optimization/8829: Over-optimization at -O2 and above (affecting GLIBC macros)

[bagnara@cs.unipr.it]

>Number:         8829
>Category:       optimization
>Synopsis:       Over-optimization at -O2 and above (affecting GLIBC macros)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          wrong-code
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 05 13:26:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Roberto Bagnara
>Release:        3.2.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
RedHat 8.0
$ uname -a
Linux zoltan.unisuv.it 2.4.20 #33 Sun Dec 1 21:23:01 CET 2002 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.1/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.2.1/configure --prefix=/usr/local
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.1
>Description:
With -O2, gcc removes instructions that should not be removed.
>How-To-Repeat:
Compile the attached file, bug.cc, with
$ gcc -S -O2 bug.c
and notice that the instructions for swapping the bytes
have been removed from get_float32() while, interestingly,
they have not been removed from get_int32().
Notice also that, if the call to q(v) is uncommented from
get_float32(), the over-optimization goes away.
It is perhaps worth noticing that the macros in bug.c
come from GLIBC.

Here is the file bug.s that I obtain from bug.c (untouched)
with the compilation command above:

	.file	"bug.c"
	.text
	.p2align 4,,15
.globl get_float32
	.type	get_float32,@function
get_float32:
	pushl	%ebp
	movl	%esp, %ebp
	subl	$4, %esp
	movl	8(%ebp), %eax
	flds	(%eax)
	movl	%ebp, %esp
	popl	%ebp
	ret
.Lfe1:
	.size	get_float32,.Lfe1-get_float32
	.p2align 4,,15
.globl get_int32
	.type	get_int32,@function
get_int32:
	pushl	%ebp
	movl	%esp, %ebp
	subl	$4, %esp
	movl	8(%ebp), %eax
	movl	(%eax), %eax
	movl	%eax, -4(%ebp)
	movl	%ebp, %esp
#APP
	rorw $8, %ax;rorl $16, %eax;rorw $8, %ax
#NO_APP
	popl	%ebp
	ret
.Lfe2:
	.size	get_int32,.Lfe2-get_int32
	.ident	"GCC: (GNU) 3.2.1"
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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