@c Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c This is part of the GCC manual. @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. @ifset INTERNALS @node Machine Desc @chapter Machine Descriptions @cindex machine descriptions A machine description has two parts: a file of instruction patterns (@file{.md} file) and a C header file of macro definitions. The @file{.md} file for a target machine contains a pattern for each instruction that the target machine supports (or at least each instruction that is worth telling the compiler about). It may also contain comments. A semicolon causes the rest of the line to be a comment, unless the semicolon is inside a quoted string. See the next chapter for information on the C header file. @menu * Overview:: How the machine description is used. * Patterns:: How to write instruction patterns. * Example:: An explained example of a @code{define_insn} pattern. * RTL Template:: The RTL template defines what insns match a pattern. * Output Template:: The output template says how to make assembler code from such an insn. * Output Statement:: For more generality, write C code to output the assembler code. * Predicates:: Controlling what kinds of operands can be used for an insn. * Constraints:: Fine-tuning operand selection. * Standard Names:: Names mark patterns to use for code generation. * Pattern Ordering:: When the order of patterns makes a difference. * Dependent Patterns:: Having one pattern may make you need another. * Jump Patterns:: Special considerations for patterns for jump insns. * Looping Patterns:: How to define patterns for special looping insns. * Insn Canonicalizations::Canonicalization of Instructions * Expander Definitions::Generating a sequence of several RTL insns for a standard operation. * Insn Splitting:: Splitting Instructions into Multiple Instructions. * Including Patterns:: Including Patterns in Machine Descriptions. * Peephole Definitions::Defining machine-specific peephole optimizations. * Insn Attributes:: Specifying the value of attributes for generated insns. * Conditional Execution::Generating @code{define_insn} patterns for predication. * Define Subst:: Generating @code{define_insn} and @code{define_expand} patterns from other patterns. * Constant Definitions::Defining symbolic constants that can be used in the md file. * Iterators:: Using iterators to generate patterns from a template. @end menu @node Overview @section Overview of How the Machine Description is Used There are three main conversions that happen in the compiler: @enumerate @item The front end reads the source code and builds a parse tree. @item The parse tree is used to generate an RTL insn list based on named instruction patterns. @item The insn list is matched against the RTL templates to produce assembler code. @end enumerate For the generate pass, only the names of the insns matter, from either a named @code{define_insn} or a @code{define_expand}. The compiler will choose the pattern with the right name and apply the operands according to the documentation later in this chapter, without regard for the RTL template or operand constraints. Note that the names the compiler looks for are hard-coded in the compiler---it will ignore unnamed patterns and patterns with names it doesn't know about, but if you don't provide a named pattern it needs, it will abort. If a @code{define_insn} is used, the template given is inserted into the insn list. If a @code{define_expand} is used, one of three things happens, based on the condition logic. The condition logic may manually create new insns for the insn list, say via @code{emit_insn()}, and invoke @code{DONE}. For certain named patterns, it may invoke @code{FAIL} to tell the compiler to use an alternate way of performing that task. If it invokes neither @code{DONE} nor @code{FAIL}, the template given in the pattern is inserted, as if the @code{define_expand} were a @code{define_insn}. Once the insn list is generated, various optimization passes convert, replace, and rearrange the insns in the insn list. This is where the @code{define_split} and @code{define_peephole} patterns get used, for example. Finally, the insn list's RTL is matched up with the RTL templates in the @code{define_insn} patterns, and those patterns are used to emit the final assembly code. For this purpose, each named @code{define_insn} acts like it's unnamed, since the names are ignored. @node Patterns @section Everything about Instruction Patterns @cindex patterns @cindex instruction patterns @findex define_insn Each instruction pattern contains an incomplete RTL expression, with pieces to be filled in later, operand constraints that restrict how the pieces can be filled in, and an output pattern or C code to generate the assembler output, all wrapped up in a @code{define_insn} expression. A @code{define_insn} is an RTL expression containing four or five operands: @enumerate @item An optional name. The presence of a name indicate that this instruction pattern can perform a certain standard job for the RTL-generation pass of the compiler. This pass knows certain names and will use the instruction patterns with those names, if the names are defined in the machine description. The absence of a name is indicated by writing an empty string where the name should go. Nameless instruction patterns are never used for generating RTL code, but they may permit several simpler insns to be combined later on. Names that are not thus known and used in RTL-generation have no effect; they are equivalent to no name at all. For the purpose of debugging the compiler, you may also specify a name beginning with the @samp{*} character. Such a name is used only for identifying the instruction in RTL dumps; it is entirely equivalent to having a nameless pattern for all other purposes. @item The @dfn{RTL template} (@pxref{RTL Template}) is a vector of incomplete RTL expressions which show what the instruction should look like. It is incomplete because it may contain @code{match_operand}, @code{match_operator}, and @code{match_dup} expressions that stand for operands of the instruction. If the vector has only one element, that element is the template for the instruction pattern. If the vector has multiple elements, then the instruction pattern is a @code{parallel} expression containing the elements described. @item @cindex pattern conditions @cindex conditions, in patterns A condition. This is a string which contains a C expression that is the final test to decide whether an insn body matches this pattern. @cindex named patterns and conditions For a named pattern, the condition (if present) may not depend on the data in the insn being matched, but only the target-machine-type flags. The compiler needs to test these conditions during initialization in order to learn exactly which named instructions are available in a particular run. @findex operands For nameless patterns, the condition is applied only when matching an individual insn, and only after the insn has matched the pattern's recognition template. The insn's operands may be found in the vector @code{operands}. For an insn where the condition has once matched, it can't be used to control register allocation, for example by excluding certain hard registers or hard register combinations. @item The @dfn{output template}: a string that says how to output matching insns as assembler code. @samp{%} in this string specifies where to substitute the value of an operand. @xref{Output Template}. When simple substitution isn't general enough, you can specify a piece of C code to compute the output. @xref{Output Statement}. @item Optionally, a vector containing the values of attributes for insns matching this pattern. @xref{Insn Attributes}. @end enumerate @node Example @section Example of @code{define_insn} @cindex @code{define_insn} example Here is an actual example of an instruction pattern, for the 68000/68020. @smallexample (define_insn "tstsi" [(set (cc0) (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "rm"))] "" "* @{ if (TARGET_68020 || ! ADDRESS_REG_P (operands[0])) return \"tstl %0\"; return \"cmpl #0,%0\"; @}") @end smallexample @noindent This can also be written using braced strings: @smallexample (define_insn "tstsi" [(set (cc0) (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "rm"))] "" @{ if (TARGET_68020 || ! ADDRESS_REG_P (operands[0])) return "tstl %0"; return "cmpl #0,%0"; @}) @end smallexample This is an instruction that sets the condition codes based on the value of a general operand. It has no condition, so any insn whose RTL description has the form shown may be handled according to this pattern. The name @samp{tstsi} means ``test a @code{SImode} value'' and tells the RTL generation pass that, when it is necessary to test such a value, an insn to do so can be constructed using this pattern. The output control string is a piece of C code which chooses which output template to return based on the kind of operand and the specific type of CPU for which code is being generated. @samp{"rm"} is an operand constraint. Its meaning is explained below. @node RTL Template @section RTL Template @cindex RTL insn template @cindex generating insns @cindex insns, generating @cindex recognizing insns @cindex insns, recognizing The RTL template is used to define which insns match the particular pattern and how to find their operands. For named patterns, the RTL template also says how to construct an insn from specified operands. Construction involves substituting specified operands into a copy of the template. Matching involves determining the values that serve as the operands in the insn being matched. Both of these activities are controlled by special expression types that direct matching and substitution of the operands. @table @code @findex match_operand @item (match_operand:@var{m} @var{n} @var{predicate} @var{constraint}) This expression is a placeholder for operand number @var{n} of the insn. When constructing an insn, operand number @var{n} will be substituted at this point. When matching an insn, whatever appears at this position in the insn will be taken as operand number @var{n}; but it must satisfy @var{predicate} or this instruction pattern will not match at all. Operand numbers must be chosen consecutively counting from zero in each instruction pattern. There may be only one @code{match_operand} expression in the pattern for each operand number. Usually operands are numbered in the order of appearance in @code{match_operand} expressions. In the case of a @code{define_expand}, any operand numbers used only in @code{match_dup} expressions have higher values than all other operand numbers. @var{predicate} is a string that is the name of a function that accepts two arguments, an expression and a machine mode. @xref{Predicates}. During matching, the function will be called with the putative operand as the expression and @var{m} as the mode argument (if @var{m} is not specified, @code{VOIDmode} will be used, which normally causes @var{predicate} to accept any mode). If it returns zero, this instruction pattern fails to match. @var{predicate} may be an empty string; then it means no test is to be done on the operand, so anything which occurs in this position is valid. Most of the time, @var{predicate} will reject modes other than @var{m}---but not always. For example, the predicate @code{address_operand} uses @var{m} as the mode of memory ref that the address should be valid for. Many predicates accept @code{const_int} nodes even though their mode is @code{VOIDmode}. @var{constraint} controls reloading and the choice of the best register class to use for a value, as explained later (@pxref{Constraints}). If the constraint would be an empty string, it can be omitted. People are often unclear on the difference between the constraint and the predicate. The predicate helps decide whether a given insn matches the pattern. The constraint plays no role in this decision; instead, it controls various decisions in the case of an insn which does match. @findex match_scratch @item (match_scratch:@var{m} @var{n} @var{constraint}) This expression is also a placeholder for operand number @var{n} and indicates that operand must be a @code{scratch} or @code{reg} expression. When matching patterns, this is equivalent to @smallexample (match_operand:@var{m} @var{n} "scratch_operand" @var{pred}) @end smallexample but, when generating RTL, it produces a (@code{scratch}:@var{m}) expression. If the last few expressions in a @code{parallel} are @code{clobber} expressions whose operands are either a hard register or @code{match_scratch}, the combiner can add or delete them when necessary. @xref{Side Effects}. @findex match_dup @item (match_dup @var{n}) This expression is also a placeholder for operand number @var{n}. It is used when the operand needs to appear more than once in the insn. In construction, @code{match_dup} acts just like @code{match_operand}: the operand is substituted into the insn being constructed. But in matching, @code{match_dup} behaves differently. It assumes that operand number @var{n} has already been determined by a @code{match_operand} appearing earlier in the recognition template, and it matches only an identical-looking expression. Note that @code{match_dup} should not be used to tell the compiler that a particular register is being used for two operands (example: @code{add} that adds one register to another; the second register is both an input operand and the output operand). Use a matching constraint (@pxref{Simple Constraints}) for those. @code{match_dup} is for the cases where one operand is used in two places in the template, such as an instruction that computes both a quotient and a remainder, where the opcode takes two input operands but the RTL template has to refer to each of those twice; once for the quotient pattern and once for the remainder pattern. @findex match_operator @item (match_operator:@var{m} @var{n} @var{predicate} [@var{operands}@dots{}]) This pattern is a kind of placeholder for a variable RTL expression code. When constructing an insn, it stands for an RTL expression whose expression code is taken from that of operand @var{n}, and whose operands are constructed from the patterns @var{operands}. When matching an expression, it matches an expression if the function @var{predicate} returns nonzero on that expression @emph{and} the patterns @var{operands} match the operands of the expression. Suppose that the function @code{commutative_operator} is defined as follows, to match any expression whose operator is one of the commutative arithmetic operators of RTL and whose mode is @var{mode}: @smallexample int commutative_integer_operator (x, mode) rtx x; enum machine_mode mode; @{ enum rtx_code code = GET_CODE (x); if (GET_MODE (x) != mode) return 0; return (GET_RTX_CLASS (code) == RTX_COMM_ARITH || code == EQ || code == NE); @} @end smallexample Then the following pattern will match any RTL expression consisting of a commutative operator applied to two general operands: @smallexample (match_operator:SI 3 "commutative_operator" [(match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "g") (match_operand:SI 2 "general_operand" "g")]) @end smallexample Here the vector @code{[@var{operands}@dots{}]} contains two patterns because the expressions to be matched all contain two operands. When this pattern does match, the two operands of the commutative operator are recorded as operands 1 and 2 of the insn. (This is done by the two instances of @code{match_operand}.) Operand 3 of the insn will be the entire commutative expression: use @code{GET_CODE (operands[3])} to see which commutative operator was used. The machine mode @var{m} of @code{match_operator} works like that of @code{match_operand}: it is passed as the second argument to the predicate function, and that function is solely responsible for deciding whether the expression to be matched ``has'' that mode. When constructing an insn, argument 3 of the gen-function will specify the operation (i.e.@: the expression code) for the expression to be made. It should be an RTL expression, whose expression code is copied into a new expression whose operands are arguments 1 and 2 of the gen-function. The subexpressions of argument 3 are not used; only its expression code matters. When @code{match_operator} is used in a pattern for matching an insn, it usually best if the operand number of the @code{match_operator} is higher than that of the actual operands of the insn. This improves register allocation because the register allocator often looks at operands 1 and 2 of insns to see if it can do register tying. There is no way to specify constraints in @code{match_operator}. The operand of the insn which corresponds to the @code{match_operator} never has any constraints because it is never reloaded as a whole. However, if parts of its @var{operands} are matched by @code{match_operand} patterns, those parts may have constraints of their own. @findex match_op_dup @item (match_op_dup:@var{m} @var{n}[@var{operands}@dots{}]) Like @code{match_dup}, except that it applies to operators instead of operands. When constructing an insn, operand number @var{n} will be substituted at this point. But in matching, @code{match_op_dup} behaves differently. It assumes that operand number @var{n} has already been determined by a @code{match_operator} appearing earlier in the recognition template, and it matches only an identical-looking expression. @findex match_parallel @item (match_parallel @var{n} @var{predicate} [@var{subpat}@dots{}]) This pattern is a placeholder for an insn that consists of a @code{parallel} expression with a variable number of elements. This expression should only appear at the top level of an insn pattern. When constructing an insn, operand number @var{n} will be substituted at this point. When matching an insn, it matches if the body of the insn is a @code{parallel} expression with at least as many elements as the vector of @var{subpat} expressions in the @code{match_parallel}, if each @var{subpat} matches the corresponding element of the @code{parallel}, @emph{and} the function @var{predicate} returns nonzero on the @code{parallel} that is the body of the insn. It is the responsibility of the predicate to validate elements of the @code{parallel} beyond those listed in the @code{match_parallel}. A typical use of @code{match_parallel} is to match load and store multiple expressions, which can contain a variable number of elements in a @code{parallel}. For example, @smallexample (define_insn "" [(match_parallel 0 "load_multiple_operation" [(set (match_operand:SI 1 "gpc_reg_operand" "=r") (match_operand:SI 2 "memory_operand" "m")) (use (reg:SI 179)) (clobber (reg:SI 179))])] "" "loadm 0,0,%1,%2") @end smallexample This example comes from @file{a29k.md}. The function @code{load_multiple_operation} is defined in @file{a29k.c} and checks that subsequent elements in the @code{parallel} are the same as the @code{set} in the pattern, except that they are referencing subsequent registers and memory locations. An insn that matches this pattern might look like: @smallexample (parallel [(set (reg:SI 20) (mem:SI (reg:SI 100))) (use (reg:SI 179)) (clobber (reg:SI 179)) (set (reg:SI 21) (mem:SI (plus:SI (reg:SI 100) (const_int 4)))) (set (reg:SI 22) (mem:SI (plus:SI (reg:SI 100) (const_int 8))))]) @end smallexample @findex match_par_dup @item (match_par_dup @var{n} [@var{subpat}@dots{}]) Like @code{match_op_dup}, but for @code{match_parallel} instead of @code{match_operator}. @end table @node Output Template @section Output Templates and Operand Substitution @cindex output templates @cindex operand substitution @cindex @samp{%} in template @cindex percent sign The @dfn{output template} is a string which specifies how to output the assembler code for an instruction pattern. Most of the template is a fixed string which is output literally. The character @samp{%} is used to specify where to substitute an operand; it can also be used to identify places where different variants of the assembler require different syntax. In the simplest case, a @samp{%} followed by a digit @var{n} says to output operand @var{n} at that point in the string. @samp{%} followed by a letter and a digit says to output an operand in an alternate fashion. Four letters have standard, built-in meanings described below. The machine description macro @code{PRINT_OPERAND} can define additional letters with nonstandard meanings. @samp{%c@var{digit}} can be used to substitute an operand that is a constant value without the syntax that normally indicates an immediate operand. @samp{%n@var{digit}} is like @samp{%c@var{digit}} except that the value of the constant is negated before printing. @samp{%a@var{digit}} can be used to substitute an operand as if it were a memory reference, with the actual operand treated as the address. This may be useful when outputting a ``load address'' instruction, because often the assembler syntax for such an instruction requires you to write the operand as if it were a memory reference. @samp{%l@var{digit}} is used to substitute a @code{label_ref} into a jump instruction. @samp{%=} outputs a number which is unique to each instruction in the entire compilation. This is useful for making local labels to be referred to more than once in a single template that generates multiple assembler instructions. @samp{%} followed by a punctuation character specifies a substitution that does not use an operand. Only one case is standard: @samp{%%} outputs a @samp{%} into the assembler code. Other nonstandard cases can be defined in the @code{PRINT_OPERAND} macro. You must also define which punctuation characters are valid with the @code{PRINT_OPERAND_PUNCT_VALID_P} macro. @cindex \ @cindex backslash The template may generate multiple assembler instructions. Write the text for the instructions, with @samp{\;} between them. @cindex matching operands When the RTL contains two operands which are required by constraint to match each other, the output template must refer only to the lower-numbered operand. Matching operands are not always identical, and the rest of the compiler arranges to put the proper RTL expression for printing into the lower-numbered operand. One use of nonstandard letters or punctuation following @samp{%} is to distinguish between different assembler languages for the same machine; for example, Motorola syntax versus MIT syntax for the 68000. Motorola syntax requires periods in most opcode names, while MIT syntax does not. For example, the opcode @samp{movel} in MIT syntax is @samp{move.l} in Motorola syntax. The same file of patterns is used for both kinds of output syntax, but the character sequence @samp{%.} is used in each place where Motorola syntax wants a period. The @code{PRINT_OPERAND} macro for Motorola syntax defines the sequence to output a period; the macro for MIT syntax defines it to do nothing. @cindex @code{#} in template As a special case, a template consisting of the single character @code{#} instructs the compiler to first split the insn, and then output the resulting instructions separately. This helps eliminate redundancy in the output templates. If you have a @code{define_insn} that needs to emit multiple assembler instructions, and there is a matching @code{define_split} already defined, then you can simply use @code{#} as the output template instead of writing an output template that emits the multiple assembler instructions. If the macro @code{ASSEMBLER_DIALECT} is defined, you can use construct of the form @samp{@{option0|option1|option2@}} in the templates. These describe multiple variants of assembler language syntax. @xref{Instruction Output}. @node Output Statement @section C Statements for Assembler Output @cindex output statements @cindex C statements for assembler output @cindex generating assembler output Often a single fixed template string cannot produce correct and efficient assembler code for all the cases that are recognized by a single instruction pattern. For example, the opcodes may depend on the kinds of operands; or some unfortunate combinations of operands may require extra machine instructions. If the output control string starts with a @samp{@@}, then it is actually a series of templates, each on a separate line. (Blank lines and leading spaces and tabs are ignored.) The templates correspond to the pattern's constraint alternatives (@pxref{Multi-Alternative}). For example, if a target machine has a two-address add instruction @samp{addr} to add into a register and another @samp{addm} to add a register to memory, you might write this pattern: @smallexample (define_insn "addsi3" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r,m") (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "0,0") (match_operand:SI 2 "general_operand" "g,r")))] "" "@@ addr %2,%0 addm %2,%0") @end smallexample @cindex @code{*} in template @cindex asterisk in template If the output control string starts with a @samp{*}, then it is not an output template but rather a piece of C program that should compute a template. It should execute a @code{return} statement to return the template-string you want. Most such templates use C string literals, which require doublequote characters to delimit them. To include these doublequote characters in the string, prefix each one with @samp{\}. If the output control string is written as a brace block instead of a double-quoted string, it is automatically assumed to be C code. In that case, it is not necessary to put in a leading asterisk, or to escape the doublequotes surrounding C string literals. The operands may be found in the array @code{operands}, whose C data type is @code{rtx []}. It is very common to select different ways of generating assembler code based on whether an immediate operand is within a certain range. Be careful when doing this, because the result of @code{INTVAL} is an integer on the host machine. If the host machine has more bits in an @code{int} than the target machine has in the mode in which the constant will be used, then some of the bits you get from @code{INTVAL} will be superfluous. For proper results, you must carefully disregard the values of those bits. @findex output_asm_insn It is possible to output an assembler instruction and then go on to output or compute more of them, using the subroutine @code{output_asm_insn}. This receives two arguments: a template-string and a vector of operands. The vector may be @code{operands}, or it may be another array of @code{rtx} that you declare locally and initialize yourself. @findex which_alternative When an insn pattern has multiple alternatives in its constraints, often the appearance of the assembler code is determined mostly by which alternative was matched. When this is so, the C code can test the variable @code{which_alternative}, which is the ordinal number of the alternative that was actually satisfied (0 for the first, 1 for the second alternative, etc.). For example, suppose there are two opcodes for storing zero, @samp{clrreg} for registers and @samp{clrmem} for memory locations. Here is how a pattern could use @code{which_alternative} to choose between them: @smallexample (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r,m") (const_int 0))] "" @{ return (which_alternative == 0 ? "clrreg %0" : "clrmem %0"); @}) @end smallexample The example above, where the assembler code to generate was @emph{solely} determined by the alternative, could also have been specified as follows, having the output control string start with a @samp{@@}: @smallexample @group (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r,m") (const_int 0))] "" "@@ clrreg %0 clrmem %0") @end group @end smallexample If you just need a little bit of C code in one (or a few) alternatives, you can use @samp{*} inside of a @samp{@@} multi-alternative template: @smallexample @group (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r,<,m") (const_int 0))] "" "@@ clrreg %0 * return stack_mem_p (operands[0]) ? \"push 0\" : \"clrmem %0\"; clrmem %0") @end group @end smallexample @node Predicates @section Predicates @cindex predicates @cindex operand predicates @cindex operator predicates A predicate determines whether a @code{match_operand} or @code{match_operator} expression matches, and therefore whether the surrounding instruction pattern will be used for that combination of operands. GCC has a number of machine-independent predicates, and you can define machine-specific predicates as needed. By convention, predicates used with @code{match_operand} have names that end in @samp{_operand}, and those used with @code{match_operator} have names that end in @samp{_operator}. All predicates are Boolean functions (in the mathematical sense) of two arguments: the RTL expression that is being considered at that position in the instruction pattern, and the machine mode that the @code{match_operand} or @code{match_operator} specifies. In this section, the first argument is called @var{op} and the second argument @var{mode}. Predicates can be called from C as ordinary two-argument functions; this can be useful in output templates or other machine-specific code. Operand predicates can allow operands that are not actually acceptable to the hardware, as long as the constraints give reload the ability to fix them up (@pxref{Constraints}). However, GCC will usually generate better code if the predicates specify the requirements of the machine instructions as closely as possible. Reload cannot fix up operands that must be constants (``immediate operands''); you must use a predicate that allows only constants, or else enforce the requirement in the extra condition. @cindex predicates and machine modes @cindex normal predicates @cindex special predicates Most predicates handle their @var{mode} argument in a uniform manner. If @var{mode} is @code{VOIDmode} (unspecified), then @var{op} can have any mode. If @var{mode} is anything else, then @var{op} must have the same mode, unless @var{op} is a @code{CONST_INT} or integer @code{CONST_DOUBLE}. These RTL expressions always have @code{VOIDmode}, so it would be counterproductive to check that their mode matches. Instead, predicates that accept @code{CONST_INT} and/or integer @code{CONST_DOUBLE} check that the value stored in the constant will fit in the requested mode. Predicates with this behavior are called @dfn{normal}. @command{genrecog} can optimize the instruction recognizer based on knowledge of how normal predicates treat modes. It can also diagnose certain kinds of common errors in the use of normal predicates; for instance, it is almost always an error to use a normal predicate without specifying a mode. Predicates that do something different with their @var{mode} argument are called @dfn{special}. The generic predicates @code{address_operand} and @code{pmode_register_operand} are special predicates. @command{genrecog} does not do any optimizations or diagnosis when special predicates are used. @menu * Machine-Independent Predicates:: Predicates available to all back ends. * Defining Predicates:: How to write machine-specific predicate functions. @end menu @node Machine-Independent Predicates @subsection Machine-Independent Predicates @cindex machine-independent predicates @cindex generic predicates These are the generic predicates available to all back ends. They are defined in @file{recog.c}. The first category of predicates allow only constant, or @dfn{immediate}, operands. @defun immediate_operand This predicate allows any sort of constant that fits in @var{mode}. It is an appropriate choice for instructions that take operands that must be constant. @end defun @defun const_int_operand This predicate allows any @code{CONST_INT} expression that fits in @var{mode}. It is an appropriate choice for an immediate operand that does not allow a symbol or label. @end defun @defun const_double_operand This predicate accepts any @code{CONST_DOUBLE} expression that has exactly @var{mode}. If @var{mode} is @code{VOIDmode}, it will also accept @code{CONST_INT}. It is intended for immediate floating point constants. @end defun @noindent The second category of predicates allow only some kind of machine register. @defun register_operand This predicate allows any @code{REG} or @code{SUBREG} expression that is valid for @var{mode}. It is often suitable for arithmetic instruction operands on a RISC machine. @end defun @defun pmode_register_operand This is a slight variant on @code{register_operand} which works around a limitation in the machine-description reader. @smallexample (match_operand @var{n} "pmode_register_operand" @var{constraint}) @end smallexample @noindent means exactly what @smallexample (match_operand:P @var{n} "register_operand" @var{constraint}) @end smallexample @noindent would mean, if the machine-description reader accepted @samp{:P} mode suffixes. Unfortunately, it cannot, because @code{Pmode} is an alias for some other mode, and might vary with machine-specific options. @xref{Misc}. @end defun @defun scratch_operand This predicate allows hard registers and @code{SCRATCH} expressions, but not pseudo-registers. It is used internally by @code{match_scratch}; it should not be used directly. @end defun @noindent The third category of predicates allow only some kind of memory reference. @defun memory_operand This predicate allows any valid reference to a quantity of mode @var{mode} in memory, as determined by the weak form of @code{GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS} (@pxref{Addressing Modes}). @end defun @defun address_operand This predicate is a little unusual; it allows any operand that is a valid expression for the @emph{address} of a quantity of mode @var{mode}, again determined by the weak form of @code{GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS}. To first order, if @samp{@w{(mem:@var{mode} (@var{exp}))}} is acceptable to @code{memory_operand}, then @var{exp} is acceptable to @code{address_operand}. Note that @var{exp} does not necessarily have the mode @var{mode}. @end defun @defun indirect_operand This is a stricter form of @code{memory_operand} which allows only memory references with a @code{general_operand} as the address expression. New uses of this predicate are discouraged, because @code{general_operand} is very permissive, so it's hard to tell what an @code{indirect_operand} does or does not allow. If a target has different requirements for memory operands for different instructions, it is better to define target-specific predicates which enforce the hardware's requirements explicitly. @end defun @defun push_operand This predicate allows a memory reference suitable for pushing a value onto the stack. This will be a @code{MEM} which refers to @code{stack_pointer_rtx}, with a side-effect in its address expression (@pxref{Incdec}); which one is determined by the @code{STACK_PUSH_CODE} macro (@pxref{Frame Layout}). @end defun @defun pop_operand This predicate allows a memory reference suitable for popping a value off the stack. Again, this will be a @code{MEM} referring to @code{stack_pointer_rtx}, with a side-effect in its address expression. However, this time @code{STACK_POP_CODE} is expected. @end defun @noindent The fourth category of predicates allow some combination of the above operands. @defun nonmemory_operand This predicate allows any immediate or register operand valid for @var{mode}. @end defun @defun nonimmediate_operand This predicate allows any register or memory operand valid for @var{mode}. @end defun @defun general_operand This predicate allows any immediate, register, or memory operand valid for @var{mode}. @end defun @noindent Finally, there are two generic operator predicates. @defun comparison_operator This predicate matches any expression which performs an arithmetic comparison in @var{mode}; that is, @code{COMPARISON_P} is true for the expression code. @end defun @defun ordered_comparison_operator This predicate matches any expression which performs an arithmetic comparison in @var{mode} and whose expression code is valid for integer modes; that is, the expression code will be one of @code{eq}, @code{ne}, @code{lt}, @code{ltu}, @code{le}, @code{leu}, @code{gt}, @code{gtu}, @code{ge}, @code{geu}. @end defun @node Defining Predicates @subsection Defining Machine-Specific Predicates @cindex defining predicates @findex define_predicate @findex define_special_predicate Many machines have requirements for their operands that cannot be expressed precisely using the generic predicates. You can define additional predicates using @code{define_predicate} and @code{define_special_predicate} expressions. These expressions have three operands: @itemize @bullet @item The name of the predicate, as it will be referred to in @code{match_operand} or @code{match_operator} expressions. @item An RTL expression which evaluates to true if the predicate allows the operand @var{op}, false if it does not. This expression can only use the following RTL codes: @table @code @item MATCH_OPERAND When written inside a predicate expression, a @code{MATCH_OPERAND} expression evaluates to true if the predicate it names would allow @var{op}. The operand number and constraint are ignored. Due to limitations in @command{genrecog}, you can only refer to generic predicates and predicates that have already been defined. @item MATCH_CODE This expression evaluates to true if @var{op} or a specified subexpression of @var{op} has one of a given list of RTX codes. The first operand of this expression is a string constant containing a comma-separated list of RTX code names (in lower case). These are the codes for which the @code{MATCH_CODE} will be true. The second operand is a string constant which indicates what subexpression of @var{op} to examine. If it is absent or the empty string, @var{op} itself is examined. Otherwise, the string constant must be a sequence of digits and/or lowercase letters. Each character indicates a subexpression to extract from the current expression; for the first character this is @var{op}, for the second and subsequent characters it is the result of the previous character. A digit @var{n} extracts @samp{@w{XEXP (@var{e}, @var{n})}}; a letter @var{l} extracts @samp{@w{XVECEXP (@var{e}, 0, @var{n})}} where @var{n} is the alphabetic ordinal of @var{l} (0 for `a', 1 for 'b', and so on). The @code{MATCH_CODE} then examines the RTX code of the subexpression extracted by the complete string. It is not possible to extract components of an @code{rtvec} that is not at position 0 within its RTX object. @item MATCH_TEST This expression has one operand, a string constant containing a C expression. The predicate's arguments, @var{op} and @var{mode}, are available with those names in the C expression. The @code{MATCH_TEST} evaluates to true if the C expression evaluates to a nonzero value. @code{MATCH_TEST} expressions must not have side effects. @item AND @itemx IOR @itemx NOT @itemx IF_THEN_ELSE The basic @samp{MATCH_} expressions can be combined using these logical operators, which have the semantics of the C operators @samp{&&}, @samp{||}, @samp{!}, and @samp{@w{? :}} respectively. As in Common Lisp, you may give an @code{AND} or @code{IOR} expression an arbitrary number of arguments; this has exactly the same effect as writing a chain of two-argument @code{AND} or @code{IOR} expressions. @end table @item An optional block of C code, which should execute @samp{@w{return true}} if the predicate is found to match and @samp{@w{return false}} if it does not. It must not have any side effects. The predicate arguments, @var{op} and @var{mode}, are available with those names. If a code block is present in a predicate definition, then the RTL expression must evaluate to true @emph{and} the code block must execute @samp{@w{return true}} for the predicate to allow the operand. The RTL expression is evaluated first; do not re-check anything in the code block that was checked in the RTL expression. @end itemize The program @command{genrecog} scans @code{define_predicate} and @code{define_special_predicate} expressions to determine which RTX codes are possibly allowed. You should always make this explicit in the RTL predicate expression, using @code{MATCH_OPERAND} and @code{MATCH_CODE}. Here is an example of a simple predicate definition, from the IA64 machine description: @smallexample @group ;; @r{True if @var{op} is a @code{SYMBOL_REF} which refers to the sdata section.} (define_predicate "small_addr_symbolic_operand" (and (match_code "symbol_ref") (match_test "SYMBOL_REF_SMALL_ADDR_P (op)"))) @end group @end smallexample @noindent And here is another, showing the use of the C block. @smallexample @group ;; @r{True if @var{op} is a register operand that is (or could be) a GR reg.