On 11/23/2015 10:12 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:48:42PM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
On 11/23/2015 07:22 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Here is a test that shows that on at least PowerPC the basic asm is
identical to the extended asm without clobber (compile with -O2 -S and
-fno-ipa-icf if you want to have it easier to read). In this case,
the basic asm is treated as not clobbering memory at the tree level
already, before expanding to RTL.
And that IMHO, ought to be considered a bug.
I agree. Almost everyone does, as far as I can see.
The question is if we want to retain this functionality. No one has
depended on this in a long time -- they couldn't, it has been broken
since forever -- and there is another mechanism that does reliably
give this functionality (extended asm).
The first pass that goes wrong for this testcase is fre2, fwiw.
I think that's the wrong way to look at things -- it's not that nobody
is depending on this behaviour, it's nobody has had a problem due to
this bug.
I've seen some amazing things through the years where you'd think
there's absolutely no way they could work -- but they did for a long
time with nobody noticing some absolutely horridly wrong code, that when
tickled just right would wreck havoc.
So again, I would suggest we document the desired behaviour and work
towards fixing any deviations from that behaviour.
jeff
