On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM Richard Biener
<richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM Andrew Pinski <pins...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM Richard Biener
> > <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM Andrew Pinski <quic_apin...@quicinc.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So unlike constants, address invariants are currently put first if
> > > > used with a SSA NAME.
> > > > It would be better if address invariants are consistent with constants
> > > > and this patch changes that.
> > > > gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr118902-1.c is an example where this canonicalization
> > > > can help. In it if `p` variable was a global variable, FRE (VN) would 
> > > > have figured
> > > > it out that `a` could never be equal to `&p` inside the loop. But 
> > > > without the
> > > > canonicalization we end up with `&p == a.0_1` which VN does try to 
> > > > handle for conditional
> > > > VN.
> > > >
> > > > Bootstrapped and tested on x86_64.
> > > >
> > > >         PR tree-optimization/118902
> > > > gcc/ChangeLog:
> > > >
> > > >         * fold-const.cc (tree_swap_operands_p): Place invariants in the 
> > > > first operand
> > > >         if not used with constants.
> > > >
> > > > gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> > > >
> > > >         * gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr118902-1.c: New test.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <quic_apin...@quicinc.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  gcc/fold-const.cc                          |  6 ++++++
> > > >  gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr118902-1.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
> > > >  create mode 100644 gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr118902-1.c
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/gcc/fold-const.cc b/gcc/fold-const.cc
> > > > index 1275ef75315..c9471ea44b0 100644
> > > > --- a/gcc/fold-const.cc
> > > > +++ b/gcc/fold-const.cc
> > > > @@ -7246,6 +7246,12 @@ tree_swap_operands_p (const_tree arg0, 
> > > > const_tree arg1)
> > > >    if (TREE_CONSTANT (arg0))
> > > >      return true;
> > > >
> > > > +  /* Put invariant address in arg1. */
> > > > +  if (is_gimple_invariant_address (arg1))
> > > > +    return false;
> > > > +  if (is_gimple_invariant_address (arg0))
> > > > +    return true;
> > >
> > > We could make this cheaper by considering all ADDR_EXPRs here?
> > >
> > > I'll note that with this or the above
> > >
> > >   /* Put SSA_NAMEs last.  */
> > >   if (TREE_CODE (arg1) == SSA_NAME)
> > >     return false;
> > >   if (TREE_CODE (arg0) == SSA_NAME)
> > >     return true;
> > >
> > > is a bit redundant and contradicting, when we are in GIMPLE, at least.
> > > I'd say on GIMPLE reversing the above to put SSA_NAMEs first would
> > > solve the ADDR_EXPR issue as well.
> > >
> > > The idea of tree_swap_operands_p seems to be to put "simple" things
> > > second, but on GIMPLE SSA_NAME is not simple.  With GENERIC
> > > this would put memory refs first, SSA_NAME second, which is reasonable.
> > >
> > > I'd say since an ADDR_EXPR is always a "value" (not memory), putting it
> > > last makes sense in general, whether invariant or not.  Can you test that?
> > > The issue with is_gimple_invariant_address is that it walks all handled
> > > components.
> >
> > Coming back to this, I will make a change to put ADDR first instead of
> > my patch of is_gimple_invariant_address, next week.
> >
> > Note I just noticed while trying to remove
> > forward_propagate_into_gimple_cond and
> > forward_propagate_into_comparison that we have:
> > (for cmp (eq ne)
> >  (simplify
> >   /* SSA names are canonicalized to 2nd place.  */
> >   (cmp addr@0 SSA_NAME@1)
> >
> > But that seems wrong if we had SSA_NAME which was defined by an
> > ADDR_EXPR as we don't redo canonicalization when doing valueization.
>
> We always valueize first, then canonicalize, so this should work (but the
> above would need adjustment if we order ADDR_EXPR differently now).

So doing ADDR_EXPR last worked and I submitted a patch which fixes up
the issue with the already applied patch:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-May/683711.html
It includes the match change too as needed.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

>
> > It just happens to work in the end because fold will do the
> > canonicalization  before match and simplify and forwprop uses fold do
> > the simplifcation during forward_propagate_into_comparison_1. While
> > for match and simplify on gimple, it does not while valueization of
> > the names. Anyways I will fix that; and add a comment on why it is not
> > always canonicalized. Just bringing it up as a related issue here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew Pinski
> >
> > >
> > > Richard.
> > >
> > > > +
> > > >    /* It is preferable to swap two SSA_NAME to ensure a canonical form
> > > >       for commutative and comparison operators.  Ensuring a canonical
> > > >       form allows the optimizers to find additional redundancies without
> > > > diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr118902-1.c 
> > > > b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr118902-1.c
> > > > new file mode 100644
> > > > index 00000000000..fa21b8a74ef
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr118902-1.c
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> > > > +/* { dg-do compile } */
> > > > +/* { dg-options "-O2 -fdump-tree-optimized" } */
> > > > +
> > > > +void foo(int);
> > > > +void l(int**);
> > > > +int f1(int j, int t)
> > > > +{
> > > > +  int p = 0;
> > > > +  int *a = &p;
> > > > +  l(&a);
> > > > +  if (a == &p)
> > > > +    return 0;
> > > > +  for(int i = 0; i < j; i++)
> > > > +  {
> > > > +    if (a == &p) foo(p);
> > > > +  }
> > > > +  return 0;
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +/* We should be able to remove the call to foo because a is never 
> > > > equal to &p inside the loop.  */
> > > > +/* { dg-final { scan-tree-dump-not "foo " "optimized"} } */
> > > > --
> > > > 2.43.0
> > > >

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