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Re: Can shrink-wrapping ever move prologue past an ASM statement?
- From: Richard Earnshaw <Richard dot Earnshaw at foss dot arm dot com>
- To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat dot com>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse dot cz>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:13:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: Can shrink-wrapping ever move prologue past an ASM statement?
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On 10/07/15 13:18, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:02:06AM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> This isn't going to reliably work for ARM or AArch64. If the only call
>> within a leaf function is via the ASM the compiler doesn't guarantee to
>> ensure the stack is aligned to the ABI requirements.
>
> Those archs have a link register, which is clobbered by the call, so
> asm doing a call should have the link register in its clobber list,
> which is enough to prevent shrink-wrapping the asm. Does that also
> help aligning the stack (as a side effect?)
>
No. Currently there's no safe way to guarantee that the stack will be
correctly aligned for a call from within an ASM block since the compiler
has no way of detecting that this is necessary.
> The problem you mention is not target-specific, and would also happen
> without shrink-wrapping. Maybe forcing a frame pointer (which they
> do in the reported case) helps? But there certainly could exist ABIs
> where it does not. This is arch-dependent code by nature, but still.
>
> Nastiness :-)
>
>
> Segher
>