Re: [GCC][middle-end] Add rules to strip away unneeded type casts in expressions (2nd patch)

[Tamar Christina <Tamar dot Christina at arm dot com>]

Hi Richi,

The 06/25/2019 10:02, Richard Biener wrote:
> 
> This looks like a literal 1:1 translation plus merging with the
> existing pattern around integers.  You changed
> (op:s@0 (convert@3 @1) (convert?@4 @2)) to
> (op:s@0 (convert1?@3 @1) (convert2?@4 @2)) where this now also
> matches if there are no inner conversions at all - was that a
> desired change or did you merely want to catch when the first
> operand is not a conversion but the second is, possibly only
> for the RDIV_EXPR case?
>

Yes, the ? ? is for the RDIV case, I really only want (c a) `op` (c b),
a `op` (c b) and (c a) `op` b.  But didn't find a way to do this.

The only thing I can think of that gets this is without overmatching is
to either duplicate the code or move this back to a C helper function and
call that from match.pd.  But I was hoping to have it all in match.pd
instead of hiding it away in a C call.

Do you have a better way of doing it or a preference to an approach?
 
> +(for op (plus minus mult rdiv)
> + (simplify
> +   (convert (op:s@0 (convert1?@3 @1) (convert2?@4 @2)))
> +   (with { tree arg0 = strip_float_extensions (@1);
> +          tree arg1 = strip_float_extensions (@2);
> +          tree itype = TREE_TYPE (@0);
> 
> you now unconditionally call strip_float_extensions on each operand
> even for the integer case, please sink stuff only used in one
> case arm.  I guess keeping the integer case first via
> 

Done, Initially didn't think it would be an issue since I don't use the value it
creates in the integer case. But I re-ordered it.
 
> should work (with the 'with' being in the ifs else position).
> 
> +      (if (code == REAL_TYPE)
> +       /* Ignore the conversion if we don't need to store intermediate
> +          results and neither type is a decimal float.  */
> +         (if (!(flag_float_store
> +              || DECIMAL_FLOAT_TYPE_P (type)
> +              || DECIMAL_FLOAT_TYPE_P (itype))
> +             && types_match (ty1, ty2))
> +           (convert (op (convert:ty1 @1) (convert:ty2 @2)))))
> 
> this looks prone to the same recursion issue you described above.

It's to break the recursion when you don't match anything. Indeed don't need it if
I change the match condition above.

Thanks,
Tamar
> 
> 'code' is used exactly once, using SCALAR_FLOAT_TYPE_P (itype)
> in the above test would be clearer.  Also both ifs can be combined.
> The snipped above also doesn't appear in the convert.c code you
> remove and the original one is
> 
>   switch (TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (expr)))
>     {
>     case REAL_TYPE:
>       /* Ignore the conversion if we don't need to store intermediate
>          results and neither type is a decimal float.  */
>       return build1_loc (loc,
>                          (flag_float_store
>                           || DECIMAL_FLOAT_TYPE_P (type)
>                           || DECIMAL_FLOAT_TYPE_P (itype))
>                          ? CONVERT_EXPR : NOP_EXPR, type, expr);
> 
> which as far as I can see doesn't do anything besides
> exchanging CONVERT_EXPR for NOP_EXPR which is a noop to the IL.
> So it appears this shouldn't be moved to match.pd at all?
> It's also not a 1:1 move since you are changing 'expr'.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard.
> 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tamar
> > > 
> > > Concretely it makes both these cases behave the same
> > > 
> > >   float e = (float)a * (float)b;
> > >   *c = (_Float16)e;
> > > 
> > > and
> > > 
> > >   *c = (_Float16)((float)a * (float)b);
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tamar
> > > 
> > > gcc/ChangeLog:
> > > 
> > > 2019-06-25  Tamar Christina  <tamar.christina@arm.com>
> > > 
> > > 	* convert.c (convert_to_real_1): Move part of conversion code...
> > > 	* match.pd: ...To here.
> > > 
> > > gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> > > 
> > > 2019-06-25  Tamar Christina  <tamar.christina@arm.com>
> > > 
> > > 	* gcc.dg/type-convert-var.c: New test.
> > > 
> > > --
> > 
> 
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