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authorMarc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr>2017-11-21 19:23:56 +0100
committerMarc Glisse <glisse@gcc.gnu.org>2017-11-21 18:23:56 +0000
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New POINTER_DIFF_EXPR
2017-11-21 Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr> gcc/c/ * c-fold.c (c_fully_fold_internal): Handle POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. * c-typeck.c (pointer_diff): Use POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. gcc/c-family/ * c-pretty-print.c (pp_c_additive_expression, c_pretty_printer::expression): Handle POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. gcc/cp/ * constexpr.c (cxx_eval_constant_expression, potential_constant_expression_1): Handle POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. * cp-gimplify.c (cp_fold): Likewise. * error.c (dump_expr): Likewise. * typeck.c (pointer_diff): Use POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. gcc/ * doc/generic.texi: Document POINTER_DIFF_EXPR, update POINTER_PLUS_EXPR. * cfgexpand.c (expand_debug_expr): Handle POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. * expr.c (expand_expr_real_2): Likewise. * fold-const.c (const_binop, fold_addr_of_array_ref_difference, fold_binary_loc): Likewise. * match.pd (X-X, P+(Q-P), &D-P, (P+N)-P, P-(P+N), (P+M)-(P+N), P-Q==0, -(A-B), X-Z<Y-Z, (X-Z)-(Y-Z), Z-X<Z-Y, (Z-X)-(Z-Y), (A-B)+(C-A)): New transformations for POINTER_DIFF_EXPR, based on MINUS_EXPR transformations. * optabs-tree.c (optab_for_tree_code): Handle POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. * tree-cfg.c (verify_expr, verify_gimple_assign_binary): Likewise. * tree-inline.c (estimate_operator_cost): Likewise. * tree-pretty-print.c (dump_generic_node, op_code_prio, op_symbol_code): Likewise. * tree-vect-stmts.c (vectorizable_operation): Likewise. * vr-values.c (extract_range_from_binary_expr): Likewise. * varasm.c (initializer_constant_valid_p_1): Likewise. * tree.def: New tree code POINTER_DIFF_EXPR. From-SVN: r255021
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/generic.texi b/gcc/doc/generic.texi
index a51cfd6..b03970f 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/generic.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/generic.texi
@@ -1224,6 +1224,7 @@ the byte offset of the field, but should not be used directly; call
@tindex TRUTH_OR_EXPR
@tindex TRUTH_XOR_EXPR
@tindex POINTER_PLUS_EXPR
+@tindex POINTER_DIFF_EXPR
@tindex PLUS_EXPR
@tindex MINUS_EXPR
@tindex MULT_EXPR
@@ -1413,8 +1414,16 @@ always of @code{BOOLEAN_TYPE} or @code{INTEGER_TYPE}.
@item POINTER_PLUS_EXPR
This node represents pointer arithmetic. The first operand is always
a pointer/reference type. The second operand is always an unsigned
-integer type compatible with sizetype. This is the only binary
-arithmetic operand that can operate on pointer types.
+integer type compatible with sizetype. This and POINTER_DIFF_EXPR are
+the only binary arithmetic operators that can operate on pointer types.
+
+@item POINTER_DIFF_EXPR
+This node represents pointer subtraction. The two operands always
+have pointer/reference type. It returns a signed integer of the same
+precision as the pointers. The behavior is undefined if the difference
+of the two pointers, seen as infinite precision non-negative integers,
+does not fit in the result type. The result does not depend on the
+pointer type, it is not divided by the size of the pointed-to type.
@item PLUS_EXPR
@itemx MINUS_EXPR