redundant FPU reads on i386-linux
Toshiyasu Morita
tm@netcom.com
Mon Oct 26 13:18:00 GMT 1998
compiler: egcs-19981026
host: i386-linux
file: ftp://shell14.ba.best.com/pub.t/tm2/matrix.c
options: -O2
GCC appears storing a value to a stack slot and immediately reloading
the value, which is probably suboptimal. It may be better to duplicate
the value and store it instead...
00001090 <gl_Ortho+30> fstps 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
00001093 <gl_Ortho+33> flds 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
...
000010f6 <gl_Ortho+96> fstps 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
000010f9 <gl_Ortho+99> flds 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
There are some redundant load/stores here:
00001101 <gl_Ortho+a1> fstps 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
00001104 <gl_Ortho+a4> flds 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
00001107 <gl_Ortho+a7> fstps 0xfffffff4(%ebp)
0000110a <gl_Ortho+aa> fstps 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
0000110d <gl_Ortho+ad> flds 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
This is nasty because it's a store/load/modify/store/load;
00001146 <gl_Ortho+e6> fstps 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
00001149 <gl_Ortho+e9> flds 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
0000114c <gl_Ortho+ec> subl $0x4,%esp
0000114f <gl_Ortho+ef> fstps (%esp,1)
00001152 <gl_Ortho+f2> fldl 0x2c(%ebp)
00001155 <gl_Ortho+f5> fstps 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
00001158 <gl_Ortho+f8> flds 0xffffffbc(%ebp)
Toshi
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