[RFC] use integer types for copies in SRA when mode is not BLK
Richard Henderson
rth@redhat.com
Mon Jun 27 06:51:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:12:20AM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> We copy the struct element by element which is not a good thing really.
> There were
> two ways to fix this: force SRA to produce a block copy for case where
> we don't use
> any fields or any other usage, the other would change SRA to produce an
> integer
> variable which holds the struct and use VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR. This patch
> implements
> the second idea as we also are able to remove copies at the tree level
> which would
> have been left with the first way.
Not having a virtual-op copy propagation pass is hurting us.
If we had such a thing, do you have a feeling on how this would
affect this case wrt using block copies here?
> For the case about we now produce the code which we produced in 3.4.0
> and we get
> on the tree level (right before expand):
> *x = VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<struct s>(VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR<unsigned int>(*y));
>
> Comments or is this an abuse of VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR?
It's ok as far as V_C_E is concerned.
But I'm worried that it only fixes a subset of the cases that may
have regressed. We could perhaps alternately use a set of word sized
BIT_FIELD_EXPRs to fix this for BLKmode aggregates, but now we're
starting to replicate the logic of emit_block_move and that seems
like a really bad move.
r~
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