[patch] Improve detection of widening multiplication in the vectorizer

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 21:08:00 GMT 2011


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Ira Rosen <ira.rosen@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The vectorizer expects widening multiplication pattern to be:
>
>     type a_t, b_t;
>     TYPE a_T, b_T, prod_T;
>
>     a_T = (TYPE) a_t;
>     b_T = (TYPE) b_t;
>     prod_T = a_T * b_T;
>
> where type 'TYPE' is double the size of type 'type'. This works fine
> when the types are signed. For the unsigned types the code looks like:
>
>     unsigned type a_t, b_t;
>     unsigned TYPE u_prod_T;
>     TYPE a_T, b_T, prod_T;
>
>      a_T = (TYPE) a_t;
>      b_T = (TYPE) b_t;
>      prod_T = a_T * b_T;
>      u_prod_T = (unsigned TYPE) prod_T;
>
> i.e., the multiplication is done on signed, followed by a cast to unsigned.
> This patch adds a support of such patterns and generates
> WIDEN_MULT_EXPR for the unsigned type.
>
> Another unsupported case is multiplication by a constant (e.g., b_T is
> a constant). This patch checks that the constant fits the smaller type
> 'type' and recognizes such cases as widening multiplication.
>
> Bootstrapped and tested on powerpc64-suse-linux. Tested the
> vectorization testsuite on arm-linux-gnueabi.
> I'll commit the patch shortly if there are no comments/objections.
>
> Ira
>
> ChangeLog:
>
>       * tree-vectorizer.h (vect_recog_func_ptr): Make last argument to be
>       a pointer.
>       * tree-vect-patterns.c (vect_recog_widen_sum_pattern,
>       vect_recog_widen_mult_pattern, vect_recog_dot_prod_pattern,
>       vect_recog_pow_pattern): Likewise.
>       (vect_pattern_recog_1): Remove declaration.
>       (widened_name_p): Remove declaration.  Add new argument to specify
>       whether to check that both types are either signed or unsigned.
>       (vect_recog_widen_mult_pattern): Update documentation.  Handle
>       unsigned patterns and multiplication by constants.
>       (vect_pattern_recog_1): Update vect_recog_func references.  Use
>       statement information from the statement returned from pattern
>       detection functions.
>       (vect_pattern_recog): Update vect_recog_func reference.
>       * tree-vect-stmts.c (vectorizable_type_promotion): For widening
>       multiplication by a constant use the type of the other operand.
>
.

This caused:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49318

-- 
H.J.



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