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From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] warn when zero-extending a negation
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:35:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201217003557.qpcawxx46cwmvz27@ltop.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201216235152.6oinwuti3uzvwai5@ltop.local>

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:51:52AM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> 
> But replacing a trunc + zext by the corresponding masking, very
> little, if anything is done for such 'mixed-width' expressions.
> So, I'm even a bit surprised by the not.8 but well ... 

This bothered me a bit and kept me awake, so I had to check.

I think that the situation is caused by some premature optimization
for the ~ operator in expression.c:cast_to(). It saves the allocation
and initialization of one expression but makes things more complicated
at linearization and simplification. If this is disabled, then the IR
simplification returns what I was expecting:
	maskout:
		zext.32     %r2 <- (8) %arg1
		shl.32      %r5 <- $1, %arg2
		not.32      %r6 <- %r5
		and.32      %r9 <- %r6, $255
		and.32      %r10 <- %r2, %r9
		trunc.8     %r11 <- (32) %r10
		ret.8       %r11

and some reassociation patches (coming soon) will simplify away
the masking with $255 and the trunc.8

-- Luc

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-17  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-12-16  2:11     ` Patch "[PATCH 1/2] Revert "md: change mddev 'chunk_sectors' from int to" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree Linus Torvalds
2020-12-16 22:24       ` [PATCH] warn when zero-extending a negation Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-12-16 22:37         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-16 23:51           ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-12-17  0:35             ` Luc Van Oostenryck [this message]

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