp.17D.1758 ])) -1 > (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:DI 103 [ ivtmp.17D.1758 ]) > (expr_list:REG_EQUAL (plus:DI (reg:DI 72 [ ivtmp.17D.1758 ]) > (const_int 24 [0x18])) > (nil)))) > void > (gdb) undisp 1 > (gdb) p debug_bitmap(live) > > first = 0x1627200 current = 0x1627200 indx = 0 > 0x1627200 next = (nil) prev = (nil) indx = 0 > bits = { 6 7 16 20 72 82 85 87 } > $2 = void > (gdb) > > > So GCC should be looking at whether the reg in the REG_EQUAL note is > dead *before* the insn. > > Bottom line: This is a bug in df_kill_notes.
I think this should fix it. Can't test it right now, so help appreciated (Honza: hint hint! ;-) Ciao! Steven
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