On July 28, 2015 4:37:15 PM GMT+02:00, "Uday P. Khedker" <u...@cse.iitb.ac.in>
wrote:
>
>
>Richard Biener wrote on Tuesday 28 July 2015 01:12 PM:
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Uday Khedker <u...@cse.iitb.ac.in>
>wrote:
>>> We have added a new field (bool ptr_arith in struct tree_base) to
>the tree
>>> node. We are assigning values to this field in a gimple pass in
>non-LTO mode
>>> and would like to access them in LTO mode in our ipa passes. It
>appears that
>>> all fields of tree node are not preserved in LTO mode. Is there any
>way to
>>> tell GCC that a given field should be preserved so that it can be
>accessed
>>> in LTO mode?
>> You have to explicitely add the streaming to tree-streamer-{in,out}.c
>>
>>
>Thanks for this info. We have done the following:
>
>(a) Added a field to tree_base in the file tree.h as follows:
>
> unsigned ptr_arith : 1;
>
> right after
>
> ENUM_BITFIELD(tree_code) code : 16;
>
>(b) Added the following code to function pack_ts_base_value_fields in
>the file tree-streamer-out.c
>
> bp_pack_value (bp, TREE_PTR_ARITH (expr), 1);
>
> just after
>
> bp_pack_value (bp, TREE_CODE (expr), 16);
>
> Macro TREE_PTR_ARITH access the field pts_arith.
>
>(c) Added the following code to function unpack_ts_base_value_fields in
>the file tree-streamer-in.c
>
> TREE_PTR_ARITH (expr) = (unsigned) bp_unpack_value (bp, 1);
>
> right in the beginning.
>
>We are getting the correct values in non-LTO mode of our pass. However,
>the same code has values 0 in the LTO mode execution.
>
>Is there anything else that we need to do? We briefly looked at the
>functions in tree-streamer-{in,out}.c but could not guess if something
>more needs to be done
No, that should be all. Though dependent on what trees the flags are on you
might want to change the tree compare function in lto.c as well.
Are you sure the trees survive until lto streaming?
Richard.
>Uday.
