On 06/16/2011 05:25 PM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Bernd Schmidt wrote: >> We're updating REG_DEAD notes in regrename.c, but it seems this is for >> historical reasons only. As far as I can tell, every pass that needs >> such notes recomputes them with df_note_add_problem/df_analyze, and the >> following patch bootstrapped and tested successfully on i686-linux (some >> random libmudflap failures mentioned previously), with the following >> change to ensure it's tested: >> >> +++ gcc/config/i386/i386.c (working copy) > > (Not a dbr target...) > >> Ok? > > NO! They're still used by reorg.c+resource.c
Well, that's reorg's problem. In between regrename and reorg.c, we have a number of opportunities, such as pass_sched2, which use df_set_flags (DF_LR_RUN_DCE); df_note_add_problem (); to recompute notes. If reorg.c wants accurate notes it should do the same, especially since the scheduler (and presumably several other passes) already makes no effort to update such notes. It seems this was removed with the df merge: * sched-rgn.c (check_dead_notes1, deaths_in_region): Removed. (init_regions, add_block1): Removed last of note counting code. Bernd