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Re: [PATCH] Small type_hash_canon improvement


On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 06:27:00PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 06:21:17PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> > >the
> > >only other user after all calls free_node in a loop, so it is highly
> > >unlikely it would do anything there.
> > >
> > >If you mean the INTEGER_TYPE handling, then yes, I guess it could be
> > >done in free_node too and can move it there.  If it was without
> > >the && TREE_TYPE (TYPE_M*_VALUE (type)) == type extra checks, then it
> > >is certainly unsafe and breaks bootstrap even, e.g. build_range_type
> > >and other spots happily create INTEGER_TYPEs with min/max value that
> > >have some other type.  But when the type of the INTEGER_CSTs is the
> > >type we are ggc_freeing, anything that would refer to those constants
> > >afterwards would be necessarily broken (as their TREE_TYPE would be
> > >ggc_freed, possibly reused for something completely unrelated).
> > >Thus I think it should be safe even in the LTO case and thus doable
> > >in free_node.
> > 
> > OK.  OTOH LTO frees the whole SCC and thus doesn't expect any pointed to stuff
> > to be freed.  Not sure if we allow double ggc_free of stuff.
> 
> We don't, that crashes miserably.

Tried that patch (moving the INTEGRAL_TYPE handling into free_node), and got
246 new FAILs in -flto testcases.

	Jakub


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