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# Introduction ¶

This manual documents the internals of the GNU compilers, including how to port them to new targets and some information about how to write front ends for new languages. It corresponds to the compilers (GCC) version 14.2.0. The use of the GNU compilers is documented in a separate manual. See Introduction in Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

This manual is mainly a reference manual rather than a tutorial. It discusses how to contribute to GCC (see Contributing to GCC Development), the characteristics of the machines supported by GCC as hosts and targets (see GCC and Portability), how GCC relates to the ABIs on such systems (see Interfacing to GCC Output), and the characteristics of the languages for which GCC front ends are written (see Language Front Ends in GCC). It then describes the GCC source tree structure and build system, some of the interfaces to GCC front ends, and how support for a target system is implemented in GCC.

Additional tutorial information is linked to from https://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html.

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## 1 Contributing to GCC Development ¶

If you would like to help pretest GCC releases to assure they work well, current development sources are available via Git (see https://gcc.gnu.org/git.html). Source and binary snapshots are also available for FTP; see https://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html.

If you would like to work on improvements to GCC, please read the advice at these URLs:

    https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
    https://gcc.gnu.org/contributewhy.html

for information on how to make useful contributions and avoid duplication of effort. Suggested projects are listed at https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/.

## 2 GCC and Portability ¶

GCC itself aims to be portable to any machine where `int` is at least a 32-bit type. It aims to target machines with a flat (non-segmented) byte addressed data address space (the code address space can be separate). Target ABIs may have 8, 16, 32 or 64-bit `int` type. `char` can be wider than 8 bits.

GCC gets most of the information about the target machine from a machine description which gives an algebraic formula for each of the machine’s instructions. This is a very clean way to describe the target. But when the compiler needs information that is difficult to express in this fashion, ad-hoc parameters have been defined for machine descriptions. The purpose of portability is to reduce the total work needed on the compiler; it was not of interest for its own sake.

GCC does not contain machine dependent code, but it does contain code that depends on machine parameters such as endianness (whether the most significant byte has the highest or lowest address of the bytes in a word) and the availability of autoincrement addressing. In the RTL-generation pass, it is often necessary to have multiple strategies for generating code for a particular kind of syntax tree, strategies that are usable for different combinations of parameters. Often, not all possible cases have been addressed, but only the common ones or only the ones that have been encountered. As a result, a new target may require additional strategies. You will know if this happens because the compiler will call `abort`. Fortunately, the new strategies can be added in a machine-independent fashion, and will affect only the target machines that need them.

## 3 Interfacing to GCC Output ¶

GCC is normally configured to use the same function calling convention normally in use on the target system. This is done with the machine-description macros described (see Target Description Macros and Functions).

However, returning of structure and union values is done differently on some target machines. As a result, functions compiled with PCC returning such types cannot be called from code compiled with GCC, and vice versa. This does not cause trouble often because few Unix library routines return structures or unions.

GCC code returns structures and unions that are 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes long in the same registers used for `int` or `double` return values. (GCC typically allocates variables of such types in registers also.) Structures and unions of other sizes are returned by storing them into an address passed by the caller (usually in a register). The target hook `TARGET_STRUCT_VALUE_RTX` tells GCC where to pass this address.

By contrast, PCC on most target machines returns structures and unions of any size by copying the data into an area of static storage, and then returning the address of that storage as if it were a pointer value. The caller must copy the data from that memory area to the place where the value is wanted. This is slower than the method used by GCC, and fails to be reentrant.

On some target machines, such as RISC machines and the 80386, the standard system convention is to pass to the subroutine the address of where to return the value. On these machines, GCC has been configured to be compatible with the standard compiler, when this method is used. It may not be compatible for structures of 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes.

GCC uses the system’s standard convention for passing arguments. On some machines, the first few arguments are passed in registers; in others, all are passed on the stack. It would be possible to use registers for argument passing on any machine, and this would probably result in a significant speedup. But the result would be complete incompatibility with code that follows the standard convention. So this change is practical only if you are switching to GCC as the sole C compiler for the system. We may implement register argument passing on certain machines once we have a complete GNU system so that we can compile the libraries with GCC.

On some machines (particularly the SPARC), certain types of arguments are passed “by invisible reference”. This means that the value is stored in memory, and the address of the memory location is passed to the subroutine.

If you use `longjmp`, beware of automatic variables. ISO C says that automatic variables that are not declared `volatile` have undefined values after a `longjmp`. And this is all GCC promises to do, because it is very difficult to restore register variables correctly, and one of GCC’s features is that it can put variables in registers without your asking it to.

## 4 The GCC low-level runtime library ¶

GCC provides a low-level runtime library, `libgcc.a` or `libgcc_s.so.1` on some platforms. GCC generates calls to routines in this library automatically, whenever it needs to perform some operation that is too complicated to emit inline code for.

Most of the routines in `libgcc` handle arithmetic operations that the target processor cannot perform directly. This includes integer multiply and divide on some machines, and all floating-point and fixed-point operations on other machines. `libgcc` also includes routines for exception handling, and a handful of miscellaneous operations.

Some of these routines can be defined in mostly machine-independent C. Others must be hand-written in assembly language for each processor that needs them.

GCC will also generate calls to C library routines, such as `memcpy` and `memset`, in some cases. The set of routines that GCC may possibly use is documented in Other Builtins in Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

These routines take arguments and return values of a specific machine mode, not a specific C type. See Machine Modes, for an explanation of this concept. For illustrative purposes, in this chapter the floating point type `float` is assumed to correspond to `SFmode`; `double` to `DFmode`; and `long double` to both `TFmode` and `XFmode`. Similarly, the integer types `int` and `unsigned int` correspond to `SImode`; `long` and `unsigned long` to `DImode`; and `long long` and `unsigned long long` to `TImode`.

### 4.1 Routines for integer arithmetic ¶

The integer arithmetic routines are used on platforms that don’t provide hardware support for arithmetic operations on some modes.

#### 4.1.1 Arithmetic functions ¶

Runtime Function: `int` __ashlsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __ashldi3 `(long a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __ashlti3 `(long long a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of shifting a left by b bits.

Runtime Function: `int` __ashrsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __ashrdi3 `(long a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __ashrti3 `(long long a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of arithmetically shifting a right by b bits.

Runtime Function: `int` __divsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __divdi3 `(long a, long b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __divti3 `(long long a, long long b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of the signed division of a and b.

Runtime Function: `int` __lshrsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __lshrdi3 `(long a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __lshrti3 `(long long a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of logically shifting a right by b bits.

Runtime Function: `int` __modsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __moddi3 `(long a, long b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __modti3 `(long long a, long long b)` ¶

  These functions return the remainder of the signed division of a and b.

Runtime Function: `int` __mulsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __muldi3 `(long a, long b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __multi3 `(long long a, long long b)` ¶

  These functions return the product of a and b.

Runtime Function: `long` __negdi2 `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __negti2 `(long long a)` ¶

  These functions return the negation of a.

Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __udivsi3 `(unsigned int a, unsigned int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __udivdi3 `(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __udivti3 `(unsigned long long a, unsigned long long b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of the unsigned division of a and b.

Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __udivmoddi4 `(unsigned long a, unsigned long b, unsigned long *c)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __udivmodti4 `(unsigned long long a, unsigned long long b, unsigned long long *c)` ¶

  These functions calculate both the quotient and remainder of the unsigned division of a and b. The return value is the quotient, and the remainder is placed in variable pointed to by c.

Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __umodsi3 `(unsigned int a, unsigned int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __umoddi3 `(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __umodti3 `(unsigned long long a, unsigned long long b)` ¶

  These functions return the remainder of the unsigned division of a and b.

#### 4.1.2 Comparison functions ¶

The following functions implement integral comparisons. These functions implement a low-level compare, upon which the higher level comparison operators (such as less than and greater than or equal to) can be constructed. The returned values lie in the range zero to two, to allow the high-level operators to be implemented by testing the returned result using either signed or unsigned comparison.

Runtime Function: `int` __cmpdi2 `(long a, long b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpti2 `(long long a, long long b)` ¶

  These functions perform a signed comparison of a and b. If a is less than b, they return 0; if a is greater than b, they return 2; and if a and b are equal they return 1.

Runtime Function: `int` __ucmpdi2 `(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __ucmpti2 `(unsigned long long a, unsigned long long b)` ¶

  These functions perform an unsigned comparison of a and b. If a is less than b, they return 0; if a is greater than b, they return 2; and if a and b are equal they return 1.

#### 4.1.3 Trapping arithmetic functions ¶

The following functions implement trapping arithmetic. These functions call the libc function `abort` upon signed arithmetic overflow.

Runtime Function: `int` __absvsi2 `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __absvdi2 `(long a)` ¶

  These functions return the absolute value of a.

Runtime Function: `int` __addvsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __addvdi3 `(long a, long b)` ¶

  These functions return the sum of a and b; that is `a + b`.

Runtime Function: `int` __mulvsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __mulvdi3 `(long a, long b)` ¶

  The functions return the product of a and b; that is `a * b`.

Runtime Function: `int` __negvsi2 `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __negvdi2 `(long a)` ¶

  These functions return the negation of a; that is `-a`.

Runtime Function: `int` __subvsi3 `(int a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __subvdi3 `(long a, long b)` ¶

  These functions return the difference between b and a; that is `a - b`.

#### 4.1.4 Bit operations ¶

Runtime Function: `int` __clzsi2 `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __clzdi2 `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __clzti2 `(unsigned long long a)` ¶

  These functions return the number of leading 0-bits in a, starting at the most significant bit position. If a is zero, the result is undefined.

Runtime Function: `int` __ctzsi2 `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __ctzdi2 `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __ctzti2 `(unsigned long long a)` ¶

  These functions return the number of trailing 0-bits in a, starting at the least significant bit position. If a is zero, the result is undefined.

Runtime Function: `int` __ffsdi2 `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __ffsti2 `(unsigned long long a)` ¶

  These functions return the index of the least significant 1-bit in a, or the value zero if a is zero. The least significant bit is index one.

Runtime Function: `int` __paritysi2 `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __paritydi2 `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __parityti2 `(unsigned long long a)` ¶

  These functions return the value zero if the number of bits set in a is even, and the value one otherwise.

Runtime Function: `int` __popcountsi2 `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __popcountdi2 `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __popcountti2 `(unsigned long long a)` ¶

  These functions return the number of bits set in a.

Runtime Function: `int32_t` __bswapsi2 `(int32_t a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int64_t` __bswapdi2 `(int64_t a)` ¶

  These functions return the a byteswapped.

#### 4.1.5 Bit-precise integer arithmetic functions ¶

`_BitInt(n)` library functions operate on arrays of limbs, where each limb has `__LIBGCC_BITINT_LIMB_WIDTH__` bits and the limbs are ordered according to `__LIBGCC_BITINT_ORDER__` ordering. The most significant limb if n is not divisible by `__LIBGCC_BITINT_LIMB_WIDTH__` contains padding bits which should be ignored on read (sign or zero extended), but extended on write. For the library functions, all bit-precise integers regardless of n are represented like that, even when the target ABI says that for some small n they should be represented differently in memory. A pointer to the array of limbs argument is always accompanied with a bit size argument. If that argument is positive, it is number of bits and the number is assumed to be zero-extended to infinite precision, if that argument is negative, it is negated number of bits above which all bits are assumed to be sign-extended to infinite precision. These number of bits arguments don’t need to match actual n for the operation used in the source, they could be lowered because of sign or zero extensions on the input or because value-range optimization figures value will need certain lower number of bits. For big-endian ordering of limbs, when lowering the bit size argument the pointer argument needs to be adjusted as well. Negative bit size argument should be always smaller or equal to `-2`, because `signed _BitInt(1)` is not valid. For output arguments, either the corresponding bit size argument should be always positive (for multiplication and division), or is negative when the output of conversion from floating-point value is signed and positive when unsigned. The arrays of limbs output arguments point to should not overlap any inputs, while input arrays of limbs can overlap. `UBILtype` below stands for unsigned integer type with `__LIBGCC_BITINT_LIMB_WIDTH__` bit precision.

Runtime Function: `void` __mulbitint3 `(`UBILtype` *ret, int32_t retprec, const `UBILtype` *u, int32_t uprec, const `UBILtype` *v, int32_t vprec)` ¶

  This function multiplies bit-precise integer operands u and v and stores result into retprec precision bit-precise integer result ret.

Runtime Function: `void` __divmodbitint4 `(`UBILtype` *q, int32_t qprec, `UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, const `UBILtype` *u, int32_t uprec, const `UBILtype` *v, int32_t vprec)` ¶

  This function divides bit-precise integer operands u and v and stores quotient into qprec precision bit-precise integer result q (unless q is `NULL` and qprec is 0, in that case quotient is not stored anywhere) and remainder into rprec precision bit-precise integer result r (similarly, unless r is `NULL` and rprec is 0).

### 4.2 Routines for floating point emulation ¶

The software floating point library is used on machines which do not have hardware support for floating point. It is also used whenever `-msoft-float` is used to disable generation of floating point instructions. (Not all targets support this switch.)

For compatibility with other compilers, the floating point emulation routines can be renamed with the `DECLARE_LIBRARY_RENAMES` macro (see Implicit Calls to Library Routines). In this section, the default names are used.

Presently the library does not support `XFmode`, which is used for `long double` on some architectures.

#### 4.2.1 Arithmetic functions ¶

Runtime Function: `float` __addsf3 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __adddf3 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __addtf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __addxf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return the sum of a and b.

Runtime Function: `float` __subsf3 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __subdf3 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __subtf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __subxf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return the difference between b and a; that is, a - b.

Runtime Function: `float` __mulsf3 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __muldf3 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __multf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __mulxf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return the product of a and b.

Runtime Function: `float` __divsf3 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __divdf3 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __divtf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __divxf3 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of a and b; that is, a / b.

Runtime Function: `float` __negsf2 `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __negdf2 `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __negtf2 `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __negxf2 `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions return the negation of a. They simply flip the sign bit, so they can produce negative zero and negative NaN.

#### 4.2.2 Conversion functions ¶

Runtime Function: `double` __extendsfdf2 `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __extendsftf2 `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __extendsfxf2 `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __extenddftf2 `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __extenddfxf2 `(double a)` ¶

  These functions extend a to the wider mode of their return type.

Runtime Function: `double` __truncxfdf2 `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __trunctfdf2 `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __truncxfsf2 `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __trunctfsf2 `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __truncdfsf2 `(double a)` ¶

  These functions truncate a to the narrower mode of their return type, rounding toward zero.

Runtime Function: `int` __fixsfsi `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fixdfsi `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fixtfsi `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fixxfsi `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to a signed integer, rounding toward zero.

Runtime Function: `long` __fixsfdi `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fixdfdi `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fixtfdi `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fixxfdi `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to a signed long, rounding toward zero.

Runtime Function: `long long` __fixsfti `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fixdfti `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fixtfti `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fixxfti `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to a signed long long, rounding toward zero.

Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fixunssfsi `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fixunsdfsi `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fixunstfsi `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fixunsxfsi `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to an unsigned integer, rounding toward zero. Negative values all become zero.

Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fixunssfdi `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fixunsdfdi `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fixunstfdi `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fixunsxfdi `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to an unsigned long, rounding toward zero. Negative values all become zero.

Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fixunssfti `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fixunsdfti `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fixunstfti `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fixunsxfti `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to an unsigned long long, rounding toward zero. Negative values all become zero.

Runtime Function: `float` __floatsisf `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __floatsidf `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatsitf `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatsixf `(int i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, a signed integer, to floating point.

Runtime Function: `float` __floatdisf `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __floatdidf `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatditf `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatdixf `(long i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, a signed long, to floating point.

Runtime Function: `float` __floattisf `(long long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __floattidf `(long long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floattitf `(long long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floattixf `(long long i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, a signed long long, to floating point.

Runtime Function: `float` __floatunsisf `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __floatunsidf `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatunsitf `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatunsixf `(unsigned int i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, an unsigned integer, to floating point.

Runtime Function: `float` __floatundisf `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __floatundidf `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatunditf `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatundixf `(unsigned long i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, an unsigned long, to floating point.

Runtime Function: `float` __floatuntisf `(unsigned long long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __floatuntidf `(unsigned long long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatuntitf `(unsigned long long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __floatuntixf `(unsigned long long i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, an unsigned long long, to floating point.

Runtime Function: `void` __fixsfbitint `(`UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `void` __fixdfbitint `(`UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `void` __fixxfbitint `(`UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, __float80 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `void` __fixtfbitint `(`UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, _Float128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to bit-precise integer r, rounding toward zero. If rprec is positive, it converts to unsigned bit-precise integer and negative values all become zero, if rprec is negative, it converts to signed bit-precise integer.

Runtime Function: `float` __floatbitintsf `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __floatbitintdf `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶
Runtime Function: `__float80` __floatbitintxf `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Float128` __floatbitinttf `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Float16` __floatbitinthf `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶
Runtime Function: `__bf16` __floatbitintbf `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶

  These functions convert bit-precise integer i to floating point. If iprec is positive, it is conversion from unsigned bit-precise integer, otherwise from signed bit-precise integer.

#### 4.2.3 Comparison functions ¶

There are two sets of basic comparison functions.

Runtime Function: `int` __cmpsf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpdf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmptf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions calculate a <=> b. That is, if a is less than b, they return −1; if a is greater than b, they return 1; and if a and b are equal they return 0. If either argument is NaN they return 1, but you should not rely on this; if NaN is a possibility, use one of the higher-level comparison functions.

Runtime Function: `int` __unordsf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __unorddf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __unordtf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return a nonzero value if either argument is NaN, otherwise 0.

There is also a complete group of higher level functions which correspond directly to comparison operators. They implement the ISO C semantics for floating-point comparisons, taking NaN into account. Pay careful attention to the return values defined for each set. Under the hood, all of these routines are implemented as

      if (__unordXf2 (a, b))
        return E;
      return __cmpXf2 (a, b);

where E is a constant chosen to give the proper behavior for NaN. Thus, the meaning of the return value is different for each set. Do not rely on this implementation; only the semantics documented below are guaranteed.

Runtime Function: `int` __eqsf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __eqdf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __eqtf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return zero if neither argument is NaN, and a and b are equal.

Runtime Function: `int` __nesf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __nedf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __netf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return a nonzero value if either argument is NaN, or if a and b are unequal.

Runtime Function: `int` __gesf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __gedf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __getf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return a value greater than or equal to zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is greater than or equal to b.

Runtime Function: `int` __ltsf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __ltdf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __lttf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return a value less than zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is strictly less than b.

Runtime Function: `int` __lesf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __ledf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __letf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return a value less than or equal to zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is less than or equal to b.

Runtime Function: `int` __gtsf2 `(float a, float b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __gtdf2 `(double a, double b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __gttf2 `(long double a, long double b)` ¶

  These functions return a value greater than zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is strictly greater than b.

#### 4.2.4 Other floating-point functions ¶

Runtime Function: `float` __powisf2 `(float a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __powidf2 `(double a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __powitf2 `(long double a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __powixf2 `(long double a, int b)` ¶

  These functions convert raise a to the power b.

Runtime Function: `complex float` __mulsc3 `(float a, float b, float c, float d)` ¶
Runtime Function: `complex double` __muldc3 `(double a, double b, double c, double d)` ¶
Runtime Function: `complex long double` __multc3 `(long double a, long double b, long double c, long double d)` ¶
Runtime Function: `complex long double` __mulxc3 `(long double a, long double b, long double c, long double d)` ¶

  These functions return the product of a + ib and c + id, following the rules of C99 Annex G.

Runtime Function: `complex float` __divsc3 `(float a, float b, float c, float d)` ¶
Runtime Function: `complex double` __divdc3 `(double a, double b, double c, double d)` ¶
Runtime Function: `complex long double` __divtc3 `(long double a, long double b, long double c, long double d)` ¶
Runtime Function: `complex long double` __divxc3 `(long double a, long double b, long double c, long double d)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of a + ib and c + id (i.e., (a + ib) / (c + id)), following the rules of C99 Annex G.

### 4.3 Routines for decimal floating point emulation ¶

The software decimal floating point library implements IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating point arithmetic and is only activated on selected targets.

The software decimal floating point library supports either DPD (Densely Packed Decimal) or BID (Binary Integer Decimal) encoding as selected at configure time.

#### 4.3.1 Arithmetic functions ¶

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_addsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_addsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_adddd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_adddd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_addtd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_addtd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return the sum of a and b.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_subsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_subsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_subdd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_subdd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_subtd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_subtd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return the difference between b and a; that is, a - b.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_mulsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_mulsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_muldd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_muldd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_multd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_multd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return the product of a and b.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_divsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_divsd3 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_divdd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_divdd3 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_divtd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_divtd3 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of a and b; that is, a / b.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_negsd2 `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_negsd2 `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_negdd2 `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_negdd2 `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_negtd2 `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_negtd2 `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions return the negation of a. They simply flip the sign bit, so they can produce negative zero and negative NaN.

#### 4.3.2 Conversion functions ¶

Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_extendsddd2 `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_extendsddd2 `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_extendsdtd2 `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_extendsdtd2 `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_extendddtd2 `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_extendddtd2 `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_truncddsd2 `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_truncddsd2 `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_trunctdsd2 `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_trunctdsd2 `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_trunctddd2 `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_trunctddd2 `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert the value a from one decimal floating type to another.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_extendsfdd `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_extendsfdd `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_extendsftd `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_extendsftd `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_extenddftd `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_extenddftd `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_extendxftd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_extendxftd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_truncdfsd `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_truncdfsd `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_truncxfsd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_truncxfsd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_trunctfsd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_trunctfsd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_truncxfdd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_truncxfdd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_trunctfdd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_trunctfdd `(long double a)` ¶

  These functions convert the value of a from a binary floating type to a decimal floating type of a different size.

Runtime Function: `float` __dpd_truncddsf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __bid_truncddsf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __dpd_trunctdsf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __bid_trunctdsf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __dpd_extendsddf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __bid_extendsddf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __dpd_trunctddf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __bid_trunctddf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __dpd_extendsdxf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __bid_extendsdxf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __dpd_extendddxf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __bid_extendddxf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __dpd_trunctdxf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __bid_trunctdxf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __dpd_extendsdtf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __bid_extendsdtf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __dpd_extendddtf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __bid_extendddtf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶

  These functions convert the value of a from a decimal floating type to a binary floating type of a different size.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_extendsfsd `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_extendsfsd `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_extenddfdd `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_extenddfdd `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_extendtftd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_extendtftd `(long double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __dpd_truncsdsf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __bid_truncsdsf `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __dpd_truncdddf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __bid_truncdddf `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __dpd_trunctdtf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long double` __bid_trunctdtf `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert the value of a between decimal and binary floating types of the same size.

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_fixsdsi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_fixsdsi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_fixddsi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_fixddsi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_fixtdsi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_fixtdsi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to a signed integer.

Runtime Function: `long` __dpd_fixsddi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __bid_fixsddi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __dpd_fixdddi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __bid_fixdddi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __dpd_fixtddi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __bid_fixtddi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to a signed long.

Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __dpd_fixunssdsi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __bid_fixunssdsi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __dpd_fixunsddsi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __bid_fixunsddsi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __dpd_fixunstdsi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __bid_fixunstdsi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to an unsigned integer. Negative values all become zero.

Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __dpd_fixunssddi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __bid_fixunssddi `(_Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __dpd_fixunsdddi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __bid_fixunsdddi `(_Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __dpd_fixunstddi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __bid_fixunstddi `(_Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to an unsigned long. Negative values all become zero.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_floatsisd `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_floatsisd `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_floatsidd `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_floatsidd `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_floatsitd `(int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_floatsitd `(int i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, a signed integer, to decimal floating point.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_floatdisd `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_floatdisd `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_floatdidd `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_floatdidd `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_floatditd `(long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_floatditd `(long i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, a signed long, to decimal floating point.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_floatunssisd `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_floatunssisd `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_floatunssidd `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_floatunssidd `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_floatunssitd `(unsigned int i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_floatunssitd `(unsigned int i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, an unsigned integer, to decimal floating point.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __dpd_floatunsdisd `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_floatunsdisd `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __dpd_floatunsdidd `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_floatunsdidd `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __dpd_floatunsditd `(unsigned long i)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_floatunsditd `(unsigned long i)` ¶

  These functions convert i, an unsigned long, to decimal floating point.

Runtime Function: `void` __bid_fixsdbitint `(`UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, _Decimal32 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `void` __bid_fixddbitint `(`UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, _Decimal64 a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `void` __bid_fixtdbitint `(`UBILtype` *r, int32_t rprec, _Decimal128 a)` ¶

  These functions convert a to bit-precise integer r, rounding toward zero. If rprec is positive, it converts to unsigned bit-precise integer and negative values all become zero, if rprec is negative, it converts to signed bit-precise integer. So far implemented for BID format only.

Runtime Function: `_Decimal32` __bid_floatbitintsd `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal64` __bid_floatbitintdd `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶
Runtime Function: `_Decimal128` __bid_floatbitinttd `(`UBILtype` *i, int32_t iprec)` ¶

  These functions convert bit-precise integer i to decimal floating point. If iprec is positive, it is conversion from unsigned bit-precise integer, otherwise from signed bit-precise integer. So far implemented for BID format only.

#### 4.3.3 Comparison functions ¶

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_unordsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_unordsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_unorddd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_unorddd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_unordtd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_unordtd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return a nonzero value if either argument is NaN, otherwise 0.

There is also a complete group of higher level functions which correspond directly to comparison operators. They implement the ISO C semantics for floating-point comparisons, taking NaN into account. Pay careful attention to the return values defined for each set. Under the hood, all of these routines are implemented as

      if (__bid_unordXd2 (a, b))
        return E;
      return __bid_cmpXd2 (a, b);

where E is a constant chosen to give the proper behavior for NaN. Thus, the meaning of the return value is different for each set. Do not rely on this implementation; only the semantics documented below are guaranteed.

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_eqsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_eqsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_eqdd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_eqdd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_eqtd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_eqtd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return zero if neither argument is NaN, and a and b are equal.

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_nesd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_nesd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_nedd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_nedd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_netd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_netd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return a nonzero value if either argument is NaN, or if a and b are unequal.

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_gesd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_gesd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_gedd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_gedd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_getd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_getd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return a value greater than or equal to zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is greater than or equal to b.

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_ltsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_ltsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_ltdd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_ltdd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_lttd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_lttd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return a value less than zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is strictly less than b.

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_lesd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_lesd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_ledd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_ledd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_letd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_letd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return a value less than or equal to zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is less than or equal to b.

Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_gtsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_gtsd2 `(_Decimal32 a, _Decimal32 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_gtdd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_gtdd2 `(_Decimal64 a, _Decimal64 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __dpd_gttd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __bid_gttd2 `(_Decimal128 a, _Decimal128 b)` ¶

  These functions return a value greater than zero if neither argument is NaN, and a is strictly greater than b.

### 4.4 Routines for fixed-point fractional emulation ¶

The software fixed-point library implements fixed-point fractional arithmetic, and is only activated on selected targets.

For ease of comprehension `fract` is an alias for the `_Fract` type, `accum` an alias for `_Accum`, and `sat` an alias for `_Sat`.

For illustrative purposes, in this section the fixed-point fractional type `short fract` is assumed to correspond to machine mode `QQmode`; `unsigned short fract` to `UQQmode`; `fract` to `HQmode`; `unsigned fract` to `UHQmode`; `long fract` to `SQmode`; `unsigned long fract` to `USQmode`; `long long fract` to `DQmode`; and `unsigned long long fract` to `UDQmode`. Similarly the fixed-point accumulator type `short accum` corresponds to `HAmode`; `unsigned short accum` to `UHAmode`; `accum` to `SAmode`; `unsigned accum` to `USAmode`; `long accum` to `DAmode`; `unsigned long accum` to `UDAmode`; `long long accum` to `TAmode`; and `unsigned long long accum` to `UTAmode`.

#### 4.4.1 Arithmetic functions ¶

Runtime Function: `short fract` __addqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __addhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __addsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __adddq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __adduqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __adduhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __addusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __addudq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __addha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __addsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __addda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __addta3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __adduha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __addusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __adduda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __adduta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the sum of a and b.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __ssaddqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __ssaddhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __ssaddsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __ssadddq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __ssaddha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __ssaddsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __ssaddda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __ssaddta3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the sum of a and b with signed saturation.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __usadduqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __usadduhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __usaddusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __usaddudq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __usadduha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __usaddusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __usadduda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __usadduta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the sum of a and b with unsigned saturation.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __subqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __subhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __subsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __subdq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __subuqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __subuhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __subusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __subudq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __subha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __subsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __subda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __subta3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __subuha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __subusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __subuda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __subuta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the difference of a and b; that is, `a - b`.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __sssubqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __sssubhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __sssubsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __sssubdq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __sssubha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __sssubsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __sssubda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __sssubta3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the difference of a and b with signed saturation; that is, `a - b`.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __ussubuqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __ussubuhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __ussubusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __ussubudq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __ussubuha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __ussubusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __ussubuda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __ussubuta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the difference of a and b with unsigned saturation; that is, `a - b`.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __mulqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __mulhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __mulsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __muldq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __muluqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __muluhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __mulusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __muludq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __mulha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __mulsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __mulda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __multa3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __muluha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __mulusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __muluda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __muluta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the product of a and b.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __ssmulqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __ssmulhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __ssmulsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __ssmuldq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __ssmulha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __ssmulsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __ssmulda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __ssmulta3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the product of a and b with signed saturation.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __usmuluqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __usmuluhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __usmulusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __usmuludq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __usmuluha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __usmulusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __usmuluda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __usmuluta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the product of a and b with unsigned saturation.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __divqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __divhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __divsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __divdq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __divha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __divsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __divda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __divta3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of the signed division of a and b.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __udivuqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __udivuhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __udivusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __udivudq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __udivuha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __udivusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __udivuda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __udivuta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of the unsigned division of a and b.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __ssdivqq3 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __ssdivhq3 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __ssdivsq3 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __ssdivdq3 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __ssdivha3 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __ssdivsa3 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __ssdivda3 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __ssdivta3 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of the signed division of a and b with signed saturation.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __usdivuqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __usdivuhq3 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __usdivusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __usdivudq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __usdivuha3 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __usdivusa3 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __usdivuda3 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __usdivuta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions return the quotient of the unsigned division of a and b with unsigned saturation.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __negqq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __neghq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __negsq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __negdq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __neguqq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __neguhq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __negusq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __negudq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __negha2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __negsa2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __negda2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __negta2 `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __neguha2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __negusa2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __neguda2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __neguta2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶

  These functions return the negation of a.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __ssnegqq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __ssneghq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __ssnegsq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __ssnegdq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __ssnegha2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __ssnegsa2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __ssnegda2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __ssnegta2 `(long long accum a)` ¶

  These functions return the negation of a with signed saturation.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __usneguqq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __usneguhq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __usnegusq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __usnegudq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __usneguha2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __usnegusa2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __usneguda2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __usneguta2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶

  These functions return the negation of a with unsigned saturation.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __ashlqq3 `(short fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __ashlhq3 `(fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __ashlsq3 `(long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __ashldq3 `(long long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __ashluqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __ashluhq3 `(unsigned fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __ashlusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __ashludq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __ashlha3 `(short accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __ashlsa3 `(accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __ashlda3 `(long accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __ashlta3 `(long long accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __ashluha3 `(unsigned short accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __ashlusa3 `(unsigned accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __ashluda3 `(unsigned long accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __ashluta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of shifting a left by b bits.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __ashrqq3 `(short fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __ashrhq3 `(fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __ashrsq3 `(long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __ashrdq3 `(long long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __ashrha3 `(short accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __ashrsa3 `(accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __ashrda3 `(long accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __ashrta3 `(long long accum a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of arithmetically shifting a right by b bits.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __lshruqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __lshruhq3 `(unsigned fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __lshrusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __lshrudq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __lshruha3 `(unsigned short accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __lshrusa3 `(unsigned accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __lshruda3 `(unsigned long accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __lshruta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of logically shifting a right by b bits.

Runtime Function: `fract` __ssashlhq3 `(fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __ssashlsq3 `(long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __ssashldq3 `(long long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __ssashlha3 `(short accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __ssashlsa3 `(accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __ssashlda3 `(long accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __ssashlta3 `(long long accum a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of shifting a left by b bits with signed saturation.

Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __usashluqq3 `(unsigned short fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __usashluhq3 `(unsigned fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __usashlusq3 `(unsigned long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __usashludq3 `(unsigned long long fract a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __usashluha3 `(unsigned short accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __usashlusa3 `(unsigned accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __usashluda3 `(unsigned long accum a, int b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __usashluta3 `(unsigned long long accum a, int b)` ¶

  These functions return the result of shifting a left by b bits with unsigned saturation.

#### 4.4.2 Comparison functions ¶

The following functions implement fixed-point comparisons. These functions implement a low-level compare, upon which the higher level comparison operators (such as less than and greater than or equal to) can be constructed. The returned values lie in the range zero to two, to allow the high-level operators to be implemented by testing the returned result using either signed or unsigned comparison.

Runtime Function: `int` __cmpqq2 `(short fract a, short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmphq2 `(fract a, fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpsq2 `(long fract a, long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpdq2 `(long long fract a, long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpuqq2 `(unsigned short fract a, unsigned short fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpuhq2 `(unsigned fract a, unsigned fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpusq2 `(unsigned long fract a, unsigned long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpudq2 `(unsigned long long fract a, unsigned long long fract b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpha2 `(short accum a, short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpsa2 `(accum a, accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpda2 `(long accum a, long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpta2 `(long long accum a, long long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpuha2 `(unsigned short accum a, unsigned short accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpusa2 `(unsigned accum a, unsigned accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmpuda2 `(unsigned long accum a, unsigned long accum b)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __cmputa2 `(unsigned long long accum a, unsigned long long accum b)` ¶

  These functions perform a signed or unsigned comparison of a and b (depending on the selected machine mode). If a is less than b, they return 0; if a is greater than b, they return 2; and if a and b are equal they return 1.

#### 4.4.3 Conversion functions ¶

Runtime Function: `fract` __fractqqhq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractqqsq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractqqdq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractqqha `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractqqsa `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractqqda `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractqqta `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractqquqq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractqquhq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractqqusq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractqqudq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractqquha `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractqqusa `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractqquda `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractqquta `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractqqqi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractqqhi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractqqsi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractqqdi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractqqti `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractqqsf `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractqqdf `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fracthqqq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fracthqsq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fracthqdq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fracthqha `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fracthqsa `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fracthqda `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fracthqta `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fracthquqq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fracthquhq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fracthqusq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fracthqudq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fracthquha `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fracthqusa `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fracthquda `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fracthquta `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fracthqqi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fracthqhi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fracthqsi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fracthqdi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fracthqti `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fracthqsf `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fracthqdf `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractsqqq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractsqhq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractsqdq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractsqha `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractsqsa `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractsqda `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractsqta `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractsquqq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractsquhq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractsqusq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractsqudq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractsquha `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractsqusa `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractsquda `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractsquta `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractsqqi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractsqhi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractsqsi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractsqdi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractsqti `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractsqsf `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractsqdf `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractdqqq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractdqhq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractdqsq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractdqha `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractdqsa `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractdqda `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractdqta `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractdquqq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractdquhq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractdqusq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractdqudq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractdquha `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractdqusa `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractdquda `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractdquta `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractdqqi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractdqhi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractdqsi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractdqdi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractdqti `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractdqsf `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractdqdf `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fracthaqq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fracthahq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fracthasq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fracthadq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fracthasa2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fracthada2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fracthata2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fracthauqq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fracthauhq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fracthausq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fracthaudq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fracthauha `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fracthausa `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fracthauda `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fracthauta `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fracthaqi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fracthahi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fracthasi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fracthadi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fracthati `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fracthasf `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fracthadf `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractsaqq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractsahq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractsasq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractsadq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractsaha2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractsada2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractsata2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractsauqq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractsauhq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractsausq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractsaudq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractsauha `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractsausa `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractsauda `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractsauta `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractsaqi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractsahi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractsasi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractsadi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractsati `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractsasf `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractsadf `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractdaqq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractdahq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractdasq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractdadq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractdaha2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractdasa2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractdata2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractdauqq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractdauhq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractdausq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractdaudq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractdauha `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractdausa `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractdauda `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractdauta `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractdaqi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractdahi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractdasi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractdadi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractdati `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractdasf `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractdadf `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fracttaqq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fracttahq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fracttasq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fracttadq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fracttaha2 `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fracttasa2 `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fracttada2 `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fracttauqq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fracttauhq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fracttausq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fracttaudq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fracttauha `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fracttausa `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fracttauda `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fracttauta `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fracttaqi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fracttahi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fracttasi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fracttadi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fracttati `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fracttasf `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fracttadf `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractuqqqq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractuqqhq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractuqqsq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractuqqdq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractuqqha `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractuqqsa `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractuqqda `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractuqqta `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractuqquhq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractuqqusq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractuqqudq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractuqquha `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractuqqusa `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractuqquda `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractuqquta `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractuqqqi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractuqqhi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractuqqsi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractuqqdi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractuqqti `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractuqqsf `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractuqqdf `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractuhqqq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractuhqhq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractuhqsq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractuhqdq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractuhqha `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractuhqsa `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractuhqda `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractuhqta `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractuhquqq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractuhqusq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractuhqudq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractuhquha `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractuhqusa `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractuhquda `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractuhquta `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractuhqqi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractuhqhi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractuhqsi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractuhqdi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractuhqti `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractuhqsf `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractuhqdf `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractusqqq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractusqhq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractusqsq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractusqdq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractusqha `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractusqsa `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractusqda `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractusqta `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractusquqq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractusquhq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractusqudq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractusquha `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractusqusa `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractusquda `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractusquta `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractusqqi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractusqhi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractusqsi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractusqdi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractusqti `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractusqsf `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractusqdf `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractudqqq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractudqhq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractudqsq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractudqdq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractudqha `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractudqsa `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractudqda `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractudqta `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractudquqq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractudquhq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractudqusq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractudquha `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractudqusa `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractudquda `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractudquta `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractudqqi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractudqhi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractudqsi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractudqdi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractudqti `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractudqsf `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractudqdf `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractuhaqq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractuhahq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractuhasq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractuhadq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractuhaha `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractuhasa `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractuhada `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractuhata `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractuhauqq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractuhauhq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractuhausq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractuhaudq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractuhausa2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractuhauda2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractuhauta2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractuhaqi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractuhahi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractuhasi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractuhadi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractuhati `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractuhasf `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractuhadf `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractusaqq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractusahq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractusasq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractusadq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractusaha `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractusasa `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractusada `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractusata `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractusauqq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractusauhq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractusausq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractusaudq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractusauha2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractusauda2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractusauta2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractusaqi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractusahi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractusasi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractusadi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractusati `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractusasf `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractusadf `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractudaqq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractudahq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractudasq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractudadq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractudaha `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractudasa `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractudada `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractudata `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractudauqq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractudauhq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractudausq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractudaudq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractudauha2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractudausa2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractudauta2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractudaqi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractudahi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractudasi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractudadi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractudati `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractudasf `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractudadf `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractutaqq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractutahq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractutasq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractutadq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractutaha `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractutasa `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractutada `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractutata `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractutauqq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractutauhq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractutausq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractutaudq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractutauha2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractutausa2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractutauda2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `signed char` __fractutaqi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short` __fractutahi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `int` __fractutasi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long` __fractutadi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long` __fractutati `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `float` __fractutasf `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `double` __fractutadf `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractqiqq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractqihq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractqisq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractqidq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractqiha `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractqisa `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractqida `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractqita `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractqiuqq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractqiuhq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractqiusq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractqiudq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractqiuha `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractqiusa `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractqiuda `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractqiuta `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fracthiqq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fracthihq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fracthisq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fracthidq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fracthiha `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fracthisa `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fracthida `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fracthita `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fracthiuqq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fracthiuhq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fracthiusq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fracthiudq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fracthiuha `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fracthiusa `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fracthiuda `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fracthiuta `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractsiqq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractsihq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractsisq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractsidq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractsiha `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractsisa `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractsida `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractsita `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractsiuqq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractsiuhq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractsiusq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractsiudq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractsiuha `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractsiusa `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractsiuda `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractsiuta `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractdiqq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractdihq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractdisq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractdidq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractdiha `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractdisa `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractdida `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractdita `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractdiuqq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractdiuhq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractdiusq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractdiudq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractdiuha `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractdiusa `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractdiuda `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractdiuta `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fracttiqq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fracttihq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fracttisq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fracttidq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fracttiha `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fracttisa `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fracttida `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fracttita `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fracttiuqq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fracttiuhq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fracttiusq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fracttiudq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fracttiuha `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fracttiusa `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fracttiuda `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fracttiuta `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractsfqq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractsfhq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractsfsq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractsfdq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractsfha `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractsfsa `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractsfda `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractsfta `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractsfuqq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractsfuhq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractsfusq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractsfudq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractsfuha `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractsfusa `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractsfuda `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractsfuta `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractdfqq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractdfhq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractdfsq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractdfdq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractdfha `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractdfsa `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractdfda `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractdfta `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractdfuqq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractdfuhq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractdfusq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractdfudq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractdfuha `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractdfusa `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractdfuda `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractdfuta `(double a)` ¶

  These functions convert from fractional and signed non-fractionals to fractionals and signed non-fractionals, without saturation.

Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractqqhq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractqqsq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractqqdq2 `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractqqha `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractqqsa `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractqqda `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractqqta `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractqquqq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractqquhq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractqqusq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractqqudq `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractqquha `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractqqusa `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractqquda `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractqquta `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfracthqqq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfracthqsq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfracthqdq2 `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfracthqha `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfracthqsa `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfracthqda `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfracthqta `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfracthquqq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfracthquhq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfracthqusq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfracthqudq `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfracthquha `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfracthqusa `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfracthquda `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfracthquta `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractsqqq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractsqhq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractsqdq2 `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractsqha `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractsqsa `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractsqda `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractsqta `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractsquqq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractsquhq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractsqusq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractsqudq `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractsquha `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractsqusa `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractsquda `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractsquta `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractdqqq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractdqhq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractdqsq2 `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractdqha `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractdqsa `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractdqda `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractdqta `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractdquqq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractdquhq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractdqusq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractdqudq `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractdquha `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractdqusa `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractdquda `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractdquta `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfracthaqq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfracthahq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfracthasq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfracthadq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfracthasa2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfracthada2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfracthata2 `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfracthauqq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfracthauhq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfracthausq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfracthaudq `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfracthauha `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfracthausa `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfracthauda `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfracthauta `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractsaqq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractsahq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractsasq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractsadq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractsaha2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractsada2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractsata2 `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractsauqq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractsauhq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractsausq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractsaudq `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractsauha `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractsausa `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractsauda `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractsauta `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractdaqq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractdahq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractdasq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractdadq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractdaha2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractdasa2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractdata2 `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractdauqq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractdauhq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractdausq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractdaudq `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractdauha `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractdausa `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractdauda `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractdauta `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfracttaqq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfracttahq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfracttasq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfracttadq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfracttaha2 `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfracttasa2 `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfracttada2 `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfracttauqq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfracttauhq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfracttausq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfracttaudq `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfracttauha `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfracttausa `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfracttauda `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfracttauta `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractuqqqq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractuqqhq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractuqqsq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractuqqdq `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractuqqha `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractuqqsa `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractuqqda `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractuqqta `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractuqquhq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractuqqusq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractuqqudq2 `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractuqquha `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractuqqusa `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractuqquda `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractuqquta `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractuhqqq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractuhqhq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractuhqsq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractuhqdq `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractuhqha `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractuhqsa `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractuhqda `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractuhqta `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractuhquqq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractuhqusq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractuhqudq2 `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractuhquha `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractuhqusa `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractuhquda `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractuhquta `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractusqqq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractusqhq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractusqsq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractusqdq `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractusqha `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractusqsa `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractusqda `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractusqta `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractusquqq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractusquhq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractusqudq2 `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractusquha `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractusqusa `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractusquda `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractusquta `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractudqqq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractudqhq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractudqsq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractudqdq `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractudqha `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractudqsa `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractudqda `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractudqta `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractudquqq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractudquhq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractudqusq2 `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractudquha `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractudqusa `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractudquda `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractudquta `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractuhaqq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractuhahq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractuhasq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractuhadq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractuhaha `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractuhasa `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractuhada `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractuhata `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractuhauqq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractuhauhq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractuhausq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractuhaudq `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractuhausa2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractuhauda2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractuhauta2 `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractusaqq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractusahq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractusasq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractusadq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractusaha `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractusasa `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractusada `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractusata `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractusauqq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractusauhq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractusausq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractusaudq `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractusauha2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractusauda2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractusauta2 `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractudaqq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractudahq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractudasq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractudadq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractudaha `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractudasa `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractudada `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractudata `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractudauqq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractudauhq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractudausq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractudaudq `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractudauha2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractudausa2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractudauta2 `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractutaqq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractutahq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractutasq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractutadq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractutaha `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractutasa `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractutada `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractutata `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractutauqq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractutauhq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractutausq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractutaudq `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractutauha2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractutausa2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractutauda2 `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractqiqq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractqihq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractqisq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractqidq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractqiha `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractqisa `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractqida `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractqita `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractqiuqq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractqiuhq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractqiusq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractqiudq `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractqiuha `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractqiusa `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractqiuda `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractqiuta `(signed char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfracthiqq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfracthihq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfracthisq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfracthidq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfracthiha `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfracthisa `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfracthida `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfracthita `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfracthiuqq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfracthiuhq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfracthiusq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfracthiudq `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfracthiuha `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfracthiusa `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfracthiuda `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfracthiuta `(short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractsiqq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractsihq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractsisq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractsidq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractsiha `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractsisa `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractsida `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractsita `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractsiuqq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractsiuhq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractsiusq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractsiudq `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractsiuha `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractsiusa `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractsiuda `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractsiuta `(int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractdiqq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractdihq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractdisq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractdidq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractdiha `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractdisa `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractdida `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractdita `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractdiuqq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractdiuhq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractdiusq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractdiudq `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractdiuha `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractdiusa `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractdiuda `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractdiuta `(long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfracttiqq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfracttihq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfracttisq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfracttidq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfracttiha `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfracttisa `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfracttida `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfracttita `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfracttiuqq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfracttiuhq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfracttiusq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfracttiudq `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfracttiuha `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfracttiusa `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfracttiuda `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfracttiuta `(long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractsfqq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractsfhq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractsfsq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractsfdq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractsfha `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractsfsa `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractsfda `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractsfta `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractsfuqq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractsfuhq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractsfusq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractsfudq `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractsfuha `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractsfusa `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractsfuda `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractsfuta `(float a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractdfqq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractdfhq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractdfsq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractdfdq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractdfha `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractdfsa `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractdfda `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractdfta `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractdfuqq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractdfuhq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractdfusq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractdfudq `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractdfuha `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractdfusa `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractdfuda `(double a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractdfuta `(double a)` ¶

  The functions convert from fractional and signed non-fractionals to fractionals, with saturation.

Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsqqqi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsqqhi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsqqsi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsqqdi `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsqqti `(short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunshqqi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunshqhi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunshqsi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunshqdi `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunshqti `(fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunssqqi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunssqhi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunssqsi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunssqdi `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunssqti `(long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsdqqi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsdqhi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsdqsi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsdqdi `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsdqti `(long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunshaqi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunshahi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunshasi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunshadi `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunshati `(short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunssaqi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunssahi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunssasi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunssadi `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunssati `(accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsdaqi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsdahi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsdasi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsdadi `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsdati `(long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunstaqi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunstahi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunstasi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunstadi `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunstati `(long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsuqqqi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsuqqhi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsuqqsi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsuqqdi `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsuqqti `(unsigned short fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsuhqqi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsuhqhi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsuhqsi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsuhqdi `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsuhqti `(unsigned fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsusqqi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsusqhi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsusqsi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsusqdi `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsusqti `(unsigned long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsudqqi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsudqhi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsudqsi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsudqdi `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsudqti `(unsigned long long fract a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsuhaqi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsuhahi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsuhasi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsuhadi `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsuhati `(unsigned short accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsusaqi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsusahi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsusasi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsusadi `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsusati `(unsigned accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsudaqi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsudahi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsudasi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsudadi `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsudati `(unsigned long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned char` __fractunsutaqi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short` __fractunsutahi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned int` __fractunsutasi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long` __fractunsutadi `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long` __fractunsutati `(unsigned long long accum a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractunsqiqq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractunsqihq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractunsqisq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractunsqidq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractunsqiha `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractunsqisa `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractunsqida `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractunsqita `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractunsqiuqq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractunsqiuhq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractunsqiusq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractunsqiudq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractunsqiuha `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractunsqiusa `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractunsqiuda `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractunsqiuta `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractunshiqq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractunshihq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractunshisq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractunshidq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractunshiha `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractunshisa `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractunshida `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractunshita `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractunshiuqq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractunshiuhq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractunshiusq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractunshiudq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractunshiuha `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractunshiusa `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractunshiuda `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractunshiuta `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractunssiqq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractunssihq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractunssisq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractunssidq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractunssiha `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractunssisa `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractunssida `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractunssita `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractunssiuqq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractunssiuhq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractunssiusq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractunssiudq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractunssiuha `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractunssiusa `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractunssiuda `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractunssiuta `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractunsdiqq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractunsdihq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractunsdisq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractunsdidq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractunsdiha `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractunsdisa `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractunsdida `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractunsdita `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractunsdiuqq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractunsdiuhq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractunsdiusq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractunsdiudq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractunsdiuha `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractunsdiusa `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractunsdiuda `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractunsdiuta `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __fractunstiqq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __fractunstihq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __fractunstisq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __fractunstidq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __fractunstiha `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __fractunstisa `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __fractunstida `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __fractunstita `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __fractunstiuqq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __fractunstiuhq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __fractunstiusq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __fractunstiudq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __fractunstiuha `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __fractunstiusa `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __fractunstiuda `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __fractunstiuta `(unsigned long long a)` ¶

  These functions convert from fractionals to unsigned non-fractionals; and from unsigned non-fractionals to fractionals, without saturation.

Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractunsqiqq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractunsqihq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractunsqisq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractunsqidq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractunsqiha `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractunsqisa `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractunsqida `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractunsqita `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractunsqiuqq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractunsqiuhq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractunsqiusq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractunsqiudq `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractunsqiuha `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractunsqiusa `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractunsqiuda `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractunsqiuta `(unsigned char a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractunshiqq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractunshihq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractunshisq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractunshidq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractunshiha `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractunshisa `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractunshida `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractunshita `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractunshiuqq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractunshiuhq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractunshiusq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractunshiudq `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractunshiuha `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractunshiusa `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractunshiuda `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractunshiuta `(unsigned short a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractunssiqq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractunssihq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractunssisq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractunssidq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractunssiha `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractunssisa `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractunssida `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractunssita `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractunssiuqq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractunssiuhq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractunssiusq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractunssiudq `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractunssiuha `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractunssiusa `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractunssiuda `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractunssiuta `(unsigned int a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractunsdiqq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractunsdihq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractunsdisq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractunsdidq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractunsdiha `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractunsdisa `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractunsdida `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractunsdita `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractunsdiuqq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractunsdiuhq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractunsdiusq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractunsdiudq `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractunsdiuha `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractunsdiusa `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractunsdiuda `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractunsdiuta `(unsigned long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short fract` __satfractunstiqq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `fract` __satfractunstihq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long fract` __satfractunstisq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long fract` __satfractunstidq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `short accum` __satfractunstiha `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `accum` __satfractunstisa `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long accum` __satfractunstida `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `long long accum` __satfractunstita `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short fract` __satfractunstiuqq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned fract` __satfractunstiuhq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long fract` __satfractunstiusq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long fract` __satfractunstiudq `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned short accum` __satfractunstiuha `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned accum` __satfractunstiusa `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long accum` __satfractunstiuda `(unsigned long long a)` ¶
Runtime Function: `unsigned long long accum` __satfractunstiuta `(unsigned long long a)` ¶

  These functions convert from unsigned non-fractionals to fractionals, with saturation.

### 4.5 Language-independent routines for exception handling ¶

document me!

      _Unwind_DeleteException
      _Unwind_Find_FDE
      _Unwind_ForcedUnwind
      _Unwind_GetGR
      _Unwind_GetIP
      _Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData
      _Unwind_GetRegionStart
      _Unwind_GetTextRelBase
      _Unwind_GetDataRelBase
      _Unwind_RaiseException
      _Unwind_Resume
      _Unwind_SetGR
      _Unwind_SetIP
      _Unwind_FindEnclosingFunction
      _Unwind_SjLj_Register
      _Unwind_SjLj_Unregister
      _Unwind_SjLj_RaiseException
      _Unwind_SjLj_ForcedUnwind
      _Unwind_SjLj_Resume
      __deregister_frame
      __deregister_frame_info
      __deregister_frame_info_bases
      __register_frame
      __register_frame_info
      __register_frame_info_bases
      __register_frame_info_table
      __register_frame_info_table_bases
      __register_frame_table

### 4.6 Miscellaneous runtime library routines ¶

#### 4.6.1 Cache control functions ¶

Runtime Function: `void` __clear_cache `(char *beg, char *end)` ¶

  This function clears the instruction cache between beg and end.

#### 4.6.2 Split stack functions and variables ¶

Runtime Function: `void *` __splitstack_find `(void *segment_arg, void *sp, size_t len, void **next_segment, void **next_sp, void **initial_sp)` ¶

  When using `-fsplit-stack`, this call may be used to iterate over the stack segments. It may be called like this:

        void *next_segment = NULL;
        void *next_sp = NULL;
        void *initial_sp = NULL;
        void *stack;
        size_t stack_size;
        while ((stack = __splitstack_find (next_segment, next_sp,
                                           &stack_size, &next_segment,
                                           &next_sp, &initial_sp))
               != NULL)
          {
            /* Stack segment starts at stack and is
               stack_size bytes long.  */
          }

  There is no way to iterate over the stack segments of a different thread. However, what is permitted is for one thread to call this with the segment_arg and sp arguments NULL, to pass next_segment, next_sp, and initial_sp to a different thread, and then to suspend one way or another. A different thread may run the subsequent `__splitstack_find` iterations. Of course, this will only work if the first thread is suspended while the second thread is calling `__splitstack_find`. If not, the second thread could be looking at the stack while it is changing, and anything could happen.

Variable: __morestack_segments ¶
Variable: __morestack_current_segment ¶
Variable: __morestack_initial_sp ¶

  Internal variables used by the `-fsplit-stack` implementation.

## 5 Language Front Ends in GCC ¶

The interface to front ends for languages in GCC, and in particular the `tree` structure (see GENERIC), was initially designed for C, and many aspects of it are still somewhat biased towards C and C-like languages. It is, however, reasonably well suited to other procedural languages, and front ends for many such languages have been written for GCC.

Writing a compiler as a front end for GCC, rather than compiling directly to assembler or generating C code which is then compiled by GCC, has several advantages:

- GCC front ends benefit from the support for many different target machines already present in GCC.
- GCC front ends benefit from all the optimizations in GCC. Some of these, such as alias analysis, may work better when GCC is compiling directly from source code than when it is compiling from generated C code.
- Better debugging information is generated when compiling directly from source code than when going via intermediate generated C code.

Because of the advantages of writing a compiler as a GCC front end, GCC front ends have also been created for languages very different from those for which GCC was designed, such as the declarative logic/functional language Mercury. For these reasons, it may also be useful to implement compilers created for specialized purposes (for example, as part of a research project) as GCC front ends.

## 6 Source Tree Structure and Build System ¶

This chapter describes the structure of the GCC source tree, and how GCC is built. The user documentation for building and installing GCC is in a separate manual (https://gcc.gnu.org/install/), with which it is presumed that you are familiar.

### 6.1 Configure Terms and History ¶

The configure and build process has a long and colorful history, and can be confusing to anyone who doesn’t know why things are the way they are. While there are other documents which describe the configuration process in detail, here are a few things that everyone working on GCC should know.

There are three system names that the build knows about: the machine you are building on (build), the machine that you are building for (host), and the machine that GCC will produce code for (target). When you configure GCC, you specify these with `--build=`, `--host=`, and `--target=`.

Specifying the host without specifying the build should be avoided, as `configure` may (and once did) assume that the host you specify is also the build, which may not be true.

If build, host, and target are all the same, this is called a native. If build and host are the same but target is different, this is called a cross. If build, host, and target are all different this is called a canadian (for obscure reasons dealing with Canada’s political party and the background of the person working on the build at that time). If host and target are the same, but build is different, you are using a cross-compiler to build a native for a different system. Some people call this a host-x-host, crossed native, or cross-built native. If build and target are the same, but host is different, you are using a cross compiler to build a cross compiler that produces code for the machine you’re building on. This is rare, so there is no common way of describing it. There is a proposal to call this a crossback.

If build and host are the same, the GCC you are building will also be used to build the target libraries (like `libstdc++`). If build and host are different, you must have already built and installed a cross compiler that will be used to build the target libraries (if you configured with `--target=foo-bar`, this compiler will be called `foo-bar-gcc`).

In the case of target libraries, the machine you’re building for is the machine you specified with `--target`. So, build is the machine you’re building on (no change there), host is the machine you’re building for (the target libraries are built for the target, so host is the target you specified), and target doesn’t apply (because you’re not building a compiler, you’re building libraries). The configure/make process will adjust these variables as needed. It also sets `$with_cross_host` to the original `--host` value in case you need it.

The `libiberty` support library is built up to three times: once for the host, once for the target (even if they are the same), and once for the build if build and host are different. This allows it to be used by all programs which are generated in the course of the build process.

### 6.2 Top Level Source Directory ¶

The top level source directory in a GCC distribution contains several files and directories that are shared with other software distributions such as that of GNU Binutils. It also contains several subdirectories that contain parts of GCC and its runtime libraries:

`c++tools`

  Contains the sources for the g++-mapper-server, a tool used with C++ modules.

`config`

  Autoconf macros and Makefile fragments used throughout the tree.

`contrib`

  Contributed scripts that may be found useful in conjunction with GCC. One of these, `contrib/texi2pod.pl`, is used to generate man pages from Texinfo manuals as part of the GCC build process.

`fixincludes`

  The support for fixing system headers to work with GCC. See `fixincludes/README` for more information. The headers fixed by this mechanism are installed in `libsubdir/include-fixed`. Along with those headers, `README-fixinc` is also installed, as `libsubdir/include-fixed/README`.

`gcc`

  The main sources of GCC itself (except for runtime libraries), including optimizers, support for different target architectures, language front ends, and testsuites. See The `gcc` Subdirectory, for details.

`gnattools`

  Support tools for GNAT.

`gotools`

  Support tools for Go.

`include`

  Headers for the `libiberty` library.

`intl`

  GNU `libintl`, from GNU `gettext`, for systems which do not include it in `libc`.

`libada`

  The Ada runtime library.

`libatomic`

  The runtime support library for atomic operations (e.g. for `__sync` and `__atomic`).

`libbacktrace`

  A library that allows GCC to produce backtraces when it crashes.

`libcc1`

  A library that allows GDB to make use of the compiler.

`libcody`

  A compiler dynamism library to allow communication between compilers and build systems, for purposes such as C++ modules.

`libcpp`

  The C preprocessor library.

`libdecnumber`

  The Decimal Float support library.

`libffi`

  The `libffi` library, used as part of the Go runtime library.

`libgcc`

  The GCC runtime library.

`libgfortran`

  The Fortran runtime library.

`libgm2`

  The Modula-2 runtime library.

`libgo`

  The Go runtime library. The bulk of this library is mirrored from the master Go repository.

`libgomp`

  The GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime Library.

`libiberty`

  The `libiberty` library, used for portability and for some generally useful data structures and algorithms. See Introduction in GNU libiberty, for more information about this library.

`libitm`

  The runtime support library for transactional memory.

`libobjc`

  The Objective-C and Objective-C++ runtime library.

`libphobos`

  The D standard and runtime library. The bulk of this library is mirrored from the master D repositories.

`libquadmath`

  The runtime support library for quad-precision math operations.

`libsanitizer`

  Libraries for various sanitizers. The bulk of this directory is mirrored from the Google sanitizers repositories.

`libssp`

  The Stack protector runtime library.

`libstdc++-v3`

  The C++ runtime library.

`libvtv`

  The vtable verification library.

`lto-plugin`

  Plugin used by the linker if link-time optimizations are enabled.

`maintainer-scripts`

  Scripts used by the `gccadmin` account on `gcc.gnu.org`.

`zlib`

  The `zlib` compression library, used for compressing and uncompressing GCC’s intermediate language in LTO object files.

The build system in the top level directory, including how recursion into subdirectories works and how building runtime libraries for multilibs is handled, is documented in a separate manual, included with GNU Binutils.

### 6.3 The `gcc` Subdirectory ¶

The `gcc` directory contains many files that are part of the C sources of GCC, other files used as part of the configuration and build process, and subdirectories including documentation and a testsuite. The files that are sources of GCC are documented in a separate chapter. See Passes and Files of the Compiler.

#### 6.3.1 Subdirectories of `gcc` ¶

The `gcc` directory contains the following subdirectories:

`language`

  Subdirectories for various languages. Directories containing a file `config-lang.in` are language subdirectories. The contents of the subdirectories `c` (for C), `cp` (for C++), `m2` (for Modula-2), `objc` (for Objective-C), `objcp` (for Objective-C++), and `lto` (for LTO) are documented in this manual (see Passes and Files of the Compiler); those for other languages are not. See Anatomy of a Language Front End, for details of the files in these directories.

`common`

  Source files shared between the compiler drivers (such as `gcc`) and the compilers proper (such as `cc1`). If an architecture defines target hooks shared between those places, it also has a subdirectory in `common/config`. See The Global `targetm` Variable.

`config`

  Configuration files for supported architectures and operating systems. See Anatomy of a Target Back End, for details of the files in this directory.

`doc`

  Texinfo documentation for GCC, together with automatically generated man pages and support for converting the installation manual to HTML. See Building Documentation.

`ginclude`

  System headers installed by GCC, mainly those required by the C standard of freestanding implementations. See Headers Installed by GCC, for details of when these and other headers are installed.

`po`

  Message catalogs with translations of messages produced by GCC into various languages, `language.po`. This directory also contains `gcc.pot`, the template for these message catalogues, `exgettext`, a wrapper around `gettext` to extract the messages from the GCC sources and create `gcc.pot`, which is run by ‘`make gcc.pot`’, and `EXCLUDES`, a list of files from which messages should not be extracted.

`testsuite`

  The GCC testsuites (except for those for runtime libraries). See Testsuites.

#### 6.3.2 Configuration in the `gcc` Directory ¶

The `gcc` directory is configured with an Autoconf-generated script `configure`. The `configure` script is generated from `configure.ac` and `aclocal.m4`. From the files `configure.ac` and `acconfig.h`, Autoheader generates the file `config.in`. The file `cstamp-h.in` is used as a timestamp.

#### 6.3.2.1 Scripts Used by `configure` ¶

`configure` uses some other scripts to help in its work:

- The standard GNU `config.sub` and `config.guess` files, kept in the top level directory, are used.
- The file `config.gcc` is used to handle configuration specific to the particular target machine. The file `config.build` is used to handle configuration specific to the particular build machine. The file `config.host` is used to handle configuration specific to the particular host machine. (In general, these should only be used for features that cannot reasonably be tested in Autoconf feature tests.) See The `config.build`; `config.host`; and `config.gcc` Files, for details of the contents of these files.
- Each language subdirectory has a file `language/config-lang.in` that is used for front-end-specific configuration. See The Front End `config-lang.in` File, for details of this file.
- A helper script `configure.frag` is used as part of creating the output of `configure`.

#### 6.3.2.2 The `config.build`; `config.host`; and `config.gcc` Files ¶

The `config.build` file contains specific rules for particular systems which GCC is built on. This should be used as rarely as possible, as the behavior of the build system can always be detected by autoconf.

The `config.host` file contains specific rules for particular systems which GCC will run on. This is rarely needed.

The `config.gcc` file contains specific rules for particular systems which GCC will generate code for. This is usually needed.

Each file has a list of the shell variables it sets, with descriptions, at the top of the file.

FIXME: document the contents of these files, and what variables should be set to control build, host and target configuration.

#### 6.3.2.3 Files Created by `configure` ¶

Here we spell out what files will be set up by `configure` in the `gcc` directory. Some other files are created as temporary files in the configuration process, and are not used in the subsequent build; these are not documented.

- `Makefile` is constructed from `Makefile.in`, together with the host and target fragments (see Makefile Fragments) `t-target` and `x-host` from `config`, if any, and language Makefile fragments `language/Make-lang.in`.
- `auto-host.h` contains information about the host machine determined by `configure`. If the host machine is different from the build machine, then `auto-build.h` is also created, containing such information about the build machine.
- `config.status` is a script that may be run to recreate the current configuration.
- `configargs.h` is a header containing details of the arguments passed to `configure` to configure GCC, and of the thread model used.
- `cstamp-h` is used as a timestamp.
- If a language `config-lang.in` file (see The Front End `config-lang.in` File) sets `outputs`, then the files listed in `outputs` there are also generated.

The following configuration headers are created from the Makefile, using `mkconfig.sh`, rather than directly by `configure`. `config.h`, `bconfig.h` and `tconfig.h` all contain the `xm-machine.h` header, if any, appropriate to the host, build and target machines respectively, the configuration headers for the target, and some definitions; for the host and build machines, these include the autoconfigured headers generated by `configure`. The other configuration headers are determined by `config.gcc`. They also contain the typedefs for `rtx`, `rtvec` and `tree`.

- `config.h`, for use in programs that run on the host machine.
- `bconfig.h`, for use in programs that run on the build machine.
- `tconfig.h`, for use in programs and libraries for the target machine.
- `tm_p.h`, which includes the header `machine-protos.h` that contains prototypes for functions in the target `machine.c` file. The `machine-protos.h` header is included after the `rtl.h` and/or `tree.h` would have been included. The `tm_p.h` also includes the header `tm-preds.h` which is generated by `genpreds` program during the build to define the declarations and inline functions for the predicate functions.

#### 6.3.3 Build System in the `gcc` Directory ¶

FIXME: describe the build system, including what is built in what stages. Also list the various source files that are used in the build process but aren’t source files of GCC itself and so aren’t documented below (see Passes and Files of the Compiler).

#### 6.3.4 Makefile Targets ¶

These targets are available from the ‘`gcc`’ directory:

`all`

  This is the default target. Depending on what your build/host/target configuration is, it coordinates all the things that need to be built.

`doc`

  Produce info-formatted documentation and man pages. Essentially it calls ‘`make man`’ and ‘`make info`’.

`dvi`

  Produce DVI-formatted documentation.

`pdf`

  Produce PDF-formatted documentation.

`html`

  Produce HTML-formatted documentation.

`man`

  Generate man pages.

`info`

  Generate info-formatted pages.

`mostlyclean`

  Delete the files made while building the compiler.

`clean`

  That, and all the other files built by ‘`make all`’.

`distclean`

  That, and all the files created by `configure`.

`maintainer-clean`

  Distclean plus any file that can be generated from other files. Note that additional tools may be required beyond what is normally needed to build GCC.

`srcextra`

  Generates files in the source directory that are not version-controlled but should go into a release tarball.

`srcinfo`
`srcman`

  Copies the info-formatted and manpage documentation into the source directory usually for the purpose of generating a release tarball.

`install`

  Installs GCC.

`uninstall`

  Deletes installed files, though this is not supported.

`check`

  Run the testsuite. This creates a `testsuite` subdirectory that has various `.sum` and `.log` files containing the results of the testing. You can run subsets with, for example, ‘`make check-gcc`’. You can specify specific tests by setting `RUNTESTFLAGS` to be the name of the `.exp` file, optionally followed by (for some tests) an equals and a file wildcard, like:

      make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp=19980413-*"

  Note that running the testsuite may require additional tools be installed, such as Tcl or DejaGnu.

The toplevel tree from which you start GCC compilation is not the GCC directory, but rather a complex Makefile that coordinates the various steps of the build, including bootstrapping the compiler and using the new compiler to build target libraries.

When GCC is configured for a native configuration, the default action for `make` is to do a full three-stage bootstrap. This means that GCC is built three times—once with the native compiler, once with the native-built compiler it just built, and once with the compiler it built the second time. In theory, the last two should produce the same results, which ‘`make compare`’ can check. Each stage is configured separately and compiled into a separate directory, to minimize problems due to ABI incompatibilities between the native compiler and GCC.

If you do a change, rebuilding will also start from the first stage and “bubble” up the change through the three stages. Each stage is taken from its build directory (if it had been built previously), rebuilt, and copied to its subdirectory. This will allow you to, for example, continue a bootstrap after fixing a bug which causes the stage2 build to crash. It does not provide as good coverage of the compiler as bootstrapping from scratch, but it ensures that the new code is syntactically correct (e.g., that you did not use GCC extensions by mistake), and avoids spurious bootstrap comparison failures1.

Other targets available from the top level include:

`bootstrap-lean`

  Like `bootstrap`, except that the various stages are removed once they’re no longer needed. This saves disk space.

`bootstrap2`
`bootstrap2-lean`

  Performs only the first two stages of bootstrap. Unlike a three-stage bootstrap, this does not perform a comparison to test that the compiler is running properly. Note that the disk space required by a “lean” bootstrap is approximately independent of the number of stages.

`stageN-bubble (N = 1…4, profile, feedback)`

  Rebuild all the stages up to N, with the appropriate flags, “bubbling” the changes as described above.

`all-stageN (N = 1…4, profile, feedback)`

  Assuming that stage N has already been built, rebuild it with the appropriate flags. This is rarely needed.

`cleanstrap`

  Remove everything (‘`make clean`’) and rebuilds (‘`make bootstrap`’).

`compare`

  Compares the results of stages 2 and 3. This ensures that the compiler is running properly, since it should produce the same object files regardless of how it itself was compiled.

`distclean-stageN (N = 1…4, profile, feedback)`

  Wipe stage N and all the following ones.

  For example, ‘`make distclean-stage3`’ wipes stage 3 and all the following ones, so that another `make` then rebuilds them from scratch. This can be useful if you’re doing changes where “bubbling” the changes as described above is not sufficient, but a full `make restrap` isn’t necessary either.

`profiledbootstrap`

  Builds a compiler with profiling feedback information. In this case, the second and third stages are named ‘`profile`’ and ‘`feedback`’, respectively. For more information, see the installation instructions.

`restrap`

  Restart a bootstrap, so that everything that was not built with the system compiler is rebuilt.

`stageN-start (N = 1…4, profile, feedback)`

  For each package that is bootstrapped, rename directories so that, for example, `gcc` points to the stageN GCC, compiled with the stageN-1 GCC2.

  You will invoke this target if you need to test or debug the stageN GCC. If you only need to execute GCC (but you need not run ‘`make`’ either to rebuild it or to run test suites), you should be able to work directly in the `stageN-gcc` directory. This makes it easier to debug multiple stages in parallel.

`stage`

  For each package that is bootstrapped, relocate its build directory to indicate its stage. For example, if the `gcc` directory points to the stage2 GCC, after invoking this target it will be renamed to `stage2-gcc`.

If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2 and stage3 compilers, set `BOOT_CFLAGS` on the command line when doing ‘`make`’.

Usually, the first stage only builds the languages that the compiler is written in: typically, C and maybe Ada. If you are debugging a miscompilation of a different stage2 front-end (for example, of the Fortran front-end), you may want to have front-ends for other languages in the first stage as well. To do so, set `STAGE1_LANGUAGES` on the command line when doing ‘`make`’.

For example, in the aforementioned scenario of debugging a Fortran front-end miscompilation caused by the stage1 compiler, you may need a command like

    make stage2-bubble STAGE1_LANGUAGES=c,fortran

Alternatively, you can use per-language targets to build and test languages that are not enabled by default in stage1. For example, `make f951` will build a Fortran compiler even in the stage1 build directory.

#### 6.3.5 Library Source Files and Headers under the `gcc` Directory ¶

FIXME: list here, with explanation, all the C source files and headers under the `gcc` directory that aren’t built into the GCC executable but rather are part of runtime libraries and object files, such as `crtstuff.c` and `unwind-dw2.c`. See Headers Installed by GCC, for more information about the `ginclude` directory.

#### 6.3.6 Headers Installed by GCC ¶

In general, GCC expects the system C library to provide most of the headers to be used with it. However, GCC will fix those headers if necessary to make them work with GCC, and will install some headers required of freestanding implementations. These headers are installed in `libsubdir/include`. Headers for non-C runtime libraries are also installed by GCC; these are not documented here. (FIXME: document them somewhere.)

Several of the headers GCC installs are in the `ginclude` directory. These headers, `iso646.h`, `stdarg.h`, `stdbool.h`, and `stddef.h`, are installed in `libsubdir/include`, unless the target Makefile fragment (see Target Makefile Fragments) overrides this by setting `USER_H`.

In addition to these headers and those generated by fixing system headers to work with GCC, some other headers may also be installed in `libsubdir/include`. `config.gcc` may set `extra_headers`; this specifies additional headers under `config` to be installed on some systems.

GCC installs its own version of `<float.h>`, from `ginclude/float.h`. This is done to cope with command-line options that change the representation of floating point numbers.

GCC also installs its own version of `<limits.h>`; this is generated from `glimits.h`, together with `limitx.h` and `limity.h` if the system also has its own version of `<limits.h>`. (GCC provides its own header because it is required of ISO C freestanding implementations, but needs to include the system header from its own header as well because other standards such as POSIX specify additional values to be defined in `<limits.h>`.) The system’s `<limits.h>` header is used via `libsubdir/include/syslimits.h`, which is copied from `gsyslimits.h` if it does not need fixing to work with GCC; if it needs fixing, `syslimits.h` is the fixed copy.

GCC can also install `<tgmath.h>`. It will do this when `config.gcc` sets `use_gcc_tgmath` to `yes`.

#### 6.3.7 Building Documentation ¶

The main GCC documentation is in the form of manuals in Texinfo format. These are installed in Info format; DVI versions may be generated by ‘`make dvi`’, PDF versions by ‘`make pdf`’, and HTML versions by ‘`make html`’. In addition, some man pages are generated from the Texinfo manuals, there are some other text files with miscellaneous documentation, and runtime libraries have their own documentation outside the `gcc` directory. FIXME: document the documentation for runtime libraries somewhere.

#### 6.3.7.1 Texinfo Manuals ¶

The manuals for GCC as a whole, and the C and C++ front ends, are in files `doc/*.texi`. Other front ends have their own manuals in files `language/*.texi`. Common files `doc/include/*.texi` are provided which may be included in multiple manuals; the following files are in `doc/include`:

`fdl.texi`

  The GNU Free Documentation License.

`funding.texi`

  The section “Funding Free Software”.

`gcc-common.texi`

  Common definitions for manuals.

`gpl_v3.texi`

  The GNU General Public License.

`texinfo.tex`

  A copy of `texinfo.tex` known to work with the GCC manuals.

DVI-formatted manuals are generated by ‘`make dvi`’, which uses `texi2dvi` (via the Makefile macro `$(TEXI2DVI)`). PDF-formatted manuals are generated by ‘`make pdf`’, which uses `texi2pdf` (via the Makefile macro `$(TEXI2PDF)`). HTML formatted manuals are generated by ‘`make html`’. Info manuals are generated by ‘`make info`’ (which is run as part of a bootstrap); this generates the manuals in the source directory, using `makeinfo` via the Makefile macro `$(MAKEINFO)`, and they are included in release distributions.

Manuals are also provided on the GCC web site, in both HTML and PostScript forms. This is done via the script `maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_git`. Each manual to be provided online must be listed in the definition of `MANUALS` in that file; a file `name.texi` must only appear once in the source tree, and the output manual must have the same name as the source file. (However, other Texinfo files, included in manuals but not themselves the root files of manuals, may have names that appear more than once in the source tree.) The manual file `name.texi` should only include other files in its own directory or in `doc/include`. HTML manuals will be generated by ‘`makeinfo --html`’, PostScript manuals by `texi2dvi` and `dvips`, and PDF manuals by `texi2pdf`. All Texinfo files that are parts of manuals must be version-controlled, even if they are generated files, for the generation of online manuals to work.

The installation manual, `doc/install.texi`, is also provided on the GCC web site. The HTML version is generated by the script `doc/install.texi2html`.

#### 6.3.7.2 Man Page Generation ¶

Because of user demand, in addition to full Texinfo manuals, man pages are provided which contain extracts from those manuals. These man pages are generated from the Texinfo manuals using `contrib/texi2pod.pl` and `pod2man`. (The man page for `g++`, `cp/g++.1`, just contains a ‘`.so`’ reference to `gcc.1`, but all the other man pages are generated from Texinfo manuals.)

Because many systems may not have the necessary tools installed to generate the man pages, they are only generated if the `configure` script detects that recent enough tools are installed, and the Makefiles allow generating man pages to fail without aborting the build. Man pages are also included in release distributions. They are generated in the source directory.

Magic comments in Texinfo files starting ‘`@c man`’ control what parts of a Texinfo file go into a man page. Only a subset of Texinfo is supported by `texi2pod.pl`, and it may be necessary to add support for more Texinfo features to this script when generating new man pages. To improve the man page output, some special Texinfo macros are provided in `doc/include/gcc-common.texi` which `texi2pod.pl` understands:

`@gcctabopt`

  Use in the form ‘`@table @gcctabopt`’ for tables of options, where for printed output the effect of ‘`@code`’ is better than that of ‘`@option`’ but for man page output a different effect is wanted.

`@gccoptlist`

  Use for summary lists of options in manuals.

FIXME: describe the `texi2pod.pl` input language and magic comments in more detail.

#### 6.3.7.3 Miscellaneous Documentation ¶

In addition to the formal documentation that is installed by GCC, there are several other text files in the `gcc` subdirectory with miscellaneous documentation:

`ABOUT-GCC-NLS`

  Notes on GCC’s Native Language Support. FIXME: this should be part of this manual rather than a separate file.

`ABOUT-NLS`

  Notes on the Free Translation Project.

`COPYING`
`COPYING3`

  The GNU General Public License, Versions 2 and 3.

`COPYING.LIB`
`COPYING3.LIB`

  The GNU Lesser General Public License, Versions 2.1 and 3.

`*ChangeLog*`
`*/ChangeLog*`

  Change log files for various parts of GCC.

`LANGUAGES`

  Details of a few changes to the GCC front-end interface. FIXME: the information in this file should be part of general documentation of the front-end interface in this manual.

`ONEWS`

  Information about new features in old versions of GCC. (For recent versions, the information is on the GCC web site.)

`README.Portability`

  Information about portability issues when writing code in GCC. FIXME: why isn’t this part of this manual or of the GCC Coding Conventions?

FIXME: document such files in subdirectories, at least `config`, `c`, `cp`, `objc`, `testsuite`.

#### 6.3.8 Anatomy of a Language Front End ¶

A front end for a language in GCC has the following parts:

- A directory `language` under `gcc` containing source files for that front end. See The Front End `language` Directory, for details.
- A mention of the language in the list of supported languages in `gcc/doc/install.texi`.
- A mention of the name under which the language’s runtime library is recognized by `--enable-shared=package` in the documentation of that option in `gcc/doc/install.texi`.
- A mention of any special prerequisites for building the front end in the documentation of prerequisites in `gcc/doc/install.texi`.
- Details of contributors to that front end in `gcc/doc/contrib.texi`. If the details are in that front end’s own manual then there should be a link to that manual’s list in `contrib.texi`.
- Information about support for that language in `gcc/doc/frontends.texi`.
- Information about standards for that language, and the front end’s support for them, in `gcc/doc/standards.texi`. This may be a link to such information in the front end’s own manual.
- Details of source file suffixes for that language and `-x lang` options supported, in `gcc/doc/invoke.texi`.
- Entries in `default_compilers` in `gcc.cc` for source file suffixes for that language.
- Preferably testsuites, which may be under `gcc/testsuite` or runtime library directories. FIXME: document somewhere how to write testsuite harnesses.
- Probably a runtime library for the language, outside the `gcc` directory. FIXME: document this further.
- Details of the directories of any runtime libraries in `gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi`.
- Check targets in `Makefile.def` for the top-level `Makefile` to check just the compiler or the compiler and runtime library for the language.

If the front end is added to the official GCC source repository, the following are also necessary:

- At least one Bugzilla component for bugs in that front end and runtime libraries. This category needs to be added to the Bugzilla database.
- Normally, one or more maintainers of that front end listed in `MAINTAINERS`.
- Mentions on the GCC web site in `index.html` and `frontends.html`, with any relevant links on `readings.html`. (Front ends that are not an official part of GCC may also be listed on `frontends.html`, with relevant links.)
- A news item on `index.html`, and possibly an announcement on the gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org mailing list.
- The front end’s manuals should be mentioned in `maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_git` (see Texinfo Manuals) and the online manuals should be linked to from `onlinedocs/index.html`.
- If the front end has its own manual with its own index of options, the generated `Option-Index.html` should be added to `PER_LANGUAGE_OPTION_INDEXES` in `gcc/regenerate-opt-urls.py` and to `OPT_URLS_HTML_DEPS` in `gcc/Makefile.in`.
- Any old releases or CVS repositories of the front end, before its inclusion in GCC, should be made available on the GCC web site at https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/old-releases/.
- The release and snapshot script `maintainer-scripts/gcc_release` should be updated to generate appropriate tarballs for this front end.
- If this front end includes its own version files that include the current date, `maintainer-scripts/update_version` should be updated accordingly.

#### 6.3.8.1 The Front End `language` Directory ¶

A front end `language` directory contains the source files of that front end (but not of any runtime libraries, which should be outside the `gcc` directory). This includes documentation, and possibly some subsidiary programs built alongside the front end. Certain files are special and other parts of the compiler depend on their names:

`config-lang.in`

  This file is required in all language subdirectories. See The Front End `config-lang.in` File, for details of its contents

`Make-lang.in`

  This file is required in all language subdirectories. See The Front End `Make-lang.in` File, for details of its contents.

`lang.opt`

  This file registers the set of switches that the front end accepts on the command line, and their `--help` text. See Option specification files.

`lang-specs.h`

  This file provides entries for `default_compilers` in `gcc.cc` which override the default of giving an error that a compiler for that language is not installed.

`language-tree.def`

  This file, which need not exist, defines any language-specific tree codes.

#### 6.3.8.2 The Front End `config-lang.in` File ¶

Each language subdirectory contains a `config-lang.in` file. This file is a shell script that may define some variables describing the language:

`language`

  This definition must be present, and gives the name of the language for some purposes such as arguments to `--enable-languages`.

`lang_requires`

  If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) language front ends other than C that this front end requires to be enabled (with the names given being their `language` settings). For example, the Obj-C++ front end depends on the C++ and ObjC front ends, so sets ‘`lang_requires="objc c++"`’.

`subdir_requires`

  If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) front end directories other than C that this front end requires to be present. For example, the Objective-C++ front end uses source files from the C++ and Objective-C front ends, so sets ‘`subdir_requires="cp objc"`’.

`target_libs`

  If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) targets in the top level `Makefile` to build the runtime libraries for this language, such as `target-libobjc`.

`lang_dirs`

  If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) top level directories (parallel to `gcc`), apart from the runtime libraries, that should not be configured if this front end is not built.

`build_by_default`

  If defined to ‘`no`’, this language front end is not built unless enabled in a `--enable-languages` argument. Otherwise, front ends are built by default, subject to any special logic in `configure.ac` (as is present to disable the Ada front end if the Ada compiler is not already installed).

`boot_language`

  If defined to ‘`yes`’, this front end is built in stage1 of the bootstrap. This is only relevant to front ends written in their own languages.

`compilers`

  If defined, a space-separated list of compiler executables that will be run by the driver. The names here will each end with ‘`\$(exeext)`’.

`outputs`

  If defined, a space-separated list of files that should be generated by `configure` substituting values in them. This mechanism can be used to create a file `language/Makefile` from `language/Makefile.in`, but this is deprecated, building everything from the single `gcc/Makefile` is preferred.

`gtfiles`

  If defined, a space-separated list of files that should be scanned by `gengtype.cc` to generate the garbage collection tables and routines for this language. This excludes the files that are common to all front ends. See Memory Management and Type Information.

#### 6.3.8.3 The Front End `Make-lang.in` File ¶

Each language subdirectory contains a `Make-lang.in` file. It contains targets `lang.hook` (where `lang` is the setting of `language` in `config-lang.in`) for the following values of `hook`, and any other Makefile rules required to build those targets (which may if necessary use other Makefiles specified in `outputs` in `config-lang.in`, although this is deprecated). It also adds any testsuite targets that can use the standard rule in `gcc/Makefile.in` to the variable `lang_checks`.

`all.cross`
`start.encap`
`rest.encap`

  FIXME: exactly what goes in each of these targets?

`tags`

  Build an `etags` `TAGS` file in the language subdirectory in the source tree.

`info`

  Build info documentation for the front end, in the build directory. This target is only called by ‘`make bootstrap`’ if a suitable version of `makeinfo` is available, so does not need to check for this, and should fail if an error occurs.

`dvi`

  Build DVI documentation for the front end, in the build directory. This should be done using `$(TEXI2DVI)`, with appropriate `-I` arguments pointing to directories of included files.

`pdf`

  Build PDF documentation for the front end, in the build directory. This should be done using `$(TEXI2PDF)`, with appropriate `-I` arguments pointing to directories of included files.

`html`

  Build HTML documentation for the front end, in the build directory.

`man`

  Build generated man pages for the front end from Texinfo manuals (see Man Page Generation), in the build directory. This target is only called if the necessary tools are available, but should ignore errors so as not to stop the build if errors occur; man pages are optional and the tools involved may be installed in a broken way.

`install-common`

  Install everything that is part of the front end, apart from the compiler executables listed in `compilers` in `config-lang.in`.

`install-info`

  Install info documentation for the front end, if it is present in the source directory. This target should have dependencies on info files that should be installed.

`install-man`

  Install man pages for the front end. This target should ignore errors.

`install-plugin`

  Install headers needed for plugins.

`srcextra`

  Copies its dependencies into the source directory. This generally should be used for generated files such as Bison output files which are not version-controlled, but should be included in any release tarballs. This target will be executed during a bootstrap if ‘`--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir`’ was specified as a `configure` option.

`srcinfo`
`srcman`

  Copies its dependencies into the source directory. These targets will be executed during a bootstrap if ‘`--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir`’ was specified as a `configure` option.

`uninstall`

  Uninstall files installed by installing the compiler. This is currently documented not to be supported, so the hook need not do anything.

`mostlyclean`
`clean`
`distclean`
`maintainer-clean`

  The language parts of the standard GNU ‘`*clean`’ targets. See Standard Targets for Users in GNU Coding Standards, for details of the standard targets. For GCC, `maintainer-clean` should delete all generated files in the source directory that are not version-controlled, but should not delete anything that is.

`Make-lang.in` must also define a variable `lang_OBJS` to a list of host object files that are used by that language.

#### 6.3.9 Anatomy of a Target Back End ¶

A back end for a target architecture in GCC has the following parts:

- A directory `machine` under `gcc/config`, containing a machine description `machine.md` file (see Machine Descriptions), header files `machine.h` and `machine-protos.h` and a source file `machine.c` (see Target Description Macros and Functions), possibly a target Makefile fragment `t-machine` (see The Target Makefile Fragment), and maybe some other files. The names of these files may be changed from the defaults given by explicit specifications in `config.gcc`.
- If necessary, a file `machine-modes.def` in the `machine` directory, containing additional machine modes to represent condition codes. See Condition Code Status, for further details.
- An optional `machine.opt` file in the `machine` directory, containing a list of target-specific options. You can also add other option files using the `extra_options` variable in `config.gcc`. See Option specification files.
- Entries in `config.gcc` (see The `config.gcc` File) for the systems with this target architecture.
- Documentation in `gcc/doc/invoke.texi` for any command-line options supported by this target (see Run-time Target Specification). This means both entries in the summary table of options and details of the individual options.
- An entry in `gcc/regenerate-opt-urls.py`’s TARGET_SPECIFIC_PAGES dictionary mapping from target-specific HTML documentation pages to the target specific source directory.
- Documentation in `gcc/doc/extend.texi` for any target-specific attributes supported (see Defining target-specific uses of `__attribute__`), including where the same attribute is already supported on some targets, which are enumerated in the manual.
- Documentation in `gcc/doc/extend.texi` for any target-specific pragmas supported.
- Documentation in `gcc/doc/extend.texi` of any target-specific built-in functions supported.
- Documentation in `gcc/doc/extend.texi` of any target-specific format checking styles supported.
- Documentation in `gcc/doc/md.texi` of any target-specific constraint letters (see Constraints for Particular Machines).
- A note in `gcc/doc/contrib.texi` under the person or people who contributed the target support.
- Entries in `gcc/doc/install.texi` for all target triplets supported with this target architecture, giving details of any special notes about installation for this target, or saying that there are no special notes if there are none.
- Possibly other support outside the `gcc` directory for runtime libraries. FIXME: reference docs for this. The `libstdc++` porting manual needs to be installed as info for this to work, or to be a chapter of this manual.

The `machine.h` header is included very early in GCC’s standard sequence of header files, while `machine-protos.h` is included late in the sequence. Thus `machine-protos.h` can include declarations referencing types that are not defined when `machine.h` is included, specifically including those from `rtl.h` and `tree.h`. Since both RTL and tree types may not be available in every context where `machine-protos.h` is included, in this file you should guard declarations using these types inside appropriate `#ifdef RTX_CODE` or `#ifdef TREE_CODE` conditional code segments.

If the backend uses shared data structures that require `GTY` markers for garbage collection (see Memory Management and Type Information), you must declare those in `machine.h` rather than `machine-protos.h`. Any definitions required for building libgcc must also go in `machine.h`.

GCC uses the macro `IN_TARGET_CODE` to distinguish between machine-specific `.c` and `.cc` files and machine-independent `.c` and `.cc` files. Machine-specific files should use the directive:

    #define IN_TARGET_CODE 1

before including `config.h`.

If the back end is added to the official GCC source repository, the following are also necessary:

- An entry for the target architecture in `readings.html` on the GCC web site, with any relevant links.
- Details of the properties of the back end and target architecture in `backends.html` on the GCC web site.
- A news item about the contribution of support for that target architecture, in `index.html` on the GCC web site.
- Normally, one or more maintainers of that target listed in `MAINTAINERS`. Some existing architectures may be unmaintained, but it would be unusual to add support for a target that does not have a maintainer when support is added.
- Target triplets covering all `config.gcc` stanzas for the target, in the list in `contrib/config-list.mk`.

## 7 Testsuites ¶

GCC contains several testsuites to help maintain compiler quality. Most of the runtime libraries and language front ends in GCC have testsuites. Currently only the C language testsuites are documented here; FIXME: document the others.

### 7.1 Idioms Used in Testsuite Code ¶

In general, C testcases have a trailing `-n.c`, starting with `-1.c`, in case other testcases with similar names are added later. If the test is a test of some well-defined feature, it should have a name referring to that feature such as `feature-1.c`. If it does not test a well-defined feature but just happens to exercise a bug somewhere in the compiler, and a bug report has been filed for this bug in the GCC bug database, `prbug-number-1.c` is the appropriate form of name. Otherwise (for miscellaneous bugs not filed in the GCC bug database), and previously more generally, test cases are named after the date on which they were added. This allows people to tell at a glance whether a test failure is because of a recently found bug that has not yet been fixed, or whether it may be a regression, but does not give any other information about the bug or where discussion of it may be found. Some other language testsuites follow similar conventions.

In the `gcc.dg` testsuite, it is often necessary to test that an error is indeed a hard error and not just a warning—for example, where it is a constraint violation in the C standard, which must become an error with `-pedantic-errors`. The following idiom, where the first line shown is line line of the file and the line that generates the error, is used for this:

    /* { dg-bogus "warning" "warning in place of error" } */
    /* { dg-error "regexp" "message" { target *-*-* } line } */

It may be necessary to check that an expression is an integer constant expression and has a certain value. To check that `E` has value `V`, an idiom similar to the following is used:

    char x[((E) == (V) ? 1 : -1)];

In `gcc.dg` tests, `__typeof__` is sometimes used to make assertions about the types of expressions. See, for example, `gcc.dg/c99-condexpr-1.c`. The more subtle uses depend on the exact rules for the types of conditional expressions in the C standard; see, for example, `gcc.dg/c99-intconst-1.c`.

It is useful to be able to test that optimizations are being made properly. This cannot be done in all cases, but it can be done where the optimization will lead to code being optimized away (for example, where flow analysis or alias analysis should show that certain code cannot be called) or to functions not being called because they have been expanded as built-in functions. Such tests go in `gcc.c-torture/execute`. Where code should be optimized away, a call to a nonexistent function such as `link_failure ()` may be inserted; a definition

    #ifndef __OPTIMIZE__
    void
    link_failure (void)
    {
      abort ();
    }
    #endif

will also be needed so that linking still succeeds when the test is run without optimization. When all calls to a built-in function should have been optimized and no calls to the non-built-in version of the function should remain, that function may be defined as `static` to call `abort ()` (although redeclaring a function as static may not work on all targets).

All testcases must be portable. Target-specific testcases must have appropriate code to avoid causing failures on unsupported systems; unfortunately, the mechanisms for this differ by directory.

FIXME: discuss non-C testsuites here.

### 7.2 Directives used within DejaGnu tests ¶

#### 7.2.1 Syntax and Descriptions of test directives ¶

Test directives appear within comments in a test source file and begin with `dg-`. Some of these are defined within DejaGnu and others are local to the GCC testsuite.

The order in which test directives appear in a test can be important: directives local to GCC sometimes override information used by the DejaGnu directives, which know nothing about the GCC directives, so the DejaGnu directives must precede GCC directives.

Several test directives include selectors (see Selecting targets to which a test applies) which are usually preceded by the keyword `target` or `xfail`.

#### 7.2.1.1 Specify how to build the test ¶

`{ dg-do do-what-keyword [{ target/xfail selector }] }`

  do-what-keyword specifies how the test is compiled and whether it is executed. It is one of:

  `preprocess`

    Compile with `-E` to run only the preprocessor.

  `compile`

    Compile with `-S` to produce an assembly code file.

  `assemble`

    Compile with `-c` to produce a relocatable object file.

  `link`

    Compile, assemble, and link to produce an executable file.

  `run`

    Produce and run an executable file, which is expected to return an exit code of 0.

  The default is `compile`. That can be overridden for a set of tests by redefining `dg-do-what-default` within the `.exp` file for those tests.

  If the directive includes the optional ‘`{ target selector }`’ then the test is skipped unless the target system matches the selector.

  If do-what-keyword is `run` and the directive includes the optional ‘`{ xfail selector }`’ and the selector is met then the test is expected to fail. The `xfail` clause is ignored for other values of do-what-keyword; those tests can use directive `dg-xfail-if`.

#### 7.2.1.2 Specify additional compiler options ¶

`{ dg-options options [{ target selector }] }`

  This DejaGnu directive provides a list of compiler options, to be used if the target system matches selector, that replace the default options used for this set of tests.

`{ dg-add-options feature … }`

  Add any compiler options that are needed to access certain features. This directive does nothing on targets that enable the features by default, or that don’t provide them at all. It must come after all `dg-options` directives. For supported values of feature see Features for `dg-add-options`.

`{ dg-additional-options options [{ target selector }] }`

  This directive provides a list of compiler options, to be used if the target system matches selector, that are added to the default options used for this set of tests.

#### 7.2.1.3 Modify the test timeout value ¶

The normal timeout limit, in seconds, is found by searching the following in order:

- the value defined by an earlier `dg-timeout` directive in the test
- variable tool_timeout defined by the set of tests
- gcc,timeout set in the target board
- 300

`{ dg-timeout n [{target selector }] }`

  Set the time limit for the compilation and for the execution of the test to the specified number of seconds.

