Hello,as explained in the PR, the implementation of vector<bool> is weirdly wasteful. Preserving the ABI prevents from changing much for now, but this small tweak can help the compiler remove quite a bit of dead code.
I think most other direct uses of _M_start are in constructors where the offset has just been initialized to 0, so the compiler should already know enough there, but I may have missed a few relevant places where the same idea could be used.
I used C++11 syntax because I find it nicer, and the compiler accepts it in C++98 mode with just a warning, suppressed in a standard header.
Bootstrap+regtest on powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu. 2018-09-15 Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> PR libstdc++/87258 * include/bits/stl_bvector.h (vector::begin(), vector::cbegin()): Rebuild _M_start with an explicit 0 offset. -- Marc Glisse
Index: include/bits/stl_bvector.h =================================================================== --- include/bits/stl_bvector.h (revision 264178) +++ include/bits/stl_bvector.h (working copy) @@ -802,25 +802,25 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_CONTAINER #endif #if __cplusplus >= 201103L void assign(initializer_list<bool> __l) { _M_assign_aux(__l.begin(), __l.end(), random_access_iterator_tag()); } #endif iterator begin() _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT - { return this->_M_impl._M_start; } + { return { this->_M_impl._M_start._M_p, 0 }; } const_iterator begin() const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT - { return this->_M_impl._M_start; } + { return { this->_M_impl._M_start._M_p, 0 }; } iterator end() _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT { return this->_M_impl._M_finish; } const_iterator end() const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT { return this->_M_impl._M_finish; } reverse_iterator @@ -835,21 +835,21 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_CONTAINER rend() _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT { return reverse_iterator(begin()); } const_reverse_iterator rend() const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT { return const_reverse_iterator(begin()); } #if __cplusplus >= 201103L const_iterator cbegin() const noexcept - { return this->_M_impl._M_start; } + { return { this->_M_impl._M_start._M_p, 0 }; } const_iterator cend() const noexcept { return this->_M_impl._M_finish; } const_reverse_iterator crbegin() const noexcept { return const_reverse_iterator(end()); } const_reverse_iterator