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Re: [PATCH]Fix computation of offset in ivopt


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Bernd Schmidt <bernds@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/2013 01:18 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
>
>> Index: gcc/fold-const.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- gcc/fold-const.c (revision 203267)
>> +++ gcc/fold-const.c (working copy)
>> @@ -7270,8 +7270,8 @@ fold_plusminus_mult_expr (location_t loc, enum tre
>>        HOST_WIDE_INT int01, int11, tmp;
>>        bool swap = false;
>>        tree maybe_same;
>> -      int01 = TREE_INT_CST_LOW (arg01);
>> -      int11 = TREE_INT_CST_LOW (arg11);
>> +      int01 = int_cst_value (arg01);
>> +      int11 = int_cst_value (arg11);
>>
>> this is not correct - it will mishandle all large unsigned numbers.
>>
>> The real issue is that we rely on twos-complement arithmetic to work
>> when operating on pointer offsets (because we convert them all to
>> unsigned sizetype).  That makes interpreting the offsets or expressions
>> that compute offsets hard (or impossible in some cases), as you can
>> see from the issues in IVOPTs.
>
> I still have patches to keep pointer types in ivopts (using a new
> POINTER_PLUSV_EXPR). Would that help in this case? Last time I posted
> them they met an unenthusiastic reception so I've never bothered to
> repost them.

Can you point me to that patch?  Or shortly elaborate on "keep pointer types
in ivopts"?  I think this issue is about decomposing offset computations into
a constant and a variable part, which after foldings messed up the unsigned
computation can result in "odd" constant offset parts.  So it's rather
because the offset operand of POINTER_PLUS_EXPR is fixed as
sizetype.

Richard.

>
> Bernd
>


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