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Re: [PATCH] Volatile bitfields vs. inline asm memory constraints
- From: Julian Brown <julian at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:00:34 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Volatile bitfields vs. inline asm memory constraints
- References: <20101122132854.0aca431a@rex.config> <AANLkTinNC7ot9FrJ4k0Bu_KcXTg_ik4-eSpQnpGyZfCk@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:37:41 -0500
Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:28, Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch fixes the issue in the (Launchpad, not GCC) bug tracker:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/675347
> >
> > The problem was introduced by the patch from DJ to honour volatile
> > bitfield types:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-06/msg01167.html
> >
> > but not exposed (on ARM) until the option was made the default (on
> > the Linaro branch) -- it's not yet the default on mainline.
> >
> > The issue is as follows: after DJ's patch and with
> > -fstrict-volatile-bitfields, in expr.c:expand_expr_real_1, the if
> > condition with the comment "In cases where an aligned union has an
> > unaligned object as a field, we might be extracting a BLKmode value
> > from an integer-mode (e.g., SImode) object [...]" triggers for a
> > normal (non-bitfield) volatile field of a struct/class.
> >
>
> Could you add a comment before the test to describe why you are
> excluding non-natural alignments?
>
> OK with that change, though I think you'll have to stage this for 4.7.
I've committed this version now we're in stage 1. (I also re-tested it
for good measure, no regressions with cross to ARM Linux.)
Thanks,
Julian
ChangeLog
gcc/
* expr.c (expand_expr_real_1): Only use BLKmode for volatile
accesses which are not naturally aligned.
Index: gcc/expr.c
===================================================================
--- gcc/expr.c (revision 171288)
+++ gcc/expr.c (working copy)
@@ -9202,8 +9202,11 @@ expand_expr_real_1 (tree exp, rtx target
&& modifier != EXPAND_CONST_ADDRESS
&& modifier != EXPAND_INITIALIZER)
/* If the field is volatile, we always want an aligned
- access. */
- || (volatilep && flag_strict_volatile_bitfields > 0)
+ access. Only do this if the access is not already naturally
+ aligned, otherwise "normal" (non-bitfield) volatile fields
+ become non-addressable. */
+ || (volatilep && flag_strict_volatile_bitfields > 0
+ && (bitpos % GET_MODE_ALIGNMENT (mode) != 0))
/* If the field isn't aligned enough to fetch as a memref,
fetch it as a bit field. */
|| (mode1 != BLKmode