} (define_predicate "gr_register_operand" (match_operand 0 "register_operand") @{ unsigned int regno; if (GET_CODE (op) == SUBREG) op = SUBREG_REG (op); regno = REGNO (op); return (regno >= FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER || GENERAL_REGNO_P (regno)); @}) @end group @end smallexample Predicates written with @code{define_predicate} automatically include a test that @var{mode} is @code{VOIDmode}, or @var{op} has the same mode as @var{mode}, or @var{op} is a @code{CONST_INT} or @code{CONST_DOUBLE}. They do @emph{not} check specifically for integer @code{CONST_DOUBLE}, nor do they test that the value of either kind of constant fits in the requested mode. This is because target-specific predicates that take constants usually have to do more stringent value checks anyway. If you need the exact same treatment of @code{CONST_INT} or @code{CONST_DOUBLE} that the generic predicates provide, use a @code{MATCH_OPERAND} subexpression to call @code{const_int_operand}, @code{const_double_operand}, or @code{immediate_operand}. Predicates written with @code{define_special_predicate} do not get any automatic mode checks, and are treated as having special mode handling by @command{genrecog}. The program @command{genpreds} is responsible for generating code to test predicates. It also writes a header file containing function declarations for all machine-specific predicates. It is not necessary to declare these predicates in @file{@var{cpu}-protos.h}. @end ifset @c Most of this node appears by itself (in a different place) even @c when the INTERNALS flag is clear. Passages that require the internals @c manual's context are conditionalized to appear only in the internals manual. @ifset INTERNALS @node Constraints @section Operand Constraints @cindex operand constraints @cindex constraints Each @code{match_operand} in an instruction pattern can specify constraints for the operands allowed. The constraints allow you to fine-tune matching within the set of operands allowed by the predicate. @end ifset @ifclear INTERNALS @node Constraints @section Constraints for @code{asm} Operands @cindex operand constraints, @code{asm} @cindex constraints, @code{asm} @cindex @code{asm} constraints Here are specific details on what constraint letters you can use with @code{asm} operands. @end ifclear Constraints can say whether an operand may be in a register, and which kinds of register; whether the operand can be a memory reference, and which kinds of address; whether the operand may be an immediate constant, and which possible values it may have. Constraints can also require two operands to match. Side-effects aren't allowed in operands of inline @code{asm}, unless @samp{<} or @samp{>} constraints are used, because there is no guarantee that the side-effects will happen exactly once in an instruction that can update the addressing register. @ifset INTERNALS @menu * Simple Constraints:: Basic use of constraints. * Multi-Alternative:: When an insn has two alternative constraint-patterns. * Class Preferences:: Constraints guide which hard register to put things in. * Modifiers:: More precise control over effects of constraints. * Machine Constraints:: Existing constraints for some particular machines. * Disable Insn Alternatives:: Disable insn alternatives using the @code{enabled} attribute. * Define Constraints:: How to define machine-specific constraints. * C Constraint Interface:: How to test constraints from C code. @end menu @end ifset @ifclear INTERNALS @menu * Simple Constraints:: Basic use of constraints. * Multi-Alternative:: When an insn has two alternative constraint-patterns. * Modifiers:: More precise control over effects of constraints. * Machine Constraints:: Special constraints for some particular machines. @end menu @end ifclear @node Simple Constraints @subsection Simple Constraints @cindex simple constraints The simplest kind of constraint is a string full of letters, each of which describes one kind of operand that is permitted. Here are the letters that are allowed: @table @asis @item whitespace Whitespace characters are ignored and can be inserted at any position except the first. This enables each alternative for different operands to be visually aligned in the machine description even if they have different number of constraints and modifiers. @cindex @samp{m} in constraint @cindex memory references in constraints @item @samp{m} A memory operand is allowed, with any kind of address that the machine supports in general. Note that the letter used for the general memory constraint can be re-defined by a back end using the @code{TARGET_MEM_CONSTRAINT} macro. @cindex offsettable address @cindex @samp{o} in constraint @item @samp{o} A memory operand is allowed, but only if the address is @dfn{offsettable}. This means that adding a small integer (actually, the width in bytes of the operand, as determined by its machine mode) may be added to the address and the result is also a valid memory address. @cindex autoincrement/decrement addressing For example, an address which is constant is offsettable; so is an address that is the sum of a register and a constant (as long as a slightly larger constant is also within the range of address-offsets supported by the machine); but an autoincrement or autodecrement address is not offsettable. More complicated indirect/indexed addresses may or may not be offsettable depending on the other addressing modes that the machine supports. Note that in an output operand which can be matched by another operand, the constraint letter @samp{o} is valid only when accompanied by both @samp{<} (if the target machine has predecrement addressing) and @samp{>} (if the target machine has preincrement addressing). @cindex @samp{V} in constraint @item @samp{V} A memory operand that is not offsettable. In other words, anything that would fit the @samp{m} constraint but not the @samp{o} constraint. @cindex @samp{<} in constraint @item @samp{<} A memory operand with autodecrement addressing (either predecrement or postdecrement) is allowed. In inline @code{asm} this constraint is only allowed if the operand is used exactly once in an instruction that can handle the side-effects. Not using an operand with @samp{<} in constraint string in the inline @code{asm} pattern at all or using it in multiple instructions isn't valid, because the side-effects wouldn't be performed or would be performed more than once. Furthermore, on some targets the operand with @samp{<} in constraint string must be accompanied by special instruction suffixes like @code{%U0} instruction suffix on PowerPC or @code{%P0} on IA-64. @cindex @samp{>} in constraint @item @samp{>} A memory operand with autoincrement addressing (either preincrement or postincrement) is allowed. In inline @code{asm} the same restrictions as for @samp{<} apply. @cindex @samp{r} in constraint @cindex registers in constraints @item @samp{r} A register operand is allowed provided that it is in a general register. @cindex constants in constraints @cindex @samp{i} in constraint @item @samp{i} An immediate integer operand (one with constant value) is allowed. This includes symbolic constants whose values will be known only at assembly time or later. @cindex @samp{n} in constraint @item @samp{n} An immediate integer operand with a known numeric value is allowed. Many systems cannot support assembly-time constants for operands less than a word wide. Constraints for these operands should use @samp{n} rather than @samp{i}. @cindex @samp{I} in constraint @item @samp{I}, @samp{J}, @samp{K}, @dots{} @samp{P} Other letters in the range @samp{I} through @samp{P} may be defined in a machine-dependent fashion to permit immediate integer operands with explicit integer values in specified ranges. For example, on the 68000, @samp{I} is defined to stand for the range of values 1 to 8. This is the range permitted as a shift count in the shift instructions. @cindex @samp{E} in constraint @item @samp{E} An immediate floating operand (expression code @code{const_double}) is allowed, but only if the target floating point format is the same as that of the host machine (on which the compiler is running). @cindex @samp{F} in constraint @item @samp{F} An immediate floating operand (expression code @code{const_double} or @code{const_vector}) is allowed. @cindex @samp{G} in constraint @cindex @samp{H} in constraint @item @samp{G}, @samp{H} @samp{G} and @samp{H} may be defined in a machine-dependent fashion to permit immediate floating operands in particular ranges of values. @cindex @samp{s} in constraint @item @samp{s} An immediate integer operand whose value is not an explicit integer is allowed. This might appear strange; if an insn allows a constant operand with a value not known at compile time, it certainly must allow any known value. So why use @samp{s} instead of @samp{i}? Sometimes it allows better code to be generated. For example, on the 68000 in a fullword instruction it is possible to use an immediate operand; but if the immediate value is between @minus{}128 and 127, better code results from loading the value into a register and using the register. This is because the load into the register can be done with a @samp{moveq} instruction. We arrange for this to happen by defining the letter @samp{K} to mean ``any integer outside the range @minus{}128 to 127'', and then specifying @samp{Ks} in the operand constraints. @cindex @samp{g} in constraint @item @samp{g} Any register, memory or immediate integer operand is allowed, except for registers that are not general registers. @cindex @samp{X} in constraint @item @samp{X} @ifset INTERNALS Any operand whatsoever is allowed, even if it does not satisfy @code{general_operand}. This is normally used in the constraint of a @code{match_scratch} when certain alternatives will not actually require a scratch register. @end ifset @ifclear INTERNALS Any operand whatsoever is allowed. @end ifclear @cindex @samp{0} in constraint @cindex digits in constraint @item @samp{0}, @samp{1}, @samp{2}, @dots{} @samp{9} An operand that matches the specified operand number is allowed. If a digit is used together with letters within the same alternative, the digit should come last. This number is allowed to be more than a single digit. If multiple digits are encountered consecutively, they are interpreted as a single decimal integer. There is scant chance for ambiguity, since to-date it has never been desirable that @samp{10} be interpreted as matching either operand 1 @emph{or} operand 0. Should this be desired, one can use multiple alternatives instead. @cindex matching constraint @cindex constraint, matching This is called a @dfn{matching constraint} and what it really means is that the assembler has only a single operand that fills two roles @ifset INTERNALS considered separate in the RTL insn. For example, an add insn has two input operands and one output operand in the RTL, but on most CISC @end ifset @ifclear INTERNALS which @code{asm} distinguishes. For example, an add instruction uses two input operands and an output operand, but on most CISC @end ifclear machines an add instruction really has only two operands, one of them an input-output operand: @smallexample addl #35,r12 @end smallexample Matching constraints are used in these circumstances. More precisely, the two operands that match must include one input-only operand and one output-only operand. Moreover, the digit must be a smaller number than the number of the operand that uses it in the constraint. @ifset INTERNALS For operands to match in a particular case usually means that they are identical-looking RTL expressions. But in a few special cases specific kinds of dissimilarity are allowed. For example, @code{*x} as an input operand will match @code{*x++} as an output operand. For proper results in such cases, the output template should always use the output-operand's number when printing the operand. @end ifset @cindex load address instruction @cindex push address instruction @cindex address constraints @cindex @samp{p} in constraint @item @samp{p} An operand that is a valid memory address is allowed. This is for ``load address'' and ``push address'' instructions. @findex address_operand @samp{p} in the constraint must be accompanied by @code{address_operand} as the predicate in the @code{match_operand}. This predicate interprets the mode specified in the @code{match_operand} as the mode of the memory reference for which the address would be valid. @cindex other register constraints @cindex extensible constraints @item @var{other-letters} Other letters can be defined in machine-dependent fashion to stand for particular classes of registers or other arbitrary operand types. @samp{d}, @samp{a} and @samp{f} are defined on the 68000/68020 to stand for data, address and floating point registers. @end table @ifset INTERNALS In order to have valid assembler code, each operand must satisfy its constraint. But a failure to do so does not prevent the pattern from applying to an insn. Instead, it directs the compiler to modify the code so that the constraint will be satisfied. Usually this is done by copying an operand into a register. Contrast, therefore, the two instruction patterns that follow: @smallexample (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r") (plus:SI (match_dup 0) (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "r")))] "" "@dots{}") @end smallexample @noindent which has two operands, one of which must appear in two places, and @smallexample (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r") (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "0") (match_operand:SI 2 "general_operand" "r")))] "" "@dots{}") @end smallexample @noindent which has three operands, two of which are required by a constraint to be identical. If we are considering an insn of the form @smallexample (insn @var{n} @var{prev} @var{next} (set (reg:SI 3) (plus:SI (reg:SI 6) (reg:SI 109))) @dots{}) @end smallexample @noindent the first pattern would not apply at all, because this insn does not contain two identical subexpressions in the right place. The pattern would say, ``That does not look like an add instruction; try other patterns''. The second pattern would say, ``Yes, that's an add instruction, but there is something wrong with it''. It would direct the reload pass of the compiler to generate additional insns to make the constraint true. The results might look like this: @smallexample (insn @var{n2} @var{prev} @var{n} (set (reg:SI 3) (reg:SI 6)) @dots{}) (insn @var{n} @var{n2} @var{next} (set (reg:SI 3) (plus:SI (reg:SI 3) (reg:SI 109))) @dots{}) @end smallexample It is up to you to make sure that each operand, in each pattern, has constraints that can handle any RTL expression that could be present for that operand. (When multiple alternatives are in use, each pattern must, for each possible combination of operand expressions, have at least one alternative which can handle that combination of operands.) The constraints don't need to @emph{allow} any possible operand---when this is the case, they do not constrain---but they must at least point the way to reloading any possible operand so that it will fit. @itemize @bullet @item If the constraint accepts whatever operands the predicate permits, there is no problem: reloading is never necessary for this operand. For example, an operand whose constraints permit everything except registers is safe provided its predicate rejects registers. An operand whose predicate accepts only constant values is safe provided its constraints include the letter @samp{i}. If any possible constant value is accepted, then nothing less than @samp{i} will do; if the predicate is more selective, then the constraints may also be more selective. @item Any operand expression can be reloaded by copying it into a register. So if an operand's constraints allow some kind of register, it is certain to be safe. It need not permit all classes of registers; the compiler knows how to copy a register into another register of the proper class in order to make an instruction valid. @cindex nonoffsettable memory reference @cindex memory reference, nonoffsettable @item A nonoffsettable memory reference can be reloaded by copying the address into a register. So if the constraint uses the letter @samp{o}, all memory references are taken care of. @item A constant operand can be reloaded by allocating space in memory to hold it as preinitialized data. Then the memory reference can be used in place of the constant. So if the constraint uses the letters @samp{o} or @samp{m}, constant operands are not a problem. @item If the constraint permits a constant and a pseudo register used in an insn was not allocated to a hard register and is equivalent to a constant, the register will be replaced with the constant. If the predicate does not permit a constant and the insn is re-recognized for some reason, the compiler will crash. Thus the predicate must always recognize any objects allowed by the constraint. @end itemize If the operand's predicate can recognize registers, but the constraint does not permit them, it can make the compiler crash. When this operand happens to be a register, the reload pass will be stymied, because it does not know how to copy a register temporarily into memory. If the predicate accepts a unary operator, the constraint applies to the operand. For example, the MIPS processor at ISA level 3 supports an instruction which adds two registers in @code{SImode} to produce a @code{DImode} result, but only if the registers are correctly sign extended. This predicate for the input operands accepts a @code{sign_extend} of an @code{SImode} register. Write the constraint to indicate the type of register that is required for the operand of the @code{sign_extend}. @end ifset @node Multi-Alternative @subsection Multiple Alternative Constraints @cindex multiple alternative constraints Sometimes a single instruction has multiple alternative sets of possible operands. For example, on the 68000, a logical-or instruction can combine register or an immediate value into memory, or it can combine any kind of operand into a register; but it cannot combine one memory location into another. These constraints are represented as multiple alternatives. An alternative can be described by a series of letters for each operand. The overall constraint for an operand is made from the letters for this operand from the first alternative, a comma, the letters for this operand from the second alternative, a comma, and so on until the last alternative. @ifset INTERNALS Here is how it is done for fullword logical-or on the 68000: @smallexample (define_insn "iorsi3" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=m,d") (ior:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "%0,0") (match_operand:SI 2 "general_operand" "dKs,dmKs")))] @dots{}) @end smallexample The first alternative has @samp{m} (memory) for operand 0, @samp{0} for operand 1 (meaning it must match operand 0), and @samp{dKs} for operand 2. The second alternative has @samp{d} (data register) for operand 0, @samp{0} for operand 1, and @samp{dmKs} for operand 2. The @samp{=} and @samp{%} in the constraints apply to all the alternatives; their meaning is explained in the next section (@pxref{Class Preferences}). @end ifset @c FIXME Is this ? and ! stuff of use in asm()? If not, hide unless INTERNAL If all the operands fit any one alternative, the instruction is valid. Otherwise, for each alternative, the compiler counts how many instructions must be added to copy the operands so that that alternative applies. The alternative requiring the least copying is chosen. If two alternatives need the same amount of copying, the one that comes first is chosen. These choices can be altered with the @samp{?} and @samp{!} characters: @table @code @cindex @samp{?} in constraint @cindex question mark @item ? Disparage slightly the alternative that the @samp{?} appears in, as a choice when no alternative applies exactly. The compiler regards this alternative as one unit more costly for each @samp{?} that appears in it. @cindex @samp{!} in constraint @cindex exclamation point @item ! Disparage severely the alternative that the @samp{!} appears in. This alternative can still be used if it fits without reloading, but if reloading is needed, some other alternative will be used. @end table @ifset INTERNALS When an insn pattern has multiple alternatives in its constraints, often the appearance of the assembler code is determined mostly by which alternative was matched. When this is so, the C code for writing the assembler code can use the variable @code{which_alternative}, which is the ordinal number of the alternative that was actually satisfied (0 for the first, 1 for the second alternative, etc.). @xref{Output Statement}. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Class Preferences @subsection Register Class Preferences @cindex class preference constraints @cindex register class preference constraints @cindex voting between constraint alternatives The operand constraints have another function: they enable the compiler to decide which kind of hardware register a pseudo register is best allocated to. The compiler examines the constraints that apply to the insns that use the pseudo register, looking for the machine-dependent letters such as @samp{d} and @samp{a} that specify classes of registers. The pseudo register is put in whichever class gets the most ``votes''. The constraint letters @samp{g} and @samp{r} also vote: they vote in favor of a general register. The machine description says which registers are considered general. Of course, on some machines all registers are equivalent, and no register classes are defined. Then none of this complexity is relevant. @end ifset @node Modifiers @subsection Constraint Modifier Characters @cindex modifiers in constraints @cindex constraint modifier characters @c prevent bad page break with this line Here are constraint modifier characters. @table @samp @cindex @samp{=} in constraint @item = Means that this operand is write-only for this instruction: the previous value is discarded and replaced by output data. @cindex @samp{+} in constraint @item + Means that this operand is both read and written by the instruction. When the compiler fixes up the operands to satisfy the constraints, it needs to know which operands are inputs to the instruction and which are outputs from it. @samp{=} identifies an output; @samp{+} identifies an operand that is both input and output; all other operands are assumed to be input only. If you specify @samp{=} or @samp{+} in a constraint, you put it in the first character of the constraint string. @cindex @samp{&} in constraint @cindex earlyclobber operand @item & Means (in a particular alternative) that this operand is an @dfn{earlyclobber} operand, which is modified before the instruction is finished using the input operands. Therefore, this operand may not lie in a register that is used as an input operand or as part of any memory address. @samp{&} applies only to the alternative in which it is written. In constraints with multiple alternatives, sometimes one alternative requires @samp{&} while others do not. See, for example, the @samp{movdf} insn of the 68000. An input operand can be tied to an earlyclobber operand if its only use as an input occurs before the early result is written. Adding alternatives of this form often allows GCC to produce better code when only some of the inputs can be affected by the earlyclobber. See, for example, the @samp{mulsi3} insn of the ARM@. @samp{&} does not obviate the need to write @samp{=}. @cindex @samp{%} in constraint @item % Declares the instruction to be commutative for this operand and the following operand. This means that the compiler may interchange the two operands if that is the cheapest way to make all operands fit the constraints. @ifset INTERNALS This is often used in patterns for addition instructions that really have only two operands: the result must go in one of the arguments. Here for example, is how the 68000 halfword-add instruction is defined: @smallexample (define_insn "addhi3" [(set (match_operand:HI 0 "general_operand" "=m,r") (plus:HI (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand" "%0,0") (match_operand:HI 2 "general_operand" "di,g")))] @dots{}) @end smallexample @end ifset GCC can only handle one commutative pair in an asm; if you use more, the compiler may fail. Note that you need not use the modifier if the two alternatives are strictly identical; this would only waste time in the reload pass. The modifier is not operational after register allocation, so the result of @code{define_peephole2} and @code{define_split}s performed after reload cannot rely on @samp{%} to make the intended insn match. @cindex @samp{#} in constraint @item # Says that all following characters, up to the next comma, are to be ignored as a constraint. They are significant only for choosing register preferences. @cindex @samp{*} in constraint @item * Says that the following character should be ignored when choosing register preferences. @samp{*} has no effect on the meaning of the constraint as a constraint, and no effect on reloading. For LRA @samp{*} additionally disparages slightly the alternative if the following character matches the operand. @ifset INTERNALS Here is an example: the 68000 has an instruction to sign-extend a halfword in a data register, and can also sign-extend a value by copying it into an address register. While either kind of register is acceptable, the constraints on an address-register destination are less strict, so it is best if register allocation makes an address register its goal. Therefore, @samp{*} is used so that the @samp{d} constraint letter (for data register) is ignored when computing register preferences. @smallexample (define_insn "extendhisi2" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=*d,a") (sign_extend:SI (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand" "0,g")))] @dots{}) @end smallexample @end ifset @end table @node Machine Constraints @subsection Constraints for Particular Machines @cindex machine specific constraints @cindex constraints, machine specific Whenever possible, you should use the general-purpose constraint letters in @code{asm} arguments, since they will convey meaning more readily to people reading your code. Failing that, use the constraint letters that usually have very similar meanings across architectures. The most commonly used constraints are @samp{m} and @samp{r} (for memory and general-purpose registers respectively; @pxref{Simple Constraints}), and @samp{I}, usually the letter indicating the most common immediate-constant format. Each architecture defines additional constraints. These constraints are used by the compiler itself for instruction generation, as well as for @code{asm} statements; therefore, some of the constraints are not particularly useful for @code{asm}. Here is a summary of some of the machine-dependent constraints available on some particular machines; it includes both constraints that are useful for @code{asm} and constraints that aren't. The compiler source file mentioned in the table heading for each architecture is the definitive reference for the meanings of that architecture's constraints. @table @emph @item AArch64 family---@file{config/aarch64/constraints.md} @table @code @item k The stack pointer register (@code{SP}) @item w Floating point or SIMD vector register @item I Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in an @code{ADD} instruction @item J Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in a @code{SUB} instruction (once negated) @item K Integer constant that can be used with a 32-bit logical instruction @item L Integer constant that can be used with a 64-bit logical instruction @item M Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in a 32-bit @code{MOV} pseudo instruction. The @code{MOV} may be assembled to one of several different machine instructions depending on the value @item N Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in a 64-bit @code{MOV} pseudo instruction @item S An absolute symbolic address or a label reference @item Y Floating point constant zero @item Z Integer constant zero @item Ush The high part (bits 12 and upwards) of the pc-relative address of a symbol within 4GB of the instruction @item Q A memory address which uses a single base register with no offset @item Ump A memory address suitable for a load/store pair instruction in SI, DI, SF and DF modes @end table @item ARM family---@file{config/arm/constraints.md} @table @code @item w VFP floating-point register @item G The floating-point constant 0.0 @item I Integer that is valid as an immediate operand in a data processing instruction. That is, an integer in the range 0 to 255 rotated by a multiple of 2 @item J Integer in the range @minus{}4095 to 4095 @item K Integer that satisfies constraint @samp{I} when inverted (ones complement) @item L Integer that satisfies constraint @samp{I} when negated (twos complement) @item M Integer in the range 0 to 32 @item Q A memory reference where the exact address is in a single register (`@samp{m}' is preferable for @code{asm} statements) @item R An item in the constant pool @item S A symbol in the text segment of the current file @item Uv A memory reference suitable for VFP load/store insns (reg+constant offset) @item Uy A memory reference suitable for iWMMXt load/store instructions. @item Uq A memory reference suitable for the ARMv4 ldrsb instruction. @end table @item AVR family---@file{config/avr/constraints.md} @table @code @item l Registers from r0 to r15 @item a Registers from r16 to r23 @item d Registers from r16 to r31 @item w Registers from r24 to r31. These registers can be used in @samp{adiw} command @item e Pointer register (r26--r31) @item b Base pointer register (r28--r31) @item q Stack pointer register (SPH:SPL) @item t Temporary register r0 @item x Register pair X (r27:r26) @item y Register pair Y (r29:r28) @item z Register pair Z (r31:r30) @item I Constant greater than @minus{}1, less than 64 @item J Constant greater than @minus{}64, less than 1 @item K Constant integer 2 @item L Constant integer 0 @item M Constant that fits in 8 bits @item N Constant integer @minus{}1 @item O Constant integer 8, 16, or 24 @item P Constant integer 1 @item G A floating point constant 0.0 @item Q A memory address based on Y or Z pointer with displacement. @end table @item Epiphany---@file{config/epiphany/constraints.md} @table @code @item U16 An unsigned 16-bit constant. @item K An unsigned 5-bit constant. @item L A signed 11-bit constant. @item Cm1 A signed 11-bit constant added to @minus{}1. Can only match when the @option{-m1reg-@var{reg}} option is active. @item Cl1 Left-shift of @minus{}1, i.e., a bit mask with a block of leading ones, the rest being a block of trailing zeroes. Can only match when the @option{-m1reg-@var{reg}} option is active. @item Cr1 Right-shift of @minus{}1, i.e., a bit mask with a trailing block of ones, the rest being zeroes. Or to put it another way, one less than a power of two. Can only match when the @option{-m1reg-@var{reg}} option is active. @item Cal Constant for arithmetic/logical operations. This is like @code{i}, except that for position independent code, no symbols / expressions needing relocations are allowed. @item Csy Symbolic constant for call/jump instruction. @item Rcs The register class usable in short insns. This is a register class constraint, and can thus drive register allocation. This constraint won't match unless @option{-mprefer-short-insn-regs} is in effect. @item Rsc The the register class of registers that can be used to hold a sibcall call address. I.e., a caller-saved register. @item Rct Core control register class. @item Rgs The register group usable in short insns. This constraint does not use a register class, so that it only passively matches suitable registers, and doesn't drive register allocation. @ifset INTERNALS @item Car Constant suitable for the addsi3_r pattern. This is a valid offset For byte, halfword, or word addressing. @end ifset @item Rra Matches the return address if it can be replaced with the link register. @item Rcc Matches the integer condition code register. @item Sra Matches the return address if it is in a stack slot. @item Cfm Matches control register values to switch fp mode, which are encapsulated in @code{UNSPEC_FP_MODE}. @end table @item CR16 Architecture---@file{config/cr16/cr16.h} @table @code @item b Registers from r0 to r14 (registers without stack pointer) @item t Register from r0 to r11 (all 16-bit registers) @item p Register from r12 to r15 (all 32-bit registers) @item I Signed constant that fits in 4 bits @item J Signed constant that fits in 5 bits @item K Signed constant that fits in 6 bits @item L Unsigned constant that fits in 4 bits @item M Signed constant that fits in 32 bits @item N Check for 64 bits wide constants for add/sub instructions @item G Floating point constant that is legal for store immediate @end table @item Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC---@file{config/pa/pa.h} @table @code @item a General register 1 @item f Floating point register @item q Shift amount register @item x Floating point register (deprecated) @item y Upper floating point register (32-bit), floating point register (64-bit) @item Z Any register @item I Signed 11-bit integer constant @item J Signed 14-bit integer constant @item K Integer constant that can be deposited with a @code{zdepi} instruction @item L Signed 5-bit integer constant @item M Integer constant 0 @item N Integer constant that can be loaded with a @code{ldil} instruction @item O Integer constant whose value plus one is a power of 2 @item P Integer constant that can be used for @code{and} operations in @code{depi} and @code{extru} instructions @item S Integer constant 31 @item U Integer constant 63 @item G Floating-point constant 0.0 @item A A @code{lo_sum} data-linkage-table memory operand @item Q A memory operand that can be used as the destination operand of an integer store instruction @item R A scaled or unscaled indexed memory operand @item T A memory operand for floating-point loads and stores @item W A register indirect memory operand @end table @item picoChip family---@file{picochip.h} @table @code @item k Stack register. @item f Pointer register. A register which can be used to access memory without supplying an offset. Any other register can be used to access memory, but will need a constant offset. In the case of the offset being zero, it is more efficient to use a pointer register, since this reduces code size. @item t A twin register. A register which may be paired with an adjacent register to create a 32-bit register. @item a Any absolute memory address (e.g., symbolic constant, symbolic constant + offset). @item I 4-bit signed integer. @item J 4-bit unsigned integer. @item K 8-bit signed integer. @item M Any constant whose absolute value is no greater than 4-bits. @item N 10-bit signed integer @item O 16-bit signed integer. @end table @item PowerPC and IBM RS6000---@file{config/rs6000/constraints.md} @table @code @item b Address base register @item d Floating point register (containing 64-bit value) @item f Floating point register (containing 32-bit value) @item v Altivec vector register @item wa Any VSX register @item wd VSX vector register to hold vector double data @item wf VSX vector register to hold vector float data @item wg If @option{-mmfpgpr} was used, a floating point register @item wl If the LFIWAX instruction is enabled, a floating point register @item wm If direct moves are enabled, a VSX register. @item wn No register. @item wr General purpose register if 64-bit mode is used @item ws VSX vector register to hold scalar float data @item wt VSX vector register to hold 128 bit integer @item wx If the STFIWX instruction is enabled, a floating point register @item wz If the LFIWZX instruction is enabled, a floating point register @item wQ A memory address that will work with the @code{lq} and @code{stq} instructions. @item h @samp{MQ}, @samp{CTR}, or @samp{LINK} register @item q @samp{MQ} register @item c @samp{CTR} register @item l @samp{LINK} register @item x @samp{CR} register (condition register) number 0 @item y @samp{CR} register (condition register) @item z @samp{XER[CA]} carry bit (part of the XER register) @item I Signed 16-bit constant @item J Unsigned 16-bit constant shifted left 16 bits (use @samp{L} instead for @code{SImode} constants) @item K Unsigned 16-bit constant @item L Signed 16-bit constant shifted left 16 bits @item M Constant larger than 31 @item N Exact power of 2 @item O Zero @item P Constant whose negation is a signed 16-bit constant @item G Floating point constant that can be loaded into a register with one instruction per word @item H Integer/Floating point constant that can be loaded into a register using three instructions @item m Memory operand. Normally, @code{m} does not allow addresses that update the base register. If @samp{<} or @samp{>} constraint is also used, they are allowed and therefore on PowerPC targets in that case it is only safe to use @samp{m<>} in an @code{asm} statement if that @code{asm} statement accesses the operand exactly once. The @code{asm} statement must also use @samp{%U@var{}} as a placeholder for the ``update'' flag in the corresponding load or store instruction. For example: @smallexample asm ("st%U0 %1,%0" : "=m<>" (mem) : "r" (val)); @end smallexample is correct but: @smallexample asm ("st %1,%0" : "=m<>" (mem) : "r" (val)); @end smallexample is not. @item es A ``stable'' memory operand; that is, one which does not include any automodification of the base register. This used to be useful when @samp{m} allowed automodification of the base register, but as those are now only allowed when @samp{<} or @samp{>} is used, @samp{es} is basically the same as @samp{m} without @samp{<} and @samp{>}. @item Q Memory operand that is an offset from a register (it is usually better to use @samp{m} or @samp{es} in @code{asm} statements) @item Z Memory operand that is an indexed or indirect from a register (it is usually better to use @samp{m} or @samp{es} in @code{asm} statements) @item R AIX TOC entry @item a Address operand that is an indexed or indirect from a register (@samp{p} is preferable for @code{asm} statements) @item S Constant suitable as a 64-bit mask operand @item T Constant suitable as a 32-bit mask operand @item U System V Release 4 small data area reference @item t AND masks that can be performed by two rldic@{l, r@} instructions @item W Vector constant that does not require memory @item j Vector constant that is all zeros. @end table @item Intel 386---@file{config/i386/constraints.md} @table @code @item R Legacy register---the eight integer registers available on all i386 processors (@code{a}, @code{b}, @code{c}, @code{d}, @code{si}, @code{di}, @code{bp}, @code{sp}). @item q Any register accessible as @code{@var{r}l}. In 32-bit mode, @code{a}, @code{b}, @code{c}, and @code{d}; in 64-bit mode, any integer register. @item Q Any register accessible as @code{@var{r}h}: @code{a}, @code{b}, @code{c}, and @code{d}. @ifset INTERNALS @item l Any register that can be used as the index in a base+index memory access: that is, any general register except the stack pointer. @end ifset @item a The @code{a} register. @item b The @code{b} register. @item c The @code{c} register. @item d The @code{d} register. @item S The @code{si} register. @item D The @code{di} register. @item A The @code{a} and @code{d} registers. This class is used for instructions that return double word results in the @code{ax:dx} register pair. Single word values will be allocated either in @code{ax} or @code{dx}. For example on i386 the following implements @code{rdtsc}: @smallexample unsigned long long rdtsc (void) @{ unsigned long long tick; __asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc":"=A"(tick)); return tick; @} @end smallexample This is not correct on x86_64 as it would allocate tick in either @code{ax} or @code{dx}. You have to use the following variant instead: @smallexample unsigned long long rdtsc (void) @{ unsigned int tickl, tickh; __asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc":"=a"(tickl),"=d"(tickh)); return ((unsigned long long)tickh << 32)|tickl; @} @end smallexample @item f Any 80387 floating-point (stack) register. @item t Top of 80387 floating-point stack (@code{%st(0)}). @item u Second from top of 80387 floating-point stack (@code{%st(1)}). @item y Any MMX register. @item x Any SSE register. @item Yz First SSE register (@code{%xmm0}). @ifset INTERNALS @item Y2 Any SSE register, when SSE2 is enabled. @item Yi Any SSE register, when SSE2 and inter-unit moves are enabled. @item Ym Any MMX register, when inter-unit moves are enabled. @end ifset @item I Integer constant in the range 0 @dots{} 31, for 32-bit shifts. @item J Integer constant in the range 0 @dots{} 63, for 64-bit shifts. @item K Signed 8-bit integer constant. @item L @code{0xFF} or @code{0xFFFF}, for andsi as a zero-extending move. @item M 0, 1, 2, or 3 (shifts for the @code{lea} instruction). @item N Unsigned 8-bit integer constant (for @code{in} and @code{out} instructions). @ifset INTERNALS @item O Integer constant in the range 0 @dots{} 127, for 128-bit shifts. @end ifset @item G Standard 80387 floating point constant. @item C Standard SSE floating point constant. @item e 32-bit signed integer constant, or a symbolic reference known to fit that range (for immediate operands in sign-extending x86-64 instructions). @item Z 32-bit unsigned integer constant, or a symbolic reference known to fit that range (for immediate operands in zero-extending x86-64 instructions). @end table @item Intel IA-64---@file{config/ia64/ia64.h} @table @code @item a General register @code{r0} to @code{r3} for @code{addl} instruction @item b Branch register @item c Predicate register (@samp{c} as in ``conditional'') @item d Application register residing in M-unit @item e Application register residing in I-unit @item f Floating-point register @item m Memory operand. If used together with @samp{<} or @samp{>}, the operand can have postincrement and postdecrement which require printing with @samp{%Pn} on IA-64. @item G Floating-point constant 0.0 or 1.0 @item I 14-bit signed integer constant @item J 22-bit signed integer constant @item K 8-bit signed integer constant for logical instructions @item L 8-bit adjusted signed integer constant for compare pseudo-ops @item M 6-bit unsigned integer constant for shift counts @item N 9-bit signed integer constant for load and store postincrements @item O The constant zero @item P 0 or @minus{}1 for @code{dep} instruction @item Q Non-volatile memory for floating-point loads and stores @item R Integer constant in the range 1 to 4 for @code{shladd} instruction @item S Memory operand except postincrement and postdecrement. This is now roughly the same as @samp{m} when not used together with @samp{<} or @samp{>}. @end table @item FRV---@file{config/frv/frv.h} @table @code @item a Register in the class @code{ACC_REGS} (@code{acc0} to @code{acc7}). @item b Register in the class @code{EVEN_ACC_REGS} (@code{acc0} to @code{acc7}). @item c Register in the class @code{CC_REGS} (@code{fcc0} to @code{fcc3} and @code{icc0} to @code{icc3}). @item d Register in the class @code{GPR_REGS} (@code{gr0} to @code{gr63}). @item e Register in the class @code{EVEN_REGS} (@code{gr0} to @code{gr63}). Odd registers are excluded not in the class but through the use of a machine mode larger than 4 bytes. @item f Register in the class @code{FPR_REGS} (@code{fr0} to @code{fr63}). @item h Register in the class @code{FEVEN_REGS} (@code{fr0} to @code{fr63}). Odd registers are excluded not in the class but through the use of a machine mode larger than 4 bytes. @item l Register in the class @code{LR_REG} (the @code{lr} register). @item q Register in the class @code{QUAD_REGS} (@code{gr2} to @code{gr63}). Register numbers not divisible by 4 are excluded not in the class but through the use of a machine mode larger than 8 bytes. @item t Register in the class @code{ICC_REGS} (@code{icc0} to @code{icc3}). @item u Register in the class @code{FCC_REGS} (@code{fcc0} to @code{fcc3}). @item v Register in the class @code{ICR_REGS} (@code{cc4} to @code{cc7}). @item w Register in the class @code{FCR_REGS} (@code{cc0} to @code{cc3}). @item x Register in the class @code{QUAD_FPR_REGS} (@code{fr0} to @code{fr63}). Register numbers not divisible by 4 are excluded not in the class but through the use of a machine mode larger than 8 bytes. @item z Register in the class @code{SPR_REGS} (@code{lcr} and @code{lr}). @item A Register in the class @code{QUAD_ACC_REGS} (@code{acc0} to @code{acc7}). @item B Register in the class @code{ACCG_REGS} (@code{accg0} to @code{accg7}). @item C Register in the class @code{CR_REGS} (@code{cc0} to @code{cc7}). @item G Floating point constant zero @item I 6-bit signed integer constant @item J 10-bit signed integer constant @item L 16-bit signed integer constant @item M 16-bit unsigned integer constant @item N 12-bit signed integer constant that is negative---i.e.@: in the range of @minus{}2048 to @minus{}1 @item O Constant zero @item P 12-bit signed integer constant that is greater than zero---i.e.