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combine ignoring a check

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Nathan Sidwell Jan. 10, 2017, 2:12 p.m. UTC
This patch addresses an issue Nicolai found while browsing combine.c. 
He noticed some checking code that looked like:

   for (i = 0; i < NUM_ARGS; i++)
     if (!cond)
       break;

   for (i = 0; i < NUM_ARGS; i++)
     if (!other_cond)
       break;

   if (i == NUM_ARGS)
     do_the_thing;

the intent is that both cond and other_cond are true for all args, but 
the first loop's negative result (i != NUM_ARGS) is being ignored.  This 
patch fixes that problem, and I took the opportunity to merge both loops 
into a single loop:
    ok = true;
    for (i = 0; ok && i < NUM_ARGS; i++)
      if (!cond || !other_cond)
        ok = false;
    if (ok)
      do_the_thing;

Segher commented on IRC that a single loop would be slower.  I disagree. 
  These days the optimizer is smart enough to turn that boolean logic 
into direct control flow, and a single loop is certainly smaller code (I 
checked).  The only case that might be faster would be an early out if 
the first loop resulted in a negative.  But I doubt that's significant, 
particularly as the first loop's check is the more expensive one and the 
second loops check is very cheap.

booted & tested on x86_64-linux.  Thanks to Nic for finding this problem 
and helping test it.

nathan
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Nathan Sidwell

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Segher Boessenkool Jan. 11, 2017, 11:11 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:12:38AM -0500, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Segher commented on IRC that a single loop would be slower.  I disagree. 


Slower *and less readable*, which is the main point.  Oh well.

> -      /* Make sure this PARALLEL is not an asm.  We do not allow combining

> +	 Neither can this PARALLEL be not an asm.  We do not allow combining


Delete the first "not" here please.  Okay for trunk with that change.
Thanks for the patch!


Segher
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2017-01-10  Nathan Sidwell  <nathan@acm.org>
	    Nicolai Stange  <nicstange@gmail.com>

	* combine.c (try_combine): Don't ignore result of overlap checking
	loop.  Combine overlap & asm check into single loop.

Index: combine.c
===================================================================
--- combine.c	(revision 244226)
+++ combine.c	(working copy)
@@ -2785,22 +2785,24 @@  try_combine (rtx_insn *i3, rtx_insn *i2,
 	 (Besides, reload can't handle output reloads for this.)
 
 	 The problem can also happen if the dest of I3 is a memory ref,
-	 if another dest in I2 is an indirect memory ref.  */
-      for (i = 0; i < XVECLEN (p2, 0); i++)
-	if ((GET_CODE (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == SET
-	     || GET_CODE (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == CLOBBER)
-	    && reg_overlap_mentioned_p (SET_DEST (PATTERN (i3)),
-					SET_DEST (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i))))
-	  break;
+	 if another dest in I2 is an indirect memory ref.
 
-      /* Make sure this PARALLEL is not an asm.  We do not allow combining
+	 Neither can this PARALLEL be not an asm.  We do not allow combining
 	 that usually (see can_combine_p), so do not here either.  */
-      for (i = 0; i < XVECLEN (p2, 0); i++)
-	if (GET_CODE (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == SET
-	    && GET_CODE (SET_SRC (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i))) == ASM_OPERANDS)
-	  break;
+      bool ok = true;
+      for (i = 0; ok && i < XVECLEN (p2, 0); i++)
+	{
+	  if ((GET_CODE (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == SET
+	       || GET_CODE (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == CLOBBER)
+	      && reg_overlap_mentioned_p (SET_DEST (PATTERN (i3)),
+					  SET_DEST (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i))))
+	    ok = false;
+	  else if (GET_CODE (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == SET
+		   && GET_CODE (SET_SRC (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i))) == ASM_OPERANDS)
+	    ok = false;
+	}
 
-      if (i == XVECLEN (p2, 0))
+      if (ok)
 	for (i = 0; i < XVECLEN (p2, 0); i++)
 	  if (GET_CODE (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == SET
 	      && SET_DEST (XVECEXP (p2, 0, i)) == SET_SRC (PATTERN (i3)))