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[RFC] Bit CCP and pointer alignment propagation

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Paolo Bonzini July 30, 2010, 1:29 p.m. UTC
On 07/30/2010 03:15 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> I think we can have negative shift counts (at least the constant folding
> code suggests so), this is why I have the code as-is.

No, that seems very weird.  Sure expand does not handle it, and the 
implementation-defined section of the manual does not mention it.  I'm 
more inclined to consider it a historical wart, given this comment:

   /* Previously detected shift-counts computed by NEGATE_EXPR
      and shifted in the other direction; but that does not work
      on all machines.  */

dating back to the beginning of the GCC repo.  I wonder what the 
attached patch would do.

BTW the SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED handling is not needed because you get it 
from lshift_double.  However, this opens another small can of worms. 
lshift_double does

   if (SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED)
     count %= prec;

which makes bit-level analysis totally wrong for non-power-of-two 
precisions, including IIRC bitfields bigger than sizeof(int).  I think 
the shifting functions are wrong however, and should round prec up to 
the next power of two before applying the truncation.

Paolo

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Richard Biener July 30, 2010, 1:39 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 07/30/2010 03:15 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > I think we can have negative shift counts (at least the constant folding
> > code suggests so), this is why I have the code as-is.
> 
> No, that seems very weird.  Sure expand does not handle it, and the
> implementation-defined section of the manual does not mention it.  I'm more
> inclined to consider it a historical wart, given this comment:
> 
>   /* Previously detected shift-counts computed by NEGATE_EXPR
>      and shifted in the other direction; but that does not work
>      on all machines.  */
> 
> dating back to the beginning of the GCC repo.  I wonder what the attached
> patch would do.

Maybe - at least with 2 << -1 we only warn:

t.c:3: warning: left shift count is negative

and happily continue, doing a constant right shift.  With -1 put
into a temporary we get sall with a negative shift at -O0 (and
zero as a result) and one as result when optimizing.

> BTW the SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED handling is not needed because you get it from
> lshift_double.  However, this opens another small can of worms. lshift_double
> does
> 
>   if (SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED)
>     count %= prec;
> 
> which makes bit-level analysis totally wrong for non-power-of-two precisions,
> including IIRC bitfields bigger than sizeof(int).  I think the shifting
> functions are wrong however, and should round prec up to the next power of two
> before applying the truncation.

Ick.  Indeed ...

Richard.
Paolo Bonzini July 30, 2010, 1:42 p.m. UTC | #2
On 07/30/2010 03:39 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> On 07/30/2010 03:15 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
>>> I think we can have negative shift counts (at least the constant folding
>>> code suggests so), this is why I have the code as-is.
>>
>> No, that seems very weird.  Sure expand does not handle it, and the
>> implementation-defined section of the manual does not mention it.  I'm more
>> inclined to consider it a historical wart, given this comment:
>>
>>    /* Previously detected shift-counts computed by NEGATE_EXPR
>>       and shifted in the other direction; but that does not work
>>       on all machines.  */
>>
>> dating back to the beginning of the GCC repo.  I wonder what the attached
>> patch would do.
>
> Maybe - at least with 2<<  -1 we only warn:
>
> t.c:3: warning: left shift count is negative
>
> and happily continue, doing a constant right shift.

So the patch would crash.  The right solution is probably to change the 
shift count to unsigned and fix the fallout.

Paolo
Richard Biener July 30, 2010, 2:47 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 07/30/2010 03:39 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > 
> > > On 07/30/2010 03:15 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > > I think we can have negative shift counts (at least the constant folding
> > > > code suggests so), this is why I have the code as-is.
> > > 
> > > No, that seems very weird.  Sure expand does not handle it, and the
> > > implementation-defined section of the manual does not mention it.  I'm
> > > more
> > > inclined to consider it a historical wart, given this comment:
> > > 
> > >    /* Previously detected shift-counts computed by NEGATE_EXPR
> > >       and shifted in the other direction; but that does not work
> > >       on all machines.  */
> > > 
> > > dating back to the beginning of the GCC repo.  I wonder what the attached
> > > patch would do.
> > 
> > Maybe - at least with 2<<  -1 we only warn:
> > 
> > t.c:3: warning: left shift count is negative
> > 
> > and happily continue, doing a constant right shift.
> 
> So the patch would crash.  The right solution is probably to change the shift
> count to unsigned and fix the fallout.

Yes.  Btw, the intel compiler warns the same but treats the shift
count unsigned (at least it produces zero, not 1).

Richard.
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Patch

Index: double-int.c
===================================================================
--- double-int.c	(revision 160609)
+++ double-int.c	(working copy)
@@ -314,12 +314,7 @@  lshift_double (unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT l1
 {
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT signmask;
 
-  if (count < 0)
-    {
-      rshift_double (l1, h1, -count, prec, lv, hv, arith);
-      return;
-    }
-
+  gcc_assert (count >= 0);
   if (SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED)
     count %= prec;
 
@@ -377,12 +372,7 @@  rshift_double (unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT l1
 {
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT signmask;
 
-  if (count < 0)
-    {
-      lshift_double (l1, h1, -count, prec, lv, hv, arith);
-      return;
-    }
-
+  gcc_assert (count >= 0);
   signmask = (arith
 	      ? -((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) h1 >> (HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT - 1))
 	      : 0);
@@ -445,6 +435,7 @@  lrotate_double (unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT l
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT s1l, s2l;
   HOST_WIDE_INT s1h, s2h;
 
+  gcc_assert (count >= 0);
   count %= prec;
   if (count < 0)
     count += prec;
@@ -467,6 +458,7 @@  rrotate_double (unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT l
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT s1l, s2l;
   HOST_WIDE_INT s1h, s2h;
 
+  gcc_assert (count >= 0);
   count %= prec;
   if (count < 0)
     count += prec;
Index: fold-const.c
===================================================================
--- fold-const.c	(revision 160609)
+++ fold-const.c	(working copy)
@@ -957,7 +957,10 @@  int_const_binop (enum tree_code code, co
       break;
 
     case RSHIFT_EXPR:
-      int2l = -int2l;
+      rshift_double (int1l, int1h, int2l, TYPE_PRECISION (type),
+		     &low, &hi, !uns);
+      break;
+
     case LSHIFT_EXPR:
       /* It's unclear from the C standard whether shifts can overflow.
 	 The following code ignores overflow; perhaps a C standard
@@ -967,7 +970,10 @@  int_const_binop (enum tree_code code, co
       break;
 
     case RROTATE_EXPR:
-      int2l = - int2l;
+      rrotate_double (int1l, int1h, int2l, TYPE_PRECISION (type),
+		      &low, &hi);
+      break;
+
     case LROTATE_EXPR:
       lrotate_double (int1l, int1h, int2l, TYPE_PRECISION (type),
 		      &low, &hi);