`{ dg-timeout-factor x [{ target selector }] }`

  Multiply the normal time limit for compilation and execution of the test by the specified floating-point factor.

#### 7.2.1.4 Skip a test for some targets ¶

`{ dg-skip-if comment { selector } [{ include-opts } [{ exclude-opts }]] }`

  Arguments include-opts and exclude-opts are lists in which each element is a string of zero or more GCC options. Skip the test if all of the following conditions are met:

  - the test system is included in selector
  - for at least one of the option strings in include-opts, every option from that string is in the set of options with which the test would be compiled; use ‘`"*"`’ for an include-opts list that matches any options; that is the default if include-opts is not specified
  - for each of the option strings in exclude-opts, at least one option from that string is not in the set of options with which the test would be compiled; use ‘`""`’ for an empty exclude-opts list; that is the default if exclude-opts is not specified

  For example, to skip a test if option `-Os` is present:

      /* { dg-skip-if "" { *-*-* }  { "-Os" } { "" } } */

  To skip a test if both options `-O2` and `-g` are present:

      /* { dg-skip-if "" { *-*-* }  { "-O2 -g" } { "" } } */

  To skip a test if either `-O2` or `-O3` is present:

      /* { dg-skip-if "" { *-*-* }  { "-O2" "-O3" } { "" } } */

  To skip a test unless option `-Os` is present:

      /* { dg-skip-if "" { *-*-* }  { "*" } { "-Os" } } */

  To skip a test if either `-O2` or `-O3` is used with `-g` but not if `-fpic` is also present:

      /* { dg-skip-if "" { *-*-* }  { "-O2 -g" "-O3 -g" } { "-fpic" } } */

`{ dg-require-effective-target keyword [{ target selector }] }`

  Skip the test if the test target, including current multilib flags, is not covered by the effective-target keyword. If the directive includes the optional ‘`{ selector }`’ then the effective-target test is only performed if the target system matches the selector. This directive must appear after any `dg-do` directive in the test and before any `dg-additional-sources` directive. See Keywords describing target attributes.

`{ dg-require-support args }`

  Skip the test if the target does not provide the required support. These directives must appear after any `dg-do` directive in the test and before any `dg-additional-sources` directive. They require at least one argument, which can be an empty string if the specific procedure does not examine the argument. See Variants of `dg-require-support`, for a complete list of these directives.

#### 7.2.1.5 Expect a test to fail for some targets ¶

`{ dg-xfail-if comment { selector } [{ include-opts } [{ exclude-opts }]] }`

  Expect the test to fail if the conditions (which are the same as for `dg-skip-if`) are met. This does not affect the execute step.

`{ dg-xfail-run-if comment { selector } [{ include-opts } [{ exclude-opts }]] }`

  Expect the execute step of a test to fail if the conditions (which are the same as for `dg-skip-if`) are met.

#### 7.2.1.6 Expect the compiler to crash ¶

`{ dg-ice comment [{ selector } [{ include-opts } [{ exclude-opts }]]] }`

  Expect the compiler to crash with an internal compiler error and return a nonzero exit status if the conditions (which are the same as for `dg-skip-if`) are met. Used for tests that test bugs that have not been fixed yet.

#### 7.2.1.7 Expect the test executable to fail ¶

`{ dg-shouldfail comment [{ selector } [{ include-opts } [{ exclude-opts }]]] }`

  Expect the test executable to return a nonzero exit status if the conditions (which are the same as for `dg-skip-if`) are met.

#### 7.2.1.8 Verify compiler messages ¶

Where line is an accepted argument for these commands, a value of ‘`0`’ can be used if there is no line associated with the message.

`{ dg-error regexp [comment [{ target/xfail selector } [line] ]] }`

  This DejaGnu directive appears on a source line that is expected to get an error message, or else specifies the source line associated with the message. If there is no message for that line or if the text of that message is not matched by regexp then the check fails and comment is included in the `FAIL` message. The check does not look for the string ‘`error`’ unless it is part of regexp.

`{ dg-warning regexp [comment [{ target/xfail selector } [line] ]] }`

  This DejaGnu directive appears on a source line that is expected to get a warning message, or else specifies the source line associated with the message. If there is no message for that line or if the text of that message is not matched by regexp then the check fails and comment is included in the `FAIL` message. The check does not look for the string ‘`warning`’ unless it is part of regexp.

`{ dg-message regexp [comment [{ target/xfail selector } [line] ]] }`

  The line is expected to get a message other than an error or warning. If there is no message for that line or if the text of that message is not matched by regexp then the check fails and comment is included in the `FAIL` message.

`{ dg-note regexp [comment [{ target/xfail selector } [line] ]] }`

  The line is expected to get a ‘`note`’ message. If there is no message for that line or if the text of that message is not matched by regexp then the check fails and comment is included in the `FAIL` message.

  By default, any excess ‘`note`’ messages are pruned, meaning their appearance doesn’t trigger excess errors. However, if ‘`dg-note`’ is used at least once in a testcase, they’re not pruned and instead must all be handled explicitly. Thus, if looking for just single instances of messages with ‘`note:` ’ prefixes without caring for all of them, use ‘`dg-message "note: […]"`’ instead of ‘`dg-note`’, or use ‘`dg-note`’ together with ‘`dg-prune-output "note: "`’.

`{ dg-bogus regexp [comment [{ target/xfail selector } [line] ]] }`

  This DejaGnu directive appears on a source line that should not get a message matching regexp, or else specifies the source line associated with the bogus message. It is usually used with ‘`xfail`’ to indicate that the message is a known problem for a particular set of targets.

`{ dg-line linenumvar }`

  This DejaGnu directive sets the variable linenumvar to the line number of the source line. The variable linenumvar can then be used in subsequent `dg-error`, `dg-warning`, `dg-message`, `dg-note` and `dg-bogus` directives. For example:

      int a;   /* { dg-line first_def_a } */
      float a; /* { dg-error "conflicting types of" } */
      /* { dg-message "previous declaration of" "" { target *-*-* } first_def_a } */

`{ dg-excess-errors comment [{ target/xfail selector }] }`

  This DejaGnu directive indicates that the test is expected to fail due to compiler messages that are not handled by ‘`dg-error`’, ‘`dg-warning`’, `dg-message`, ‘`dg-note`’ or ‘`dg-bogus`’. For this directive ‘`xfail`’ has the same effect as ‘`target`’.

`{ dg-prune-output regexp }`

  Prune messages matching regexp from the test output.

#### 7.2.1.9 Verify output of the test executable ¶

`{ dg-output regexp [{ target/xfail selector }] }`

  This DejaGnu directive compares regexp to the combined output that the test executable writes to `stdout` and `stderr`.

#### 7.2.1.10 Specify environment variables for a test ¶

`{ dg-set-compiler-env-var var_name "var_value" }`

  Specify that the environment variable var_name needs to be set to var_value before invoking the compiler on the test file.

`{ dg-set-target-env-var var_name "var_value" }`

  Specify that the environment variable var_name needs to be set to var_value before execution of the program created by the test.

#### 7.2.1.11 Specify additional files for a test ¶

`{ dg-additional-files "filelist" }`

  Specify additional files, other than source files, that must be copied to the system where the compiler runs.

`{ dg-additional-sources "filelist" }`

  Specify additional source files to appear in the compile line following the main test file.

#### 7.2.1.12 Add checks at the end of a test ¶

`{ dg-final { local-directive } }`

  This DejaGnu directive is placed within a comment anywhere in the source file and is processed after the test has been compiled and run. Multiple ‘`dg-final`’ commands are processed in the order in which they appear in the source file. See Commands for use in `dg-final`, for a list of directives that can be used within `dg-final`.

#### 7.2.2 Selecting targets to which a test applies ¶

Several test directives include selectors to limit the targets for which a test is run or to declare that a test is expected to fail on particular targets.

A selector is:

- one or more target triplets, possibly including wildcard characters; use ‘`*-*-*`’ to match any target
- a single effective-target keyword (see Keywords describing target attributes)
- a list of compiler options that should be included or excluded (as described in more detail below)
- a logical expression

Depending on the context, the selector specifies whether a test is skipped and reported as unsupported or is expected to fail. A context that allows either ‘`target`’ or ‘`xfail`’ also allows ‘`{ target selector1 xfail selector2 }`’ to skip the test for targets that don’t match selector1 and the test to fail for targets that match selector2.

A selector expression appears within curly braces and uses a single logical operator: one of ‘`!`’, ‘`&&`’, or ‘`||`’. An operand is one of the following:

- another selector expression, in curly braces
- an effective-target keyword, such as `lp64`
- a single target triplet
- a list of target triplets within quotes or curly braces
- one of the following:
  ‘`{ any-opts opt1 … optn }`’

    Each of opt1 to optn is a space-separated list of option globs. The selector expression evaluates to true if, for one of these strings, every glob in the string matches an option that was passed to the compiler. For example:

        { any-opts "-O3 -flto" "-O[2g]" }

    is true if any of the following are true:

    - `-O2` was passed to the compiler
    - `-Og` was passed to the compiler
    - both `-O3` and `-flto` were passed to the compiler

    This kind of selector can only be used within `dg-final` directives. Use `dg-skip-if`, `dg-xfail-if` or `dg-xfail-run-if` to skip whole tests based on options, or to mark them as expected to fail with certain options.

  ‘`{ no-opts opt1 … optn }`’

    As for `any-opts` above, each of opt1 to optn is a space-separated list of option globs. The selector expression evaluates to true if, for all of these strings, there is at least one glob that does not match an option that was passed to the compiler. It is shorthand for:

        { ! { any-opts opt1 ... optn } }

    For example:

        { no-opts "-O3 -flto" "-O[2g]" }

    is true if all of the following are true:

    - `-O2` was not passed to the compiler
    - `-Og` was not passed to the compiler
    - at least one of `-O3` or `-flto` was not passed to the compiler

    Like `any-opts`, this kind of selector can only be used within `dg-final` directives.

Here are some examples of full target selectors:

    { target { ! "hppa*-*-* ia64*-*-*" } }
    { target { powerpc*-*-* && lp64 } }
    { xfail { lp64 || vect_no_align } }
    { xfail { aarch64*-*-* && { any-opts "-O2" } } }

#### 7.2.3 Keywords describing target attributes ¶

Effective-target keywords identify sets of targets that support particular functionality. They are used to limit tests to be run only for particular targets, or to specify that particular sets of targets are expected to fail some tests.

Effective-target keywords are defined in `lib/target-supports.exp` in the GCC testsuite, with the exception of those that are documented as being local to a particular test directory.

The ‘`effective target`’ takes into account all of the compiler options with which the test will be compiled, including the multilib options. By convention, keywords ending in `_nocache` can also include options specified for the particular test in an earlier `dg-options` or `dg-add-options` directive.

#### 7.2.3.1 Endianness ¶

`be`

  Target uses big-endian memory order for multi-byte and multi-word data.

`le`

  Target uses little-endian memory order for multi-byte and multi-word data.

#### 7.2.3.2 Data type sizes ¶

`ilp32`

  Target has 32-bit `int`, `long`, and pointers.

`lp64`

  Target has 32-bit `int`, 64-bit `long` and pointers.

`llp64`

  Target has 32-bit `int` and `long`, 64-bit `long long` and pointers.

`double64`

  Target has 64-bit `double`.

`double64plus`

  Target has `double` that is 64 bits or longer.

`longdouble128`

  Target has 128-bit `long double`.

`int32plus`

  Target has `int` that is at 32 bits or longer.

`int16`

  Target has `int` that is 16 bits or shorter.

`longlong64`

  Target has 64-bit `long long`.

`long_neq_int`

  Target has `int` and `long` with different sizes.

`short_eq_int`

  Target has `short` and `int` with the same size.

`ptr_eq_short`

  Target has pointers (`void *`) and `short` with the same size.

`int_eq_float`

  Target has `int` and `float` with the same size.

`ptr_eq_long`

  Target has pointers (`void *`) and `long` with the same size.

`large_double`

  Target supports `double` that is longer than `float`.

`large_long_double`

  Target supports `long double` that is longer than `double`.

`ptr32plus`

  Target has pointers that are 32 bits or longer.

`size20plus`

  Target has a 20-bit or larger address space, so supports at least 16-bit array and structure sizes.

`size24plus`

  Target has a 24-bit or larger address space, so supports at least 20-bit array and structure sizes.

`size32plus`

  Target has a 32-bit or larger address space, so supports at least 24-bit array and structure sizes.

`4byte_wchar_t`

  Target has `wchar_t` that is at least 4 bytes.

`floatn`

  Target has the `_Floatn` type.

`floatnx`

  Target has the `_Floatnx` type.

`floatn_runtime`

  Target has the `_Floatn` type, including runtime support for any options added with `dg-add-options`.

`floatnx_runtime`

  Target has the `_Floatnx` type, including runtime support for any options added with `dg-add-options`.

`floatn_nx_runtime`

  Target has runtime support for any options added with `dg-add-options` for any `_Floatn` or `_Floatnx` type.

`inf`

  Target supports floating point infinite (`inf`) for type `double`.

`inff`

  Target supports floating point infinite (`inf`) for type `float`.

#### 7.2.3.3 Fortran-specific attributes ¶

`fortran_integer_16`

  Target supports Fortran `integer` that is 16 bytes or longer.

`fortran_real_10`

  Target supports Fortran `real` that is 10 bytes or longer.

`fortran_real_16`

  Target supports Fortran `real` that is 16 bytes or longer.

`fortran_large_int`

  Target supports Fortran `integer` kinds larger than `integer(8)`.

`fortran_large_real`

  Target supports Fortran `real` kinds larger than `real(8)`.

#### 7.2.3.4 Vector-specific attributes ¶

`vect_align_stack_vars`

  The target’s ABI allows stack variables to be aligned to the preferred vector alignment.

`vect_avg_qi`

  Target supports both signed and unsigned averaging operations on vectors of bytes.

`vect_mulhrs_hi`

  Target supports both signed and unsigned multiply-high-with-round-and-scale operations on vectors of half-words.

`vect_sdiv_pow2_si`

  Target supports signed division by constant power-of-2 operations on vectors of 4-byte integers.

`vect_condition`

  Target supports vector conditional operations.

`vect_cond_mixed`

  Target supports vector conditional operations where comparison operands have different type from the value operands.

`vect_double`

  Target supports hardware vectors of `double`.

`vect_double_cond_arith`

  Target supports conditional addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, minimum and maximum on vectors of `double`, via the `cond_` optabs.

`vect_element_align_preferred`

  The target’s preferred vector alignment is the same as the element alignment.

`vect_float`

  Target supports hardware vectors of `float` when `-funsafe-math-optimizations` is in effect.

`vect_float_strict`

  Target supports hardware vectors of `float` when `-funsafe-math-optimizations` is not in effect. This implies `vect_float`.

`vect_early_break`

  Target supports vectorization codegen of loops with early breaks. This requires an implementation of the cbranch optab for vectors.

`vect_early_break_hw`

  Target supports hardware vectorization and running of loops with early breaks. This requires an implementation of the cbranch optab for vectors.

`vect_int`

  Target supports hardware vectors of `int`.

`vect_long`

  Target supports hardware vectors of `long`.

`vect_long_long`

  Target supports hardware vectors of `long long`.

`vect_check_ptrs`

  Target supports the `check_raw_ptrs` and `check_war_ptrs` optabs on vectors.

`vect_fully_masked`

  Target supports fully-masked (also known as fully-predicated) loops, so that vector loops can handle partial as well as full vectors.

`vect_masked_load`

  Target supports vector masked loads.

`vect_masked_store`

  Target supports vector masked stores.

`vect_gather_load_ifn`

  Target supports vector gather loads using internal functions (rather than via built-in functions or emulation).

`vect_scatter_store`

  Target supports vector scatter stores.

`vect_aligned_arrays`

  Target aligns arrays to vector alignment boundary.

`vect_hw_misalign`

  Target supports a vector misalign access.

`vect_no_align`

  Target does not support a vector alignment mechanism.

`vect_peeling_profitable`

  Target might require to peel loops for alignment purposes.

`vect_no_int_min_max`

  Target does not support a vector min and max instruction on `int`.

`vect_no_int_add`

  Target does not support a vector add instruction on `int`.

`vect_no_bitwise`

  Target does not support vector bitwise instructions.

`vect_bool_cmp`

  Target supports comparison of `bool` vectors for at least one vector length.

`vect_char_add`

  Target supports addition of `char` vectors for at least one vector length.

`vect_char_mult`

  Target supports `vector char` multiplication.

`vect_short_mult`

  Target supports `vector short` multiplication.

`vect_int_mult`

  Target supports `vector int` multiplication.

`vect_long_mult`

  Target supports 64 bit `vector long` multiplication.

`vect_extract_even_odd`

  Target supports vector even/odd element extraction.

`vect_extract_even_odd_wide`

  Target supports vector even/odd element extraction of vectors with elements `SImode` or larger.

`vect_interleave`

  Target supports vector interleaving.

`vect_strided`

  Target supports vector interleaving and extract even/odd.

`vect_strided_wide`

  Target supports vector interleaving and extract even/odd for wide element types.

`vect_perm`

  Target supports vector permutation.

`vect_perm_byte`

  Target supports permutation of vectors with 8-bit elements.

`vect_perm_short`

  Target supports permutation of vectors with 16-bit elements.

`vect_perm3_byte`

  Target supports permutation of vectors with 8-bit elements, and for the default vector length it is possible to permute:

      { a0, a1, a2, b0, b1, b2, ... }

  to:

      { a0, a0, a0, b0, b0, b0, ... }
      { a1, a1, a1, b1, b1, b1, ... }
      { a2, a2, a2, b2, b2, b2, ... }

  using only two-vector permutes, regardless of how long the sequence is.

`vect_perm3_int`

  Like `vect_perm3_byte`, but for 32-bit elements.

`vect_perm3_short`

  Like `vect_perm3_byte`, but for 16-bit elements.

`vect_shift`

  Target supports a hardware vector shift operation.

`vect_unaligned_possible`

  Target prefers vectors to have an alignment greater than element alignment, but also allows unaligned vector accesses in some circumstances.

`vect_variable_length`

  Target has variable-length vectors.

`vect64`

  Target supports vectors of 64 bits.

`vect32`

  Target supports vectors of 32 bits.

`vect_widen_sum_hi_to_si`

  Target supports a vector widening summation of `short` operands into `int` results, or can promote (unpack) from `short` to `int`.

`vect_widen_sum_qi_to_hi`

  Target supports a vector widening summation of `char` operands into `short` results, or can promote (unpack) from `char` to `short`.

`vect_widen_sum_qi_to_si`

  Target supports a vector widening summation of `char` operands into `int` results.

`vect_widen_mult_qi_to_hi`

  Target supports a vector widening multiplication of `char` operands into `short` results, or can promote (unpack) from `char` to `short` and perform non-widening multiplication of `short`.

`vect_widen_mult_hi_to_si`

  Target supports a vector widening multiplication of `short` operands into `int` results, or can promote (unpack) from `short` to `int` and perform non-widening multiplication of `int`.

`vect_widen_mult_si_to_di_pattern`

  Target supports a vector widening multiplication of `int` operands into `long` results.

`vect_sdot_qi`

  Target supports a vector dot-product of `signed char`.

`vect_udot_qi`

  Target supports a vector dot-product of `unsigned char`.

`vect_usdot_qi`

  Target supports a vector dot-product where one operand of the multiply is `signed char` and the other of `unsigned char`.

`vect_sdot_hi`

  Target supports a vector dot-product of `signed short`.

`vect_udot_hi`

  Target supports a vector dot-product of `unsigned short`.

`vect_pack_trunc`

  Target supports a vector demotion (packing) of `short` to `char` and from `int` to `short` using modulo arithmetic.

`vect_unpack`

  Target supports a vector promotion (unpacking) of `char` to `short` and from `char` to `int`.

`vect_intfloat_cvt`

  Target supports conversion from `signed int` to `float`.

`vect_uintfloat_cvt`

  Target supports conversion from `unsigned int` to `float`.

`vect_floatint_cvt`

  Target supports conversion from `float` to `signed int`.

`vect_floatuint_cvt`

  Target supports conversion from `float` to `unsigned int`.

`vect_intdouble_cvt`

  Target supports conversion from `signed int` to `double`.

`vect_doubleint_cvt`

  Target supports conversion from `double` to `signed int`.

`vect_max_reduc`

  Target supports max reduction for vectors.

`vect_sizes_16B_8B`

  Target supports 16- and 8-bytes vectors.

`vect_sizes_32B_16B`

  Target supports 32- and 16-bytes vectors.

`vect_logical_reduc`

  Target supports AND, IOR and XOR reduction on vectors.

`vect_fold_extract_last`

  Target supports the `fold_extract_last` optab.

`vect_len_load_store`

  Target supports the `len_load` and `len_store` optabs.

`vect_partial_vectors_usage_1`

  Target supports loop vectorization with partial vectors and `vect-partial-vector-usage` is set to 1.

`vect_partial_vectors_usage_2`

  Target supports loop vectorization with partial vectors and `vect-partial-vector-usage` is set to 2.

`vect_partial_vectors`

  Target supports loop vectorization with partial vectors and `vect-partial-vector-usage` is nonzero.

`vect_slp_v2qi_store_align`

  Target supports vectorization of 2-byte char stores with 2-byte aligned address at plain `-O2`.

`vect_slp_v4qi_store_align`

  Target supports vectorization of 4-byte char stores with 4-byte aligned address at plain `-O2`.

`vect_slp_v4qi_store_unalign`

  Target supports vectorization of 4-byte char stores with unaligned address at plain `-O2`.

`struct_4char_block_move`

  Target supports block move for 8-byte aligned 4-byte size struct initialization.

`vect_slp_v4qi_store_unalign_1`

  Target supports vectorization of 4-byte char stores with unaligned address or store them with constant pool at plain `-O2`.

`struct_8char_block_move`

  Target supports block move for 8-byte aligned 8-byte size struct initialization.

`vect_slp_v8qi_store_unalign_1`

  Target supports vectorization of 8-byte char stores with unaligned address or store them with constant pool at plain `-O2`.

`struct_16char_block_move`

  Target supports block move for 8-byte aligned 16-byte size struct initialization.

`vect_slp_v16qi_store_unalign_1`

  Target supports vectorization of 16-byte char stores with unaligned address or store them with constant pool at plain `-O2`.

`vect_slp_v2hi_store_align`

  Target supports vectorization of 4-byte short stores with 4-byte aligned addressat plain `-O2`.

`vect_slp_v2hi_store_unalign`

  Target supports vectorization of 4-byte short stores with unaligned address at plain `-O2`.

`vect_slp_v4hi_store_unalign`

  Target supports vectorization of 8-byte short stores with unaligned address at plain `-O2`.

`vect_slp_v2si_store_align`

  Target supports vectorization of 8-byte int stores with 8-byte aligned address at plain `-O2`.

`vect_slp_v4si_store_unalign`

  Target supports vectorization of 16-byte int stores with unaligned address at plain `-O2`.

#### 7.2.3.5 Thread Local Storage attributes ¶

`tls`

  Target supports thread-local storage.

`tls_native`

  Target supports native (rather than emulated) thread-local storage.

`tls_runtime`

  Test system supports executing TLS executables.

#### 7.2.3.6 Decimal floating point attributes ¶

`dfp`

  Targets supports compiling decimal floating point extension to C.

`dfp_nocache`

  Including the options used to compile this particular test, the target supports compiling decimal floating point extension to C.

`dfprt`

  Test system can execute decimal floating point tests.

`dfprt_nocache`

  Including the options used to compile this particular test, the test system can execute decimal floating point tests.

`hard_dfp`

  Target generates decimal floating point instructions with current options.

`dfp_bid`

  Target uses the BID format for decimal floating point.

#### 7.2.3.7 ARM-specific attributes ¶

`arm32`

  ARM target generates 32-bit code.

`arm_little_endian`

  ARM target that generates little-endian code.

`arm_eabi`

  ARM target adheres to the ABI for the ARM Architecture.

`arm_fp_ok`

  ARM target defines `__ARM_FP` using `-mfloat-abi=softfp` or equivalent options. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_fp_dp_ok`

  ARM target defines `__ARM_FP` with double-precision support using `-mfloat-abi=softfp` or equivalent options. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_hf_eabi`

  ARM target adheres to the VFP and Advanced SIMD Register Arguments variant of the ABI for the ARM Architecture (as selected with `-mfloat-abi=hard`).

`arm_softfloat`

  ARM target uses emulated floating point operations.

`arm_hard_vfp_ok`

  ARM target supports `-mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_iwmmxt_ok`

  ARM target supports `-mcpu=iwmmxt`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with this option.

`arm_neon`

  ARM target supports generating NEON instructions.

`arm_tune_string_ops_prefer_neon`

  Test CPU tune supports inlining string operations with NEON instructions.

`arm_neon_hw`

  Test system supports executing NEON instructions.

`arm_neonv2_hw`

  Test system supports executing NEON v2 instructions.

`arm_neon_ok`

  ARM Target supports `-mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp` or compatible options. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_neon_ok_no_float_abi`

  ARM Target supports NEON with `-mfpu=neon`, but without any -mfloat-abi= option. Some multilibs may be incompatible with this option.

`arm_neonv2_ok`

  ARM Target supports `-mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=softfp` or compatible options. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_fp16_ok`

  Target supports options to generate VFP half-precision floating-point instructions. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options. This test is valid for ARM only.

`arm_fp16_hw`

  Target supports executing VFP half-precision floating-point instructions. This test is valid for ARM only.

`arm_neon_fp16_ok`

  ARM Target supports `-mfpu=neon-fp16 -mfloat-abi=softfp` or compatible options, including `-mfp16-format=ieee` if necessary to obtain the `__fp16` type. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_neon_fp16_hw`

  Test system supports executing Neon half-precision float instructions. (Implies previous.)

`arm_fp16_alternative_ok`

  ARM target supports the ARM FP16 alternative format. Some multilibs may be incompatible with the options needed.

`arm_fp16_none_ok`

  ARM target supports specifying none as the ARM FP16 format.

`arm_thumb1_ok`

  ARM target generates Thumb-1 code for `-mthumb`.

`arm_thumb2_ok`

  ARM target generates Thumb-2 code for `-mthumb`.

`arm_nothumb`

  ARM target that is not using Thumb.

`arm_vfp_ok`

  ARM target supports `-mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=softfp`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_vfp3_ok`

  ARM target supports `-mfpu=vfp3 -mfloat-abi=softfp`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_arch_v8a_hard_ok`

  The compiler is targeting `arm*-*-*` and can compile and assemble code using the options `-march=armv8-a -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard`. This is not enough to guarantee that linking works.

`arm_arch_v8a_hard_multilib`

  The compiler is targeting `arm*-*-*` and can build programs using the options `-march=armv8-a -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard`. The target can also run the resulting binaries.

`arm_v8_vfp_ok`

  ARM target supports `-mfpu=fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=softfp`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_neon_ok`

  ARM target supports `-mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=softfp`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_1a_neon_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate ARMv8.1-A Adv.SIMD instructions. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_1a_neon_hw`

  ARM target supports executing ARMv8.1-A Adv.SIMD instructions. Some multilibs may be incompatible with the options needed. Implies arm_v8_1a_neon_ok.

`arm_acq_rel`

  ARM target supports acquire-release instructions.

`arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions for ARMv8.2-A and scalar instructions from the FP16 extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_hw`

  ARM target supports executing instructions for ARMv8.2-A and scalar instructions from the FP16 extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options. Implies arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok.

`arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the FP16 extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options. Implies arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok.

`arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_hw`

  ARM target supports executing instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the FP16 extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options. Implies arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok and arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_hw.

`arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the Dot Product extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_hw`

  ARM target supports executing instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the Dot Product extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options. Implies arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_ok.

`arm_v8_2a_i8mm_neon_hw`

  ARM target supports executing instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the 8-bit Matrix Multiply extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options. Implies arm_v8_2a_i8mm_ok.

`arm_fp16fml_neon_ok`

  ARM target supports extensions to generate the `VFMAL` and `VFMLS` half-precision floating-point instructions available from ARMv8.2-A and onwards. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_2a_bf16_neon_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the BFloat16 extension (bf16). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_2a_i8mm_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the 8-Bit Integer Matrix Multiply extension (i8mm). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_1m_mve_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.1-M with the M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_1m_mve_fp_ok`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.1-M with the Half-precision floating-point instructions (HP), Floating-point Extension (FP) along with M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_mve_hw`

  Test system supports executing MVE instructions.

`arm_v8m_main_cde`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8-M with the Custom Datapath Extension (CDE). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8m_main_cde_fp`

  ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8-M with the Custom Datapath Extension (CDE) and floating-point (VFP). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_1m_main_cde_mve`

  Arm target supports options to generate instructions from Armv8.1-M with the Custom Datapath Extension (CDE) and M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_v8_1m_main_cde_mve_fp`

  Arm target supports options to generate instructions from Armv8.1-M with the Custom Datapath Extension (CDE) and M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE) with floating-point support. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_pacbti_hw`

  Test system supports executing Pointer Authentication and Branch Target Identification instructions.

`arm_prefer_ldrd_strd`

  ARM target prefers `LDRD` and `STRD` instructions over `LDM` and `STM` instructions.

`arm_thumb1_movt_ok`

  ARM target generates Thumb-1 code for `-mthumb` with `MOVW` and `MOVT` instructions available.

`arm_thumb1_cbz_ok`

  ARM target generates Thumb-1 code for `-mthumb` with `CBZ` and `CBNZ` instructions available.

`arm_divmod_simode`

  ARM target for which divmod transform is disabled, if it supports hardware div instruction.

`arm_cmse_ok`

  ARM target supports ARMv8-M Security Extensions, enabled by the `-mcmse` option.

`arm_cmse_hw`

  Test system supports executing CMSE instructions.

`arm_coproc1_ok`

  ARM target supports the following coprocessor instructions: `CDP`, `LDC`, `STC`, `MCR` and `MRC`.

`arm_coproc2_ok`

  ARM target supports all the coprocessor instructions also listed as supported in arm_coproc1_ok in addition to the following: `CDP2`, `LDC2`, `LDC2l`, `STC2`, `STC2l`, `MCR2` and `MRC2`.

`arm_coproc3_ok`

  ARM target supports all the coprocessor instructions also listed as supported in arm_coproc2_ok in addition the following: `MCRR` and `MRRC`.

`arm_coproc4_ok`

  ARM target supports all the coprocessor instructions also listed as supported in arm_coproc3_ok in addition the following: `MCRR2` and `MRRC2`.

`arm_simd32_ok`

  ARM Target supports options suitable for accessing the SIMD32 intrinsics from `arm_acle.h`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_sat_ok`

  ARM Target supports options suitable for accessing the saturation intrinsics from `arm_acle.h`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_dsp_ok`

  ARM Target supports options suitable for accessing the DSP intrinsics from `arm_acle.h`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_softfp_ok`

  ARM target supports the `-mfloat-abi=softfp` option.

`arm_hard_ok`

  ARM target supports the `-mfloat-abi=hard` option.

`arm_mve`

  ARM target supports generating MVE instructions.

`arm_v8_1_lob_ok`

  ARM Target supports executing the Armv8.1-M Mainline Low Overhead Loop instructions `DLS` and `LE`. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.

`arm_thumb2_no_arm_v8_1_lob`

  ARM target where Thumb-2 is used without options but does not support executing the Armv8.1-M Mainline Low Overhead Loop instructions `DLS` and `LE`.

`arm_thumb2_ok_no_arm_v8_1_lob`

  ARM target generates Thumb-2 code for `-mthumb` but does not support executing the Armv8.1-M Mainline Low Overhead Loop instructions `DLS` and `LE`.

`mbranch_protection_ok`

  ARM target supporting `-mbranch-protection=standard`.

`arm_pacbti_hw`

  Test system supports for executing non nop pacbti instructions.

#### 7.2.3.8 AArch64-specific attributes ¶

`aarch64_asm_<ext>_ok`

  AArch64 assembler supports the architecture extension `ext` via the `.arch_extension` pseudo-op.

`aarch64_tiny`

  AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for tiny memory model.

`aarch64_small`

  AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for small memory model.

`aarch64_large`

  AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for large memory model.

`aarch64_little_endian`

  AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for little endian.

`aarch64_big_endian`

  AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for big endian.

`aarch64_small_fpic`

  Binutils installed on test system supports relocation types required by -fpic for AArch64 small memory model.

`aarch64_sme`

  AArch64 target that generates instructions for SME.

`aarch64_sme2`

  AArch64 target that generates instructions for SME2.

`aarch64_sve_hw`

  AArch64 target that is able to generate and execute SVE code (regardless of whether it does so by default).

`aarch64_sve128_hw`
`aarch64_sve256_hw`
`aarch64_sve512_hw`
`aarch64_sve1024_hw`
`aarch64_sve2048_hw`

  Like `aarch64_sve_hw`, but also test for an exact hardware vector length.

`aarch64_fjcvtzs_hw`

  AArch64 target that is able to generate and execute armv8.3-a FJCVTZS instruction.

#### 7.2.3.9 LoongArch specific attributes ¶

`loongarch_sx`

  LoongArch target that generates instructions for SX.

`loongarch_asx`

  LoongArch target that generates instructions for ASX.

`loongarch_sx_hw`

  LoongArch target that is able to generate and execute SX code.

`loongarch_asx_hw`

  LoongArch target that is able to generate and execute ASX code.

`loongarch_call36_support`

  LoongArch binutils supports call36 relocation.

#### 7.2.3.10 MIPS-specific attributes ¶

`mips64`

  MIPS target supports 64-bit instructions.

`nomips16`

  MIPS target does not produce MIPS16 code.

`mips16_attribute`

  MIPS target can generate MIPS16 code.

`mips_loongson`

  MIPS target is a Loongson-2E or -2F target using an ABI that supports the Loongson vector modes.

`mips_msa`

  MIPS target supports `-mmsa`, MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA).

`mips_newabi_large_long_double`

  MIPS target supports `long double` larger than `double` when using the new ABI.

`mpaired_single`

  MIPS target supports `-mpaired-single`.

#### 7.2.3.11 MSP430-specific attributes ¶

`msp430_small`

  MSP430 target has the small memory model enabled (`-msmall`).

`msp430_large`

  MSP430 target has the large memory model enabled (`-mlarge`).

#### 7.2.3.12 PowerPC-specific attributes ¶

`dfp_hw`

  PowerPC target supports executing hardware DFP instructions.

`p8vector_hw`

  PowerPC target supports executing VSX instructions (ISA 2.07).

`powerpc64`

  Test system supports executing 64-bit instructions.

`powerpc_altivec`

  PowerPC target supports AltiVec.

`powerpc_altivec_ok`

  PowerPC target supports `-maltivec`.

`powerpc_eabi_ok`

  PowerPC target supports `-meabi`.

`powerpc_elfv2`

  PowerPC target supports `-mabi=elfv2`.

`powerpc_fprs`

  PowerPC target supports floating-point registers.

`powerpc_hard_double`

  PowerPC target supports hardware double-precision floating-point.

`powerpc_htm_ok`

  PowerPC target supports `-mhtm`

`powerpc_popcntb_ok`

  PowerPC target supports the `popcntb` instruction, indicating that this target supports `-mcpu=power5`.

`powerpc_ppu_ok`

  PowerPC target supports `-mcpu=cell`.

`powerpc_spe`

  PowerPC target supports PowerPC SPE.

`powerpc_spe_nocache`

  Including the options used to compile this particular test, the PowerPC target supports PowerPC SPE.

`powerpc_spu`

  PowerPC target supports PowerPC SPU.

`powerpc_vsx_ok`

  PowerPC target supports `-mvsx`.

`powerpc_405_nocache`

  Including the options used to compile this particular test, the PowerPC target supports PowerPC 405.

`ppc_recip_hw`

  PowerPC target supports executing reciprocal estimate instructions.

`vmx_hw`

  PowerPC target supports executing AltiVec instructions.

`vsx_hw`

  PowerPC target supports executing VSX instructions (ISA 2.06).

`has_arch_pwr5`

  PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR5 which means the `-mcpu` setting is Power5 or later.

`has_arch_pwr6`

  PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR6 which means the `-mcpu` setting is Power6 or later.

`has_arch_pwr7`

  PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR7 which means the `-mcpu` setting is Power7 or later.

`has_arch_pwr8`

  PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR8 which means the `-mcpu` setting is Power8 or later.

`has_arch_pwr9`

  PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR9 which means the `-mcpu` setting is Power9 or later.

#### 7.2.3.13 RISC-V specific attributes ¶

`rv32`

  Test system has an integer register width of 32 bits.

`rv64`

  Test system has an integer register width of 64 bits.

`cv_bi`

  Test system has support for the CORE-V BI extension.

#### 7.2.3.14 CORE-V specific attributes ¶

`cv_mac`

  Test system has support for the CORE-V MAC extension.

`cv_alu`

  Test system has support for the CORE-V ALU extension.

`cv_elw`

  Test system has support for the CORE-V ELW extension.

`cv_simd`

  Test system has support for the CORE-V SIMD extension.

#### 7.2.3.15 Other hardware attributes ¶

`autoincdec`

  Target supports autoincrement/decrement addressing.

`avx`

  Target supports compiling `avx` instructions.

`avx_runtime`

  Target supports the execution of `avx` instructions.

`avx10.1`

  Target supports the execution of `avx10.1` instructions.

`avx10.1-256`

  Target supports the execution of `avx10.1` instructions.

`avx10.1-512`

  Target supports the execution of `avx10.1-512` instructions.

`avx2`

  Target supports compiling `avx2` instructions.

`avx2_runtime`

  Target supports the execution of `avx2` instructions.

`avxvnni`

  Target supports the execution of `avxvnni` instructions.

`avx512f`

  Target supports compiling `avx512f` instructions.

`avx512f_runtime`

  Target supports the execution of `avx512f` instructions.

`avx512vp2intersect`

  Target supports the execution of `avx512vp2intersect` instructions.

`avxifma`

  Target supports the execution of `avxifma` instructions.

`avxneconvert`

  Target supports the execution of `avxneconvert` instructions.

`avxvnniint8`

  Target supports the execution of `avxvnniint8` instructions.

`avxvnniint16`

  Target supports the execution of `avxvnniint16` instructions.

`amx_tile`

  Target supports the execution of `amx-tile` instructions.

`amx_int8`

  Target supports the execution of `amx-int8` instructions.

`amx_bf16`

  Target supports the execution of `amx-bf16` instructions.

`amx_complex`

  Target supports the execution of `amx-complex` instructions.

`amx_fp16`

  Target supports the execution of `amx-fp16` instructions.

`cell_hw`

  Test system can execute AltiVec and Cell PPU instructions.

`clz`

  Target supports a clz optab on int.

`clzl`

  Target supports a clz optab on long.

`clzll`

  Target supports a clz optab on long long.

`ctz`

  Target supports a ctz optab on int.

`ctzl`

  Target supports a ctz optab on long.

`ctzll`

  Target supports a ctz optab on long long.

`cmpccxadd`

  Target supports the execution of `cmpccxadd` instructions.

`coldfire_fpu`

  Target uses a ColdFire FPU.

`divmod`

  Target supporting hardware divmod insn or divmod libcall.

`divmod_simode`

  Target supporting hardware divmod insn or divmod libcall for SImode.

`hard_float`

  Target supports FPU instructions.

`non_strict_align`

  Target does not require strict alignment.

`opt_mstrict_align`

  Target supports `-mstrict-align` and `-mno-strict-align`.

`pie_copyreloc`

  The x86-64 target linker supports PIE with copy reloc.

`popcount`

  Target supports a popcount optab on int.

`popcountl`

  Target supports a popcount optab on long.

`popcountll`

  Target supports a popcount optab on long long.

`prefetchi`

  Target supports the execution of `prefetchi` instructions.

`raoint`

  Target supports the execution of `raoint` instructions.

`rdrand`

  Target supports x86 `rdrand` instruction.

`sha512`

  Target supports the execution of `sha512` instructions.

`sm3`

  Target supports the execution of `sm3` instructions.

`sm4`

  Target supports the execution of `sm4` instructions.

`sqrt_insn`

  Target has a square root instruction that the compiler can generate.

`sse`

  Target supports compiling `sse` instructions.

`sse_runtime`

  Target supports the execution of `sse` instructions.

`sse2`

  Target supports compiling `sse2` instructions.

`sse2_runtime`

  Target supports the execution of `sse2` instructions.

`sync_char_short`

  Target supports atomic operations on `char` and `short`.

`sync_int_long`

  Target supports atomic operations on `int` and `long`.

`ultrasparc_hw`

  Test environment appears to run executables on a simulator that accepts only `EM_SPARC` executables and chokes on `EM_SPARC32PLUS` or `EM_SPARCV9` executables.

`user_msr`

  Target supports the execution of `user_msr` instructions.

`vect_cmdline_needed`

  Target requires a command line argument to enable a SIMD instruction set.

`xorsign`

  Target supports the xorsign optab expansion.

`ifn_copysign`

  Target supports the copysign optab expansion of float and double for both scalar and vector modes.

#### 7.2.3.16 Environment attributes ¶

`c`

  The language for the compiler under test is C.

`c++`

  The language for the compiler under test is C++.

`c99_runtime`

  Target provides a full C99 runtime.

`cfi`

  Target supports DWARF CFI directives.

`correct_iso_cpp_string_wchar_protos`

  Target `string.h` and `wchar.h` headers provide C++ required overloads for `strchr` etc. functions.

`d_runtime`

  Target provides the D runtime.

`d_runtime_has_std_library`

  Target provides the D standard library (Phobos).

`dummy_wcsftime`

  Target uses a dummy `wcsftime` function that always returns zero.

`fd_truncate`

  Target can truncate a file from a file descriptor, as used by `libgfortran/io/unix.c:fd_truncate`; i.e. `ftruncate` or `chsize`.

`fenv`

  Target provides `fenv.h` include file.

`fenv_exceptions`

  Target supports `fenv.h` with all the standard IEEE exceptions and floating-point exceptions are raised by arithmetic operations.

`fenv_exceptions_dfp`

  Target supports `fenv.h` with all the standard IEEE exceptions and floating-point exceptions are raised by arithmetic operations for decimal floating point.

`fileio`

  Target offers such file I/O library functions as `fopen`, `fclose`, `tmpnam`, and `remove`. This is a link-time requirement for the presence of the functions in the library; even if they fail at runtime, the requirement is still regarded as satisfied.

`freestanding`

  Target is ‘`freestanding`’ as defined in section 4 of the C99 standard. Effectively, it is a target which supports no extra headers or libraries other than what is considered essential.

`gettimeofday`

  Target supports `gettimeofday`.

`init_priority`

  Target supports constructors with initialization priority arguments.

`inttypes_types`

  Target has the basic signed and unsigned types in `inttypes.h`. This is for tests that GCC’s notions of these types agree with those in the header, as some systems have only `inttypes.h`.

`lax_strtofp`

  Target might have errors of a few ULP in string to floating-point conversion functions and overflow is not always detected correctly by those functions.

`mempcpy`

  Target provides `mempcpy` function.

`mmap`

  Target supports `mmap`.

`newlib`

  Target supports Newlib.

`newlib_nano_io`

  GCC was configured with `--enable-newlib-nano-formatted-io`, which reduces the code size of Newlib formatted I/O functions.

`posix_memalign`

  Target supports `posix_memalign`.

`pow10`

  Target provides `pow10` function.

`pthread`

  Target can compile using `pthread.h` with no errors or warnings.

`pthread_h`

  Target has `pthread.h`.

`sockets`

  Target can compile using `sys/socket.h` with no errors or warnings.

`run_expensive_tests`

  Expensive testcases (usually those that consume excessive amounts of CPU time) should be run on this target. This can be enabled by setting the `GCC_TEST_RUN_EXPENSIVE` environment variable to a non-empty string.

`simulator`

  Test system runs executables on a simulator (i.e. slowly) rather than hardware (i.e. fast).

`signal`

  Target has `signal.h`.

`stabs`

  Target supports the stabs debugging format.

`stdint_types`

  Target has the basic signed and unsigned C types in `stdint.h`. This will be obsolete when GCC ensures a working `stdint.h` for all targets.

`stdint_types_mbig_endian`

  Target accepts the option `-mbig-endian` and `stdint.h` can be included without error when `-mbig-endian` is passed.

`stpcpy`

  Target provides `stpcpy` function.

`strndup`

  Target provides `strndup` function.

`sysconf`

  Target supports `sysconf`.

`trampolines`

  Target supports trampolines.

`two_plus_gigs`

  Target supports linking programs with 2+GiB of data.

`uclibc`

  Target supports uClibc.

`unwrapped`

  Target does not use a status wrapper.

`vxworks_kernel`

  Target is a VxWorks kernel.

`vxworks_rtp`

  Target is a VxWorks RTP.

`wchar`

  Target supports wide characters.

`weak_undefined`

  Target supports weak undefined symbols

#### 7.2.3.17 Other attributes ¶

`R_flag_in_section`

  Target supports the ’R’ flag in .section directive in assembly inputs.

`asm_goto_with_outputs`

  Target supports ’asm goto’ with outputs.

`automatic_stack_alignment`

  Target supports automatic stack alignment.

`branch_cost`

  Target supports `-branch-cost=N`.

`const_volatile_readonly_section`

  Target places const volatile variables in readonly sections.

`cxa_atexit`

  Target uses `__cxa_atexit`.

`default_packed`

  Target has packed layout of structure members by default.

`exceptions`

  Target supports exceptions.

`exceptions_enabled`

  Target supports exceptions and they are enabled in the current testing configuration.

`fgraphite`

  Target supports Graphite optimizations.

`fixed_point`

  Target supports fixed-point extension to C.

`bitint`

  Target supports _BitInt(N).

`bitint128`

  Target supports _BitInt(128).

`bitint575`

  Target supports _BitInt(575).

`bitint65535`

  Target supports _BitInt(65535).

`fopenacc`

  Target supports OpenACC via `-fopenacc`.

`fopenmp`

  Target supports OpenMP via `-fopenmp`.

`fpic`

  Target supports `-fpic` and `-fPIC`.

`freorder`

  Target supports `-freorder-blocks-and-partition`.

`fstack_protector`

  Target supports `-fstack-protector`.

`gas`

  Target uses GNU `as`.

`gc_sections`

  Target supports `--gc-sections`.

`gld`

  Target uses GNU `ld`.

`keeps_null_pointer_checks`

  Target keeps null pointer checks, either due to the use of `-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks` or hardwired into the target.

`llvm_binutils`

  Target is using an LLVM assembler and/or linker, instead of GNU Binutils.

`lra`

  Target supports local register allocator (LRA). This must not be called (results in `ERROR`) for targets that don’t do register allocation, and therefore neither use nor don’t use LRA.

`lto`

  Compiler has been configured to support link-time optimization (LTO).

`lto_incremental`

  Compiler and linker support link-time optimization relocatable linking with `-r` and `-flto` options.

`thread_fence`

  Target implements `__atomic_thread_fence` without relying on non-implemented `__sync_synchronize()`.

`naked_functions`

  Target supports the `naked` function attribute.

`named_sections`

  Target supports named sections.

`natural_alignment_32`

  Target uses natural alignment (aligned to type size) for types of 32 bits or less.

`tail_call`

  Target supports tail-call optimizations.

`target_natural_alignment_64`

  Target uses natural alignment (aligned to type size) for types of 64 bits or less.

`no_alignment_constraints`

  Target defines __BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT__=1. Hence target imposes no alignment constraints. This is similar, but not necessarily the same as default_packed. Although `BIGGEST_FIELD_ALIGNMENT` defaults to `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT` for most targets, it is possible for a target to set those two with different values and have different alignment constraints for aggregate and non-aggregate types.

`noinit`

  Target supports the `noinit` variable attribute.

`nonpic`

  Target does not generate PIC by default.

`o_flag_in_section`

  Target supports the ’o’ flag in .section directive in assembly inputs.

`offload_gcn`

  Target has been configured for OpenACC/OpenMP offloading on AMD GCN.

`persistent`

  Target supports the `persistent` variable attribute.

`pie_enabled`

  Target generates PIE by default.

`pcc_bitfield_type_matters`

  Target defines `PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS`.

`pe_aligned_commons`

  Target supports `-mpe-aligned-commons`.

`pie`

  Target supports `-pie`, `-fpie` and `-fPIE`.

`linker_plugin`

  Target supports the linker plugin.

`rdynamic`

  Target supports `-rdynamic`.

`scalar_all_fma`

  Target supports all four fused multiply-add optabs for both `float` and `double`. These optabs are: `fma_optab`, `fms_optab`, `fnma_optab` and `fnms_optab`.

