Richard Biener <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Richard Sandiford
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Richard Biener <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Can we in such cases please to a preparatory patch and change the
>>> CONST_INT/CONST_DOUBLE paths to do an explicit [sz]ext to
>>> mode precision first?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean here. CONST_INT HWIs are already sign-extended
>> from mode precision to HWI precision. The 8-bit value 0xb10000000 must be
>> represented as (const_int -128); nothing else is allowed.
>> E.g. (const_int 128)
>> is not a valid QImode value on BITS_PER_UNIT==8 targets.
>
> Yes, that's what I understand. But consider you get a CONST_INT that is
> _not_ a valid QImode value.
But that's invalid :-) It is not valid to call:
plus_constant (QImode, GEN_INT (128), 1)
The point is that, even though it's invalid, we can't assert for it.
plus_constant is not for arbitrary precision arithmetic. It's for
arithmetic in a given non-VOIDmode mode.
> Effectively a CONST_INT and CONST_DOUBLE is valid in multiple
> modes and thus "arbitrary precision" with a limit set by the limit
> of the encoding.
The same CONST_INT and CONST_DOUBLE can be shared for several constants
in different modes, yes, which is presumably what motivated making them
VOIDmode in the first place. E.g. zero is const0_rtx for every integer
mode. But in any given context, including plus_constant, the CONST_INT
or CONST_DOUBLE has a specific mode.
>>> Btw, plus_constant asserts that mode is either VOIDmode (I suppose
>>> semantically do "arbitrary precision")
>>
>> No, not arbitrary precision. It's always the precision specified
>> by the "mode" parameter. The assert is:
>>
>> gcc_assert (GET_MODE (x) == VOIDmode || GET_MODE (x) == mode);
>>
>> This is because GET_MODE always returns VOIDmode for CONST_INT and
>> CONST_DOUBLE integers. The mode parameter is needed to tell us what
>> precision those CONST_INTs and CONST_DOUBLEs actually have, because
>> the rtx itself doesn't tell us. The mode parameter serves no purpose
>> beyond that.
>
> That doesn't make sense. The only thing we could then do with the mode
> is assert that the CONST_INT/CONST_DOUBLE is valid for mode.
No, we have to generate a correct CONST_INT or CONST_DOUBLE result.
If we are adding 1 to a QImode (const_int 127), we must return
(const_int -128). If we are adding 1 to HImode (const_int 127),
we must return (const_int 128). However...
> mode does not constrain the result in any way, thus it happily produces
> a CONST_INT (128) from QImode CONST_INT (127) + 1. So, does the
> caller of plus_constant have to verify the result is actually valid in the
> mode it expects? And what should it do if the result is not "valid"?
...good spot. That's a bug. It should be:
return gen_int_mode (INTVAL (x) + c, mode);
rather than:
return GEN_INT (INTVAL (x) + c);
It's a long-standing bug, because in the old days we didn't have
the mode to hand. It was missed when the mode was added.
But the mode is also used in:
if (GET_MODE_BITSIZE (mode) > HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT)
{
double_int di_x = double_int::from_shwi (INTVAL (x));
double_int di_c = double_int::from_shwi (c);
bool overflow;
double_int v = di_x.add_with_sign (di_c, false, &overflow);
if (overflow)
gcc_unreachable ();
return immed_double_int_const (v, VOIDmode);
}
which is deciding whether the result should be kept as a HWI even
in cases where the addition overflows. It isn't arbitrary precision.
Richard