@: in the range of 1 to 2047. @end table @item Blackfin family---@file{config/bfin/constraints.md} @table @code @item a P register @item d D register @item z A call clobbered P register. @item q@var{n} A single register. If @var{n} is in the range 0 to 7, the corresponding D register. If it is @code{A}, then the register P0. @item D Even-numbered D register @item W Odd-numbered D register @item e Accumulator register. @item A Even-numbered accumulator register. @item B Odd-numbered accumulator register. @item b I register @item v B register @item f M register @item c Registers used for circular buffering, i.e. I, B, or L registers. @item C The CC register. @item t LT0 or LT1. @item k LC0 or LC1. @item u LB0 or LB1. @item x Any D, P, B, M, I or L register. @item y Additional registers typically used only in prologues and epilogues: RETS, RETN, RETI, RETX, RETE, ASTAT, SEQSTAT and USP. @item w Any register except accumulators or CC. @item Ksh Signed 16 bit integer (in the range @minus{}32768 to 32767) @item Kuh Unsigned 16 bit integer (in the range 0 to 65535) @item Ks7 Signed 7 bit integer (in the range @minus{}64 to 63) @item Ku7 Unsigned 7 bit integer (in the range 0 to 127) @item Ku5 Unsigned 5 bit integer (in the range 0 to 31) @item Ks4 Signed 4 bit integer (in the range @minus{}8 to 7) @item Ks3 Signed 3 bit integer (in the range @minus{}3 to 4) @item Ku3 Unsigned 3 bit integer (in the range 0 to 7) @item P@var{n} Constant @var{n}, where @var{n} is a single-digit constant in the range 0 to 4. @item PA An integer equal to one of the MACFLAG_XXX constants that is suitable for use with either accumulator. @item PB An integer equal to one of the MACFLAG_XXX constants that is suitable for use only with accumulator A1. @item M1 Constant 255. @item M2 Constant 65535. @item J An integer constant with exactly a single bit set. @item L An integer constant with all bits set except exactly one. @item H @item Q Any SYMBOL_REF. @end table @item M32C---@file{config/m32c/m32c.c} @table @code @item Rsp @itemx Rfb @itemx Rsb @samp{$sp}, @samp{$fb}, @samp{$sb}. @item Rcr Any control register, when they're 16 bits wide (nothing if control registers are 24 bits wide) @item Rcl Any control register, when they're 24 bits wide. @item R0w @itemx R1w @itemx R2w @itemx R3w $r0, $r1, $r2, $r3. @item R02 $r0 or $r2, or $r2r0 for 32 bit values. @item R13 $r1 or $r3, or $r3r1 for 32 bit values. @item Rdi A register that can hold a 64 bit value. @item Rhl $r0 or $r1 (registers with addressable high/low bytes) @item R23 $r2 or $r3 @item Raa Address registers @item Raw Address registers when they're 16 bits wide. @item Ral Address registers when they're 24 bits wide. @item Rqi Registers that can hold QI values. @item Rad Registers that can be used with displacements ($a0, $a1, $sb). @item Rsi Registers that can hold 32 bit values. @item Rhi Registers that can hold 16 bit values. @item Rhc Registers chat can hold 16 bit values, including all control registers. @item Rra $r0 through R1, plus $a0 and $a1. @item Rfl The flags register. @item Rmm The memory-based pseudo-registers $mem0 through $mem15. @item Rpi Registers that can hold pointers (16 bit registers for r8c, m16c; 24 bit registers for m32cm, m32c). @item Rpa Matches multiple registers in a PARALLEL to form a larger register. Used to match function return values. @item Is3 @minus{}8 @dots{} 7 @item IS1 @minus{}128 @dots{} 127 @item IS2 @minus{}32768 @dots{} 32767 @item IU2 0 @dots{} 65535 @item In4 @minus{}8 @dots{} @minus{}1 or 1 @dots{} 8 @item In5 @minus{}16 @dots{} @minus{}1 or 1 @dots{} 16 @item In6 @minus{}32 @dots{} @minus{}1 or 1 @dots{} 32 @item IM2 @minus{}65536 @dots{} @minus{}1 @item Ilb An 8 bit value with exactly one bit set. @item Ilw A 16 bit value with exactly one bit set. @item Sd The common src/dest memory addressing modes. @item Sa Memory addressed using $a0 or $a1. @item Si Memory addressed with immediate addresses. @item Ss Memory addressed using the stack pointer ($sp). @item Sf Memory addressed using the frame base register ($fb). @item Ss Memory addressed using the small base register ($sb). @item S1 $r1h @end table @item MeP---@file{config/mep/constraints.md} @table @code @item a The $sp register. @item b The $tp register. @item c Any control register. @item d Either the $hi or the $lo register. @item em Coprocessor registers that can be directly loaded ($c0-$c15). @item ex Coprocessor registers that can be moved to each other. @item er Coprocessor registers that can be moved to core registers. @item h The $hi register. @item j The $rpc register. @item l The $lo register. @item t Registers which can be used in $tp-relative addressing. @item v The $gp register. @item x The coprocessor registers. @item y The coprocessor control registers. @item z The $0 register. @item A User-defined register set A. @item B User-defined register set B. @item C User-defined register set C. @item D User-defined register set D. @item I Offsets for $gp-rel addressing. @item J Constants that can be used directly with boolean insns. @item K Constants that can be moved directly to registers. @item L Small constants that can be added to registers. @item M Long shift counts. @item N Small constants that can be compared to registers. @item O Constants that can be loaded into the top half of registers. @item S Signed 8-bit immediates. @item T Symbols encoded for $tp-rel or $gp-rel addressing. @item U Non-constant addresses for loading/saving coprocessor registers. @item W The top half of a symbol's value. @item Y A register indirect address without offset. @item Z Symbolic references to the control bus. @end table @item MicroBlaze---@file{config/microblaze/constraints.md} @table @code @item d A general register (@code{r0} to @code{r31}). @item z A status register (@code{rmsr}, @code{$fcc1} to @code{$fcc7}). @end table @item MIPS---@file{config/mips/constraints.md} @table @code @item d An address register. This is equivalent to @code{r} unless generating MIPS16 code. @item f A floating-point register (if available). @item h Formerly the @code{hi} register. This constraint is no longer supported. @item l The @code{lo} register. Use this register to store values that are no bigger than a word. @item x The concatenated @code{hi} and @code{lo} registers. Use this register to store doubleword values. @item c A register suitable for use in an indirect jump. This will always be @code{$25} for @option{-mabicalls}. @item v Register @code{$3}. Do not use this constraint in new code; it is retained only for compatibility with glibc. @item y Equivalent to @code{r}; retained for backwards compatibility. @item z A floating-point condition code register. @item I A signed 16-bit constant (for arithmetic instructions). @item J Integer zero. @item K An unsigned 16-bit constant (for logic instructions). @item L A signed 32-bit constant in which the lower 16 bits are zero. Such constants can be loaded using @code{lui}. @item M A constant that cannot be loaded using @code{lui}, @code{addiu} or @code{ori}. @item N A constant in the range @minus{}65535 to @minus{}1 (inclusive). @item O A signed 15-bit constant. @item P A constant in the range 1 to 65535 (inclusive). @item G Floating-point zero. @item R An address that can be used in a non-macro load or store. @item ZC When compiling microMIPS code, this constraint matches a memory operand whose address is formed from a base register and a 12-bit offset. These operands can be used for microMIPS instructions such as @code{ll} and @code{sc}. When not compiling for microMIPS code, @code{ZC} is equivalent to @code{R}. @item ZD When compiling microMIPS code, this constraint matches an address operand that is formed from a base register and a 12-bit offset. These operands can be used for microMIPS instructions such as @code{prefetch}. When not compiling for microMIPS code, @code{ZD} is equivalent to @code{p}. @end table @item Motorola 680x0---@file{config/m68k/constraints.md} @table @code @item a Address register @item d Data register @item f 68881 floating-point register, if available @item I Integer in the range 1 to 8 @item J 16-bit signed number @item K Signed number whose magnitude is greater than 0x80 @item L Integer in the range @minus{}8 to @minus{}1 @item M Signed number whose magnitude is greater than 0x100 @item N Range 24 to 31, rotatert:SI 8 to 1 expressed as rotate @item O 16 (for rotate using swap) @item P Range 8 to 15, rotatert:HI 8 to 1 expressed as rotate @item R Numbers that mov3q can handle @item G Floating point constant that is not a 68881 constant @item S Operands that satisfy 'm' when -mpcrel is in effect @item T Operands that satisfy 's' when -mpcrel is not in effect @item Q Address register indirect addressing mode @item U Register offset addressing @item W const_call_operand @item Cs symbol_ref or const @item Ci const_int @item C0 const_int 0 @item Cj Range of signed numbers that don't fit in 16 bits @item Cmvq Integers valid for mvq @item Capsw Integers valid for a moveq followed by a swap @item Cmvz Integers valid for mvz @item Cmvs Integers valid for mvs @item Ap push_operand @item Ac Non-register operands allowed in clr @end table @item Moxie---@file{config/moxie/constraints.md} @table @code @item A An absolute address @item B An offset address @item W A register indirect memory operand @item I A constant in the range of 0 to 255. @item N A constant in the range of 0 to @minus{}255. @end table @item PDP-11---@file{config/pdp11/constraints.md} @table @code @item a Floating point registers AC0 through AC3. These can be loaded from/to memory with a single instruction. @item d Odd numbered general registers (R1, R3, R5). These are used for 16-bit multiply operations. @item f Any of the floating point registers (AC0 through AC5). @item G Floating point constant 0. @item I An integer constant that fits in 16 bits. @item J An integer constant whose low order 16 bits are zero. @item K An integer constant that does not meet the constraints for codes @samp{I} or @samp{J}. @item L The integer constant 1. @item M The integer constant @minus{}1. @item N The integer constant 0. @item O Integer constants @minus{}4 through @minus{}1 and 1 through 4; shifts by these amounts are handled as multiple single-bit shifts rather than a single variable-length shift. @item Q A memory reference which requires an additional word (address or offset) after the opcode. @item R A memory reference that is encoded within the opcode. @end table @item RL78---@file{config/rl78/constraints.md} @table @code @item Int3 An integer constant in the range 1 @dots{} 7. @item Int8 An integer constant in the range 0 @dots{} 255. @item J An integer constant in the range @minus{}255 @dots{} 0 @item K The integer constant 1. @item L The integer constant -1. @item M The integer constant 0. @item N The integer constant 2. @item O The integer constant -2. @item P An integer constant in the range 1 @dots{} 15. @item Qbi The built-in compare types--eq, ne, gtu, ltu, geu, and leu. @item Qsc The synthetic compare types--gt, lt, ge, and le. @item Wab A memory reference with an absolute address. @item Wbc A memory reference using @code{BC} as a base register, with an optional offset. @item Wca A memory reference using @code{AX}, @code{BC}, @code{DE}, or @code{HL} for the address, for calls. @item Wcv A memory reference using any 16-bit register pair for the address, for calls. @item Wd2 A memory reference using @code{DE} as a base register, with an optional offset. @item Wde A memory reference using @code{DE} as a base register, without any offset. @item Wfr Any memory reference to an address in the far address space. @item Wh1 A memory reference using @code{HL} as a base register, with an optional one-byte offset. @item Whb A memory reference using @code{HL} as a base register, with @code{B} or @code{C} as the index register. @item Whl A memory reference using @code{HL} as a base register, without any offset. @item Ws1 A memory reference using @code{SP} as a base register, with an optional one-byte offset. @item Y Any memory reference to an address in the near address space. @item A The @code{AX} register. @item B The @code{BC} register. @item D The @code{DE} register. @item R @code{A} through @code{L} registers. @item S The @code{SP} register. @item T The @code{HL} register. @item Z08W The 16-bit @code{R8} register. @item Z10W The 16-bit @code{R10} register. @item Zint The registers reserved for interrupts (@code{R24} to @code{R31}). @item a The @code{A} register. @item b The @code{B} register. @item c The @code{C} register. @item d The @code{D} register. @item e The @code{E} register. @item h The @code{H} register. @item l The @code{L} register. @item v The virtual registers. @item w The @code{PSW} register. @item x The @code{X} register. @end table @item RX---@file{config/rx/constraints.md} @table @code @item Q An address which does not involve register indirect addressing or pre/post increment/decrement addressing. @item Symbol A symbol reference. @item Int08 A constant in the range @minus{}256 to 255, inclusive. @item Sint08 A constant in the range @minus{}128 to 127, inclusive. @item Sint16 A constant in the range @minus{}32768 to 32767, inclusive. @item Sint24 A constant in the range @minus{}8388608 to 8388607, inclusive. @item Uint04 A constant in the range 0 to 15, inclusive. @end table @need 1000 @item SPARC---@file{config/sparc/sparc.h} @table @code @item f Floating-point register on the SPARC-V8 architecture and lower floating-point register on the SPARC-V9 architecture. @item e Floating-point register. It is equivalent to @samp{f} on the SPARC-V8 architecture and contains both lower and upper floating-point registers on the SPARC-V9 architecture. @item c Floating-point condition code register. @item d Lower floating-point register. It is only valid on the SPARC-V9 architecture when the Visual Instruction Set is available. @item b Floating-point register. It is only valid on the SPARC-V9 architecture when the Visual Instruction Set is available. @item h 64-bit global or out register for the SPARC-V8+ architecture. @item C The constant all-ones, for floating-point. @item A Signed 5-bit constant @item D A vector constant @item I Signed 13-bit constant @item J Zero @item K 32-bit constant with the low 12 bits clear (a constant that can be loaded with the @code{sethi} instruction) @item L A constant in the range supported by @code{movcc} instructions (11-bit signed immediate) @item M A constant in the range supported by @code{movrcc} instructions (10-bit signed immediate) @item N Same as @samp{K}, except that it verifies that bits that are not in the lower 32-bit range are all zero. Must be used instead of @samp{K} for modes wider than @code{SImode} @item O The constant 4096 @item G Floating-point zero @item H Signed 13-bit constant, sign-extended to 32 or 64 bits @item P The constant -1 @item Q Floating-point constant whose integral representation can be moved into an integer register using a single sethi instruction @item R Floating-point constant whose integral representation can be moved into an integer register using a single mov instruction @item S Floating-point constant whose integral representation can be moved into an integer register using a high/lo_sum instruction sequence @item T Memory address aligned to an 8-byte boundary @item U Even register @item W Memory address for @samp{e} constraint registers @item w Memory address with only a base register @item Y Vector zero @end table @item SPU---@file{config/spu/spu.h} @table @code @item a An immediate which can be loaded with the il/ila/ilh/ilhu instructions. const_int is treated as a 64 bit value. @item c An immediate for and/xor/or instructions. const_int is treated as a 64 bit value. @item d An immediate for the @code{iohl} instruction. const_int is treated as a 64 bit value. @item f An immediate which can be loaded with @code{fsmbi}. @item A An immediate which can be loaded with the il/ila/ilh/ilhu instructions. const_int is treated as a 32 bit value. @item B An immediate for most arithmetic instructions. const_int is treated as a 32 bit value. @item C An immediate for and/xor/or instructions. const_int is treated as a 32 bit value. @item D An immediate for the @code{iohl} instruction. const_int is treated as a 32 bit value. @item I A constant in the range [@minus{}64, 63] for shift/rotate instructions. @item J An unsigned 7-bit constant for conversion/nop/channel instructions. @item K A signed 10-bit constant for most arithmetic instructions. @item M A signed 16 bit immediate for @code{stop}. @item N An unsigned 16-bit constant for @code{iohl} and @code{fsmbi}. @item O An unsigned 7-bit constant whose 3 least significant bits are 0. @item P An unsigned 3-bit constant for 16-byte rotates and shifts @item R Call operand, reg, for indirect calls @item S Call operand, symbol, for relative calls. @item T Call operand, const_int, for absolute calls. @item U An immediate which can be loaded with the il/ila/ilh/ilhu instructions. const_int is sign extended to 128 bit. @item W An immediate for shift and rotate instructions. const_int is treated as a 32 bit value. @item Y An immediate for and/xor/or instructions. const_int is sign extended as a 128 bit. @item Z An immediate for the @code{iohl} instruction. const_int is sign extended to 128 bit. @end table @item S/390 and zSeries---@file{config/s390/s390.h} @table @code @item a Address register (general purpose register except r0) @item c Condition code register @item d Data register (arbitrary general purpose register) @item f Floating-point register @item I Unsigned 8-bit constant (0--255) @item J Unsigned 12-bit constant (0--4095) @item K Signed 16-bit constant (@minus{}32768--32767) @item L Value appropriate as displacement. @table @code @item (0..4095) for short displacement @item (@minus{}524288..524287) for long displacement @end table @item M Constant integer with a value of 0x7fffffff. @item N Multiple letter constraint followed by 4 parameter letters. @table @code @item 0..9: number of the part counting from most to least significant @item H,Q: mode of the part @item D,S,H: mode of the containing operand @item 0,F: value of the other parts (F---all bits set) @end table The constraint matches if the specified part of a constant has a value different from its other parts. @item Q Memory reference without index register and with short displacement. @item R Memory reference with index register and short displacement. @item S Memory reference without index register but with long displacement. @item T Memory reference with index register and long displacement. @item U Pointer with short displacement. @item W Pointer with long displacement. @item Y Shift count operand. @end table @item Score family---@file{config/score/score.h} @table @code @item d Registers from r0 to r32. @item e Registers from r0 to r16. @item t r8---r11 or r22---r27 registers. @item h hi register. @item l lo register. @item x hi + lo register. @item q cnt register. @item y lcb register. @item z scb register. @item a cnt + lcb + scb register. @item c cr0---cr15 register. @item b cp1 registers. @item f cp2 registers. @item i cp3 registers. @item j cp1 + cp2 + cp3 registers. @item I High 16-bit constant (32-bit constant with 16 LSBs zero). @item J Unsigned 5 bit integer (in the range 0 to 31). @item K Unsigned 16 bit integer (in the range 0 to 65535). @item L Signed 16 bit integer (in the range @minus{}32768 to 32767). @item M Unsigned 14 bit integer (in the range 0 to 16383). @item N Signed 14 bit integer (in the range @minus{}8192 to 8191). @item Z Any SYMBOL_REF. @end table @item Xstormy16---@file{config/stormy16/stormy16.h} @table @code @item a Register r0. @item b Register r1. @item c Register r2. @item d Register r8. @item e Registers r0 through r7. @item t Registers r0 and r1. @item y The carry register. @item z Registers r8 and r9. @item I A constant between 0 and 3 inclusive. @item J A constant that has exactly one bit set. @item K A constant that has exactly one bit clear. @item L A constant between 0 and 255 inclusive. @item M A constant between @minus{}255 and 0 inclusive. @item N A constant between @minus{}3 and 0 inclusive. @item O A constant between 1 and 4 inclusive. @item P A constant between @minus{}4 and @minus{}1 inclusive. @item Q A memory reference that is a stack push. @item R A memory reference that is a stack pop. @item S A memory reference that refers to a constant address of known value. @item T The register indicated by Rx (not implemented yet). @item U A constant that is not between 2 and 15 inclusive. @item Z The constant 0. @end table @item TI C6X family---@file{config/c6x/constraints.md} @table @code @item a Register file A (A0--A31). @item b Register file B (B0--B31). @item A Predicate registers in register file A (A0--A2 on C64X and higher, A1 and A2 otherwise). @item B Predicate registers in register file B (B0--B2). @item C A call-used register in register file B (B0--B9, B16--B31). @item Da Register file A, excluding predicate registers (A3--A31, plus A0 if not C64X or higher). @item Db Register file B, excluding predicate registers (B3--B31). @item Iu4 Integer constant in the range 0 @dots{} 15. @item Iu5 Integer constant in the range 0 @dots{} 31. @item In5 Integer constant in the range @minus{}31 @dots{} 0. @item Is5 Integer constant in the range @minus{}16 @dots{} 15. @item I5x Integer constant that can be the operand of an ADDA or a SUBA insn. @item IuB Integer constant in the range 0 @dots{} 65535. @item IsB Integer constant in the range @minus{}32768 @dots{} 32767. @item IsC Integer constant in the range @math{-2^{20}} @dots{} @math{2^{20} - 1}. @item Jc Integer constant that is a valid mask for the clr instruction. @item Js Integer constant that is a valid mask for the set instruction. @item Q Memory location with A base register. @item R Memory location with B base register. @ifset INTERNALS @item S0 On C64x+ targets, a GP-relative small data reference. @item S1 Any kind of @code{SYMBOL_REF}, for use in a call address. @item Si Any kind of immediate operand, unless it matches the S0 constraint. @item T Memory location with B base register, but not using a long offset. @item W A memory operand with an address that can't be used in an unaligned access. @end ifset @item Z Register B14 (aka DP). @end table @item TILE-Gx---@file{config/tilegx/constraints.md} @table @code @item R00 @itemx R01 @itemx R02 @itemx R03 @itemx R04 @itemx R05 @itemx R06 @itemx R07 @itemx R08 @itemx R09 @itemx R10 Each of these represents a register constraint for an individual register, from r0 to r10. @item I Signed 8-bit integer constant. @item J Signed 16-bit integer constant. @item K Unsigned 16-bit integer constant. @item L Integer constant that fits in one signed byte when incremented by one (@minus{}129 @dots{} 126). @item m Memory operand. If used together with @samp{<} or @samp{>}, the operand can have postincrement which requires printing with @samp{%In} and @samp{%in} on TILE-Gx. For example: @smallexample asm ("st_add %I0,%1,%i0" : "=m<>" (*mem) : "r" (val)); @end smallexample @item M A bit mask suitable for the BFINS instruction. @item N Integer constant that is a byte tiled out eight times. @item O The integer zero constant. @item P Integer constant that is a sign-extended byte tiled out as four shorts. @item Q Integer constant that fits in one signed byte when incremented (@minus{}129 @dots{} 126), but excluding -1. @item S Integer constant that has all 1 bits consecutive and starting at bit 0. @item T A 16-bit fragment of a got, tls, or pc-relative reference. @item U Memory operand except postincrement. This is roughly the same as @samp{m} when not used together with @samp{<} or @samp{>}. @item W An 8-element vector constant with identical elements. @item Y A 4-element vector constant with identical elements. @item Z0 The integer constant 0xffffffff. @item Z1 The integer constant 0xffffffff00000000. @end table @item TILEPro---@file{config/tilepro/constraints.md} @table @code @item R00 @itemx R01 @itemx R02 @itemx R03 @itemx R04 @itemx R05 @itemx R06 @itemx R07 @itemx R08 @itemx R09 @itemx R10 Each of these represents a register constraint for an individual register, from r0 to r10. @item I Signed 8-bit integer constant. @item J Signed 16-bit integer constant. @item K Nonzero integer constant with low 16 bits zero. @item L Integer constant that fits in one signed byte when incremented by one (@minus{}129 @dots{} 126). @item m Memory operand. If used together with @samp{<} or @samp{>}, the operand can have postincrement which requires printing with @samp{%In} and @samp{%in} on TILEPro. For example: @smallexample asm ("swadd %I0,%1,%i0" : "=m<>" (mem) : "r" (val)); @end smallexample @item M A bit mask suitable for the MM instruction. @item N Integer constant that is a byte tiled out four times. @item O The integer zero constant. @item P Integer constant that is a sign-extended byte tiled out as two shorts. @item Q Integer constant that fits in one signed byte when incremented (@minus{}129 @dots{} 126), but excluding -1. @item T A symbolic operand, or a 16-bit fragment of a got, tls, or pc-relative reference. @item U Memory operand except postincrement. This is roughly the same as @samp{m} when not used together with @samp{<} or @samp{>}. @item W A 4-element vector constant with identical elements. @item Y A 2-element vector constant with identical elements. @end table @item Xtensa---@file{config/xtensa/constraints.md} @table @code @item a General-purpose 32-bit register @item b One-bit boolean register @item A MAC16 40-bit accumulator register @item I Signed 12-bit integer constant, for use in MOVI instructions @item J Signed 8-bit integer constant, for use in ADDI instructions @item K Integer constant valid for BccI instructions @item L Unsigned constant valid for BccUI instructions @end table @end table @ifset INTERNALS @node Disable Insn Alternatives @subsection Disable insn alternatives using the @code{enabled} attribute @cindex enabled The @code{enabled} insn attribute may be used to disable certain insn alternatives for machine-specific reasons. This is useful when adding new instructions to an existing pattern which are only available for certain cpu architecture levels as specified with the @code{-march=} option. If an insn alternative is disabled, then it will never be used. The compiler treats the constraints for the disabled alternative as unsatisfiable. In order to make use of the @code{enabled} attribute a back end has to add in the machine description files: @enumerate @item A definition of the @code{enabled} insn attribute. The attribute is defined as usual using the @code{define_attr} command. This definition should be based on other insn attributes and/or target flags. The @code{enabled} attribute is a numeric attribute and should evaluate to @code{(const_int 1)} for an enabled alternative and to @code{(const_int 0)} otherwise. @item A definition of another insn attribute used to describe for what reason an insn alternative might be available or not. E.g. @code{cpu_facility} as in the example below. @item An assignment for the second attribute to each insn definition combining instructions which are not all available under the same circumstances. (Note: It obviously only makes sense for definitions with more than one alternative. Otherwise the insn pattern should be disabled or enabled using the insn condition.) @end enumerate E.g. the following two patterns could easily be merged using the @code{enabled} attribute: @smallexample (define_insn "*movdi_old" [(set (match_operand:DI 0 "register_operand" "=d") (match_operand:DI 1 "register_operand" " d"))] "!TARGET_NEW" "lgr %0,%1") (define_insn "*movdi_new" [(set (match_operand:DI 0 "register_operand" "=d,f,d") (match_operand:DI 1 "register_operand" " d,d,f"))] "TARGET_NEW" "@@ lgr %0,%1 ldgr %0,%1 lgdr %0,%1") @end smallexample to: @smallexample (define_insn "*movdi_combined" [(set (match_operand:DI 0 "register_operand" "=d,f,d") (match_operand:DI 1 "register_operand" " d,d,f"))] "" "@@ lgr %0,%1 ldgr %0,%1 lgdr %0,%1" [(set_attr "cpu_facility" "*,new,new")]) @end smallexample with the @code{enabled} attribute defined like this: @smallexample (define_attr "cpu_facility" "standard,new" (const_string "standard")) (define_attr "enabled" "" (cond [(eq_attr "cpu_facility" "standard") (const_int 1) (and (eq_attr "cpu_facility" "new") (ne (symbol_ref "TARGET_NEW") (const_int 0))) (const_int 1)] (const_int 0))) @end smallexample @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Define Constraints @subsection Defining Machine-Specific Constraints @cindex defining constraints @cindex constraints, defining Machine-specific constraints fall into two categories: register and non-register constraints. Within the latter category, constraints which allow subsets of all possible memory or address operands should be specially marked, to give @code{reload} more information. Machine-specific constraints can be given names of arbitrary length, but they must be entirely composed of letters, digits, underscores (@samp{_}), and angle brackets (@samp{< >}). Like C identifiers, they must begin with a letter or underscore. In order to avoid ambiguity in operand constraint strings, no constraint can have a name that begins with any other constraint's name. For example, if @code{x} is defined as a constraint name, @code{xy} may not be, and vice versa. As a consequence of this rule, no constraint may begin with one of the generic constraint letters: @samp{E F V X g i m n o p r s}. Register constraints correspond directly to register classes. @xref{Register Classes}. There is thus not much flexibility in their definitions. @deffn {MD Expression} define_register_constraint name regclass docstring All three arguments are string constants. @var{name} is the name of the constraint, as it will appear in @code{match_operand} expressions. If @var{name} is a multi-letter constraint its length shall be the same for all constraints starting with the same letter. @var{regclass} can be either the name of the corresponding register class (@pxref{Register Classes}), or a C expression which evaluates to the appropriate register class. If it is an expression, it must have no side effects, and it cannot look at the operand. The usual use of expressions is to map some register constraints to @code{NO_REGS} when the register class is not available on a given subarchitecture. @var{docstring} is a sentence documenting the meaning of the constraint. Docstrings are explained further below. @end deffn Non-register constraints are more like predicates: the constraint definition gives a Boolean expression which indicates whether the constraint matches. @deffn {MD Expression} define_constraint name docstring exp The @var{name} and @var{docstring} arguments are the same as for @code{define_register_constraint}, but note that the docstring comes immediately after the name for these expressions. @var{exp} is an RTL expression, obeying the same rules as the RTL expressions in predicate definitions. @xref{Defining Predicates}, for details. If it evaluates true, the constraint matches; if it evaluates false, it doesn't. Constraint expressions should indicate which RTL codes they might match, just like predicate expressions. @code{match_test} C expressions have access to the following variables: @table @var @item op The RTL object defining the operand. @item mode The machine mode of @var{op}. @item ival @samp{INTVAL (@var{op})}, if @var{op} is a @code{const_int}. @item hval @samp{CONST_DOUBLE_HIGH (@var{op})}, if @var{op} is an integer @code{const_double}. @item lval @samp{CONST_DOUBLE_LOW (@var{op})}, if @var{op} is an integer @code{const_double}. @item rval @samp{CONST_DOUBLE_REAL_VALUE (@var{op})}, if @var{op} is a floating-point @code{const_double}. @end table The @var{*val} variables should only be used once another piece of the expression has verified that @var{op} is the appropriate kind of RTL object. @end deffn Most non-register constraints should be defined with @code{define_constraint}. The remaining two definition expressions are only appropriate for constraints that should be handled specially by @code{reload} if they fail to match. @deffn {MD Expression} define_memory_constraint name docstring exp Use this expression for constraints that match a subset of all memory operands: that is, @code{reload} can make them match by converting the operand to the form @samp{@w{(mem (reg @var{X}))}}, where @var{X} is a base register (from the register class specified by @code{BASE_REG_CLASS}, @pxref{Register Classes}). For example, on the S/390, some instructions do not accept arbitrary memory references, but only those that do not make use of an index register. The constraint letter @samp{Q} is defined to represent a memory address of this type. If @samp{Q} is defined with @code{define_memory_constraint}, a @samp{Q} constraint can handle any memory operand, because @code{reload} knows it can simply copy the memory address into a base register if required. This is analogous to the way an @samp{o} constraint can handle any memory operand. The syntax and semantics are otherwise identical to @code{define_constraint}. @end deffn @deffn {MD Expression} define_address_constraint name docstring exp Use this expression for constraints that match a subset of all address operands: that is, @code{reload} can make the constraint match by converting the operand to the form @samp{@w{(reg @var{X})}}, again with @var{X} a base register. Constraints defined with @code{define_address_constraint} can only be used with the @code{address_operand} predicate, or machine-specific predicates that work the same way. They are treated analogously to the generic @samp{p} constraint. The syntax and semantics are otherwise identical to @code{define_constraint}. @end deffn For historical reasons, names beginning with the letters @samp{G H} are reserved for constraints that match only @code{const_double}s, and names beginning with the letters @samp{I J K L M N O P} are reserved for constraints that match only @code{const_int}s. This may change in the future. For the time being, constraints with these names must be written in a stylized form, so that @code{genpreds} can tell you did it correctly: @smallexample @group (define_constraint "[@var{GHIJKLMNOP}]@dots{}" "@var{doc}@dots{}" (and (match_code "const_int") ; @r{@code{const_double} for G/H} @var{condition}@dots{})) ; @r{usually a @code{match_test}} @end group @end smallexample @c the semicolons line up in the formatted manual It is fine to use names beginning with other letters for constraints that match @code{const_double}s or @code{const_int}s. Each docstring in a constraint definition should be one or more complete sentences, marked up in Texinfo format. @emph{They are currently unused.} In the future they will be copied into the GCC manual, in @ref{Machine Constraints}, replacing the hand-maintained tables currently found in that section. Also, in the future the compiler may use this to give more helpful diagnostics when poor choice of @code{asm} constraints causes a reload failure. If you put the pseudo-Texinfo directive @samp{@@internal} at the beginning of a docstring, then (in the future) it will appear only in the internals manual's version of the machine-specific constraint tables. Use this for constraints that should not appear in @code{asm} statements. @node C Constraint Interface @subsection Testing constraints from C @cindex testing constraints @cindex constraints, testing It is occasionally useful to test a constraint from C code rather than implicitly via the constraint string in a @code{match_operand}. The generated file @file{tm_p.h} declares a few interfaces for working with machine-specific constraints. None of these interfaces work with the generic constraints described in @ref{Simple Constraints}. This may change in the future. @strong{Warning:} @file{tm_p.h} may declare other functions that operate on constraints, besides the ones documented here. Do not use those functions from machine-dependent code. They exist to implement the old constraint interface that machine-independent components of the compiler still expect. They will change or disappear in the future. Some valid constraint names are not valid C identifiers, so there is a mangling scheme for referring to them from C@. Constraint names that do not contain angle brackets or underscores are left unchanged. Underscores are doubled, each @samp{<} is replaced with @samp{_l}, and each @samp{>} with @samp{_g}. Here are some examples: @c the @c's prevent double blank lines in the printed manual. @example @multitable {Original} {Mangled} @item @strong{Original} @tab @strong{Mangled} @c @item @code{x} @tab @code{x} @c @item @code{P42x} @tab @code{P42x} @c @item @code{P4_x} @tab @code{P4__x} @c @item @code{P4>x} @tab @code{P4_gx} @c @item @code{P4>>} @tab @code{P4_g_g} @c @item @code{P4_g>} @tab @code{P4__g_g} @c @end multitable @end example Throughout this section, the variable @var{c} is either a constraint in the abstract sense, or a constant from @code{enum constraint_num}; the variable @var{m} is a mangled constraint name (usually as part of a larger identifier). @deftp Enum constraint_num For each machine-specific constraint, there is a corresponding enumeration constant: @samp{CONSTRAINT_} plus the mangled name of the constraint. Functions that take an @code{enum constraint_num} as an argument expect one of these constants. Machine-independent constraints do not have associated constants. This may change in the future. @end deftp @deftypefun {inline bool} satisfies_constraint_@var{m} (rtx @var{exp}) For each machine-specific, non-register constraint @var{m}, there is one of these functions; it returns @code{true} if @var{exp} satisfies the constraint. These functions are only visible if @file{rtl.h} was included before @file{tm_p.h}. @end deftypefun @deftypefun bool constraint_satisfied_p (rtx @var{exp}, enum constraint_num @var{c}) Like the @code{satisfies_constraint_@var{m}} functions, but the constraint to test is given as an argument, @var{c}. If @var{c} specifies a register constraint, this function will always return @code{false}. @end deftypefun @deftypefun {enum reg_class} regclass_for_constraint (enum constraint_num @var{c}) Returns the register class associated with @var{c}. If @var{c} is not a register constraint, or those registers are not available for the currently selected subtarget, returns @code{NO_REGS}. @end deftypefun Here is an example use of @code{satisfies_constraint_@var{m}}. In peephole optimizations (@pxref{Peephole Definitions}), operand constraint strings are ignored, so if there are relevant constraints, they must be tested in the C condition. In the example, the optimization is applied if operand 2 does @emph{not} satisfy the @samp{K} constraint. (This is a simplified version of a peephole definition from the i386 machine description.) @smallexample (define_peephole2 [(match_scratch:SI 3 "r") (set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "") (mult:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "memory_operand" "") (match_operand:SI 2 "immediate_operand" "")))] "!satisfies_constraint_K (operands[2])" [(set (match_dup 3) (match_dup 1)) (set (match_dup 0) (mult:SI (match_dup 3) (match_dup 2)))] "") @end smallexample @node Standard Names @section Standard Pattern Names For Generation @cindex standard pattern names @cindex pattern names @cindex names, pattern Here is a table of the instruction names that are meaningful in the RTL generation pass of the compiler. Giving one of these names to an instruction pattern tells the RTL generation pass that it can use the pattern to accomplish a certain task. @table @asis @cindex @code{mov@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{mov@var{m}} Here @var{m} stands for a two-letter machine mode name, in lowercase. This instruction pattern moves data with that machine mode from operand 1 to operand 0. For example, @samp{movsi} moves full-word data. If operand 0 is a @code{subreg} with mode @var{m} of a register whose own mode is wider than @var{m}, the effect of this instruction is to store the specified value in the part of the register that corresponds to mode @var{m}. Bits outside of @var{m}, but which are within the same target word as the @code{subreg} are undefined. Bits which are outside the target word are left unchanged. This class of patterns is special in several ways. First of all, each of these names up to and including full word size @emph{must} be defined, because there is no other way to copy a datum from one place to another. If there are patterns accepting operands in larger modes, @samp{mov@var{m}} must be defined for integer modes of those sizes. Second, these patterns are not used solely in the RTL generation pass. Even the reload pass can generate move insns to copy values from stack slots into temporary registers. When it does so, one of the operands is a hard register and the other is an operand that can need to be reloaded into a register. @findex force_reg Therefore, when given such a pair of operands, the pattern must generate RTL which needs no reloading and needs no temporary registers---no registers other than the operands. For example, if you support the pattern with a @code{define_expand}, then in such a case the @code{define_expand} mustn't call @code{force_reg} or any other such function which might generate new pseudo registers. This requirement exists even for subword modes on a RISC machine where fetching those modes from memory normally requires several insns and some temporary registers. @findex change_address During reload a memory reference with an invalid address may be passed as an operand. Such an address will be replaced with a valid address later in the reload pass. In this case, nothing may be done with the address except to use it as it stands. If it is copied, it will not be replaced with a valid address. No attempt should be made to make such an address into a valid address and no routine (such as @code{change_address}) that will do so may be called. Note that @code{general_operand} will fail when applied to such an address. @findex reload_in_progress The global variable @code{reload_in_progress} (which must be explicitly declared if required) can be used to determine whether such special handling is required. The variety of operands that have reloads depends on the rest of the machine description, but typically on a RISC machine these can only be pseudo registers that did not get hard registers, while on other machines explicit memory references will get optional reloads. If a scratch register is required to move an object to or from memory, it can be allocated using @code{gen_reg_rtx} prior to life analysis. If there are cases which need scratch registers during or after reload, you must provide an appropriate secondary_reload target hook. @findex can_create_pseudo_p The macro @code{can_create_pseudo_p} can be used to determine if it is unsafe to create new pseudo registers. If this variable is nonzero, then it is unsafe to call @code{gen_reg_rtx} to allocate a new pseudo. The constraints on a @samp{mov@var{m}} must permit moving any hard register to any other hard register provided that @code{HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK} permits mode @var{m} in both registers and @code{TARGET_REGISTER_MOVE_COST} applied to their classes returns a value of 2. It is obligatory to support floating point @samp{mov@var{m}} instructions into and out of any registers that can hold fixed point values, because unions and structures (which have modes @code{SImode} or @code{DImode}) can be in those registers and they may have floating point members. There may also be a need to support fixed point @samp{mov@var{m}} instructions in and out of floating point registers. Unfortunately, I have forgotten why this was so, and I don't know whether it is still true. If @code{HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK} rejects fixed point values in floating point registers, then the constraints of the fixed point @samp{mov@var{m}} instructions must be designed to avoid ever trying to reload into a floating point register. @cindex @code{reload_in} instruction pattern @cindex @code{reload_out} instruction pattern @item @samp{reload_in@var{m}} @itemx @samp{reload_out@var{m}} These named patterns have been obsoleted by the target hook @code{secondary_reload}. Like @samp{mov@var{m}}, but used when a scratch register is required to move between operand 0 and operand 1. Operand 2 describes the scratch register. See the discussion of the @code{SECONDARY_RELOAD_CLASS} macro in @pxref{Register Classes}. There are special restrictions on the form of the @code{match_operand}s used in these patterns. First, only the predicate for the reload operand is examined, i.e., @code{reload_in} examines operand 1, but not the predicates for operand 0 or 2. Second, there may be only one alternative in the constraints. Third, only a single register class letter may be used for the constraint; subsequent constraint letters are ignored. As a special exception, an empty constraint string matches the @code{ALL_REGS} register class. This may relieve ports of the burden of defining an @code{ALL_REGS} constraint letter just for these patterns. @cindex @code{movstrict@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{movstrict@var{m}} Like @samp{mov@var{m}} except that if operand 0 is a @code{subreg} with mode @var{m} of a register whose natural mode is wider, the @samp{movstrict@var{m}} instruction is guaranteed not to alter any of the register except the part which belongs to mode @var{m}. @cindex @code{movmisalign@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{movmisalign@var{m}} This variant of a move pattern is designed to load or store a value from a memory address that is not naturally aligned for its mode. For a store, the