Hi,
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:51:13PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Bernd Edlinger
> <bernd.edlin...@hotmail.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Eh ... even
> >>
> >> register struct { int i; int a[0]; } asm ("ebx");
> >>
> >> works. Also with int a[1] but not with a[2]. So just handling trailing
> >> arrays makes this case regress as well.
> >>
> >> Now I'd call this use questionable ... but we've likely supported that
> >> for decades and cannot change that now.
> >>
> >> Back to fixing everything in expand.
> >>
> >> Richard.
> >>
> >
> > Ok, finally you asked for it.
> >
> > Here is my previous version of that patch again.
> >
> > I have now added a new value "EXPAND_REFERENCE" to the expand_modifier
> > enumeration. It is almost like EXPAND_MEMORY but it does not interfere with
> > constant values.
> >
> > I have done the same modification to VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR too, because
> > this is a possible inner reference, itself. It is however inherently hard to
> > test around this code.
> >
> > To understand this patch it is good to know what type of object the
> > return value "tem" of get_inner_reference can be.
> >
> > From the program logic at get_inner_reference it is clear that the
> > return value may *not* be BIT_FIELD_REF, COMPONENT_REF, ARRAY_REF,
> > ARRAY_RANGE_REF, REALPART_EXPR, IMAGPART_EXPR. The result may
> > be VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR only on a STRICT_ALIGNMENT target. This is probably
> > further restricted because exp is gimplified.
> >
> > Usually the result will be a MEM_REF or a SSA_NAME of the memory where
> > the structure is to be found.
> >
> > When you look at where EXPAND_MEMORY is handled you see it is special-cased
> > in TARGET_MEM_REF, MEM_REF, ARRAY_REF, COMPONENT_REF, BIT_FIELD_REF,
> > ARRAY_RANGE_REF.
> >
> > At TARGET_MEM_REF, MEM_REF, VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR, it should be the
> > same if EXPAND_MEMORY, EXPAND_WRITE or EXPAND_REFERENCE is given:
> > If it is an unaligned memory, we just return the unaligned reference.
> >
> > This was missing for VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR, and unfortunately I have no test
> > case,
> > because it is only a problem for STRICT_ALIGNMENT targets, and even there
> > it will
> > certainly be really hard to find test cases that exercise this code.
> >
> > In ARRAY_REF, COMPONENT_REF, BIT_FIELD_REF, ARRAY_RANGE_REF
> > we do not have to touch the handling of the outer modifier. However we pass
> > EXPAND_REFERENCE to the inner object, which should not be a recursive
> > use of any ARRAY_REF, COMPONENT_REF, BIT_FIELD_REF, ARRAY_RANGE_REF.
> >
> > TARGET_MEM_REF, MEM_REF and VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR know how to handle
> > EXPAND_REFERENCE, anything else handles it like EXPAND_NORMAL.
> >
> >
> > Boot-strapped and regression-tested on x86_64-linux-gnu
> > OK for trunk?
>
> You point to a weak spot in expansion - that it handles creating
> the base MEM to offset with handled components by recursing
> into the case that handles bare MEM_REFs. This makes the
> bare MEM_REF handling code somewhat awkward (it's the
> one to assign mem-attrs which are later adjusted for example).
>
> Maybe a better appropach than adding yet another expand
> modifier would be to split out the "base MEM" expansion part
> out of the bare MEM_REF handling code so we can call that
> instead of recursing.
I think that we should seize every easy opportunity to break up
expand_expr* functions into smaller ones with nicer names and easier
to understand semantics. So I think is a good idea.
Thanks,
Martin
>
> In this light - instead of a new expand modifier don't you want
> an actual flag that specifies we are coming from a call that
> wants to expand a base? That is, allow EXPAND_SUM
> but with the recursion flag set?
>
> Finally I think the recursion into the VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR case
> is only there because of the keep_aligning flag of get_inner_reference
> which should be obsolete now that we properly handle its effects
> in get_object_alignment. So you wouldn't need to adjust this path
> if we finally can get rid of that.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.
>
> > Thanks
> > Bernd.
