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Re: [PATCH, 3 of 4], Enhance PowerPC vec_extract support for power8/power9 machines
On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:37:46AM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> I noticed I forgot to include one of the changes in the ChangeLog file
> (rtx_is_swappable_p). This change was originally meant to be in the previous
> patch, and it got left out. The corrected ChangeLog is:
But put it on the correct file please (rs6000.c) ;-)
Segher
> * config/rs6000/rs6000-protos.h (rs6000_adjust_vec_address): New
> function that takes a vector memory address, a hard register, an
> element number and a temporary base register, and recreates an
> address that points to the appropriate element within the vector.
> * config/rs6000/rs6000.c (rs6000_adjust_vec_address): Likewise.
> (rs6000_split_vec_extract_var): Add support for the target of a
> vec_extract with variable element number being a scalar memory
> location.
> * config/rs6000/vsx.md (vsx_extract_<mode>_load): Replace
> vsx_extract_<mode>_load insn with a new insn that optimizes
> storing either element to a memory location, using scratch
> registers to pick apart the vector and reconstruct the address.
> (vsx_extract_<P:mode>_<VSX_D:mode>_load): Likewise.
> (vsx_extract_<mode>_store): Rework alternatives to more correctly
> support Altivec registers. Add support for ISA 3.0 Altivec d-form
> store instruction.
> (vsx_extract_<mode>_var): Add support for extracting a variable
> element number from memory.
> (rtx_is_swappable_p): VLSO insns (UNSPEC_VSX_VSLOW) are not
> swappable.