15948 – [3.4 Regression] THUMB: ICE with non-commutative cbranch (original) (raw)

Description Dan Bornstein 2004-06-11 19:37:59 UTC

Compiling the following file with -O2 causes an assert failure inside gcc:

void ouch(int *s)
{
    int e = s[0];
    if ((e & 2) == 0) {
        return;
    }
    s[0]=0;
    s[1]=0;
}

(That's it.) The reported error is:

$ arm-elf-gcc -save-temps -c ouch.c -mthumb -O2 -o ouch.o
ouch.c: In function `ouch':
ouch.c:9: internal compiler error: in do_output_reload, at reload1.c:6895
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Here's the salient part of reload1.c:

/* If is a JUMP_INSN, we can't support output reloads yet.  */
if (GET_CODE (insn) == JUMP_INSN)
  abort (); // LINE 6895

Here's how I configured and built the compiler:

$ tar -xjvf gcc-core-3.4.0.tar.bz2 $ cd gcc-3.4.0 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/armdev --target=arm-elf --with-newlib --enable-languages=c

The following lines were uncommented in gcc/config/arm/t-arm-elf:

MULTILIB_OPTIONS += mno-thumb-interwork/mthumb-interwork MULTILIB_DIRNAMES += normal interwork MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS += *mapcs-26/mthumb-interwork

$ make $ sudo make install

In case it matters, I'm currently using binutils-2.15.

Comment 1 Richard Earnshaw 2004-06-22 11:21:22 UTC

Confirmed. The compiler is using a non-commutative operation that sets the condition codes. Unfortunately, the register allocator has dug a pit that reload doesn't know how to climb out of. The attached patch should give it a suitable step up again.

The other cbranch insns in the machine description need auditing to see if they might suffer from the same problem.

Comment 2 Richard Earnshaw 2004-06-22 11:23:09 UTC

Created attachment 6603 [details] Provisional patch

Fixes the specific test case, but further checking for similar cases needed.

Comment 3 Dan Bornstein 2004-06-22 17:17:48 UTC

I've confirmed that the patch fixes this bug on my build. Thanks!

I originally noticed a couple other files in the system that I'm working on that appeared to cause the same failure. I'll see whether or not this patch affects them as well.

Comment 4 Dan Bornstein 2004-06-22 18:22:51 UTC

Confirmed that my original (undistilled) source files compile without complaint and appear to run correctly with this patch.

Comment 6 Richard Earnshaw 2004-06-23 11:43:20 UTC

Checking the other cbranch patterns shows no obvious similar cases to this one.

I've installed the patch on the trunk and will pull it up to the branch once 3.4.2 has shipped.

Comment 7 Richard Earnshaw 2004-06-30 10:25:59 UTC

*** Bug 16267 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Mark Mitchell 2004-08-23 19:19:09 UTC

Since Richard has indicated that he's waiting for 3.4.2, I've pushed the target milestone back to 3.4.3.

Comment 9 Richard Earnshaw 2004-08-24 09:08:26 UTC

Hmm, that was a typo, I meant to put 'until after 3.4.1' or 'for 3.4.2' but somehow managed to put something else instead.

There's no reason (now that it's hand some exposure on mainline) why this patch shouldn't be pulled up in time for the 3.4.2 release.

R.

Comment 12 Richard Earnshaw 2004-08-25 16:10:18 UTC

Patch applied to 3.4 and csl-arm branches