On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Oleg Endo <oleg.e...@t-online.de> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 09:43 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >> If you're looking at exploiting auto-inc addressing, others and myself >> have speculated that something built around >> straight-line-strength-reduction at the RTL level would be ideal for >> exploiting that capability. >> >> That may be more suitable for a GSOC project than tackling the entire >> space of address mode selections. > > As far as I understand the proposal, the goal is not to solve all AMS > problems, but rather to lay the foundation for doing these kinds of > optimizations and deal with a few assorted ones (most likely auto-mod > will be a candidate). Thus, I think Erik's proposal sounds feasible, > although I'd expect some of the allocations/priorities in the schedule > to change during the project. But that's not something unusual to > happen.
That's right, the project's aim is to handle some specific access patterns and, in the process, build a framework that makes subsequent optimizations easier to write, not to tackle AMS in its entirety. I'll reword the proposal a bit to more accurately reflect this. Best regards, Erik
