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Re: avoid alignment of static variables affecting stack's


On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> On 24.10.14 at 11:52, <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:10:08AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
>>>> >> For something in static storage, this seems OK.  However, I think a hard
>>>> >> register variable ought to be left alone -- even if we can't spill it to
>>>> >> a stack slot today, there's a reasonable chance we might add that
>>>> >> capability in the future.
>>>> >
>>>> > Hmm, but then wouldn't it need to be the code generating the spill
>>>> > that's responsible for enforcing suitable alignment? I can certainly
>>>> > re-submit without the hard register special cased (as it would still
>>>> > fix the original issue I'm seeing), but it feels wrong to do so.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, ISTR the spilling code is supposed to update the required
>>>> stack alignment.  After all the RA decision might affect required
>>>> alignment of spills.
>>>
>>> From what I remember, at RA time you already have to know conservatively
>>> that you'll want to do dynamic stack realignment and what the highest needed
>>> alignment will be, so various parts of expansion etc. conservatively compute
>>> what will be needed.  I think that is because you e.g. need to reserve some
>>> registers (vDRAP, etc.) if doing dynamic realignment.
>>> If you conservatively assume you'll need dynamic stack realignment and after
>>> RA you find you really don't need it, there are some optimizations in
>>> prologue threading where it attempts to at least decrease amount of
>>> unnecessary code, but the harm has already been done.
>>>
>>> Might be that with LRA perhaps this could be changed and not conservatively
>>> assume more alignment than proven to be needed, but such code isn't there I
>>> think.
>>
>> I stand corrected then.
>
> So am I to conclude then that I need to take out the hard register
> check in order for this to be accepted?

Yes.

Thanks,
Richard.

> Jan
>


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