patch to fix PR69461

Michael Meissner meissner@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Feb 4 20:07:00 GMT 2016


On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:13:21PM -0500, Vladimir Makarov wrote:
> Thanks, Mike.  I found it when trying to fix numerous LRA failures
> on power8.  Reload pass when can not figure out what to do with
> illegitimate address does nothing.  LRA tried still to do something.
> I've made LRA working as reload for this case.  So LRA failures were
> fixed even if fused to wrapper address was believed to be
> illegitimate.
> 
> Still it makes a sense to consider the address legitimate as a lot
> of code in GCC needs this.

Yeah, it was simple thinko on my part.  Segher was trying to track down this as
-flto in particular seemed to trigger this.

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