On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Kugan Vivekanandarajah <kugan.vivekanandara...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Thanks for the review. > On 25 January 2018 at 20:04, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Kugan Vivekanandarajah >> <kugan.vivekanandara...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Here is a patch for popcount builtin detection similar to LLVM. I >>> would like to queue this for review for next stage 1. >>> >>> 1. This is done part of loop-distribution and effective for -O3 and above. >>> 2. This does not distribute loop to detect popcount (like >>> memcpy/memmove). I dont think that happens in practice. Please correct >>> me if I am wrong. >> >> But then it has no business inside loop distribution but instead is >> doing final value >> replacement, right? You are pattern-matching the whole loop after all. I >> think >> final value replacement would already do the correct thing if you >> teached number of >> iteration analysis that niter for >> >> <bb 3> [local count: 955630224]: >> # b_11 = PHI <b_5(5), b_8(6)> >> _1 = b_11 + -1; >> b_8 = _1 & b_11; >> if (b_8 != 0) >> goto <bb 6>; [89.00%] >> else >> goto <bb 8>; [11.00%] >> >> <bb 6> [local count: 850510900]: >> goto <bb 3>; [100.00%] > > I am looking into this approach. What should be the scalar evolution > for b_8 (i.e. b & (b -1) in a loop) should be? This is not clear to me > and can this be represented with the scev?
No, it's not affine and thus cannot be represented. You only need the scalar evolution of the counting IV which is already handled and the number of iteration analysis needs to handle the above IV - this is the missing part. Richard. > Thanks, > Kugan >> >> is related to popcount (b_5). >> >> Richard. >> >>> Bootstrapped and regression tested on aarch64-linux-gnu with no new >>> regressions. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kugan >>> >>> gcc/ChangeLog: >>> >>> 2018-01-25 Kugan Vivekanandarajah <kug...@linaro.org> >>> >>> PR middle-end/82479 >>> * tree-loop-distribution.c (handle_popcount): New. >>> (pass_loop_distribution::execute): Use handle_popcount. >>> >>> gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog: >>> >>> 2018-01-25 Kugan Vivekanandarajah <kug...@linaro.org> >>> >>> PR middle-end/82479 >>> * gcc.dg/tree-ssa/popcount.c: New test.