`section_anchors`

  Target supports section anchors.

`short_enums`

  Target defaults to short enums.

`stack_size`

  Target has limited stack size. The stack size limit can be obtained using the STACK_SIZE macro defined by `dg-add-options` feature `stack_size`.

  Note that for certain targets, stack size limits are relevant for execution only, and therefore considered only if `dg-do run` is in effect, otherwise unlimited.

`static`

  Target supports `-static`.

`static_libgfortran`

  Target supports statically linking ‘`libgfortran`’.

`string_merging`

  Target supports merging string constants at link time.

`strub`

  Target supports attribute `strub` for stack scrubbing.

`ucn`

  Target supports compiling and assembling UCN.

`ucn_nocache`

  Including the options used to compile this particular test, the target supports compiling and assembling UCN.

`unaligned_stack`

  Target does not guarantee that its `STACK_BOUNDARY` is greater than or equal to the required vector alignment.

`vector_alignment_reachable`

  Vector alignment is reachable for types of 32 bits or less.

`vector_alignment_reachable_for_64bit`

  Vector alignment is reachable for types of 64 bits or less.

`vma_equals_lma`

  Target generates executable with VMA equal to LMA for .data section.

`wchar_t_char16_t_compatible`

  Target supports `wchar_t` that is compatible with `char16_t`.

`wchar_t_char32_t_compatible`

  Target supports `wchar_t` that is compatible with `char32_t`.

`comdat_group`

  Target uses comdat groups.

`indirect_calls`

  Target supports indirect calls, i.e. calls where the target is not constant.

`lgccjit`

  Target supports -lgccjit, i.e. libgccjit.so can be linked into jit tests.

`__OPTIMIZE__`

  Optimizations are enabled (`__OPTIMIZE__`) per the current compiler flags.

#### 7.2.3.18 Local to tests in `gcc.target/i386` ¶

`3dnow`

  Target supports compiling `3dnow` instructions.

`aes`

  Target supports compiling `aes` instructions.

`fma4`

  Target supports compiling `fma4` instructions.

`mfentry`

  Target supports the `-mfentry` option that alters the position of profiling calls such that they precede the prologue.

`ms_hook_prologue`

  Target supports attribute `ms_hook_prologue`.

`pclmul`

  Target supports compiling `pclmul` instructions.

`sse3`

  Target supports compiling `sse3` instructions.

`sse4`

  Target supports compiling `sse4` instructions.

`sse4a`

  Target supports compiling `sse4a` instructions.

`ssse3`

  Target supports compiling `ssse3` instructions.

`vaes`

  Target supports compiling `vaes` instructions.

`vpclmul`

  Target supports compiling `vpclmul` instructions.

`xop`

  Target supports compiling `xop` instructions.

#### 7.2.3.19 Local to tests in `gcc.test-framework` ¶

`no`

  Always returns 0.

`yes`

  Always returns 1.

#### 7.2.4 Features for `dg-add-options` ¶

The supported values of feature for directive `dg-add-options` are:

`arm_fp`

  `__ARM_FP` definition. Only ARM targets support this feature, and only then in certain modes; see the arm_fp_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_fp_dp`

  `__ARM_FP` definition with double-precision support. Only ARM targets support this feature, and only then in certain modes; see the arm_fp_dp_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_neon`

  NEON support. Only ARM targets support this feature, and only then in certain modes; see the arm_neon_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_fp16`

  VFP half-precision floating point support. This does not select the FP16 format; for that, use arm_fp16_ieee or arm_fp16_alternative instead. This feature is only supported by ARM targets and then only in certain modes; see the arm_fp16_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_fp16_ieee`

  ARM IEEE 754-2008 format VFP half-precision floating point support. This feature is only supported by ARM targets and then only in certain modes; see the arm_fp16_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_fp16_alternative`

  ARM Alternative format VFP half-precision floating point support. This feature is only supported by ARM targets and then only in certain modes; see the arm_fp16_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_neon_fp16`

  NEON and half-precision floating point support. Only ARM targets support this feature, and only then in certain modes; see the arm_neon_fp16_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_vfp3`

  arm vfp3 floating point support; see the arm_vfp3_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_arch_v8a_hard`

  Add options for ARMv8-A and the hard-float variant of the AAPCS, if this is supported by the compiler; see the arm_arch_v8a_hard_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_v8_1a_neon`

  Add options for ARMv8.1-A with Adv.SIMD support, if this is supported by the target; see the arm_v8_1a_neon_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar`

  Add options for ARMv8.2-A with scalar FP16 support, if this is supported by the target; see the arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon`

  Add options for ARMv8.2-A with Adv.SIMD FP16 support, if this is supported by the target; see the arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon`

  Add options for ARMv8.2-A with Adv.SIMD Dot Product support, if this is supported by the target; see the arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_fp16fml_neon`

  Add options to enable generation of the `VFMAL` and `VFMSL` instructions, if this is supported by the target; see the arm_fp16fml_neon_ok effective target keyword.

`arm_dsp`

  Add options for ARM DSP intrinsics support, if this is supported by the target; see the arm_dsp_ok effective target keyword.

`bind_pic_locally`

  Add the target-specific flags needed to enable functions to bind locally when using pic/PIC passes in the testsuite.

`floatn`

  Add the target-specific flags needed to use the `_Floatn` type.

`floatnx`

  Add the target-specific flags needed to use the `_Floatnx` type.

`ieee`

  Add the target-specific flags needed to enable full IEEE compliance mode.

`mips16_attribute`

  `mips16` function attributes. Only MIPS targets support this feature, and only then in certain modes.

`stack_size`

  Add the flags needed to define macro STACK_SIZE and set it to the stack size limit associated with the `stack_size` effective target.

`sqrt_insn`

  Add the target-specific flags needed to enable hardware square root instructions, if any.

`tls`

  Add the target-specific flags needed to use thread-local storage.

`vect_early_break`

  Add the target-specific flags needed to enable early break vectorization for a target, if any. This requires the target to have an implementation of the `cbranch` optab.

`weak_undefined`

  Add the flags needed to enable support for weak undefined symbols.

#### 7.2.5 Variants of `dg-require-support` ¶

A few of the `dg-require` directives take arguments.

`dg-require-iconv codeset`

  Skip the test if the target does not support iconv. codeset is the codeset to convert to.

`dg-require-profiling profopt`

  Skip the test if the target does not support profiling with option profopt.

`dg-require-stack-check check`

  Skip the test if the target does not support the `-fstack-check` option. If check is `""`, support for `-fstack-check` is checked, for `-fstack-check=("check")` otherwise.

`dg-require-stack-size size`

  Skip the test if the target does not support a stack size of size.

`dg-require-visibility vis`

  Skip the test if the target does not support the `visibility` attribute. If vis is `""`, support for `visibility("hidden")` is checked, for `visibility("vis")` otherwise.

The original `dg-require` directives were defined before there was support for effective-target keywords. The directives that do not take arguments could be replaced with effective-target keywords.

`dg-require-alias ""`

  Skip the test if the target does not support the ‘`alias`’ attribute.

`dg-require-ascii-locale ""`

  Skip the test if the host does not support an ASCII locale.

`dg-require-compat-dfp ""`

  Skip this test unless both compilers in a `compat` testsuite support decimal floating point.

`dg-require-cxa-atexit ""`

  Skip the test if the target does not support `__cxa_atexit`. This is equivalent to `dg-require-effective-target cxa_atexit`.

`dg-require-dll ""`

  Skip the test if the target does not support DLL attributes.

`dg-require-dot ""`

  Skip the test if the host does not have `dot`.

`dg-require-fork ""`

  Skip the test if the target does not support `fork`.

`dg-require-gc-sections ""`

  Skip the test if the target’s linker does not support the `--gc-sections` flags. This is equivalent to `dg-require-effective-target gc-sections`.

`dg-require-host-local ""`

  Skip the test if the host is remote, rather than the same as the build system. Some tests are incompatible with DejaGnu’s handling of remote hosts, which involves copying the source file to the host and compiling it with a relative path and "`-o a.out`".

`dg-require-linker-plugin ""`

  Skip the test is the target does not support the linker plugin. This is equivalent to `dg-require-effective-target linker_plugin`.

`dg-require-mkfifo ""`

  Skip the test if the target does not support `mkfifo`.

`dg-require-named-sections ""`

  Skip the test is the target does not support named sections. This is equivalent to `dg-require-effective-target named_sections`.

`dg-require-weak ""`

  Skip the test if the target does not support weak symbols.

`dg-require-weak-override ""`

  Skip the test if the target does not support overriding weak symbols.

#### 7.2.6 Commands for use in `dg-final` ¶

The GCC testsuite defines the following directives to be used within `dg-final`.

#### 7.2.6.1 Scan a particular file ¶

`scan-file filename regexp [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regexp matches text in filename.

`scan-file-not filename regexp [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regexp does not match text in filename.

`scan-module module regexp [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regexp matches in Fortran module module.

`dg-check-dot filename`

  Passes if filename is a valid `.dot` file (by running `dot -Tpng` on it, and verifying the exit code is 0).

`scan-sarif-file regexp [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regexp matches text in the file generated by `-fdiagnostics-format=sarif-file`.

`scan-sarif-file-not regexp [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regexp does not match text in the file generated by `-fdiagnostics-format=sarif-file`.

#### 7.2.6.2 Scan the assembly output ¶

`scan-assembler regex [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex matches text in the test’s assembler output, excluding LTO sections.

`scan-raw-assembler regex [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex matches text in the test’s assembler output, including LTO sections.

`scan-assembler-not regex [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex does not match text in the test’s assembler output, excluding LTO sections.

`scan-assembler-times regex num [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex is matched exactly num times in the test’s assembler output, excluding LTO sections.

`scan-assembler-bound regex cmp num [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex is matched cmp num times in the test’s assembler output, excluding LTO sections. cmp is a comparitor.

`scan-assembler-dem regex [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex matches text in the test’s demangled assembler output, excluding LTO sections.

`scan-assembler-dem-not regex [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex does not match text in the test’s demangled assembler output, excluding LTO sections.

`scan-assembler-symbol-section functions section [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if functions are all in section. The caller needs to allow for `USER_LABEL_PREFIX` and different section name conventions.

`scan-symbol-section filename functions section [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if functions are all in sectionin filename. The same caveats as for `scan-assembler-symbol-section` apply.

`scan-hidden symbol [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if symbol is defined as a hidden symbol in the test’s assembly output.

`scan-not-hidden symbol [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if symbol is not defined as a hidden symbol in the test’s assembly output.

`check-function-bodies prefix terminator [options [{ target/xfail selector }]]`

  Looks through the source file for comments that give the expected assembly output for selected functions. Each line of expected output starts with the prefix string prefix and the expected output for a function as a whole is followed by a line that starts with the string terminator. Specifying an empty terminator is equivalent to specifying ‘`"*/"`’.

  options, if specified, is a list of regular expressions, each of which matches a full command-line option. A non-empty list prevents the test from running unless all of the given options are present on the command line. This can help if a source file is compiled both with and without optimization, since it is rarely useful to check the full function body for unoptimized code.

  The first line of the expected output for a function fn has the form:

      prefix fn:  [{ target/xfail selector }]

  Subsequent lines of the expected output also start with prefix. In both cases, whitespace after prefix is not significant.

  Depending on the configuration (see `configure_check-function-bodies` in `gcc/testsuite/lib/scanasm.exp`), the test may discard from the compiler’s assembly output directives such as `.cfi_startproc`, local label definitions such as `.LFB0`, and more. It then matches the result against the expected output for a function as a single regular expression. This means that later lines can use backslashes to refer back to ‘`(…)`’ captures on earlier lines. For example:

      /* { dg-final { check-function-bodies "**" "" "-DCHECK_ASM" } } */
      ...
      /*
      ** add_w0_s8_m:
      **	mov	(z[0-9]+\.b), w0
      **	add	z0\.b, p0/m, z0\.b, \1
      **	ret
      */
      svint8_t add_w0_s8_m (...) { ... }
      ...
      /*
      ** add_b0_s8_m:
      **	mov	(z[0-9]+\.b), b0
      **	add	z1\.b, p0/m, z1\.b, \1
      **	ret
      */
      svint8_t add_b0_s8_m (...) { ... }

  checks whether the implementations of `add_w0_s8_m` and `add_b0_s8_m` match the regular expressions given. The test only runs when ‘`-DCHECK_ASM`’ is passed on the command line.

  It is possible to create non-capturing multi-line regular expression groups of the form ‘`(a|b|…)`’ by putting the ‘`(`’, ‘`|`’ and ‘`)`’ on separate lines (each still using prefix). For example:

      /*
      ** cmple_f16_tied:
      ** (
      **	fcmge	p0\.h, p0/z, z1\.h, z0\.h
      ** |
      **	fcmle	p0\.h, p0/z, z0\.h, z1\.h
      ** )
      **	ret
      */
      svbool_t cmple_f16_tied (...) { ... }

  checks whether `cmple_f16_tied` is implemented by the `fcmge` instruction followed by `ret` or by the `fcmle` instruction followed by `ret`. The test is still a single regular rexpression.

  A line containing just:

      prefix ...

  stands for zero or more unmatched lines; the whitespace after prefix is again not significant.

#### 7.2.6.3 Scan optimization dump files ¶

These commands are available for kind of `tree`, `ltrans-tree`, `offload-tree`, `rtl`, `offload-rtl`, `ipa`, `offload-ipa`, and `wpa-ipa`.

`scan-kind-dump regex suffix [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex matches text in the dump file with suffix suffix.

`scan-kind-dump-not regex suffix [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex does not match text in the dump file with suffix suffix.

`scan-kind-dump-times regex num suffix [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex is found exactly num times in the dump file with suffix suffix.

`scan-kind-dump-dem regex suffix [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex matches demangled text in the dump file with suffix suffix.

`scan-kind-dump-dem-not regex suffix [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if regex does not match demangled text in the dump file with suffix suffix.

The suffix argument which describes the dump file to be scanned may contain a glob pattern that must expand to exactly one file name. This is useful if, e.g., different pass instances are executed depending on torture testing command-line flags, producing dump files whose names differ only in their pass instance number suffix. For example, to scan instances 1, 2, 3 of a tree pass “mypass” for occurrences of the string “code has been optimized”, use:

    /* { dg-options "-fdump-tree-mypass" } */
    /* { dg-final { scan-tree-dump "code has been optimized" "mypass\[1-3\]" } } */

The `offload-…` ones by default separately scan the dump file of each enabled offload target. You may use the `only_for_offload_target` wrapper to restrict the scanning to one specific offload target:

    /* { dg-do link { target offload_target_amdgcn } } */
    /* { dg-additional-options -foffload-options=-fdump-ipa-simdclone-details } */
    /* { dg-final { only_for_offload_target amdgcn-amdhsa scan-offload-ipa-dump regex_amdgcn simdclone } } */

This test case is active if GCN offload compilation is enabled (but potentially also additional offload targets). The `simdclone` IPA dump file is (potentially) produced for all offload targets, but only the GCN offload one is scanned.

If a test case doesn’t have a ‘`{ target selector }`’, and you need to scan, for example, for different regexes for each of host and potentially several offload targets, use a pattern like this:

    /* { dg-final { scan-tree-dump regex_host optimized } }
       { dg-final { only_for_offload_target amdgcn-amdhsa scan-offload-tree-dump regex_amdgcn optimized { target offload_target_amdgcn } } }
       { dg-final { only_for_offload_target nvptx-none scan-offload-tree-dump regex_nvptx optimized { target offload_target_nvptx } } } */

Here, unconditionally regex_host is scanned for in the host dump file. If GCN offloading compilation is actually enabled, regex_amdgcn is scanned for in the GCN offload compilation dump file. If nvptx offloading compilation is actually enabled, regex_nvptx is scanned for in the nvptx offload compilation dump file.

#### 7.2.6.4 Check for output files ¶

`output-exists [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if compiler output file exists.

`output-exists-not [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if compiler output file does not exist.

`scan-symbol regexp [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if the pattern is present in the final executable.

`scan-symbol-not regexp [{ target/xfail selector }]`

  Passes if the pattern is absent from the final executable.

#### 7.2.6.5 Checks for `gcov` tests ¶

`run-gcov sourcefile`

  Check line counts in `gcov` tests.

`run-gcov [branches] [calls] { opts sourcefile }`

  Check branch and/or call counts, in addition to line counts, in `gcov` tests.

`run-gcov-pytest { sourcefile pytest_file }`

  Check output of `gcov` intermediate format with a pytest script.

#### 7.2.6.6 Clean up generated test files ¶

Usually the test-framework removes files that were generated during testing. If a testcase, for example, uses any dumping mechanism to inspect a passes dump file, the testsuite recognized the dump option passed to the tool and schedules a final cleanup to remove these files.

There are, however, following additional cleanup directives that can be used to annotate a testcase "manually".

`cleanup-coverage-files`

  Removes coverage data files generated for this test.

`cleanup-modules "list-of-extra-modules"`

  Removes Fortran module files generated for this test, excluding the module names listed in keep-modules. Cleaning up module files is usually done automatically by the testsuite by looking at the source files and removing the modules after the test has been executed.

      module MoD1
      end module MoD1
      module Mod2
      end module Mod2
      module moD3
      end module moD3
      module mod4
      end module mod4
      ! { dg-final { cleanup-modules "mod1 mod2" } } ! redundant
      ! { dg-final { keep-modules "mod3 mod4" } }

`keep-modules "list-of-modules-not-to-delete"`

  Whitespace separated list of module names that should not be deleted by cleanup-modules. If the list of modules is empty, all modules defined in this file are kept.

      module maybe_unneeded
      end module maybe_unneeded
      module keep1
      end module keep1
      module keep2
      end module keep2
      ! { dg-final { keep-modules "keep1 keep2" } } ! just keep these two
      ! { dg-final { keep-modules "" } } ! keep all

`dg-keep-saved-temps "list-of-suffixes-not-to-delete"`

  Whitespace separated list of suffixes that should not be deleted automatically in a testcase that uses `-save-temps`.

      // { dg-options "-save-temps -fpch-preprocess -I." }
      int main() { return 0; }
      // { dg-keep-saved-temps ".s" } ! just keep assembler file
      // { dg-keep-saved-temps ".s" ".i" } ! ... and .i
      // { dg-keep-saved-temps ".ii" ".o" } ! or just .ii and .o

`cleanup-profile-file`

  Removes profiling files generated for this test.

### 7.3 Ada Language Testsuites ¶

The Ada testsuite includes executable tests from the ACATS testsuite, publicly available at http://www.ada-auth.org/acats.html.

These tests are integrated in the GCC testsuite in the `ada/acats` directory, and enabled automatically when running `make check`, assuming the Ada language has been enabled when configuring GCC.

You can also run the Ada testsuite independently, using `make check-ada`, or run a subset of the tests by specifying which chapter to run, e.g.:

    $ make check-ada CHAPTERS="c3 c9"

The tests are organized by directory, each directory corresponding to a chapter of the Ada Reference Manual. So for example, `c9` corresponds to chapter 9, which deals with tasking features of the language.

The tests are run using two `sh` scripts: `run_acats` and `run_all.sh`. To run the tests using a simulator or a cross target, see the small customization section at the top of `run_all.sh`.

These tests are run using the build tree: they can be run without doing a `make install`.

### 7.4 C Language Testsuites ¶

GCC contains the following C language testsuites, in the `gcc/testsuite` directory:

`gcc.dg`

  This contains tests of particular features of the C compiler, using the more modern ‘`dg`’ harness. Correctness tests for various compiler features should go here if possible.

  Magic comments determine whether the file is preprocessed, compiled, linked or run. In these tests, error and warning message texts are compared against expected texts or regular expressions given in comments. These tests are run with the options ‘`-ansi -pedantic`’ unless other options are given in the test. Except as noted below they are not run with multiple optimization options.

`gcc.dg/compat`

  This subdirectory contains tests for binary compatibility using `lib/compat.exp`, which in turn uses the language-independent support (see Support for testing binary compatibility).

`gcc.dg/cpp`

  This subdirectory contains tests of the preprocessor.

`gcc.dg/debug`

  This subdirectory contains tests for debug formats. Tests in this subdirectory are run for each debug format that the compiler supports.

`gcc.dg/format`

  This subdirectory contains tests of the `-Wformat` format checking. Tests in this directory are run with and without `-DWIDE`.

`gcc.dg/noncompile`

  This subdirectory contains tests of code that should not compile and does not need any special compilation options. They are run with multiple optimization options, since sometimes invalid code crashes the compiler with optimization.

`gcc.dg/special`

  FIXME: describe this.

`gcc.c-torture`

  This contains particular code fragments which have historically broken easily. These tests are run with multiple optimization options, so tests for features which only break at some optimization levels belong here. This also contains tests to check that certain optimizations occur. It might be worthwhile to separate the correctness tests cleanly from the code quality tests, but it hasn’t been done yet.

`gcc.c-torture/compat`

  FIXME: describe this.

  This directory should probably not be used for new tests.

`gcc.c-torture/compile`

  This testsuite contains test cases that should compile, but do not need to link or run. These test cases are compiled with several different combinations of optimization options. All warnings are disabled for these test cases, so this directory is not suitable if you wish to test for the presence or absence of compiler warnings. While special options can be set, and tests disabled on specific platforms, by the use of `.x` files, mostly these test cases should not contain platform dependencies. FIXME: discuss how defines such as `STACK_SIZE` are used.

`gcc.c-torture/execute`

  This testsuite contains test cases that should compile, link and run; otherwise the same comments as for `gcc.c-torture/compile` apply.

`gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee`

  This contains tests which are specific to IEEE floating point.

`gcc.c-torture/unsorted`

  FIXME: describe this.

  This directory should probably not be used for new tests.

`gcc.misc-tests`

  This directory contains C tests that require special handling. Some of these tests have individual expect files, and others share special-purpose expect files:

  ``bprob*.c``

    Test `-fbranch-probabilities` using `gcc.misc-tests/bprob.exp`, which in turn uses the generic, language-independent framework (see Support for testing profile-directed optimizations).

  ``gcov*.c``

    Test `gcov` output using `gcov.exp`, which in turn uses the language-independent support (see Support for testing gcov).

  ``i386-pf-*.c``

    Test i386-specific support for data prefetch using `i386-prefetch.exp`.

`gcc.test-framework`
  ``dg-*.c``

    Test the testsuite itself using `gcc.test-framework/test-framework.exp`.

FIXME: merge in `testsuite/README.gcc` and discuss the format of test cases and magic comments more.

### 7.5 Support for testing link-time optimizations ¶

Tests for link-time optimizations usually require multiple source files that are compiled separately, perhaps with different sets of options. There are several special-purpose test directives used for these tests.

`{ dg-lto-do do-what-keyword }`

  do-what-keyword specifies how the test is compiled and whether it is executed. It is one of:

  `assemble`

    Compile with `-c` to produce a relocatable object file.

  `link`

    Compile, assemble, and link to produce an executable file.

  `run`

    Produce and run an executable file, which is expected to return an exit code of 0.

  The default is `assemble`. That can be overridden for a set of tests by redefining `dg-do-what-default` within the `.exp` file for those tests.

  Unlike `dg-do`, `dg-lto-do` does not support an optional ‘`target`’ or ‘`xfail`’ list. Use `dg-skip-if`, `dg-xfail-if`, or `dg-xfail-run-if`.

`{ dg-lto-options { { options } [{ options }] } [{ target selector }]}`

  This directive provides a list of one or more sets of compiler options to override LTO_OPTIONS. Each test will be compiled and run with each of these sets of options.

`{ dg-extra-ld-options options [{ target selector }]}`

  This directive adds options to the linker options used.

`{ dg-suppress-ld-options options [{ target selector }]}`

  This directive removes options from the set of linker options used.

### 7.6 Support for testing `gcov` ¶

Language-independent support for testing `gcov`, and for checking that branch profiling produces expected values, is provided by the expect file `lib/gcov.exp`. `gcov` tests also rely on procedures in `lib/gcc-dg.exp` to compile and run the test program. A typical `gcov` test contains the following DejaGnu commands within comments:

    { dg-options "--coverage" }
    { dg-do run { target native } }
    { dg-final { run-gcov sourcefile } }

Checks of `gcov` output can include line counts, branch percentages, and call return percentages. All of these checks are requested via commands that appear in comments in the test’s source file. Commands to check line counts are processed by default. Commands to check branch percentages and call return percentages are processed if the `run-gcov` command has arguments `branches` or `calls`, respectively. For example, the following specifies checking both, as well as passing `-b` to `gcov`:

    { dg-final { run-gcov branches calls { -b sourcefile } } }

A line count command appears within a comment on the source line that is expected to get the specified count and has the form `count(cnt)`. A test should only check line counts for lines that will get the same count for any architecture.

Commands to check branch percentages (`branch`) and call return percentages (`returns`) are very similar to each other. A beginning command appears on or before the first of a range of lines that will report the percentage, and the ending command follows that range of lines. The beginning command can include a list of percentages, all of which are expected to be found within the range. A range is terminated by the next command of the same kind. A command `branch(end)` or `returns(end)` marks the end of a range without starting a new one. For example:

    if (i > 10 && j > i && j < 20)  /* branch(27 50 75) */
                                    /* branch(end) */
      foo (i, j);

For a call return percentage, the value specified is the percentage of calls reported to return. For a branch percentage, the value is either the expected percentage or 100 minus that value, since the direction of a branch can differ depending on the target or the optimization level.

Not all branches and calls need to be checked. A test should not check for branches that might be optimized away or replaced with predicated instructions. Don’t check for calls inserted by the compiler or ones that might be inlined or optimized away.

A single test can check for combinations of line counts, branch percentages, and call return percentages. The command to check a line count must appear on the line that will report that count, but commands to check branch percentages and call return percentages can bracket the lines that report them.

### 7.7 Support for testing profile-directed optimizations ¶

The file `profopt.exp` provides language-independent support for checking correct execution of a test built with profile-directed optimization. This testing requires that a test program be built and executed twice. The first time it is compiled to generate profile data, and the second time it is compiled to use the data that was generated during the first execution. The second execution is to verify that the test produces the expected results.

To check that the optimization actually generated better code, a test can be built and run a third time with normal optimizations to verify that the performance is better with the profile-directed optimizations. `profopt.exp` has the beginnings of this kind of support.

`profopt.exp` provides generic support for profile-directed optimizations. Each set of tests that uses it provides information about a specific optimization:

`tool`

  tool being tested, e.g., `gcc`

`profile_option`

  options used to generate profile data

`feedback_option`

  options used to optimize using that profile data

`prof_ext`

  suffix of profile data files

`PROFOPT_OPTIONS`

  list of options with which to run each test, similar to the lists for torture tests

`{ dg-final-generate { local-directive } }`

  This directive is similar to `dg-final`, but the local-directive is run after the generation of profile data.

`{ dg-final-use { local-directive } }`

  The local-directive is run after the profile data have been used.

### 7.8 Support for testing binary compatibility ¶

The file `compat.exp` provides language-independent support for binary compatibility testing. It supports testing interoperability of two compilers that follow the same ABI, or of multiple sets of compiler options that should not affect binary compatibility. It is intended to be used for testsuites that complement ABI testsuites.

A test supported by this framework has three parts, each in a separate source file: a main program and two pieces that interact with each other to split up the functionality being tested.

`testname_main.suffix`

  Contains the main program, which calls a function in file `testname_x.suffix`.

`testname_x.suffix`

  Contains at least one call to a function in `testname_y.suffix`.

`testname_y.suffix`

  Shares data with, or gets arguments from, `testname_x.suffix`.

Within each test, the main program and one functional piece are compiled by the GCC under test. The other piece can be compiled by an alternate compiler. If no alternate compiler is specified, then all three source files are all compiled by the GCC under test. You can specify pairs of sets of compiler options. The first element of such a pair specifies options used with the GCC under test, and the second element of the pair specifies options used with the alternate compiler. Each test is compiled with each pair of options.

`compat.exp` defines default pairs of compiler options. These can be overridden by defining the environment variable `COMPAT_OPTIONS` as:

    COMPAT_OPTIONS="[list [list {tst1} {alt1}]
      ...[list {tstn} {altn}]]"

where tsti and alti are lists of options, with tsti used by the compiler under test and alti used by the alternate compiler. For example, with `[list [list {-g -O0} {-O3}] [list {-fpic} {-fPIC -O2}]]`, the test is first built with `-g -O0` by the compiler under test and with `-O3` by the alternate compiler. The test is built a second time using `-fpic` by the compiler under test and `-fPIC -O2` by the alternate compiler.

An alternate compiler is specified by defining an environment variable to be the full pathname of an installed compiler; for C define `ALT_CC_UNDER_TEST`, and for C++ define `ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST`. These will be written to the `site.exp` file used by DejaGnu. The default is to build each test with the compiler under test using the first of each pair of compiler options from `COMPAT_OPTIONS`. When `ALT_CC_UNDER_TEST` or `ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST` is `same`, each test is built using the compiler under test but with combinations of the options from `COMPAT_OPTIONS`.

To run only the C++ compatibility suite using the compiler under test and another version of GCC using specific compiler options, do the following from `objdir/gcc`:

    rm site.exp
    make -k \
      ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST=${alt_prefix}/bin/g++ \
      COMPAT_OPTIONS="lists as shown above" \
      check-c++ \
      RUNTESTFLAGS="compat.exp"

A test that fails when the source files are compiled with different compilers, but passes when the files are compiled with the same compiler, demonstrates incompatibility of the generated code or runtime support. A test that fails for the alternate compiler but passes for the compiler under test probably tests for a bug that was fixed in the compiler under test but is present in the alternate compiler.

The binary compatibility tests support a small number of test framework commands that appear within comments in a test file.

`dg-require-*`

  These commands can be used in `testname_main.suffix` to skip the test if specific support is not available on the target.

`dg-options`

  The specified options are used for compiling this particular source file, appended to the options from `COMPAT_OPTIONS`. When this command appears in `testname_main.suffix` the options are also used to link the test program.

`dg-xfail-if`

  This command can be used in a secondary source file to specify that compilation is expected to fail for particular options on particular targets.

### 7.9 Support for torture testing using multiple options ¶

Throughout the compiler testsuite there are several directories whose tests are run multiple times, each with a different set of options. These are known as torture tests. `lib/torture-options.exp` defines procedures to set up these lists:

`torture-init`

  Initialize use of torture lists.

`set-torture-options`

  Set lists of torture options to use for tests with and without loops. Optionally combine a set of torture options with a set of other options, as is done with Objective-C runtime options.

`torture-finish`

  Finalize use of torture lists.

The `.exp` file for a set of tests that use torture options must include calls to these three procedures if:

- It calls `gcc-dg-runtest` and overrides DG_TORTURE_OPTIONS.
- It calls ${tool}`-torture` or ${tool}`-torture-execute`, where tool is `c`, `fortran`, or `objc`.
- It calls `dg-pch`.

It is not necessary for a `.exp` file that calls `gcc-dg-runtest` to call the torture procedures if the tests should use the list in DG_TORTURE_OPTIONS defined in `gcc-dg.exp`.

Most uses of torture options can override the default lists by defining TORTURE_OPTIONS or add to the default list by defining ADDITIONAL_TORTURE_OPTIONS. Define these in a `.dejagnurc` file or add them to the `site.exp` file; for example

    set ADDITIONAL_TORTURE_OPTIONS  [list \
      { -O2 -ftree-loop-linear } \
      { -O2 -fpeel-loops } ]

### 7.10 Support for testing GIMPLE passes ¶

As of gcc 7, C functions can be tagged with `__GIMPLE` to indicate that the function body will be GIMPLE, rather than C. The compiler requires the option `-fgimple` to enable this functionality. For example:

    /* { dg-do compile } */
    /* { dg-options "-O -fgimple" } */

    void __GIMPLE (startwith ("dse2")) foo ()
    {
      int a;

    bb_2:
      if (a > 4)
        goto bb_3;
      else
        goto bb_4;

    bb_3:
      a_2 = 10;
      goto bb_5;

    bb_4:
      a_3 = 20;

    bb_5:
      a_1 = __PHI (bb_3: a_2, bb_4: a_3);
      a_4 = a_1 + 4;

      return;
    }

The `startwith` argument indicates at which pass to begin.

Use the dump modifier `-gimple` (e.g. `-fdump-tree-all-gimple`) to make tree dumps more closely follow the format accepted by the GIMPLE parser.

Example DejaGnu tests of GIMPLE can be seen in the source tree at `gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/gimplefe-*.c`.

The `__GIMPLE` parser is integrated with the C tokenizer and preprocessor, so it should be possible to use macros to build out test coverage.

### 7.11 Support for testing RTL passes ¶

As of gcc 7, C functions can be tagged with `__RTL` to indicate that the function body will be RTL, rather than C. For example:

    double __RTL (startwith ("ira")) test (struct foo *f, const struct bar *b)
    {
      (function "test"
         [...snip; various directives go in here...]
      ) ;; function "test"
    }

The `startwith` argument indicates at which pass to begin.

The parser expects the RTL body to be in the format emitted by this dumping function:

    DEBUG_FUNCTION void
    print_rtx_function (FILE *outfile, function *fn, bool compact);

when "compact" is true. So you can capture RTL in the correct format from the debugger using:

    (gdb) print_rtx_function (stderr, cfun, true);

and copy and paste the output into the body of the C function.

Example DejaGnu tests of RTL can be seen in the source tree under `gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/rtl`.

The `__RTL` parser is not integrated with the C tokenizer or preprocessor, and works simply by reading the relevant lines within the braces. In particular, the RTL body must be on separate lines from the enclosing braces, and the preprocessor is not usable within it.

## 8 Option specification files ¶

Most GCC command-line options are described by special option definition files, the names of which conventionally end in `.opt`. This chapter describes the format of these files.

### 8.1 Option file format ¶

Option files are a simple list of records in which each field occupies its own line and in which the records themselves are separated by blank lines. Comments may appear on their own line anywhere within the file and are preceded by semicolons. Whitespace is allowed before the semicolon.

The files can contain the following types of record:

- A language definition record. These records have two fields: the string ‘`Language`’ and the name of the language. Once a language has been declared in this way, it can be used as an option property. See Option properties.
- A target specific save record to save additional information. These records have two fields: the string ‘`TargetSave`’, and a declaration type to go in the `cl_target_option` structure.
- A variable record to define a variable used to store option information. These records have two fields: the string ‘`Variable`’, and a declaration of the type and name of the variable, optionally with an initializer (but without any trailing ‘`;`’). These records may be used for variables used for many options where declaring the initializer in a single option definition record, or duplicating it in many records, would be inappropriate, or for variables set in option handlers rather than referenced by `Var` properties.
- A variable record to define a variable used to store option information. These records have two fields: the string ‘`TargetVariable`’, and a declaration of the type and name of the variable, optionally with an initializer (but without any trailing ‘`;`’). ‘`TargetVariable`’ is a combination of ‘`Variable`’ and ‘`TargetSave`’ records in that the variable is defined in the `gcc_options` structure, but these variables are also stored in the `cl_target_option` structure. The variables are saved in the target save code and restored in the target restore code.
- A variable record to record any additional files that the `options.h` file should include. This is useful to provide enumeration or structure definitions needed for target variables. These records have two fields: the string ‘`HeaderInclude`’ and the name of the include file.
- A variable record to record any additional files that the `options.cc` or `options-save.cc` file should include. This is useful to provide inline functions needed for target variables and/or `#ifdef` sequences to properly set up the initialization. These records have two fields: the string ‘`SourceInclude`’ and the name of the include file.
- An enumeration record to define a set of strings that may be used as arguments to an option or options. These records have three fields: the string ‘`Enum`’, a space-separated list of properties and help text used to describe the set of strings in `--help` output. Properties use the same format as option properties; the following are valid:
  `Name(name)`

    This property is required; name must be a name (suitable for use in C identifiers) used to identify the set of strings in `Enum` option properties.

  `Type(type)`

    This property is required; type is the C type for variables set by options using this enumeration together with `Var`.

  `UnknownError(message)`

    The message message will be used as an error message if the argument is invalid; for enumerations without `UnknownError`, a generic error message is used. message should contain a single ‘`%qs`’ format, which will be used to format the invalid argument.

- An enumeration value record to define one of the strings in a set given in an ‘`Enum`’ record. These records have two fields: the string ‘`EnumValue`’ and a space-separated list of properties. Properties use the same format as option properties; the following are valid:
  `Enum(name)`

    This property is required; name says which ‘`Enum`’ record this ‘`EnumValue`’ record corresponds to.

  `String(string)`

    This property is required; string is the string option argument being described by this record.

  `Value(value)`

    This property is required; it says what value (representable as `int`) should be used for the given string.

  `Canonical`

    This property is optional. If present, it says the present string is the canonical one among all those with the given value. Other strings yielding that value will be mapped to this one so specs do not need to handle them.

  `DriverOnly`

    This property is optional. If present, the present string will only be accepted by the driver. This is used for cases such as `-march=native` that are processed by the driver so that ‘`gcc -v`’ shows how the options chosen depended on the system on which the compiler was run.

  `Set(number)`

    This property is optional, required for enumerations used in `EnumSet` options. number should be decimal number between 1 and 64 inclusive and divides the enumeration into a set of sets of mutually exclusive arguments. Arguments with the same number can’t be specified together in the same option, but arguments with different number can. value needs to be chosen such that a mask of all value values from the same set number bitwise ored doesn’t overlap with masks for other sets. When `-foption=arg_from_set1,arg_from_set4` and `-fno-option=arg_from_set3` are used, the effect is that previous value of the `Var` will get bits from set 1 and 4 masks cleared, ored `Value` of `arg_from_set1` and `arg_from_set4` and then will get bits from set 3 mask cleared.

- An option definition record. These records have the following fields:
  1. the name of the option, with the leading “-” removed
  2. a space-separated list of option properties (see Option properties)
  3. the help text to use for `--help` (omitted if the second field contains the `Undocumented` property).

  By default, all options beginning with “f”, “g”, “W” or “m” are implicitly assumed to take a “no-” form. This form should not be listed separately. If an option beginning with one of these letters does not have a “no-” form, you can use the `RejectNegative` property to reject it.

  The help text is automatically line-wrapped before being displayed. Normally the name of the option is printed on the left-hand side of the output and the help text is printed on the right. However, if the help text contains a tab character, the text to the left of the tab is used instead of the option’s name and the text to the right of the tab forms the help text. This allows you to elaborate on what type of argument the option takes.

  There is no support for different help texts for different languages. If an option is supported for multiple languages, use a generic description that is correct for all of them.

  If an option has multiple option definition records (in different front ends’ `*.opt` files, and/or `gcc/common.opt`, for example), convention is to not duplicate the help text for each of them, but instead put a comment like `; documented in common.opt` in place of the help text for all but one of the multiple option definition records.

- A target mask record. These records have one field of the form ‘`Mask(x)`’. The options-processing script will automatically allocate a bit in `target_flags` (see Run-time Target Specification) for each mask name x and set the macro `MASK_x` to the appropriate bitmask. It will also declare a `TARGET_x` macro that has the value 1 when bit `MASK_x` is set and 0 otherwise.

  They are primarily intended to declare target masks that are not associated with user options, either because these masks represent internal switches or because the options are not available on all configurations and yet the masks always need to be defined.

### 8.2 Option properties ¶

The second field of an option record can specify any of the following properties. When an option takes an argument, it is enclosed in parentheses following the option property name. The parser that handles option files is quite simplistic, and will be tricked by any nested parentheses within the argument text itself; in this case, the entire option argument can be wrapped in curly braces within the parentheses to demarcate it, e.g.:

    Condition({defined (USE_CYGWIN_LIBSTDCXX_WRAPPERS)})

`Common`

  The option is available for all languages and targets.

`Target`

  The option is available for all languages but is target-specific.

`Driver`

  The option is handled by the compiler driver using code not shared with the compilers proper (`cc1` etc.).

`language`

  The option is available when compiling for the given language.

  It is possible to specify several different languages for the same option. Each language must have been declared by an earlier `Language` record. See Option file format.

`RejectDriver`

  The option is only handled by the compilers proper (`cc1` etc.) and should not be accepted by the driver.

`RejectNegative`

  The option does not have a “no-” form. All options beginning with “f”, “g”, “W” or “m” are assumed to have a “no-” form unless this property is used.

`Negative(othername)`

  The option will turn off another option othername, which is the option name with the leading “-” removed. This chain action will propagate through the `Negative` property of the option to be turned off. The driver will prune options, removing those that are turned off by some later option. This pruning is not done for options with `Joined` or `JoinedOrMissing` properties, unless the options have both the `RejectNegative` property and the `Negative` property mentions itself.

  As a consequence, if you have a group of mutually-exclusive options, their `Negative` properties should form a circular chain. For example, if options `-a`, `-b` and `-c` are mutually exclusive, their respective `Negative` properties should be ‘`Negative(b)`’, ‘`Negative(c)`’ and ‘`Negative(a)`’.

`Joined`
`Separate`

  The option takes a mandatory argument. `Joined` indicates that the option and argument can be included in the same `argv` entry (as with `-mflush-func=name`, for example). `Separate` indicates that the option and argument can be separate `argv` entries (as with `-o`). An option is allowed to have both of these properties.

`JoinedOrMissing`

  The option takes an optional argument. If the argument is given, it will be part of the same `argv` entry as the option itself.

  This property cannot be used alongside `Joined` or `Separate`.

`MissingArgError(message)`

  For an option marked `Joined` or `Separate`, the message message will be used as an error message if the mandatory argument is missing; for options without `MissingArgError`, a generic error message is used. message should contain a single ‘`%qs`’ format, which will be used to format the name of the option passed.

`Args(n)`

  For an option marked `Separate`, indicate that it takes n arguments. The default is 1.

`UInteger`

  The option’s argument is a non-negative integer consisting of either decimal or hexadecimal digits interpreted as `int`. Hexadecimal integers may optionally start with the `0x` or `0X` prefix. The option parser validates and converts the argument before passing it to the relevant option handler. `UInteger` should also be used with options like `-falign-loops` where both `-falign-loops` and `-falign-loops`=n are supported to make sure the saved options are given a full integer. Positive values of the argument in excess of `INT_MAX` wrap around zero.

`Host_Wide_Int`

  The option’s argument is a non-negative integer consisting of either decimal or hexadecimal digits interpreted as the widest integer type on the host. As with an `UInteger` argument, hexadecimal integers may optionally start with the `0x` or `0X` prefix. The option parser validates and converts the argument before passing it to the relevant option handler. `Host_Wide_Int` should be used with options that need to accept very large values. Positive values of the argument in excess of `HOST_WIDE_INT_M1U` are assigned `HOST_WIDE_INT_M1U`.

`IntegerRange(n, m)`

  The options’s arguments are integers of type `int`. The option’s parser validates that the value of an option integer argument is within the closed range [n, m].

`ByteSize`

  A property applicable only to `UInteger` or `Host_Wide_Int` arguments. The option’s integer argument is interpreted as if in infinite precision using saturation arithmetic in the corresponding type. The argument may be followed by a ‘`byte-size`’ suffix designating a multiple of bytes such as `kB` and `KiB` for kilobyte and kibibyte, respectively, `MB` and `MiB` for megabyte and mebibyte, `GB` and `GiB` for gigabyte and gigibyte, and so on. `ByteSize` should be used for with options that take a very large argument representing a size in bytes, such as `-Wlarger-than=`.

`ToLower`

  The option’s argument should be converted to lowercase as part of putting it in canonical form, and before comparing with the strings indicated by any `Enum` property.

`NoDriverArg`

  For an option marked `Separate`, the option only takes an argument in the compiler proper, not in the driver. This is for compatibility with existing options that are used both directly and via `-Wp,`; new options should not have this property.

`Var(var)`

  The state of this option should be stored in variable var (actually a macro for `global_options.x_var`). The way that the state is stored depends on the type of option:

  - If the option uses the `Mask` or `InverseMask` properties, var is the integer variable that contains the mask.
  - If the option is a normal on/off switch, var is an integer variable that is nonzero when the option is enabled. The options parser will set the variable to 1 when the positive form of the option is used and 0 when the “no-” form is used.
  - If the option takes an argument and has the `UInteger` property, var is an integer variable that stores the value of the argument.
  - If the option takes an argument and has the `Enum` property, var is a variable (type given in the `Type` property of the ‘`Enum`’ record whose `Name` property has the same argument as the `Enum` property of this option) that stores the value of the argument.
  - If the option has the `Defer` property, var is a pointer to a `VEC(cl_deferred_option,heap)` that stores the option for later processing. (var is declared with type `void *` and needs to be cast to `VEC(cl_deferred_option,heap)` before use.)
  - Otherwise, if the option takes an argument, var is a pointer to the argument string. The pointer will be null if the argument is optional and wasn’t given.

  The option-processing script will usually zero-initialize var. You can modify this behavior using `Init`.

`Var(var, set)`

  The option controls an integer variable var and is active when var equals set. The option parser will set var to set when the positive form of the option is used and `!set` when the “no-” form is used.

  var is declared in the same way as for the single-argument form described above.

`Init(value)`

  The variable specified by the `Var` property should be statically initialized to value. If more than one option using the same variable specifies `Init`, all must specify the same initializer.

`WarnRemoved`

  The option is removed and every usage of such option will result in a warning. We use it option backward compatibility.

`Mask(name)`

  The option is associated with a bit in the `target_flags` variable (see Run-time Target Specification) and is active when that bit is set. You may also specify `Var` to select a variable other than `target_flags`.

  The options-processing script will automatically allocate a unique bit for the option. If the option is attached to ‘`target_flags`’ or `Var` which is defined by `TargetVariable`, the script will set the macro `MASK_name` to the appropriate bitmask. It will also declare a `TARGET_name`, `TARGET_name_P` and `TARGET_name_OPTS_P`: `TARGET_name` macros that has the value 1 when the option is active and 0 otherwise, `TARGET_name_P` is similar to `TARGET_name` but take an argument as ‘`target_flags`’ or `TargetVariable`, and `TARGET_name_OPTS_P` also similar to `TARGET_name` but take an argument as `gcc_options`. If you use `Var` to attach the option to a different variable which is not defined by `TargetVariable`, the bitmask macro with be called `OPTION_MASK_name`.

`InverseMask(othername)`
`InverseMask(othername, thisname)`

  The option is the inverse of another option that has the `Mask(othername)` property. If thisname is given, the options-processing script will declare `TARGET_thisname`, `TARGET_name_P` and `TARGET_name_OPTS_P` macros: `TARGET_thisname` is 1 when the option is active and 0 otherwise, `TARGET_name_P` is similar to `TARGET_name` but takes an argument as ‘`target_flags`’, and `TARGET_name_OPTS_P` is also similar to `TARGET_name` but takes an argument as `gcc_options`.

`Enum(name)`

  The option’s argument is a string from the set of strings associated with the corresponding ‘`Enum`’ record. The string is checked and converted to the integer specified in the corresponding ‘`EnumValue`’ record before being passed to option handlers.

`EnumSet`

  Must be used together with the `Enum(name)` property. Corresponding ‘`Enum`’ record must use `Set` properties. The option’s argument is either a string from the set like for `Enum(name)`, but with a slightly different behavior that the whole `Var` isn’t overwritten, but only the bits in all the enumeration values with the same set bitwise ored together. Or option’s argument can be a comma separated list of strings where each string is from a different `Set(number)`.

`EnumBitSet`

  Must be used together with the `Enum(name)` property. Similar to ‘`EnumSet`’, but corresponding ‘`Enum`’ record must not use `Set` properties, each `EnumValue` should have `Value` that is a power of 2, each value is treated as its own set and its value as the set’s mask, so there are no mutually exclusive arguments.

`Defer`

  The option should be stored in a vector, specified with `Var`, for later processing.

`Alias(opt)`
`Alias(opt, arg)`
`Alias(opt, posarg, negarg)`

  The option is an alias for `-opt` (or the negative form of that option, depending on `NegativeAlias`). In the first form, any argument passed to the alias is considered to be passed to `-opt`, and `-opt` is considered to be negated if the alias is used in negated form. In the second form, the alias may not be negated or have an argument, and posarg is considered to be passed as an argument to `-opt`. In the third form, the alias may not have an argument, if the alias is used in the positive form then posarg is considered to be passed to `-opt`, and if the alias is used in the negative form then negarg is considered to be passed to `-opt`.

  Aliases should not specify `Var` or `Mask` or `UInteger`. Aliases should normally specify the same languages as the target of the alias; the flags on the target will be used to determine any diagnostic for use of an option for the wrong language, while those on the alias will be used to identify what command-line text is the option and what text is any argument to that option.

  When an `Alias` definition is used for an option, driver specs do not need to handle it and no ‘`OPT_`’ enumeration value is defined for it; only the canonical form of the option will be seen in those places.

