Hi, in order to fix PR64331 I tried to implement new target-specific passes
whose sole purpose is to recompute REG_DEAD notes.
The avr BE relies on correct dead notes which are used in
avr.c:reg_unused_after which uses dead_or_set_p. avr BE needs correct dead
notes in ADJUST_INSN_LENGTH, get_attr_length, get_attr_min_length, etc.
After trying for more than one day I am really frustrated; each approach ended
up in seg_faults somewhere in df.
Following the source comments in df-core.c, recomputing dead notes should be as
easy as
df_note_add_problem ();
df_analyze ();
in the execute() method of the new pass.
As this (and many many other tries using df_scan_alloc, df_scan_blocks
df_finish_pass, df_insn_rescan_all, etc.) always crashes the compiler, I must
do something completely wrong...
Could you give me some advice on correct usage of df or even more preferred
point me to a comprehensible documentation of df which is more complete than in
df-core.c?
Internals don't treat df, and the source comments are not really helpful, e.g.
the complete documentation of df_analyze is /* Analyze dataflow info. */. Not
a single word about prerequisites (except that it must run after df_init and
before df_finish and needs correct cfg).
One example of a crash is that df->insns[uid] is being accessed and
dereferenced where uid is a valid uid but df->insns[uid] is NULL.
df-core.c mentions "given instances of df". How do I get one? The only
instance I can find is the global struct df_f *df. Does this mean one has to
mess around with that global variable?
