Ok.

David

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Rong Xu <x...@google.com> wrote:
> Please review the new patch attached to this email.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Rong
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Rong Xu <x...@google.com> wrote:
>> wait a second. this still won't work if we disable the whole-program
>> pass (like my original change, the visibility analysis change won't
>> kick in). we also need to change varpool_node_link() to merge the
>> local attribute.
>>
>> -Rong
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Xinliang David Li <davi...@google.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Rong Xu <x...@google.com> wrote:
>>>> this is a good point. ipa_discover_readonly_nonaddressable_vars() is
>>>> called in two passes. whole-program (whole program visibility
>>>> analysis) and static-var. The one in whole-program is ok here as it is
>>>>  bundled together with the analysis. the invocation in static-var can
>>>> go wrong.
>>>>
>>>> should we add a check for COMDAT flag also? like
>>>
>>> Probably not -- only non referenced comdat vars will be marked as not 
>>> needed.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>> if ((vnode->needed || (L_IPO_COMP_MODE && DECL_COMDAT (node->decl)))
>>>>    && varpool_node_externally_visible_p) (
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Rong
>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Xinliang David Li <davi...@google.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Rong Xu <x...@google.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM,  <davi...@google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://codereview.appspot.com/4798045/diff/1/ipa.c
>>>>>>> File ipa.c (right):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://codereview.appspot.com/4798045/diff/1/ipa.c#newcode1034
>>>>>>> ipa.c:1034: {
>>>>>>> Has varpool node linking happened at this point? If not, the new code
>>>>>>> here is not excersised.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This functions is called in multiple places: local pass and
>>>>>> whole_program pass. varpool_node_link is b/w these two passes. the
>>>>>> varpool node attribute is set before the use in
>>>>>> ipa_discover_readonly_nonaddressable_vars()
>>>>>
>>>>> So the code relies on the second visibility pass to get things right
>>>>> -- if that pass is disabled things can go wrong (if the default
>>>>> visibility value when vnode is created is true, LIPO mode will get
>>>>> pessemitic result; if the default is false, LIPO mode will still get
>>>>> wrong result if only local visiblity pass is run).
>>>>>
>>>>> A better fix might be simply do not check 'needed' bit for comdat
>>>>> varnode in LIPO mode and always run the visibiity checker:
>>>>>
>>>>> if ((vnode->needed || L_IPO_COMP_MODE)
>>>>>   && varpool_node_externally_visible_p (...
>>>>>  )
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://codereview.appspot.com/4798045/diff/1/ipa.c#newcode1041
>>>>>>> ipa.c:1041: vnode->externally_visible = false;
>>>>>>> Better to add a simple loop after varpool_node_linking to merge the
>>>>>>> attribute in l-ipo.c assuming the linking happens after local visibility
>>>>>>> pass.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We can merge in the varpool_node_link, but we still need to change
>>>>>> here as the attribute will be overwritten here in the whole_program
>>>>>> pass.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://codereview.appspot.com/4798045/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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