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Re: [PATCH 3/4] Simple relaxation of dynamic type change detection routine


On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Martin Jambor wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in order to speed up astar, I had to persuade the function that
> decides whether a statement potentially modifies the dynamic type of
> an object by storing a new value to the VMT pointer to consider the
> following statement harmless (all types are integers of some sort):
> 
> MEM[(i32 *)b2arp_3(D) + 8B] = 0;
> 
> I'd like to experiment with this routine a bit more once I have some
> other IPA-CP infrastructure in place but at the moment I opted for a
> simple solution:  All scalar non-pointer stores are deemed safe.
> 
> VMT pointer is a compiler generated field which is a pointer so legal
> user code is not able to store stuff there through some fancy type
> casts and compiler generated code should have no reason whatsoever to
> that either.  Therefore I believe this change is safe and useful.
> 
> I have bootstrapped and tested the patch on x886_64-linux.  OK for
> trunk?

I think this should be only done for -fstrict-aliasing.

Ok with that change.
Richard.

> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 2011-04-14  Martin Jambor  <mjambor@suse.cz>
> 
> 	* ipa-prop.c (stmt_may_be_vtbl_ptr_store): Return false for scalar
> 	non-pointer assignments.
> 
> Index: src/gcc/ipa-prop.c
> ===================================================================
> --- src.orig/gcc/ipa-prop.c
> +++ src/gcc/ipa-prop.c
> @@ -405,13 +405,18 @@ stmt_may_be_vtbl_ptr_store (gimple stmt)
>      {
>        tree lhs = gimple_assign_lhs (stmt);
>  
> -      if (TREE_CODE (lhs) == COMPONENT_REF
> -	  && !DECL_VIRTUAL_P (TREE_OPERAND (lhs, 1))
> -	  && !AGGREGATE_TYPE_P (TREE_TYPE (lhs)))
> +      if (!AGGREGATE_TYPE_P (TREE_TYPE (lhs)))
> +	{
> +	  if (!POINTER_TYPE_P (TREE_TYPE (lhs)))
>  	    return false;
> -      /* In the future we might want to use get_base_ref_and_offset to find
> -	 if there is a field corresponding to the offset and if so, proceed
> -	 almost like if it was a component ref.  */
> +
> +	  if (TREE_CODE (lhs) == COMPONENT_REF
> +	      && !DECL_VIRTUAL_P (TREE_OPERAND (lhs, 1)))
> +	    return false;
> +	  /* In the future we might want to use get_base_ref_and_offset to find
> +	     if there is a field corresponding to the offset and if so, proceed
> +	     almost like if it was a component ref.  */
> +	}
>      }
>    return true;
>  }
> 
> 

-- 
Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Novell / SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex


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