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Re: Avoiding paradoxical subregs
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Paulo Matos <pmatos at broadcom dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:22:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: Avoiding paradoxical subregs
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> I can use canonicalize_comparison like s390 to remove the subreg, however
> the question then becomes about how to avoid this in general. We cannot
> allow a zero_extend to become a paradoxical subreg and then have the subreg
> discarded. Most of our instructions are vector instructions which will
> change the remainder of the register.
>
> I have defined WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS and CANNOT_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS(from,
> to, class) and set it to true if GET_MODE_SIZE (from) < GET_MODE_SIZE (to)
> but it didn't help.
>
> Any suggestions for a generic solution?
What kind of generic solution? Eliminating paradoxical subregs altogether?
That's very likely not doable if you define WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS anyway.
You need to pinpoint where things start to go wrong, for example in combine.
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Eric Botcazou