`NegativeAlias`

  For an option marked with `Alias(opt)`, the option is considered to be an alias for the positive form of `-opt` if negated and for the negative form of `-opt` if not negated. `NegativeAlias` may not be used with the forms of `Alias` taking more than one argument.

`Ignore`

  This option is ignored apart from printing any warning specified using `Warn`. The option will not be seen by specs and no ‘`OPT_`’ enumeration value is defined for it.

`SeparateAlias`

  For an option marked with `Joined`, `Separate` and `Alias`, the option only acts as an alias when passed a separate argument; with a joined argument it acts as a normal option, with an ‘`OPT_`’ enumeration value. This is for compatibility with the Java `-d` option and should not be used for new options.

`Warn(message)`

  If this option is used, output the warning message. message is a format string, either taking a single operand with a ‘`%qs`’ format which is the option name, or not taking any operands, which is passed to the ‘`warning`’ function. If an alias is marked `Warn`, the target of the alias must not also be marked `Warn`.

`Warning`

  This is a warning option and should be shown as such in `--help` output. This flag does not currently affect anything other than `--help`.

`Optimization`

  This is an optimization option. It should be shown as such in `--help` output, and any associated variable named using `Var` should be saved and restored when the optimization level is changed with `optimize` attributes.

`PerFunction`

  This is an option that can be overridden on a per-function basis. `Optimization` implies `PerFunction`, but options that do not affect executable code generation may use this flag instead, so that the option is not taken into account in ways that might affect executable code generation.

`Param`

  This is an option that is a parameter.

`Undocumented`

  The option is deliberately missing documentation and should not be included in the `--help` output.

`Condition(cond)`

  The option should only be accepted if preprocessor condition cond is true. Note that any C declarations associated with the option will be present even if cond is false; cond simply controls whether the option is accepted and whether it is printed in the `--help` output.

`Save`

  Build the `cl_target_option` structure to hold a copy of the option, add the functions `cl_target_option_save` and `cl_target_option_restore` to save and restore the options.

`SetByCombined`

  The option may also be set by a combined option such as `-ffast-math`. This causes the `gcc_options` struct to have a field `frontend_set_name`, where `name` is the name of the field holding the value of this option (without the leading `x_`). This gives the front end a way to indicate that the value has been set explicitly and should not be changed by the combined option. For example, some front ends use this to prevent `-ffast-math` and `-fno-fast-math` from changing the value of `-fmath-errno` for languages that do not use `errno`.

`EnabledBy(opt)`
`EnabledBy(opt || opt2)`
`EnabledBy(opt && opt2)`

  If not explicitly set, the option is set to the value of `-opt`; multiple options can be given, separated by `||`. The third form using `&&` specifies that the option is only set if both opt and opt2 are set. The options opt and opt2 must have the `Common` property; otherwise, use `LangEnabledBy`.

`LangEnabledBy(language, opt)`
`LangEnabledBy(language, opt, posarg, negarg)`

  When compiling for the given language, the option is set to the value of `-opt`, if not explicitly set. opt can be also a list of `||` separated options. In the second form, if opt is used in the positive form then posarg is considered to be passed to the option, and if opt is used in the negative form then negarg is considered to be passed to the option. It is possible to specify several different languages. Each language must have been declared by an earlier `Language` record. See Option file format.

`NoDWARFRecord`

  The option is omitted from the producer string written by `-grecord-gcc-switches`.

`PchIgnore`

  Even if this is a target option, this option will not be recorded / compared to determine if a precompiled header file matches.

`CPP(var)`

  The state of this option should be kept in sync with the preprocessor option var. If this property is set, then properties `Var` and `Init` must be set as well.

`CppReason(CPP_W_Enum)`

  This warning option corresponds to `cpplib.h` warning reason code CPP_W_Enum. This should only be used for warning options of the C-family front-ends.

`UrlSuffix(url_suffix)`

  Adjacent to each human-written `.opt` file in the source tree is a corresponding file with a `.opt.urls` extension. These files contain `UrlSuffix` directives giving the ending part of the URL for the documentation of the option, such as:

      Wabi-tag
      UrlSuffix(gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect-Options.html#index-Wabi-tag)

  These URL suffixes are relative to `DOCUMENTATION_ROOT_URL`.

  There files are generated from the `.opt` files and the generated HTML documentation by `regenerate-opt-urls.py`, and should be regenerated when adding new options, via manually invoking `make regenerate-opt-urls`.

`LangUrlSuffix_lang(url_suffix)`

  In addition to `UrlSuffix` directives, `regenerate-opt-urls.py` can generate language-specific URLs, such as:

      LangUrlSuffix_D(gdc/Code-Generation.html#index-MMD)

## 9 Passes and Files of the Compiler ¶

This chapter is dedicated to giving an overview of the optimization and code generation passes of the compiler. In the process, it describes some of the language front end interface, though this description is no where near complete.

### 9.1 Parsing pass ¶

The language front end is invoked only once, via `lang_hooks.parse_file`, to parse the entire input. The language front end may use any intermediate language representation deemed appropriate. The C front end uses GENERIC trees (see GENERIC), plus a double handful of language specific tree codes defined in `c-common.def`. The Fortran front end uses a completely different private representation.

At some point the front end must translate the representation used in the front end to a representation understood by the language-independent portions of the compiler. Current practice takes one of two forms. The C front end manually invokes the gimplifier (see GIMPLE) on each function, and uses the gimplifier callbacks to convert the language-specific tree nodes directly to GIMPLE before passing the function off to be compiled. The Fortran front end converts from a private representation to GENERIC, which is later lowered to GIMPLE when the function is compiled. Which route to choose probably depends on how well GENERIC (plus extensions) can be made to match up with the source language and necessary parsing data structures.

BUG: Gimplification must occur before nested function lowering, and nested function lowering must be done by the front end before passing the data off to cgraph.

TODO: Cgraph should control nested function lowering. It would only be invoked when it is certain that the outer-most function is used.

TODO: Cgraph needs a gimplify_function callback. It should be invoked when (1) it is certain that the function is used, (2) warning flags specified by the user require some amount of compilation in order to honor, (3) the language indicates that semantic analysis is not complete until gimplification occurs. Hum… this sounds overly complicated. Perhaps we should just have the front end gimplify always; in most cases it’s only one function call.

The front end needs to pass all function definitions and top level declarations off to the middle-end so that they can be compiled and emitted to the object file. For a simple procedural language, it is usually most convenient to do this as each top level declaration or definition is seen. There is also a distinction to be made between generating functional code and generating complete debug information. The only thing that is absolutely required for functional code is that function and data definitions be passed to the middle-end. For complete debug information, function, data and type declarations should all be passed as well.

In any case, the front end needs each complete top-level function or data declaration, and each data definition should be passed to `rest_of_decl_compilation`. Each complete type definition should be passed to `rest_of_type_compilation`. Each function definition should be passed to `cgraph_finalize_function`.

TODO: I know rest_of_compilation currently has all sorts of RTL generation semantics. I plan to move all code generation bits (both Tree and RTL) to compile_function. Should we hide cgraph from the front ends and move back to rest_of_compilation as the official interface? Possibly we should rename all three interfaces such that the names match in some meaningful way and that is more descriptive than "rest_of".

The middle-end will, at its option, emit the function and data definitions immediately or queue them for later processing.

### 9.2 Gimplification pass ¶

Gimplification is a whimsical term for the process of converting the intermediate representation of a function into the GIMPLE language (see GIMPLE). The term stuck, and so words like “gimplification”, “gimplify”, “gimplifier” and the like are sprinkled throughout this section of code.

While a front end may certainly choose to generate GIMPLE directly if it chooses, this can be a moderately complex process unless the intermediate language used by the front end is already fairly simple. Usually it is easier to generate GENERIC trees plus extensions and let the language-independent gimplifier do most of the work.

The main entry point to this pass is `gimplify_function_tree` located in `gimplify.cc`. From here we process the entire function gimplifying each statement in turn. The main workhorse for this pass is `gimplify_expr`. Approximately everything passes through here at least once, and it is from here that we invoke the `lang_hooks.gimplify_expr` callback.

The callback should examine the expression in question and return `GS_UNHANDLED` if the expression is not a language specific construct that requires attention. Otherwise it should alter the expression in some way to such that forward progress is made toward producing valid GIMPLE. If the callback is certain that the transformation is complete and the expression is valid GIMPLE, it should return `GS_ALL_DONE`. Otherwise it should return `GS_OK`, which will cause the expression to be processed again. If the callback encounters an error during the transformation (because the front end is relying on the gimplification process to finish semantic checks), it should return `GS_ERROR`.

### 9.3 Pass manager ¶

The pass manager is located in `passes.cc`, `tree-optimize.c` and `tree-pass.h`. It processes passes as described in `passes.def`. Its job is to run all of the individual passes in the correct order, and take care of standard bookkeeping that applies to every pass.

The theory of operation is that each pass defines a structure that represents everything we need to know about that pass—when it should be run, how it should be run, what intermediate language form or on-the-side data structures it needs. We register the pass to be run in some particular order, and the pass manager arranges for everything to happen in the correct order.

The actuality doesn’t completely live up to the theory at present. Command-line switches and `timevar_id_t` enumerations must still be defined elsewhere. The pass manager validates constraints but does not attempt to (re-)generate data structures or lower intermediate language form based on the requirements of the next pass. Nevertheless, what is present is useful, and a far sight better than nothing at all.

Each pass should have a unique name. Each pass may have its own dump file (for GCC debugging purposes). Passes with a name starting with a star do not dump anything. Sometimes passes are supposed to share a dump file / option name. To still give these unique names, you can use a prefix that is delimited by a space from the part that is used for the dump file / option name. E.g. When the pass name is "ud dce", the name used for dump file/options is "dce".

TODO: describe the global variables set up by the pass manager, and a brief description of how a new pass should use it. I need to look at what info RTL passes use first...

### 9.4 Inter-procedural optimization passes ¶

The inter-procedural optimization (IPA) passes use call graph information to perform transformations across function boundaries. IPA is a critical part of link-time optimization (LTO) and whole-program (WHOPR) optimization, and these passes are structured with the needs of LTO and WHOPR in mind by dividing their operations into stages. For detailed discussion of the LTO/WHOPR IPA pass stages and interfaces, see Using summary information in IPA passes.

The following briefly describes the inter-procedural optimization (IPA) passes, which are split into small IPA passes, regular IPA passes, and late IPA passes, according to the LTO/WHOPR processing model.

#### 9.4.1 Small IPA passes ¶

A small IPA pass is a pass derived from `simple_ipa_opt_pass`. As described in Using summary information in IPA passes, it does everything at once and defines only the Execute stage. During this stage it accesses and modifies the function bodies. No `generate_summary`, `read_summary`, or `write_summary` hooks are defined.

- IPA free lang data

  This pass frees resources that are used by the front end but are not needed once it is done. It is located in `tree.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_free_lang_data`.

- IPA function and variable visibility

  This is a local function pass handling visibilities of all symbols. This happens before LTO streaming, so `-fwhole-program` should be ignored at this level. It is located in `ipa-visibility.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_function_and_variable_visibility`.

- IPA remove symbols

  This pass performs reachability analysis and reclaims all unreachable nodes. It is located in `passes.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_remove_symbols`.

- IPA OpenACC

  This is a pass group for OpenACC processing. It is located in `tree-ssa-loop.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_oacc`.

- IPA points-to analysis

  This is a tree-based points-to analysis pass. The idea behind this analyzer is to generate set constraints from the program, then solve the resulting constraints in order to generate the points-to sets. It is located in `tree-ssa-structalias.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_pta`.

- IPA OpenACC kernels

  This is a pass group for processing OpenACC kernels regions. It is a subpass of the IPA OpenACC pass group that runs on offloaded functions containing OpenACC kernels loops. It is located in `tree-ssa-loop.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_oacc_kernels`.

- Target clone

  This is a pass for parsing functions with multiple target attributes. It is located in `multiple_target.cc` and is described by `pass_target_clone`.

- IPA auto profile

  This pass uses AutoFDO profiling data to annotate the control flow graph. It is located in `auto-profile.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_auto_profile`.

- IPA tree profile

  This pass does profiling for all functions in the call graph. It calculates branch probabilities and basic block execution counts. It is located in `tree-profile.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_tree_profile`.

- IPA free function summary

  This pass is a small IPA pass when argument `small_p` is true. It releases inline function summaries and call summaries. It is located in `ipa-fnsummary.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_free_free_fn_summary`.

- IPA increase alignment

  This pass increases the alignment of global arrays to improve vectorization. It is located in `tree-vectorizer.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_increase_alignment`.

- IPA transactional memory

  This pass is for transactional memory support. It is located in `trans-mem.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_tm`.

- IPA lower emulated TLS

  This pass lowers thread-local storage (TLS) operations to emulation functions provided by libgcc. It is located in `tree-emutls.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_lower_emutls`.

#### 9.4.2 Regular IPA passes ¶

A regular IPA pass is a pass derived from `ipa_opt_pass_d` that is executed in WHOPR compilation. Regular IPA passes may have summary hooks implemented in any of the LGEN, WPA or LTRANS stages (see Using summary information in IPA passes).

- IPA whole program visibility

  This pass performs various optimizations involving symbol visibility with `-fwhole-program`, including symbol privatization, discovering local functions, and dismantling comdat groups. It is located in `ipa-visibility.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_whole_program_visibility`.

- IPA profile

  The IPA profile pass propagates profiling frequencies across the call graph. It is located in `ipa-profile.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_profile`.

- IPA identical code folding

  This is the inter-procedural identical code folding pass. The goal of this transformation is to discover functions and read-only variables that have exactly the same semantics. It is located in `ipa-icf.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_icf`.

- IPA devirtualization

  This pass performs speculative devirtualization based on the type inheritance graph. When a polymorphic call has only one likely target in the unit, it is turned into a speculative call. It is located in `ipa-devirt.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_devirt`.

- IPA constant propagation

  The goal of this pass is to discover functions that are always invoked with some arguments with the same known constant values and to modify the functions accordingly. It can also do partial specialization and type-based devirtualization. It is located in `ipa-cp.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_cp`.

- IPA scalar replacement of aggregates

  This pass can replace an aggregate parameter with a set of other parameters representing part of the original, turning those passed by reference into new ones which pass the value directly. It also removes unused function return values and unused function parameters. This pass is located in `ipa-sra.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_sra`.

- IPA constructor/destructor merge

  This pass merges multiple constructors and destructors for static objects into single functions. It’s only run at LTO time unless the target doesn’t support constructors and destructors natively. The pass is located in `ipa.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_cdtor_merge`.

- IPA function summary

  This pass provides function analysis for inter-procedural passes. It collects estimates of function body size, execution time, and frame size for each function. It also estimates information about function calls: call statement size, time and how often the parameters change for each call. It is located in `ipa-fnsummary.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_fn_summary`.

- IPA inline

  The IPA inline pass handles function inlining with whole-program knowledge. Small functions that are candidates for inlining are ordered in increasing badness, bounded by unit growth parameters. Unreachable functions are removed from the call graph. Functions called once and not exported from the unit are inlined. This pass is located in `ipa-inline.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_inline`.

- IPA pure/const analysis

  This pass marks functions as being either const (`TREE_READONLY`) or pure (`DECL_PURE_P`). The per-function information is produced by `pure_const_generate_summary`, then the global information is computed by performing a transitive closure over the call graph. It is located in `ipa-pure-const.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_pure_const`.

- IPA free function summary

  This pass is a regular IPA pass when argument `small_p` is false. It releases inline function summaries and call summaries. It is located in `ipa-fnsummary.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_free_fn_summary`.

- IPA reference

  This pass gathers information about how variables whose scope is confined to the compilation unit are used. It is located in `ipa-reference.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_reference`.

- IPA single use

  This pass checks whether variables are used by a single function. It is located in `ipa.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_single_use`.

- IPA comdats

  This pass looks for static symbols that are used exclusively within one comdat group, and moves them into that comdat group. It is located in `ipa-comdats.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_comdats`.

#### 9.4.3 Late IPA passes ¶

Late IPA passes are simple IPA passes executed after the regular passes. In WHOPR mode the passes are executed after partitioning and thus see just parts of the compiled unit.

- Materialize all clones

  Once all functions from compilation unit are in memory, produce all clones and update all calls. It is located in `ipa.cc` and is described by `pass_materialize_all_clones`.

- IPA points-to analysis

  Points-to analysis; this is the same as the points-to-analysis pass run with the small IPA passes (see Small IPA passes).

- OpenMP simd clone

  This is the OpenMP constructs’ SIMD clone pass. It creates the appropriate SIMD clones for functions tagged as elemental SIMD functions. It is located in `omp-simd-clone.cc` and is described by `pass_omp_simd_clone`.

### 9.5 Tree SSA passes ¶

The following briefly describes the Tree optimization passes that are run after gimplification and what source files they are located in.

- Remove useless statements

  This pass is an extremely simple sweep across the gimple code in which we identify obviously dead code and remove it. Here we do things like simplify `if` statements with constant conditions, remove exception handling constructs surrounding code that obviously cannot throw, remove lexical bindings that contain no variables, and other assorted simplistic cleanups. The idea is to get rid of the obvious stuff quickly rather than wait until later when it’s more work to get rid of it. This pass is located in `tree-cfg.cc` and described by `pass_remove_useless_stmts`.

- OpenMP lowering

  If OpenMP generation (`-fopenmp`) is enabled, this pass lowers OpenMP constructs into GIMPLE.

  Lowering of OpenMP constructs involves creating replacement expressions for local variables that have been mapped using data sharing clauses, exposing the control flow of most synchronization directives and adding region markers to facilitate the creation of the control flow graph. The pass is located in `omp-low.cc` and is described by `pass_lower_omp`.

- OpenMP expansion

  If OpenMP generation (`-fopenmp`) is enabled, this pass expands parallel regions into their own functions to be invoked by the thread library. The pass is located in `omp-low.cc` and is described by `pass_expand_omp`.

- Lower control flow

  This pass flattens `if` statements (`COND_EXPR`) and moves lexical bindings (`BIND_EXPR`) out of line. After this pass, all `if` statements will have exactly two `goto` statements in its `then` and `else` arms. Lexical binding information for each statement will be found in `TREE_BLOCK` rather than being inferred from its position under a `BIND_EXPR`. This pass is found in `gimple-low.cc` and is described by `pass_lower_cf`.

- Lower exception handling control flow

  This pass decomposes high-level exception handling constructs (`TRY_FINALLY_EXPR` and `TRY_CATCH_EXPR`) into a form that explicitly represents the control flow involved. After this pass, `lookup_stmt_eh_region` will return a non-negative number for any statement that may have EH control flow semantics; examine `tree_can_throw_internal` or `tree_can_throw_external` for exact semantics. Exact control flow may be extracted from `foreach_reachable_handler`. The EH region nesting tree is defined in `except.h` and built in `except.cc`. The lowering pass itself is in `tree-eh.cc` and is described by `pass_lower_eh`.

- Build the control flow graph

  This pass decomposes a function into basic blocks and creates all of the edges that connect them. It is located in `tree-cfg.cc` and is described by `pass_build_cfg`.

- Find all referenced variables

  This pass walks the entire function and collects an array of all variables referenced in the function, `referenced_vars`. The index at which a variable is found in the array is used as a UID for the variable within this function. This data is needed by the SSA rewriting routines. The pass is located in `tree-dfa.cc` and is described by `pass_referenced_vars`.

- Enter static single assignment form

  This pass rewrites the function such that it is in SSA form. After this pass, all `is_gimple_reg` variables will be referenced by `SSA_NAME`, and all occurrences of other variables will be annotated with `VDEFS` and `VUSES`; PHI nodes will have been inserted as necessary for each basic block. This pass is located in `tree-ssa.cc` and is described by `pass_build_ssa`.

- Warn for uninitialized variables

  This pass scans the function for uses of `SSA_NAME`s that are fed by default definition. For non-parameter variables, such uses are uninitialized. The pass is run twice, before and after optimization (if turned on). In the first pass we only warn for uses that are positively uninitialized; in the second pass we warn for uses that are possibly uninitialized. The pass is located in `tree-ssa.cc` and is defined by `pass_early_warn_uninitialized` and `pass_late_warn_uninitialized`.

- Dead code elimination

  This pass scans the function for statements without side effects whose result is unused. It does not do memory lifetime analysis, so any value that is stored in memory is considered used. The pass is run multiple times throughout the optimization process. It is located in `tree-ssa-dce.cc` and is described by `pass_dce`.

- Dominator optimizations

  This pass performs trivial dominator-based copy and constant propagation, expression simplification, and jump threading. It is run multiple times throughout the optimization process. It is located in `tree-ssa-dom.cc` and is described by `pass_dominator`.

- Forward propagation of single-use variables

  This pass attempts to remove redundant computation by substituting variables that are used once into the expression that uses them and seeing if the result can be simplified. It is located in `tree-ssa-forwprop.cc` and is described by `pass_forwprop`.

- Copy Renaming

  This pass attempts to change the name of compiler temporaries involved in copy operations such that SSA->normal can coalesce the copy away. When compiler temporaries are copies of user variables, it also renames the compiler temporary to the user variable resulting in better use of user symbols. It is located in `tree-ssa-copyrename.c` and is described by `pass_copyrename`.

- PHI node optimizations

  This pass recognizes forms of PHI inputs that can be represented as conditional expressions and rewrites them into straight line code. It is located in `tree-ssa-phiopt.cc` and is described by `pass_phiopt`.

- May-alias optimization

  This pass performs a flow sensitive SSA-based points-to analysis. The resulting may-alias, must-alias, and escape analysis information is used to promote variables from in-memory addressable objects to non-aliased variables that can be renamed into SSA form. We also update the `VDEF`/`VUSE` memory tags for non-renameable aggregates so that we get fewer false kills. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-alias.cc` and is described by `pass_may_alias`.

  Interprocedural points-to information is located in `tree-ssa-structalias.cc` and described by `pass_ipa_pta`.

- Profiling

  This pass instruments the function in order to collect runtime block and value profiling data. Such data may be fed back into the compiler on a subsequent run so as to allow optimization based on expected execution frequencies. The pass is located in `tree-profile.cc` and is described by `pass_ipa_tree_profile`.

- Static profile estimation

  This pass implements series of heuristics to guess propababilities of branches. The resulting predictions are turned into edge profile by propagating branches across the control flow graphs. The pass is located in `tree-profile.cc` and is described by `pass_profile`.

- Lower complex arithmetic

  This pass rewrites complex arithmetic operations into their component scalar arithmetic operations. The pass is located in `tree-complex.cc` and is described by `pass_lower_complex`.

- Scalar replacement of aggregates

  This pass rewrites suitable non-aliased local aggregate variables into a set of scalar variables. The resulting scalar variables are rewritten into SSA form, which allows subsequent optimization passes to do a significantly better job with them. The pass is located in `tree-sra.cc` and is described by `pass_sra`.

- Dead store elimination

  This pass eliminates stores to memory that are subsequently overwritten by another store, without any intervening loads. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-dse.cc` and is described by `pass_dse`.

- Tail recursion elimination

  This pass transforms tail recursion into a loop. It is located in `tree-tailcall.cc` and is described by `pass_tail_recursion`.

- Forward store motion

  This pass sinks stores and assignments down the flowgraph closer to their use point. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-sink.cc` and is described by `pass_sink_code`.

- Partial redundancy elimination

  This pass eliminates partially redundant computations, as well as performing load motion. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-pre.cc` and is described by `pass_pre`.

  Just before partial redundancy elimination, if `-funsafe-math-optimizations` is on, GCC tries to convert divisions to multiplications by the reciprocal. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-math-opts.cc` and is described by `pass_cse_reciprocal`.

- Full redundancy elimination

  This is a simpler form of PRE that only eliminates redundancies that occur on all paths. It is located in `tree-ssa-pre.cc` and described by `pass_fre`.

- Loop optimization

  The main driver of the pass is placed in `tree-ssa-loop.cc` and described by `pass_loop`.

  The optimizations performed by this pass are:

  Loop invariant motion. This pass moves only invariants that would be hard to handle on RTL level (function calls, operations that expand to nontrivial sequences of insns). With `-funswitch-loops` it also moves operands of conditions that are invariant out of the loop, so that we can use just trivial invariantness analysis in loop unswitching. The pass also includes store motion. The pass is implemented in `tree-ssa-loop-im.cc`.

  Canonical induction variable creation. This pass creates a simple counter for number of iterations of the loop and replaces the exit condition of the loop using it, in case when a complicated analysis is necessary to determine the number of iterations. Later optimizations then may determine the number easily. The pass is implemented in `tree-ssa-loop-ivcanon.cc`.

  Induction variable optimizations. This pass performs standard induction variable optimizations, including strength reduction, induction variable merging and induction variable elimination. The pass is implemented in `tree-ssa-loop-ivopts.cc`.

  Loop unswitching. This pass moves the conditional jumps that are invariant out of the loops. To achieve this, a duplicate of the loop is created for each possible outcome of conditional jump(s). The pass is implemented in `tree-ssa-loop-unswitch.cc`.

  Loop splitting. If a loop contains a conditional statement that is always true for one part of the iteration space and false for the other this pass splits the loop into two, one dealing with one side the other only with the other, thereby removing one inner-loop conditional. The pass is implemented in `tree-ssa-loop-split.cc`.

  The optimizations also use various utility functions contained in `tree-ssa-loop-manip.cc`, `cfgloop.cc`, `cfgloopanal.cc` and `cfgloopmanip.cc`.

  Vectorization. This pass transforms loops to operate on vector types instead of scalar types. Data parallelism across loop iterations is exploited to group data elements from consecutive iterations into a vector and operate on them in parallel. Depending on available target support the loop is conceptually unrolled by a factor `VF` (vectorization factor), which is the number of elements operated upon in parallel in each iteration, and the `VF` copies of each scalar operation are fused to form a vector operation. Additional loop transformations such as peeling and versioning may take place to align the number of iterations, and to align the memory accesses in the loop. The pass is implemented in `tree-vectorizer.cc` (the main driver), `tree-vect-loop.cc` and `tree-vect-loop-manip.cc` (loop specific parts and general loop utilities), `tree-vect-slp` (loop-aware SLP functionality), `tree-vect-stmts.cc`, `tree-vect-data-refs.cc` and `tree-vect-slp-patterns.cc` containing the SLP pattern matcher. Analysis of data references is in `tree-data-ref.cc`.

  SLP Vectorization. This pass performs vectorization of straight-line code. The pass is implemented in `tree-vectorizer.cc` (the main driver), `tree-vect-slp.cc`, `tree-vect-stmts.cc` and `tree-vect-data-refs.cc`.

  Autoparallelization. This pass splits the loop iteration space to run into several threads. The pass is implemented in `tree-parloops.cc`.

  Graphite is a loop transformation framework based on the polyhedral model. Graphite stands for Gimple Represented as Polyhedra. The internals of this infrastructure are documented in https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite. The passes working on this representation are implemented in the various `graphite-*` files.

- Tree level if-conversion for vectorizer

  This pass applies if-conversion to simple loops to help vectorizer. We identify if convertible loops, if-convert statements and merge basic blocks in one big block. The idea is to present loop in such form so that vectorizer can have one to one mapping between statements and available vector operations. This pass is located in `tree-if-conv.cc` and is described by `pass_if_conversion`.

- Conditional constant propagation

  This pass relaxes a lattice of values in order to identify those that must be constant even in the presence of conditional branches. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-ccp.cc` and is described by `pass_ccp`.

  A related pass that works on memory loads and stores, and not just register values, is located in `tree-ssa-ccp.cc` and described by `pass_store_ccp`.

- Conditional copy propagation

  This is similar to constant propagation but the lattice of values is the “copy-of” relation. It eliminates redundant copies from the code. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-copy.cc` and described by `pass_copy_prop`.

  A related pass that works on memory copies, and not just register copies, is located in `tree-ssa-copy.cc` and described by `pass_store_copy_prop`.

- Value range propagation

  This transformation is similar to constant propagation but instead of propagating single constant values, it propagates known value ranges. The implementation is based on Patterson’s range propagation algorithm (Accurate Static Branch Prediction by Value Range Propagation, J. R. C. Patterson, PLDI ’95). In contrast to Patterson’s algorithm, this implementation does not propagate branch probabilities nor it uses more than a single range per SSA name. This means that the current implementation cannot be used for branch prediction (though adapting it would not be difficult). The pass is located in `tree-vrp.cc` and is described by `pass_vrp`.

- Folding built-in functions

  This pass simplifies built-in functions, as applicable, with constant arguments or with inferable string lengths. It is located in `tree-ssa-ccp.cc` and is described by `pass_fold_builtins`.

- Split critical edges

  This pass identifies critical edges and inserts empty basic blocks such that the edge is no longer critical. The pass is located in `tree-cfg.cc` and is described by `pass_split_crit_edges`.

- Control dependence dead code elimination

  This pass is a stronger form of dead code elimination that can eliminate unnecessary control flow statements. It is located in `tree-ssa-dce.cc` and is described by `pass_cd_dce`.

- Tail call elimination

  This pass identifies function calls that may be rewritten into jumps. No code transformation is actually applied here, but the data and control flow problem is solved. The code transformation requires target support, and so is delayed until RTL. In the meantime `CALL_EXPR_TAILCALL` is set indicating the possibility. The pass is located in `tree-tailcall.cc` and is described by `pass_tail_calls`. The RTL transformation is handled by `fixup_tail_calls` in `calls.cc`.

- Warn for function return without value

  For non-void functions, this pass locates return statements that do not specify a value and issues a warning. Such a statement may have been injected by falling off the end of the function. This pass is run last so that we have as much time as possible to prove that the statement is not reachable. It is located in `tree-cfg.cc` and is described by `pass_warn_function_return`.

- Leave static single assignment form

  This pass rewrites the function such that it is in normal form. At the same time, we eliminate as many single-use temporaries as possible, so the intermediate language is no longer GIMPLE, but GENERIC. The pass is located in `tree-outof-ssa.cc` and is described by `pass_del_ssa`.

- Merge PHI nodes that feed into one another

  This is part of the CFG cleanup passes. It attempts to join PHI nodes from a forwarder CFG block into another block with PHI nodes. The pass is located in `tree-cfgcleanup.cc` and is described by `pass_merge_phi`.

- Return value optimization

  If a function always returns the same local variable, and that local variable is an aggregate type, then the variable is replaced with the return value for the function (i.e., the function’s DECL_RESULT). This is equivalent to the C++ named return value optimization applied to GIMPLE. The pass is located in `tree-nrv.cc` and is described by `pass_nrv`.

- Return slot optimization

  If a function returns a memory object and is called as `var = foo()`, this pass tries to change the call so that the address of `var` is sent to the caller to avoid an extra memory copy. This pass is located in `tree-nrv.cc` and is described by `pass_return_slot`.

- Optimize calls to `__builtin_object_size` or `__builtin_dynamic_object_size`

  This is a propagation pass similar to CCP that tries to remove calls to `__builtin_object_size` when the upper or lower bound for the size of the object can be computed at compile-time. It also tries to replace calls to `__builtin_dynamic_object_size` with an expression that evaluates the upper or lower bound for the size of the object. This pass is located in `tree-object-size.cc` and is described by `pass_object_sizes`.

- Loop invariant motion

  This pass removes expensive loop-invariant computations out of loops. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-loop.cc` and described by `pass_lim`.

- Loop nest optimizations

  This is a family of loop transformations that works on loop nests. It includes loop interchange, scaling, skewing and reversal and they are all geared to the optimization of data locality in array traversals and the removal of dependencies that hamper optimizations such as loop parallelization and vectorization. The pass is located in `tree-loop-linear.c` and described by `pass_linear_transform`.

- Removal of empty loops

  This pass removes loops with no code in them. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-loop-ivcanon.cc` and described by `pass_empty_loop`.

- Unrolling of small loops

  This pass completely unrolls loops with few iterations. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-loop-ivcanon.cc` and described by `pass_complete_unroll`.

- Predictive commoning

  This pass makes the code reuse the computations from the previous iterations of the loops, especially loads and stores to memory. It does so by storing the values of these computations to a bank of temporary variables that are rotated at the end of loop. To avoid the need for this rotation, the loop is then unrolled and the copies of the loop body are rewritten to use the appropriate version of the temporary variable. This pass is located in `tree-predcom.cc` and described by `pass_predcom`.

- Array prefetching

  This pass issues prefetch instructions for array references inside loops. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-loop-prefetch.cc` and described by `pass_loop_prefetch`.

- Reassociation

  This pass rewrites arithmetic expressions to enable optimizations that operate on them, like redundancy elimination and vectorization. The pass is located in `tree-ssa-reassoc.cc` and described by `pass_reassoc`.

- Optimization of `stdarg` functions

  This pass tries to avoid the saving of register arguments into the stack on entry to `stdarg` functions. If the function doesn’t use any `va_start` macros, no registers need to be saved. If `va_start` macros are used, the `va_list` variables don’t escape the function, it is only necessary to save registers that will be used in `va_arg` macros. For instance, if `va_arg` is only used with integral types in the function, floating point registers don’t need to be saved. This pass is located in `tree-stdarg.cc` and described by `pass_stdarg`.

### 9.6 RTL passes ¶

The following briefly describes the RTL generation and optimization passes that are run after the Tree optimization passes.

- RTL generation

  The source files for RTL generation include `stmt.cc`, `calls.cc`, `expr.cc`, `explow.cc`, `expmed.cc`, `function.cc`, `optabs.cc` and `emit-rtl.cc`. Also, the file `insn-emit.cc`, generated from the machine description by the program `genemit`, is used in this pass. The header file `expr.h` is used for communication within this pass.

  The header files `insn-flags.h` and `insn-codes.h`, generated from the machine description by the programs `genflags` and `gencodes`, tell this pass which standard names are available for use and which patterns correspond to them.

- Generation of exception landing pads

  This pass generates the glue that handles communication between the exception handling library routines and the exception handlers within the function. Entry points in the function that are invoked by the exception handling library are called landing pads. The code for this pass is located in `except.cc`.

- Control flow graph cleanup

  This pass removes unreachable code, simplifies jumps to next, jumps to jump, jumps across jumps, etc. The pass is run multiple times. For historical reasons, it is occasionally referred to as the “jump optimization pass”. The bulk of the code for this pass is in `cfgcleanup.cc`, and there are support routines in `cfgrtl.cc` and `jump.cc`.

- Forward propagation of single-def values

  This pass attempts to remove redundant computation by substituting variables that come from a single definition, and seeing if the result can be simplified. It performs copy propagation and addressing mode selection. The pass is run twice, with values being propagated into loops only on the second run. The code is located in `fwprop.cc`.

- Common subexpression elimination

  This pass removes redundant computation within basic blocks, and optimizes addressing modes based on cost. The pass is run twice. The code for this pass is located in `cse.cc`.

- Global common subexpression elimination

  This pass performs two different types of GCSE depending on whether you are optimizing for size or not (LCM based GCSE tends to increase code size for a gain in speed, while Morel-Renvoise based GCSE does not). When optimizing for size, GCSE is done using Morel-Renvoise Partial Redundancy Elimination, with the exception that it does not try to move invariants out of loops—that is left to the loop optimization pass. If MR PRE GCSE is done, code hoisting (aka unification) is also done, as well as load motion. If you are optimizing for speed, LCM (lazy code motion) based GCSE is done. LCM is based on the work of Knoop, Ruthing, and Steffen. LCM based GCSE also does loop invariant code motion. We also perform load and store motion when optimizing for speed. Regardless of which type of GCSE is used, the GCSE pass also performs global constant and copy propagation. The source file for this pass is `gcse.cc`, and the LCM routines are in `lcm.cc`.

- Loop optimization

  This pass performs several loop related optimizations. The source files `cfgloopanal.cc` and `cfgloopmanip.cc` contain generic loop analysis and manipulation code. Initialization and finalization of loop structures is handled by `loop-init.cc`. A loop invariant motion pass is implemented in `loop-invariant.cc`. Basic block level optimizations—unrolling, and peeling loops— are implemented in `loop-unroll.cc`. Replacing of the exit condition of loops by special machine-dependent instructions is handled by `loop-doloop.cc`.

- Jump bypassing

  This pass is an aggressive form of GCSE that transforms the control flow graph of a function by propagating constants into conditional branch instructions. The source file for this pass is `gcse.cc`.

- If conversion

  This pass attempts to replace conditional branches and surrounding assignments with arithmetic, boolean value producing comparison instructions, and conditional move instructions. In the very last invocation after reload/LRA, it will generate predicated instructions when supported by the target. The code is located in `ifcvt.cc`.

- Web construction

  This pass splits independent uses of each pseudo-register. This can improve effect of the other transformation, such as CSE or register allocation. The code for this pass is located in `web.cc`.

- Instruction combination

  This pass attempts to combine groups of two or three instructions that are related by data flow into single instructions. It combines the RTL expressions for the instructions by substitution, simplifies the result using algebra, and then attempts to match the result against the machine description. The code is located in `combine.cc`.

- Mode switching optimization

  This pass looks for instructions that require the processor to be in a specific “mode” and minimizes the number of mode changes required to satisfy all users. What these modes are, and what they apply to are completely target-specific. The code for this pass is located in `mode-switching.cc`.

- Modulo scheduling

  This pass looks at innermost loops and reorders their instructions by overlapping different iterations. Modulo scheduling is performed immediately before instruction scheduling. The code for this pass is located in `modulo-sched.cc`.

- Instruction scheduling

  This pass looks for instructions whose output will not be available by the time that it is used in subsequent instructions. Memory loads and floating point instructions often have this behavior on RISC machines. It re-orders instructions within a basic block to try to separate the definition and use of items that otherwise would cause pipeline stalls. This pass is performed twice, before and after register allocation. The code for this pass is located in `haifa-sched.cc`, `sched-deps.cc`, `sched-ebb.cc`, `sched-rgn.cc` and `sched-vis.c`.

- Register allocation

  These passes make sure that all occurrences of pseudo registers are eliminated, either by allocating them to a hard register, replacing them by an equivalent expression (e.g. a constant) or by placing them on the stack. This is done in several subpasses:

  - The integrated register allocator (IRA). It is called integrated because coalescing, register live range splitting, and hard register preferencing are done on-the-fly during coloring. It also has better integration with the reload/LRA pass. Pseudo-registers spilled by the allocator or the reload/LRA have still a chance to get hard-registers if the reload/LRA evicts some pseudo-registers from hard-registers. The allocator helps to choose better pseudos for spilling based on their live ranges and to coalesce stack slots allocated for the spilled pseudo-registers. IRA is a regional register allocator which is transformed into Chaitin-Briggs allocator if there is one region. By default, IRA chooses regions using register pressure but the user can force it to use one region or regions corresponding to all loops.

    Source files of the allocator are `ira.cc`, `ira-build.cc`, `ira-costs.cc`, `ira-conflicts.cc`, `ira-color.cc`, `ira-emit.cc`, `ira-lives`, plus header files `ira.h` and `ira-int.h` used for the communication between the allocator and the rest of the compiler and between the IRA files.

  - Reloading. This pass renumbers pseudo registers with the hardware registers numbers they were allocated. Pseudo registers that did not get hard registers are replaced with stack slots. Then it finds instructions that are invalid because a value has failed to end up in a register, or has ended up in a register of the wrong kind. It fixes up these instructions by reloading the problematical values temporarily into registers. Additional instructions are generated to do the copying.

    The reload pass also optionally eliminates the frame pointer and inserts instructions to save and restore call-clobbered registers around calls.

    Source files are `reload.cc` and `reload1.cc`, plus the header `reload.h` used for communication between them.

  - This pass is a modern replacement of the reload pass. Source files are `lra.cc`, `lra-assign.c`, `lra-coalesce.cc`, `lra-constraints.cc`, `lra-eliminations.cc`, `lra-lives.cc`, `lra-remat.cc`, `lra-spills.cc`, the header `lra-int.h` used for communication between them, and the header `lra.h` used for communication between LRA and the rest of compiler.

    Unlike the reload pass, intermediate LRA decisions are reflected in RTL as much as possible. This reduces the number of target-dependent macros and hooks, leaving instruction constraints as the primary source of control.

    LRA is run on targets for which TARGET_LRA_P returns true.

- Basic block reordering

  This pass implements profile guided code positioning. If profile information is not available, various types of static analysis are performed to make the predictions normally coming from the profile feedback (IE execution frequency, branch probability, etc). It is implemented in the file `bb-reorder.cc`, and the various prediction routines are in `predict.cc`.

- Variable tracking

  This pass computes where the variables are stored at each position in code and generates notes describing the variable locations to RTL code. The location lists are then generated according to these notes to debug information if the debugging information format supports location lists. The code is located in `var-tracking.cc`.

- Delayed branch scheduling

  This optional pass attempts to find instructions that can go into the delay slots of other instructions, usually jumps and calls. The code for this pass is located in `reorg.cc`.

- Branch shortening

  On many RISC machines, branch instructions have a limited range. Thus, longer sequences of instructions must be used for long branches. In this pass, the compiler figures out what how far each instruction will be from each other instruction, and therefore whether the usual instructions, or the longer sequences, must be used for each branch. The code for this pass is located in `final.cc`.

- Register-to-stack conversion

  Conversion from usage of some hard registers to usage of a register stack may be done at this point. Currently, this is supported only for the floating-point registers of the Intel 80387 coprocessor. The code for this pass is located in `reg-stack.cc`.

- Final

  This pass outputs the assembler code for the function. The source files are `final.cc` plus `insn-output.cc`; the latter is generated automatically from the machine description by the tool `genoutput`. The header file `conditions.h` is used for communication between these files.

- Debugging information output

  This is run after final because it must output the stack slot offsets for pseudo registers that did not get hard registers. Source files are `dwarfout.c` for DWARF symbol table format, files `dwarf2out.cc` and `dwarf2asm.cc` for DWARF2 symbol table format, and `vmsdbgout.cc` for VMS debug symbol table format.

### 9.7 Optimization info ¶

This section is describes dump infrastructure which is common to both pass dumps as well as optimization dumps. The goal for this infrastructure is to provide both gcc developers and users detailed information about various compiler transformations and optimizations.

#### 9.7.1 Dump setup ¶

A dump_manager class is defined in `dumpfile.h`. Various passes register dumping pass-specific information via `dump_register` in `passes.cc`. During the registration, an optimization pass can select its optimization group (see Optimization groups). After that optimization information corresponding to the entire group (presumably from multiple passes) can be output via command-line switches. Note that if a pass does not fit into any of the pre-defined groups, it can select `OPTGROUP_NONE`.

Note that in general, a pass need not know its dump output file name, whether certain flags are enabled, etc. However, for legacy reasons, passes could also call `dump_begin` which returns a stream in case the particular pass has optimization dumps enabled. A pass could call `dump_end` when the dump has ended. These methods should go away once all the passes are converted to use the new dump infrastructure.

The recommended way to setup the dump output is via `dump_start` and `dump_end`.

#### 9.7.2 Optimization groups ¶

The optimization passes are grouped into several categories. Currently defined categories in `dumpfile.h` are

`OPTGROUP_IPA` ¶

  IPA optimization passes. Enabled by `-ipa`

`OPTGROUP_LOOP` ¶

  Loop optimization passes. Enabled by `-loop`.

`OPTGROUP_INLINE` ¶

  Inlining passes. Enabled by `-inline`.

`OPTGROUP_OMP` ¶

  OMP (Offloading and Multi Processing) passes. Enabled by `-omp`.

`OPTGROUP_VEC` ¶

  Vectorization passes. Enabled by `-vec`.

`OPTGROUP_OTHER` ¶

  All other optimization passes which do not fall into one of the above.

`OPTGROUP_ALL` ¶

  All optimization passes. Enabled by `-optall`.

By using groups a user could selectively enable optimization information only for a group of passes. By default, the optimization information for all the passes is dumped.

#### 9.7.3 Dump files and streams ¶

There are two separate output streams available for outputting optimization information from passes. Note that both these streams accept `stderr` and `stdout` as valid streams and thus it is possible to dump output to standard output or error. This is specially handy for outputting all available information in a single file by redirecting `stderr`.

``pstream``

  This stream is for pass-specific dump output. For example, `-fdump-tree-vect=foo.v` dumps tree vectorization pass output into the given file name `foo.v`. If the file name is not provided, the default file name is based on the source file and pass number. Note that one could also use special file names `stdout` and `stderr` for dumping to standard output and standard error respectively.

``alt_stream``

  This stream is used for printing optimization specific output in response to the `-fopt-info`. Again a file name can be given. If the file name is not given, it defaults to `stderr`.

#### 9.7.4 Dump output verbosity ¶

The dump verbosity has the following options

‘`optimized`’

  Print information when an optimization is successfully applied. It is up to a pass to decide which information is relevant. For example, the vectorizer passes print the source location of loops which got successfully vectorized.

‘`missed`’

  Print information about missed optimizations. Individual passes control which information to include in the output. For example,

      gcc -O2 -ftree-vectorize -fopt-info-vec-missed

  will print information about missed optimization opportunities from vectorization passes on stderr.

‘`note`’

  Print verbose information about optimizations, such as certain transformations, more detailed messages about decisions etc.

‘`all`’

  Print detailed optimization information. This includes optimized, missed, and note.

#### 9.7.5 Dump types ¶

`dump_printf` ¶

  This is a generic method for doing formatted output. It takes an additional argument `dump_kind` which signifies the type of dump. This method outputs information only when the dumps are enabled for this particular `dump_kind`. Note that the caller doesn’t need to know if the particular dump is enabled or not, or even the file name. The caller only needs to decide which dump output information is relevant, and under what conditions. This determines the associated flags.

  Consider the following example from `loop-unroll.cc` where an informative message about a loop (along with its location) is printed when any of the following flags is enabled

  - optimization messages
  - RTL dumps
  - detailed dumps

      int report_flags = MSG_OPTIMIZED_LOCATIONS | TDF_RTL | TDF_DETAILS;
      dump_printf_loc (report_flags, insn,
                       "loop turned into non-loop; it never loops.\n");

`dump_basic_block` ¶

  Output basic block.

`dump_generic_expr` ¶

  Output generic expression.

`dump_gimple_stmt` ¶

  Output gimple statement.

  Note that the above methods also have variants prefixed with `_loc`, such as `dump_printf_loc`, which are similar except they also output the source location information. The `_loc` variants take a `const dump_location_t &`. This class can be constructed from a `gimple *` or from a `rtx_insn *`, and so callers can pass a `gimple *` or a `rtx_insn *` as the `_loc` argument. The `dump_location_t` constructor will extract the source location from the statement or instruction, along with the profile count, and the location in GCC’s own source code (or the plugin) from which the dump call was emitted. Only the source location is currently used. There is also a `dump_user_location_t` class, capturing the source location and profile count, but not the dump emission location, so that locations in the user’s code can be passed around. This can also be constructed from a `gimple *` and from a `rtx_insn *`, and it too can be passed as the `_loc` argument.

#### 9.7.6 Dump examples ¶

    gcc -O3 -fopt-info-missed=missed.all

outputs missed optimization report from all the passes into `missed.all`.

As another example,

    gcc -O3 -fopt-info-inline-optimized-missed=inline.txt

will output information about missed optimizations as well as optimized locations from all the inlining passes into `inline.txt`.

If the filename is provided, then the dumps from all the applicable optimizations are concatenated into the `filename`. Otherwise the dump is output onto `stderr`. If options is omitted, it defaults to `optimized-optall`, which means dump all information about successful optimizations from all the passes. In the following example, the optimization information is output on to `stderr`.

    gcc -O3 -fopt-info

Note that `-fopt-info-vec-missed` behaves the same as `-fopt-info-missed-vec`. The order of the optimization group names and message types listed after `-fopt-info` does not matter.

As another example, consider

    gcc -fopt-info-vec-missed=vec.miss -fopt-info-loop-optimized=loop.opt

Here the two output file names `vec.miss` and `loop.opt` are in conflict since only one output file is allowed. In this case, only the first option takes effect and the subsequent options are ignored. Thus only the `vec.miss` is produced which containts dumps from the vectorizer about missed opportunities.

## 10 Sizes and offsets as runtime invariants ¶

GCC allows the size of a hardware register to be a runtime invariant rather than a compile-time constant. This in turn means that various sizes and offsets must also be runtime invariants rather than compile-time constants, such as:

- the size of a general `machine_mode` (see Machine Modes);
- the size of a spill slot;
- the offset of something within a stack frame;
- the number of elements in a vector;
- the size and offset of a `mem` rtx (see Registers and Memory); and
- the byte offset in a `subreg` rtx (see Registers and Memory).

The motivating example is the Arm SVE ISA, whose vector registers can be any multiple of 128 bits between 128 and 2048 inclusive. The compiler normally produces code that works for all SVE register sizes, with the actual size only being known at runtime.

GCC’s main representation of such runtime invariants is the `poly_int` class. This chapter describes what `poly_int` does, lists the available operations, and gives some general usage guidelines.

