Bingfeng Mei wrote:
Hello,
I just updated our porting to include last 2-3 weeks of GCC developments. I noticed a 
large number of test failures at -O1 that use a user-defined data type (based on a 
special register file of our processor). All variables of such type are now spilled 
to memory which we don't allow at -O1 because it is too expensive. After 
investigation, I found that it is the following new code causes the trouble. I don't 
quite understand the function of the new code, but I don't see what's special for -O1 
in terms of register allocation in comparison with higher optimizing levels. If I 
change it to (optimize < 1), everthing is fine as before. I start to wonder 
whether (optimize <= 1) is a typo or intended. Thanks in advance.

Sorry for the delay with the answer.  I was on vacation last week.

As Andrew Haley guess, it was intended. I thought that improving debugging for -O1 is also important (more important than optimization). Although GCC manual says

    With `-O', the compiler tries to reduce code size and execution
    time, without performing any optimizations that take a great deal
    of compilation time.

it also says

`-O' also turns on `-fomit-frame-pointer' on machines where doing
    so does not interfere with debugging.

Therefore I've decided to do analogous thing for the patch. May be I am wrong. We could do this only for -O0 if people really want this which I am not sure about.
Cheers,
Bingfeng Mei
Broadcom UK

      if ((! flag_caller_saves && ALLOCNO_CALLS_CROSSED_NUM (a) != 0)
          /* For debugging purposes don't put user defined variables in
             callee-clobbered registers.  */
|| (optimize <= 1 <--------- why include -O1? && (attrs = REG_ATTRS (regno_reg_rtx [ALLOCNO_REGNO (a)])) != NULL
              && (decl = attrs->decl) != NULL
              && VAR_OR_FUNCTION_DECL_P (decl)
              && ! DECL_ARTIFICIAL (decl)))
        {
          IOR_HARD_REG_SET (ALLOCNO_TOTAL_CONFLICT_HARD_REGS (a),
                            call_used_reg_set);
          IOR_HARD_REG_SET (ALLOCNO_CONFLICT_HARD_REGS (a),
                            call_used_reg_set);
        }
      else if (ALLOCNO_CALLS_CROSSED_NUM (a) != 0)
        {
          IOR_HARD_REG_SET (ALLOCNO_TOTAL_CONFLICT_HARD_REGS (a),
                            no_caller_save_reg_set);
          IOR_HARD_REG_SET (ALLOCNO_TOTAL_CONFLICT_HARD_REGS (a),
                            temp_hard_reg_set);
          IOR_HARD_REG_SET (ALLOCNO_CONFLICT_HARD_REGS (a),
                            no_caller_save_reg_set);
          IOR_HARD_REG_SET (ALLOCNO_CONFLICT_HARD_REGS (a),
                            temp_hard_reg_set);
        }

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