Canonicalization of compares performed as side-effect operations

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 6 17:40:00 GMT 2019


On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:49:17PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> On 06/08/2019 17:39, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>>What's wrong with describing the canonical form in your MD?  You'll need
> >>>some reversed condition code thingy, but that's it?
> >>
> >>It doesn't describe what the instruction does.  The negation has a side
> >>effect of setting the flags, but the flags are swapped because the
> >>side-effect comparison is swapped from a normal compare.  As I
> >>mentioned, SELECT_CC_MODE doesn't help because it can't see the context
> >>and the comparison just looks 'normal'.
> >
> >Sure, and we can work on making combine do what you want, but your existing
> >pattern is *incorrect*.  It needs fixing, and probably before we do other
> >things.
> 
> Why is it incorrect?  It's not canonical, sure.  But the cannonical form 
> does NOT describe what the instruction does.

More precisely: not having the canonical form of this in your MD is what
is incorrect.


Segher



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