On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 11:41 PM H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM Richard Biener <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Jul 2026, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > > commit e754b70fe5470b975d31887fa5647f1c92d6522d
> > > Author: H.J. Lu <[email protected]>
> > > Date:   Tue Apr 7 23:16:38 2026 +0800
> > >
> > >     x86: Rewrite ix86_find_max_used_stack_alignment
> > >
> > > doesn't handle
> > >
> > > (insn 13 12 14 2 (set (reg:DI 0 ax [orig:112 _35 ] [112])
> > >         (sign_extend:DI (mem/c:SI (symbol_ref:DI
> > > ("vpx_quantize_b_avx_index") [flags 0x2] <var_decl 0x7fffe941f000
> > > vpx_quantize_b_avx_index>) [2 vpx_quantize_b_avx_index+0 S4 A32])))
> > > "z.c":14:56 188 {*extendsidi2_rex64}
> > >      (nil))
> > > ...
> > > (insn 21 20 35 4 (set (mem:V4DI (reg/f:DI 0 ax [orig:104 _38 ] [104])
> > > [1 MEM[(__m256i *)_38]+0 S32 A256])
> > >         (reg:V4DI 20 xmm0 [116])) "z.c":5:59 2459 {movv4di_internal}
> > >      (nil))
> > >
> > > correctly since it assumes that
> > >
> > > (mem:V4DI (reg/f:DI 0 ax [orig:104 _38 ] [104]) [1 MEM[(__m256i
> > > *)_38]+0 S32 A256])
> > >
> > > is on stack.
> >
> > What do you mean by "correctly"?  It is conservatively correct
> > to assume  "on stack".  It seems we still assert that somehow
> > early analysis (during expand) matches up with late IL analysis
> > (wherever) in "optimality"?  We cannot do such thing.  What
> > is (should be) guaranteed is that if at RTL expansion time
> > we concluded something is _not_ on stack then we should not
> > be able to late _prove_ it is on stack - but all we can do
> > is perform conservative assessment, meaning we have to error
> > on the "on stack" side.
> >
> > If we can _prove_ nothing on the stack has alignment > X then
> > we can possibly late lower required stack alignment.  But we
> > shouldn't assert that we compute a late required alignment
> > of <= the original alignment, if the IL degraded we can end
> > up with > original alignment, which we can disregard, doing
> > nothing, since the initial computation has to be conservative
> > already.
> >
> > Instead of again adding x86 specific "points-to hacks", please
> > make sure we do not have such bogus assertions and if needed
> > for optimization, improve RTL points-to analysis.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
>
> I'd like to revert
>
> commit e754b70fe5470b975d31887fa5647f1c92d6522d
> Author:     H.J. Lu <[email protected]>
> AuthorDate: Tue Apr 7 23:16:38 2026 +0800
> Commit:     H.J. Lu <[email protected]>
> CommitDate: Mon Jul 6 16:11:45 2026 +0800
>
>     x86: Rewrite ix86_find_max_used_stack_alignment
>
> and add 2 tests.  We can revisit it later.

According to [1]:

"... no outside approval is needed to revert a patch that you checked in."

So, please just check in the revert and copy it to gcc-patches.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/gitwrite.html#all

Uros.

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