### 10.1 Overview of `poly_int` ¶

We define indeterminates x1, …, xn whose values are only known at runtime and use polynomials of the form:

    c0 + c1 * x1 + ... + cn * xn

to represent a size or offset whose value might depend on some of these indeterminates. The coefficients c0, …, cn are always known at compile time, with the c0 term being the “constant” part that does not depend on any runtime value.

GCC uses the `poly_int` class to represent these coefficients. The class has two template parameters: the first specifies the number of coefficients (n + 1) and the second specifies the type of the coefficients. For example, ‘`poly_int<2, unsigned short>`’ represents a polynomial with two coefficients (and thus one indeterminate), with each coefficient having type `unsigned short`. When n is 0, the class degenerates to a single compile-time constant c0.

The number of coefficients needed for compilation is a fixed property of each target and is specified by the configuration macro `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS`. The default value is 1, since most targets do not have such runtime invariants. Targets that need a different value should `#define` the macro in their `cpu-modes.def` file. See Anatomy of a Target Back End.

`poly_int` makes the simplifying requirement that each indeterminate must be a nonnegative integer. An indeterminate value of 0 should usually represent the minimum possible runtime value, with c0 specifying the value in that case.

For example, when targetting the Arm SVE ISA, the single indeterminate represents the number of 128-bit blocks in a vector beyond the minimum length of 128 bits. Thus the number of 64-bit doublewords in a vector is 2 + 2 * x1. If an aggregate has a single SVE vector and 16 additional bytes, its total size is 32 + 16 * x1 bytes.

The header file `poly-int-types.h` provides typedefs for the most common forms of `poly_int`, all having `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS` coefficients:

`poly_uint16`

  a ‘`poly_int`’ with `unsigned short` coefficients.

`poly_int64`

  a ‘`poly_int`’ with `HOST_WIDE_INT` coefficients.

`poly_uint64`

  a ‘`poly_int`’ with `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT` coefficients.

`poly_offset_int`

  a ‘`poly_int`’ with `offset_int` coefficients.

`poly_wide_int`

  a ‘`poly_int`’ with `wide_int` coefficients.

`poly_widest_int`

  a ‘`poly_int`’ with `widest_int` coefficients.

Since the main purpose of `poly_int` is to represent sizes and offsets, the last two typedefs are only rarely used.

### 10.2 Consequences of using `poly_int` ¶

The two main consequences of using polynomial sizes and offsets are that:

- there is no total ordering between the values at compile time, and
- some operations might yield results that cannot be expressed as a `poly_int`.

For example, if x is a runtime invariant, we cannot tell at compile time whether:

    3 + 4x <= 1 + 5x

since the condition is false when x <= 1 and true when x >= 2.

Similarly, `poly_int` cannot represent the result of:

    (3 + 4x) * (1 + 5x)

since it cannot (and in practice does not need to) store powers greater than one. It also cannot represent the result of:

    (3 + 4x) / (1 + 5x)

The following sections describe how we deal with these restrictions.

As described earlier, a `poly_int<1, T>` has no indeterminates and so degenerates to a compile-time constant of type T. It would be possible in that case to do all normal arithmetic on the T, and to compare the T using the normal C++ operators. We deliberately prevent target-independent code from doing this, since the compiler needs to support other `poly_int<n, T>` as well, regardless of the current target’s `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS`.

However, it would be very artificial to force target-specific code to follow these restrictions if the target has no runtime indeterminates. There is therefore an implicit conversion from `poly_int<1, T>` to T when compiling target-specific translation units.

### 10.3 Comparisons involving `poly_int` ¶

In general we need to compare sizes and offsets in two situations: those in which the values need to be ordered, and those in which the values can be unordered. More loosely, the distinction is often between values that have a definite link (usually because they refer to the same underlying register or memory location) and values that have no definite link. An example of the former is the relationship between the inner and outer sizes of a subreg, where we must know at compile time whether the subreg is paradoxical, partial, or complete. An example of the latter is alias analysis: we might want to check whether two arbitrary memory references overlap.

Referring back to the examples in the previous section, it makes sense to ask whether a memory reference of size ‘`3 + 4x`’ overlaps one of size ‘`1 + 5x`’, but it does not make sense to have a subreg in which the outer mode has ‘`3 + 4x`’ bytes and the inner mode has ‘`1 + 5x`’ bytes (or vice versa). Such subregs are always invalid and should trigger an internal compiler error if formed.

The underlying operators are the same in both cases, but the distinction affects how they are used.

#### 10.3.1 Comparison functions for `poly_int` ¶

`poly_int` provides the following routines for checking whether a particular condition “may be” (might be) true:

    maybe_lt maybe_le maybe_eq maybe_ge maybe_gt
                      maybe_ne

The functions have their natural meaning:

‘`maybe_lt(a, b)`’

  Return true if a might be less than b.

‘`maybe_le(a, b)`’

  Return true if a might be less than or equal to b.

‘`maybe_eq(a, b)`’

  Return true if a might be equal to b.

‘`maybe_ne(a, b)`’

  Return true if a might not be equal to b.

‘`maybe_ge(a, b)`’

  Return true if a might be greater than or equal to b.

‘`maybe_gt(a, b)`’

  Return true if a might be greater than b.

For readability, `poly_int` also provides “known” inverses of these functions:

    known_lt (a, b) == !maybe_ge (a, b)
    known_le (a, b) == !maybe_gt (a, b)
    known_eq (a, b) == !maybe_ne (a, b)
    known_ge (a, b) == !maybe_lt (a, b)
    known_gt (a, b) == !maybe_le (a, b)
    known_ne (a, b) == !maybe_eq (a, b)

#### 10.3.2 Properties of the `poly_int` comparisons ¶

All “maybe” relations except `maybe_ne` are transitive, so for example:

    maybe_lt (a, b) && maybe_lt (b, c) implies maybe_lt (a, c)

for all a, b and c. `maybe_lt`, `maybe_gt` and `maybe_ne` are irreflexive, so for example:

    !maybe_lt (a, a)

is true for all a. `maybe_le`, `maybe_eq` and `maybe_ge` are reflexive, so for example:

    maybe_le (a, a)

is true for all a. `maybe_eq` and `maybe_ne` are symmetric, so:

    maybe_eq (a, b) == maybe_eq (b, a)
    maybe_ne (a, b) == maybe_ne (b, a)

for all a and b. In addition:

    maybe_le (a, b) == maybe_lt (a, b) || maybe_eq (a, b)
    maybe_ge (a, b) == maybe_gt (a, b) || maybe_eq (a, b)
    maybe_lt (a, b) == maybe_gt (b, a)
    maybe_le (a, b) == maybe_ge (b, a)

However:

    maybe_le (a, b) && maybe_le (b, a) does not imply !maybe_ne (a, b) [== known_eq (a, b)]
    maybe_ge (a, b) && maybe_ge (b, a) does not imply !maybe_ne (a, b) [== known_eq (a, b)]

One example is again ‘`a == 3 + 4x`’ and ‘`b == 1 + 5x`’, where ‘`maybe_le (a, b)`’, ‘`maybe_ge (a, b)`’ and ‘`maybe_ne (a, b)`’ all hold. `maybe_le` and `maybe_ge` are therefore not antisymetric and do not form a partial order.

From the above, it follows that:

- All “known” relations except `known_ne` are transitive.
- `known_lt`, `known_ne` and `known_gt` are irreflexive.
- `known_le`, `known_eq` and `known_ge` are reflexive.

Also:

    known_lt (a, b) == known_gt (b, a)
    known_le (a, b) == known_ge (b, a)
    known_lt (a, b) implies !known_lt (b, a)  [asymmetry]
    known_gt (a, b) implies !known_gt (b, a)
    known_le (a, b) && known_le (b, a) == known_eq (a, b) [== !maybe_ne (a, b)]
    known_ge (a, b) && known_ge (b, a) == known_eq (a, b) [== !maybe_ne (a, b)]

`known_le` and `known_ge` are therefore antisymmetric and are partial orders. However:

    known_le (a, b) does not imply known_lt (a, b) || known_eq (a, b)
    known_ge (a, b) does not imply known_gt (a, b) || known_eq (a, b)

For example, ‘`known_le (4, 4 + 4x)`’ holds because the runtime indeterminate x is a nonnegative integer, but neither `known_lt (4, 4 + 4x)` nor `known_eq (4, 4 + 4x)` hold.

#### 10.3.3 Comparing potentially-unordered `poly_int`s ¶

In cases where there is no definite link between two `poly_int`s, we can usually make a conservatively-correct assumption. For example, the conservative assumption for alias analysis is that two references might alias.

One way of checking whether [begin1, end1) might overlap [begin2, end2) using the `poly_int` comparisons is:

    maybe_gt (end1, begin2) && maybe_gt (end2, begin1)

and another (equivalent) way is:

    !(known_le (end1, begin2) || known_le (end2, begin1))

However, in this particular example, it is better to use the range helper functions instead. See Range checks on `poly_int`s.

#### 10.3.4 Comparing ordered `poly_int`s ¶

In cases where there is a definite link between two `poly_int`s, such as the outer and inner sizes of subregs, we usually require the sizes to be ordered by the `known_le` partial order. `poly_int` provides the following utility functions for ordered values:

‘`ordered_p (a, b)`’

  Return true if a and b are ordered by the `known_le` partial order.

‘`ordered_min (a, b)`’

  Assert that a and b are ordered by `known_le` and return the minimum of the two. When using this function, please add a comment explaining why the values are known to be ordered.

‘`ordered_max (a, b)`’

  Assert that a and b are ordered by `known_le` and return the maximum of the two. When using this function, please add a comment explaining why the values are known to be ordered.

For example, if a subreg has an outer mode of size outer and an inner mode of size inner:

- the subreg is complete if known_eq (inner, outer)
- otherwise, the subreg is paradoxical if known_le (inner, outer)
- otherwise, the subreg is partial if known_le (outer, inner)
- otherwise, the subreg is ill-formed

Thus the subreg is only valid if ‘`ordered_p (outer, inner)`’ is true. If this condition is already known to be true then:

- the subreg is complete if known_eq (inner, outer)
- the subreg is paradoxical if maybe_lt (inner, outer)
- the subreg is partial if maybe_lt (outer, inner)

with the three conditions being mutually exclusive.

Code that checks whether a subreg is valid would therefore generally check whether `ordered_p` holds (in addition to whatever other checks are required for subreg validity). Code that is dealing with existing subregs can assert that `ordered_p` holds and use either of the classifications above.

#### 10.3.5 Checking for a `poly_int` marker value ¶

It is sometimes useful to have a special “marker value” that is not meant to be taken literally. For example, some code uses a size of -1 to represent an unknown size, rather than having to carry around a separate boolean to say whether the size is known.

The best way of checking whether something is a marker value is `known_eq`. Conversely the best way of checking whether something is not a marker value is `maybe_ne`.

Thus in the size example just mentioned, ‘`known_eq (size, -1)`’ would check for an unknown size and ‘`maybe_ne (size, -1)`’ would check for a known size.

#### 10.3.6 Range checks on `poly_int`s ¶

As well as the core comparisons (see Comparison functions for `poly_int`), `poly_int` provides utilities for various kinds of range check. In each case the range is represented by a start position and a size rather than a start position and an end position; this is because the former is used much more often than the latter in GCC. Also, the sizes can be -1 (or all ones for unsigned sizes) to indicate a range with a known start position but an unknown size. All other sizes must be nonnegative. A range of size 0 does not contain anything or overlap anything.

‘`known_size_p (size)`’

  Return true if size represents a known range size, false if it is -1 or all ones (for signed and unsigned types respectively).

‘`ranges_maybe_overlap_p (pos1, size1, pos2, size2)`’

  Return true if the range described by pos1 and size1 might overlap the range described by pos2 and size2 (in other words, return true if we cannot prove that the ranges are disjoint).

‘`ranges_known_overlap_p (pos1, size1, pos2, size2)`’

  Return true if the range described by pos1 and size1 is known to overlap the range described by pos2 and size2.

‘`known_subrange_p (pos1, size1, pos2, size2)`’

  Return true if the range described by pos1 and size1 is known to be contained in the range described by pos2 and size2.

‘`maybe_in_range_p (value, pos, size)`’

  Return true if value might be in the range described by pos and size (in other words, return true if we cannot prove that value is outside that range).

‘`known_in_range_p (value, pos, size)`’

  Return true if value is known to be in the range described by pos and size.

‘`endpoint_representable_p (pos, size)`’

  Return true if the range described by pos and size is open-ended or if the endpoint (pos + size) is representable in the same type as pos and size. The function returns false if adding size to pos makes conceptual sense but could overflow.

There is also a `poly_int` version of the `IN_RANGE_P` macro:

‘`coeffs_in_range_p (x, lower, upper)`’

  Return true if every coefficient of x is in the inclusive range [lower, upper]. This function can be useful when testing whether an operation would cause the values of coefficients to overflow.

  Note that the function does not indicate whether x itself is in the given range. x can be either a constant or a `poly_int`.

#### 10.3.7 Sorting `poly_int`s ¶

`poly_int` provides the following routine for sorting:

‘`compare_sizes_for_sort (a, b)`’

  Compare a and b in reverse lexicographical order (that is, compare the highest-indexed coefficients first). This can be useful when sorting data structures, since it has the effect of separating constant and non-constant values. If all values are nonnegative, the constant values come first.

  Note that the values do not necessarily end up in numerical order. For example, ‘`1 + 1x`’ would come after ‘`100`’ in the sort order, but may well be less than ‘`100`’ at run time.

### 10.4 Arithmetic on `poly_int`s ¶

Addition, subtraction, negation and bit inversion all work normally for `poly_int`s. Multiplication by a constant multiplier and left shifting by a constant shift amount also work normally. General multiplication of two `poly_int`s is not supported and is not useful in practice.

Other operations are only conditionally supported: the operation might succeed or might fail, depending on the inputs.

This section describes both types of operation.

#### 10.4.1 Using `poly_int` with C++ arithmetic operators ¶

The following C++ expressions are supported, where p1 and p2 are `poly_int`s and where c1 and c2 are scalars:

    -p1
    ~p1

    p1 + p2
    p1 + c2
    c1 + p2

    p1 - p2
    p1 - c2
    c1 - p2

    c1 * p2
    p1 * c2

    p1 << c2

    p1 += p2
    p1 += c2

    p1 -= p2
    p1 -= c2

    p1 *= c2
    p1 <<= c2

These arithmetic operations handle integer ranks in a similar way to C++. The main difference is that every coefficient narrower than `HOST_WIDE_INT` promotes to `HOST_WIDE_INT`, whereas in C++ everything narrower than `int` promotes to `int`. For example:

    poly_uint16     + int          -> poly_int64
    unsigned int    + poly_uint16  -> poly_int64
    poly_int64      + int          -> poly_int64
    poly_int32      + poly_uint64  -> poly_uint64
    uint64          + poly_int64   -> poly_uint64
    poly_offset_int + int32        -> poly_offset_int
    offset_int      + poly_uint16  -> poly_offset_int

In the first two examples, both coefficients are narrower than `HOST_WIDE_INT`, so the result has coefficients of type `HOST_WIDE_INT`. In the other examples, the coefficient with the highest rank “wins”.

If one of the operands is `wide_int` or `poly_wide_int`, the rules are the same as for `wide_int` arithmetic.

#### 10.4.2 `wi` arithmetic on `poly_int`s ¶

As well as the C++ operators, `poly_int` supports the following `wi` routines:

    wi::neg (p1, &overflow)

    wi::add (p1, p2)
    wi::add (p1, c2)
    wi::add (c1, p1)
    wi::add (p1, p2, sign, &overflow)

    wi::sub (p1, p2)
    wi::sub (p1, c2)
    wi::sub (c1, p1)
    wi::sub (p1, p2, sign, &overflow)

    wi::mul (p1, c2)
    wi::mul (c1, p1)
    wi::mul (p1, c2, sign, &overflow)

    wi::lshift (p1, c2)

These routines just check whether overflow occurs on any individual coefficient; it is not possible to know at compile time whether the final runtime value would overflow.

#### 10.4.3 Division of `poly_int`s ¶

Division of `poly_int`s is possible for certain inputs. The functions for division return true if the operation is possible and in most cases return the results by pointer. The routines are:

‘`multiple_p (a, b)`’
‘`multiple_p (a, b, &quotient)`’

  Return true if a is an exact multiple of b, storing the result in quotient if so. There are overloads for various combinations of polynomial and constant a, b and quotient.

‘`constant_multiple_p (a, b)`’
‘`constant_multiple_p (a, b, &quotient)`’

  Like `multiple_p`, but also test whether the multiple is a compile-time constant.

‘`can_div_trunc_p (a, b, &quotient)`’
‘`can_div_trunc_p (a, b, &quotient, &remainder)`’

  Return true if we can calculate ‘`trunc (a / b)`’ at compile time, storing the result in quotient and remainder if so.

‘`can_div_away_from_zero_p (a, b, &quotient)`’

  Return true if we can calculate ‘`a / b`’ at compile time, rounding away from zero. Store the result in quotient if so.

  Note that this is true if and only if `can_div_trunc_p` is true. The only difference is in the rounding of the result.

There is also an asserting form of division:

‘`exact_div (a, b)`’

  Assert that a is a multiple of b and return ‘`a / b`’. The result is a `poly_int` if a is a `poly_int`.

#### 10.4.4 Other `poly_int` arithmetic ¶

There are tentative routines for other operations besides division:

‘`can_ior_p (a, b, &result)`’

  Return true if we can calculate ‘`a | b`’ at compile time, storing the result in result if so.

Also, ANDs with a value ‘`(1 << y) - 1`’ or its inverse can be treated as alignment operations. See Alignment of `poly_int`s.

In addition, the following miscellaneous routines are available:

‘`coeff_gcd (a)`’

  Return the greatest common divisor of all nonzero coefficients in a, or zero if a is known to be zero.

‘`common_multiple (a, b)`’

  Return a value that is a multiple of both a and b, where one value is a `poly_int` and the other is a scalar. The result will be the least common multiple for some indeterminate values but not necessarily for all.

‘`force_common_multiple (a, b)`’

  Return a value that is a multiple of both `poly_int` a and `poly_int` b, asserting that such a value exists. The result will be the least common multiple for some indeterminate values but not necessarily for all.

  When using this routine, please add a comment explaining why the assertion is known to hold.

Please add any other operations that you find to be useful.

### 10.5 Alignment of `poly_int`s ¶

`poly_int` provides various routines for aligning values and for querying misalignments. In each case the alignment must be a power of 2.

‘`can_align_p (value, align)`’

  Return true if we can align value up or down to the nearest multiple of align at compile time. The answer is the same for both directions.

‘`can_align_down (value, align, &aligned)`’

  Return true if `can_align_p`; if so, set aligned to the greatest aligned value that is less than or equal to value.

‘`can_align_up (value, align, &aligned)`’

  Return true if `can_align_p`; if so, set aligned to the lowest aligned value that is greater than or equal to value.

‘`known_equal_after_align_down (a, b, align)`’

  Return true if we can align a and b down to the nearest align boundary at compile time and if the two results are equal.

‘`known_equal_after_align_up (a, b, align)`’

  Return true if we can align a and b up to the nearest align boundary at compile time and if the two results are equal.

‘`aligned_lower_bound (value, align)`’

  Return a result that is no greater than value and that is aligned to align. The result will the closest aligned value for some indeterminate values but not necessarily for all.

  For example, suppose we are allocating an object of size bytes in a downward-growing stack whose current limit is given by limit. If the object requires align bytes of alignment, the new stack limit is given by:

      aligned_lower_bound (limit - size, align)

‘`aligned_upper_bound (value, align)`’

  Likewise return a result that is no less than value and that is aligned to align. This is the routine that would be used for upward-growing stacks in the scenario just described.

‘`known_misalignment (value, align, &misalign)`’

  Return true if we can calculate the misalignment of value with respect to align at compile time, storing the result in misalign if so.

‘`known_alignment (value)`’

  Return the minimum alignment that value is known to have (in other words, the largest alignment that can be guaranteed whatever the values of the indeterminates turn out to be). Return 0 if value is known to be 0.

‘`force_align_down (value, align)`’

  Assert that value can be aligned down to align at compile time and return the result. When using this routine, please add a comment explaining why the assertion is known to hold.

‘`force_align_up (value, align)`’

  Likewise, but aligning up.

‘`force_align_down_and_div (value, align)`’

  Divide the result of `force_align_down` by align. Again, please add a comment explaining why the assertion in `force_align_down` is known to hold.

‘`force_align_up_and_div (value, align)`’

  Likewise for `force_align_up`.

‘`force_get_misalignment (value, align)`’

  Assert that we can calculate the misalignment of value with respect to align at compile time and return the misalignment. When using this function, please add a comment explaining why the assertion is known to hold.

### 10.6 Computing bounds on `poly_int`s ¶

`poly_int` also provides routines for calculating lower and upper bounds:

‘`constant_lower_bound (a)`’

  Assert that a is nonnegative and return the smallest value it can have.

‘`constant_lower_bound_with_limit (a, b)`’

  Return the least value a can have, given that the context in which a appears guarantees that the answer is no less than b. In other words, the caller is asserting that a is greater than or equal to b even if ‘`known_ge (a, b)`’ doesn’t hold.

‘`constant_upper_bound_with_limit (a, b)`’

  Return the greatest value a can have, given that the context in which a appears guarantees that the answer is no greater than b. In other words, the caller is asserting that a is less than or equal to b even if ‘`known_le (a, b)`’ doesn’t hold.

‘`lower_bound (a, b)`’

  Return a value that is always less than or equal to both a and b. It will be the greatest such value for some indeterminate values but necessarily for all.

‘`upper_bound (a, b)`’

  Return a value that is always greater than or equal to both a and b. It will be the least such value for some indeterminate values but necessarily for all.

### 10.7 Converting `poly_int`s ¶

A `poly_int<n, T>` can be constructed from up to n individual T coefficients, with the remaining coefficients being implicitly zero. In particular, this means that every `poly_int<n, T>` can be constructed from a single scalar T, or something compatible with T.

Also, a `poly_int<n, T>` can be constructed from a `poly_int<n, U>` if T can be constructed from U.

The following functions provide other forms of conversion, or test whether such a conversion would succeed.

‘`value.is_constant ()`’

  Return true if `poly_int` value is a compile-time constant.

‘`value.is_constant (&c1)`’

  Return true if `poly_int` value is a compile-time constant, storing it in c1 if so. c1 must be able to hold all constant values of value without loss of precision.

‘`value.to_constant ()`’

  Assert that value is a compile-time constant and return its value. When using this function, please add a comment explaining why the condition is known to hold (for example, because an earlier phase of analysis rejected non-constants).

‘`value.to_shwi (&p2)`’

  Return true if ‘`poly_int<N, T>`’ value can be represented without loss of precision as a ‘`poly_int<N, `HOST_WIDE_INT`>`’, storing it in that form in p2 if so.

‘`value.to_uhwi (&p2)`’

  Return true if ‘`poly_int<N, T>`’ value can be represented without loss of precision as a ‘`poly_int<N, `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT`>`’, storing it in that form in p2 if so.

‘`value.force_shwi ()`’

  Forcibly convert each coefficient of ‘`poly_int<N, T>`’ value to `HOST_WIDE_INT`, truncating any that are out of range. Return the result as a ‘`poly_int<N, `HOST_WIDE_INT`>`’.

‘`value.force_uhwi ()`’

  Forcibly convert each coefficient of ‘`poly_int<N, T>`’ value to `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT`, truncating any that are out of range. Return the result as a ‘`poly_int<N, `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT`>`’.

‘`wi::shwi (value, precision)`’

  Return a `poly_int` with the same value as value, but with the coefficients converted from `HOST_WIDE_INT` to `wide_int`. precision specifies the precision of the `wide_int` cofficients; if this is wider than a `HOST_WIDE_INT`, the coefficients of value will be sign-extended to fit.

‘`wi::uhwi (value, precision)`’

  Like `wi::shwi`, except that value has coefficients of type `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT`. If precision is wider than a `HOST_WIDE_INT`, the coefficients of value will be zero-extended to fit.

‘`wi::sext (value, precision)`’

  Return a `poly_int` of the same type as value, sign-extending every coefficient from the low precision bits. This in effect applies `wi::sext` to each coefficient individually.

‘`wi::zext (value, precision)`’

  Like `wi::sext`, but for zero extension.

‘`poly_wide_int::from (value, precision, sign)`’

  Convert value to a `poly_wide_int` in which each coefficient has precision bits. Extend the coefficients according to sign if the coefficients have fewer bits.

‘`poly_offset_int::from (value, sign)`’

  Convert value to a `poly_offset_int`, extending its coefficients according to sign if they have fewer bits than `offset_int`.

‘`poly_widest_int::from (value, sign)`’

  Convert value to a `poly_widest_int`, extending its coefficients according to sign if they have fewer bits than `widest_int`.

### 10.8 Miscellaneous `poly_int` routines ¶

‘`print_dec (value, file, sign)`’
‘`print_dec (value, file)`’

  Print value to file as a decimal value, interpreting the coefficients according to sign. The final argument is optional if value has an inherent sign; for example, `poly_int64` values print as signed by default and `poly_uint64` values print as unsigned by default.

  This is a simply a `poly_int` version of a wide-int routine.

### 10.9 Guidelines for using `poly_int` ¶

One of the main design goals of `poly_int` was to make it easy to write target-independent code that handles variable-sized registers even when the current target has fixed-sized registers. There are two aspects to this:

- The set of `poly_int` operations should be complete enough that the question in most cases becomes “Can we do this operation on these particular `poly_int` values? If not, bail out” rather than “Are these `poly_int` values constant? If so, do the operation, otherwise bail out”.
- If target-independent code compiles and runs correctly on a target with one value of `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS`, and if the code does not use asserting functions like `to_constant`, it is reasonable to assume that the code also works on targets with other values of `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS`. There is no need to check this during everyday development.

So the general principle is: if target-independent code is dealing with a `poly_int` value, it is better to operate on it as a `poly_int` if at all possible, choosing conservatively-correct behavior if a particular operation fails. For example, the following code handles an index `pos` into a sequence of vectors that each have `nunits` elements:

    /* Calculate which vector contains the result, and which lane of
       that vector we need.  */
    if (!can_div_trunc_p (pos, nunits, &vec_entry, &vec_index))
      {
        if (dump_enabled_p ())
          dump_printf_loc (MSG_MISSED_OPTIMIZATION, vect_location,
                           "Cannot determine which vector holds the"
                           " final result.\n");
        return false;
      }

However, there are some contexts in which operating on a `poly_int` is not possible or does not make sense. One example is when handling static initializers, since no current target supports the concept of a variable-length static initializer. In these situations, a reasonable fallback is:

    if (poly_value.is_constant (&const_value))
      {
        ...
        /* Operate on const_value.  */
        ...
      }
    else
      {
        ...
        /* Conservatively correct fallback.  */
        ...
      }

`poly_int` also provides some asserting functions like `to_constant`. Please only use these functions if there is a good theoretical reason to believe that the assertion cannot fire. For example, if some work is divided into an analysis phase and an implementation phase, the analysis phase might reject inputs that are not `is_constant`, in which case the implementation phase can reasonably use `to_constant` on the remaining inputs. The assertions should not be used to discover whether a condition ever occurs “in the field”; in other words, they should not be used to restrict code to constants at first, with the intention of only implementing a `poly_int` version if a user hits the assertion.

If a particular asserting function like `to_constant` is needed more than once for the same reason, it is probably worth adding a helper function or macro for that situation, so that the justification only needs to be given once. For example:

    /* Return the size of an element in a vector of size SIZE, given that
       the vector has NELTS elements.  The return value is in the same units
       as SIZE (either bits or bytes).

       to_constant () is safe in this situation because vector elements are
       always constant-sized scalars.  */
    #define vector_element_size(SIZE, NELTS) \
      (exact_div (SIZE, NELTS).to_constant ())

Target-specific code in `config/cpu` only needs to handle non-constant `poly_int`s if `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS` is greater than one. For other targets, `poly_int` degenerates to a compile-time constant and is often interchangable with a normal scalar integer. There are two main exceptions:

- Sometimes an explicit cast to an integer type might be needed, such as to resolve ambiguities in a `?:` expression, or when passing values through `...` to things like print functions.
- Target macros are included in target-independent code and so do not have access to the implicit conversion to a scalar integer. If this becomes a problem for a particular target macro, the possible solutions, in order of preference, are:
  - Convert the target macro to a target hook (for all targets).
  - Put the target’s implementation of the target macro in its `cpu.c` file and call it from the target macro in the `cpu.h` file.
  - Add `to_constant ()` calls where necessary. The previous option is preferable because it will help with any future conversion of the macro to a hook.

## 11 GENERIC ¶

The purpose of GENERIC is simply to provide a language-independent way of representing an entire function in trees. To this end, it was necessary to add a few new tree codes to the back end, but almost everything was already there. If you can express it with the codes in `gcc/tree.def`, it’s GENERIC.

Early on, there was a great deal of debate about how to think about statements in a tree IL. In GENERIC, a statement is defined as any expression whose value, if any, is ignored. A statement will always have `TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS` set (or it will be discarded), but a non-statement expression may also have side effects. A `CALL_EXPR`, for instance.

It would be possible for some local optimizations to work on the GENERIC form of a function; indeed, the adapted tree inliner works fine on GENERIC, but the current compiler performs inlining after lowering to GIMPLE (a restricted form described in the next section). Indeed, currently the frontends perform this lowering before handing off to `tree_rest_of_compilation`, but this seems inelegant.

### 11.1 Deficiencies ¶

There are many places in which this document is incomplet and incorrekt. It is, as of yet, only preliminary documentation.

### 11.2 Overview ¶

The central data structure used by the internal representation is the `tree`. These nodes, while all of the C type `tree`, are of many varieties. A `tree` is a pointer type, but the object to which it points may be of a variety of types. From this point forward, we will refer to trees in ordinary type, rather than in `this font`, except when talking about the actual C type `tree`.

You can tell what kind of node a particular tree is by using the `TREE_CODE` macro. Many, many macros take trees as input and return trees as output. However, most macros require a certain kind of tree node as input. In other words, there is a type-system for trees, but it is not reflected in the C type-system.

For safety, it is useful to configure GCC with `--enable-checking`. Although this results in a significant performance penalty (since all tree types are checked at run-time), and is therefore inappropriate in a release version, it is extremely helpful during the development process.

Many macros behave as predicates. Many, although not all, of these predicates end in ‘`_P`’. Do not rely on the result type of these macros being of any particular type. You may, however, rely on the fact that the type can be compared to `0`, so that statements like

    if (TEST_P (t) && !TEST_P (y))
      x = 1;

and

    int i = (TEST_P (t) != 0);

are legal. Macros that return `int` values now may be changed to return `tree` values, or other pointers in the future. Even those that continue to return `int` may return multiple nonzero codes where previously they returned only zero and one. Therefore, you should not write code like

    if (TEST_P (t) == 1)

as this code is not guaranteed to work correctly in the future.

You should not take the address of values returned by the macros or functions described here. In particular, no guarantee is given that the values are lvalues.

In general, the names of macros are all in uppercase, while the names of functions are entirely in lowercase. There are rare exceptions to this rule. You should assume that any macro or function whose name is made up entirely of uppercase letters may evaluate its arguments more than once. You may assume that a macro or function whose name is made up entirely of lowercase letters will evaluate its arguments only once.

The `error_mark_node` is a special tree. Its tree code is `ERROR_MARK`, but since there is only ever one node with that code, the usual practice is to compare the tree against `error_mark_node`. (This test is just a test for pointer equality.) If an error has occurred during front-end processing the flag `errorcount` will be set. If the front end has encountered code it cannot handle, it will issue a message to the user and set `sorrycount`. When these flags are set, any macro or function which normally returns a tree of a particular kind may instead return the `error_mark_node`. Thus, if you intend to do any processing of erroneous code, you must be prepared to deal with the `error_mark_node`.

Occasionally, a particular tree slot (like an operand to an expression, or a particular field in a declaration) will be referred to as “reserved for the back end”. These slots are used to store RTL when the tree is converted to RTL for use by the GCC back end. However, if that process is not taking place (e.g., if the front end is being hooked up to an intelligent editor), then those slots may be used by the back end presently in use.

If you encounter situations that do not match this documentation, such as tree nodes of types not mentioned here, or macros documented to return entities of a particular kind that instead return entities of some different kind, you have found a bug, either in the front end or in the documentation. Please report these bugs as you would any other bug.

#### 11.2.1 Trees ¶

All GENERIC trees have two fields in common. First, `TREE_CHAIN` is a pointer that can be used as a singly-linked list to other trees. The other is `TREE_TYPE`. Many trees store the type of an expression or declaration in this field.

These are some other functions for handling trees:

`tree_size` ¶

  Return the number of bytes a tree takes.

`build0` ¶
`build1` ¶
`build2` ¶
`build3` ¶
`build4` ¶
`build5` ¶
`build6` ¶

  These functions build a tree and supply values to put in each parameter. The basic signature is ‘`code, type, [operands]`’. `code` is the `TREE_CODE`, and `type` is a tree representing the `TREE_TYPE`. These are followed by the operands, each of which is also a tree.

#### 11.2.2 Identifiers ¶

An `IDENTIFIER_NODE` represents a slightly more general concept than the standard C or C++ concept of identifier. In particular, an `IDENTIFIER_NODE` may contain a ‘`$`’, or other extraordinary characters.

There are never two distinct `IDENTIFIER_NODE`s representing the same identifier. Therefore, you may use pointer equality to compare `IDENTIFIER_NODE`s, rather than using a routine like `strcmp`. Use `get_identifier` to obtain the unique `IDENTIFIER_NODE` for a supplied string.

You can use the following macros to access identifiers:

`IDENTIFIER_POINTER` ¶

  The string represented by the identifier, represented as a `char*`. This string is always `NUL`-terminated, and contains no embedded `NUL` characters.

`IDENTIFIER_LENGTH` ¶

  The length of the string returned by `IDENTIFIER_POINTER`, not including the trailing `NUL`. This value of `IDENTIFIER_LENGTH (x)` is always the same as `strlen (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (x))`.

`IDENTIFIER_OPNAME_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the identifier represents the name of an overloaded operator. In this case, you should not depend on the contents of either the `IDENTIFIER_POINTER` or the `IDENTIFIER_LENGTH`.

`IDENTIFIER_TYPENAME_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the identifier represents the name of a user-defined conversion operator. In this case, the `TREE_TYPE` of the `IDENTIFIER_NODE` holds the type to which the conversion operator converts.

#### 11.2.3 Containers ¶

Two common container data structures can be represented directly with tree nodes. A `TREE_LIST` is a singly linked list containing two trees per node. These are the `TREE_PURPOSE` and `TREE_VALUE` of each node. (Often, the `TREE_PURPOSE` contains some kind of tag, or additional information, while the `TREE_VALUE` contains the majority of the payload. In other cases, the `TREE_PURPOSE` is simply `NULL_TREE`, while in still others both the `TREE_PURPOSE` and `TREE_VALUE` are of equal stature.) Given one `TREE_LIST` node, the next node is found by following the `TREE_CHAIN`. If the `TREE_CHAIN` is `NULL_TREE`, then you have reached the end of the list.

A `TREE_VEC` is a simple vector. The `TREE_VEC_LENGTH` is an integer (not a tree) giving the number of nodes in the vector. The nodes themselves are accessed using the `TREE_VEC_ELT` macro, which takes two arguments. The first is the `TREE_VEC` in question; the second is an integer indicating which element in the vector is desired. The elements are indexed from zero.

### 11.3 Types ¶

All types have corresponding tree nodes. However, you should not assume that there is exactly one tree node corresponding to each type. There are often multiple nodes corresponding to the same type.

For the most part, different kinds of types have different tree codes. (For example, pointer types use a `POINTER_TYPE` code while arrays use an `ARRAY_TYPE` code.) However, pointers to member functions use the `RECORD_TYPE` code. Therefore, when writing a `switch` statement that depends on the code associated with a particular type, you should take care to handle pointers to member functions under the `RECORD_TYPE` case label.

The following functions and macros deal with cv-qualification of types:

`TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT` ¶

  This macro returns the unqualified version of a type. It may be applied to an unqualified type, but it is not always the identity function in that case.

A few other macros and functions are usable with all types:

`TYPE_SIZE` ¶

  The number of bits required to represent the type, represented as an `INTEGER_CST`. For an incomplete type, `TYPE_SIZE` will be `NULL_TREE`.

`TYPE_ALIGN` ¶

  The alignment of the type, in bits, represented as an `int`.

`TYPE_NAME` ¶

  This macro returns a declaration (in the form of a `TYPE_DECL`) for the type. (Note this macro does not return an `IDENTIFIER_NODE`, as you might expect, given its name!) You can look at the `DECL_NAME` of the `TYPE_DECL` to obtain the actual name of the type. The `TYPE_NAME` will be `NULL_TREE` for a type that is not a built-in type, the result of a typedef, or a named class type.

`TYPE_CANONICAL` ¶

  This macro returns the “canonical” type for the given type node. Canonical types are used to improve performance in the C++ and Objective-C++ front ends by allowing efficient comparison between two type nodes in `same_type_p`: if the `TYPE_CANONICAL` values of the types are equal, the types are equivalent; otherwise, the types are not equivalent. The notion of equivalence for canonical types is the same as the notion of type equivalence in the language itself. For instance,

  When `TYPE_CANONICAL` is `NULL_TREE`, there is no canonical type for the given type node. In this case, comparison between this type and any other type requires the compiler to perform a deep, “structural” comparison to see if the two type nodes have the same form and properties.

  The canonical type for a node is always the most fundamental type in the equivalence class of types. For instance, `int` is its own canonical type. A typedef `I` of `int` will have `int` as its canonical type. Similarly, `I*` and a typedef `IP` (defined to `I*`) will has `int*` as their canonical type. When building a new type node, be sure to set `TYPE_CANONICAL` to the appropriate canonical type. If the new type is a compound type (built from other types), and any of those other types require structural equality, use `SET_TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY` to ensure that the new type also requires structural equality. Finally, if for some reason you cannot guarantee that `TYPE_CANONICAL` will point to the canonical type, use `SET_TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY` to make sure that the new type–and any type constructed based on it–requires structural equality. If you suspect that the canonical type system is miscomparing types, pass `--param verify-canonical-types=1` to the compiler or configure with `--enable-checking` to force the compiler to verify its canonical-type comparisons against the structural comparisons; the compiler will then print any warnings if the canonical types miscompare.

`TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY_P` ¶

  This predicate holds when the node requires structural equality checks, e.g., when `TYPE_CANONICAL` is `NULL_TREE`.

`SET_TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY` ¶

  This macro states that the type node it is given requires structural equality checks, e.g., it sets `TYPE_CANONICAL` to `NULL_TREE`.

`same_type_p` ¶

  This predicate takes two types as input, and holds if they are the same type. For example, if one type is a `typedef` for the other, or both are `typedef`s for the same type. This predicate also holds if the two trees given as input are simply copies of one another; i.e., there is no difference between them at the source level, but, for whatever reason, a duplicate has been made in the representation. You should never use `==` (pointer equality) to compare types; always use `same_type_p` instead.

Detailed below are the various kinds of types, and the macros that can be used to access them. Although other kinds of types are used elsewhere in G++, the types described here are the only ones that you will encounter while examining the intermediate representation.

`VOID_TYPE`

  Used to represent the `void` type.

`INTEGER_TYPE`

  Used to represent the various integral types, including `char`, `short`, `int`, `long`, and `long long`. This code is not used for enumeration types, nor for the `bool` type. The `TYPE_PRECISION` is the number of bits used in the representation, represented as an `unsigned int`. (Note that in the general case this is not the same value as `TYPE_SIZE`; suppose that there were a 24-bit integer type, but that alignment requirements for the ABI required 32-bit alignment. Then, `TYPE_SIZE` would be an `INTEGER_CST` for 32, while `TYPE_PRECISION` would be 24.) The integer type is unsigned if `TYPE_UNSIGNED` holds; otherwise, it is signed.

  The `TYPE_MIN_VALUE` is an `INTEGER_CST` for the smallest integer that may be represented by this type. Similarly, the `TYPE_MAX_VALUE` is an `INTEGER_CST` for the largest integer that may be represented by this type.

`BITINT_TYPE`

  Used to represent the bit-precise integer types, `_BitInt(N)`. These types are similar to `INTEGER_TYPE`, but can have arbitrary user selected precisions and do or can have different alignment, function argument and return value passing conventions. Larger BITINT_TYPEs can have `BLKmode` `TYPE_MODE` and need to be lowered by a special BITINT_TYPE lowering pass.

`REAL_TYPE`

  Used to represent the `float`, `double`, and `long double` types. The number of bits in the floating-point representation is given by `TYPE_PRECISION`, as in the `INTEGER_TYPE` case.

`FIXED_POINT_TYPE`

  Used to represent the `short _Fract`, `_Fract`, `long _Fract`, `long long _Fract`, `short _Accum`, `_Accum`, `long _Accum`, and `long long _Accum` types. The number of bits in the fixed-point representation is given by `TYPE_PRECISION`, as in the `INTEGER_TYPE` case. There may be padding bits, fractional bits and integral bits. The number of fractional bits is given by `TYPE_FBIT`, and the number of integral bits is given by `TYPE_IBIT`. The fixed-point type is unsigned if `TYPE_UNSIGNED` holds; otherwise, it is signed. The fixed-point type is saturating if `TYPE_SATURATING` holds; otherwise, it is not saturating.

`COMPLEX_TYPE`

  Used to represent GCC built-in `__complex__` data types. The `TREE_TYPE` is the type of the real and imaginary parts.

`ENUMERAL_TYPE`

  Used to represent an enumeration type. The `TYPE_PRECISION` gives (as an `int`), the number of bits used to represent the type. If there are no negative enumeration constants, `TYPE_UNSIGNED` will hold. The minimum and maximum enumeration constants may be obtained with `TYPE_MIN_VALUE` and `TYPE_MAX_VALUE`, respectively; each of these macros returns an `INTEGER_CST`.

  The actual enumeration constants themselves may be obtained by looking at the `TYPE_VALUES`. This macro will return a `TREE_LIST`, containing the constants. The `TREE_PURPOSE` of each node will be an `IDENTIFIER_NODE` giving the name of the constant; the `TREE_VALUE` will be an `INTEGER_CST` giving the value assigned to that constant. These constants will appear in the order in which they were declared. The `TREE_TYPE` of each of these constants will be the type of enumeration type itself.

`OPAQUE_TYPE`

  Used for things that have a `MODE_OPAQUE` mode class in the backend. Opaque types have a size and precision, and can be held in memory or registers. They are used when we do not want the compiler to make assumptions about the availability of other operations as would happen with integer types.

`BOOLEAN_TYPE`

  Used to represent the `bool` type.

`POINTER_TYPE`

  Used to represent pointer types, and pointer to data member types. The `TREE_TYPE` gives the type to which this type points.

`REFERENCE_TYPE`

  Used to represent reference types. The `TREE_TYPE` gives the type to which this type refers.

`FUNCTION_TYPE`

  Used to represent the type of non-member functions and of static member functions. The `TREE_TYPE` gives the return type of the function. The `TYPE_ARG_TYPES` are a `TREE_LIST` of the argument types. The `TREE_VALUE` of each node in this list is the type of the corresponding argument; the `TREE_PURPOSE` is an expression for the default argument value, if any. If the last node in the list is `void_list_node` (a `TREE_LIST` node whose `TREE_VALUE` is the `void_type_node`), then functions of this type do not take variable arguments. Otherwise, they do take a variable number of arguments.

  Note that in C (but not in C++) a function declared like `void f()` is an unprototyped function taking a variable number of arguments; the `TYPE_ARG_TYPES` of such a function will be `NULL`.

`METHOD_TYPE`

  Used to represent the type of a non-static member function. Like a `FUNCTION_TYPE`, the return type is given by the `TREE_TYPE`. The type of `*this`, i.e., the class of which functions of this type are a member, is given by the `TYPE_METHOD_BASETYPE`. The `TYPE_ARG_TYPES` is the parameter list, as for a `FUNCTION_TYPE`, and includes the `this` argument.

`ARRAY_TYPE`

  Used to represent array types. The `TREE_TYPE` gives the type of the elements in the array. If the array-bound is present in the type, the `TYPE_DOMAIN` is an `INTEGER_TYPE` whose `TYPE_MIN_VALUE` and `TYPE_MAX_VALUE` will be the lower and upper bounds of the array, respectively. The `TYPE_MIN_VALUE` will always be an `INTEGER_CST` for zero, while the `TYPE_MAX_VALUE` will be one less than the number of elements in the array, i.e., the highest value which may be used to index an element in the array.

`RECORD_TYPE`

  Used to represent `struct` and `class` types, as well as pointers to member functions and similar constructs in other languages. `TYPE_FIELDS` contains the items contained in this type, each of which can be a `FIELD_DECL`, `VAR_DECL`, `CONST_DECL`, or `TYPE_DECL`. You may not make any assumptions about the ordering of the fields in the type or whether one or more of them overlap.

`UNION_TYPE`

  Used to represent `union` types. Similar to `RECORD_TYPE` except that all `FIELD_DECL` nodes in `TYPE_FIELD` start at bit position zero.

`QUAL_UNION_TYPE`

  Used to represent part of a variant record in Ada. Similar to `UNION_TYPE` except that each `FIELD_DECL` has a `DECL_QUALIFIER` field, which contains a boolean expression that indicates whether the field is present in the object. The type will only have one field, so each field’s `DECL_QUALIFIER` is only evaluated if none of the expressions in the previous fields in `TYPE_FIELDS` are nonzero. Normally these expressions will reference a field in the outer object using a `PLACEHOLDER_EXPR`.

`LANG_TYPE`

  This node is used to represent a language-specific type. The front end must handle it.

`OFFSET_TYPE`

  This node is used to represent a pointer-to-data member. For a data member `X::m` the `TYPE_OFFSET_BASETYPE` is `X` and the `TREE_TYPE` is the type of `m`.

There are variables whose values represent some of the basic types. These include:

`void_type_node`

  A node for `void`.

`integer_type_node`

  A node for `int`.

`unsigned_type_node.`

  A node for `unsigned int`.

`char_type_node.`

  A node for `char`.

It may sometimes be useful to compare one of these variables with a type in hand, using `same_type_p`.

### 11.4 Declarations ¶

This section covers the various kinds of declarations that appear in the internal representation, except for declarations of functions (represented by `FUNCTION_DECL` nodes), which are described in Functions.

#### 11.4.1 Working with declarations ¶

Some macros can be used with any kind of declaration. These include:

`DECL_NAME` ¶

  This macro returns an `IDENTIFIER_NODE` giving the name of the entity.

`TREE_TYPE` ¶

  This macro returns the type of the entity declared.

`EXPR_FILENAME` ¶

  This macro returns the name of the file in which the entity was declared, as a `char*`. For an entity declared implicitly by the compiler (like `__builtin_memcpy`), this will be the string `"<internal>"`.

`EXPR_LINENO` ¶

  This macro returns the line number at which the entity was declared, as an `int`.

`DECL_ARTIFICIAL` ¶

  This predicate holds if the declaration was implicitly generated by the compiler. For example, this predicate will hold of an implicitly declared member function, or of the `TYPE_DECL` implicitly generated for a class type. Recall that in C++ code like:

      struct S {};

  is roughly equivalent to C code like:

      struct S {};
      typedef struct S S;

  The implicitly generated `typedef` declaration is represented by a `TYPE_DECL` for which `DECL_ARTIFICIAL` holds.

The various kinds of declarations include:

`LABEL_DECL`

  These nodes are used to represent labels in function bodies. For more information, see Functions. These nodes only appear in block scopes.

`CONST_DECL`

  These nodes are used to represent enumeration constants. The value of the constant is given by `DECL_INITIAL` which will be an `INTEGER_CST` with the same type as the `TREE_TYPE` of the `CONST_DECL`, i.e., an `ENUMERAL_TYPE`.

`RESULT_DECL`

  These nodes represent the value returned by a function. When a value is assigned to a `RESULT_DECL`, that indicates that the value should be returned, via bitwise copy, by the function. You can use `DECL_SIZE` and `DECL_ALIGN` on a `RESULT_DECL`, just as with a `VAR_DECL`.

`TYPE_DECL`

  These nodes represent `typedef` declarations. The `TREE_TYPE` is the type declared to have the name given by `DECL_NAME`. In some cases, there is no associated name.

`VAR_DECL`

  These nodes represent variables with namespace or block scope, as well as static data members. The `DECL_SIZE` and `DECL_ALIGN` are analogous to `TYPE_SIZE` and `TYPE_ALIGN`. For a declaration, you should always use the `DECL_SIZE` and `DECL_ALIGN` rather than the `TYPE_SIZE` and `TYPE_ALIGN` given by the `TREE_TYPE`, since special attributes may have been applied to the variable to give it a particular size and alignment. You may use the predicates `DECL_THIS_STATIC` or `DECL_THIS_EXTERN` to test whether the storage class specifiers `static` or `extern` were used to declare a variable.

