— Jojo
在 2021年8月11日 +0800 PM6:44,Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com>,写道:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:28 AM Richard Sandiford
> <richard.sandif...@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:33 AM Jojo R via Gcc-patches
> > > <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Some target like RISC-V allow to group vector register as a whole,
> > > > and only operate part of it in fact, but the 'init-regs' pass will add 
> > > > initialization
> > > > for uninitialized registers. Add this hook to reject this action for 
> > > > reducing instruction.
> > >
> > > Are these groups "visible"? That is, are the pseudos multi-reg
> > > pseudos? I wonder
> > > if there's a more generic way to tame down initregs w/o introducing a new 
> > > target
> > > hook.
> > >
> > > Btw, initregs is a red herring - it ideally should go away. See PR61810.
> > >
> > > So instead of adding to it can you see whether disabling the pass for 
> > > RISC-V
> > > works w/o fallout (and add a comment to the PR)? Maybe some more RTL
> > > literate (in particular DF literate) can look at the remaining issue.
> > > Richard, did you
> > > ever have a look into the "issue" that initregs covers up (whatever
> > > that exactly is)?
> >
> > No, sorry. I don't really understand what it would be from the comment
> > in the code:
> >
> > [...] papers over some problems on the arm and other
> > processors where certain isa constraints cannot be handled by gcc.
> > These are of the form where two operands to an insn my not be the
> > same. The ra will only make them the same if they do not
> > interfere, and this can only happen if one is not initialized.
> >
> > That would definitely be an RA bug if true, since the constraints need
> > to be applied independently of dataflow information. But the comment
> > and code predate LRA and maybe no-one fancied poking around in reload
> > (hard to believe).
> >
> > I'd be very surprised if LRA gets this wrong.
>
> OK, we're wondering since quite some time - how about changing the
> gate of initregs to optimize > 0 && !targetm.lra_p ()? We'll hopefully
> figure out the "real" issue the pass is papering over. At the same time
> we're leaving old reload (and likely unmaintianed) targets unaffected.
>
Richard,

So this patch is not necessary ?

I need to disable this pass in my situation only ?
I am afraid some side effect in my projects without this init-regs pass … ...
> Richard.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Richard

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