PATCH: tree-ssa-sink breaks stack layout

Richard Guenther richard.guenther@gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 15:32:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Another possibility would be to delay stack slot allocation until after all
>> RTL code motion is finished at which point the lifetimes of all stack-locals
>> is fixed (which it in practice is not at expansion time).
>
> I like this idea.  There is no fundamental reason that we have to assign
> specific stack offsets at expansion time.  We don't need specific stack
> offsets until reload.
>
> I'm not sure how to implement it, though.

We could use separate pseudos for each variable on the stack
instead of one virtual-stack-vars pseudo.  A stack allocation
pass then would perform life analysis on these pseudos and
transform them to the one-and-only virtual-stack-vars reg.

No idea if that would (easily) work out, of course.  Some targets
may have different costs and thus optimization decision based
on the offset size used with virtual-stack-vars.

Richard.

> Ian
>



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