  If this variable is initialized (but does not require a constructor), the `DECL_INITIAL` will be an expression for the initializer. The initializer should be evaluated, and a bitwise copy into the variable performed. If the `DECL_INITIAL` is the `error_mark_node`, there is an initializer, but it is given by an explicit statement later in the code; no bitwise copy is required.

  GCC provides an extension that allows either automatic variables, or global variables, to be placed in particular registers. This extension is being used for a particular `VAR_DECL` if `DECL_REGISTER` holds for the `VAR_DECL`, and if `DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` is not equal to `DECL_NAME`. In that case, `DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` is the name of the register into which the variable will be placed.

`PARM_DECL`

  Used to represent a parameter to a function. Treat these nodes similarly to `VAR_DECL` nodes. These nodes only appear in the `DECL_ARGUMENTS` for a `FUNCTION_DECL`.

  The `DECL_ARG_TYPE` for a `PARM_DECL` is the type that will actually be used when a value is passed to this function. It may be a wider type than the `TREE_TYPE` of the parameter; for example, the ordinary type might be `short` while the `DECL_ARG_TYPE` is `int`.

`DEBUG_EXPR_DECL`

  Used to represent an anonymous debug-information temporary created to hold an expression as it is optimized away, so that its value can be referenced in debug bind statements.

`FIELD_DECL`

  These nodes represent non-static data members. The `DECL_SIZE` and `DECL_ALIGN` behave as for `VAR_DECL` nodes. The position of the field within the parent record is specified by a combination of three attributes. `DECL_FIELD_OFFSET` is the position, counting in bytes, of the `DECL_OFFSET_ALIGN`-bit sized word containing the bit of the field closest to the beginning of the structure. `DECL_FIELD_BIT_OFFSET` is the bit offset of the first bit of the field within this word; this may be nonzero even for fields that are not bit-fields, since `DECL_OFFSET_ALIGN` may be greater than the natural alignment of the field’s type.

  If `DECL_C_BIT_FIELD` holds, this field is a bit-field. In a bit-field, `DECL_BIT_FIELD_TYPE` also contains the type that was originally specified for it, while DECL_TYPE may be a modified type with lesser precision, according to the size of the bit field.

`NAMESPACE_DECL`

  Namespaces provide a name hierarchy for other declarations. They appear in the `DECL_CONTEXT` of other `_DECL` nodes.

#### 11.4.2 Internal structure ¶

`DECL` nodes are represented internally as a hierarchy of structures.

#### 11.4.2.1 Current structure hierarchy ¶

`struct tree_decl_minimal`

  This is the minimal structure to inherit from in order for common `DECL` macros to work. The fields it contains are a unique ID, source location, context, and name.

`struct tree_decl_common`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_minimal`. It contains fields that most `DECL` nodes need, such as a field to store alignment, machine mode, size, and attributes.

`struct tree_field_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_common`. It is used to represent `FIELD_DECL`.

`struct tree_label_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_common`. It is used to represent `LABEL_DECL`.

`struct tree_translation_unit_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_common`. It is used to represent `TRANSLATION_UNIT_DECL`.

`struct tree_decl_with_rtl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_common`. It contains a field to store the low-level RTL associated with a `DECL` node.

`struct tree_result_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_with_rtl`. It is used to represent `RESULT_DECL`.

`struct tree_const_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_with_rtl`. It is used to represent `CONST_DECL`.

`struct tree_parm_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_with_rtl`. It is used to represent `PARM_DECL`.

`struct tree_decl_with_vis`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_with_rtl`. It contains fields necessary to store visibility information, as well as a section name and assembler name.

`struct tree_var_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_with_vis`. It is used to represent `VAR_DECL`.

`struct tree_function_decl`

  This structure inherits from `struct tree_decl_with_vis`. It is used to represent `FUNCTION_DECL`.

#### 11.4.2.2 Adding new DECL node types ¶

Adding a new `DECL` tree consists of the following steps

Add a new tree code for the `DECL` node

  For language specific `DECL` nodes, there is a `.def` file in each frontend directory where the tree code should be added. For `DECL` nodes that are part of the middle-end, the code should be added to `tree.def`.

Create a new structure type for the `DECL` node

  These structures should inherit from one of the existing structures in the language hierarchy by using that structure as the first member.

      struct tree_foo_decl
      {
         struct tree_decl_with_vis common;
      }

  Would create a structure name `tree_foo_decl` that inherits from `struct tree_decl_with_vis`.

  For language specific `DECL` nodes, this new structure type should go in the appropriate `.h` file. For `DECL` nodes that are part of the middle-end, the structure type should go in `tree.h`.

Add a member to the tree structure enumerator for the node

  For garbage collection and dynamic checking purposes, each `DECL` node structure type is required to have a unique enumerator value specified with it. For language specific `DECL` nodes, this new enumerator value should go in the appropriate `.def` file. For `DECL` nodes that are part of the middle-end, the enumerator values are specified in `treestruct.def`.

Update `union tree_node`

  In order to make your new structure type usable, it must be added to `union tree_node`. For language specific `DECL` nodes, a new entry should be added to the appropriate `.h` file of the form

        struct tree_foo_decl GTY ((tag ("TS_VAR_DECL"))) foo_decl;

  For `DECL` nodes that are part of the middle-end, the additional member goes directly into `union tree_node` in `tree.h`.

Update dynamic checking info

  In order to be able to check whether accessing a named portion of `union tree_node` is legal, and whether a certain `DECL` node contains one of the enumerated `DECL` node structures in the hierarchy, a simple lookup table is used. This lookup table needs to be kept up to date with the tree structure hierarchy, or else checking and containment macros will fail inappropriately.

  For language specific `DECL` nodes, there is an `init_ts` function in an appropriate `.c` file, which initializes the lookup table. Code setting up the table for new `DECL` nodes should be added there. For each `DECL` tree code and enumerator value representing a member of the inheritance hierarchy, the table should contain 1 if that tree code inherits (directly or indirectly) from that member. Thus, a `FOO_DECL` node derived from `struct decl_with_rtl`, and enumerator value `TS_FOO_DECL`, would be set up as follows

      tree_contains_struct[FOO_DECL][TS_FOO_DECL] = 1;
      tree_contains_struct[FOO_DECL][TS_DECL_WRTL] = 1;
      tree_contains_struct[FOO_DECL][TS_DECL_COMMON] = 1;
      tree_contains_struct[FOO_DECL][TS_DECL_MINIMAL] = 1;

  For `DECL` nodes that are part of the middle-end, the setup code goes into `tree.cc`.

Add macros to access any new fields and flags

  Each added field or flag should have a macro that is used to access it, that performs appropriate checking to ensure only the right type of `DECL` nodes access the field.

  These macros generally take the following form

      #define FOO_DECL_FIELDNAME(NODE) FOO_DECL_CHECK(NODE)->foo_decl.fieldname

  However, if the structure is simply a base class for further structures, something like the following should be used

      #define BASE_STRUCT_CHECK(T) CONTAINS_STRUCT_CHECK(T, TS_BASE_STRUCT)
      #define BASE_STRUCT_FIELDNAME(NODE) \
         (BASE_STRUCT_CHECK(NODE)->base_struct.fieldname

  Reading them from the generated `all-tree.def` file (which in turn includes all the `tree.def` files), `gencheck.cc` is used during GCC’s build to generate the `*_CHECK` macros for all tree codes.

### 11.5 Attributes in trees ¶

Attributes, as specified using the `__attribute__` keyword, are represented internally as a `TREE_LIST`. The `TREE_PURPOSE` is the name of the attribute, as an `IDENTIFIER_NODE`. The `TREE_VALUE` is a `TREE_LIST` of the arguments of the attribute, if any, or `NULL_TREE` if there are no arguments; the arguments are stored as the `TREE_VALUE` of successive entries in the list, and may be identifiers or expressions. The `TREE_CHAIN` of the attribute is the next attribute in a list of attributes applying to the same declaration or type, or `NULL_TREE` if there are no further attributes in the list.

Attributes may be attached to declarations and to types; these attributes may be accessed with the following macros. All attributes are stored in this way, and many also cause other changes to the declaration or type or to other internal compiler data structures.

Tree Macro: `tree` DECL_ATTRIBUTES `(tree decl)` ¶

  This macro returns the attributes on the declaration decl.

Tree Macro: `tree` TYPE_ATTRIBUTES `(tree type)` ¶

  This macro returns the attributes on the type type.

### 11.6 Expressions ¶

The internal representation for expressions is for the most part quite straightforward. However, there are a few facts that one must bear in mind. In particular, the expression “tree” is actually a directed acyclic graph. (For example there may be many references to the integer constant zero throughout the source program; many of these will be represented by the same expression node.) You should not rely on certain kinds of node being shared, nor should you rely on certain kinds of nodes being unshared.

The following macros can be used with all expression nodes:

`TREE_TYPE` ¶

  Returns the type of the expression. This value may not be precisely the same type that would be given the expression in the original program.

In what follows, some nodes that one might expect to always have type `bool` are documented to have either integral or boolean type. At some point in the future, the C front end may also make use of this same intermediate representation, and at this point these nodes will certainly have integral type. The previous sentence is not meant to imply that the C++ front end does not or will not give these nodes integral type.

Below, we list the various kinds of expression nodes. Except where noted otherwise, the operands to an expression are accessed using the `TREE_OPERAND` macro. For example, to access the first operand to a binary plus expression `expr`, use:

    TREE_OPERAND (expr, 0)

As this example indicates, the operands are zero-indexed.

#### 11.6.1 Constant expressions ¶

The table below begins with constants, moves on to unary expressions, then proceeds to binary expressions, and concludes with various other kinds of expressions:

`INTEGER_CST`

  These nodes represent integer constants. Note that the type of these constants is obtained with `TREE_TYPE`; they are not always of type `int`. In particular, `char` constants are represented with `INTEGER_CST` nodes. The value of the integer constant `e` is represented in an array of HOST_WIDE_INT. There are enough elements in the array to represent the value without taking extra elements for redundant 0s or -1. The number of elements used to represent `e` is available via `TREE_INT_CST_NUNITS`. Element `i` can be extracted by using `TREE_INT_CST_ELT (e, i)`. `TREE_INT_CST_LOW` is a shorthand for `TREE_INT_CST_ELT (e, 0)`.

  The functions `tree_fits_shwi_p` and `tree_fits_uhwi_p` can be used to tell if the value is small enough to fit in a signed HOST_WIDE_INT or an unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT respectively. The value can then be extracted using `tree_to_shwi` and `tree_to_uhwi`.

`REAL_CST`

  FIXME: Talk about how to obtain representations of this constant, do comparisons, and so forth.

`FIXED_CST`

  These nodes represent fixed-point constants. The type of these constants is obtained with `TREE_TYPE`. `TREE_FIXED_CST_PTR` points to a `struct fixed_value`; `TREE_FIXED_CST` returns the structure itself. `struct fixed_value` contains `data` with the size of two `HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT` and `mode` as the associated fixed-point machine mode for `data`.

`COMPLEX_CST`

  These nodes are used to represent complex number constants, that is a `__complex__` whose parts are constant nodes. The `TREE_REALPART` and `TREE_IMAGPART` return the real and the imaginary parts respectively.

`VECTOR_CST`

  These nodes are used to represent vector constants. Each vector constant v is treated as a specific instance of an arbitrary-length sequence that itself contains ‘`VECTOR_CST_NPATTERNS (v)`’ interleaved patterns. Each pattern has the form:

      { base0, base1, base1 + step, base1 + step * 2, ... }

  The first three elements in each pattern are enough to determine the values of the other elements. However, if all steps are zero, only the first two elements are needed. If in addition each base1 is equal to the corresponding base0, only the first element in each pattern is needed. The number of encoded elements per pattern is given by ‘`VECTOR_CST_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v)`’.

  For example, the constant:

      { 0, 1, 2, 6, 3, 8, 4, 10, 5, 12, 6, 14, 7, 16, 8, 18 }

  is interpreted as an interleaving of the sequences:

      { 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 }
      { 1, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 }

  where the sequences are represented by the following patterns:

      base0 == 0, base1 == 2, step == 1
      base0 == 1, base1 == 6, step == 2

  In this case:

      VECTOR_CST_NPATTERNS (v) == 2
      VECTOR_CST_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v) == 3

  The vector is therefore encoded using the first 6 elements (‘`{ 0, 1, 2, 6, 3, 8 }`’), with the remaining 10 elements being implicit extensions of them.

  Sometimes this scheme can create two possible encodings of the same vector. For example { 0, 1 } could be seen as two patterns with one element each or one pattern with two elements (base0 and base1). The canonical encoding is always the one with the fewest patterns or (if both encodings have the same number of patterns) the one with the fewest encoded elements.

  ‘`vector_cst_encoding_nelts (v)`’ gives the total number of encoded elements in v, which is 6 in the example above. `VECTOR_CST_ENCODED_ELTS (v)` gives a pointer to the elements encoded in v and `VECTOR_CST_ENCODED_ELT (v, i)` accesses the value of encoded element i.

  ‘`VECTOR_CST_DUPLICATE_P (v)`’ is true if v simply contains repeated instances of ‘`VECTOR_CST_NPATTERNS (v)`’ values. This is a shorthand for testing ‘`VECTOR_CST_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v) == 1`’.

  ‘`VECTOR_CST_STEPPED_P (v)`’ is true if at least one pattern in v has a nonzero step. This is a shorthand for testing ‘`VECTOR_CST_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v) == 3`’.

  The utility function `vector_cst_elt` gives the value of an arbitrary index as a `tree`. `vector_cst_int_elt` gives the same value as a `wide_int`.

`STRING_CST`

  These nodes represent string-constants. The `TREE_STRING_LENGTH` returns the length of the string, as an `int`. The `TREE_STRING_POINTER` is a `char*` containing the string itself. The string may not be `NUL`-terminated, and it may contain embedded `NUL` characters. Therefore, the `TREE_STRING_LENGTH` includes the trailing `NUL` if it is present.

  For wide string constants, the `TREE_STRING_LENGTH` is the number of bytes in the string, and the `TREE_STRING_POINTER` points to an array of the bytes of the string, as represented on the target system (that is, as integers in the target endianness). Wide and non-wide string constants are distinguished only by the `TREE_TYPE` of the `STRING_CST`.

  FIXME: The formats of string constants are not well-defined when the target system bytes are not the same width as host system bytes.

`POLY_INT_CST`

  These nodes represent invariants that depend on some target-specific runtime parameters. They consist of `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS` coefficients, with the first coefficient being the constant term and the others being multipliers that are applied to the runtime parameters.

  `POLY_INT_CST_ELT (x, i)` references coefficient number i of `POLY_INT_CST` node x. Each coefficient is an `INTEGER_CST`.

#### 11.6.2 References to storage ¶

`ARRAY_REF`

  These nodes represent array accesses. The first operand is the array; the second is the index. To calculate the address of the memory accessed, you must scale the index by the size of the type of the array elements. The type of these expressions must be the type of a component of the array. The third and fourth operands are used after gimplification to represent the lower bound and component size but should not be used directly; call `array_ref_low_bound` and `array_ref_element_size` instead.

`ARRAY_RANGE_REF`

  These nodes represent access to a range (or “slice”) of an array. The operands are the same as that for `ARRAY_REF` and have the same meanings. The type of these expressions must be an array whose component type is the same as that of the first operand. The range of that array type determines the amount of data these expressions access.

`COMPONENT_REF`

  These nodes represent non-static data member accesses. The first operand is the object (rather than a pointer to it); the second operand is the `FIELD_DECL` for the data member. The third operand represents the byte offset of the field, but should not be used directly; call `component_ref_field_offset` instead.

`ADDR_EXPR`

  These nodes are used to represent the address of an object. (These expressions will always have pointer or reference type.) The operand may be another expression, or it may be a declaration.

  As an extension, GCC allows users to take the address of a label. In this case, the operand of the `ADDR_EXPR` will be a `LABEL_DECL`. The type of such an expression is `void*`.

  If the object addressed is not an lvalue, a temporary is created, and the address of the temporary is used.

`INDIRECT_REF`

  These nodes are used to represent the object pointed to by a pointer. The operand is the pointer being dereferenced; it will always have pointer or reference type.

`MEM_REF`

  These nodes are used to represent the object pointed to by a pointer offset by a constant. The first operand is the pointer being dereferenced; it will always have pointer or reference type. The second operand is a pointer constant serving as constant offset applied to the pointer being dereferenced with its type specifying the type to be used for type-based alias analysis. The type of the node specifies the alignment of the access.

`TARGET_MEM_REF`

  These nodes represent memory accesses whose address directly map to an addressing mode of the target architecture. The first argument is `TMR_BASE` and is a pointer to the object being accessed. The second argument is `TMR_OFFSET` which is a pointer constant with dual purpose serving both as constant offset and holder of the type used for type-based alias analysis. The first two operands have exactly the same semantics as `MEM_REF`. The third and fourth operand are `TMR_INDEX` and `TMR_STEP` where the former is an integer and the latter an integer constant. The fifth and last operand is `TMR_INDEX2` which is an alternate non-constant offset. Any of the third to last operands may be `NULL` if the corresponding component does not appear in the address, but `TMR_INDEX` and `TMR_STEP` shall be always supplied in pair. The Address of the `TARGET_MEM_REF` is determined in the following way.

      TMR_BASE + TMR_OFFSET + TMR_INDEX * TMR_STEP + TMR_INDEX2

  The type of the node specifies the alignment of the access.

#### 11.6.3 Unary and Binary Expressions ¶

`NEGATE_EXPR`

  These nodes represent unary negation of the single operand, for both integer and floating-point types. The type of negation can be determined by looking at the type of the expression.

  The behavior of this operation on signed arithmetic overflow is controlled by the `flag_wrapv` and `flag_trapv` variables.

`ABS_EXPR`

  These nodes represent the absolute value of the single operand, for both integer and floating-point types. This is typically used to implement the `abs`, `labs` and `llabs` builtins for integer types, and the `fabs`, `fabsf` and `fabsl` builtins for floating point types. The type of abs operation can be determined by looking at the type of the expression.

  This node is not used for complex types. To represent the modulus or complex abs of a complex value, use the `BUILT_IN_CABS`, `BUILT_IN_CABSF` or `BUILT_IN_CABSL` builtins, as used to implement the C99 `cabs`, `cabsf` and `cabsl` built-in functions.

`ABSU_EXPR`

  These nodes represent the absolute value of the single operand in equivalent unsigned type such that `ABSU_EXPR` of `TYPE_MIN` is well defined.

`BIT_NOT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent bitwise complement, and will always have integral type. The only operand is the value to be complemented.

`TRUTH_NOT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent logical negation, and will always have integral (or boolean) type. The operand is the value being negated. The type of the operand and that of the result are always of `BOOLEAN_TYPE` or `INTEGER_TYPE`.

`PREDECREMENT_EXPR`
`PREINCREMENT_EXPR`
`POSTDECREMENT_EXPR`
`POSTINCREMENT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent increment and decrement expressions. The value of the single operand is computed, and the operand incremented or decremented. In the case of `PREDECREMENT_EXPR` and `PREINCREMENT_EXPR`, the value of the expression is the value resulting after the increment or decrement; in the case of `POSTDECREMENT_EXPR` and `POSTINCREMENT_EXPR` is the value before the increment or decrement occurs. The type of the operand, like that of the result, will be either integral, boolean, or floating-point.

`FIX_TRUNC_EXPR`

  These nodes represent conversion of a floating-point value to an integer. The single operand will have a floating-point type, while the complete expression will have an integral (or boolean) type. The operand is rounded towards zero.

`FLOAT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent conversion of an integral (or boolean) value to a floating-point value. The single operand will have integral type, while the complete expression will have a floating-point type.

  FIXME: How is the operand supposed to be rounded? Is this dependent on `-mieee`?

`COMPLEX_EXPR`

  These nodes are used to represent complex numbers constructed from two expressions of the same (integer or real) type. The first operand is the real part and the second operand is the imaginary part.

`CONJ_EXPR`

  These nodes represent the conjugate of their operand.

`REALPART_EXPR`
`IMAGPART_EXPR`

  These nodes represent respectively the real and the imaginary parts of complex numbers (their sole argument).

`NON_LVALUE_EXPR`

  These nodes indicate that their one and only operand is not an lvalue. A back end can treat these identically to the single operand.

`NOP_EXPR`

  These nodes are used to represent conversions that do not require any code-generation. For example, conversion of a `char*` to an `int*` does not require any code be generated; such a conversion is represented by a `NOP_EXPR`. The single operand is the expression to be converted. The conversion from a pointer to a reference is also represented with a `NOP_EXPR`.

`CONVERT_EXPR`

  These nodes are similar to `NOP_EXPR`s, but are used in those situations where code may need to be generated. For example, if an `int*` is converted to an `int` code may need to be generated on some platforms. These nodes are never used for C++-specific conversions, like conversions between pointers to different classes in an inheritance hierarchy. Any adjustments that need to be made in such cases are always indicated explicitly. Similarly, a user-defined conversion is never represented by a `CONVERT_EXPR`; instead, the function calls are made explicit.

`FIXED_CONVERT_EXPR`

  These nodes are used to represent conversions that involve fixed-point values. For example, from a fixed-point value to another fixed-point value, from an integer to a fixed-point value, from a fixed-point value to an integer, from a floating-point value to a fixed-point value, or from a fixed-point value to a floating-point value.

`LSHIFT_EXPR`
`RSHIFT_EXPR`
`LROTATE_EXPR`
`RROTATE_EXPR`

  These nodes represent left and right shifts and rotates, respectively. The first operand is the value to shift or rotate; it will always be of integral type. The second operand is an expression for the number of bits by which to shift or rotate. Right shift should be treated as arithmetic, i.e., the high-order bits should be zero-filled when the expression has unsigned type and filled with the sign bit when the expression has signed type. All other operations are logical, operating on the bit representation. Note that the result is undefined if the second operand is larger than or equal to the first operand’s type size. Unlike most nodes, these can have a vector as first operand and a scalar as second operand.

`BIT_IOR_EXPR`
`BIT_XOR_EXPR`
`BIT_AND_EXPR`

  These nodes represent bitwise inclusive or, bitwise exclusive or, and bitwise and, respectively. Both operands will always have integral type.

`TRUTH_ANDIF_EXPR`
`TRUTH_ORIF_EXPR`

  These nodes represent logical “and” and logical “or”, respectively. These operators are not strict; i.e., the second operand is evaluated only if the value of the expression is not determined by evaluation of the first operand. The type of the operands and that of the result are always of `BOOLEAN_TYPE` or `INTEGER_TYPE`.

`TRUTH_AND_EXPR`
`TRUTH_OR_EXPR`
`TRUTH_XOR_EXPR`

  These nodes represent logical and, logical or, and logical exclusive or. They are strict; both arguments are always evaluated. There are no corresponding operators in C or C++, but the front end will sometimes generate these expressions anyhow, if it can tell that strictness does not matter. The type of the operands and that of the result are always of `BOOLEAN_TYPE` or `INTEGER_TYPE`.

`POINTER_PLUS_EXPR`

  This node represents pointer arithmetic. The first operand is always a pointer/reference type. The second operand is always an unsigned integer type compatible with sizetype. This and POINTER_DIFF_EXPR are the only binary arithmetic operators that can operate on pointer types.

`POINTER_DIFF_EXPR`

  This node represents pointer subtraction. The two operands always have pointer/reference type. It returns a signed integer of the same precision as the pointers. The behavior is undefined if the difference of the two pointers, seen as infinite precision non-negative integers, does not fit in the result type. The result does not depend on the pointer type, it is not divided by the size of the pointed-to type.

`PLUS_EXPR`
`MINUS_EXPR`
`MULT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent various binary arithmetic operations. Respectively, these operations are addition, subtraction (of the second operand from the first) and multiplication. Their operands may have either integral or floating type, but there will never be case in which one operand is of floating type and the other is of integral type.

  The behavior of these operations on signed arithmetic overflow is controlled by the `flag_wrapv` and `flag_trapv` variables.

`WIDEN_MULT_EXPR`

  This node represents a widening multiplication. The operands have integral types with same b bits of precision, producing an integral type result with at least 2b bits of precision. The behaviour is equivalent to extending both operands, possibly of different signedness, to the result type, then multiplying them.

`MULT_HIGHPART_EXPR`

  This node represents the “high-part” of a widening multiplication. For an integral type with b bits of precision, the result is the most significant b bits of the full 2b product. Both operands must have the same precision and same signedness.

`RDIV_EXPR`

  This node represents a floating point division operation.

`TRUNC_DIV_EXPR`
`FLOOR_DIV_EXPR`
`CEIL_DIV_EXPR`
`ROUND_DIV_EXPR`

  These nodes represent integer division operations that return an integer result. `TRUNC_DIV_EXPR` rounds towards zero, `FLOOR_DIV_EXPR` rounds towards negative infinity, `CEIL_DIV_EXPR` rounds towards positive infinity and `ROUND_DIV_EXPR` rounds to the closest integer. Integer division in C and C++ is truncating, i.e. `TRUNC_DIV_EXPR`.

  The behavior of these operations on signed arithmetic overflow, when dividing the minimum signed integer by minus one, is controlled by the `flag_wrapv` and `flag_trapv` variables.

`TRUNC_MOD_EXPR`
`FLOOR_MOD_EXPR`
`CEIL_MOD_EXPR`
`ROUND_MOD_EXPR`

  These nodes represent the integer remainder or modulus operation. The integer modulus of two operands `a` and `b` is defined as `a - (a/b)*b` where the division calculated using the corresponding division operator. Hence for `TRUNC_MOD_EXPR` this definition assumes division using truncation towards zero, i.e. `TRUNC_DIV_EXPR`. Integer remainder in C and C++ uses truncating division, i.e. `TRUNC_MOD_EXPR`.

`EXACT_DIV_EXPR`

  The `EXACT_DIV_EXPR` code is used to represent integer divisions where the numerator is known to be an exact multiple of the denominator. This allows the backend to choose between the faster of `TRUNC_DIV_EXPR`, `CEIL_DIV_EXPR` and `FLOOR_DIV_EXPR` for the current target.

`LT_EXPR`
`LE_EXPR`
`GT_EXPR`
`GE_EXPR`
`LTGT_EXPR`
`EQ_EXPR`
`NE_EXPR`

  These nodes represent the less than, less than or equal to, greater than, greater than or equal to, less or greater than, equal, and not equal comparison operators. The first and second operands will either be both of integral type, both of floating type or both of vector type, except for LTGT_EXPR where they will only be both of floating type. The result type of these expressions will always be of integral, boolean or signed integral vector type. These operations return the result type’s zero value for false, the result type’s one value for true, and a vector whose elements are zero (false) or minus one (true) for vectors.

  For floating point comparisons, if we honor IEEE NaNs and either operand is NaN, then `NE_EXPR` always returns true and the remaining operators always return false. On some targets, comparisons against an IEEE NaN, other than equality and inequality, may generate a floating-point exception.

`ORDERED_EXPR`
`UNORDERED_EXPR`

  These nodes represent non-trapping ordered and unordered comparison operators. These operations take two floating point operands and determine whether they are ordered or unordered relative to each other. If either operand is an IEEE NaN, their comparison is defined to be unordered, otherwise the comparison is defined to be ordered. The result type of these expressions will always be of integral or boolean type. These operations return the result type’s zero value for false, and the result type’s one value for true.

`UNLT_EXPR`
`UNLE_EXPR`
`UNGT_EXPR`
`UNGE_EXPR`
`UNEQ_EXPR`

  These nodes represent the unordered comparison operators. These operations take two floating point operands and determine whether the operands are unordered or are less than, less than or equal to, greater than, greater than or equal to, or equal respectively. For example, `UNLT_EXPR` returns true if either operand is an IEEE NaN or the first operand is less than the second. All these operations are guaranteed not to generate a floating point exception. The result type of these expressions will always be of integral or boolean type. These operations return the result type’s zero value for false, and the result type’s one value for true.

`MODIFY_EXPR`

  These nodes represent assignment. The left-hand side is the first operand; the right-hand side is the second operand. The left-hand side will be a `VAR_DECL`, `INDIRECT_REF`, `COMPONENT_REF`, or other lvalue.

  These nodes are used to represent not only assignment with ‘`=`’ but also compound assignments (like ‘`+=`’), by reduction to ‘`=`’ assignment. In other words, the representation for ‘`i += 3`’ looks just like that for ‘`i = i + 3`’.

`INIT_EXPR`

  These nodes are just like `MODIFY_EXPR`, but are used only when a variable is initialized, rather than assigned to subsequently. This means that we can assume that the target of the initialization is not used in computing its own value; any reference to the lhs in computing the rhs is undefined.

`COMPOUND_EXPR`

  These nodes represent comma-expressions. The first operand is an expression whose value is computed and thrown away prior to the evaluation of the second operand. The value of the entire expression is the value of the second operand.

`COND_EXPR`

  These nodes represent `?:` expressions. The first operand is of boolean or integral type. If it evaluates to a nonzero value, the second operand should be evaluated, and returned as the value of the expression. Otherwise, the third operand is evaluated, and returned as the value of the expression.

  The second operand must have the same type as the entire expression, unless it unconditionally throws an exception or calls a noreturn function, in which case it should have void type. The same constraints apply to the third operand. This allows array bounds checks to be represented conveniently as `(i >= 0 && i < 10) ? i : abort()`.

  As a GNU extension, the C language front-ends allow the second operand of the `?:` operator may be omitted in the source. For example, `x ? : 3` is equivalent to `x ? x : 3`, assuming that `x` is an expression without side effects. In the tree representation, however, the second operand is always present, possibly protected by `SAVE_EXPR` if the first argument does cause side effects.

`CALL_EXPR`

  These nodes are used to represent calls to functions, including non-static member functions. `CALL_EXPR`s are implemented as expression nodes with a variable number of operands. Rather than using `TREE_OPERAND` to extract them, it is preferable to use the specialized accessor macros and functions that operate specifically on `CALL_EXPR` nodes.

  `CALL_EXPR_FN` returns a pointer to the function to call; it is always an expression whose type is a `POINTER_TYPE`.

  The number of arguments to the call is returned by `call_expr_nargs`, while the arguments themselves can be accessed with the `CALL_EXPR_ARG` macro. The arguments are zero-indexed and numbered left-to-right. You can iterate over the arguments using `FOR_EACH_CALL_EXPR_ARG`, as in:

      tree call, arg;
      call_expr_arg_iterator iter;
      FOR_EACH_CALL_EXPR_ARG (arg, iter, call)
        /* arg is bound to successive arguments of call.  */
        ...;

  For non-static member functions, there will be an operand corresponding to the `this` pointer. There will always be expressions corresponding to all of the arguments, even if the function is declared with default arguments and some arguments are not explicitly provided at the call sites.

  `CALL_EXPR`s also have a `CALL_EXPR_STATIC_CHAIN` operand that is used to implement nested functions. This operand is otherwise null.

`CLEANUP_POINT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent full-expressions. The single operand is an expression to evaluate. Any destructor calls engendered by the creation of temporaries during the evaluation of that expression should be performed immediately after the expression is evaluated.

`CONSTRUCTOR`

  These nodes represent the brace-enclosed initializers for a structure or an array. They contain a sequence of component values made out of a vector of constructor_elt, which is a (`INDEX`, `VALUE`) pair.

  If the `TREE_TYPE` of the `CONSTRUCTOR` is a `RECORD_TYPE`, `UNION_TYPE` or `QUAL_UNION_TYPE` then the `INDEX` of each node in the sequence will be a `FIELD_DECL` and the `VALUE` will be the expression used to initialize that field.

  If the `TREE_TYPE` of the `CONSTRUCTOR` is an `ARRAY_TYPE`, then the `INDEX` of each node in the sequence will be an `INTEGER_CST` or a `RANGE_EXPR` of two `INTEGER_CST`s. A single `INTEGER_CST` indicates which element of the array is being assigned to. A `RANGE_EXPR` indicates an inclusive range of elements to initialize. In both cases the `VALUE` is the corresponding initializer. It is re-evaluated for each element of a `RANGE_EXPR`. If the `INDEX` is `NULL_TREE`, then the initializer is for the next available array element.

  In the front end, you should not depend on the fields appearing in any particular order. However, in the middle end, fields must appear in declaration order. You should not assume that all fields will be represented. Unrepresented fields will be cleared (zeroed), unless the CONSTRUCTOR_NO_CLEARING flag is set, in which case their value becomes undefined.

`COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR` ¶

  These nodes represent ISO C99 compound literals. The `COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR_DECL_EXPR` is a `DECL_EXPR` containing an anonymous `VAR_DECL` for the unnamed object represented by the compound literal; the `DECL_INITIAL` of that `VAR_DECL` is a `CONSTRUCTOR` representing the brace-enclosed list of initializers in the compound literal. That anonymous `VAR_DECL` can also be accessed directly by the `COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR_DECL` macro.

`SAVE_EXPR`

  A `SAVE_EXPR` represents an expression (possibly involving side effects) that is used more than once. The side effects should occur only the first time the expression is evaluated. Subsequent uses should just reuse the computed value. The first operand to the `SAVE_EXPR` is the expression to evaluate. The side effects should be executed where the `SAVE_EXPR` is first encountered in a depth-first preorder traversal of the expression tree.

`TARGET_EXPR`

  A `TARGET_EXPR` represents a temporary object. The first operand is a `VAR_DECL` for the temporary variable. The second operand is the initializer for the temporary. The initializer is evaluated and, if non-void, copied (bitwise) into the temporary. If the initializer is void, that means that it will perform the initialization itself.

  Often, a `TARGET_EXPR` occurs on the right-hand side of an assignment, or as the second operand to a comma-expression which is itself the right-hand side of an assignment, etc. In this case, we say that the `TARGET_EXPR` is “normal”; otherwise, we say it is “orphaned”. For a normal `TARGET_EXPR` the temporary variable should be treated as an alias for the left-hand side of the assignment, rather than as a new temporary variable.

  The third operand to the `TARGET_EXPR`, if present, is a cleanup-expression (i.e., destructor call) for the temporary. If this expression is orphaned, then this expression must be executed when the statement containing this expression is complete. These cleanups must always be executed in the order opposite to that in which they were encountered. Note that if a temporary is created on one branch of a conditional operator (i.e., in the second or third operand to a `COND_EXPR`), the cleanup must be run only if that branch is actually executed.

`VA_ARG_EXPR`

  This node is used to implement support for the C/C++ variable argument-list mechanism. It represents expressions like `va_arg (ap, type)`. Its `TREE_TYPE` yields the tree representation for `type` and its sole argument yields the representation for `ap`.

`ANNOTATE_EXPR`

  This node is used to attach markers to an expression. The first operand is the annotated expression, the second is an `INTEGER_CST` with a value from `enum annot_expr_kind`, the third is an `INTEGER_CST`.

#### 11.6.4 Vectors ¶

`VEC_DUPLICATE_EXPR`

  This node has a single operand and represents a vector in which every element is equal to that operand.

`VEC_SERIES_EXPR`

  This node represents a vector formed from a scalar base and step, given as the first and second operands respectively. Element i of the result is equal to ‘`base + i*step`’.

  This node is restricted to integral types, in order to avoid specifying the rounding behavior for floating-point types.

`VEC_LSHIFT_EXPR`
`VEC_RSHIFT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent whole vector left and right shifts, respectively. The first operand is the vector to shift; it will always be of vector type. The second operand is an expression for the number of bits by which to shift. Note that the result is undefined if the second operand is larger than or equal to the first operand’s type size.

`VEC_WIDEN_MULT_HI_EXPR`
`VEC_WIDEN_MULT_LO_EXPR`

  These nodes represent widening vector multiplication of the high and low parts of the two input vectors, respectively. Their operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements (`N`) of the same integral type. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements, of an integral type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `VEC_WIDEN_MULT_HI_EXPR` the high `N/2` elements of the two vector are multiplied to produce the vector of `N/2` products. In the case of `VEC_WIDEN_MULT_LO_EXPR` the low `N/2` elements of the two vector are multiplied to produce the vector of `N/2` products.

`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS`

  This internal function represents widening vector addition of two input vectors. Its operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements (`N`) of the same integral type. The result is a vector that contains the same amount (`N`) of elements, of an integral type whose size is twice as wide, as the input vectors. If the current target does not implement the corresponding optabs the vectorizer may choose to split it into either a pair of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_HI` and `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_LO` or `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_EVEN` and `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_ODD`, depending on what optabs the target implements.

`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_HI`
`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_LO`

  These internal functions represent widening vector addition of the high and low parts of the two input vectors, respectively. Their operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements (`N`) of the same integral type. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements, of an integral type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_HI` the high `N/2` elements of the two vectors are added to produce the vector of `N/2` additions. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_LO` the low `N/2` elements of the two vectors are added to produce the vector of `N/2` additions.

`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_EVEN`
`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_ODD`

  These internal functions represent widening vector addition of the even and odd elements of the two input vectors, respectively. Their operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements (`N`) of the same integral type. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements, of an integral type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_EVEN` the even `N/2` elements of the two vectors are added to produce the vector of `N/2` additions. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_ODD` the odd `N/2` elements of the two vectors are added to produce the vector of `N/2` additions.

`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS`

  This internal function represents widening vector subtraction of two input vectors. Its operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements (`N`) of the same integral type. The result is a vector that contains the same amount (`N`) of elements, of an integral type whose size is twice as wide, as the input vectors. If the current target does not implement the corresponding optabs the vectorizer may choose to split it into either a pair of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_HI` and `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_LO` or `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_EVEN` and `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_ODD`, depending on what optabs the target implements.

`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_HI`
`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_LO`

  These internal functions represent widening vector subtraction of the high and low parts of the two input vectors, respectively. Their operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements (`N`) of the same integral type. The high/low elements of the second vector are subtracted from the high/low elements of the first. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements, of an integral type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_HI` the high `N/2` elements of the second vector are subtracted from the high `N/2` of the first to produce the vector of `N/2` subtractions. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_LO` the low `N/2` elements of the second vector are subtracted from the low `N/2` of the first to produce the vector of `N/2` subtractions.

`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_EVEN`
`IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_ODD`

  These internal functions represent widening vector subtraction of the even and odd parts of the two input vectors, respectively. Their operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements (`N`) of the same integral type. The even/odd elements of the second vector are subtracted from the even/odd elements of the first. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements, of an integral type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_EVEN` the even `N/2` elements of the second vector are subtracted from the even `N/2` of the first to produce the vector of `N/2` subtractions. In the case of `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_ODD` the odd `N/2` elements of the second vector are subtracted from the odd `N/2` of the first to produce the vector of `N/2` subtractions.

`VEC_UNPACK_HI_EXPR`
`VEC_UNPACK_LO_EXPR`

  These nodes represent unpacking of the high and low parts of the input vector, respectively. The single operand is a vector that contains `N` elements of the same integral or floating point type. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements, of an integral or floating point type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `VEC_UNPACK_HI_EXPR` the high `N/2` elements of the vector are extracted and widened (promoted). In the case of `VEC_UNPACK_LO_EXPR` the low `N/2` elements of the vector are extracted and widened (promoted).

`VEC_UNPACK_FLOAT_HI_EXPR`
`VEC_UNPACK_FLOAT_LO_EXPR`

  These nodes represent unpacking of the high and low parts of the input vector, where the values are converted from fixed point to floating point. The single operand is a vector that contains `N` elements of the same integral type. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements of a floating point type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `VEC_UNPACK_FLOAT_HI_EXPR` the high `N/2` elements of the vector are extracted, converted and widened. In the case of `VEC_UNPACK_FLOAT_LO_EXPR` the low `N/2` elements of the vector are extracted, converted and widened.

`VEC_UNPACK_FIX_TRUNC_HI_EXPR`
`VEC_UNPACK_FIX_TRUNC_LO_EXPR`

  These nodes represent unpacking of the high and low parts of the input vector, where the values are truncated from floating point to fixed point. The single operand is a vector that contains `N` elements of the same floating point type. The result is a vector that contains half as many elements of an integral type whose size is twice as wide. In the case of `VEC_UNPACK_FIX_TRUNC_HI_EXPR` the high `N/2` elements of the vector are extracted and converted with truncation. In the case of `VEC_UNPACK_FIX_TRUNC_LO_EXPR` the low `N/2` elements of the vector are extracted and converted with truncation.

`VEC_PACK_TRUNC_EXPR`

  This node represents packing of truncated elements of the two input vectors into the output vector. Input operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements of the same integral or floating point type. The result is a vector that contains twice as many elements of an integral or floating point type whose size is half as wide. The elements of the two vectors are demoted and merged (concatenated) to form the output vector.

`VEC_PACK_SAT_EXPR`

  This node represents packing of elements of the two input vectors into the output vector using saturation. Input operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements of the same integral type. The result is a vector that contains twice as many elements of an integral type whose size is half as wide. The elements of the two vectors are demoted and merged (concatenated) to form the output vector.

`VEC_PACK_FIX_TRUNC_EXPR`

  This node represents packing of elements of the two input vectors into the output vector, where the values are converted from floating point to fixed point. Input operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements of a floating point type. The result is a vector that contains twice as many elements of an integral type whose size is half as wide. The elements of the two vectors are merged (concatenated) to form the output vector.

`VEC_PACK_FLOAT_EXPR`

  This node represents packing of elements of the two input vectors into the output vector, where the values are converted from fixed point to floating point. Input operands are vectors that contain the same number of elements of an integral type. The result is a vector that contains twice as many elements of floating point type whose size is half as wide. The elements of the two vectors are merged (concatenated) to form the output vector.

`VEC_COND_EXPR`

  These nodes represent `?:` expressions. The three operands must be vectors of the same size and number of elements. The second and third operands must have the same type as the entire expression. The first operand is of signed integral vector type. If an element of the first operand evaluates to a zero value, the corresponding element of the result is taken from the third operand. If it evaluates to a minus one value, it is taken from the second operand. It should never evaluate to any other value currently, but optimizations should not rely on that property. In contrast with a `COND_EXPR`, all operands are always evaluated.

`SAD_EXPR`

  This node represents the Sum of Absolute Differences operation. The three operands must be vectors of integral types. The first and second operand must have the same type. The size of the vector element of the third operand must be at lease twice of the size of the vector element of the first and second one. The SAD is calculated between the first and second operands, added to the third operand, and returned.

### 11.7 Statements ¶

Most statements in GIMPLE are assignment statements, represented by `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`. No other C expressions can appear at statement level; a reference to a volatile object is converted into a `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`.

There are also several varieties of complex statements.

#### 11.7.1 Basic Statements ¶

`ASM_EXPR`

  Used to represent an inline assembly statement. For an inline assembly statement like:

      asm ("mov x, y");

  The `ASM_STRING` macro will return a `STRING_CST` node for `"mov x, y"`. If the original statement made use of the extended-assembly syntax, then `ASM_OUTPUTS`, `ASM_INPUTS`, and `ASM_CLOBBERS` will be the outputs, inputs, and clobbers for the statement, represented as `STRING_CST` nodes. The extended-assembly syntax looks like:

      asm ("fsinx %1,%0" : "=f" (result) : "f" (angle));

  The first string is the `ASM_STRING`, containing the instruction template. The next two strings are the output and inputs, respectively; this statement has no clobbers. As this example indicates, “plain” assembly statements are merely a special case of extended assembly statements; they have no cv-qualifiers, outputs, inputs, or clobbers. All of the strings will be `NUL`-terminated, and will contain no embedded `NUL`-characters.

  If the assembly statement is declared `volatile`, or if the statement was not an extended assembly statement, and is therefore implicitly volatile, then the predicate `ASM_VOLATILE_P` will hold of the `ASM_EXPR`.

`DECL_EXPR`

  Used to represent a local declaration. The `DECL_EXPR_DECL` macro can be used to obtain the entity declared. This declaration may be a `LABEL_DECL`, indicating that the label declared is a local label. (As an extension, GCC allows the declaration of labels with scope.) In C, this declaration may be a `FUNCTION_DECL`, indicating the use of the GCC nested function extension. For more information, see Functions.

`LABEL_EXPR`

  Used to represent a label. The `LABEL_DECL` declared by this statement can be obtained with the `LABEL_EXPR_LABEL` macro. The `IDENTIFIER_NODE` giving the name of the label can be obtained from the `LABEL_DECL` with `DECL_NAME`.

`GOTO_EXPR`

  Used to represent a `goto` statement. The `GOTO_DESTINATION` will usually be a `LABEL_DECL`. However, if the “computed goto” extension has been used, the `GOTO_DESTINATION` will be an arbitrary expression indicating the destination. This expression will always have pointer type.

`RETURN_EXPR`

  Used to represent a `return` statement. Operand 0 represents the value to return. It should either be the `RESULT_DECL` for the containing function, or a `MODIFY_EXPR` or `INIT_EXPR` setting the function’s `RESULT_DECL`. It will be `NULL_TREE` if the statement was just

      return;

`LOOP_EXPR`

  These nodes represent “infinite” loops. The `LOOP_EXPR_BODY` represents the body of the loop. It should be executed forever, unless an `EXIT_EXPR` is encountered.

`EXIT_EXPR`

  These nodes represent conditional exits from the nearest enclosing `LOOP_EXPR`. The single operand is the condition; if it is nonzero, then the loop should be exited. An `EXIT_EXPR` will only appear within a `LOOP_EXPR`.

`SWITCH_EXPR`

  Used to represent a `switch` statement. The `SWITCH_COND` is the expression on which the switch is occurring. The `SWITCH_BODY` is the body of the switch statement. `SWITCH_ALL_CASES_P` is true if the switch includes a default label or the case label ranges cover all possible values of the condition expression.

  Note that `TREE_TYPE` for a `SWITCH_EXPR` represents the original type of switch expression as given in the source, before any compiler conversions, instead of the type of the switch expression itself (which is not meaningful).

`CASE_LABEL_EXPR`

  Use to represent a `case` label, range of `case` labels, or a `default` label. If `CASE_LOW` is `NULL_TREE`, then this is a `default` label. Otherwise, if `CASE_HIGH` is `NULL_TREE`, then this is an ordinary `case` label. In this case, `CASE_LOW` is an expression giving the value of the label. Both `CASE_LOW` and `CASE_HIGH` are `INTEGER_CST` nodes. These values will have the same type as the condition expression in the switch statement.

  Otherwise, if both `CASE_LOW` and `CASE_HIGH` are defined, the statement is a range of case labels. Such statements originate with the extension that allows users to write things of the form:

      case 2 ... 5:

  The first value will be `CASE_LOW`, while the second will be `CASE_HIGH`.

`DEBUG_BEGIN_STMT`

  Marks the beginning of a source statement, for purposes of debug information generation.

#### 11.7.2 Blocks ¶

Block scopes and the variables they declare in GENERIC are expressed using the `BIND_EXPR` code, which in previous versions of GCC was primarily used for the C statement-expression extension.

Variables in a block are collected into `BIND_EXPR_VARS` in declaration order through their `TREE_CHAIN` field. Any runtime initialization is moved out of `DECL_INITIAL` and into a statement in the controlled block. When gimplifying from C or C++, this initialization replaces the `DECL_STMT`. These variables will never require cleanups. The scope of these variables is just the body

Variable-length arrays (VLAs) complicate this process, as their size often refers to variables initialized earlier in the block and their initialization involves an explicit stack allocation. To handle this, we add an indirection and replace them with a pointer to stack space allocated by means of `alloca`. In most cases, we also arrange for this space to be reclaimed when the enclosing `BIND_EXPR` is exited, the exception to this being when there is an explicit call to `alloca` in the source code, in which case the stack is left depressed on exit of the `BIND_EXPR`.

A C++ program will usually contain more `BIND_EXPR`s than there are syntactic blocks in the source code, since several C++ constructs have implicit scopes associated with them. On the other hand, although the C++ front end uses pseudo-scopes to handle cleanups for objects with destructors, these don’t translate into the GIMPLE form; multiple declarations at the same level use the same `BIND_EXPR`.

#### 11.7.3 Statement Sequences ¶

Multiple statements at the same nesting level are collected into a `STATEMENT_LIST`. Statement lists are modified and traversed using the interface in ‘`tree-iterator.h`’.

#### 11.7.4 Empty Statements ¶

Whenever possible, statements with no effect are discarded. But if they are nested within another construct which cannot be discarded for some reason, they are instead replaced with an empty statement, generated by `build_empty_stmt`. Initially, all empty statements were shared, after the pattern of the Java front end, but this caused a lot of trouble in practice.

An empty statement is represented as `(void)0`.

#### 11.7.5 Jumps ¶

Other jumps are expressed by either `GOTO_EXPR` or `RETURN_EXPR`.

