On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:56:39AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> Most of these suggestions involve adding some sort of virtual registers
> So I hacked the machine description to add two new registers Z1 and Z2
> with the same mode as X and Y.
>
> Obviously the assembler balks at this. However the compiler still
> ICEs at the same place as before.
>
> So this suggests that our original diagnosis, viz: there are not enough
> address registers was not accurate, and in fact there is some other
> problem?
That sounds likely. Given you have indirect addressing you could
simulate N virtual regs by placing them in a virtual reg table in memory
and accessed via a fixed address register (assuming all instructions
that would need an address reg also can take that indirect from memory).
That was my plan. Accordingly, extending the md to provide N additional
regs (N currently = 2) was the first step. Having doubled the number
of available address registers, I had expected this would fix most of the
ICEs (but cause a lot of assembler errors).
However it hasn't eliminated any ICEs. lra is still complaining
"unable to find a register to spill" So the plan seems to have fallen
over at the first hurdle. Why can it still not spill registers despite
having a lot more of them?
J'
