Andrew Haley wrote:
Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I suggest that those who think this is a severe problem are the
> > ones who are highly motivated to work on a solution. An
> > efficient solution could be tricky: you don't want to disrupt
> > pipelines, or interfere with optimizations that rely on
> > recognizing that there is a modulo.
>
> I suspect that the best fix, in the sense of generating the best
> code, would be to do this at the tree level. That will give loop
> and VRP optimizations the best chance to eliminate the test for -1.
> Doing it during gimplification would be easy, if perhaps rather
> ugly. If there are indeed several processors with this oddity,
> then it would even make a certain degree of sense as a
> target-independent option.
x86, x86-64, S/390, as far as I'm aware.
MIPS does *not* seem to suffer from this 'defect', so a target
independent solution that caused MIPS to generate worse code would be bad.
David Daney
