Re: PATCH: PR target/40470: unabl e to find a register to spill in class ‘SSE_FIRST_REG’

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On 6/17/09, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>   
> > Richard Guenther wrote:
> >     
> > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, H.J. Lu<hongjiu.lu@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Some SSE4 instructions have implicit XMM0 operand. This patch helps RA
> > > > deal with them by forcing operand into XMM0 during expand. OK for trunk
> > > > and 4.4?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > I don't think it's a particularly good idea to put things in hardregs
> > > that early.
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > Agreed.  In fact, it can have horrific performance impacts.
> >     
>
> Why? Most optimizazions that can be done for this insn can only be
> done on GIMPLE, right?  And the insn must have that specific register.
> So unless I am missing something, I don't see why this patch would do
> any harm.
>   
It'll completely disable the RTL loop optimizers.  Granted this is less 
important today than before, but it's still bad.  And more importantly, 
the register allocators and reload should be fixed to DTRT rather than 
hacking around them.

jeff