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authorRichard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>2015-10-21 20:11:33 +0000
committerRichard Sandiford <rsandifo@gcc.gnu.org>2015-10-21 20:11:33 +0000
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Add a pass to back-propagate use information
This patch adds a pass that collects information that is common to all uses of an SSA name X and back-propagates that information up the statements that generate X. The general idea is to use the information to simplify instructions (rather than a pure DCE) so I've simply called it gimple-ssa-backprop.c, to go with tree-ssa-forwprop.c. At the moment the only use of the pass is to remove unnecessary sign operations, so that it's effectively a global version of fold_strip_sign_ops. I'm hoping it could be extended in future to record which bits of an integer are significant. There are probably other potential uses too. A later patch gets rid of fold_strip_sign_ops. Tested on x86_64-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu and arm-linux-gnueabi. gcc/ * doc/invoke.texi (-fdump-tree-backprop, -fssa-backprop): Document. * Makefile.in (OBJS): Add gimple-ssa-backprop.o. * common.opt (fssa-backprop): New option. * fold-const.h (negate_mathfn_p): Declare. * fold-const.c (negate_mathfn_p): Make public. * timevar.def (TV_TREE_BACKPROP): New. * tree-pass.h (make_pass_backprop): Declare. * passes.def (pass_backprop): Add. * gimple-ssa-backprop.c: New file. gcc/testsuite/ * gcc.dg/tree-ssa/backprop-1.c, gcc.dg/tree-ssa/backprop-2.c, gcc.dg/tree-ssa/backprop-3.c, gcc.dg/tree-ssa/backprop-4.c, gcc.dg/tree-ssa/backprop-5.c, gcc.dg/tree-ssa/backprop-6.c: New tests. From-SVN: r229139
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/doc')
-rw-r--r--gcc/doc/invoke.texi23
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 027ce96..cd82544 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ Objective-C and Objective-C++ Dialects}.
-fdump-tree-dse@r{[}-@var{n}@r{]} @gol
-fdump-tree-phiprop@r{[}-@var{n}@r{]} @gol
-fdump-tree-phiopt@r{[}-@var{n}@r{]} @gol
+-fdump-tree-backprop@r{[}-@var{n}@r{]} @gol
-fdump-tree-forwprop@r{[}-@var{n}@r{]} @gol
-fdump-tree-nrv -fdump-tree-vect @gol
-fdump-tree-sink @gol
@@ -443,9 +444,9 @@ Objective-C and Objective-C++ Dialects}.
-fschedule-insns -fschedule-insns2 -fsection-anchors @gol
-fselective-scheduling -fselective-scheduling2 @gol
-fsel-sched-pipelining -fsel-sched-pipelining-outer-loops @gol
--fsemantic-interposition @gol
--fshrink-wrap -fsignaling-nans -fsingle-precision-constant @gol
--fsplit-ivs-in-unroller -fsplit-wide-types -fssa-phiopt @gol
+-fsemantic-interposition -fshrink-wrap -fsignaling-nans @gol
+-fsingle-precision-constant -fsplit-ivs-in-unroller @gol
+-fsplit-wide-types -fssa-backprop -fssa-phiopt @gol
-fstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -fstack-protector-strong @gol
-fstack-protector-explicit -fstdarg-opt -fstrict-aliasing @gol
-fstrict-overflow -fthread-jumps -ftracer -ftree-bit-ccp @gol
@@ -7236,6 +7237,12 @@ name is made by appending @file{.dse} to the source file name.
Dump each function after optimizing PHI nodes into straightline code. The file
name is made by appending @file{.phiopt} to the source file name.
+@item backprop
+@opindex fdump-tree-backprop
+Dump each function after back-propagating use information up the definition
+chain. The file name is made by appending @file{.backprop} to the
+source file name.
+
@item forwprop
@opindex fdump-tree-forwprop
Dump each function after forward propagating single use variables. The file
@@ -7707,9 +7714,10 @@ compilation time.
-freorder-blocks @gol
-fshrink-wrap @gol
-fsplit-wide-types @gol
+-fssa-backprop @gol
+-fssa-phiopt @gol
-ftree-bit-ccp @gol
-ftree-ccp @gol
--fssa-phiopt @gol
-ftree-ch @gol
-ftree-coalesce-vars @gol
-ftree-copy-prop @gol
@@ -8795,6 +8803,13 @@ Perform sparse conditional constant propagation (CCP) on trees. This
pass only operates on local scalar variables and is enabled by default
at @option{-O} and higher.
+@item -fssa-backprop
+@opindex fssa-backprop
+Propagate information about uses of a value up the definition chain
+in order to simplify the definitions. For example, this pass strips
+sign operations if the sign of a value never matters. The flag is
+enabled by default at @option{-O} and higher.
+
@item -fssa-phiopt
@opindex fssa-phiopt
Perform pattern matching on SSA PHI nodes to optimize conditional