From: davidm@mostang.com (David Mosberger-Tang)
Cc: David.Mosberger@acm.org
Subject: Re: bug in throw.c
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 23:44:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16018.28624.108750.532812@panda.mostang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030408013106.A8696@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 01:31:06 -0500, Christopher Cramer <crayc@pyro.net> said:
Christopher> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:01:36PM -0700, David
Christopher> Mosberger-Tang wrote:
>> #if 0/*def __GNUC__*/ /* Dirk:FIXME:: This bugfix should be
>> removed some time. */ /* GCC 2.95.2 has a bug in its optimizer
>> that makes it generate incorrect code sometimes. This barrier
>> stops it from being too clever. */ asm volatile ("" : "=g"
>> (winds)); #endif
>> This is clearly bogus: the asm statement claims that it's writing
>> the "winds" variable, which isn't true. On ia64, this has the
>> effect that the "winds" gets corrupted and comes out with value
>> "1". Just
Christopher> Now, I haven't checked up on the changes in recent GCC
Christopher> versions, but that behavior seems really odd to me. How
Christopher> does it change the value of a variable if you put in an
Christopher> empty asm statement that only claims to change the
Christopher> variable?
Christopher> This is a common tactic to defeat the optimizer. I
Christopher> don't understand why GCC would suddenly have problems
Christopher> with this.
asm volatile ("" : "=g"(winds))
tells the compiler that the old value of "winds" is dead. It is
therefore free to use any register for holding the "new" value of
"winds" which is supposedly produced by the "asm volatile" statement.
--david
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-07 0:01 bug in throw.c David Mosberger-Tang
2003-04-08 6:31 ` Christopher Cramer
2003-04-08 6:44 ` David Mosberger-Tang [this message]
2003-04-11 3:24 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-03 21:47 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-05-03 21:56 ` Marius Vollmer
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