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Re: [wide-int] int_traits <tree>


Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>Kenneth Zadeck <zadeck@naturalbridge.com> writes:
>> I am a little confused here.    what is the reason for doing the the 
>> is_sign_extended thing?
>> is the point of deferring the canonization that we can avoid the use
>of 
>> the scratch array until the value is actually used.   then we 
>> canonicalize on demand?
>
>The idea is that we conservatively treat upper bits as undefined when
>reading, just like you did originally.  But (assuming I understood the
>idea correctly) the traits class has an ::is_sign_extended member that
>may be able to tell you at compile time that the upper bits are
>actually
>sign-extended.  This would be true for wide_int and rtx, but not tree.
>We can then use ::is_sign_extended to add fast paths to the functions
>that are better with sign-extended inputs (like eq_p and lts_p) without
>adding any extra run-time checks.

Correct. As additional benefit we get rid of the scratch array use in the tree decompose routine. At least that was the main motivation of this idea.

Richard.

>Thanks,
>Richard



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