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Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."


From: Richard Kenner
Subject: Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:58:40 EST

> What would you suggest this function to do, based on your comments?

I'm not familiar enough with VRP to answer at that level, but at a higher
level, what I'd advocate is that the *generator* of information would track
things both ways, assuming wrapping and non-wrapping semantics (of course, if
-fwrapv or -fno-wrapv was specified, it would only do that one).  Then the
*user* of the information would decide which one to use by applying
heuristics based both on the likelihood that the programmer would be relying
on wrapping and the importance from an optimization standpoint of not doing so.

So, for example, when making decisions involving loop optimizations, it would
assume that bivs and givs don't overflow.  But it if saw a comparison against
a result that might overflow, it would assume the more conservative choice on
the grounds that it's more likely that the test was intended to do something
than to always be true or false.

Here is where you also have a chance of issuing a warning.  In the former of
these cases, however, I don't think it would make sense to issue one since
it'd almost always be a false positive and in the latter there is nothing to
warn about since the conservative choice is being made. But in some "middle
of the road" cases, assuming undefined overflow and warning might be the most
appropriate: indeed, the ability to issue the warning could be a
justification towards making the less conservative choice.




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