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Re: avoid alignment of static variables affecting stack's
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at suse dot com>
- To: "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>,<hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:09:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: avoid alignment of static variables affecting stack's
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>>> On 23.10.14 at 08:50, <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 07:30:27AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Function (or more narrow) scope static variables (as well as others not
>> placed on the stack) should also not have any effect on the stack
>> alignment. I noticed the issue first with Linux'es dynamic_pr_debug()
>> construct using an 8-byte aligned sub-file-scope local variable.
>>
>> According to my checking bad behavior started with 4.6.x (4.5.3 was
>> still okay), but generated code got quite a bit worse as of 4.9.0.
>
> If the static/external var has BLKmode, then perhaps it is safe, but I
> wonder about other vars, say vectors etc. Such vars are most likely
> loaded from their memory location, and if for some reason that needs to be
> spilled again, stack realignment would not be able to do that.
> Or do we inspect the IL and for any pseudos with modes needing larger
> alignment we adjust the dynamic stack realignment fields?
I don't know, but it would seem to me that this ought to happen
anyway: If the pseudo holds the result of some computation
other than a simple load from memory and needs spilling, the same
would apply afaict.
Furthermore, shouldn't there be an existing test case for what you
describe, and hence me not seeing regressions with the patch in
place should be sufficient proof of there not being an issue?
Jan