Patch causes segv
Dale Johannesen
dalej@apple.com
Thu Oct 24 15:00:00 GMT 2002
Unfortunately this patch
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-10/msg00269.html
isn't correct after all. Calling into loop_invariant_p at this point is
not safe, because the unrolling code is allocating new REGs as it goes
along, and loop_invariant_p looks up things in loop->array[reg] which
has not been expanded to include the new REGs. This can result in a
segv.
On darwin this happens when building SPEC's 176.gcc with
-DHOST_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN -O3 -mcpu=7400 -funroll-loops
A quick fix is to put
loop_regs_scan(loop, 0);
before the code you added, and make the definition in loop.c extern.
(Not adequately tested.) This is pretty inefficient though and I hope
you can do better.
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