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Re: RF[DA]: fix execute/931004-10.c regressions


Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:50:13PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > Before your change to set_mem_attributes on Sunday, the alignment according
> > to MEM_ALIGN was that of the component, x[1], i.e. 16.  Now it is that of
> > the underlying object, x, i.e. 64.
> 
> Really?  That shouldn't have changed.  I'll look into it.
> 
> > We don't have any documentation that spells out what MEM_ALIGN actually
> > means.
> 
> It's the alignment of the MEM, not the MEM_EXPR, or MEM_OFFSET or
> whatever.

I've attached a patch document this.
	
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Thu Jul 25 10:32:35 2002  J"orn Rennecke <joern.rennecke@superh.com>

	* rtl.h (mem_attrs): Spell out more clearly the roles of ALIGN,
	DECL and OFFSET.

Index: rtl.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/rtl.h,v
retrieving revision 1.365
diff -p -r1.365 rtl.h
*** rtl.h	19 Jul 2002 23:11:18 -0000	1.365
--- rtl.h	25 Jul 2002 09:30:35 -0000
*************** typedef struct
*** 89,94 ****
--- 89,98 ----
     so MEMs that the same attributes share a data structure.  This means
     they cannot be modified in place.  If any element is nonzero, it means
     the value of the corresponding attribute is unknown.  */
+ /* ALIGN is the alignment of the MEM itself, while EXPR can describe a
+    larger underlying object, which might have a stricter alignment; SIZE
+    is the size of the object, and OFFSET is the offset of the MEM within
+    that object.  */
  typedef struct mem_attrs GTY(())
  {
    HOST_WIDE_INT alias;		/* Memory alias set.  */

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