Re: [wide-int] Do not treat rtxes as sign-extended

[Kenneth Zadeck <zadeck at naturalbridge dot com>]

On 11/02/2013 06:30 AM, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Bah.  After all that effort, it turns out that -- by design --
> there is one special case where CONST_INTs are not sign-extended.
> Nonzero/true BImode integers are stored as STORE_FLAG_VALUE,
> which can be 1 rather than -1.  So (const_int 1) can be a valid
> BImode integer -- and consequently (const_int -1) can be wrong --
> even though BImode only has 1 bit.
>
> It might be nice to change that, but for wide-int I think we should
> just treat rtxes like trees for now.
>
> Tested on powerpc64-linux-gnu and x86_64-linux-gnu.  It fixes some ICEs
> seen on bfin-elf.  OK to install?
do we have to throw away the baby with the bath water here?  I guess 
what you are saying is that it is worse to have is_sign_extended be a 
variable that is almost always true than to be a hard false.

also we could preserve the test and make it not apply to bimode.

kenny


> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
> Index: gcc/rtl.h
> ===================================================================
> --- gcc/rtl.h	(revision 204311)
> +++ gcc/rtl.h	(working copy)
> @@ -1408,7 +1408,9 @@
>     {
>       static const enum precision_type precision_type = VAR_PRECISION;
>       static const bool host_dependent_precision = false;
> -    static const bool is_sign_extended = true;
> +    /* This ought to be true, except for the special case that BImode
> +       is canonicalized to STORE_FLAG_VALUE, which might be 1.  */
> +    static const bool is_sign_extended = false;
>       static unsigned int get_precision (const rtx_mode_t &);
>       static wi::storage_ref decompose (HOST_WIDE_INT *, unsigned int,
>   				      const rtx_mode_t &);
> @@ -1430,10 +1432,6 @@
>     switch (GET_CODE (x.first))
>       {
>       case CONST_INT:
> -      if (precision < HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT)
> -	gcc_checking_assert (INTVAL (x.first)
> -			     == sext_hwi (INTVAL (x.first), precision));
> -
>         return wi::storage_ref (&INTVAL (x.first), 1, precision);
>         
>       case CONST_WIDE_INT: