On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was alerted to a problem with large toc (-mcmodel=medium/large) code
> a few days ago by warnings emitted during a binutils build.
>
> dwarf.c: In function 'display_debug_lines_raw':
> dwarf.c:2409:1: note: non-delegitimized UNSPEC UNSPEC_TOCREL (44) found in 
> variable location
> dwarf.c:2409:1: note: non-delegitimized UNSPEC UNSPEC_TOCREL (44) found in 
> variable location
>
> On investigating why this was happening, I found that these UNSPECs
> were from the high part calculation of a toc-relative address that
> didn't get a register.  reload allocated the pseudo to a stack slot..
> The stack slot didn't match the tight pattern in delegitimize_address
> which is why we have an UNSPEC left in the debug info.  The real
> problem of course is that reload should never allocate a stack slot
> for a simple address calculation that can be rematerialised anywhere
> in the function with just one instruction.  So after quite a bit of
> digging around in reload, I finally figured out that the problem has a
> really easy solution.  Simply tell reload that those high part address
> calculations are constants.  Which is true.
>
> That's what the create_TOC_reference change, and the rs6000.md changes
> below do.  (I also fix large-toc tls patterns.)  The rest of the patch
> just adjusts for the changed RTL.
>
> Bootstrap and regression tests powerpc64-linux in progress.  OK to
> apply mainline and 4.6 assuming no regressions?
>
>        * config/rs6000/rs6000.c (create_TOC_reference): Wrap high part
>        of toc-relative address in CONST.
>        (rs6000_delegitimize_address): Recognize changed address.
>        (rs6000_legitimize_reload_address): Likewise.
>        (rs6000_emit_move): Don't force these constants to memory.
>        * config/rs6000/rs6000.md (tls_gd, tls_gd_high): Wrap high part of
>        toc-relative address in CONST.
>        (tls_ld, tls_ld_high, tls_got_dtprel, tls_got_dtprel_high): Likewise.
>        (tls_got_tprel, tls_got_tprel_high, largetoc_high): Likewise.

Okay.

Thanks, David

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