[PATCH] Add malloc predictor (PR middle-end/83023).

[Martin Liška]

On 08/01/2018 02:25 PM, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Martin Liška wrote:
> 
>> On 07/27/2018 02:38 PM, Marc Glisse wrote:
>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Martin Liška wrote:
>>>
>>>> So answer is yes, the builtin can be then removed.
>>>
>>> Good, thanks. While looking at how widely it is going to apply, I noticed that the default, throwing operator new has attribute malloc and everything, but the non-throwing variant declared in <new> doesn't, so it won't benefit from the new predictor. I don't know if there is a good reason for this disparity...
>>>
>>
>> Well in case somebody uses operator new:
>>
>> Â Â Â  int* p1 = new int;
>> Â Â Â  if (p1)
>> Â Â Â Â  delete p1;
>>
>> we optimize out that to if (true), even when one has used defined
>> operator new. Thus it's probably OK.
> 
> Throwing new is returns_nonnull (errors are reported with exceptions) so that's fine, but non-throwing new is not:
> 
> int* p1 = new(std::nothrow) int;
> 
> Here errors are reported by returning 0, so it is common to test if p1 is 0 and this is precisely the case that could benefit from a predictor but does not have the attribute to do so (there are also consequences on aliasing).

Then it can be handled with DECL_IS_OPERATOR_NEW, for those we can also set the newly introduced predictor.

> 
> (Jan's remark about functions with an inferred malloc attribute reminds me that at some point, the code was adding attribute malloc for functions that always return 0...)
>

By inferred do you mean function that are marked as malloc in IPA pure-const (propagate_malloc)?
Example would be appreciated.

Martin