On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 1:47 PM Uros Bizjak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM Richard Biener
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 9:13 AM Uros Bizjak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM Richard Biener
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 11:44 AM Uros Bizjak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM Richard Biener
> > > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 9:11 PM Uros Bizjak <[email protected]> 
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > For an output operand whose constraint allows both a register and
> > > > > > > memory (e.g. "=rm"), expand_asm_stmt only binds the operand 
> > > > > > > directly
> > > > > > > to the address of its underlying storage when the operand's value 
> > > > > > > is
> > > > > > > a bare, non-ADDR_EXPR-based MEM_REF or a plain, memory-resident 
> > > > > > > DECL.
> > > > > > > Every other lvalue -- most commonly a struct/union member, an 
> > > > > > > array
> > > > > > > element, or a complex number's real/imaginary part -- is instead
> > > > > > > always routed through a fresh pseudo register that gets copied to 
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > real destination in a separate insn after the asm, even though
> > > > > > > nothing about the constraint requires it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Extend the set of output values eligible for direct addressing to
> > > > > > > also cover COMPONENT_REF (except through a bit-field, which is not
> > > > > > > byte-addressable and still needs the existing register-based
> > > > > > > read-modify-write handling), ARRAY_REF, ARRAY_RANGE_REF, 
> > > > > > > REALPART_EXPR
> > > > > > > and IMAGPART_EXPR.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > At least the comment needs updating, but I also wonder why we need 
> > > > > > the else {}
> > > > > > and whether we can more easily put a condition on that with the if 
> > > > > > case being
> > > > > > seemingly the more "default" handling?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also the DECL_P handling would need to apply to the MEM_REF && 
> > > > > > ADDR_EXPR
> > > > > > case (not sure what the DECL_P handling is about - this code really
> > > > > > lacks comments...).
> > > > > > And I'd like to see using REFERENCE_CLASS_P (val) && (... 
> > > > > > exclusions ...) rather
> > > > > > than enumerating parts of it that are OK.
> > > > >
> > > > > I based the whole idea on your 2022 patch [1], where the patch
> > > > > deliberately left the other tcc_reference operands unexplored. Since
> > > > > my GIMPLE knowledge is limited, my patch just trivially adds some of
> > > > > them (with the help of AI) to the existing condition (the ones that I
> > > > > can easily check with the C examples).
> > > >
> > > > I probably had the same questions back then and decided to simply fixup 
> > > > the
> > > > INDIRECT_REF case.  Maybe AI can help deciphering the current code.
> > > > I'd probably start testing by doing just
> > > >
> > > >   if (allows_mem
> > > >       || ! allows_reg
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > but I do question what we have the else {} case for (is there any test 
> > > > coverage?
> > > > a comment should probably point to it!)
> > >
> > > Claude was more than happy to jump to the above task:
> > >
> > > --q--
> > > The else branch isn't just a fallback — for one real case it's already
> > > doing the right thing, by accident of mechanism.
> > >
> > > void use(int);
> > > void foo (void)
> > > {
> > >   int x;
> > >   asm ("mov %%fs, %0" : "=rm" (x));
> > >   use(x);
> > > }
> > >
> > > compiles today to:
> > >
> > > mov %fs, %edi
> > > jmp use@PLT
> > >
> > > No store, no reload — the value stays in a register and gets reused
> > > directly. That's the good outcome we were worried about losing
> > > throughout this whole thread. And it's happening through the else
> > > branch: x is a local, non-addressable scalar, so by the time this
> > > reaches cfgexpand.cc its def is an SSA_NAME, not a DECL_P. None of the
> > > direct-path disjuncts fire for an SSA_NAME, so it falls into else,
> > > gets a temp pseudo via assign_temp, and expand_assignment against an
> > > SSA_NAME target doesn't do a real store — it just establishes that
> > > pseudo as the SSA partition's value. The TREE_CODE (val) == SSA_NAME
> > > special case right there (set_reg_attrs_for_decl_rtl) is attaching
> > > proper debug/alias attributes to that temp before it's wired in as the
> > > partition's register.
> > > --/q--
> >
> > Ah, I was probably confused by assign_temp followed by validize_mem.
> > But expand_expr of 'x' above would, given allows_reg and thus EXPAND_WRITE
> > also expand to a pseudo, but in "cheaper" ways.  Verified by adding 1 || to 
> > the
> > if () condition.
> >
> > So we're looking for a testcase where the if () part doesn't work (ICE
> > or wrong-code)
>
> You will definitely need to reject
>
> DECL_BIT_FIELD (TREE_OPERAND (val, 1))
>
> because the variable isn't byte addressable, please see pr124209-5.c
> in my original submission.

That might be a bug in expand_expr with EXPAND_WRITE though?

may_be_nonaddressable_p indicates any reverse storage order access
might be problematic as well as hard-registers

For the record, testsuite fallout is

+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr106877.C  -std=gnu++20 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr106877.C  -std=gnu++29 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr106877.C  -std=gnu++98 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr84683.C  -std=gnu++20 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr84683.C  -std=gnu++29 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr84683.C  -std=gnu++98 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr84828.C  -std=gnu++20 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr84828.C  -std=gnu++29 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: g++.dg/ext/pr84828.C  -std=gnu++98 (test for excess errors)
+FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/asmgoto-4.c   -O0   scan-rtl-dump-times
reload "Inserting insn reload after in bb" 2
+FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/asmgoto-4.c   -O1   scan-rtl-dump-times
reload "Inserting insn reload after in bb" 2
+FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/asmgoto-4.c   -O2   scan-rtl-dump-times
reload "Inserting insn reload after in bb" 2
+FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/asmgoto-4.c   -O2 -flto
-fno-use-linker-plugin -flto-partition=none   scan-rtl-dump-times
reload "Inserting insn reload after in bb" 2
+FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/asmgoto-4.c   -O2 -flto
-fuse-linker-plugin -fno-fat-lto-objects   scan-rtl-dump-times reload
"Inserting insn reload after in bb" 2
+FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/asmgoto-4.c   -O3 -g
scan-rtl-dump-times reload "Inserting insn reload after in bb" 2
+FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/asmgoto-4.c   -Os   scan-rtl-dump-times
reload "Inserting insn reload after in bb" 2

Richard.

>
> Uros.

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