[gomp3][tuples] TM for GCC

2008-06-09 Thread schindew
Dear GCC-Developers, my name is Martin Schindewolf and I am a student about to start his PhD. Currently, my funding comes from HiPEAC, a European Network that has been encouraging and funding GCC related projects in the past. Please have a look at the home page for details about HiPEAC[1] a

Stack Pointer/Size on GIMPLE?

2008-06-17 Thread schindew
Hi all, my intention is to add a pass at the Gimple (maybe SSA) level. The current problem is that I would like to generate code that saves the contents of the stack to a different memory location. Is there a way to access stack pointer and stack size (and the direction in which the stack

Re: Stack Pointer/Size on GIMPLE?

2008-06-18 Thread schindew
Hi Luke, thank you very much for your answer! I don't know anything about GIMPLE, but I can address this issue. It sounds like you are proposing to checkpoint (via copying) the entire stack eagerly at the time you enter a transaction, in order to avoid transactional instrumentation of stack acc