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[Ada] Get rid of useless temporary for slice in overaligned record type


This fixes a recent code quality regression for targets that do not
require the strict alignment of memory accesses: the compiler would
generate a useless temporary for a slice of an array component in an
overaligned record type.

Running these commands:

  gcc -c p.adb -gnatws -gnatD
  grep loop p.adb.dg

On the following sources:

procedure P (N : Positive) is

  type Rec1 is record
    I : Integer;
  end record;

  type Arr is array (Positive range <>) of Rec1;

  type Rec2 is record
    A : Arr (1 .. 128);
  end record;
  for Rec2'Alignment use 8;

  procedure Proc (A : Arr) is
  begin
    null;
  end;

  R : Rec2;

begin
  Proc (R.A (1 .. N));
end;

Should execute silently.

Tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, committed on trunk

2019-09-19  Eric Botcazou  <ebotcazou@adacore.com>

gcc/ada/

	* exp_util.adb (Is_Possibly_Unaligned_Slice): Do not return true
	on pure alignment considerations if the target does not require
	the strict alignment of memory accesses.
--- gcc/ada/exp_util.adb
+++ gcc/ada/exp_util.adb
@@ -8692,9 +8692,11 @@ package body Exp_Util is
                --  We are definitely in trouble if the record in question
                --  has an alignment, and either we know this alignment is
                --  inconsistent with the alignment of the slice, or we don't
-               --  know what the alignment of the slice should be.
+               --  know what the alignment of the slice should be. But this
+               --  really matters only if the target has strict alignment.
 
-               if Known_Alignment (Ptyp)
+               if Target_Strict_Alignment
+                 and then Known_Alignment (Ptyp)
                  and then (Unknown_Alignment (Styp)
                             or else Alignment (Styp) > Alignment (Ptyp))
                then


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