memory will be in operand 0; for a load, the memory will be in operand 1. The other operand is guaranteed not to be a memory, so that it's easy to tell whether this is a load or store. This pattern is used by the autovectorizer, and when expanding a @code{MISALIGNED_INDIRECT_REF} expression. @cindex @code{load_multiple} instruction pattern @item @samp{load_multiple} Load several consecutive memory locations into consecutive registers. Operand 0 is the first of the consecutive registers, operand 1 is the first memory location, and operand 2 is a constant: the number of consecutive registers. Define this only if the target machine really has such an instruction; do not define this if the most efficient way of loading consecutive registers from memory is to do them one at a time. On some machines, there are restrictions as to which consecutive registers can be stored into memory, such as particular starting or ending register numbers or only a range of valid counts. For those machines, use a @code{define_expand} (@pxref{Expander Definitions}) and make the pattern fail if the restrictions are not met. Write the generated insn as a @code{parallel} with elements being a @code{set} of one register from the appropriate memory location (you may also need @code{use} or @code{clobber} elements). Use a @code{match_parallel} (@pxref{RTL Template}) to recognize the insn. See @file{rs6000.md} for examples of the use of this insn pattern. @cindex @samp{store_multiple} instruction pattern @item @samp{store_multiple} Similar to @samp{load_multiple}, but store several consecutive registers into consecutive memory locations. Operand 0 is the first of the consecutive memory locations, operand 1 is the first register, and operand 2 is a constant: the number of consecutive registers. @cindex @code{vec_load_lanes@var{m}@var{n}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_load_lanes@var{m}@var{n}} Perform an interleaved load of several vectors from memory operand 1 into register operand 0. Both operands have mode @var{m}. The register operand is viewed as holding consecutive vectors of mode @var{n}, while the memory operand is a flat array that contains the same number of elements. The operation is equivalent to: @smallexample int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (@var{m}) / GET_MODE_SIZE (@var{n}); for (j = 0; j < GET_MODE_NUNITS (@var{n}); j++) for (i = 0; i < c; i++) operand0[i][j] = operand1[j * c + i]; @end smallexample For example, @samp{vec_load_lanestiv4hi} loads 8 16-bit values from memory into a register of mode @samp{TI}@. The register contains two consecutive vectors of mode @samp{V4HI}@. This pattern can only be used if: @smallexample TARGET_ARRAY_MODE_SUPPORTED_P (@var{n}, @var{c}) @end smallexample is true. GCC assumes that, if a target supports this kind of instruction for some mode @var{n}, it also supports unaligned loads for vectors of mode @var{n}. @cindex @code{vec_store_lanes@var{m}@var{n}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_store_lanes@var{m}@var{n}} Equivalent to @samp{vec_load_lanes@var{m}@var{n}}, with the memory and register operands reversed. That is, the instruction is equivalent to: @smallexample int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (@var{m}) / GET_MODE_SIZE (@var{n}); for (j = 0; j < GET_MODE_NUNITS (@var{n}); j++) for (i = 0; i < c; i++) operand0[j * c + i] = operand1[i][j]; @end smallexample for a memory operand 0 and register operand 1. @cindex @code{vec_set@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_set@var{m}} Set given field in the vector value. Operand 0 is the vector to modify, operand 1 is new value of field and operand 2 specify the field index. @cindex @code{vec_extract@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_extract@var{m}} Extract given field from the vector value. Operand 1 is the vector, operand 2 specify field index and operand 0 place to store value into. @cindex @code{vec_init@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_init@var{m}} Initialize the vector to given values. Operand 0 is the vector to initialize and operand 1 is parallel containing values for individual fields. @cindex @code{vcond@var{m}@var{n}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vcond@var{m}@var{n}} Output a conditional vector move. Operand 0 is the destination to receive a combination of operand 1 and operand 2, which are of mode @var{m}, dependent on the outcome of the predicate in operand 3 which is a vector comparison with operands of mode @var{n} in operands 4 and 5. The modes @var{m} and @var{n} should have the same size. Operand 0 will be set to the value @var{op1} & @var{msk} | @var{op2} & ~@var{msk} where @var{msk} is computed by element-wise evaluation of the vector comparison with a truth value of all-ones and a false value of all-zeros. @cindex @code{vec_perm@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_perm@var{m}} Output a (variable) vector permutation. Operand 0 is the destination to receive elements from operand 1 and operand 2, which are of mode @var{m}. Operand 3 is the @dfn{selector}. It is an integral mode vector of the same width and number of elements as mode @var{m}. The input elements are numbered from 0 in operand 1 through @math{2*@var{N}-1} in operand 2. The elements of the selector must be computed modulo @math{2*@var{N}}. Note that if @code{rtx_equal_p(operand1, operand2)}, this can be implemented with just operand 1 and selector elements modulo @var{N}. In order to make things easy for a number of targets, if there is no @samp{vec_perm} pattern for mode @var{m}, but there is for mode @var{q} where @var{q} is a vector of @code{QImode} of the same width as @var{m}, the middle-end will lower the mode @var{m} @code{VEC_PERM_EXPR} to mode @var{q}. @cindex @code{vec_perm_const@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_perm_const@var{m}} Like @samp{vec_perm} except that the permutation is a compile-time constant. That is, operand 3, the @dfn{selector}, is a @code{CONST_VECTOR}. Some targets cannot perform a permutation with a variable selector, but can efficiently perform a constant permutation. Further, the target hook @code{vec_perm_ok} is queried to determine if the specific constant permutation is available efficiently; the named pattern is never expanded without @code{vec_perm_ok} returning true. There is no need for a target to supply both @samp{vec_perm@var{m}} and @samp{vec_perm_const@var{m}} if the former can trivially implement the operation with, say, the vector constant loaded into a register. @cindex @code{push@var{m}1} instruction pattern @item @samp{push@var{m}1} Output a push instruction. Operand 0 is value to push. Used only when @code{PUSH_ROUNDING} is defined. For historical reason, this pattern may be missing and in such case an @code{mov} expander is used instead, with a @code{MEM} expression forming the push operation. The @code{mov} expander method is deprecated. @cindex @code{add@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{add@var{m}3} Add operand 2 and operand 1, storing the result in operand 0. All operands must have mode @var{m}. This can be used even on two-address machines, by means of constraints requiring operands 1 and 0 to be the same location. @cindex @code{ssadd@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{usadd@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sub@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sssub@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{ussub@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{mul@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{ssmul@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{usmul@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{div@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{ssdiv@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{udiv@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{usdiv@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{mod@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{umod@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{umin@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{umax@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{and@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{ior@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{xor@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{ssadd@var{m}3}, @samp{usadd@var{m}3} @itemx @samp{sub@var{m}3}, @samp{sssub@var{m}3}, @samp{ussub@var{m}3} @itemx @samp{mul@var{m}3}, @samp{ssmul@var{m}3}, @samp{usmul@var{m}3} @itemx @samp{div@var{m}3}, @samp{ssdiv@var{m}3} @itemx @samp{udiv@var{m}3}, @samp{usdiv@var{m}3} @itemx @samp{mod@var{m}3}, @samp{umod@var{m}3} @itemx @samp{umin@var{m}3}, @samp{umax@var{m}3} @itemx @samp{and@var{m}3}, @samp{ior@var{m}3}, @samp{xor@var{m}3} Similar, for other arithmetic operations. @cindex @code{fma@var{m}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{fma@var{m}4} Multiply operand 2 and operand 1, then add operand 3, storing the result in operand 0 without doing an intermediate rounding step. All operands must have mode @var{m}. This pattern is used to implement the @code{fma}, @code{fmaf}, and @code{fmal} builtin functions from the ISO C99 standard. @cindex @code{fms@var{m}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{fms@var{m}4} Like @code{fma@var{m}4}, except operand 3 subtracted from the product instead of added to the product. This is represented in the rtl as @smallexample (fma:@var{m} @var{op1} @var{op2} (neg:@var{m} @var{op3})) @end smallexample @cindex @code{fnma@var{m}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{fnma@var{m}4} Like @code{fma@var{m}4} except that the intermediate product is negated before being added to operand 3. This is represented in the rtl as @smallexample (fma:@var{m} (neg:@var{m} @var{op1}) @var{op2} @var{op3}) @end smallexample @cindex @code{fnms@var{m}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{fnms@var{m}4} Like @code{fms@var{m}4} except that the intermediate product is negated before subtracting operand 3. This is represented in the rtl as @smallexample (fma:@var{m} (neg:@var{m} @var{op1}) @var{op2} (neg:@var{m} @var{op3})) @end smallexample @cindex @code{min@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{max@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{smin@var{m}3}, @samp{smax@var{m}3} Signed minimum and maximum operations. When used with floating point, if both operands are zeros, or if either operand is @code{NaN}, then it is unspecified which of the two operands is returned as the result. @cindex @code{reduc_smin_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{reduc_smax_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{reduc_smin_@var{m}}, @samp{reduc_smax_@var{m}} Find the signed minimum/maximum of the elements of a vector. The vector is operand 1, and the scalar result is stored in the least significant bits of operand 0 (also a vector). The output and input vector should have the same modes. @cindex @code{reduc_umin_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{reduc_umax_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{reduc_umin_@var{m}}, @samp{reduc_umax_@var{m}} Find the unsigned minimum/maximum of the elements of a vector. The vector is operand 1, and the scalar result is stored in the least significant bits of operand 0 (also a vector). The output and input vector should have the same modes. @cindex @code{reduc_splus_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{reduc_splus_@var{m}} Compute the sum of the signed elements of a vector. The vector is operand 1, and the scalar result is stored in the least significant bits of operand 0 (also a vector). The output and input vector should have the same modes. @cindex @code{reduc_uplus_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{reduc_uplus_@var{m}} Compute the sum of the unsigned elements of a vector. The vector is operand 1, and the scalar result is stored in the least significant bits of operand 0 (also a vector). The output and input vector should have the same modes. @cindex @code{sdot_prod@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{sdot_prod@var{m}} @cindex @code{udot_prod@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{udot_prod@var{m}} Compute the sum of the products of two signed/unsigned elements. Operand 1 and operand 2 are of the same mode. Their product, which is of a wider mode, is computed and added to operand 3. Operand 3 is of a mode equal or wider than the mode of the product. The result is placed in operand 0, which is of the same mode as operand 3. @cindex @code{ssum_widen@var{m3}} instruction pattern @item @samp{ssum_widen@var{m3}} @cindex @code{usum_widen@var{m3}} instruction pattern @item @samp{usum_widen@var{m3}} Operands 0 and 2 are of the same mode, which is wider than the mode of operand 1. Add operand 1 to operand 2 and place the widened result in operand 0. (This is used express accumulation of elements into an accumulator of a wider mode.) @cindex @code{vec_shl_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_shr_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_shl_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_shr_@var{m}} Whole vector left/right shift in bits. Operand 1 is a vector to be shifted. Operand 2 is an integer shift amount in bits. Operand 0 is where the resulting shifted vector is stored. The output and input vectors should have the same modes. @cindex @code{vec_pack_trunc_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_pack_trunc_@var{m}} Narrow (demote) and merge the elements of two vectors. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors of the same mode having N integral or floating point elements of size S@. Operand 0 is the resulting vector in which 2*N elements of size N/2 are concatenated after narrowing them down using truncation. @cindex @code{vec_pack_ssat_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_pack_usat_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_pack_ssat_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_pack_usat_@var{m}} Narrow (demote) and merge the elements of two vectors. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors of the same mode having N integral elements of size S. Operand 0 is the resulting vector in which the elements of the two input vectors are concatenated after narrowing them down using signed/unsigned saturating arithmetic. @cindex @code{vec_pack_sfix_trunc_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_pack_ufix_trunc_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_pack_sfix_trunc_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_pack_ufix_trunc_@var{m}} Narrow, convert to signed/unsigned integral type and merge the elements of two vectors. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors of the same mode having N floating point elements of size S@. Operand 0 is the resulting vector in which 2*N elements of size N/2 are concatenated. @cindex @code{vec_unpacks_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_unpacks_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_unpacks_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_unpacks_lo_@var{m}} Extract and widen (promote) the high/low part of a vector of signed integral or floating point elements. The input vector (operand 1) has N elements of size S@. Widen (promote) the high/low elements of the vector using signed or floating point extension and place the resulting N/2 values of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0). @cindex @code{vec_unpacku_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_unpacku_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_unpacku_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_unpacku_lo_@var{m}} Extract and widen (promote) the high/low part of a vector of unsigned integral elements. The input vector (operand 1) has N elements of size S. Widen (promote) the high/low elements of the vector using zero extension and place the resulting N/2 values of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0). @cindex @code{vec_unpacks_float_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_unpacks_float_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_unpacku_float_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_unpacku_float_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_unpacks_float_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_unpacks_float_lo_@var{m}} @itemx @samp{vec_unpacku_float_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_unpacku_float_lo_@var{m}} Extract, convert to floating point type and widen the high/low part of a vector of signed/unsigned integral elements. The input vector (operand 1) has N elements of size S@. Convert the high/low elements of the vector using floating point conversion and place the resulting N/2 values of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0). @cindex @code{vec_widen_umult_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_umult_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_smult_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_smult_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_umult_even_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_umult_odd_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_smult_even_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_smult_odd_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_widen_umult_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_widen_umult_lo_@var{m}} @itemx @samp{vec_widen_smult_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_widen_smult_lo_@var{m}} @itemx @samp{vec_widen_umult_even_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_widen_umult_odd_@var{m}} @itemx @samp{vec_widen_smult_even_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_widen_smult_odd_@var{m}} Signed/Unsigned widening multiplication. The two inputs (operands 1 and 2) are vectors with N signed/unsigned elements of size S@. Multiply the high/low or even/odd elements of the two vectors, and put the N/2 products of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0). @cindex @code{vec_widen_ushiftl_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_ushiftl_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_sshiftl_hi_@var{m}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vec_widen_sshiftl_lo_@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{vec_widen_ushiftl_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_widen_ushiftl_lo_@var{m}} @itemx @samp{vec_widen_sshiftl_hi_@var{m}}, @samp{vec_widen_sshiftl_lo_@var{m}} Signed/Unsigned widening shift left. The first input (operand 1) is a vector with N signed/unsigned elements of size S@. Operand 2 is a constant. Shift the high/low elements of operand 1, and put the N/2 results of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0). @cindex @code{mulhisi3} instruction pattern @item @samp{mulhisi3} Multiply operands 1 and 2, which have mode @code{HImode}, and store a @code{SImode} product in operand 0. @cindex @code{mulqihi3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{mulsidi3} instruction pattern @item @samp{mulqihi3}, @samp{mulsidi3} Similar widening-multiplication instructions of other widths. @cindex @code{umulqihi3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{umulhisi3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{umulsidi3} instruction pattern @item @samp{umulqihi3}, @samp{umulhisi3}, @samp{umulsidi3} Similar widening-multiplication instructions that do unsigned multiplication. @cindex @code{usmulqihi3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{usmulhisi3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{usmulsidi3} instruction pattern @item @samp{usmulqihi3}, @samp{usmulhisi3}, @samp{usmulsidi3} Similar widening-multiplication instructions that interpret the first operand as unsigned and the second operand as signed, then do a signed multiplication. @cindex @code{smul@var{m}3_highpart} instruction pattern @item @samp{smul@var{m}3_highpart} Perform a signed multiplication of operands 1 and 2, which have mode @var{m}, and store the most significant half of the product in operand 0. The least significant half of the product is discarded. @cindex @code{umul@var{m}3_highpart} instruction pattern @item @samp{umul@var{m}3_highpart} Similar, but the multiplication is unsigned. @cindex @code{madd@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{madd@var{m}@var{n}4} Multiply operands 1 and 2, sign-extend them to mode @var{n}, add operand 3, and store the result in operand 0. Operands 1 and 2 have mode @var{m} and operands 0 and 3 have mode @var{n}. Both modes must be integer or fixed-point modes and @var{n} must be twice the size of @var{m}. In other words, @code{madd@var{m}@var{n}4} is like @code{mul@var{m}@var{n}3} except that it also adds operand 3. These instructions are not allowed to @code{FAIL}. @cindex @code{umadd@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{umadd@var{m}@var{n}4} Like @code{madd@var{m}@var{n}4}, but zero-extend the multiplication operands instead of sign-extending them. @cindex @code{ssmadd@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{ssmadd@var{m}@var{n}4} Like @code{madd@var{m}@var{n}4}, but all involved operations must be signed-saturating. @cindex @code{usmadd@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{usmadd@var{m}@var{n}4} Like @code{umadd@var{m}@var{n}4}, but all involved operations must be unsigned-saturating. @cindex @code{msub@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{msub@var{m}@var{n}4} Multiply operands 1 and 2, sign-extend them to mode @var{n}, subtract the result from operand 3, and store the result in operand 0. Operands 1 and 2 have mode @var{m} and operands 0 and 3 have mode @var{n}. Both modes must be integer or fixed-point modes and @var{n} must be twice the size of @var{m}. In other words, @code{msub@var{m}@var{n}4} is like @code{mul@var{m}@var{n}3} except that it also subtracts the result from operand 3. These instructions are not allowed to @code{FAIL}. @cindex @code{umsub@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{umsub@var{m}@var{n}4} Like @code{msub@var{m}@var{n}4}, but zero-extend the multiplication operands instead of sign-extending them. @cindex @code{ssmsub@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{ssmsub@var{m}@var{n}4} Like @code{msub@var{m}@var{n}4}, but all involved operations must be signed-saturating. @cindex @code{usmsub@var{m}@var{n}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{usmsub@var{m}@var{n}4} Like @code{umsub@var{m}@var{n}4}, but all involved operations must be unsigned-saturating. @cindex @code{divmod@var{m}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{divmod@var{m}4} Signed division that produces both a quotient and a remainder. Operand 1 is divided by operand 2 to produce a quotient stored in operand 0 and a remainder stored in operand 3. For machines with an instruction that produces both a quotient and a remainder, provide a pattern for @samp{divmod@var{m}4} but do not provide patterns for @samp{div@var{m}3} and @samp{mod@var{m}3}. This allows optimization in the relatively common case when both the quotient and remainder are computed. If an instruction that just produces a quotient or just a remainder exists and is more efficient than the instruction that produces both, write the output routine of @samp{divmod@var{m}4} to call @code{find_reg_note} and look for a @code{REG_UNUSED} note on the quotient or remainder and generate the appropriate instruction. @cindex @code{udivmod@var{m}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{udivmod@var{m}4} Similar, but does unsigned division. @anchor{shift patterns} @cindex @code{ashl@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{ssashl@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{usashl@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{ashl@var{m}3}, @samp{ssashl@var{m}3}, @samp{usashl@var{m}3} Arithmetic-shift operand 1 left by a number of bits specified by operand 2, and store the result in operand 0. Here @var{m} is the mode of operand 0 and operand 1; operand 2's mode is specified by the instruction pattern, and the compiler will convert the operand to that mode before generating the instruction. The meaning of out-of-range shift counts can optionally be specified by @code{TARGET_SHIFT_TRUNCATION_MASK}. @xref{TARGET_SHIFT_TRUNCATION_MASK}. Operand 2 is always a scalar type. @cindex @code{ashr@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{lshr@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{rotl@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{rotr@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{ashr@var{m}3}, @samp{lshr@var{m}3}, @samp{rotl@var{m}3}, @samp{rotr@var{m}3} Other shift and rotate instructions, analogous to the @code{ashl@var{m}3} instructions. Operand 2 is always a scalar type. @cindex @code{vashl@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vashr@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vlshr@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vrotl@var{m}3} instruction pattern @cindex @code{vrotr@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{vashl@var{m}3}, @samp{vashr@var{m}3}, @samp{vlshr@var{m}3}, @samp{vrotl@var{m}3}, @samp{vrotr@var{m}3} Vector shift and rotate instructions that take vectors as operand 2 instead of a scalar type. @cindex @code{bswap@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{bswap@var{m}2} Reverse the order of bytes of operand 1 and store the result in operand 0. @cindex @code{neg@var{m}2} instruction pattern @cindex @code{ssneg@var{m}2} instruction pattern @cindex @code{usneg@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{neg@var{m}2}, @samp{ssneg@var{m}2}, @samp{usneg@var{m}2} Negate operand 1 and store the result in operand 0. @cindex @code{abs@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{abs@var{m}2} Store the absolute value of operand 1 into operand 0. @cindex @code{sqrt@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{sqrt@var{m}2} Store the square root of operand 1 into operand 0. The @code{sqrt} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{sqrtf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{fmod@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{fmod@var{m}3} Store the remainder of dividing operand 1 by operand 2 into operand 0, rounded towards zero to an integer. The @code{fmod} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{fmodf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{remainder@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{remainder@var{m}3} Store the remainder of dividing operand 1 by operand 2 into operand 0, rounded to the nearest integer. The @code{remainder} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{remainderf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{cos@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{cos@var{m}2} Store the cosine of operand 1 into operand 0. The @code{cos} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{cosf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{sin@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{sin@var{m}2} Store the sine of operand 1 into operand 0. The @code{sin} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{sinf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{sincos@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{sincos@var{m}3} Store the cosine of operand 2 into operand 0 and the sine of operand 2 into operand 1. The @code{sin} and @code{cos} built-in functions of C always use the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{sinf} and @code{cosf} built-in function use the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. Targets that can calculate the sine and cosine simultaneously can implement this pattern as opposed to implementing individual @code{sin@var{m}2} and @code{cos@var{m}2} patterns. The @code{sin} and @code{cos} built-in functions will then be expanded to the @code{sincos@var{m}3} pattern, with one of the output values left unused. @cindex @code{exp@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{exp@var{m}2} Store the exponential of operand 1 into operand 0. The @code{exp} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{expf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{log@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{log@var{m}2} Store the natural logarithm of operand 1 into operand 0. The @code{log} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{logf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{pow@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{pow@var{m}3} Store the value of operand 1 raised to the exponent operand 2 into operand 0. The @code{pow} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{powf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{atan2@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{atan2@var{m}3} Store the arc tangent (inverse tangent) of operand 1 divided by operand 2 into operand 0, using the signs of both arguments to determine the quadrant of the result. The @code{atan2} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{atan2f} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{floor@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{floor@var{m}2} Store the largest integral value not greater than argument. The @code{floor} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{floorf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{btrunc@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{btrunc@var{m}2} Store the argument rounded to integer towards zero. The @code{trunc} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{truncf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{round@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{round@var{m}2} Store the argument rounded to integer away from zero. The @code{round} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{roundf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{ceil@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{ceil@var{m}2} Store the argument rounded to integer away from zero. The @code{ceil} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{ceilf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{nearbyint@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{nearbyint@var{m}2} Store the argument rounded according to the default rounding mode The @code{nearbyint} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{nearbyintf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{rint@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{rint@var{m}2} Store the argument rounded according to the default rounding mode and raise the inexact exception when the result differs in value from the argument The @code{rint} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{rintf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{lrint@var{m}@var{n}2} @item @samp{lrint@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}) to fixed point mode @var{n} as a signed number according to the current rounding mode and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). @cindex @code{lround@var{m}@var{n}2} @item @samp{lround@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}) to fixed point mode @var{n} as a signed number rounding to nearest and away from zero and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). @cindex @code{lfloor@var{m}@var{n}2} @item @samp{lfloor@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}) to fixed point mode @var{n} as a signed number rounding down and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). @cindex @code{lceil@var{m}@var{n}2} @item @samp{lceil@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}) to fixed point mode @var{n} as a signed number rounding up and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). @cindex @code{copysign@var{m}3} instruction pattern @item @samp{copysign@var{m}3} Store a value with the magnitude of operand 1 and the sign of operand 2 into operand 0. The @code{copysign} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{double} and the @code{copysignf} built-in function uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{float}. @cindex @code{ffs@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{ffs@var{m}2} Store into operand 0 one plus the index of the least significant 1-bit of operand 1. If operand 1 is zero, store zero. @var{m} is the mode of operand 0; operand 1's mode is specified by the instruction pattern, and the compiler will convert the operand to that mode before generating the instruction. The @code{ffs} built-in function of C always uses the mode which corresponds to the C data type @code{int}. @cindex @code{clz@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{clz@var{m}2} Store into operand 0 the number of leading 0-bits in @var{x}, starting at the most significant bit position. If @var{x} is 0, the @code{CLZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO} (@pxref{Misc}) macro defines if the result is undefined or has a useful value. @var{m} is the mode of operand 0; operand 1's mode is specified by the instruction pattern, and the compiler will convert the operand to that mode before generating the instruction. @cindex @code{ctz@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{ctz@var{m}2} Store into operand 0 the number of trailing 0-bits in @var{x}, starting at the least significant bit position. If @var{x} is 0, the @code{CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO} (@pxref{Misc}) macro defines if the result is undefined or has a useful value. @var{m} is the mode of operand 0; operand 1's mode is specified by the instruction pattern, and the compiler will convert the operand to that mode before generating the instruction. @cindex @code{popcount@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{popcount@var{m}2} Store into operand 0 the number of 1-bits in @var{x}. @var{m} is the mode of operand 0; operand 1's mode is specified by the instruction pattern, and the compiler will convert the operand to that mode before generating the instruction. @cindex @code{parity@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{parity@var{m}2} Store into operand 0 the parity of @var{x}, i.e.@: the number of 1-bits in @var{x} modulo 2. @var{m} is the mode of operand 0; operand 1's mode is specified by the instruction pattern, and the compiler will convert the operand to that mode before generating the instruction. @cindex @code{one_cmpl@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{one_cmpl@var{m}2} Store the bitwise-complement of operand 1 into operand 0. @cindex @code{movmem@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{movmem@var{m}} Block move instruction. The destination and source blocks of memory are the first two operands, and both are @code{mem:BLK}s with an address in mode @code{Pmode}. The number of bytes to move is the third operand, in mode @var{m}. Usually, you specify @code{word_mode} for @var{m}. However, if you can generate better code knowing the range of valid lengths is smaller than those representable in a full word, you should provide a pattern with a mode corresponding to the range of values you can handle efficiently (e.g., @code{QImode} for values in the range 0--127; note we avoid numbers that appear negative) and also a pattern with @code{word_mode}. The fourth operand is the known shared alignment of the source and destination, in the form of a @code{const_int} rtx. Thus, if the compiler knows that both source and destination are word-aligned, it may provide the value 4 for this operand. Optional operands 5 and 6 specify expected alignment and size of block respectively. The expected alignment differs from alignment in operand 4 in a way that the blocks are not required to be aligned according to it in all cases. This expected alignment is also in bytes, just like operand 4. Expected size, when unknown, is set to @code{(const_int -1)}. Descriptions of multiple @code{movmem@var{m}} patterns can only be beneficial if the patterns for smaller modes have fewer restrictions on their first, second and fourth operands. Note that the mode @var{m} in @code{movmem@var{m}} does not impose any restriction on the mode of individually moved data units in the block. These patterns need not give special consideration to the possibility that the source and destination strings might overlap. @cindex @code{movstr} instruction pattern @item @samp{movstr} String copy instruction, with @code{stpcpy} semantics. Operand 0 is an output operand in mode @code{Pmode}. The addresses of the destination and source strings are operands 1 and 2, and both are @code{mem:BLK}s with addresses in mode @code{Pmode}. The execution of the expansion of this pattern should store in operand 0 the address in which the @code{NUL} terminator was stored in the destination string. @cindex @code{setmem@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{setmem@var{m}} Block set instruction. The destination string is the first operand, given as a @code{mem:BLK} whose address is in mode @code{Pmode}. The number of bytes to set is the second operand, in mode @var{m}. The value to initialize the memory with is the third operand. Targets that only support the clearing of memory should reject any value that is not the constant 0. See @samp{movmem@var{m}} for a discussion of the choice of mode. The fourth operand is the known alignment of the destination, in the form of a @code{const_int} rtx. Thus, if the compiler knows that the destination is word-aligned, it may provide the value 4 for this operand. Optional operands 5 and 6 specify expected alignment and size of block respectively. The expected alignment differs from alignment in operand 4 in a way that the blocks are not required to be aligned according to it in all cases. This expected alignment is also in bytes, just like operand 4. Expected size, when unknown, is set to @code{(const_int -1)}. The use for multiple @code{setmem@var{m}} is as for @code{movmem@var{m}}. @cindex @code{cmpstrn@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{cmpstrn@var{m}} String compare instruction, with five operands. Operand 0 is the output; it has mode @var{m}. The remaining four operands are like the operands of @samp{movmem@var{m}}. The two memory blocks specified are compared byte by byte in lexicographic order starting at the beginning of each string. The instruction is not allowed to prefetch more than one byte at a time since either string may end in the first byte and reading past that may access an invalid page or segment and cause a fault. The comparison terminates early if the fetched bytes are different or if they are equal to zero. The effect of the instruction is to store a value in operand 0 whose sign indicates the result of the comparison. @cindex @code{cmpstr@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{cmpstr@var{m}} String compare instruction, without known maximum length. Operand 0 is the output; it has mode @var{m}. The second and third operand are the blocks of memory to be compared; both are @code{mem:BLK} with an address in mode @code{Pmode}. The fourth operand is the known shared alignment of the source and destination, in the form of a @code{const_int} rtx. Thus, if the compiler knows that both source and destination are word-aligned, it may provide the value 4 for this operand. The two memory blocks specified are compared byte by byte in lexicographic order starting at the beginning of each string. The instruction is not allowed to prefetch more than one byte at a time since either string may end in the first byte and reading past that may access an invalid page or segment and cause a fault. The comparison will terminate when the fetched bytes are different or if they are equal to zero. The effect of the instruction is to store a value in operand 0 whose sign indicates the result of the comparison. @cindex @code{cmpmem@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{cmpmem@var{m}} Block compare instruction, with five operands like the operands of @samp{cmpstr@var{m}}. The two memory blocks specified are compared byte by byte in lexicographic order starting at the beginning of each block. Unlike @samp{cmpstr@var{m}} the instruction can prefetch any bytes in the two memory blocks. Also unlike @samp{cmpstr@var{m}} the comparison will not stop if both bytes are zero. The effect of the instruction is to store a value in operand 0 whose sign indicates the result of the comparison. @cindex @code{strlen@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{strlen@var{m}} Compute the length of a string, with three operands. Operand 0 is the result (of mode @var{m}), operand 1 is a @code{mem} referring to the first character of the string, operand 2 is the character to search for (normally zero), and operand 3 is a constant describing the known alignment of the beginning of the string. @cindex @code{float@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{float@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert signed integer operand 1 (valid for fixed point mode @var{m}) to floating point mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). @cindex @code{floatuns@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{floatuns@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert unsigned integer operand 1 (valid for fixed point mode @var{m}) to floating point mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). @cindex @code{fix@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{fix@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}) to fixed point mode @var{n} as a signed number and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). This instruction's result is defined only when the value of operand 1 is an integer. If the machine description defines this pattern, it also needs to define the @code{ftrunc} pattern. @cindex @code{fixuns@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{fixuns@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}) to fixed point mode @var{n} as an unsigned number and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). This instruction's result is defined only when the value of operand 1 is an integer. @cindex @code{ftrunc@var{m}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{ftrunc@var{m}2} Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}) to an integer value, still represented in floating point mode @var{m}, and store it in operand 0 (valid for floating point mode @var{m}). @cindex @code{fix_trunc@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{fix_trunc@var{m}@var{n}2} Like @samp{fix@var{m}@var{n}2} but works for any floating point value of mode @var{m} by converting the value to an integer. @cindex @code{fixuns_trunc@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{fixuns_trunc@var{m}@var{n}2} Like @samp{fixuns@var{m}@var{n}2} but works for any floating point value of mode @var{m} by converting the value to an integer. @cindex @code{trunc@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{trunc@var{m}@var{n}2} Truncate operand 1 (valid for mode @var{m}) to mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). Both modes must be fixed point or both floating point. @cindex @code{extend@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{extend@var{m}@var{n}2} Sign-extend operand 1 (valid for mode @var{m}) to mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). Both modes must be fixed point or both floating point. @cindex @code{zero_extend@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{zero_extend@var{m}@var{n}2} Zero-extend operand 1 (valid for mode @var{m}) to mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). Both modes must be fixed point. @cindex @code{fract@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{fract@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 of mode @var{m} to mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). Mode @var{m} and mode @var{n} could be fixed-point to