Cleaning up expand optabs code
Richard Sandiford
richard.sandiford@linaro.org
Fri Mar 25 17:56:00 GMT 2011
Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:
> This is due to a miscommunication between the middle-end and the backend
> about how many arguments the setmemhi pattern takes.
>
> (define_expand "setmemhi"
> [(parallel [(set (match_operand:BLK 0 "memory_operand" "")
> (match_operand 2 "const_int_operand" ""))
> (use (match_operand:HI 1 "const_int_operand" ""))
> (use (match_operand:HI 3 "const_int_operand" "n"))
> (clobber (match_scratch:HI 4 ""))
> (clobber (match_dup 5))])]
>
> The match_scratch is counted in .n_operands, which makes the count of
> operands not equal 4, so we assume 6 operands are necessary. We can
> fix this for the special case of avr by only assuming 6 operands when
> there are in fact 6 operands, but of course this could fail just as
> easily if there were two scratches.
>
> All of which suggests that optional arguments to a named optab is a
> mistake that ought to be rectified.
>
> I plan to commit the following after bootstrap and check.
Thanks. I think it needs to be s/!= 4/>= 6/ though, so that
match_scratches still work when 6 operands really are passed in.
Fully agreed on the optional args thing. Or maybe insn_data should
have a separate "num_args" field.
Richard
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