Bug in binop rotate ?

Andrew Hutchinson andrewhutchinson@cox.net
Sat Oct 17 16:18:00 GMT 2009


Thanks for your review.

I have submitted bug report.



Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Hutchinson
> <andrewhutchinson@cox.net> wrote:
>   
>> I have been adding rotate capability to AVR port and have come across what I
>> think is bug in
>> optabs.c: expand_binop()
>>
>> This occurs during a rotate expansion. For example
>>
>> target  = op0  rotated by op1
>>
>> In the particular situation (code extract below) it tries a reverse rotate
>> of (bits - op1). Where this expression is expanded as a simple integer,
>> a negation or subtraction depending on type of op1 and target.
>>
>> The expansion of the subtraction is using the mode of the target - I believe
>> it should be using the mode of op1.
>> The mode of the rotation  amount need not be the same as the target.
>>
>> target:DI = Op0:DI rotate op1:HI
>>
>> In my testcase it is not and I get  asserts latter in simplfy_rtx.
>>
>> The negation mode looks equally wrong.
>>
>> Am I mistaken?
>>     
>
> I think you are correct.
>
> Richard.
>
>   
>>  /* If we were trying to rotate, and that didn't work, try rotating
>>    the other direction before falling back to shifts and bitwise-or.  */
>>  if (((binoptab == rotl_optab
>>   && optab_handler (rotr_optab, mode)->insn_code != CODE_FOR_nothing)
>>      || (binoptab == rotr_optab
>>      && optab_handler (rotl_optab, mode)->insn_code != CODE_FOR_nothing))
>>     && mclass == MODE_INT)
>>   {
>>     optab otheroptab = (binoptab == rotl_optab ? rotr_optab : rotl_optab);
>>     rtx newop1;
>>     unsigned int bits = GET_MODE_BITSIZE (mode);
>>
>>     if (CONST_INT_P (op1))
>>   newop1 = GEN_INT (bits - INTVAL (op1));
>>     else if (targetm.shift_truncation_mask (mode) == bits - 1)
>>   newop1 = negate_rtx (mode, op1);
>>     else
>>   newop1 = expand_binop (mode, sub_optab,
>>                  GEN_INT (bits), op1,
>>                  NULL_RTX, unsignedp, OPTAB_DIRECT);
>>
>>     
>
>   



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