fixed-point, signed integer to fixed-point, fixed-point to signed integer, floating-point to fixed-point, or fixed-point to floating-point. When overflows or underflows happen, the results are undefined. @cindex @code{satfract@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{satfract@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 of mode @var{m} to mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). Mode @var{m} and mode @var{n} could be fixed-point to fixed-point, signed integer to fixed-point, or floating-point to fixed-point. When overflows or underflows happen, the instruction saturates the results to the maximum or the minimum. @cindex @code{fractuns@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{fractuns@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert operand 1 of mode @var{m} to mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). Mode @var{m} and mode @var{n} could be unsigned integer to fixed-point, or fixed-point to unsigned integer. When overflows or underflows happen, the results are undefined. @cindex @code{satfractuns@var{m}@var{n}2} instruction pattern @item @samp{satfractuns@var{m}@var{n}2} Convert unsigned integer operand 1 of mode @var{m} to fixed-point mode @var{n} and store in operand 0 (which has mode @var{n}). When overflows or underflows happen, the instruction saturates the results to the maximum or the minimum. @cindex @code{extv@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{extv@var{m}} Extract a bit-field from register operand 1, sign-extend it, and store it in operand 0. Operand 2 specifies the width of the field in bits and operand 3 the starting bit, which counts from the most significant bit if @samp{BITS_BIG_ENDIAN} is true and from the least significant bit otherwise. Operands 0 and 1 both have mode @var{m}. Operands 2 and 3 have a target-specific mode. @cindex @code{extvmisalign@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{extvmisalign@var{m}} Extract a bit-field from memory operand 1, sign extend it, and store it in operand 0. Operand 2 specifies the width in bits and operand 3 the starting bit. The starting bit is always somewhere in the first byte of operand 1; it counts from the most significant bit if @samp{BITS_BIG_ENDIAN} is true and from the least significant bit otherwise. Operand 0 has mode @var{m} while operand 1 has @code{BLK} mode. Operands 2 and 3 have a target-specific mode. The instruction must not read beyond the last byte of the bit-field. @cindex @code{extzv@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{extzv@var{m}} Like @samp{extv@var{m}} except that the bit-field value is zero-extended. @cindex @code{extzvmisalign@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{extzvmisalign@var{m}} Like @samp{extvmisalign@var{m}} except that the bit-field value is zero-extended. @cindex @code{insv@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{insv@var{m}} Insert operand 3 into a bit-field of register operand 0. Operand 1 specifies the width of the field in bits and operand 2 the starting bit, which counts from the most significant bit if @samp{BITS_BIG_ENDIAN} is true and from the least significant bit otherwise. Operands 0 and 3 both have mode @var{m}. Operands 1 and 2 have a target-specific mode. @cindex @code{insvmisalign@var{m}} instruction pattern @item @samp{insvmisalign@var{m}} Insert operand 3 into a bit-field of memory operand 0. Operand 1 specifies the width of the field in bits and operand 2 the starting bit. The starting bit is always somewhere in the first byte of operand 0; it counts from the most significant bit if @samp{BITS_BIG_ENDIAN} is true and from the least significant bit otherwise. Operand 3 has mode @var{m} while operand 0 has @code{BLK} mode. Operands 1 and 2 have a target-specific mode. The instruction must not read or write beyond the last byte of the bit-field. @cindex @code{extv} instruction pattern @item @samp{extv} Extract a bit-field from operand 1 (a register or memory operand), where operand 2 specifies the width in bits and operand 3 the starting bit, and store it in operand 0. Operand 0 must have mode @code{word_mode}. Operand 1 may have mode @code{byte_mode} or @code{word_mode}; often @code{word_mode} is allowed only for registers. Operands 2 and 3 must be valid for @code{word_mode}. The RTL generation pass generates this instruction only with constants for operands 2 and 3 and the constant is never zero for operand 2. The bit-field value is sign-extended to a full word integer before it is stored in operand 0. This pattern is deprecated; please use @samp{extv@var{m}} and @code{extvmisalign@var{m}} instead. @cindex @code{extzv} instruction pattern @item @samp{extzv} Like @samp{extv} except that the bit-field value is zero-extended. This pattern is deprecated; please use @samp{extzv@var{m}} and @code{extzvmisalign@var{m}} instead. @cindex @code{insv} instruction pattern @item @samp{insv} Store operand 3 (which must be valid for @code{word_mode}) into a bit-field in operand 0, where operand 1 specifies the width in bits and operand 2 the starting bit. Operand 0 may have mode @code{byte_mode} or @code{word_mode}; often @code{word_mode} is allowed only for registers. Operands 1 and 2 must be valid for @code{word_mode}. The RTL generation pass generates this instruction only with constants for operands 1 and 2 and the constant is never zero for operand 1. This pattern is deprecated; please use @samp{insv@var{m}} and @code{insvmisalign@var{m}} instead. @cindex @code{mov@var{mode}cc} instruction pattern @item @samp{mov@var{mode}cc} Conditionally move operand 2 or operand 3 into operand 0 according to the comparison in operand 1. If the comparison is true, operand 2 is moved into operand 0, otherwise operand 3 is moved. The mode of the operands being compared need not be the same as the operands being moved. Some machines, sparc64 for example, have instructions that conditionally move an integer value based on the floating point condition codes and vice versa. If the machine does not have conditional move instructions, do not define these patterns. @cindex @code{add@var{mode}cc} instruction pattern @item @samp{add@var{mode}cc} Similar to @samp{mov@var{mode}cc} but for conditional addition. Conditionally move operand 2 or (operands 2 + operand 3) into operand 0 according to the comparison in operand 1. If the comparison is false, operand 2 is moved into operand 0, otherwise (operand 2 + operand 3) is moved. @cindex @code{cstore@var{mode}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{cstore@var{mode}4} Store zero or nonzero in operand 0 according to whether a comparison is true. Operand 1 is a comparison operator. Operand 2 and operand 3 are the first and second operand of the comparison, respectively. You specify the mode that operand 0 must have when you write the @code{match_operand} expression. The compiler automatically sees which mode you have used and supplies an operand of that mode. The value stored for a true condition must have 1 as its low bit, or else must be negative. Otherwise the instruction is not suitable and you should omit it from the machine description. You describe to the compiler exactly which value is stored by defining the macro @code{STORE_FLAG_VALUE} (@pxref{Misc}). If a description cannot be found that can be used for all the possible comparison operators, you should pick one and use a @code{define_expand} to map all results onto the one you chose. These operations may @code{FAIL}, but should do so only in relatively uncommon cases; if they would @code{FAIL} for common cases involving integer comparisons, it is best to restrict the predicates to not allow these operands. Likewise if a given comparison operator will always fail, independent of the operands (for floating-point modes, the @code{ordered_comparison_operator} predicate is often useful in this case). If this pattern is omitted, the compiler will generate a conditional branch---for example, it may copy a constant one to the target and branching around an assignment of zero to the target---or a libcall. If the predicate for operand 1 only rejects some operators, it will also try reordering the operands and/or inverting the result value (e.g.@: by an exclusive OR). These possibilities could be cheaper or equivalent to the instructions used for the @samp{cstore@var{mode}4} pattern followed by those required to convert a positive result from @code{STORE_FLAG_VALUE} to 1; in this case, you can and should make operand 1's predicate reject some operators in the @samp{cstore@var{mode}4} pattern, or remove the pattern altogether from the machine description. @cindex @code{cbranch@var{mode}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{cbranch@var{mode}4} Conditional branch instruction combined with a compare instruction. Operand 0 is a comparison operator. Operand 1 and operand 2 are the first and second operands of the comparison, respectively. Operand 3 is a @code{label_ref} that refers to the label to jump to. @cindex @code{jump} instruction pattern @item @samp{jump} A jump inside a function; an unconditional branch. Operand 0 is the @code{label_ref} of the label to jump to. This pattern name is mandatory on all machines. @cindex @code{call} instruction pattern @item @samp{call} Subroutine call instruction returning no value. Operand 0 is the function to call; operand 1 is the number of bytes of arguments pushed as a @code{const_int}; operand 2 is the number of registers used as operands. On most machines, operand 2 is not actually stored into the RTL pattern. It is supplied for the sake of some RISC machines which need to put this information into the assembler code; they can put it in the RTL instead of operand 1. Operand 0 should be a @code{mem} RTX whose address is the address of the function. Note, however, that this address can be a @code{symbol_ref} expression even if it would not be a legitimate memory address on the target machine. If it is also not a valid argument for a call instruction, the pattern for this operation should be a @code{define_expand} (@pxref{Expander Definitions}) that places the address into a register and uses that register in the call instruction. @cindex @code{call_value} instruction pattern @item @samp{call_value} Subroutine call instruction returning a value. Operand 0 is the hard register in which the value is returned. There are three more operands, the same as the three operands of the @samp{call} instruction (but with numbers increased by one). Subroutines that return @code{BLKmode} objects use the @samp{call} insn. @cindex @code{call_pop} instruction pattern @cindex @code{call_value_pop} instruction pattern @item @samp{call_pop}, @samp{call_value_pop} Similar to @samp{call} and @samp{call_value}, except used if defined and if @code{RETURN_POPS_ARGS} is nonzero. They should emit a @code{parallel} that contains both the function call and a @code{set} to indicate the adjustment made to the frame pointer. For machines where @code{RETURN_POPS_ARGS} can be nonzero, the use of these patterns increases the number of functions for which the frame pointer can be eliminated, if desired. @cindex @code{untyped_call} instruction pattern @item @samp{untyped_call} Subroutine call instruction returning a value of any type. Operand 0 is the function to call; operand 1 is a memory location where the result of calling the function is to be stored; operand 2 is a @code{parallel} expression where each element is a @code{set} expression that indicates the saving of a function return value into the result block. This instruction pattern should be defined to support @code{__builtin_apply} on machines where special instructions are needed to call a subroutine with arbitrary arguments or to save the value returned. This instruction pattern is required on machines that have multiple registers that can hold a return value (i.e.@: @code{FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P} is true for more than one register). @cindex @code{return} instruction pattern @item @samp{return} Subroutine return instruction. This instruction pattern name should be defined only if a single instruction can do all the work of returning from a function. Like the @samp{mov@var{m}} patterns, this pattern is also used after the RTL generation phase. In this case it is to support machines where multiple instructions are usually needed to return from a function, but some class of functions only requires one instruction to implement a return. Normally, the applicable functions are those which do not need to save any registers or allocate stack space. It is valid for this pattern to expand to an instruction using @code{simple_return} if no epilogue is required. @cindex @code{simple_return} instruction pattern @item @samp{simple_return} Subroutine return instruction. This instruction pattern name should be defined only if a single instruction can do all the work of returning from a function on a path where no epilogue is required. This pattern is very similar to the @code{return} instruction pattern, but it is emitted only by the shrink-wrapping optimization on paths where the function prologue has not been executed, and a function return should occur without any of the effects of the epilogue. Additional uses may be introduced on paths where both the prologue and the epilogue have executed. @findex reload_completed @findex leaf_function_p For such machines, the condition specified in this pattern should only be true when @code{reload_completed} is nonzero and the function's epilogue would only be a single instruction. For machines with register windows, the routine @code{leaf_function_p} may be used to determine if a register window push is required. Machines that have conditional return instructions should define patterns such as @smallexample (define_insn "" [(set (pc) (if_then_else (match_operator 0 "comparison_operator" [(cc0) (const_int 0)]) (return) (pc)))] "@var{condition}" "@dots{}") @end smallexample where @var{condition} would normally be the same condition specified on the named @samp{return} pattern. @cindex @code{untyped_return} instruction pattern @item @samp{untyped_return} Untyped subroutine return instruction. This instruction pattern should be defined to support @code{__builtin_return} on machines where special instructions are needed to return a value of any type. Operand 0 is a memory location where the result of calling a function with @code{__builtin_apply} is stored; operand 1 is a @code{parallel} expression where each element is a @code{set} expression that indicates the restoring of a function return value from the result block. @cindex @code{nop} instruction pattern @item @samp{nop} No-op instruction. This instruction pattern name should always be defined to output a no-op in assembler code. @code{(const_int 0)} will do as an RTL pattern. @cindex @code{indirect_jump} instruction pattern @item @samp{indirect_jump} An instruction to jump to an address which is operand zero. This pattern name is mandatory on all machines. @cindex @code{casesi} instruction pattern @item @samp{casesi} Instruction to jump through a dispatch table, including bounds checking. This instruction takes five operands: @enumerate @item The index to dispatch on, which has mode @code{SImode}. @item The lower bound for indices in the table, an integer constant. @item The total range of indices in the table---the largest index minus the smallest one (both inclusive). @item A label that precedes the table itself. @item A label to jump to if the index has a value outside the bounds. @end enumerate The table is an @code{addr_vec} or @code{addr_diff_vec} inside of a @code{jump_table_data}. The number of elements in the table is one plus the difference between the upper bound and the lower bound. @cindex @code{tablejump} instruction pattern @item @samp{tablejump} Instruction to jump to a variable address. This is a low-level capability which can be used to implement a dispatch table when there is no @samp{casesi} pattern. This pattern requires two operands: the address or offset, and a label which should immediately precede the jump table. If the macro @code{CASE_VECTOR_PC_RELATIVE} evaluates to a nonzero value then the first operand is an offset which counts from the address of the table; otherwise, it is an absolute address to jump to. In either case, the first operand has mode @code{Pmode}. The @samp{tablejump} insn is always the last insn before the jump table it uses. Its assembler code normally has no need to use the second operand, but you should incorporate it in the RTL pattern so that the jump optimizer will not delete the table as unreachable code. @cindex @code{decrement_and_branch_until_zero} instruction pattern @item @samp{decrement_and_branch_until_zero} Conditional branch instruction that decrements a register and jumps if the register is nonzero. Operand 0 is the register to decrement and test; operand 1 is the label to jump to if the register is nonzero. @xref{Looping Patterns}. This optional instruction pattern is only used by the combiner, typically for loops reversed by the loop optimizer when strength reduction is enabled. @cindex @code{doloop_end} instruction pattern @item @samp{doloop_end} Conditional branch instruction that decrements a register and jumps if the register is nonzero. This instruction takes five operands: Operand 0 is the register to decrement and test; operand 1 is the number of loop iterations as a @code{const_int} or @code{const0_rtx} if this cannot be determined until run-time; operand 2 is the actual or estimated maximum number of iterations as a @code{const_int}; operand 3 is the number of enclosed loops as a @code{const_int} (an innermost loop has a value of 1); operand 4 is the label to jump to if the register is nonzero; operand 5 is const1_rtx if the loop in entered at its top, const0_rtx otherwise. @xref{Looping Patterns}. This optional instruction pattern should be defined for machines with low-overhead looping instructions as the loop optimizer will try to modify suitable loops to utilize it. If nested low-overhead looping is not supported, use a @code{define_expand} (@pxref{Expander Definitions}) and make the pattern fail if operand 3 is not @code{const1_rtx}. Similarly, if the actual or estimated maximum number of iterations is too large for this instruction, make it fail. @cindex @code{doloop_begin} instruction pattern @item @samp{doloop_begin} Companion instruction to @code{doloop_end} required for machines that need to perform some initialization, such as loading special registers used by a low-overhead looping instruction. If initialization insns do not always need to be emitted, use a @code{define_expand} (@pxref{Expander Definitions}) and make it fail. @cindex @code{canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare} instruction pattern @item @samp{canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare} Canonicalize the function pointer in operand 1 and store the result into operand 0. Operand 0 is always a @code{reg} and has mode @code{Pmode}; operand 1 may be a @code{reg}, @code{mem}, @code{symbol_ref}, @code{const_int}, etc and also has mode @code{Pmode}. Canonicalization of a function pointer usually involves computing the address of the function which would be called if the function pointer were used in an indirect call. Only define this pattern if function pointers on the target machine can have different values but still call the same function when used in an indirect call. @cindex @code{save_stack_block} instruction pattern @cindex @code{save_stack_function} instruction pattern @cindex @code{save_stack_nonlocal} instruction pattern @cindex @code{restore_stack_block} instruction pattern @cindex @code{restore_stack_function} instruction pattern @cindex @code{restore_stack_nonlocal} instruction pattern @item @samp{save_stack_block} @itemx @samp{save_stack_function} @itemx @samp{save_stack_nonlocal} @itemx @samp{restore_stack_block} @itemx @samp{restore_stack_function} @itemx @samp{restore_stack_nonlocal} Most machines save and restore the stack pointer by copying it to or from an object of mode @code{Pmode}. Do not define these patterns on such machines. Some machines require special handling for stack pointer saves and restores. On those machines, define the patterns corresponding to the non-standard cases by using a @code{define_expand} (@pxref{Expander Definitions}) that produces the required insns. The three types of saves and restores are: @enumerate @item @samp{save_stack_block} saves the stack pointer at the start of a block that allocates a variable-sized object, and @samp{restore_stack_block} restores the stack pointer when the block is exited. @item @samp{save_stack_function} and @samp{restore_stack_function} do a similar job for the outermost block of a function and are used when the function allocates variable-sized objects or calls @code{alloca}. Only the epilogue uses the restored stack pointer, allowing a simpler save or restore sequence on some machines. @item @samp{save_stack_nonlocal} is used in functions that contain labels branched to by nested functions. It saves the stack pointer in such a way that the inner function can use @samp{restore_stack_nonlocal} to restore the stack pointer. The compiler generates code to restore the frame and argument pointer registers, but some machines require saving and restoring additional data such as register window information or stack backchains. Place insns in these patterns to save and restore any such required data. @end enumerate When saving the stack pointer, operand 0 is the save area and operand 1 is the stack pointer. The mode used to allocate the save area defaults to @code{Pmode} but you can override that choice by defining the @code{STACK_SAVEAREA_MODE} macro (@pxref{Storage Layout}). You must specify an integral mode, or @code{VOIDmode} if no save area is needed for a particular type of save (either because no save is needed or because a machine-specific save area can be used). Operand 0 is the stack pointer and operand 1 is the save area for restore operations. If @samp{save_stack_block} is defined, operand 0 must not be @code{VOIDmode} since these saves can be arbitrarily nested. A save area is a @code{mem} that is at a constant offset from @code{virtual_stack_vars_rtx} when the stack pointer is saved for use by nonlocal gotos and a @code{reg} in the other two cases. @cindex @code{allocate_stack} instruction pattern @item @samp{allocate_stack} Subtract (or add if @code{STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD} is undefined) operand 1 from the stack pointer to create space for dynamically allocated data. Store the resultant pointer to this space into operand 0. If you are allocating space from the main stack, do this by emitting a move insn to copy @code{virtual_stack_dynamic_rtx} to operand 0. If you are allocating the space elsewhere, generate code to copy the location of the space to operand 0. In the latter case, you must ensure this space gets freed when the corresponding space on the main stack is free. Do not define this pattern if all that must be done is the subtraction. Some machines require other operations such as stack probes or maintaining the back chain. Define this pattern to emit those operations in addition to updating the stack pointer. @cindex @code{check_stack} instruction pattern @item @samp{check_stack} If stack checking (@pxref{Stack Checking}) cannot be done on your system by probing the stack, define this pattern to perform the needed check and signal an error if the stack has overflowed. The single operand is the address in the stack farthest from the current stack pointer that you need to validate. Normally, on platforms where this pattern is needed, you would obtain the stack limit from a global or thread-specific variable or register. @cindex @code{probe_stack_address} instruction pattern @item @samp{probe_stack_address} If stack checking (@pxref{Stack Checking}) can be done on your system by probing the stack but without the need to actually access it, define this pattern and signal an error if the stack has overflowed. The single operand is the memory address in the stack that needs to be probed. @cindex @code{probe_stack} instruction pattern @item @samp{probe_stack} If stack checking (@pxref{Stack Checking}) can be done on your system by probing the stack but doing it with a ``store zero'' instruction is not valid or optimal, define this pattern to do the probing differently and signal an error if the stack has overflowed. The single operand is the memory reference in the stack that needs to be probed. @cindex @code{nonlocal_goto} instruction pattern @item @samp{nonlocal_goto} Emit code to generate a non-local goto, e.g., a jump from one function to a label in an outer function. This pattern has four arguments, each representing a value to be used in the jump. The first argument is to be loaded into the frame pointer, the second is the address to branch to (code to dispatch to the actual label), the third is the address of a location where the stack is saved, and the last is the address of the label, to be placed in the location for the incoming static chain. On most machines you need not define this pattern, since GCC will already generate the correct code, which is to load the frame pointer and static chain, restore the stack (using the @samp{restore_stack_nonlocal} pattern, if defined), and jump indirectly to the dispatcher. You need only define this pattern if this code will not work on your machine. @cindex @code{nonlocal_goto_receiver} instruction pattern @item @samp{nonlocal_goto_receiver} This pattern, if defined, contains code needed at the target of a nonlocal goto after the code already generated by GCC@. You will not normally need to define this pattern. A typical reason why you might need this pattern is if some value, such as a pointer to a global table, must be restored when the frame pointer is restored. Note that a nonlocal goto only occurs within a unit-of-translation, so a global table pointer that is shared by all functions of a given module need not be restored. There are no arguments. @cindex @code{exception_receiver} instruction pattern @item @samp{exception_receiver} This pattern, if defined, contains code needed at the site of an exception handler that isn't needed at the site of a nonlocal goto. You will not normally need to define this pattern. A typical reason why you might need this pattern is if some value, such as a pointer to a global table, must be restored after control flow is branched to the handler of an exception. There are no arguments. @cindex @code{builtin_setjmp_setup} instruction pattern @item @samp{builtin_setjmp_setup} This pattern, if defined, contains additional code needed to initialize the @code{jmp_buf}. You will not normally need to define this pattern. A typical reason why you might need this pattern is if some value, such as a pointer to a global table, must be restored. Though it is preferred that the pointer value be recalculated if possible (given the address of a label for instance). The single argument is a pointer to the @code{jmp_buf}. Note that the buffer is five words long and that the first three are normally used by the generic mechanism. @cindex @code{builtin_setjmp_receiver} instruction pattern @item @samp{builtin_setjmp_receiver} This pattern, if defined, contains code needed at the site of a built-in setjmp that isn't needed at the site of a nonlocal goto. You will not normally need to define this pattern. A typical reason why you might need this pattern is if some value, such as a pointer to a global table, must be restored. It takes one argument, which is the label to which builtin_longjmp transferred control; this pattern may be emitted at a small offset from that label. @cindex @code{builtin_longjmp} instruction pattern @item @samp{builtin_longjmp} This pattern, if defined, performs the entire action of the longjmp. You will not normally need to define this pattern unless you also define @code{builtin_setjmp_setup}. The single argument is a pointer to the @code{jmp_buf}. @cindex @code{eh_return} instruction pattern @item @samp{eh_return} This pattern, if defined, affects the way @code{__builtin_eh_return}, and thence the call frame exception handling library routines, are built. It is intended to handle non-trivial actions needed along the abnormal return path. The address of the exception handler to which the function should return is passed as operand to this pattern. It will normally need to copied by the pattern to some special register or memory location. If the pattern needs to determine the location of the target call frame in order to do so, it may use @code{EH_RETURN_STACKADJ_RTX}, if defined; it will have already been assigned. If this pattern is not defined, the default action will be to simply copy the return address to @code{EH_RETURN_HANDLER_RTX}. Either that macro or this pattern needs to be defined if call frame exception handling is to be used. @cindex @code{prologue} instruction pattern @anchor{prologue instruction pattern} @item @samp{prologue} This pattern, if defined, emits RTL for entry to a function. The function entry is responsible for setting up the stack frame, initializing the frame pointer register, saving callee saved registers, etc. Using a prologue pattern is generally preferred over defining @code{TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE} to emit assembly code for the prologue. The @code{prologue} pattern is particularly useful for targets which perform instruction scheduling. @cindex @code{window_save} instruction pattern @anchor{window_save instruction pattern} @item @samp{window_save} This pattern, if defined, emits RTL for a register window save. It should be defined if the target machine has register windows but the window events are decoupled from calls to subroutines. The canonical example is the SPARC architecture. @cindex @code{epilogue} instruction pattern @anchor{epilogue instruction pattern} @item @samp{epilogue} This pattern emits RTL for exit from a function. The function exit is responsible for deallocating the stack frame, restoring callee saved registers and emitting the return instruction. Using an epilogue pattern is generally preferred over defining @code{TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE} to emit assembly code for the epilogue. The @code{epilogue} pattern is particularly useful for targets which perform instruction scheduling or which have delay slots for their return instruction. @cindex @code{sibcall_epilogue} instruction pattern @item @samp{sibcall_epilogue} This pattern, if defined, emits RTL for exit from a function without the final branch back to the calling function. This pattern will be emitted before any sibling call (aka tail call) sites. The @code{sibcall_epilogue} pattern must not clobber any arguments used for parameter passing or any stack slots for arguments passed to the current function. @cindex @code{trap} instruction pattern @item @samp{trap} This pattern, if defined, signals an error, typically by causing some kind of signal to be raised. Among other places, it is used by the Java front end to signal `invalid array index' exceptions. @cindex @code{ctrap@var{MM}4} instruction pattern @item @samp{ctrap@var{MM}4} Conditional trap instruction. Operand 0 is a piece of RTL which performs a comparison, and operands 1 and 2 are the arms of the comparison. Operand 3 is the trap code, an integer. A typical @code{ctrap} pattern looks like @smallexample (define_insn "ctrapsi4" [(trap_if (match_operator 0 "trap_operator" [(match_operand 1 "register_operand") (match_operand 2 "immediate_operand")]) (match_operand 3 "const_int_operand" "i"))] "" "@dots{}") @end smallexample @cindex @code{prefetch} instruction pattern @item @samp{prefetch} This pattern, if defined, emits code for a non-faulting data prefetch instruction. Operand 0 is the address of the memory to prefetch. Operand 1 is a constant 1 if the prefetch is preparing for a write to the memory address, or a constant 0 otherwise. Operand 2 is the expected degree of temporal locality of the data and is a value between 0 and 3, inclusive; 0 means that the data has no temporal locality, so it need not be left in the cache after the access; 3 means that the data has a high degree of temporal locality and should be left in all levels of cache possible; 1 and 2 mean, respectively, a low or moderate degree of temporal locality. Targets that do not support write prefetches or locality hints can ignore the values of operands 1 and 2. @cindex @code{blockage} instruction pattern @item @samp{blockage} This pattern defines a pseudo insn that prevents the instruction scheduler and other passes from moving instructions and using register equivalences across the boundary defined by the blockage insn. This needs to be an UNSPEC_VOLATILE pattern or a volatile ASM. @cindex @code{memory_barrier} instruction pattern @item @samp{memory_barrier} If the target memory model is not fully synchronous, then this pattern should be defined to an instruction that orders both loads and stores before the instruction with respect to loads and stores after the instruction. This pattern has no operands. @cindex @code{sync_compare_and_swap@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{sync_compare_and_swap@var{mode}} This pattern, if defined, emits code for an atomic compare-and-swap operation. Operand 1 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed. Operand 2 is the ``old'' value to be compared against the current contents of the memory location. Operand 3 is the ``new'' value to store in the memory if the compare succeeds. Operand 0 is the result of the operation; it should contain the contents of the memory before the operation. If the compare succeeds, this should obviously be a copy of operand 2. This pattern must show that both operand 0 and operand 1 are modified. This pattern must issue any memory barrier instructions such that all memory operations before the atomic operation occur before the atomic operation and all memory operations after the atomic operation occur after the atomic operation. For targets where the success or failure of the compare-and-swap operation is available via the status flags, it is possible to avoid a separate compare operation and issue the subsequent branch or store-flag operation immediately after the compare-and-swap. To this end, GCC will look for a @code{MODE_CC} set in the output of @code{sync_compare_and_swap@var{mode}}; if the machine description includes such a set, the target should also define special @code{cbranchcc4} and/or @code{cstorecc4} instructions. GCC will then be able to take the destination of the @code{MODE_CC} set and pass it to the @code{cbranchcc4} or @code{cstorecc4} pattern as the first operand of the comparison (the second will be @code{(const_int 0)}). For targets where the operating system may provide support for this operation via library calls, the @code{sync_compare_and_swap_optab} may be initialized to a function with the same interface as the @code{__sync_val_compare_and_swap_@var{n}} built-in. If the entire set of @var{__sync} builtins are supported via library calls, the target can initialize all of the optabs at once with @code{init_sync_libfuncs}. For the purposes of C++11 @code{std::atomic::is_lock_free}, it is assumed that these library calls do @emph{not} use any kind of interruptable locking. @cindex @code{sync_add@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_sub@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_ior@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_and@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_xor@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_nand@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{sync_add@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_sub@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{sync_ior@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_and@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{sync_xor@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_nand@var{mode}} These patterns emit code for an atomic operation on memory. Operand 0 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed. Operand 1 is the second operand to the binary operator. This pattern must issue any memory barrier instructions such that all memory operations before the atomic operation occur before the atomic operation and all memory operations after the atomic operation occur after the atomic operation. If these patterns are not defined, the operation will be constructed from a compare-and-swap operation, if defined. @cindex @code{sync_old_add@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_old_sub@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_old_ior@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_old_and@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_old_xor@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_old_nand@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{sync_old_add@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_old_sub@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{sync_old_ior@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_old_and@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{sync_old_xor@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_old_nand@var{mode}} These patterns emit code for an atomic operation on memory, and return the value that the memory contained before the operation. Operand 0 is the result value, operand 1 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed, and operand 2 is the second operand to the binary operator. This pattern must issue any memory barrier instructions such that all memory operations before the atomic operation occur before the atomic operation and all memory operations after the atomic operation occur after the atomic operation. If these patterns are not defined, the operation will be constructed from a compare-and-swap operation, if defined. @cindex @code{sync_new_add@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_new_sub@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_new_ior@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_new_and@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_new_xor@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{sync_new_nand@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{sync_new_add@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_new_sub@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{sync_new_ior@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_new_and@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{sync_new_xor@var{mode}}, @samp{sync_new_nand@var{mode}} These patterns are like their @code{sync_old_@var{op}} counterparts, except that they return the value that exists in the memory location after the operation, rather than before the operation. @cindex @code{sync_lock_test_and_set@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{sync_lock_test_and_set@var{mode}} This pattern takes two forms, based on the capabilities of the target. In either case, operand 0 is the result of the operand, operand 1 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed, and operand 2 is the value to set in the lock. In the ideal case, this operation is an atomic exchange operation, in which the previous value in memory operand is copied into the result operand, and the value operand is stored in the memory operand. For less capable targets, any value operand that is not the constant 1 should be rejected with @code{FAIL}. In this case the target may use an atomic test-and-set bit operation. The result operand should contain 1 if the bit was previously set and 0 if the bit was previously clear. The true contents of the memory operand are implementation defined. This pattern must issue any memory barrier instructions such that the pattern as a whole acts as an acquire barrier, that is all memory operations after the pattern do not occur until the lock is acquired. If this pattern is not defined, the operation will be constructed from a compare-and-swap operation, if defined. @cindex @code{sync_lock_release@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{sync_lock_release@var{mode}} This pattern, if defined, releases a lock set by @code{sync_lock_test_and_set@var{mode}}. Operand 0 is the memory that contains the lock; operand 1 is the value to store in the lock. If the target doesn't implement full semantics for @code{sync_lock_test_and_set@var{mode}}, any value operand which is not the constant 0 should be rejected with @code{FAIL}, and the true contents of the memory operand are implementation defined. This pattern must issue any memory barrier instructions such that the pattern as a whole acts as a release barrier, that is the lock is released only after all previous memory operations have completed. If this pattern is not defined, then a @code{memory_barrier} pattern will be emitted, followed by a store of the value to the memory operand. @cindex @code{atomic_compare_and_swap@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_compare_and_swap@var{mode}} This pattern, if defined, emits code for an atomic compare-and-swap operation with memory model semantics. Operand 2 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed. Operand 0 is an output operand which is set to true or false based on whether the operation succeeded. Operand 1 is an output operand which is set to the contents of the memory before the operation was attempted. Operand 3 is the value that is expected to be in memory. Operand 4 is the value to put in memory if the expected value is found there. Operand 5 is set to 1 if this compare and swap is to be treated as a weak operation. Operand 6 is the memory model to be used if the operation is a success. Operand 7 is the memory model to be used if the operation fails. If memory referred to in operand 2 contains the value in operand 3, then operand 4 is stored in memory pointed to by operand 2 and fencing based on the memory model in operand 6 is issued. If memory referred to in operand 2 does not contain the value in operand 3, then fencing based on the memory model in operand 7 is issued. If a target does not support weak compare-and-swap operations, or the port elects not to implement weak operations, the argument in operand 5 can be ignored. Note a strong implementation must be provided. If this pattern is not provided, the @code{__atomic_compare_exchange} built-in functions will utilize the legacy @code{sync_compare_and_swap} pattern with an @code{__ATOMIC_SEQ_CST} memory model. @cindex @code{atomic_load@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_load@var{mode}} This pattern implements an atomic load operation with memory model semantics. Operand 1 is the memory address being loaded from. Operand 0 is the result of the load. Operand 2 is the memory model to be used for the load operation. If not present, the @code{__atomic_load} built-in function will either resort to a normal load with memory barriers, or a compare-and-swap operation if a normal load would not be atomic. @cindex @code{atomic_store@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_store@var{mode}} This pattern implements an atomic store operation with memory model semantics. Operand 0 is the memory address being stored to. Operand 1 is the value to be written. Operand 2 is the memory model to be used for the operation. If not present, the @code{__atomic_store} built-in function will attempt to perform a normal store and surround it with any required memory fences. If the store would not be atomic, then an @code{__atomic_exchange} is attempted with the result being ignored. @cindex @code{atomic_exchange@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_exchange@var{mode}} This pattern implements an atomic exchange operation with memory model semantics. Operand 1 is the memory location the operation is performed on. Operand 0 is an