Fwd: [PATCH 3/3]Improve induction variable elimination

["Bin.Cheng" <amker dot cheng at gmail dot com>]

Hi, forward to Zdenek for the review.

Thanks,
bin



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bin Cheng <bin.cheng@arm.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:09 AM
Subject: [PATCH 3/3]Improve induction variable elimination
To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org


Hi,
Function iv_elimination_compare_lt is used to eliminate induction variable
when the loop's latch could run for zero time (i.e., may_be_zero in loop
niter information evaluates to true).  As stated in the first message, it
only handles very specific case that rarely happens for either GCC bootstrap
or spec2k/spec2k6 compilation.  The function has two restrictions which
could be improved:
  a) When checking that candidate iv doesn't overflow, it only handles
candidates that are computed in a type that guarantees no overflows.  More
complex analysis can be used to prove the non-overflow ness,  as in this
patch.
  b) The function only handles the original form of may_be_zero like "a + 1
> b", but that expression could have been folded into other forms.  This
patch handles three folded forms and does iv elimination as well.  I think
this isn't a very corner case, because for many loops iterating from "0"
(i.e., we have "a == 0"), the expression will be folded.

I also refactored period check from may_eliminate_iv into a single function
so that it can be reused.

Thanks,
bin


2014-07-17  Bin Cheng  <bin.cheng@arm.com>

        * tree-ssa-loop-ivopts.c (iv_nowrap_period)
        (nowrap_cand_for_loop_niter_p): New functions.
        (period_greater_niter_exit): New function refactored from
        may_eliminate_iv.
        (iv_elimination_compare_lt): New parameter.  Check wrapping
        behavior for candidate of wrapping type.  Handle folded forms
        of may_be_zero expression.
        (may_eliminate_iv): Call period_greater_niter_exit.  Pass new
        argument for iv_elimination_compare_lt.

gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
2014-07-17  Bin Cheng  <bin.cheng@arm.com>

        * gcc.dg/tree-ssa/ivopts-lt-3.c: New test.
        * gcc.dg/tree-ssa/ivopts-lt-4.c: New test.

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