https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95786
Bug ID: 95786 Summary: Too aggressive target indirection elimination Product: gcc Version: 11.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: tree-optimization Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: yyc1992 at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- I realize this issue when debugging PR95778 and PR95780 (ref https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-June/548631.html) It seems that the indirection elimination logic does not take into account the linkage and visibility of the callee and will eliminate the indirection even in cases where a function without target attribute would have use a PLT and, for example, allows a override from a different library. The following code generates a direct call beween g2 and f2 without going through PLT. ``` __attribute__((target_clones("default,avx2"))) int f2(int *p) { asm volatile ("" :: "r"(p) : "memory"); return *p; } __attribute__((target_clones("default,avx2"))) int g2(int *p) { return f2(p); } ``` but removing the target_clones attribute uses the PLT.