output operand which is set to the original value contained in the memory pointed to by operand 1. Operand 2 is the value to be stored. Operand 3 is the memory model to be used. If this pattern is not present, the built-in function @code{__atomic_exchange} will attempt to preform the operation with a compare and swap loop. @cindex @code{atomic_add@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_sub@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_or@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_and@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_xor@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_nand@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_add@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_sub@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{atomic_or@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_and@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{atomic_xor@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_nand@var{mode}} These patterns emit code for an atomic operation on memory with memory model semantics. Operand 0 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed. Operand 1 is the second operand to the binary operator. Operand 2 is the memory model to be used by the operation. If these patterns are not defined, attempts will be made to use legacy @code{sync} patterns, or equivalent patterns which return a result. If none of these are available a compare-and-swap loop will be used. @cindex @code{atomic_fetch_add@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_fetch_sub@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_fetch_or@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_fetch_and@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_fetch_xor@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_fetch_nand@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_fetch_add@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_fetch_sub@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{atomic_fetch_or@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_fetch_and@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{atomic_fetch_xor@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_fetch_nand@var{mode}} These patterns emit code for an atomic operation on memory with memory model semantics, and return the original value. Operand 0 is an output operand which contains the value of the memory location before the operation was performed. Operand 1 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed. Operand 2 is the second operand to the binary operator. Operand 3 is the memory model to be used by the operation. If these patterns are not defined, attempts will be made to use legacy @code{sync} patterns. If none of these are available a compare-and-swap loop will be used. @cindex @code{atomic_add_fetch@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_sub_fetch@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_or_fetch@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_and_fetch@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_xor_fetch@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{atomic_nand_fetch@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_add_fetch@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_sub_fetch@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{atomic_or_fetch@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_and_fetch@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{atomic_xor_fetch@var{mode}}, @samp{atomic_nand_fetch@var{mode}} These patterns emit code for an atomic operation on memory with memory model semantics and return the result after the operation is performed. Operand 0 is an output operand which contains the value after the operation. Operand 1 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed. Operand 2 is the second operand to the binary operator. Operand 3 is the memory model to be used by the operation. If these patterns are not defined, attempts will be made to use legacy @code{sync} patterns, or equivalent patterns which return the result before the operation followed by the arithmetic operation required to produce the result. If none of these are available a compare-and-swap loop will be used. @cindex @code{atomic_test_and_set} instruction pattern @item @samp{atomic_test_and_set} This pattern emits code for @code{__builtin_atomic_test_and_set}. Operand 0 is an output operand which is set to true if the previous previous contents of the byte was "set", and false otherwise. Operand 1 is the @code{QImode} memory to be modified. Operand 2 is the memory model to be used. The specific value that defines "set" is implementation defined, and is normally based on what is performed by the native atomic test and set instruction. @cindex @code{mem_thread_fence@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{mem_thread_fence@var{mode}} This pattern emits code required to implement a thread fence with memory model semantics. Operand 0 is the memory model to be used. If this pattern is not specified, all memory models except @code{__ATOMIC_RELAXED} will result in issuing a @code{sync_synchronize} barrier pattern. @cindex @code{mem_signal_fence@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{mem_signal_fence@var{mode}} This pattern emits code required to implement a signal fence with memory model semantics. Operand 0 is the memory model to be used. This pattern should impact the compiler optimizers the same way that mem_signal_fence does, but it does not need to issue any barrier instructions. If this pattern is not specified, all memory models except @code{__ATOMIC_RELAXED} will result in issuing a @code{sync_synchronize} barrier pattern. @cindex @code{get_thread_pointer@var{mode}} instruction pattern @cindex @code{set_thread_pointer@var{mode}} instruction pattern @item @samp{get_thread_pointer@var{mode}} @itemx @samp{set_thread_pointer@var{mode}} These patterns emit code that reads/sets the TLS thread pointer. Currently, these are only needed if the target needs to support the @code{__builtin_thread_pointer} and @code{__builtin_set_thread_pointer} builtins. The get/set patterns have a single output/input operand respectively, with @var{mode} intended to be @code{Pmode}. @cindex @code{stack_protect_set} instruction pattern @item @samp{stack_protect_set} This pattern, if defined, moves a @code{ptr_mode} value from the memory in operand 1 to the memory in operand 0 without leaving the value in a register afterward. This is to avoid leaking the value some place that an attacker might use to rewrite the stack guard slot after having clobbered it. If this pattern is not defined, then a plain move pattern is generated. @cindex @code{stack_protect_test} instruction pattern @item @samp{stack_protect_test} This pattern, if defined, compares a @code{ptr_mode} value from the memory in operand 1 with the memory in operand 0 without leaving the value in a register afterward and branches to operand 2 if the values were equal. If this pattern is not defined, then a plain compare pattern and conditional branch pattern is used. @cindex @code{clear_cache} instruction pattern @item @samp{clear_cache} This pattern, if defined, flushes the instruction cache for a region of memory. The region is bounded to by the Pmode pointers in operand 0 inclusive and operand 1 exclusive. If this pattern is not defined, a call to the library function @code{__clear_cache} is used. @end table @end ifset @c Each of the following nodes are wrapped in separate @c "@ifset INTERNALS" to work around memory limits for the default @c configuration in older tetex distributions. Known to not work: @c tetex-1.0.7, known to work: tetex-2.0.2. @ifset INTERNALS @node Pattern Ordering @section When the Order of Patterns Matters @cindex Pattern Ordering @cindex Ordering of Patterns Sometimes an insn can match more than one instruction pattern. Then the pattern that appears first in the machine description is the one used. Therefore, more specific patterns (patterns that will match fewer things) and faster instructions (those that will produce better code when they do match) should usually go first in the description. In some cases the effect of ordering the patterns can be used to hide a pattern when it is not valid. For example, the 68000 has an instruction for converting a fullword to floating point and another for converting a byte to floating point. An instruction converting an integer to floating point could match either one. We put the pattern to convert the fullword first to make sure that one will be used rather than the other. (Otherwise a large integer might be generated as a single-byte immediate quantity, which would not work.) Instead of using this pattern ordering it would be possible to make the pattern for convert-a-byte smart enough to deal properly with any constant value. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Dependent Patterns @section Interdependence of Patterns @cindex Dependent Patterns @cindex Interdependence of Patterns In some cases machines support instructions identical except for the machine mode of one or more operands. For example, there may be ``sign-extend halfword'' and ``sign-extend byte'' instructions whose patterns are @smallexample (set (match_operand:SI 0 @dots{}) (extend:SI (match_operand:HI 1 @dots{}))) (set (match_operand:SI 0 @dots{}) (extend:SI (match_operand:QI 1 @dots{}))) @end smallexample @noindent Constant integers do not specify a machine mode, so an instruction to extend a constant value could match either pattern. The pattern it actually will match is the one that appears first in the file. For correct results, this must be the one for the widest possible mode (@code{HImode}, here). If the pattern matches the @code{QImode} instruction, the results will be incorrect if the constant value does not actually fit that mode. Such instructions to extend constants are rarely generated because they are optimized away, but they do occasionally happen in nonoptimized compilations. If a constraint in a pattern allows a constant, the reload pass may replace a register with a constant permitted by the constraint in some cases. Similarly for memory references. Because of this substitution, you should not provide separate patterns for increment and decrement instructions. Instead, they should be generated from the same pattern that supports register-register add insns by examining the operands and generating the appropriate machine instruction. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Jump Patterns @section Defining Jump Instruction Patterns @cindex jump instruction patterns @cindex defining jump instruction patterns GCC does not assume anything about how the machine realizes jumps. The machine description should define a single pattern, usually a @code{define_expand}, which expands to all the required insns. Usually, this would be a comparison insn to set the condition code and a separate branch insn testing the condition code and branching or not according to its value. For many machines, however, separating compares and branches is limiting, which is why the more flexible approach with one @code{define_expand} is used in GCC. The machine description becomes clearer for architectures that have compare-and-branch instructions but no condition code. It also works better when different sets of comparison operators are supported by different kinds of conditional branches (e.g. integer vs. floating-point), or by conditional branches with respect to conditional stores. Two separate insns are always used if the machine description represents a condition code register using the legacy RTL expression @code{(cc0)}, and on most machines that use a separate condition code register (@pxref{Condition Code}). For machines that use @code{(cc0)}, in fact, the set and use of the condition code must be separate and adjacent@footnote{@code{note} insns can separate them, though.}, thus allowing flags in @code{cc_status} to be used (@pxref{Condition Code}) and so that the comparison and branch insns could be located from each other by using the functions @code{prev_cc0_setter} and @code{next_cc0_user}. Even in this case having a single entry point for conditional branches is advantageous, because it handles equally well the case where a single comparison instruction records the results of both signed and unsigned comparison of the given operands (with the branch insns coming in distinct signed and unsigned flavors) as in the x86 or SPARC, and the case where there are distinct signed and unsigned compare instructions and only one set of conditional branch instructions as in the PowerPC. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Looping Patterns @section Defining Looping Instruction Patterns @cindex looping instruction patterns @cindex defining looping instruction patterns Some machines have special jump instructions that can be utilized to make loops more efficient. A common example is the 68000 @samp{dbra} instruction which performs a decrement of a register and a branch if the result was greater than zero. Other machines, in particular digital signal processors (DSPs), have special block repeat instructions to provide low-overhead loop support. For example, the TI TMS320C3x/C4x DSPs have a block repeat instruction that loads special registers to mark the top and end of a loop and to count the number of loop iterations. This avoids the need for fetching and executing a @samp{dbra}-like instruction and avoids pipeline stalls associated with the jump. GCC has three special named patterns to support low overhead looping. They are @samp{decrement_and_branch_until_zero}, @samp{doloop_begin}, and @samp{doloop_end}. The first pattern, @samp{decrement_and_branch_until_zero}, is not emitted during RTL generation but may be emitted during the instruction combination phase. This requires the assistance of the loop optimizer, using information collected during strength reduction, to reverse a loop to count down to zero. Some targets also require the loop optimizer to add a @code{REG_NONNEG} note to indicate that the iteration count is always positive. This is needed if the target performs a signed loop termination test. For example, the 68000 uses a pattern similar to the following for its @code{dbra} instruction: @smallexample @group (define_insn "decrement_and_branch_until_zero" [(set (pc) (if_then_else (ge (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "+d*am") (const_int -1)) (const_int 0)) (label_ref (match_operand 1 "" "")) (pc))) (set (match_dup 0) (plus:SI (match_dup 0) (const_int -1)))] "find_reg_note (insn, REG_NONNEG, 0)" "@dots{}") @end group @end smallexample Note that since the insn is both a jump insn and has an output, it must deal with its own reloads, hence the `m' constraints. Also note that since this insn is generated by the instruction combination phase combining two sequential insns together into an implicit parallel insn, the iteration counter needs to be biased by the same amount as the decrement operation, in this case @minus{}1. Note that the following similar pattern will not be matched by the combiner. @smallexample @group (define_insn "decrement_and_branch_until_zero" [(set (pc) (if_then_else (ge (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "+d*am") (const_int 1)) (label_ref (match_operand 1 "" "")) (pc))) (set (match_dup 0) (plus:SI (match_dup 0) (const_int -1)))] "find_reg_note (insn, REG_NONNEG, 0)" "@dots{}") @end group @end smallexample The other two special looping patterns, @samp{doloop_begin} and @samp{doloop_end}, are emitted by the loop optimizer for certain well-behaved loops with a finite number of loop iterations using information collected during strength reduction. The @samp{doloop_end} pattern describes the actual looping instruction (or the implicit looping operation) and the @samp{doloop_begin} pattern is an optional companion pattern that can be used for initialization needed for some low-overhead looping instructions. Note that some machines require the actual looping instruction to be emitted at the top of the loop (e.g., the TMS320C3x/C4x DSPs). Emitting the true RTL for a looping instruction at the top of the loop can cause problems with flow analysis. So instead, a dummy @code{doloop} insn is emitted at the end of the loop. The machine dependent reorg pass checks for the presence of this @code{doloop} insn and then searches back to the top of the loop, where it inserts the true looping insn (provided there are no instructions in the loop which would cause problems). Any additional labels can be emitted at this point. In addition, if the desired special iteration counter register was not allocated, this machine dependent reorg pass could emit a traditional compare and jump instruction pair. The essential difference between the @samp{decrement_and_branch_until_zero} and the @samp{doloop_end} patterns is that the loop optimizer allocates an additional pseudo register for the latter as an iteration counter. This pseudo register cannot be used within the loop (i.e., general induction variables cannot be derived from it), however, in many cases the loop induction variable may become redundant and removed by the flow pass. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Insn Canonicalizations @section Canonicalization of Instructions @cindex canonicalization of instructions @cindex insn canonicalization There are often cases where multiple RTL expressions could represent an operation performed by a single machine instruction. This situation is most commonly encountered with logical, branch, and multiply-accumulate instructions. In such cases, the compiler attempts to convert these multiple RTL expressions into a single canonical form to reduce the number of insn patterns required. In addition to algebraic simplifications, following canonicalizations are performed: @itemize @bullet @item For commutative and comparison operators, a constant is always made the second operand. If a machine only supports a constant as the second operand, only patterns that match a constant in the second operand need be supplied. @item For associative operators, a sequence of operators will always chain to the left; for instance, only the left operand of an integer @code{plus} can itself be a @code{plus}. @code{and}, @code{ior}, @code{xor}, @code{plus}, @code{mult}, @code{smin}, @code{smax}, @code{umin}, and @code{umax} are associative when applied to integers, and sometimes to floating-point. @item @cindex @code{neg}, canonicalization of @cindex @code{not}, canonicalization of @cindex @code{mult}, canonicalization of @cindex @code{plus}, canonicalization of @cindex @code{minus}, canonicalization of For these operators, if only one operand is a @code{neg}, @code{not}, @code{mult}, @code{plus}, or @code{minus} expression, it will be the first operand. @item In combinations of @code{neg}, @code{mult}, @code{plus}, and @code{minus}, the @code{neg} operations (if any) will be moved inside the operations as far as possible. For instance, @code{(neg (mult A B))} is canonicalized as @code{(mult (neg A) B)}, but @code{(plus (mult (neg B) C) A)} is canonicalized as @code{(minus A (mult B C))}. @cindex @code{compare}, canonicalization of @item For the @code{compare} operator, a constant is always the second operand if the first argument is a condition code register or @code{(cc0)}. @item An operand of @code{neg}, @code{not}, @code{mult}, @code{plus}, or @code{minus} is made the first operand under the same conditions as above. @item @code{(ltu (plus @var{a} @var{b}) @var{b})} is converted to @code{(ltu (plus @var{a} @var{b}) @var{a})}. Likewise with @code{geu} instead of @code{ltu}. @item @code{(minus @var{x} (const_int @var{n}))} is converted to @code{(plus @var{x} (const_int @var{-n}))}. @item Within address computations (i.e., inside @code{mem}), a left shift is converted into the appropriate multiplication by a power of two. @cindex @code{ior}, canonicalization of @cindex @code{and}, canonicalization of @cindex De Morgan's law @item De Morgan's Law is used to move bitwise negation inside a bitwise logical-and or logical-or operation. If this results in only one operand being a @code{not} expression, it will be the first one. A machine that has an instruction that performs a bitwise logical-and of one operand with the bitwise negation of the other should specify the pattern for that instruction as @smallexample (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:@var{m} 0 @dots{}) (and:@var{m} (not:@var{m} (match_operand:@var{m} 1 @dots{})) (match_operand:@var{m} 2 @dots{})))] "@dots{}" "@dots{}") @end smallexample @noindent Similarly, a pattern for a ``NAND'' instruction should be written @smallexample (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:@var{m} 0 @dots{}) (ior:@var{m} (not:@var{m} (match_operand:@var{m} 1 @dots{})) (not:@var{m} (match_operand:@var{m} 2 @dots{}))))] "@dots{}" "@dots{}") @end smallexample In both cases, it is not necessary to include patterns for the many logically equivalent RTL expressions. @cindex @code{xor}, canonicalization of @item The only possible RTL expressions involving both bitwise exclusive-or and bitwise negation are @code{(xor:@var{m} @var{x} @var{y})} and @code{(not:@var{m} (xor:@var{m} @var{x} @var{y}))}. @item The sum of three items, one of which is a constant, will only appear in the form @smallexample (plus:@var{m} (plus:@var{m} @var{x} @var{y}) @var{constant}) @end smallexample @cindex @code{zero_extract}, canonicalization of @cindex @code{sign_extract}, canonicalization of @item Equality comparisons of a group of bits (usually a single bit) with zero will be written using @code{zero_extract} rather than the equivalent @code{and} or @code{sign_extract} operations. @cindex @code{mult}, canonicalization of @item @code{(sign_extend:@var{m1} (mult:@var{m2} (sign_extend:@var{m2} @var{x}) (sign_extend:@var{m2} @var{y})))} is converted to @code{(mult:@var{m1} (sign_extend:@var{m1} @var{x}) (sign_extend:@var{m1} @var{y}))}, and likewise for @code{zero_extend}. @item @code{(sign_extend:@var{m1} (mult:@var{m2} (ashiftrt:@var{m2} @var{x} @var{s}) (sign_extend:@var{m2} @var{y})))} is converted to @code{(mult:@var{m1} (sign_extend:@var{m1} (ashiftrt:@var{m2} @var{x} @var{s})) (sign_extend:@var{m1} @var{y}))}, and likewise for patterns using @code{zero_extend} and @code{lshiftrt}. If the second operand of @code{mult} is also a shift, then that is extended also. This transformation is only applied when it can be proven that the original operation had sufficient precision to prevent overflow. @end itemize Further canonicalization rules are defined in the function @code{commutative_operand_precedence} in @file{gcc/rtlanal.c}. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Expander Definitions @section Defining RTL Sequences for Code Generation @cindex expander definitions @cindex code generation RTL sequences @cindex defining RTL sequences for code generation On some target machines, some standard pattern names for RTL generation cannot be handled with single insn, but a sequence of RTL insns can represent them. For these target machines, you can write a @code{define_expand} to specify how to generate the sequence of RTL@. @findex define_expand A @code{define_expand} is an RTL expression that looks almost like a @code{define_insn}; but, unlike the latter, a @code{define_expand} is used only for RTL generation and it can produce more than one RTL insn. A @code{define_expand} RTX has four operands: @itemize @bullet @item The name. Each @code{define_expand} must have a name, since the only use for it is to refer to it by name. @item The RTL template. This is a vector of RTL expressions representing a sequence of separate instructions. Unlike @code{define_insn}, there is no implicit surrounding @code{PARALLEL}. @item The condition, a string containing a C expression. This expression is used to express how the availability of this pattern depends on subclasses of target machine, selected by command-line options when GCC is run. This is just like the condition of a @code{define_insn} that has a standard name. Therefore, the condition (if present) may not depend on the data in the insn being matched, but only the target-machine-type flags. The compiler needs to test these conditions during initialization in order to learn exactly which named instructions are available in a particular run. @item The preparation statements, a string containing zero or more C statements which are to be executed before RTL code is generated from the RTL template. Usually these statements prepare temporary registers for use as internal operands in the RTL template, but they can also generate RTL insns directly by calling routines such as @code{emit_insn}, etc. Any such insns precede the ones that come from the RTL template. @item Optionally, a vector containing the values of attributes. @xref{Insn Attributes}. @end itemize Every RTL insn emitted by a @code{define_expand} must match some @code{define_insn} in the machine description. Otherwise, the compiler will crash when trying to generate code for the insn or trying to optimize it. The RTL template, in addition to controlling generation of RTL insns, also describes the operands that need to be specified when this pattern is used. In particular, it gives a predicate for each operand. A true operand, which needs to be specified in order to generate RTL from the pattern, should be described with a @code{match_operand} in its first occurrence in the RTL template. This enters information on the operand's predicate into the tables that record such things. GCC uses the information to preload the operand into a register if that is required for valid RTL code. If the operand is referred to more than once, subsequent references should use @code{match_dup}. The RTL template may also refer to internal ``operands'' which are temporary registers or labels used only within the sequence made by the @code{define_expand}. Internal operands are substituted into the RTL template with @code{match_dup}, never with @code{match_operand}. The values of the internal operands are not passed in as arguments by the compiler when it requests use of this pattern. Instead, they are computed within the pattern, in the preparation statements. These statements compute the values and store them into the appropriate elements of @code{operands} so that @code{match_dup} can find them. There are two special macros defined for use in the preparation statements: @code{DONE} and @code{FAIL}. Use them with a following semicolon, as a statement. @table @code @findex DONE @item DONE Use the @code{DONE} macro to end RTL generation for the pattern. The only RTL insns resulting from the pattern on this occasion will be those already emitted by explicit calls to @code{emit_insn} within the preparation statements; the RTL template will not be generated. @findex FAIL @item FAIL Make the pattern fail on this occasion. When a pattern fails, it means that the pattern was not truly available. The calling routines in the compiler will try other strategies for code generation using other patterns. Failure is currently supported only for binary (addition, multiplication, shifting, etc.) and bit-field (@code{extv}, @code{extzv}, and @code{insv}) operations. @end table If the preparation falls through (invokes neither @code{DONE} nor @code{FAIL}), then the @code{define_expand} acts like a @code{define_insn} in that the RTL template is used to generate the insn. The RTL template is not used for matching, only for generating the initial insn list. If the preparation statement always invokes @code{DONE} or @code{FAIL}, the RTL template may be reduced to a simple list of operands, such as this example: @smallexample @group (define_expand "addsi3" [(match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "") (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "")] @end group @group "" " @{ handle_add (operands[0], operands[1], operands[2]); DONE; @}") @end group @end smallexample Here is an example, the definition of left-shift for the SPUR chip: @smallexample @group (define_expand "ashlsi3" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "") (ashift:SI @end group @group (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "") (match_operand:SI 2 "nonmemory_operand" "")))] "" " @end group @end smallexample @smallexample @group @{ if (GET_CODE (operands[2]) != CONST_INT || (unsigned) INTVAL (operands[2]) > 3) FAIL; @}") @end group @end smallexample @noindent This example uses @code{define_expand} so that it can generate an RTL insn for shifting when the shift-count is in the supported range of 0 to 3 but fail in other cases where machine insns aren't available. When it fails, the compiler tries another strategy using different patterns (such as, a library call). If the compiler were able to handle nontrivial condition-strings in patterns with names, then it would be possible to use a @code{define_insn} in that case. Here is another case (zero-extension on the 68000) which makes more use of the power of @code{define_expand}: @smallexample (define_expand "zero_extendhisi2" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "") (const_int 0)) (set (strict_low_part (subreg:HI (match_dup 0) 0)) (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand" ""))] "" "operands[1] = make_safe_from (operands[1], operands[0]);") @end smallexample @noindent @findex make_safe_from Here two RTL insns are generated, one to clear the entire output operand and the other to copy the input operand into its low half. This sequence is incorrect if the input operand refers to [the old value of] the output operand, so the preparation statement makes sure this isn't so. The function @code{make_safe_from} copies the @code{operands[1]} into a temporary register if it refers to @code{operands[0]}. It does this by emitting another RTL insn. Finally, a third example shows the use of an internal operand. Zero-extension on the SPUR chip is done by @code{and}-ing the result against a halfword mask. But this mask cannot be represented by a @code{const_int} because the constant value is too large to be legitimate on this machine. So it must be copied into a register with @code{force_reg} and then the register used in the @code{and}. @smallexample (define_expand "zero_extendhisi2" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "") (and:SI (subreg:SI (match_operand:HI 1 "register_operand" "") 0) (match_dup 2)))] "" "operands[2] = force_reg (SImode, GEN_INT (65535)); ") @end smallexample @emph{Note:} If the @code{define_expand} is used to serve a standard binary or unary arithmetic operation or a bit-field operation, then the last insn it generates must not be a @code{code_label}, @code{barrier} or @code{note}. It must be an @code{insn}, @code{jump_insn} or @code{call_insn}. If you don't need a real insn at the end, emit an insn to copy the result of the operation into itself. Such an insn will generate no code, but it can avoid problems in the compiler. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Insn Splitting @section Defining How to Split Instructions @cindex insn splitting @cindex instruction splitting @cindex splitting instructions There are two cases where you should specify how to split a pattern into multiple insns. On machines that have instructions requiring delay slots (@pxref{Delay Slots}) or that have instructions whose output is not available for multiple cycles (@pxref{Processor pipeline description}), the compiler phases that optimize these cases need to be able to move insns into one-instruction delay slots. However, some insns may generate more than one machine instruction. These insns cannot be placed into a delay slot. Often you can rewrite the single insn as a list of individual insns, each corresponding to one machine instruction. The disadvantage of doing so is that it will cause the compilation to be slower and require more space. If the resulting insns are too complex, it may also suppress some optimizations. The compiler splits the insn if there is a reason to believe that it might improve instruction or delay slot scheduling. The insn combiner phase also splits putative insns. If three insns are merged into one insn with a complex expression that cannot be matched by some @code{define_insn} pattern, the combiner phase attempts to split the complex pattern into two insns that are recognized. Usually it can break the complex pattern into two patterns by splitting out some subexpression. However, in some other cases, such as performing an addition of a large constant in two insns on a RISC machine, the way to split the addition into two insns is machine-dependent. @findex define_split The @code{define_split} definition tells the compiler how to split a complex insn into several simpler insns. It looks like this: @smallexample (define_split [@var{insn-pattern}] "@var{condition}" [@var{new-insn-pattern-1} @var{new-insn-pattern-2} @dots{}] "@var{preparation-statements}") @end smallexample @var{insn-pattern} is a pattern that needs to be split and @var{condition} is the final condition to be tested, as in a @code{define_insn}. When an insn matching @var{insn-pattern} and satisfying @var{condition} is found, it is replaced in the insn list with the insns given by @var{new-insn-pattern-1}, @var{new-insn-pattern-2}, etc. The @var{preparation-statements} are similar to those statements that are specified for @code{define_expand} (@pxref{Expander Definitions}) and are executed before the new RTL is generated to prepare for the generated code or emit some insns whose pattern is not fixed. Unlike those in @code{define_expand}, however, these statements must not generate any new pseudo-registers. Once reload has completed, they also must not allocate any space in the stack frame. Patterns are matched against @var{insn-pattern} in two different circumstances. If an insn needs to be split for delay slot scheduling or insn scheduling, the insn is already known to be valid, which means that it must have been matched by some @code{define_insn} and, if @code{reload_completed} is nonzero, is known to satisfy the constraints of that @code{define_insn}. In that case, the new insn patterns must also be insns that are matched by some @code{define_insn} and, if @code{reload_completed} is nonzero, must also satisfy the constraints of those definitions. As an example of this usage of @code{define_split}, consider the following example from @file{a29k.md}, which splits a @code{sign_extend} from @code{HImode} to @code{SImode} into a pair of shift insns: @smallexample (define_split [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "gen_reg_operand" "") (sign_extend:SI (match_operand:HI 1 "gen_reg_operand" "")))] "" [(set (match_dup 0) (ashift:SI (match_dup 1) (const_int 16))) (set (match_dup 0) (ashiftrt:SI (match_dup 0) (const_int 16)))] " @{ operands[1] = gen_lowpart (SImode, operands[1]); @}") @end smallexample When the combiner phase tries to split an insn pattern, it is always the case that the pattern is @emph{not} matched by any @code{define_insn}. The combiner pass first tries to split a single @code{set} expression and then the same @code{set} expression inside a @code{parallel}, but followed by a @code{clobber} of a pseudo-reg to use as a scratch register. In these cases, the combiner expects exactly two new insn patterns to be generated. It will verify that these patterns match some @code{define_insn} definitions, so you need not do this test in the @code{define_split} (of course, there is no point in writing a @code{define_split} that will never produce insns that match). Here is an example of this use of @code{define_split}, taken from @file{rs6000.md}: @smallexample (define_split [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "gen_reg_operand" "") (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "gen_reg_operand" "") (match_operand:SI 2 "non_add_cint_operand" "")))] "" [(set (match_dup 0) (plus:SI (match_dup 1) (match_dup 3))) (set (match_dup 0) (plus:SI (match_dup 0) (match_dup 4)))] " @{ int low = INTVAL (operands[2]) & 0xffff; int high = (unsigned) INTVAL (operands[2]) >> 16; if (low & 0x8000) high++, low |= 0xffff0000; operands[3] = GEN_INT (high << 16); operands[4] = GEN_INT (low); @}") @end smallexample Here the predicate @code{non_add_cint_operand} matches any @code{const_int} that is @emph{not} a valid operand of a single add insn. The add with the smaller displacement is written so that it can be substituted into the address of a subsequent operation. An example that uses a scratch register, from the same file, generates an equality comparison of a register and a large constant: @smallexample (define_split [(set (match_operand:CC 0 "cc_reg_operand" "") (compare:CC (match_operand:SI 1 "gen_reg_operand" "") (match_operand:SI 2 "non_short_cint_operand" ""))) (clobber (match_operand:SI 3 "gen_reg_operand" ""))] "find_single_use (operands[0], insn, 0) && (GET_CODE (*find_single_use (operands[0], insn, 0)) == EQ || GET_CODE (*find_single_use (operands[0], insn, 0)) == NE)" [(set (match_dup 3) (xor:SI (match_dup 1) (match_dup 4))) (set (match_dup 0) (compare:CC (match_dup 3) (match_dup 5)))] " @{ /* @r{Get the constant we are comparing against, C, and see what it looks like sign-extended to 16 bits. Then see what constant could be XOR'ed with C to get the sign-extended value.} */ int c = INTVAL (operands[2]); int sextc = (c << 16) >> 16; int xorv = c ^ sextc; operands[4] = GEN_INT (xorv); operands[5] = GEN_INT (sextc); @}") @end smallexample To avoid confusion, don't write a single @code{define_split} that accepts some insns that match some @code{define_insn} as well as some insns that don't. Instead, write two separate @code{define_split} definitions, one for the insns that are valid and one for the insns that are not valid. The splitter is allowed to split jump instructions into sequence of jumps or create new jumps in while splitting non-jump instructions. As the central flowgraph and branch prediction information needs to be updated, several restriction apply. Splitting of jump instruction into sequence that over by another jump instruction is always valid, as compiler expect identical behavior of new jump. When new sequence contains multiple jump instructions or new labels, more assistance is needed. Splitter is required to create only unconditional jumps, or simple conditional jump instructions. Additionally it must attach a @code{REG_BR_PROB} note to each conditional jump. A global variable @code{split_branch_probability} holds the probability of the original branch in case it was a simple conditional jump, @minus{}1 otherwise. To simplify recomputing of edge frequencies, the new sequence is required to have only forward jumps to the newly created labels. @findex define_insn_and_split For the common case where the pattern of a define_split exactly matches the pattern of a define_insn, use @code{define_insn_and_split}. It looks like this: @smallexample (define_insn_and_split [@var{insn-pattern}] "@var{condition}" "@var{output-template}" "@var{split-condition}" [@var{new-insn-pattern-1} @var{new-insn-pattern-2} @dots{}] "@var{preparation-statements}" [@var{insn-attributes}]) @end smallexample @var{insn-pattern}, @var{condition}, @var{output-template}, and @var{insn-attributes} are used as in @code{define_insn}. The @var{new-insn-pattern} vector and the @var{preparation-statements} are used as in a @code{define_split}. The @var{split-condition} is also used as in @code{define_split}, with the additional behavior that if the condition starts with @samp{&&}, the condition used for the split will be the constructed as a logical ``and'' of the split condition with the insn condition. For example, from i386.md: @smallexample (define_insn_and_split "zero_extendhisi2_and" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=r") (zero_extend:SI (match_operand:HI 1 "register_operand" "0"))) (clobber (reg:CC 17))] "TARGET_ZERO_EXTEND_WITH_AND && !optimize_size" "#" "&& reload_completed" [(parallel [(set (match_dup 0) (and:SI (match_dup 0) (const_int 65535))) (clobber (reg:CC 17))])] "" [(set_attr "type" "alu1")]) @end smallexample In this case, the actual split condition will be @samp{TARGET_ZERO_EXTEND_WITH_AND && !optimize_size && reload_completed}. The @code{define_insn_and_split} construction provides exactly the same functionality as two separate @code{define_insn} and @code{define_split} patterns. It exists for compactness, and as a maintenance tool to prevent having to ensure the two patterns' templates match. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Including Patterns @section Including Patterns in Machine Descriptions. @cindex insn includes @findex include The @code{include} pattern tells the compiler tools where to look for patterns that are in files other than in the file @file{.md}. This is used only at build time and there is no preprocessing allowed. It looks like: @smallexample (include @var{pathname}) @end smallexample For example: @smallexample (include "filestuff") @end smallexample Where @var{pathname} is a string that specifies the location of the file, specifies the include file to be in @file{gcc/config/target/filestuff}. The directory @file{gcc/config/target} is regarded as the default directory. Machine descriptions may be split up into smaller more manageable subsections and placed into subdirectories. By specifying: @smallexample (include "BOGUS/filestuff") @end smallexample the include file is specified to be in @file{gcc/config/@var{target}/BOGUS/filestuff}. Specifying an absolute path for the include file such as; @smallexample (include "/u2/BOGUS/filestuff") @end smallexample is permitted but is not encouraged. @subsection RTL Generation Tool Options for Directory Search @cindex directory options .md @cindex options, directory search @cindex search options The @option{-I@var{dir}} option specifies directories to search for machine descriptions. For example: @smallexample genrecog -I/p1/abc/proc1 -I/p2/abcd/pro2 target.md @end smallexample Add the directory @var{dir} to the head of the list of directories to be searched for header files. This can be used to override a system machine definition file, substituting your own version, since these directories are searched before the default machine description file directories. If you use more than one @option{-I} option, the directories are scanned in left-to-right order; the standard default directory come after. