Bug 34743

Summary: Testcase gcc.dg/tree-ssa/20070302-1.c is broken (unneeded call clobbering)
Product: gcc Reporter: Diego Novillo <dnovillo>
Component: middle-endAssignee: Diego Novillo <dnovillo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: gcc-bugs, rguenth
Priority: P3 Keywords: alias, missed-optimization
Version: 4.3.0   
Target Milestone: 4.5.0   
Host: Target:
Build: Known to work:
Known to fail: Last reconfirmed: 2008-01-11 15:57:57
Attachments: patch I was toying with

Description Diego Novillo 2008-01-11 14:51:01 UTC
The test stopped testing what it's supposed to test.  The call to function baz() should not be inlined.  This patch to the test exposes the failure.  The operand scanner is adding non-clobbered symbols to the call site.

Details at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-01/msg00477.html
Comment 1 Richard Biener 2008-01-11 15:57:55 UTC
It's doing the correct thing.  We have

p_1, name memory tag: NMT.14, is dereferenced, points-to vars: { SFT.3 SFT.7 }

(SFT.3 is x.x, SFT.7 is z.x)

Now, NMT.14 is marked call clobbered:

NMT.14, UID D.1582, struct A, is addressable, score: 40, direct reads: 2, direct writes: 1, indirect reads: 0, indirect writes: 2, call clobbered (passed to call), may aliases: { SFT.3 SFT.7 }

because one of its pointed-to vars is call clobbered (SFT.7, aka z, which is
passed to the call).  Here:

static void
compute_tag_properties (void)
{
...
          EXECUTE_IF_SET_IN_BITMAP (ma, 0, i, bi)
            {
              entry = referenced_var (i);
              /* Call clobbered entries cause the tag to be marked
                 call clobbered.  */
              if (!tagcc && is_call_clobbered (entry)) 
                {
                  mark_call_clobbered (tag, var_ann (entry)->escape_mask);
                  tagcc = true;
                  changed = true;
                }

I don't know if we can disable this if var_ann (entry)->escape_mask == ESCAPE_TO_CALL.

I don't know if we need to propagate tags from NMT aliases to the NMT
this way at all - after all we add all subvars of an escaped var to
call clobbered vars already.

So, confirmed - there's a missing optimization.
Comment 2 Richard Biener 2008-01-11 16:39:10 UTC
We even mark all pointed-to vars of value-escaping pointers as call-clobbered.
So I believe NMTs itself need never be call-clobbered.  But there's also
hints that we cover bugs somewhere:

         FIXME:  This is not quite right.  They should only be
         clobbered if value_escapes_p is true, regardless of whether
         they point to global memory or not.
         So removing this code and fixing all the bugs would be nice.
         It is the cause of a bunch of clobbering.  */

Also it is not at all clear to me what MTAG_GLOBAL is all about (and its
appearant relation to call clobbered state).
Comment 3 Richard Biener 2008-01-14 10:56:10 UTC
Let's defer this to stage1.
Comment 4 Richard Biener 2008-01-14 10:58:26 UTC
Created attachment 14940 [details]
patch I was toying with
Comment 5 Richard Biener 2009-04-03 11:16:51 UTC
Subject: Bug 34743

Author: rguenth
Date: Fri Apr  3 11:16:29 2009
New Revision: 145497

URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?root=gcc&view=rev&rev=145497
Log:
2009-04-03  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>

	PR tree-optimization/34743
	* gcc.dg/pr38984.c: Remove XFAIL, adjust.
	* gcc.dg/tree-ssa/20070302-1.c: Remove XFAIL.
	* gcc.dg/tree-ssa/alias-18.c: Likewise.
	* gcc.dg/tree-ssa/sra-3.c: Likewise.
	* gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-49.c: Likewise.
	* gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-53.c: Likewise.
	* gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-57.c: Likewise.
	* gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-61.c: Likewise.

Modified:
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr38984.c
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/20070302-1.c
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/alias-18.c
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/sra-3.c
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-49.c
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-53.c
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-57.c
    trunk/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/vect/no-vfa-vect-61.c

Comment 6 Richard Biener 2009-04-03 11:16:52 UTC
Fixed for 4.5.