On 8/9/19 2:14 AM, John Darrington wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 01:57:41PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > > Yea, it's certainly designed with the more mainstream architectures in > mind. THe double-indirect case that's being talked about here is well > out of the mainstream and not a feature of anything LRA has targetted to > date. So I'm not surprised it's not working. > > My suggestion would be to ignore the double-indirect aspect of the > architecture right now, get the port working, then come back and try to > make double-indirect addressing modes work. > > This sounds like sensible advice. However I wonder if this issue is > related to the other major outstanding problem I have, viz: the large > number of test failures which report "Unable to find a register to > spill" - So far, nobody has been able to explain how to solve that > issue and even the people who appear to be more knowlegeable have > expressed suprise that it is even happening at all. You're going to have to debug what LRA is doing and why. There's really no short-cuts here. We can't really do it for you. Even if you weren't using LRA you'd be doing the same process, just on even more difficult to understand codebase.
> > Even if it should turn out not to be related, the message I've been > receiving in this thread is lra should not be expected to work for > non "mainstream" backends. So perhaps there is another, yet to be > discovered, restriction which prevents my backend from ever working? It's possible. But that's not really any different than reload. There's certainly various aspects of architectures that reload can't handle as well -- even on architectures that were mainstream processors when reload was under active development and maintenance. THere's even a good chance reload won't handle double-indirect addressing modes well -- they were far from mainstream and as a result the code which does purport to handle double-indirect addressing modes hasn't been used/tested all that much over the last 25+ years. > > On the other hand, given my lack of experience with gcc, it could be > that lra is working perfectly, and I have simply done something > incorrectly. But the uncertainty voiced in this thread means that it > is hard to be sure that I'm not trying to do something which is > currently unsupported. My recommendation is to continue with the LRA path. jeff