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Peephole Definitions @section Machine-Specific Peephole Optimizers @cindex peephole optimizer definitions @cindex defining peephole optimizers In addition to instruction patterns the @file{md} file may contain definitions of machine-specific peephole optimizations. The combiner does not notice certain peephole optimizations when the data flow in the program does not suggest that it should try them. For example, sometimes two consecutive insns related in purpose can be combined even though the second one does not appear to use a register computed in the first one. A machine-specific peephole optimizer can detect such opportunities. There are two forms of peephole definitions that may be used. The original @code{define_peephole} is run at assembly output time to match insns and substitute assembly text. Use of @code{define_peephole} is deprecated. A newer @code{define_peephole2} matches insns and substitutes new insns. The @code{peephole2} pass is run after register allocation but before scheduling, which may result in much better code for targets that do scheduling. @menu * define_peephole:: RTL to Text Peephole Optimizers * define_peephole2:: RTL to RTL Peephole Optimizers @end menu @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node define_peephole @subsection RTL to Text Peephole Optimizers @findex define_peephole @need 1000 A definition looks like this: @smallexample (define_peephole [@var{insn-pattern-1} @var{insn-pattern-2} @dots{}] "@var{condition}" "@var{template}" "@var{optional-insn-attributes}") @end smallexample @noindent The last string operand may be omitted if you are not using any machine-specific information in this machine description. If present, it must obey the same rules as in a @code{define_insn}. In this skeleton, @var{insn-pattern-1} and so on are patterns to match consecutive insns. The optimization applies to a sequence of insns when @var{insn-pattern-1} matches the first one, @var{insn-pattern-2} matches the next, and so on. Each of the insns matched by a peephole must also match a @code{define_insn}. Peepholes are checked only at the last stage just before code generation, and only optionally. Therefore, any insn which would match a peephole but no @code{define_insn} will cause a crash in code generation in an unoptimized compilation, or at various optimization stages. The operands of the insns are matched with @code{match_operands}, @code{match_operator}, and @code{match_dup}, as usual. What is not usual is that the operand numbers apply to all the insn patterns in the definition. So, you can check for identical operands in two insns by using @code{match_operand} in one insn and @code{match_dup} in the other. The operand constraints used in @code{match_operand} patterns do not have any direct effect on the applicability of the peephole, but they will be validated afterward, so make sure your constraints are general enough to apply whenever the peephole matches. If the peephole matches but the constraints are not satisfied, the compiler will crash. It is safe to omit constraints in all the operands of the peephole; or you can write constraints which serve as a double-check on the criteria previously tested. Once a sequence of insns matches the patterns, the @var{condition} is checked. This is a C expression which makes the final decision whether to perform the optimization (we do so if the expression is nonzero). If @var{condition} is omitted (in other words, the string is empty) then the optimization is applied to every sequence of insns that matches the patterns. The defined peephole optimizations are applied after register allocation is complete. Therefore, the peephole definition can check which operands have ended up in which kinds of registers, just by looking at the operands. @findex prev_active_insn The way to refer to the operands in @var{condition} is to write @code{operands[@var{i}]} for operand number @var{i} (as matched by @code{(match_operand @var{i} @dots{})}). Use the variable @code{insn} to refer to the last of the insns being matched; use @code{prev_active_insn} to find the preceding insns. @findex dead_or_set_p When optimizing computations with intermediate results, you can use @var{condition} to match only when the intermediate results are not used elsewhere. Use the C expression @code{dead_or_set_p (@var{insn}, @var{op})}, where @var{insn} is the insn in which you expect the value to be used for the last time (from the value of @code{insn}, together with use of @code{prev_nonnote_insn}), and @var{op} is the intermediate value (from @code{operands[@var{i}]}). Applying the optimization means replacing the sequence of insns with one new insn. The @var{template} controls ultimate output of assembler code for this combined insn. It works exactly like the template of a @code{define_insn}. Operand numbers in this template are the same ones used in matching the original sequence of insns. The result of a defined peephole optimizer does not need to match any of the insn patterns in the machine description; it does not even have an opportunity to match them. The peephole optimizer definition itself serves as the insn pattern to control how the insn is output. Defined peephole optimizers are run as assembler code is being output, so the insns they produce are never combined or rearranged in any way. Here is an example, taken from the 68000 machine description: @smallexample (define_peephole [(set (reg:SI 15) (plus:SI (reg:SI 15) (const_int 4))) (set (match_operand:DF 0 "register_operand" "=f") (match_operand:DF 1 "register_operand" "ad"))] "FP_REG_P (operands[0]) && ! FP_REG_P (operands[1])" @{ rtx xoperands[2]; xoperands[1] = gen_rtx_REG (SImode, REGNO (operands[1]) + 1); #ifdef MOTOROLA output_asm_insn ("move.l %1,(sp)", xoperands); output_asm_insn ("move.l %1,-(sp)", operands); return "fmove.d (sp)+,%0"; #else output_asm_insn ("movel %1,sp@@", xoperands); output_asm_insn ("movel %1,sp@@-", operands); return "fmoved sp@@+,%0"; #endif @}) @end smallexample @need 1000 The effect of this optimization is to change @smallexample @group jbsr _foobar addql #4,sp movel d1,sp@@- movel d0,sp@@- fmoved sp@@+,fp0 @end group @end smallexample @noindent into @smallexample @group jbsr _foobar movel d1,sp@@ movel d0,sp@@- fmoved sp@@+,fp0 @end group @end smallexample @ignore @findex CC_REVERSED If a peephole matches a sequence including one or more jump insns, you must take account of the flags such as @code{CC_REVERSED} which specify that the condition codes are represented in an unusual manner. The compiler automatically alters any ordinary conditional jumps which occur in such situations, but the compiler cannot alter jumps which have been replaced by peephole optimizations. So it is up to you to alter the assembler code that the peephole produces. Supply C code to write the assembler output, and in this C code check the condition code status flags and change the assembler code as appropriate. @end ignore @var{insn-pattern-1} and so on look @emph{almost} like the second operand of @code{define_insn}. There is one important difference: the second operand of @code{define_insn} consists of one or more RTX's enclosed in square brackets. Usually, there is only one: then the same action can be written as an element of a @code{define_peephole}. But when there are multiple actions in a @code{define_insn}, they are implicitly enclosed in a @code{parallel}. Then you must explicitly write the @code{parallel}, and the square brackets within it, in the @code{define_peephole}. Thus, if an insn pattern looks like this, @smallexample (define_insn "divmodsi4" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=d") (div:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "0") (match_operand:SI 2 "general_operand" "dmsK"))) (set (match_operand:SI 3 "general_operand" "=d") (mod:SI (match_dup 1) (match_dup 2)))] "TARGET_68020" "divsl%.l %2,%3:%0") @end smallexample @noindent then the way to mention this insn in a peephole is as follows: @smallexample (define_peephole [@dots{} (parallel [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=d") (div:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "0") (match_operand:SI 2 "general_operand" "dmsK"))) (set (match_operand:SI 3 "general_operand" "=d") (mod:SI (match_dup 1) (match_dup 2)))]) @dots{}] @dots{}) @end smallexample @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node define_peephole2 @subsection RTL to RTL Peephole Optimizers @findex define_peephole2 The @code{define_peephole2} definition tells the compiler how to substitute one sequence of instructions for another sequence, what additional scratch registers may be needed and what their lifetimes must be. @smallexample (define_peephole2 [@var{insn-pattern-1} @var{insn-pattern-2} @dots{}] "@var{condition}" [@var{new-insn-pattern-1} @var{new-insn-pattern-2} @dots{}] "@var{preparation-statements}") @end smallexample The definition is almost identical to @code{define_split} (@pxref{Insn Splitting}) except that the pattern to match is not a single instruction, but a sequence of instructions. It is possible to request additional scratch registers for use in the output template. If appropriate registers are not free, the pattern will simply not match. @findex match_scratch @findex match_dup Scratch registers are requested with a @code{match_scratch} pattern at the top level of the input pattern. The allocated register (initially) will be dead at the point requested within the original sequence. If the scratch is used at more than a single point, a @code{match_dup} pattern at the top level of the input pattern marks the last position in the input sequence at which the register must be available. Here is an example from the IA-32 machine description: @smallexample (define_peephole2 [(match_scratch:SI 2 "r") (parallel [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "") (match_operator:SI 3 "arith_or_logical_operator" [(match_dup 0) (match_operand:SI 1 "memory_operand" "")])) (clobber (reg:CC 17))])] "! optimize_size && ! TARGET_READ_MODIFY" [(set (match_dup 2) (match_dup 1)) (parallel [(set (match_dup 0) (match_op_dup 3 [(match_dup 0) (match_dup 2)])) (clobber (reg:CC 17))])] "") @end smallexample @noindent This pattern tries to split a load from its use in the hopes that we'll be able to schedule around the memory load latency. It allocates a single @code{SImode} register of class @code{GENERAL_REGS} (@code{"r"}) that needs to be live only at the point just before the arithmetic. A real example requiring extended scratch lifetimes is harder to come by, so here's a silly made-up example: @smallexample (define_peephole2 [(match_scratch:SI 4 "r") (set (match_operand:SI 0 "" "") (match_operand:SI 1 "" "")) (set (match_operand:SI 2 "" "") (match_dup 1)) (match_dup 4) (set (match_operand:SI 3 "" "") (match_dup 1))] "/* @r{determine 1 does not overlap 0 and 2} */" [(set (match_dup 4) (match_dup 1)) (set (match_dup 0) (match_dup 4)) (set (match_dup 2) (match_dup 4))] (set (match_dup 3) (match_dup 4))] "") @end smallexample @noindent If we had not added the @code{(match_dup 4)} in the middle of the input sequence, it might have been the case that the register we chose at the beginning of the sequence is killed by the first or second @code{set}. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Insn Attributes @section Instruction Attributes @cindex insn attributes @cindex instruction attributes In addition to describing the instruction supported by the target machine, the @file{md} file also defines a group of @dfn{attributes} and a set of values for each. Every generated insn is assigned a value for each attribute. One possible attribute would be the effect that the insn has on the machine's condition code. This attribute can then be used by @code{NOTICE_UPDATE_CC} to track the condition codes. @menu * Defining Attributes:: Specifying attributes and their values. * Expressions:: Valid expressions for attribute values. * Tagging Insns:: Assigning attribute values to insns. * Attr Example:: An example of assigning attributes. * Insn Lengths:: Computing the length of insns. * Constant Attributes:: Defining attributes that are constant. * Delay Slots:: Defining delay slots required for a machine. * Processor pipeline description:: Specifying information for insn scheduling. @end menu @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Defining Attributes @subsection Defining Attributes and their Values @cindex defining attributes and their values @cindex attributes, defining @findex define_attr The @code{define_attr} expression is used to define each attribute required by the target machine. It looks like: @smallexample (define_attr @var{name} @var{list-of-values} @var{default}) @end smallexample @var{name} is a string specifying the name of the attribute being defined. Some attributes are used in a special way by the rest of the compiler. The @code{enabled} attribute can be used to conditionally enable or disable insn alternatives (@pxref{Disable Insn Alternatives}). The @code{predicable} attribute, together with a suitable @code{define_cond_exec} (@pxref{Conditional Execution}), can be used to automatically generate conditional variants of instruction patterns. The compiler internally uses the names @code{ce_enabled} and @code{nonce_enabled}, so they should not be used elsewhere as alternative names. @var{list-of-values} is either a string that specifies a comma-separated list of values that can be assigned to the attribute, or a null string to indicate that the attribute takes numeric values. @var{default} is an attribute expression that gives the value of this attribute for insns that match patterns whose definition does not include an explicit value for this attribute. @xref{Attr Example}, for more information on the handling of defaults. @xref{Constant Attributes}, for information on attributes that do not depend on any particular insn. @findex insn-attr.h For each defined attribute, a number of definitions are written to the @file{insn-attr.h} file. For cases where an explicit set of values is specified for an attribute, the following are defined: @itemize @bullet @item A @samp{#define} is written for the symbol @samp{HAVE_ATTR_@var{name}}. @item An enumerated class is defined for @samp{attr_@var{name}} with elements of the form @samp{@var{upper-name}_@var{upper-value}} where the attribute name and value are first converted to uppercase. @item A function @samp{get_attr_@var{name}} is defined that is passed an insn and returns the attribute value for that insn. @end itemize For example, if the following is present in the @file{md} file: @smallexample (define_attr "type" "branch,fp,load,store,arith" @dots{}) @end smallexample @noindent the following lines will be written to the file @file{insn-attr.h}. @smallexample #define HAVE_ATTR_type 1 enum attr_type @{TYPE_BRANCH, TYPE_FP, TYPE_LOAD, TYPE_STORE, TYPE_ARITH@}; extern enum attr_type get_attr_type (); @end smallexample If the attribute takes numeric values, no @code{enum} type will be defined and the function to obtain the attribute's value will return @code{int}. There are attributes which are tied to a specific meaning. These attributes are not free to use for other purposes: @table @code @item length The @code{length} attribute is used to calculate the length of emitted code chunks. This is especially important when verifying branch distances. @xref{Insn Lengths}. @item enabled The @code{enabled} attribute can be defined to prevent certain alternatives of an insn definition from being used during code generation. @xref{Disable Insn Alternatives}. @end table For each of these special attributes, the corresponding @samp{HAVE_ATTR_@var{name}} @samp{#define} is also written when the attribute is not defined; in that case, it is defined as @samp{0}. @findex define_enum_attr @anchor{define_enum_attr} Another way of defining an attribute is to use: @smallexample (define_enum_attr "@var{attr}" "@var{enum}" @var{default}) @end smallexample This works in just the same way as @code{define_attr}, except that the list of values is taken from a separate enumeration called @var{enum} (@pxref{define_enum}). This form allows you to use the same list of values for several attributes without having to repeat the list each time. For example: @smallexample (define_enum "processor" [ model_a model_b @dots{} ]) (define_enum_attr "arch" "processor" (const (symbol_ref "target_arch"))) (define_enum_attr "tune" "processor" (const (symbol_ref "target_tune"))) @end smallexample defines the same attributes as: @smallexample (define_attr "arch" "model_a,model_b,@dots{}" (const (symbol_ref "target_arch"))) (define_attr "tune" "model_a,model_b,@dots{}" (const (symbol_ref "target_tune"))) @end smallexample but without duplicating the processor list. The second example defines two separate C enums (@code{attr_arch} and @code{attr_tune}) whereas the first defines a single C enum (@code{processor}). @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Expressions @subsection Attribute Expressions @cindex attribute expressions RTL expressions used to define attributes use the codes described above plus a few specific to attribute definitions, to be discussed below. Attribute value expressions must have one of the following forms: @table @code @cindex @code{const_int} and attributes @item (const_int @var{i}) The integer @var{i} specifies the value of a numeric attribute. @var{i} must be non-negative. The value of a numeric attribute can be specified either with a @code{const_int}, or as an integer represented as a string in @code{const_string}, @code{eq_attr} (see below), @code{attr}, @code{symbol_ref}, simple arithmetic expressions, and @code{set_attr} overrides on specific instructions (@pxref{Tagging Insns}). @cindex @code{const_string} and attributes @item (const_string @var{value}) The string @var{value} specifies a constant attribute value. If @var{value} is specified as @samp{"*"}, it means that the default value of the attribute is to be used for the insn containing this expression. @samp{"*"} obviously cannot be used in the @var{default} expression of a @code{define_attr}. If the attribute whose value is being specified is numeric, @var{value} must be a string containing a non-negative integer (normally @code{const_int} would be used in this case). Otherwise, it must contain one of the valid values for the attribute. @cindex @code{if_then_else} and attributes @item (if_then_else @var{test} @var{true-value} @var{false-value}) @var{test} specifies an attribute test, whose format is defined below. The value of this expression is @var{true-value} if @var{test} is true, otherwise it is @var{false-value}. @cindex @code{cond} and attributes @item (cond [@var{test1} @var{value1} @dots{}] @var{default}) The first operand of this expression is a vector containing an even number of expressions and consisting of pairs of @var{test} and @var{value} expressions. The value of the @code{cond} expression is that of the @var{value} corresponding to the first true @var{test} expression. If none of the @var{test} expressions are true, the value of the @code{cond} expression is that of the @var{default} expression. @end table @var{test} expressions can have one of the following forms: @table @code @cindex @code{const_int} and attribute tests @item (const_int @var{i}) This test is true if @var{i} is nonzero and false otherwise. @cindex @code{not} and attributes @cindex @code{ior} and attributes @cindex @code{and} and attributes @item (not @var{test}) @itemx (ior @var{test1} @var{test2}) @itemx (and @var{test1} @var{test2}) These tests are true if the indicated logical function is true. @cindex @code{match_operand} and attributes @item (match_operand:@var{m} @var{n} @var{pred} @var{constraints}) This test is true if operand @var{n} of the insn whose attribute value is being determined has mode @var{m} (this part of the test is ignored if @var{m} is @code{VOIDmode}) and the function specified by the string @var{pred} returns a nonzero value when passed operand @var{n} and mode @var{m} (this part of the test is ignored if @var{pred} is the null string). The @var{constraints} operand is ignored and should be the null string. @cindex @code{match_test} and attributes @item (match_test @var{c-expr}) The test is true if C expression @var{c-expr} is true. In non-constant attributes, @var{c-expr} has access to the following variables: @table @var @item insn The rtl instruction under test. @item which_alternative The @code{define_insn} alternative that @var{insn} matches. @xref{Output Statement}. @item operands An array of @var{insn}'s rtl operands. @end table @var{c-expr} behaves like the condition in a C @code{if} statement, so there is no need to explicitly convert the expression into a boolean 0 or 1 value. For example, the following two tests are equivalent: @smallexample (match_test "x & 2") (match_test "(x & 2) != 0") @end smallexample @cindex @code{le} and attributes @cindex @code{leu} and attributes @cindex @code{lt} and attributes @cindex @code{gt} and attributes @cindex @code{gtu} and attributes @cindex @code{ge} and attributes @cindex @code{geu} and attributes @cindex @code{ne} and attributes @cindex @code{eq} and attributes @cindex @code{plus} and attributes @cindex @code{minus} and attributes @cindex @code{mult} and attributes @cindex @code{div} and attributes @cindex @code{mod} and attributes @cindex @code{abs} and attributes @cindex @code{neg} and attributes @cindex @code{ashift} and attributes @cindex @code{lshiftrt} and attributes @cindex @code{ashiftrt} and attributes @item (le @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (leu @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (lt @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (ltu @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (gt @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (gtu @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (ge @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (geu @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (ne @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) @itemx (eq @var{arith1} @var{arith2}) These tests are true if the indicated comparison of the two arithmetic expressions is true. Arithmetic expressions are formed with @code{plus}, @code{minus}, @code{mult}, @code{div}, @code{mod}, @code{abs}, @code{neg}, @code{and}, @code{ior}, @code{xor}, @code{not}, @code{ashift}, @code{lshiftrt}, and @code{ashiftrt} expressions. @findex get_attr @code{const_int} and @code{symbol_ref} are always valid terms (@pxref{Insn Lengths},for additional forms). @code{symbol_ref} is a string denoting a C expression that yields an @code{int} when evaluated by the @samp{get_attr_@dots{}} routine. It should normally be a global variable. @findex eq_attr @item (eq_attr @var{name} @var{value}) @var{name} is a string specifying the name of an attribute. @var{value} is a string that is either a valid value for attribute @var{name}, a comma-separated list of values, or @samp{!} followed by a value or list. If @var{value} does not begin with a @samp{!}, this test is true if the value of the @var{name} attribute of the current insn is in the list specified by @var{value}. If @var{value} begins with a @samp{!}, this test is true if the attribute's value is @emph{not} in the specified list. For example, @smallexample (eq_attr "type" "load,store") @end smallexample @noindent is equivalent to @smallexample (ior (eq_attr "type" "load") (eq_attr "type" "store")) @end smallexample If @var{name} specifies an attribute of @samp{alternative}, it refers to the value of the compiler variable @code{which_alternative} (@pxref{Output Statement}) and the values must be small integers. For example, @smallexample (eq_attr "alternative" "2,3") @end smallexample @noindent is equivalent to @smallexample (ior (eq (symbol_ref "which_alternative") (const_int 2)) (eq (symbol_ref "which_alternative") (const_int 3))) @end smallexample Note that, for most attributes, an @code{eq_attr} test is simplified in cases where the value of the attribute being tested is known for all insns matching a particular pattern. This is by far the most common case. @findex attr_flag @item (attr_flag @var{name}) The value of an @code{attr_flag} expression is true if the flag specified by @var{name} is true for the @code{insn} currently being scheduled. @var{name} is a string specifying one of a fixed set of flags to test. Test the flags @code{forward} and @code{backward} to determine the direction of a conditional branch. This example describes a conditional branch delay slot which can be nullified for forward branches that are taken (annul-true) or for backward branches which are not taken (annul-false). @smallexample (define_delay (eq_attr "type" "cbranch") [(eq_attr "in_branch_delay" "true") (and (eq_attr "in_branch_delay" "true") (attr_flag "forward")) (and (eq_attr "in_branch_delay" "true") (attr_flag "backward"))]) @end smallexample The @code{forward} and @code{backward} flags are false if the current @code{insn} being scheduled is not a conditional branch. @code{attr_flag} is only used during delay slot scheduling and has no meaning to other passes of the compiler. @findex attr @item (attr @var{name}) The value of another attribute is returned. This is most useful for numeric attributes, as @code{eq_attr} and @code{attr_flag} produce more efficient code for non-numeric attributes. @end table @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Tagging Insns @subsection Assigning Attribute Values to Insns @cindex tagging insns @cindex assigning attribute values to insns The value assigned to an attribute of an insn is primarily determined by which pattern is matched by that insn (or which @code{define_peephole} generated it). Every @code{define_insn} and @code{define_peephole} can have an optional last argument to specify the values of attributes for matching insns. The value of any attribute not specified in a particular insn is set to the default value for that attribute, as specified in its @code{define_attr}. Extensive use of default values for attributes permits the specification of the values for only one or two attributes in the definition of most insn patterns, as seen in the example in the next section. The optional last argument of @code{define_insn} and @code{define_peephole} is a vector of expressions, each of which defines the value for a single attribute. The most general way of assigning an attribute's value is to use a @code{set} expression whose first operand is an @code{attr} expression giving the name of the attribute being set. The second operand of the @code{set} is an attribute expression (@pxref{Expressions}) giving the value of the attribute. When the attribute value depends on the @samp{alternative} attribute (i.e., which is the applicable alternative in the constraint of the insn), the @code{set_attr_alternative} expression can be used. It allows the specification of a vector of attribute expressions, one for each alternative. @findex set_attr When the generality of arbitrary attribute expressions is not required, the simpler @code{set_attr} expression can be used, which allows specifying a string giving either a single attribute value or a list of attribute values, one for each alternative. The form of each of the above specifications is shown below. In each case, @var{name} is a string specifying the attribute to be set. @table @code @item (set_attr @var{name} @var{value-string}) @var{value-string} is either a string giving the desired attribute value, or a string containing a comma-separated list giving the values for succeeding alternatives. The number of elements must match the number of alternatives in the constraint of the insn pattern. Note that it may be useful to specify @samp{*} for some alternative, in which case the attribute will assume its default value for insns matching that alternative. @findex set_attr_alternative @item (set_attr_alternative @var{name} [@var{value1} @var{value2} @dots{}]) Depending on the alternative of the insn, the value will be one of the specified values. This is a shorthand for using a @code{cond} with tests on the @samp{alternative} attribute. @findex attr @item (set (attr @var{name}) @var{value}) The first operand of this @code{set} must be the special RTL expression @code{attr}, whose sole operand is a string giving the name of the attribute being set. @var{value} is the value of the attribute. @end table The following shows three different ways of representing the same attribute value specification: @smallexample (set_attr "type" "load,store,arith") (set_attr_alternative "type" [(const_string "load") (const_string "store") (const_string "arith")]) (set (attr "type") (cond [(eq_attr "alternative" "1") (const_string "load") (eq_attr "alternative" "2") (const_string "store")] (const_string "arith"))) @end smallexample @need 1000 @findex define_asm_attributes The @code{define_asm_attributes} expression provides a mechanism to specify the attributes assigned to insns produced from an @code{asm} statement. It has the form: @smallexample (define_asm_attributes [@var{attr-sets}]) @end smallexample @noindent where @var{attr-sets} is specified the same as for both the @code{define_insn} and the @code{define_peephole} expressions. These values will typically be the ``worst case'' attribute values. For example, they might indicate that the condition code will be clobbered. A specification for a @code{length} attribute is handled specially. The way to compute the length of an @code{asm} insn is to multiply the length specified in the expression @code{define_asm_attributes} by the number of machine instructions specified in the @code{asm} statement, determined by counting the number of semicolons and newlines in the string. Therefore, the value of the @code{length} attribute specified in a @code{define_asm_attributes} should be the maximum possible length of a single machine instruction. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Attr Example @subsection Example of Attribute Specifications @cindex attribute specifications example @cindex attribute specifications The judicious use of defaulting is important in the efficient use of insn attributes. Typically, insns are divided into @dfn{types} and an attribute, customarily called @code{type}, is used to represent this value. This attribute is normally used only to define the default value for other attributes. An example will clarify this usage. Assume we have a RISC machine with a condition code and in which only full-word operations are performed in registers. Let us assume that we can divide all insns into loads, stores, (integer) arithmetic operations, floating point operations, and branches. Here we will concern ourselves with determining the effect of an insn on the condition code and will limit ourselves to the following possible effects: The condition code can be set unpredictably (clobbered), not be changed, be set to agree with the results of the operation, or only changed if the item previously set into the condition code has been modified. Here is part of a sample @file{md} file for such a machine: @smallexample (define_attr "type" "load,store,arith,fp,branch" (const_string "arith")) (define_attr "cc" "clobber,unchanged,set,change0" (cond [(eq_attr "type" "load") (const_string "change0") (eq_attr "type" "store,branch") (const_string "unchanged") (eq_attr "type" "arith") (if_then_else (match_operand:SI 0 "" "") (const_string "set") (const_string "clobber"))] (const_string "clobber"))) (define_insn "" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r,r,m") (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "r,m,r"))] "" "@@ move %0,%1 load %0,%1 store %0,%1" [(set_attr "type" "arith,load,store")]) @end smallexample Note that we assume in the above example that arithmetic operations performed on quantities smaller than a machine word clobber the condition code since they will set the condition code to a value corresponding to the full-word result. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Insn Lengths @subsection Computing the Length of an Insn @cindex insn lengths, computing @cindex computing the length of an insn For many machines, multiple types of branch instructions are provided, each for different length branch displacements. In most cases, the assembler will choose the correct instruction to use. However, when the assembler cannot do so, GCC can when a special attribute, the @code{length} attribute, is defined. This attribute must be defined to have numeric values by specifying a null string in its @code{define_attr}. In the case of the @code{length} attribute, two additional forms of arithmetic terms are allowed in test expressions: @table @code @cindex @code{match_dup} and attributes @item (match_dup @var{n}) This refers to the address of operand @var{n} of the current insn, which must be a @code{label_ref}. @cindex @code{pc} and attributes @item (pc) This refers to the address of the @emph{current} insn. It might have been more consistent with other usage to make this the address of the @emph{next} insn but this would be confusing because the length of the current insn is to be computed. @end table @cindex @code{addr_vec}, length of @cindex @code{addr_diff_vec}, length of For normal insns, the length will be determined by value of the @code{length} attribute. In the case of @code{addr_vec} and @code{addr_diff_vec} insn patterns, the length is computed as the number of vectors multiplied by the size of each vector. Lengths are measured in addressable storage units (bytes). The following macros can be used to refine the length computation: @table @code @findex ADJUST_INSN_LENGTH @item ADJUST_INSN_LENGTH (@var{insn}, @var{length}) If defined, modifies the length assigned to instruction @var{insn} as a function of the context in which it is used. @var{length} is an lvalue that contains the initially computed length of the insn and should be updated with the correct length of the insn. This macro will normally not be required. A case in which it is required is the ROMP@. On this machine, the size of an @code{addr_vec} insn must be increased by two to compensate for the fact that alignment may be required. @end table @findex get_attr_length The routine that returns @code{get_attr_length} (the value of the @code{length} attribute) can be used by the output routine to determine the form of the branch instruction to be written, as the example below illustrates. As an example of the specification of variable-length branches, consider the IBM 360. If we adopt the convention that a register will be set to the starting address of a function, we can jump to labels within 4k of the start using a four-byte instruction. Otherwise, we need a six-byte sequence to load the address from memory and then branch to it. On such a machine, a pattern for a branch instruction might be specified as follows: @smallexample (define_insn "jump" [(set (pc) (label_ref (match_operand 0 "" "")))] "" @{ return (get_attr_length (insn) == 4 ? "b %l0" : "l r15,=a(%l0); br r15"); @} [(set (attr "length") (if_then_else (lt (match_dup 0) (const_int 4096)) (const_int 4) (const_int 6)))]) @end smallexample @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Constant Attributes @subsection Constant Attributes @cindex constant attributes A special form of @code{define_attr}, where the expression for the default value is a @code{const} expression, indicates an attribute that is constant for a given run of the compiler. Constant attributes may be used to specify which variety of processor is used. For example, @smallexample (define_attr "cpu" "m88100,m88110,m88000" (const (cond [(symbol_ref "TARGET_88100") (const_string "m88100") (symbol_ref "TARGET_88110") (const_string "m88110")] (const_string "m88000")))) (define_attr "memory" "fast,slow" (const (if_then_else (symbol_ref "TARGET_FAST_MEM") (const_string "fast") (const_string "slow")))) @end smallexample The routine generated for constant attributes has no parameters as it does not depend on any particular insn. RTL expressions used to define the value of a constant attribute may use the @code{symbol_ref} form, but may not use either the @code{match_operand} form or @code{eq_attr} forms involving insn attributes. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Delay Slots @subsection Delay Slot Scheduling @cindex delay slots, defining The insn attribute mechanism can be used to specify the requirements for delay slots, if any, on a target machine. An instruction is said to require a @dfn{delay slot} if some instructions that are physically after the instruction are executed as if they were located before it. Classic examples are branch and call instructions, which often execute the following instruction before the branch or call is performed. On some machines, conditional branch instructions can optionally @dfn{annul} instructions in the delay slot. This means that the instruction will not be executed for certain branch outcomes. Both instructions that annul if the branch is true and instructions that annul if the branch is false are supported. Delay slot scheduling differs from instruction scheduling in that determining whether an instruction needs a delay slot is dependent only on the type of instruction being generated, not on data flow between the instructions. See the next section for a discussion of data-dependent instruction scheduling. @findex define_delay The requirement of an insn needing one or more delay slots is indicated via the @code{define_delay} expression. It has the following form: @smallexample (define_delay @var{test} [@var{delay-1} @var{annul-true-1} @var{annul-false-1} @var{delay-2} @var{annul-true-2} @var{annul-false-2} @dots{}]) @end smallexample @var{test} is an attribute test that indicates whether this @code{define_delay} applies to a particular insn. If so, the number of required delay slots is determined by the length of the vector specified as the second argument. An insn placed in delay slot @var{n} must satisfy attribute test @var{delay-n}. @var{annul-true-n} is an attribute test that specifies which insns may be annulled if the branch is true. Similarly, @var{annul-false-n} specifies which insns in the delay slot may be annulled if the branch is false. If annulling is not supported for that delay slot, @code{(nil)} should be coded. For example, in the common case where branch and call insns require a single delay slot, which may contain any insn other than a branch or call, the following would be placed in the @file{md} file: @smallexample (define_delay (eq_attr "type" "branch,call") [(eq_attr "type" "!branch,call") (nil) (nil)]) @end smallexample Multiple @code{define_delay} expressions may be specified. In this case, each such expression specifies different delay slot requirements and there must be no insn for which tests in two @code{define_delay} expressions are both true. For example, if we have a machine that requires one delay slot for branches but two for calls, no delay slot can contain a branch or call insn, and any valid insn in the delay slot for the branch can be annulled if the branch is true, we might represent this as follows: @smallexample (define_delay (eq_attr "type" "branch") [(eq_attr "type" "!branch,call") (eq_attr "type" "!branch,call") (nil)]) (define_delay (eq_attr "type" "call") [(eq_attr "type" "!branch,call") (nil) (nil) (eq_attr "type" "!branch,call") (nil) (nil)]) @end smallexample @c the above is *still* too long. --mew 4feb93 @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Processor pipeline description @subsection Specifying processor pipeline description @cindex processor pipeline description @cindex processor functional units @cindex instruction latency time @cindex interlock delays @cindex data dependence delays @cindex reservation delays @cindex pipeline hazard recognizer @cindex automaton based pipeline description @cindex regular expressions @cindex deterministic finite state automaton @cindex automaton based scheduler @cindex RISC @cindex VLIW To achieve better performance, most modern processors (super-pipelined, superscalar @acronym{RISC}, and @acronym{VLIW} processors) have many @dfn{functional units} on which several instructions can be executed simultaneously. An instruction starts execution if its issue conditions are satisfied. If not, the instruction is stalled until its conditions are satisfied. Such @dfn{interlock (pipeline) delay} causes interruption of the fetching of successor instructions (or demands nop instructions, e.g.@: for some MIPS processors). There are two major kinds of interlock delays in modern processors. The first one is a data dependence delay determining @dfn{instruction latency time}. The instruction execution is not started until all source data have been evaluated by prior instructions (there are more complex cases when the instruction execution starts even when the data are not available but will be ready in given time after the instruction execution start). Taking the data dependence delays into account is simple. The data dependence (true, output, and anti-dependence) delay between two instructions is given by a constant. In most cases this approach is adequate. The second kind of interlock delays is a reservation delay. The reservation delay means that two instructions under execution will be in need of shared processors resources, i.e.@: buses, internal registers, and/or functional units, which are reserved for some time. Taking this kind of delay into account is complex especially for modern @acronym{RISC} processors. The task of exploiting more processor parallelism is solved by an instruction scheduler. For a better solution to this problem, the instruction scheduler has to have an adequate description of the processor parallelism (or @dfn{pipeline description}). GCC machine descriptions describe processor parallelism and functional unit reservations for groups of instructions with the aid of @dfn{regular expressions}. The GCC instruction scheduler uses a @dfn{pipeline hazard recognizer} to figure out the possibility of the instruction issue by the processor on a given simulated processor cycle. The pipeline hazard recognizer is automatically generated from the processor pipeline description. The pipeline hazard recognizer generated from the machine description is based on a deterministic finite state automaton (@acronym{DFA}): the instruction issue is possible if there is a transition from one automaton state to another one. This algorithm is very fast, and furthermore, its speed is not dependent on processor complexity@footnote{However, the size of the automaton depends on processor complexity. To limit this effect, machine descriptions can split orthogonal parts of the machine description among several automata: but then, since each of these must be stepped independently, this does cause a small decrease in the algorithm's performance.}. @cindex automaton based pipeline description The rest of this section describes the directives that constitute an automaton-based processor pipeline description. The order of these constructions within the machine description file is not important. @findex define_automaton @cindex pipeline hazard recognizer The following optional construction describes names of automata generated and used for the pipeline hazards recognition. Sometimes the generated finite state automaton used by the pipeline hazard recognizer is large. If we use more than one automaton and bind functional units to the automata, the total size of the automata is usually less than the size of the single automaton. If there is no one such construction, only one finite state automaton is generated. @smallexample (define_automaton @var{automata-names}) @end smallexample @var{automata-names} is a string giving names of the automata. The names are separated by commas. All the automata should have unique names. The automaton name is used in the constructions @code{define_cpu_unit} and @code{define_query_cpu_unit}. @findex define_cpu_unit @cindex processor functional units Each processor functional unit used in the description of instruction reservations should be described by the following construction. @smallexample (define_cpu_unit @var{unit-names} [@var{automaton-name}]) @end smallexample @var{unit-names} is a string giving the names of the functional units separated by commas. Don't use name @samp{nothing}, it is reserved for other goals. @var{automaton-name} is a string giving the name of the automaton with which the unit is bound. The automaton should be described in construction @code{define_automaton}. You should give @dfn{automaton-name}, if there is a defined automaton. The assignment of units to automata are constrained by the uses of the units in insn reservations. The most important constraint is: if a unit reservation is present on a particular cycle of an alternative for an insn reservation, then some unit from the same automaton must be present on the same cycle for the other alternatives of the insn reservation. The rest of the constraints are mentioned in the description of the subsequent constructions. @findex define_query_cpu_unit @cindex querying function unit reservations The following construction describes CPU functional units analogously to @code{define_cpu_unit}. The reservation of such units can be queried for an automaton state. The instruction scheduler never queries reservation of functional units for given automaton state. So as a rule, you don't need this construction. This construction could be used for future code generation goals (e.g.