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- 3. When find_reloads is used to count number of spills needed
- it does not take into account the fact that a reload may
- turn out to be a dummy.
-
- I'm not sure this really happens any more. Doesn't it find
- all the dummies on both passes?
-
- 10. movl a3@,a0
- movl a3@(16),a1
- clrb a0@(a1:l)
- is generated and may be worse than
- movl a3@,a0
- addl a3@(16),a0
- clrb a0@
- If ordering of operands is improved, many more
- such cases will be generated from typical array accesses.
-
- 38. Hack expand_mult so that if there is no same-modes multiply
- it will use a widening multiply and then truncate rather than
- calling the library.
-
- 39. Hack expanding of division to notice cases for
- long -> short division.
-
- 40. Represent divide insns as (DIV:SI ...) followed by
- a separate lowpart extract. Represent remainder insns as DIV:SI
- followed by a separate highpart extract. Then cse can work on
- the DIV:SI part. Problem is, this may not be desirable on machines
- where computing the quotient alone does not necessarily give
- a remainder--such as the 68020 for long operands.
-
- 52. Reloading can look at how reload_contents got set up.
- If it was copied from a register, just reload from that register.
- Otherwise, perhaps can change the previous insn to move the
- data via the reload reg, thus avoiding one memory ref.
-
- 63. Potential problem in cc_status.value2, if it ever activates itself
- after a two-address subtraction (which currently cannot happen).
- It is supposed to compare the current value of the destination
- but eliminating it would use the results of the subtraction, equivalent
- to comparing the previous value of the destination.
-
- 65. Should loops that neither start nor end with a break
- be rearranged to end with the last break?
-
- 69. Define the floating point converting arithmetic instructions
- for the 68881.
-
- 74. Combine loop opt with cse opt in one pass. Do cse on each loop,
- then loop opt on that loop, and go from innermost loops outward.
- Make loop invariants available for cse at end of loop.
-
- 85. pea can force a value to be reloaded into an areg
- which can make it worse than separate adding and pushing.
- This can only happen for adding something within addql range
- and it only loses if the qty becomes dead at that point
- so it can be added to with no copying.
-
- 93. If a pseudo doesn't get a hard reg everywhere,
- can it get one during a loop?
-
- 96. Can do SImode bitfield insns without reloading, but must
- alter the operands in special ways.
-
- 99. final could check loop-entry branches to see if they
- screw up deletion of a test instruction. If they do,
- can put another test instruction before the branch and
- make it conditional and redirect it.
-
- 106. Aliasing may be impossible if data types of refs differ
- and data type of containing objects also differ.
- (But check this wrt unions.)
-
- 108. Can speed up flow analysis by making a table saying which
- register is set and which registers are used by each instruction that
- only sets one register and only uses two. This way avoid the tree
- walk for such instructions (most instructions).
-
- 109. It is desirable to avoid converting INDEX to SImode if a
- narrower mode suffices, as HImode does on the 68000.
- How can this be done?
-
- 110. Possible special combination pattern:
- If the two operands to a comparison die there and both come from insns
- that are identical except for replacing one operand with the other,
- throw away those insns. Ok if insns being discarded are known 1 to 1.
- An andl #1 after a seq is 1 to 1, but how should compiler know that?
-
- 112. Can convert float to unsigned int by subtracting a constant,
- converting to signed int, and changing the sign bit.
-
- 117. Any number of slow zero-extensions in one loop, that have
- their clr insns moved out of the loop, can share one register
- if their original life spans are disjoint.
- But it may be hard to be sure of this since
- the life span data that regscan produces may be hard to interpret
- validly or may be incorrect after cse.
-
- 118. In cse, when a bfext insn refers to a register, if the field
- corresponds to a halfword or a byte and the register is equivalent
- to a memory location, it would be possible to detect this and
- replace it with a simple memory reference.
-
- 121. Insns that store two values cannot be moved out of loops.
- The code in scan_loop doesn't even try to deal with them.
-
- 122. When insn-output.c turns a bit-test into a sign-test,
- it should see whether the cc is already set up with that sign.
-
- 123. When a conditional expression is used as a function arg, it would
- be faster (and in some cases shorter) to push each alternative rather
- than compute in a register and push that. This would require
- being able to specify "push this" as a target for expand_expr.
-
- 124. On the 386, bad code results from foo (bar ()) when bar
- returns a double, because the pseudo used fails to get preferenced
- into an fp reg because of the distinction between regs 8 and 9.
-