@: to generate @acronym{VLIW} insn templates). @smallexample (define_query_cpu_unit @var{unit-names} [@var{automaton-name}]) @end smallexample @var{unit-names} is a string giving names of the functional units separated by commas. @var{automaton-name} is a string giving the name of the automaton with which the unit is bound. @findex define_insn_reservation @cindex instruction latency time @cindex regular expressions @cindex data bypass The following construction is the major one to describe pipeline characteristics of an instruction. @smallexample (define_insn_reservation @var{insn-name} @var{default_latency} @var{condition} @var{regexp}) @end smallexample @var{default_latency} is a number giving latency time of the instruction. There is an important difference between the old description and the automaton based pipeline description. The latency time is used for all dependencies when we use the old description. In the automaton based pipeline description, the given latency time is only used for true dependencies. The cost of anti-dependencies is always zero and the cost of output dependencies is the difference between latency times of the producing and consuming insns (if the difference is negative, the cost is considered to be zero). You can always change the default costs for any description by using the target hook @code{TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_COST} (@pxref{Scheduling}). @var{insn-name} is a string giving the internal name of the insn. The internal names are used in constructions @code{define_bypass} and in the automaton description file generated for debugging. The internal name has nothing in common with the names in @code{define_insn}. It is a good practice to use insn classes described in the processor manual. @var{condition} defines what RTL insns are described by this construction. You should remember that you will be in trouble if @var{condition} for two or more different @code{define_insn_reservation} constructions is TRUE for an insn. In this case what reservation will be used for the insn is not defined. Such cases are not checked during generation of the pipeline hazards recognizer because in general recognizing that two conditions may have the same value is quite difficult (especially if the conditions contain @code{symbol_ref}). It is also not checked during the pipeline hazard recognizer work because it would slow down the recognizer considerably. @var{regexp} is a string describing the reservation of the cpu's functional units by the instruction. The reservations are described by a regular expression according to the following syntax: @smallexample regexp = regexp "," oneof | oneof oneof = oneof "|" allof | allof allof = allof "+" repeat | repeat repeat = element "*" number | element element = cpu_function_unit_name | reservation_name | result_name | "nothing" | "(" regexp ")" @end smallexample @itemize @bullet @item @samp{,} is used for describing the start of the next cycle in the reservation. @item @samp{|} is used for describing a reservation described by the first regular expression @strong{or} a reservation described by the second regular expression @strong{or} etc. @item @samp{+} is used for describing a reservation described by the first regular expression @strong{and} a reservation described by the second regular expression @strong{and} etc. @item @samp{*} is used for convenience and simply means a sequence in which the regular expression are repeated @var{number} times with cycle advancing (see @samp{,}). @item @samp{cpu_function_unit_name} denotes reservation of the named functional unit. @item @samp{reservation_name} --- see description of construction @samp{define_reservation}. @item @samp{nothing} denotes no unit reservations. @end itemize @findex define_reservation Sometimes unit reservations for different insns contain common parts. In such case, you can simplify the pipeline description by describing the common part by the following construction @smallexample (define_reservation @var{reservation-name} @var{regexp}) @end smallexample @var{reservation-name} is a string giving name of @var{regexp}. Functional unit names and reservation names are in the same name space. So the reservation names should be different from the functional unit names and can not be the reserved name @samp{nothing}. @findex define_bypass @cindex instruction latency time @cindex data bypass The following construction is used to describe exceptions in the latency time for given instruction pair. This is so called bypasses. @smallexample (define_bypass @var{number} @var{out_insn_names} @var{in_insn_names} [@var{guard}]) @end smallexample @var{number} defines when the result generated by the instructions given in string @var{out_insn_names} will be ready for the instructions given in string @var{in_insn_names}. Each of these strings is a comma-separated list of filename-style globs and they refer to the names of @code{define_insn_reservation}s. For example: @smallexample (define_bypass 1 "cpu1_load_*, cpu1_store_*" "cpu1_load_*") @end smallexample defines a bypass between instructions that start with @samp{cpu1_load_} or @samp{cpu1_store_} and those that start with @samp{cpu1_load_}. @var{guard} is an optional string giving the name of a C function which defines an additional guard for the bypass. The function will get the two insns as parameters. If the function returns zero the bypass will be ignored for this case. The additional guard is necessary to recognize complicated bypasses, e.g.@: when the consumer is only an address of insn @samp{store} (not a stored value). If there are more one bypass with the same output and input insns, the chosen bypass is the first bypass with a guard in description whose guard function returns nonzero. If there is no such bypass, then bypass without the guard function is chosen. @findex exclusion_set @findex presence_set @findex final_presence_set @findex absence_set @findex final_absence_set @cindex VLIW @cindex RISC The following five constructions are usually used to describe @acronym{VLIW} processors, or more precisely, to describe a placement of small instructions into @acronym{VLIW} instruction slots. They can be used for @acronym{RISC} processors, too. @smallexample (exclusion_set @var{unit-names} @var{unit-names}) (presence_set @var{unit-names} @var{patterns}) (final_presence_set @var{unit-names} @var{patterns}) (absence_set @var{unit-names} @var{patterns}) (final_absence_set @var{unit-names} @var{patterns}) @end smallexample @var{unit-names} is a string giving names of functional units separated by commas. @var{patterns} is a string giving patterns of functional units separated by comma. Currently pattern is one unit or units separated by white-spaces. The first construction (@samp{exclusion_set}) means that each functional unit in the first string can not be reserved simultaneously with a unit whose name is in the second string and vice versa. For example, the construction is useful for describing processors (e.g.@: some SPARC processors) with a fully pipelined floating point functional unit which can execute simultaneously only single floating point insns or only double floating point insns. The second construction (@samp{presence_set}) means that each functional unit in the first string can not be reserved unless at least one of pattern of units whose names are in the second string is reserved. This is an asymmetric relation. For example, it is useful for description that @acronym{VLIW} @samp{slot1} is reserved after @samp{slot0} reservation. We could describe it by the following construction @smallexample (presence_set "slot1" "slot0") @end smallexample Or @samp{slot1} is reserved only after @samp{slot0} and unit @samp{b0} reservation. In this case we could write @smallexample (presence_set "slot1" "slot0 b0") @end smallexample The third construction (@samp{final_presence_set}) is analogous to @samp{presence_set}. The difference between them is when checking is done. When an instruction is issued in given automaton state reflecting all current and planned unit reservations, the automaton state is changed. The first state is a source state, the second one is a result state. Checking for @samp{presence_set} is done on the source state reservation, checking for @samp{final_presence_set} is done on the result reservation. This construction is useful to describe a reservation which is actually two subsequent reservations. For example, if we use @smallexample (presence_set "slot1" "slot0") @end smallexample the following insn will be never issued (because @samp{slot1} requires @samp{slot0} which is absent in the source state). @smallexample (define_reservation "insn_and_nop" "slot0 + slot1") @end smallexample but it can be issued if we use analogous @samp{final_presence_set}. The forth construction (@samp{absence_set}) means that each functional unit in the first string can be reserved only if each pattern of units whose names are in the second string is not reserved. This is an asymmetric relation (actually @samp{exclusion_set} is analogous to this one but it is symmetric). For example it might be useful in a @acronym{VLIW} description to say that @samp{slot0} cannot be reserved after either @samp{slot1} or @samp{slot2} have been reserved. This can be described as: @smallexample (absence_set "slot0" "slot1, slot2") @end smallexample Or @samp{slot2} can not be reserved if @samp{slot0} and unit @samp{b0} are reserved or @samp{slot1} and unit @samp{b1} are reserved. In this case we could write @smallexample (absence_set "slot2" "slot0 b0, slot1 b1") @end smallexample All functional units mentioned in a set should belong to the same automaton. The last construction (@samp{final_absence_set}) is analogous to @samp{absence_set} but checking is done on the result (state) reservation. See comments for @samp{final_presence_set}. @findex automata_option @cindex deterministic finite state automaton @cindex nondeterministic finite state automaton @cindex finite state automaton minimization You can control the generator of the pipeline hazard recognizer with the following construction. @smallexample (automata_option @var{options}) @end smallexample @var{options} is a string giving options which affect the generated code. Currently there are the following options: @itemize @bullet @item @dfn{no-minimization} makes no minimization of the automaton. This is only worth to do when we are debugging the description and need to look more accurately at reservations of states. @item @dfn{time} means printing time statistics about the generation of automata. @item @dfn{stats} means printing statistics about the generated automata such as the number of DFA states, NDFA states and arcs. @item @dfn{v} means a generation of the file describing the result automata. The file has suffix @samp{.dfa} and can be used for the description verification and debugging. @item @dfn{w} means a generation of warning instead of error for non-critical errors. @item @dfn{no-comb-vect} prevents the automaton generator from generating two data structures and comparing them for space efficiency. Using a comb vector to represent transitions may be better, but it can be very expensive to construct. This option is useful if the build process spends an unacceptably long time in genautomata. @item @dfn{ndfa} makes nondeterministic finite state automata. This affects the treatment of operator @samp{|} in the regular expressions. The usual treatment of the operator is to try the first alternative and, if the reservation is not possible, the second alternative. The nondeterministic treatment means trying all alternatives, some of them may be rejected by reservations in the subsequent insns. @item @dfn{collapse-ndfa} modifies the behaviour of the generator when producing an automaton. An additional state transition to collapse a nondeterministic @acronym{NDFA} state to a deterministic @acronym{DFA} state is generated. It can be triggered by passing @code{const0_rtx} to state_transition. In such an automaton, cycle advance transitions are available only for these collapsed states. This option is useful for ports that want to use the @code{ndfa} option, but also want to use @code{define_query_cpu_unit} to assign units to insns issued in a cycle. @item @dfn{progress} means output of a progress bar showing how many states were generated so far for automaton being processed. This is useful during debugging a @acronym{DFA} description. If you see too many generated states, you could interrupt the generator of the pipeline hazard recognizer and try to figure out a reason for generation of the huge automaton. @end itemize As an example, consider a superscalar @acronym{RISC} machine which can issue three insns (two integer insns and one floating point insn) on the cycle but can finish only two insns. To describe this, we define the following functional units. @smallexample (define_cpu_unit "i0_pipeline, i1_pipeline, f_pipeline") (define_cpu_unit "port0, port1") @end smallexample All simple integer insns can be executed in any integer pipeline and their result is ready in two cycles. The simple integer insns are issued into the first pipeline unless it is reserved, otherwise they are issued into the second pipeline. Integer division and multiplication insns can be executed only in the second integer pipeline and their results are ready correspondingly in 8 and 4 cycles. The integer division is not pipelined, i.e.@: the subsequent integer division insn can not be issued until the current division insn finished. Floating point insns are fully pipelined and their results are ready in 3 cycles. Where the result of a floating point insn is used by an integer insn, an additional delay of one cycle is incurred. To describe all of this we could specify @smallexample (define_cpu_unit "div") (define_insn_reservation "simple" 2 (eq_attr "type" "int") "(i0_pipeline | i1_pipeline), (port0 | port1)") (define_insn_reservation "mult" 4 (eq_attr "type" "mult") "i1_pipeline, nothing*2, (port0 | port1)") (define_insn_reservation "div" 8 (eq_attr "type" "div") "i1_pipeline, div*7, div + (port0 | port1)") (define_insn_reservation "float" 3 (eq_attr "type" "float") "f_pipeline, nothing, (port0 | port1)) (define_bypass 4 "float" "simple,mult,div") @end smallexample To simplify the description we could describe the following reservation @smallexample (define_reservation "finish" "port0|port1") @end smallexample and use it in all @code{define_insn_reservation} as in the following construction @smallexample (define_insn_reservation "simple" 2 (eq_attr "type" "int") "(i0_pipeline | i1_pipeline), finish") @end smallexample @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Conditional Execution @section Conditional Execution @cindex conditional execution @cindex predication A number of architectures provide for some form of conditional execution, or predication. The hallmark of this feature is the ability to nullify most of the instructions in the instruction set. When the instruction set is large and not entirely symmetric, it can be quite tedious to describe these forms directly in the @file{.md} file. An alternative is the @code{define_cond_exec} template. @findex define_cond_exec @smallexample (define_cond_exec [@var{predicate-pattern}] "@var{condition}" "@var{output-template}" "@var{optional-insn-attribues}") @end smallexample @var{predicate-pattern} is the condition that must be true for the insn to be executed at runtime and should match a relational operator. One can use @code{match_operator} to match several relational operators at once. Any @code{match_operand} operands must have no more than one alternative. @var{condition} is a C expression that must be true for the generated pattern to match. @findex current_insn_predicate @var{output-template} is a string similar to the @code{define_insn} output template (@pxref{Output Template}), except that the @samp{*} and @samp{@@} special cases do not apply. This is only useful if the assembly text for the predicate is a simple prefix to the main insn. In order to handle the general case, there is a global variable @code{current_insn_predicate} that will contain the entire predicate if the current insn is predicated, and will otherwise be @code{NULL}. @var{optional-insn-attributes} is an optional vector of attributes that gets appended to the insn attributes of the produced cond_exec rtx. It can be used to add some distinguishing attribute to cond_exec rtxs produced that way. An example usage would be to use this attribute in conjunction with attributes on the main pattern to disable particular alternatives under certain conditions. When @code{define_cond_exec} is used, an implicit reference to the @code{predicable} instruction attribute is made. @xref{Insn Attributes}. This attribute must be a boolean (i.e.@: have exactly two elements in its @var{list-of-values}), with the possible values being @code{no} and @code{yes}. The default and all uses in the insns must be a simple constant, not a complex expressions. It may, however, depend on the alternative, by using a comma-separated list of values. If that is the case, the port should also define an @code{enabled} attribute (@pxref{Disable Insn Alternatives}), which should also allow only @code{no} and @code{yes} as its values. For each @code{define_insn} for which the @code{predicable} attribute is true, a new @code{define_insn} pattern will be generated that matches a predicated version of the instruction. For example, @smallexample (define_insn "addsi" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "r") (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "r") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "r")))] "@var{test1}" "add %2,%1,%0") (define_cond_exec [(ne (match_operand:CC 0 "register_operand" "c") (const_int 0))] "@var{test2}" "(%0)") @end smallexample @noindent generates a new pattern @smallexample (define_insn "" [(cond_exec (ne (match_operand:CC 3 "register_operand" "c") (const_int 0)) (set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "r") (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "r") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "r"))))] "(@var{test2}) && (@var{test1})" "(%3) add %2,%1,%0") @end smallexample @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Define Subst @section RTL Templates Transformations @cindex define_subst For some hardware architectures there are common cases when the RTL templates for the instructions can be derived from the other RTL templates using simple transformations. E.g., @file{i386.md} contains an RTL template for the ordinary @code{sub} instruction--- @code{*subsi_1}, and for the @code{sub} instruction with subsequent zero-extension---@code{*subsi_1_zext}. Such cases can be easily implemented by a single meta-template capable of generating a modified case based on the initial one: @findex define_subst @smallexample (define_subst "@var{name}" [@var{input-template}] "@var{condition}" [@var{output-template}]) @end smallexample @var{input-template} is a pattern describing the source RTL template, which will be transformed. @var{condition} is a C expression that is conjunct with the condition from the input-template to generate a condition to be used in the output-template. @var{output-template} is a pattern that will be used in the resulting template. @code{define_subst} mechanism is tightly coupled with the notion of the subst attribute (@pxref{Subst Iterators}). The use of @code{define_subst} is triggered by a reference to a subst attribute in the transforming RTL template. This reference initiates duplication of the source RTL template and substitution of the attributes with their values. The source RTL template is left unchanged, while the copy is transformed by @code{define_subst}. This transformation can fail in the case when the source RTL template is not matched against the input-template of the @code{define_subst}. In such case the copy is deleted. @code{define_subst} can be used only in @code{define_insn} and @code{define_expand}, it cannot be used in other expressions (e.g. in @code{define_insn_and_split}). @menu * Define Subst Example:: Example of @code{define_subst} work. * Define Subst Pattern Matching:: Process of template comparison. * Define Subst Output Template:: Generation of output template. @end menu @node Define Subst Example @subsection @code{define_subst} Example @cindex define_subst To illustrate how @code{define_subst} works, let us examine a simple template transformation. Suppose there are two kinds of instructions: one that touches flags and the other that does not. The instructions of the second type could be generated with the following @code{define_subst}: @smallexample (define_subst "add_clobber_subst" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "" "") (match_operand:SI 1 "" ""))] "" [(set (match_dup 0) (match_dup 1)) (clobber (reg:CC FLAGS_REG))] @end smallexample This @code{define_subst} can be applied to any RTL pattern containing @code{set} of mode SI and generates a copy with clobber when it is applied. Assume there is an RTL template for a @code{max} instruction to be used in @code{define_subst} mentioned above: @smallexample (define_insn "maxsi" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=r") (max:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "r") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "r")))] "" "max\t@{%2, %1, %0|%0, %1, %2@}" [@dots{}]) @end smallexample To mark the RTL template for @code{define_subst} application, subst-attributes are used. They should be declared in advance: @smallexample (define_subst_attr "add_clobber_name" "add_clobber_subst" "_noclobber" "_clobber") @end smallexample Here @samp{add_clobber_name} is the attribute name, @samp{add_clobber_subst} is the name of the corresponding @code{define_subst}, the third argument (@samp{_noclobber}) is the attribute value that would be substituted into the unchanged version of the source RTL template, and the last argument (@samp{_clobber}) is the value that would be substituted into the second, transformed, version of the RTL template. Once the subst-attribute has been defined, it should be used in RTL templates which need to be processed by the @code{define_subst}. So, the original RTL template should be changed: @smallexample (define_insn "maxsi" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=r") (max:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "r") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "r")))] "" "max\t@{%2, %1, %0|%0, %1, %2@}" [@dots{}]) @end smallexample The result of the @code{define_subst} usage would look like the following: @smallexample (define_insn "maxsi_noclobber" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=r") (max:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "r") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "r")))] "" "max\t@{%2, %1, %0|%0, %1, %2@}" [@dots{}]) (define_insn "maxsi_clobber" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=r") (max:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "r") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "r"))) (clobber (reg:CC FLAGS_REG))] "" "max\t@{%2, %1, %0|%0, %1, %2@}" [@dots{}]) @end smallexample @node Define Subst Pattern Matching @subsection Pattern Matching in @code{define_subst} @cindex define_subst All expressions, allowed in @code{define_insn} or @code{define_expand}, are allowed in the input-template of @code{define_subst}, except @code{match_par_dup}, @code{match_scratch}, @code{match_parallel}. The meanings of expressions in the input-template were changed: @code{match_operand} matches any expression (possibly, a subtree in RTL-template), if modes of the @code{match_operand} and this expression are the same, or mode of the @code{match_operand} is @code{VOIDmode}, or this expression is @code{match_dup}, @code{match_op_dup}. If the expression is @code{match_operand} too, and predicate of @code{match_operand} from the input pattern is not empty, then the predicates are compared. That can be used for more accurate filtering of accepted RTL-templates. @code{match_operator} matches common operators (like @code{plus}, @code{minus}), @code{unspec}, @code{unspec_volatile} operators and @code{match_operator}s from the original pattern if the modes match and @code{match_operator} from the input pattern has the same number of operands as the operator from the original pattern. @node Define Subst Output Template @subsection Generation of output template in @code{define_subst} @cindex define_subst If all necessary checks for @code{define_subst} application pass, a new RTL-pattern, based on the output-template, is created to replace the old template. Like in input-patterns, meanings of some RTL expressions are changed when they are used in output-patterns of a @code{define_subst}. Thus, @code{match_dup} is used for copying the whole expression from the original pattern, which matched corresponding @code{match_operand} from the input pattern. @code{match_dup N} is used in the output template to be replaced with the expression from the original pattern, which matched @code{match_operand N} from the input pattern. As a consequence, @code{match_dup} cannot be used to point to @code{match_operand}s from the output pattern, it should always refer to a @code{match_operand} from the input pattern. In the output template one can refer to the expressions from the original pattern and create new ones. For instance, some operands could be added by means of standard @code{match_operand}. After replacing @code{match_dup} with some RTL-subtree from the original pattern, it could happen that several @code{match_operand}s in the output pattern have the same indexes. It is unknown, how many and what indexes would be used in the expression which would replace @code{match_dup}, so such conflicts in indexes are inevitable. To overcome this issue, @code{match_operands} and @code{match_operators}, which were introduced into the output pattern, are renumerated when all @code{match_dup}s are replaced. Number of alternatives in @code{match_operand}s introduced into the output template @code{M} could differ from the number of alternatives in the original pattern @code{N}, so in the resultant pattern there would be @code{N*M} alternatives. Thus, constraints from the original pattern would be duplicated @code{N} times, constraints from the output pattern would be duplicated @code{M} times, producing all possible combinations. @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Constant Definitions @section Constant Definitions @cindex constant definitions @findex define_constants Using literal constants inside instruction patterns reduces legibility and can be a maintenance problem. To overcome this problem, you may use the @code{define_constants} expression. It contains a vector of name-value pairs. From that point on, wherever any of the names appears in the MD file, it is as if the corresponding value had been written instead. You may use @code{define_constants} multiple times; each appearance adds more constants to the table. It is an error to redefine a constant with a different value. To come back to the a29k load multiple example, instead of @smallexample (define_insn "" [(match_parallel 0 "load_multiple_operation" [(set (match_operand:SI 1 "gpc_reg_operand" "=r") (match_operand:SI 2 "memory_operand" "m")) (use (reg:SI 179)) (clobber (reg:SI 179))])] "" "loadm 0,0,%1,%2") @end smallexample You could write: @smallexample (define_constants [ (R_BP 177) (R_FC 178) (R_CR 179) (R_Q 180) ]) (define_insn "" [(match_parallel 0 "load_multiple_operation" [(set (match_operand:SI 1 "gpc_reg_operand" "=r") (match_operand:SI 2 "memory_operand" "m")) (use (reg:SI R_CR)) (clobber (reg:SI R_CR))])] "" "loadm 0,0,%1,%2") @end smallexample The constants that are defined with a define_constant are also output in the insn-codes.h header file as #defines. @cindex enumerations @findex define_c_enum You can also use the machine description file to define enumerations. Like the constants defined by @code{define_constant}, these enumerations are visible to both the machine description file and the main C code. The syntax is as follows: @smallexample (define_c_enum "@var{name}" [ @var{value0} @var{value1} @dots{} @var{valuen} ]) @end smallexample This definition causes the equivalent of the following C code to appear in @file{insn-constants.h}: @smallexample enum @var{name} @{ @var{value0} = 0, @var{value1} = 1, @dots{} @var{valuen} = @var{n} @}; #define NUM_@var{cname}_VALUES (@var{n} + 1) @end smallexample where @var{cname} is the capitalized form of @var{name}. It also makes each @var{valuei} available in the machine description file, just as if it had been declared with: @smallexample (define_constants [(@var{valuei} @var{i})]) @end smallexample Each @var{valuei} is usually an upper-case identifier and usually begins with @var{cname}. You can split the enumeration definition into as many statements as you like. The above example is directly equivalent to: @smallexample (define_c_enum "@var{name}" [@var{value0}]) (define_c_enum "@var{name}" [@var{value1}]) @dots{} (define_c_enum "@var{name}" [@var{valuen}]) @end smallexample Splitting the enumeration helps to improve the modularity of each individual @code{.md} file. For example, if a port defines its synchronization instructions in a separate @file{sync.md} file, it is convenient to define all synchronization-specific enumeration values in @file{sync.md} rather than in the main @file{.md} file. Some enumeration names have special significance to GCC: @table @code @item unspecv @findex unspec_volatile If an enumeration called @code{unspecv} is defined, GCC will use it when printing out @code{unspec_volatile} expressions. For example: @smallexample (define_c_enum "unspecv" [ UNSPECV_BLOCKAGE ]) @end smallexample causes GCC to print @samp{(unspec_volatile @dots{} 0)} as: @smallexample (unspec_volatile ... UNSPECV_BLOCKAGE) @end smallexample @item unspec @findex unspec If an enumeration called @code{unspec} is defined, GCC will use it when printing out @code{unspec} expressions. GCC will also use it when printing out @code{unspec_volatile} expressions unless an @code{unspecv} enumeration is also defined. You can therefore decide whether to keep separate enumerations for volatile and non-volatile expressions or whether to use the same enumeration for both. @end table @findex define_enum @anchor{define_enum} Another way of defining an enumeration is to use @code{define_enum}: @smallexample (define_enum "@var{name}" [ @var{value0} @var{value1} @dots{} @var{valuen} ]) @end smallexample This directive implies: @smallexample (define_c_enum "@var{name}" [ @var{cname}_@var{cvalue0} @var{cname}_@var{cvalue1} @dots{} @var{cname}_@var{cvaluen} ]) @end smallexample @findex define_enum_attr where @var{cvaluei} is the capitalized form of @var{valuei}. However, unlike @code{define_c_enum}, the enumerations defined by @code{define_enum} can be used in attribute specifications (@pxref{define_enum_attr}). @end ifset @ifset INTERNALS @node Iterators @section Iterators @cindex iterators in @file{.md} files Ports often need to define similar patterns for more than one machine mode or for more than one rtx code. GCC provides some simple iterator facilities to make this process easier. @menu * Mode Iterators:: Generating variations of patterns for different modes. * Code Iterators:: Doing the same for codes. * Int Iterators:: Doing the same for integers. * Subst Iterators:: Generating variations of patterns for define_subst. @end menu @node Mode Iterators @subsection Mode Iterators @cindex mode iterators in @file{.md} files Ports often need to define similar patterns for two or more different modes. For example: @itemize @bullet @item If a processor has hardware support for both single and double floating-point arithmetic, the @code{SFmode} patterns tend to be very similar to the @code{DFmode} ones. @item If a port uses @code{SImode} pointers in one configuration and @code{DImode} pointers in another, it will usually have very similar @code{SImode} and @code{DImode} patterns for manipulating pointers. @end itemize Mode iterators allow several patterns to be instantiated from one @file{.md} file template. They can be used with any type of rtx-based construct, such as a @code{define_insn}, @code{define_split}, or @code{define_peephole2}. @menu * Defining Mode Iterators:: Defining a new mode iterator. * Substitutions:: Combining mode iterators with substitutions * Examples:: Examples @end menu @node Defining Mode Iterators @subsubsection Defining Mode Iterators @findex define_mode_iterator The syntax for defining a mode iterator is: @smallexample (define_mode_iterator @var{name} [(@var{mode1} "@var{cond1}") @dots{} (@var{moden} "@var{condn}")]) @end smallexample This allows subsequent @file{.md} file constructs to use the mode suffix @code{:@var{name}}. Every construct that does so will be expanded @var{n} times, once with every use of @code{:@var{name}} replaced by @code{:@var{mode1}}, once with every use replaced by @code{:@var{mode2}}, and so on. In the expansion for a particular @var{modei}, every C condition will also require that @var{condi} be true. For example: @smallexample (define_mode_iterator P [(SI "Pmode == SImode") (DI "Pmode == DImode")]) @end smallexample defines a new mode suffix @code{:P}. Every construct that uses @code{:P} will be expanded twice, once with every @code{:P} replaced by @code{:SI} and once with every @code{:P} replaced by @code{:DI}. The @code{:SI} version will only apply if @code{Pmode == SImode} and the @code{:DI} version will only apply if @code{Pmode == DImode}. As with other @file{.md} conditions, an empty string is treated as ``always true''. @code{(@var{mode} "")} can also be abbreviated to @code{@var{mode}}. For example: @smallexample (define_mode_iterator GPR [SI (DI "TARGET_64BIT")]) @end smallexample means that the @code{:DI} expansion only applies if @code{TARGET_64BIT} but that the @code{:SI} expansion has no such constraint. Iterators are applied in the order they are defined. This can be significant if two iterators are used in a construct that requires substitutions. @xref{Substitutions}. @node Substitutions @subsubsection Substitution in Mode Iterators @findex define_mode_attr If an @file{.md} file construct uses mode iterators, each version of the construct will often need slightly different strings or modes. For example: @itemize @bullet @item When a @code{define_expand} defines several @code{add@var{m}3} patterns (@pxref{Standard Names}), each expander will need to use the appropriate mode name for @var{m}. @item When a @code{define_insn} defines several instruction patterns, each instruction will often use a different assembler mnemonic. @item When a @code{define_insn} requires operands with different modes, using an iterator for one of the operand modes usually requires a specific mode for the other operand(s). @end itemize GCC supports such variations through a system of ``mode attributes''. There are two standard attributes: @code{mode}, which is the name of the mode in lower case, and @code{MODE}, which is the same thing in upper case. You can define other attributes using: @smallexample (define_mode_attr @var{name} [(@var{mode1} "@var{value1}") @dots{} (@var{moden} "@var{valuen}")]) @end smallexample where @var{name} is the name of the attribute and @var{valuei} is the value associated with @var{modei}. When GCC replaces some @var{:iterator} with @var{:mode}, it will scan each string and mode in the pattern for sequences of the form @code{<@var{iterator}:@var{attr}>}, where @var{attr} is the name of a mode attribute. If the attribute is defined for @var{mode}, the whole @code{<@dots{}>} sequence will be replaced by the appropriate attribute value. For example, suppose an @file{.md} file has: @smallexample (define_mode_iterator P [(SI "Pmode == SImode") (DI "Pmode == DImode")]) (define_mode_attr load [(SI "lw") (DI "ld")]) @end smallexample If one of the patterns that uses @code{:P} contains the string @code{"\t%0,%1"}, the @code{SI} version of that pattern will use @code{"lw\t%0,%1"} and the @code{DI} version will use @code{"ld\t%0,%1"}. Here is an example of using an attribute for a mode: @smallexample (define_mode_iterator LONG [SI DI]) (define_mode_attr SHORT [(SI "HI") (DI "SI")]) (define_insn @dots{} (sign_extend:LONG (match_operand: @dots{})) @dots{}) @end smallexample The @code{@var{iterator}:} prefix may be omitted, in which case the substitution will be attempted for every iterator expansion. @node Examples @subsubsection Mode Iterator Examples Here is an example from the MIPS port. It defines the following modes and attributes (among others): @smallexample (define_mode_iterator GPR [SI (DI "TARGET_64BIT")]) (define_mode_attr d [(SI "") (DI "d")]) @end smallexample and uses the following template to define both @code{subsi3} and @code{subdi3}: @smallexample (define_insn "sub3" [(set (match_operand:GPR 0 "register_operand" "=d") (minus:GPR (match_operand:GPR 1 "register_operand" "d") (match_operand:GPR 2 "register_operand" "d")))] "" "subu\t%0,%1,%2" [(set_attr "type" "arith") (set_attr "mode" "")]) @end smallexample This is exactly equivalent to: @smallexample (define_insn "subsi3" [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=d") (minus:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "d") (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "d")))] "" "subu\t%0,%1,%2" [(set_attr "type" "arith") (set_attr "mode" "SI")]) (define_insn "subdi3" [(set (match_operand:DI 0 "register_operand" "=d") (minus:DI (match_operand:DI 1 "register_operand" "d") (match_operand:DI 2 "register_operand" "d")))] "" "dsubu\t%0,%1,%2" [(set_attr "type" "arith") (set_attr "mode" "DI")]) @end smallexample @node Code Iterators @subsection Code Iterators @cindex code iterators in @file{.md} files @findex define_code_iterator @findex define_code_attr Code iterators operate in a similar way to mode iterators. @xref{Mode Iterators}. The construct: @smallexample (define_code_iterator @var{name} [(@var{code1} "@var{cond1}") @dots{} (@var{coden} "@var{condn}")]) @end smallexample defines a pseudo rtx code @var{name} that can be instantiated as @var{codei} if condition @var{condi} is true. Each @var{codei} must have the same rtx format. @xref{RTL Classes}. As with mode iterators, each pattern that uses @var{name} will be expanded @var{n} times, once with all uses of @var{name} replaced by @var{code1}, once with all uses replaced by @var{code2}, and so on. @xref{Defining Mode Iterators}. It is possible to define attributes for codes as well as for modes. There are two standard code attributes: @code{code}, the name of the code in lower case, and @code{CODE}, the name of the code in upper case. Other attributes are defined using: @smallexample (define_code_attr @var{name} [(@var{code1} "@var{value1}") @dots{} (@var{coden} "@var{valuen}")]) @end smallexample Here's an example of code iterators in action, taken from the MIPS port: @smallexample (define_code_iterator any_cond [unordered ordered unlt unge uneq ltgt unle ungt eq ne gt ge lt le gtu geu ltu leu]) (define_expand "b" [(set (pc) (if_then_else (any_cond:CC (cc0) (const_int 0)) (label_ref (match_operand 0 "")) (pc)))] "" @{ gen_conditional_branch (operands, ); DONE; @}) @end smallexample This is equivalent to: @smallexample (define_expand "bunordered" [(set (pc) (if_then_else (unordered:CC (cc0) (const_int 0)) (label_ref (match_operand 0 "")) (pc)))] "" @{ gen_conditional_branch (operands, UNORDERED); DONE; @}) (define_expand "bordered" [(set (pc) (if_then_else (ordered:CC (cc0) (const_int 0)) (label_ref (match_operand 0 "")) (pc)))] "" @{ gen_conditional_branch (operands, ORDERED); DONE; @}) @dots{} @end smallexample @node Int Iterators @subsection Int Iterators @cindex int iterators in @file{.md} files @findex define_int_iterator @findex define_int_attr Int iterators operate in a similar way to code iterators. @xref{Code Iterators}. The construct: @smallexample (define_int_iterator @var{name} [(@var{int1} "@var{cond1}") @dots{} (@var{intn} "@var{condn}")]) @end smallexample defines a pseudo integer constant @var{name} that can be instantiated as @var{inti} if condition @var{condi} is true. Each @var{int} must have the same rtx format. @xref{RTL Classes}. Int iterators can appear in only those rtx fields that have 'i' as the specifier. This means that each @var{int} has to be a constant defined using define_constant or define_c_enum. As with mode and code iterators, each pattern that uses @var{name} will be expanded @var{n} times, once with all uses of @var{name} replaced by @var{int1}, once with all uses replaced by @var{int2}, and so on. @xref{Defining Mode Iterators}. It is possible to define attributes for ints as well as for codes and modes. Attributes are defined using: @smallexample (define_int_attr @var{name} [(@var{int1} "@var{value1}") @dots{} (@var{intn} "@var{valuen}")]) @end smallexample Here's an example of int iterators in action, taken from the ARM port: @smallexample (define_int_iterator QABSNEG [UNSPEC_VQABS UNSPEC_VQNEG]) (define_int_attr absneg [(UNSPEC_VQABS "abs") (UNSPEC_VQNEG "neg")]) (define_insn "neon_vq" [(set (match_operand:VDQIW 0 "s_register_operand" "=w") (unspec:VDQIW [(match_operand:VDQIW 1 "s_register_operand" "w") (match_operand:SI 2 "immediate_operand" "i")] QABSNEG))] "TARGET_NEON" "vq.\t%0, %1" [(set_attr "neon_type" "neon_vqneg_vqabs")] ) @end smallexample This is equivalent to: @smallexample (define_insn "neon_vqabs" [(set (match_operand:VDQIW 0 "s_register_operand" "=w") (unspec:VDQIW [(match_operand:VDQIW 1 "s_register_operand" "w") (match_operand:SI 2 "immediate_operand" "i")] UNSPEC_VQABS))] "TARGET_NEON" "vqabs.\t%0, %1" [(set_attr "neon_type" "neon_vqneg_vqabs")] ) (define_insn "neon_vqneg" [(set (match_operand:VDQIW 0 "s_register_operand" "=w") (unspec:VDQIW [(match_operand:VDQIW 1 "s_register_operand" "w") (match_operand:SI 2 "immediate_operand" "i")] UNSPEC_VQNEG))] "TARGET_NEON" "vqneg.\t%0, %1" [(set_attr "neon_type" "neon_vqneg_vqabs")] ) @end smallexample @node Subst Iterators @subsection Subst Iterators @cindex subst iterators in @file{.md} files @findex define_subst @findex define_subst_attr Subst iterators are special type of iterators with the following restrictions: they could not be declared explicitly, they always have only two values, and they do not have explicit dedicated name. Subst-iterators are triggered only when corresponding subst-attribute is used in RTL-pattern. Subst iterators transform templates in the following way: the templates are duplicated, the subst-attributes in these templates are replaced with the corresponding values, and a new attribute is implicitly added to the given @code{define_insn}/@code{define_expand}. The name of the added attribute matches the name of @code{define_subst}. Such attributes are declared implicitly, and it is not allowed to have a @code{define_attr} named as a @code{define_subst}. Each subst iterator is linked to a @code{define_subst}. It is declared implicitly by the first appearance of the corresponding @code{define_subst_attr}, and it is not allowed to define it explicitly. Declarations of subst-attributes have the following syntax: @findex define_subst_attr @smallexample (define_subst_attr "@var{name}" "@var{subst-name}" "@var{no-subst-value}" "@var{subst-applied-value}") @end smallexample @var{name} is a string with which the given subst-attribute could be referred to. @var{subst-name} shows which @code{define_subst} should be applied to an RTL-template if the given subst-attribute is present in the RTL-template. @var{no-subst-value} is a value with which subst-attribute would be replaced in the first copy of the original RTL-template. @var{subst-applied-value} is a value with which subst-attribute would be replaced in the second copy of the original RTL-template. @end ifset