The operand of a `GOTO_EXPR` must be either a label or a variable containing the address to jump to.

The operand of a `RETURN_EXPR` is either `NULL_TREE`, `RESULT_DECL`, or a `MODIFY_EXPR` which sets the return value. It would be nice to move the `MODIFY_EXPR` into a separate statement, but the special return semantics in `expand_return` make that difficult. It may still happen in the future, perhaps by moving most of that logic into `expand_assignment`.

#### 11.7.6 Cleanups ¶

Destructors for local C++ objects and similar dynamic cleanups are represented in GIMPLE by a `TRY_FINALLY_EXPR`. `TRY_FINALLY_EXPR` has two operands, both of which are a sequence of statements to execute. The first sequence is executed. When it completes the second sequence is executed.

The first sequence may complete in the following ways:

1. Execute the last statement in the sequence and fall off the end.
2. Execute a goto statement (`GOTO_EXPR`) to an ordinary label outside the sequence.
3. Execute a return statement (`RETURN_EXPR`).
4. Throw an exception. This is currently not explicitly represented in GIMPLE.

The second sequence is not executed if the first sequence completes by calling `setjmp` or `exit` or any other function that does not return. The second sequence is also not executed if the first sequence completes via a non-local goto or a computed goto (in general the compiler does not know whether such a goto statement exits the first sequence or not, so we assume that it doesn’t).

After the second sequence is executed, if it completes normally by falling off the end, execution continues wherever the first sequence would have continued, by falling off the end, or doing a goto, etc.

If the second sequence is an `EH_ELSE_EXPR` selector, then the sequence in its first operand is used when the first sequence completes normally, and that in its second operand is used for exceptional cleanups, i.e., when an exception propagates out of the first sequence.

`TRY_FINALLY_EXPR` complicates the flow graph, since the cleanup needs to appear on every edge out of the controlled block; this reduces the freedom to move code across these edges. Therefore, the EH lowering pass which runs before most of the optimization passes eliminates these expressions by explicitly adding the cleanup to each edge. Rethrowing the exception is represented using `RESX_EXPR`.

#### 11.7.7 OpenMP ¶

All the statements starting with `OMP_` represent directives and clauses used by the OpenMP API https://www.openmp.org.

`OMP_PARALLEL`

  Represents `#pragma omp parallel [clause1 … clauseN]`. It has four operands:

  Operand `OMP_PARALLEL_BODY` is valid while in GENERIC and High GIMPLE forms. It contains the body of code to be executed by all the threads. During GIMPLE lowering, this operand becomes `NULL` and the body is emitted linearly after `OMP_PARALLEL`.

  Operand `OMP_PARALLEL_CLAUSES` is the list of clauses associated with the directive.

  Operand `OMP_PARALLEL_FN` is created by `pass_lower_omp`, it contains the `FUNCTION_DECL` for the function that will contain the body of the parallel region.

  Operand `OMP_PARALLEL_DATA_ARG` is also created by `pass_lower_omp`. If there are shared variables to be communicated to the children threads, this operand will contain the `VAR_DECL` that contains all the shared values and variables.

`OMP_FOR`
`OMP_SIMD`
`OMP_DISTRIBUTE`
`OMP_TASKLOOP`
`OMP_LOOP`

  Represents `#pragma omp for [clause1 … clauseN]` and related loop constructs (respectively).

  A single `OMP_FOR` node represents an entire nest of collapsed loops; as noted below, some of its arguments are vectors of length equal to the collapse depth, and the corresponding elements holding data specific to a particular loop in the nest. These vectors are numbered from the outside in so that the outermost loop is element 0.

  These constructs have seven operands:

  Operand `OMP_FOR_BODY` contains the loop body.

  Operand `OMP_FOR_CLAUSES` is the list of clauses associated with the directive.

  Operand `OMP_FOR_INIT` is a vector containing iteration variable initializations of the form `VAR = N1`.

  Operand `OMP_FOR_COND` is vector containing loop conditional expressions of the form `VAR {<,>,<=,>=,!=} N2`.

  Operand `OMP_FOR_INCR` is a vector containing loop index increment expressions of the form `VAR {+=,-=} INCR`.

  Operand `OMP_FOR_PRE_BODY` contains side effect code from operands `OMP_FOR_INIT`, `OMP_FOR_COND` and `OMP_FOR_INCR`. These side effects are part of the `OMP_FOR` block but must be evaluated before the start of loop body. `OMP_FOR_PRE_BODY` specifically includes `DECL_EXPR`s for iteration variables that are declared in the nested `for` loops. Note this field is not a vector; it may be null, but otherwise is usually a statement list collecting the side effect code from all the collapsed loops.

  Operand `OMP_FOR_ORIG_DECLS` holds `VAR_DECLS` for the original user-specified iterator variables in the source code. In some cases, like C++ class iterators or range `for` with decomposition, the `for` loop is rewritten by the front end to use a temporary iteration variable. The purpose of this field is to make the original variables available to the gimplifier so it can adjust their data-sharing attributes and diagnose errors. `OMP_FOR_ORIG_DECLS` is a vector field, with each element holding a list of `VAR_DECLS` for the corresponding collapse level.

  The loop index variable `VAR` must be an integer variable, which is implicitly private to each thread. For rectangular loops, the bounds `N1` and `N2` and the increment expression `INCR` are required to be loop-invariant integer expressions that are evaluated without any synchronization. The evaluation order, frequency of evaluation and side effects are otherwise unspecified by the standard.

  For non-rectangular loops, in which the bounds of an inner loop depend on the index of an outer loop, the bit `OMP_FOR_NON_RECTANGULAR` must be set. In this case `N1` and `N2` are not ordinary expressions, but instead a `TREE_VEC` with three elements: the `DECL` for the outer loop variable, a multiplication factor, and an offset.

`OMP_SECTIONS`

  Represents `#pragma omp sections [clause1 … clauseN]`.

  Operand `OMP_SECTIONS_BODY` contains the sections body, which in turn contains a set of `OMP_SECTION` nodes for each of the concurrent sections delimited by `#pragma omp section`.

  Operand `OMP_SECTIONS_CLAUSES` is the list of clauses associated with the directive.

`OMP_SECTION`

  Section delimiter for `OMP_SECTIONS`.

`OMP_SINGLE`

  Represents `#pragma omp single`.

  Operand `OMP_SINGLE_BODY` contains the body of code to be executed by a single thread.

  Operand `OMP_SINGLE_CLAUSES` is the list of clauses associated with the directive.

`OMP_MASTER`

  Represents `#pragma omp master`.

  Operand `OMP_MASTER_BODY` contains the body of code to be executed by the master thread.

`OMP_ORDERED`

  Represents `#pragma omp ordered`.

  Operand `OMP_ORDERED_BODY` contains the body of code to be executed in the sequential order dictated by the loop index variable.

`OMP_CRITICAL`

  Represents `#pragma omp critical [name]`.

  Operand `OMP_CRITICAL_BODY` is the critical section.

  Operand `OMP_CRITICAL_NAME` is an optional identifier to label the critical section.

`OMP_RETURN`

  This does not represent any OpenMP directive, it is an artificial marker to indicate the end of the body of an OpenMP. It is used by the flow graph (`tree-cfg.cc`) and OpenMP region building code (`omp-low.cc`).

`OMP_CONTINUE`

  Similarly, this instruction does not represent an OpenMP directive, it is used by `OMP_FOR` (and similar codes) as well as `OMP_SECTIONS` to mark the place where the code needs to loop to the next iteration, or the next section, respectively.

  In some cases, `OMP_CONTINUE` is placed right before `OMP_RETURN`. But if there are cleanups that need to occur right after the looping body, it will be emitted between `OMP_CONTINUE` and `OMP_RETURN`.

`OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK`

  This is another statement that doesn’t correspond to an OpenMP directive. It is used to mark sections of code in another directive that must be structured block sequences, in particular for sequences of intervening code in the body of an `OMP_FOR`. It is not necessary to use this when the entire body of a directive is required to be a structured block sequence, since that is implicit in the representation of the corresponding node.

  This tree node is used only to allow error checking transfers of control in/out of the structured block sequence after gimplification. It has a single operand (`OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK_BODY`) that is the code within the structured block sequence.

`OMP_ATOMIC`

  Represents `#pragma omp atomic`.

  Operand 0 is the address at which the atomic operation is to be performed.

  Operand 1 is the expression to evaluate. The gimplifier tries three alternative code generation strategies. Whenever possible, an atomic update built-in is used. If that fails, a compare-and-swap loop is attempted. If that also fails, a regular critical section around the expression is used.

`OMP_CLAUSE`

  Represents clauses associated with one of the `OMP_` directives. Clauses are represented by separate subcodes defined in `tree.h`. Clauses codes can be one of: `OMP_CLAUSE_PRIVATE`, `OMP_CLAUSE_SHARED`, `OMP_CLAUSE_FIRSTPRIVATE`, `OMP_CLAUSE_LASTPRIVATE`, `OMP_CLAUSE_COPYIN`, `OMP_CLAUSE_COPYPRIVATE`, `OMP_CLAUSE_IF`, `OMP_CLAUSE_NUM_THREADS`, `OMP_CLAUSE_SCHEDULE`, `OMP_CLAUSE_NOWAIT`, `OMP_CLAUSE_ORDERED`, `OMP_CLAUSE_DEFAULT`, `OMP_CLAUSE_REDUCTION`, `OMP_CLAUSE_COLLAPSE`, `OMP_CLAUSE_UNTIED`, `OMP_CLAUSE_FINAL`, and `OMP_CLAUSE_MERGEABLE`. Each code represents the corresponding OpenMP clause.

  Clauses associated with the same directive are chained together via `OMP_CLAUSE_CHAIN`. Those clauses that accept a list of variables are restricted to exactly one, accessed with `OMP_CLAUSE_VAR`. Therefore, multiple variables under the same clause `C` need to be represented as multiple `C` clauses chained together. This facilitates adding new clauses during compilation.

#### 11.7.8 OpenACC ¶

All the statements starting with `OACC_` represent directives and clauses used by the OpenACC API https://www.openacc.org.

`OACC_CACHE`

  Represents `#pragma acc cache (var …)`.

`OACC_DATA`

  Represents `#pragma acc data [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_DECLARE`

  Represents `#pragma acc declare [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_ENTER_DATA`

  Represents `#pragma acc enter data [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_EXIT_DATA`

  Represents `#pragma acc exit data [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_HOST_DATA`

  Represents `#pragma acc host_data [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_KERNELS`

  Represents `#pragma acc kernels [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_LOOP`

  Represents `#pragma acc loop [clause1 … clauseN]`.

  See the description of the `OMP_FOR` code.

`OACC_PARALLEL`

  Represents `#pragma acc parallel [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_SERIAL`

  Represents `#pragma acc serial [clause1 … clauseN]`.

`OACC_UPDATE`

  Represents `#pragma acc update [clause1 … clauseN]`.

### 11.8 Functions ¶

A function is represented by a `FUNCTION_DECL` node. It stores the basic pieces of the function such as body, parameters, and return type as well as information on the surrounding context, visibility, and linkage.

#### 11.8.1 Function Basics ¶

A function has four core parts: the name, the parameters, the result, and the body. The following macros and functions access these parts of a `FUNCTION_DECL` as well as other basic features:

`DECL_NAME` ¶

  This macro returns the unqualified name of the function, as an `IDENTIFIER_NODE`. For an instantiation of a function template, the `DECL_NAME` is the unqualified name of the template, not something like `f<int>`. The value of `DECL_NAME` is undefined when used on a constructor, destructor, overloaded operator, or type-conversion operator, or any function that is implicitly generated by the compiler. See below for macros that can be used to distinguish these cases.

`DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` ¶

  This macro returns the mangled name of the function, also an `IDENTIFIER_NODE`. This name does not contain leading underscores on systems that prefix all identifiers with underscores. The mangled name is computed in the same way on all platforms; if special processing is required to deal with the object file format used on a particular platform, it is the responsibility of the back end to perform those modifications. (Of course, the back end should not modify `DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` itself.)

  Using `DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` will cause additional memory to be allocated (for the mangled name of the entity) so it should be used only when emitting assembly code. It should not be used within the optimizers to determine whether or not two declarations are the same, even though some of the existing optimizers do use it in that way. These uses will be removed over time.

`DECL_ARGUMENTS` ¶

  This macro returns the `PARM_DECL` for the first argument to the function. Subsequent `PARM_DECL` nodes can be obtained by following the `TREE_CHAIN` links.

`DECL_RESULT` ¶

  This macro returns the `RESULT_DECL` for the function.

`DECL_SAVED_TREE` ¶

  This macro returns the complete body of the function.

`TREE_TYPE` ¶

  This macro returns the `FUNCTION_TYPE` or `METHOD_TYPE` for the function.

`DECL_INITIAL` ¶

  A function that has a definition in the current translation unit will have a non-`NULL` `DECL_INITIAL`. However, back ends should not make use of the particular value given by `DECL_INITIAL`.

  It should contain a tree of `BLOCK` nodes that mirrors the scopes that variables are bound in the function. Each block contains a list of decls declared in a basic block, a pointer to a chain of blocks at the next lower scope level, then a pointer to the next block at the same level and a backpointer to the parent `BLOCK` or `FUNCTION_DECL`. So given a function as follows:

      void foo()
      {
        int a;
        {
          int b;
        }
        int c;
      }

  you would get the following:

      tree foo = FUNCTION_DECL;
      tree decl_a = VAR_DECL;
      tree decl_b = VAR_DECL;
      tree decl_c = VAR_DECL;
      tree block_a = BLOCK;
      tree block_b = BLOCK;
      tree block_c = BLOCK;
      BLOCK_VARS(block_a) = decl_a;
      BLOCK_SUBBLOCKS(block_a) = block_b;
      BLOCK_CHAIN(block_a) = block_c;
      BLOCK_SUPERCONTEXT(block_a) = foo;
      BLOCK_VARS(block_b) = decl_b;
      BLOCK_SUPERCONTEXT(block_b) = block_a;
      BLOCK_VARS(block_c) = decl_c;
      BLOCK_SUPERCONTEXT(block_c) = foo;
      DECL_INITIAL(foo) = block_a;

#### 11.8.2 Function Properties ¶

To determine the scope of a function, you can use the `DECL_CONTEXT` macro. This macro will return the class (either a `RECORD_TYPE` or a `UNION_TYPE`) or namespace (a `NAMESPACE_DECL`) of which the function is a member. For a virtual function, this macro returns the class in which the function was actually defined, not the base class in which the virtual declaration occurred.

In C, the `DECL_CONTEXT` for a function maybe another function. This representation indicates that the GNU nested function extension is in use. For details on the semantics of nested functions, see the GCC Manual. The nested function can refer to local variables in its containing function. Such references are not explicitly marked in the tree structure; back ends must look at the `DECL_CONTEXT` for the referenced `VAR_DECL`. If the `DECL_CONTEXT` for the referenced `VAR_DECL` is not the same as the function currently being processed, and neither `DECL_EXTERNAL` nor `TREE_STATIC` hold, then the reference is to a local variable in a containing function, and the back end must take appropriate action.

`DECL_EXTERNAL` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is undefined.

`TREE_PUBLIC` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function has external linkage.

`TREE_STATIC` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function has been defined.

`TREE_THIS_VOLATILE` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function does not return normally.

`TREE_READONLY` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function can only read its arguments.

`DECL_PURE_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function can only read its arguments, but may also read global memory.

`DECL_VIRTUAL_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is virtual.

`DECL_ARTIFICIAL` ¶

  This macro holds if the function was implicitly generated by the compiler, rather than explicitly declared. In addition to implicitly generated class member functions, this macro holds for the special functions created to implement static initialization and destruction, to compute run-time type information, and so forth.

`DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_TARGET` ¶

  This macro returns a tree node that holds the target options that are to be used to compile this particular function or `NULL_TREE` if the function is to be compiled with the target options specified on the command line.

`DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_OPTIMIZATION` ¶

  This macro returns a tree node that holds the optimization options that are to be used to compile this particular function or `NULL_TREE` if the function is to be compiled with the optimization options specified on the command line.

### 11.9 Language-dependent trees ¶

Front ends may wish to keep some state associated with various GENERIC trees while parsing. To support this, trees provide a set of flags that may be used by the front end. They are accessed using `TREE_LANG_FLAG_n` where ‘`n`’ is currently 0 through 6.

If necessary, a front end can use some language-dependent tree codes in its GENERIC representation, so long as it provides a hook for converting them to GIMPLE and doesn’t expect them to work with any (hypothetical) optimizers that run before the conversion to GIMPLE. The intermediate representation used while parsing C and C++ looks very little like GENERIC, but the C and C++ gimplifier hooks are perfectly happy to take it as input and spit out GIMPLE.

### 11.10 C and C++ Trees ¶

This section documents the internal representation used by GCC to represent C and C++ source programs. When presented with a C or C++ source program, GCC parses the program, performs semantic analysis (including the generation of error messages), and then produces the internal representation described here. This representation contains a complete representation for the entire translation unit provided as input to the front end. This representation is then typically processed by a code-generator in order to produce machine code, but could also be used in the creation of source browsers, intelligent editors, automatic documentation generators, interpreters, and any other programs needing the ability to process C or C++ code.

This section explains the internal representation. In particular, it documents the internal representation for C and C++ source constructs, and the macros, functions, and variables that can be used to access these constructs. The C++ representation is largely a superset of the representation used in the C front end. There is only one construct used in C that does not appear in the C++ front end and that is the GNU “nested function” extension. Many of the macros documented here do not apply in C because the corresponding language constructs do not appear in C.

The C and C++ front ends generate a mix of GENERIC trees and ones specific to C and C++. These language-specific trees are higher-level constructs than the ones in GENERIC to make the parser’s job easier. This section describes those trees that aren’t part of GENERIC as well as aspects of GENERIC trees that are treated in a language-specific manner.

If you are developing a “back end”, be it is a code-generator or some other tool, that uses this representation, you may occasionally find that you need to ask questions not easily answered by the functions and macros available here. If that situation occurs, it is quite likely that GCC already supports the functionality you desire, but that the interface is simply not documented here. In that case, you should ask the GCC maintainers (via mail to gcc@gcc.gnu.org) about documenting the functionality you require. Similarly, if you find yourself writing functions that do not deal directly with your back end, but instead might be useful to other people using the GCC front end, you should submit your patches for inclusion in GCC.

#### 11.10.1 Types for C++ ¶

In C++, an array type is not qualified; rather the type of the array elements is qualified. This situation is reflected in the intermediate representation. The macros described here will always examine the qualification of the underlying element type when applied to an array type. (If the element type is itself an array, then the recursion continues until a non-array type is found, and the qualification of this type is examined.) So, for example, `CP_TYPE_CONST_P` will hold of the type `const int ()[7]`, denoting an array of seven `int`s.

The following functions and macros deal with cv-qualification of types:

`cp_type_quals` ¶

  This function returns the set of type qualifiers applied to this type. This value is `TYPE_UNQUALIFIED` if no qualifiers have been applied. The `TYPE_QUAL_CONST` bit is set if the type is `const`-qualified. The `TYPE_QUAL_VOLATILE` bit is set if the type is `volatile`-qualified. The `TYPE_QUAL_RESTRICT` bit is set if the type is `restrict`-qualified.

`CP_TYPE_CONST_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the type is `const`-qualified.

`CP_TYPE_VOLATILE_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the type is `volatile`-qualified.

`CP_TYPE_RESTRICT_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the type is `restrict`-qualified.

`CP_TYPE_CONST_NON_VOLATILE_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a type that is `const`-qualified, but not `volatile`-qualified; other cv-qualifiers are ignored as well: only the `const`-ness is tested.

A few other macros and functions are usable with all types:

`TYPE_SIZE` ¶

  The number of bits required to represent the type, represented as an `INTEGER_CST`. For an incomplete type, `TYPE_SIZE` will be `NULL_TREE`.

`TYPE_ALIGN` ¶

  The alignment of the type, in bits, represented as an `int`.

`TYPE_NAME` ¶

  This macro returns a declaration (in the form of a `TYPE_DECL`) for the type. (Note this macro does not return an `IDENTIFIER_NODE`, as you might expect, given its name!) You can look at the `DECL_NAME` of the `TYPE_DECL` to obtain the actual name of the type. The `TYPE_NAME` will be `NULL_TREE` for a type that is not a built-in type, the result of a typedef, or a named class type.

`CP_INTEGRAL_TYPE` ¶

  This predicate holds if the type is an integral type. Notice that in C++, enumerations are not integral types.

`ARITHMETIC_TYPE_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the type is an integral type (in the C++ sense) or a floating point type.

`CLASS_TYPE_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a class-type.

`TYPE_BUILT_IN` ¶

  This predicate holds for a built-in type.

`TYPE_PTRDATAMEM_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the type is a pointer to data member.

`TYPE_PTR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the type is a pointer type, and the pointee is not a data member.

`TYPE_PTRFN_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a pointer to function type.

`TYPE_PTROB_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a pointer to object type. Note however that it does not hold for the generic pointer to object type `void *`. You may use `TYPE_PTROBV_P` to test for a pointer to object type as well as `void *`.

The table below describes types specific to C and C++ as well as language-dependent info about GENERIC types.

`POINTER_TYPE`

  Used to represent pointer types, and pointer to data member types. If `TREE_TYPE` is a pointer to data member type, then `TYPE_PTRDATAMEM_P` will hold. For a pointer to data member type of the form ‘`T X::*`’, `TYPE_PTRMEM_CLASS_TYPE` will be the type `X`, while `TYPE_PTRMEM_POINTED_TO_TYPE` will be the type `T`.

`RECORD_TYPE`

  Used to represent `struct` and `class` types in C and C++. If `TYPE_PTRMEMFUNC_P` holds, then this type is a pointer-to-member type. In that case, the `TYPE_PTRMEMFUNC_FN_TYPE` is a `POINTER_TYPE` pointing to a `METHOD_TYPE`. The `METHOD_TYPE` is the type of a function pointed to by the pointer-to-member function. If `TYPE_PTRMEMFUNC_P` does not hold, this type is a class type. For more information, see Classes.

`UNKNOWN_TYPE`

  This node is used to represent a type the knowledge of which is insufficient for a sound processing.

`TYPENAME_TYPE`

  Used to represent a construct of the form `typename T::A`. The `TYPE_CONTEXT` is `T`; the `TYPE_NAME` is an `IDENTIFIER_NODE` for `A`. If the type is specified via a template-id, then `TYPENAME_TYPE_FULLNAME` yields a `TEMPLATE_ID_EXPR`. The `TREE_TYPE` is non-`NULL` if the node is implicitly generated in support for the implicit typename extension; in which case the `TREE_TYPE` is a type node for the base-class.

`TYPEOF_TYPE`

  Used to represent the `__typeof__` extension. The `TYPE_FIELDS` is the expression the type of which is being represented.

#### 11.10.2 Namespaces ¶

The root of the entire intermediate representation is the variable `global_namespace`. This is the namespace specified with `::` in C++ source code. All other namespaces, types, variables, functions, and so forth can be found starting with this namespace.

However, except for the fact that it is distinguished as the root of the representation, the global namespace is no different from any other namespace. Thus, in what follows, we describe namespaces generally, rather than the global namespace in particular.

A namespace is represented by a `NAMESPACE_DECL` node.

The following macros and functions can be used on a `NAMESPACE_DECL`:

`DECL_NAME` ¶

  This macro is used to obtain the `IDENTIFIER_NODE` corresponding to the unqualified name of the name of the namespace (see Identifiers). The name of the global namespace is ‘`::`’, even though in C++ the global namespace is unnamed. However, you should use comparison with `global_namespace`, rather than `DECL_NAME` to determine whether or not a namespace is the global one. An unnamed namespace will have a `DECL_NAME` equal to `anonymous_namespace_name`. Within a single translation unit, all unnamed namespaces will have the same name.

`DECL_CONTEXT` ¶

  This macro returns the enclosing namespace. The `DECL_CONTEXT` for the `global_namespace` is `NULL_TREE`.

`DECL_NAMESPACE_ALIAS` ¶

  If this declaration is for a namespace alias, then `DECL_NAMESPACE_ALIAS` is the namespace for which this one is an alias.

  Do not attempt to use `cp_namespace_decls` for a namespace which is an alias. Instead, follow `DECL_NAMESPACE_ALIAS` links until you reach an ordinary, non-alias, namespace, and call `cp_namespace_decls` there.

`DECL_NAMESPACE_STD_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the namespace is the special `::std` namespace.

`cp_namespace_decls` ¶

  This function will return the declarations contained in the namespace, including types, overloaded functions, other namespaces, and so forth. If there are no declarations, this function will return `NULL_TREE`. The declarations are connected through their `TREE_CHAIN` fields.

  Although most entries on this list will be declarations, `TREE_LIST` nodes may also appear. In this case, the `TREE_VALUE` will be an `OVERLOAD`. The value of the `TREE_PURPOSE` is unspecified; back ends should ignore this value. As with the other kinds of declarations returned by `cp_namespace_decls`, the `TREE_CHAIN` will point to the next declaration in this list.

  For more information on the kinds of declarations that can occur on this list, See Declarations. Some declarations will not appear on this list. In particular, no `FIELD_DECL`, `LABEL_DECL`, or `PARM_DECL` nodes will appear here.

  This function cannot be used with namespaces that have `DECL_NAMESPACE_ALIAS` set.

#### 11.10.3 Classes ¶

Besides namespaces, the other high-level scoping construct in C++ is the class. (Throughout this manual the term class is used to mean the types referred to in the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard as classes; these include types defined with the `class`, `struct`, and `union` keywords.)

A class type is represented by either a `RECORD_TYPE` or a `UNION_TYPE`. A class declared with the `union` tag is represented by a `UNION_TYPE`, while classes declared with either the `struct` or the `class` tag are represented by `RECORD_TYPE`s. You can use the `CLASSTYPE_DECLARED_CLASS` macro to discern whether or not a particular type is a `class` as opposed to a `struct`. This macro will be true only for classes declared with the `class` tag.

Almost all members are available on the `TYPE_FIELDS` list. Given one member, the next can be found by following the `TREE_CHAIN`. You should not depend in any way on the order in which fields appear on this list. All nodes on this list will be ‘`DECL`’ nodes. A `FIELD_DECL` is used to represent a non-static data member, a `VAR_DECL` is used to represent a static data member, and a `TYPE_DECL` is used to represent a type. Note that the `CONST_DECL` for an enumeration constant will appear on this list, if the enumeration type was declared in the class. (Of course, the `TYPE_DECL` for the enumeration type will appear here as well.) There are no entries for base classes on this list. In particular, there is no `FIELD_DECL` for the “base-class portion” of an object. If a function member is overloaded, each of the overloaded functions appears; no `OVERLOAD` nodes appear on the `TYPE_FIELDS` list. Implicitly declared functions (including default constructors, copy constructors, assignment operators, and destructors) will appear on this list as well.

The `TYPE_VFIELD` is a compiler-generated field used to point to virtual function tables. It may or may not appear on the `TYPE_FIELDS` list. However, back ends should handle the `TYPE_VFIELD` just like all the entries on the `TYPE_FIELDS` list.

Every class has an associated binfo, which can be obtained with `TYPE_BINFO`. Binfos are used to represent base-classes. The binfo given by `TYPE_BINFO` is the degenerate case, whereby every class is considered to be its own base-class. The base binfos for a particular binfo are held in a vector, whose length is obtained with `BINFO_N_BASE_BINFOS`. The base binfos themselves are obtained with `BINFO_BASE_BINFO` and `BINFO_BASE_ITERATE`. To add a new binfo, use `BINFO_BASE_APPEND`. The vector of base binfos can be obtained with `BINFO_BASE_BINFOS`, but normally you do not need to use that. The class type associated with a binfo is given by `BINFO_TYPE`. It is not always the case that `BINFO_TYPE (TYPE_BINFO (x))`, because of typedefs and qualified types. Neither is it the case that `TYPE_BINFO (BINFO_TYPE (y))` is the same binfo as `y`. The reason is that if `y` is a binfo representing a base-class `B` of a derived class `D`, then `BINFO_TYPE (y)` will be `B`, and `TYPE_BINFO (BINFO_TYPE (y))` will be `B` as its own base-class, rather than as a base-class of `D`.

The access to a base type can be found with `BINFO_BASE_ACCESS`. This will produce `access_public_node`, `access_private_node` or `access_protected_node`. If bases are always public, `BINFO_BASE_ACCESSES` may be `NULL`.

`BINFO_VIRTUAL_P` is used to specify whether the binfo is inherited virtually or not. The other flags, `BINFO_FLAG_0` to `BINFO_FLAG_6`, can be used for language specific use.

The following macros can be used on a tree node representing a class-type.

`LOCAL_CLASS_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the class is local class i.e. declared inside a function body.

`TYPE_POLYMORPHIC_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the class has at least one virtual function (declared or inherited).

`TYPE_HAS_DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTOR` ¶

  This predicate holds whenever its argument represents a class-type with default constructor.

`CLASSTYPE_HAS_MUTABLE` ¶
`TYPE_HAS_MUTABLE_P` ¶

  These predicates hold for a class-type having a mutable data member.

`CLASSTYPE_NON_POD_P` ¶

  This predicate holds only for class-types that are not PODs.

`TYPE_HAS_NEW_OPERATOR` ¶

  This predicate holds for a class-type that defines `operator new`.

`TYPE_HAS_ARRAY_NEW_OPERATOR` ¶

  This predicate holds for a class-type for which `operator new[]` is defined.

`TYPE_OVERLOADS_CALL_EXPR` ¶

  This predicate holds for class-type for which the function call `operator()` is overloaded.

`TYPE_OVERLOADS_ARRAY_REF` ¶

  This predicate holds for a class-type that overloads `operator[]`

`TYPE_OVERLOADS_ARROW` ¶

  This predicate holds for a class-type for which `operator->` is overloaded.

#### 11.10.4 Functions for C++ ¶

A function is represented by a `FUNCTION_DECL` node. A set of overloaded functions is sometimes represented by an `OVERLOAD` node.

An `OVERLOAD` node is not a declaration, so none of the ‘`DECL_`’ macros should be used on an `OVERLOAD`. An `OVERLOAD` node is similar to a `TREE_LIST`. Use `OVL_CURRENT` to get the function associated with an `OVERLOAD` node; use `OVL_NEXT` to get the next `OVERLOAD` node in the list of overloaded functions. The macros `OVL_CURRENT` and `OVL_NEXT` are actually polymorphic; you can use them to work with `FUNCTION_DECL` nodes as well as with overloads. In the case of a `FUNCTION_DECL`, `OVL_CURRENT` will always return the function itself, and `OVL_NEXT` will always be `NULL_TREE`.

To determine the scope of a function, you can use the `DECL_CONTEXT` macro. This macro will return the class (either a `RECORD_TYPE` or a `UNION_TYPE`) or namespace (a `NAMESPACE_DECL`) of which the function is a member. For a virtual function, this macro returns the class in which the function was actually defined, not the base class in which the virtual declaration occurred.

If a friend function is defined in a class scope, the `DECL_FRIEND_CONTEXT` macro can be used to determine the class in which it was defined. For example, in

    class C { friend void f() {} };

the `DECL_CONTEXT` for `f` will be the `global_namespace`, but the `DECL_FRIEND_CONTEXT` will be the `RECORD_TYPE` for `C`.

The following macros and functions can be used on a `FUNCTION_DECL`:

`DECL_MAIN_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a function that is the program entry point `::code`.

`DECL_LOCAL_FUNCTION_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function was declared at block scope, even though it has a global scope.

`DECL_ANTICIPATED` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is a built-in function but its prototype is not yet explicitly declared.

`DECL_EXTERN_C_FUNCTION_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is declared as an ‘`extern "C"`’ function.

`DECL_LINKONCE_P` ¶

  This macro holds if multiple copies of this function may be emitted in various translation units. It is the responsibility of the linker to merge the various copies. Template instantiations are the most common example of functions for which `DECL_LINKONCE_P` holds; G++ instantiates needed templates in all translation units which require them, and then relies on the linker to remove duplicate instantiations.

  FIXME: This macro is not yet implemented.

`DECL_FUNCTION_MEMBER_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the function is a member of a class, rather than a member of a namespace.

`DECL_STATIC_FUNCTION_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function a static member function.

`DECL_NONSTATIC_MEMBER_FUNCTION_P` ¶

  This macro holds for a non-static member function.

`DECL_CONST_MEMFUNC_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a `const`-member function.

`DECL_VOLATILE_MEMFUNC_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a `volatile`-member function.

`DECL_CONSTRUCTOR_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the function is a constructor.

`DECL_NONCONVERTING_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the constructor is a non-converting constructor.

`DECL_COMPLETE_CONSTRUCTOR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a function which is a constructor for an object of a complete type.

`DECL_BASE_CONSTRUCTOR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a function which is a constructor for a base class sub-object.

`DECL_COPY_CONSTRUCTOR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds for a function which is a copy-constructor.

`DECL_DESTRUCTOR_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the function is a destructor.

`DECL_COMPLETE_DESTRUCTOR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is the destructor for an object a complete type.

`DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the function is an overloaded operator.

`DECL_CONV_FN_P` ¶

  This macro holds if the function is a type-conversion operator.

`DECL_GLOBAL_CTOR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is a file-scope initialization function.

`DECL_GLOBAL_DTOR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is a file-scope finalization function.

`DECL_THUNK_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is a thunk.

  These functions represent stub code that adjusts the `this` pointer and then jumps to another function. When the jumped-to function returns, control is transferred directly to the caller, without returning to the thunk. The first parameter to the thunk is always the `this` pointer; the thunk should add `THUNK_DELTA` to this value. (The `THUNK_DELTA` is an `int`, not an `INTEGER_CST`.)

  Then, if `THUNK_VCALL_OFFSET` (an `INTEGER_CST`) is nonzero the adjusted `this` pointer must be adjusted again. The complete calculation is given by the following pseudo-code:

      this += THUNK_DELTA
      if (THUNK_VCALL_OFFSET)
        this += (*((ptrdiff_t **) this))[THUNK_VCALL_OFFSET]

  Finally, the thunk should jump to the location given by `DECL_INITIAL`; this will always be an expression for the address of a function.

`DECL_NON_THUNK_FUNCTION_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function is not a thunk function.

`GLOBAL_INIT_PRIORITY` ¶

  If either `DECL_GLOBAL_CTOR_P` or `DECL_GLOBAL_DTOR_P` holds, then this gives the initialization priority for the function. The linker will arrange that all functions for which `DECL_GLOBAL_CTOR_P` holds are run in increasing order of priority before `main` is called. When the program exits, all functions for which `DECL_GLOBAL_DTOR_P` holds are run in the reverse order.

`TYPE_RAISES_EXCEPTIONS` ¶

  This macro returns the list of exceptions that a (member-)function can raise. The returned list, if non `NULL`, is comprised of nodes whose `TREE_VALUE` represents a type.

`TYPE_NOTHROW_P` ¶

  This predicate holds when the exception-specification of its arguments is of the form ‘`()`’.

`DECL_ARRAY_DELETE_OPERATOR_P` ¶

  This predicate holds if the function an overloaded `operator delete[]`.

#### 11.10.5 Statements for C and C++ ¶

A function that has a definition in the current translation unit has a non-`NULL` `DECL_INITIAL`. However, back ends should not make use of the particular value given by `DECL_INITIAL`.

The `DECL_SAVED_TREE` gives the complete body of the function.

There are tree nodes corresponding to all of the source-level statement constructs, used within the C and C++ frontends. These are enumerated here, together with a list of the various macros that can be used to obtain information about them. There are a few macros that can be used with all statements:

`STMT_IS_FULL_EXPR_P` ¶

  In C++, statements normally constitute “full expressions”; temporaries created during a statement are destroyed when the statement is complete. However, G++ sometimes represents expressions by statements; these statements will not have `STMT_IS_FULL_EXPR_P` set. Temporaries created during such statements should be destroyed when the innermost enclosing statement with `STMT_IS_FULL_EXPR_P` set is exited.

Here is the list of the various statement nodes, and the macros used to access them. This documentation describes the use of these nodes in non-template functions (including instantiations of template functions). In template functions, the same nodes are used, but sometimes in slightly different ways.

Many of the statements have substatements. For example, a `while` loop has a body, which is itself a statement. If the substatement is `NULL_TREE`, it is considered equivalent to a statement consisting of a single `;`, i.e., an expression statement in which the expression has been omitted. A substatement may in fact be a list of statements, connected via their `TREE_CHAIN`s. So, you should always process the statement tree by looping over substatements, like this:

    void process_stmt (stmt)
         tree stmt;
    {
      while (stmt)
        {
          switch (TREE_CODE (stmt))
            {
            case IF_STMT:
              process_stmt (THEN_CLAUSE (stmt));
              /* More processing here.  */
              break;

            ...
            }

          stmt = TREE_CHAIN (stmt);
        }
    }

In other words, while the `then` clause of an `if` statement in C++ can be only one statement (although that one statement may be a compound statement), the intermediate representation sometimes uses several statements chained together.

`BREAK_STMT`

  Used to represent a `break` statement. There are no additional fields.

`CLEANUP_STMT`

  Used to represent an action that should take place upon exit from the enclosing scope. Typically, these actions are calls to destructors for local objects, but back ends cannot rely on this fact. If these nodes are in fact representing such destructors, `CLEANUP_DECL` will be the `VAR_DECL` destroyed. Otherwise, `CLEANUP_DECL` will be `NULL_TREE`. In any case, the `CLEANUP_EXPR` is the expression to execute. The cleanups executed on exit from a scope should be run in the reverse order of the order in which the associated `CLEANUP_STMT`s were encountered.

`CONTINUE_STMT`

  Used to represent a `continue` statement. There are no additional fields.

`CTOR_STMT`

  Used to mark the beginning (if `CTOR_BEGIN_P` holds) or end (if `CTOR_END_P` holds of the main body of a constructor. See also `SUBOBJECT` for more information on how to use these nodes.

`DO_STMT`

  Used to represent a `do` loop. The body of the loop is given by `DO_BODY` while the termination condition for the loop is given by `DO_COND`. The condition for a `do`-statement is always an expression.

`EMPTY_CLASS_EXPR`

  Used to represent a temporary object of a class with no data whose address is never taken. (All such objects are interchangeable.) The `TREE_TYPE` represents the type of the object.

`EXPR_STMT`

  Used to represent an expression statement. Use `EXPR_STMT_EXPR` to obtain the expression.

`FOR_STMT`

  Used to represent a `for` statement. The `FOR_INIT_STMT` is the initialization statement for the loop. The `FOR_COND` is the termination condition. The `FOR_EXPR` is the expression executed right before the `FOR_COND` on each loop iteration; often, this expression increments a counter. The body of the loop is given by `FOR_BODY`. `FOR_SCOPE` holds the scope of the `for` statement (used in the C++ front end only). Note that `FOR_INIT_STMT` and `FOR_BODY` return statements, while `FOR_COND` and `FOR_EXPR` return expressions.

`HANDLER`

  Used to represent a C++ `catch` block. The `HANDLER_TYPE` is the type of exception that will be caught by this handler; it is equal (by pointer equality) to `NULL` if this handler is for all types. `HANDLER_PARMS` is the `DECL_STMT` for the catch parameter, and `HANDLER_BODY` is the code for the block itself.

`IF_STMT`

  Used to represent an `if` statement. The `IF_COND` is the expression.

  If the condition is a `TREE_LIST`, then the `TREE_PURPOSE` is a statement (usually a `DECL_STMT`). Each time the condition is evaluated, the statement should be executed. Then, the `TREE_VALUE` should be used as the conditional expression itself. This representation is used to handle C++ code like this:

      if (int i = 7) ...

  where there is a new local variable (or variables) declared within the condition.

  The `THEN_CLAUSE` represents the statement given by the `then` condition, while the `ELSE_CLAUSE` represents the statement given by the `else` condition.

  C++ distinguishes between this and `COND_EXPR` for handling templates.

`SUBOBJECT`

  In a constructor, these nodes are used to mark the point at which a subobject of `this` is fully constructed. If, after this point, an exception is thrown before a `CTOR_STMT` with `CTOR_END_P` set is encountered, the `SUBOBJECT_CLEANUP` must be executed. The cleanups must be executed in the reverse order in which they appear.

`SWITCH_STMT`

  Used to represent a `switch` statement. The `SWITCH_STMT_COND` is the expression on which the switch is occurring. See the documentation for an `IF_STMT` for more information on the representation used for the condition. The `SWITCH_STMT_BODY` is the body of the switch statement. The `SWITCH_STMT_TYPE` is the original type of switch expression as given in the source, before any compiler conversions. The `SWITCH_STMT_SCOPE` is the statement scope (used in the C++ front end only).

  There are also two boolean flags used with `SWITCH_STMT`. `SWITCH_STMT_ALL_CASES_P` is true if the switch includes a default label or the case label ranges cover all possible values of the condition expression. `SWITCH_STMT_NO_BREAK_P` is true if there are no `break` statements in the switch.

`TRY_BLOCK`

  Used to represent a `try` block. The body of the try block is given by `TRY_STMTS`. Each of the catch blocks is a `HANDLER` node. The first handler is given by `TRY_HANDLERS`. Subsequent handlers are obtained by following the `TREE_CHAIN` link from one handler to the next. The body of the handler is given by `HANDLER_BODY`.

  If `CLEANUP_P` holds of the `TRY_BLOCK`, then the `TRY_HANDLERS` will not be a `HANDLER` node. Instead, it will be an expression that should be executed if an exception is thrown in the try block. It must rethrow the exception after executing that code. And, if an exception is thrown while the expression is executing, `terminate` must be called.

`USING_STMT`

  Used to represent a `using` directive. The namespace is given by `USING_STMT_NAMESPACE`, which will be a NAMESPACE_DECL. This node is needed inside template functions, to implement using directives during instantiation.

`WHILE_STMT`

  Used to represent a `while` loop. The `WHILE_COND` is the termination condition for the loop. See the documentation for an `IF_STMT` for more information on the representation used for the condition.

  The `WHILE_BODY` is the body of the loop.

#### 11.10.6 C++ Expressions ¶

This section describes expressions specific to the C and C++ front ends.

`TYPEID_EXPR`

  Used to represent a `typeid` expression.

`NEW_EXPR`
`VEC_NEW_EXPR`

  Used to represent a call to `new` and `new[]` respectively.

`DELETE_EXPR`
`VEC_DELETE_EXPR`

  Used to represent a call to `delete` and `delete[]` respectively.

`MEMBER_REF`

  Represents a reference to a member of a class.

`THROW_EXPR`

  Represents an instance of `throw` in the program. Operand 0, which is the expression to throw, may be `NULL_TREE`.

`AGGR_INIT_EXPR`

  An `AGGR_INIT_EXPR` represents the initialization as the return value of a function call, or as the result of a constructor. An `AGGR_INIT_EXPR` will only appear as a full-expression, or as the second operand of a `TARGET_EXPR`. `AGGR_INIT_EXPR`s have a representation similar to that of `CALL_EXPR`s. You can use the `AGGR_INIT_EXPR_FN` and `AGGR_INIT_EXPR_ARG` macros to access the function to call and the arguments to pass.

  If `AGGR_INIT_VIA_CTOR_P` holds of the `AGGR_INIT_EXPR`, then the initialization is via a constructor call. The address of the `AGGR_INIT_EXPR_SLOT` operand, which is always a `VAR_DECL`, is taken, and this value replaces the first argument in the argument list.

  In either case, the expression is void.

## 12 GIMPLE ¶

GIMPLE is a three-address representation derived from GENERIC by breaking down GENERIC expressions into tuples of no more than 3 operands (with some exceptions like function calls). GIMPLE was heavily influenced by the SIMPLE IL used by the McCAT compiler project at McGill University, though we have made some different choices. For one thing, SIMPLE doesn’t support `goto`.

Temporaries are introduced to hold intermediate values needed to compute complex expressions. Additionally, all the control structures used in GENERIC are lowered into conditional jumps, lexical scopes are removed and exception regions are converted into an on the side exception region tree.

The compiler pass which converts GENERIC into GIMPLE is referred to as the ‘`gimplifier`’. The gimplifier works recursively, generating GIMPLE tuples out of the original GENERIC expressions.

One of the early implementation strategies used for the GIMPLE representation was to use the same internal data structures used by front ends to represent parse trees. This simplified implementation because we could leverage existing functionality and interfaces. However, GIMPLE is a much more restrictive representation than abstract syntax trees (AST), therefore it does not require the full structural complexity provided by the main tree data structure.

The GENERIC representation of a function is stored in the `DECL_SAVED_TREE` field of the associated `FUNCTION_DECL` tree node. It is converted to GIMPLE by a call to `gimplify_function_tree`.

If a front end wants to include language-specific tree codes in the tree representation which it provides to the back end, it must provide a definition of `LANG_HOOKS_GIMPLIFY_EXPR` which knows how to convert the front end trees to GIMPLE. Usually such a hook will involve much of the same code for expanding front end trees to RTL. This function can return fully lowered GIMPLE, or it can return GENERIC trees and let the main gimplifier lower them the rest of the way; this is often simpler. GIMPLE that is not fully lowered is known as “High GIMPLE” and consists of the IL before the pass `pass_lower_cf`. High GIMPLE contains some container statements like lexical scopes (represented by `GIMPLE_BIND`) and nested expressions (e.g., `GIMPLE_TRY`), while “Low GIMPLE” exposes all of the implicit jumps for control and exception expressions directly in the IL and EH region trees.

The C and C++ front ends currently convert directly from front end trees to GIMPLE, and hand that off to the back end rather than first converting to GENERIC. Their gimplifier hooks know about all the `_STMT` nodes and how to convert them to GENERIC forms. There was some work done on a genericization pass which would run first, but the existence of `STMT_EXPR` meant that in order to convert all of the C statements into GENERIC equivalents would involve walking the entire tree anyway, so it was simpler to lower all the way. This might change in the future if someone writes an optimization pass which would work better with higher-level trees, but currently the optimizers all expect GIMPLE.

You can request to dump a C-like representation of the GIMPLE form with the flag `-fdump-tree-gimple`.

### 12.1 Tuple representation ¶

GIMPLE instructions are tuples of variable size divided in two groups: a header describing the instruction and its locations, and a variable length body with all the operands. Tuples are organized into a hierarchy with 3 main classes of tuples.

#### 12.1.1 `gimple` (gsbase) ¶

This is the root of the hierarchy, it holds basic information needed by most GIMPLE statements. There are some fields that may not be relevant to every GIMPLE statement, but those were moved into the base structure to take advantage of holes left by other fields (thus making the structure more compact). The structure takes 4 words (32 bytes) on 64 bit hosts:

Field | Size (bits)
`code` | 8
`subcode` | 16
`no_warning` | 1
`visited` | 1
`nontemporal_move` | 1
`plf` | 2
`modified` | 1
`has_volatile_ops` | 1
`references_memory_p` | 1
`uid` | 32
`location` | 32
`num_ops` | 32
`bb` | 64
`block` | 63
Total size | 32 bytes

- `code` Main identifier for a GIMPLE instruction.
- `subcode` Used to distinguish different variants of the same basic instruction or provide flags applicable to a given code. The `subcode` flags field has different uses depending on the code of the instruction, but mostly it distinguishes instructions of the same family. The most prominent use of this field is in assignments, where subcode indicates the operation done on the RHS of the assignment. For example, a = b + c is encoded as `GIMPLE_ASSIGN <PLUS_EXPR, a, b, c>`.
- `no_warning` Bitflag to indicate whether a warning has already been issued on this statement.
- `visited` General purpose “visited” marker. Set and cleared by each pass when needed.
- `nontemporal_move` Bitflag used in assignments that represent non-temporal moves. Although this bitflag is only used in assignments, it was moved into the base to take advantage of the bit holes left by the previous fields.
- `plf` Pass Local Flags. This 2-bit mask can be used as general purpose markers by any pass. Passes are responsible for clearing and setting these two flags accordingly.
- `modified` Bitflag to indicate whether the statement has been modified. Used mainly by the operand scanner to determine when to re-scan a statement for operands.
- `has_volatile_ops` Bitflag to indicate whether this statement contains operands that have been marked volatile.
- `references_memory_p` Bitflag to indicate whether this statement contains memory references (i.e., its operands are either global variables, or pointer dereferences or anything that must reside in memory).
- `uid` This is an unsigned integer used by passes that want to assign IDs to every statement. These IDs must be assigned and used by each pass.
- `location` This is a `location_t` identifier to specify source code location for this statement. It is inherited from the front end.
- `num_ops` Number of operands that this statement has. This specifies the size of the operand vector embedded in the tuple. Only used in some tuples, but it is declared in the base tuple to take advantage of the 32-bit hole left by the previous fields.
- `bb` Basic block holding the instruction.
- `block` Lexical block holding this statement. Also used for debug information generation.

#### 12.1.2 `gimple_statement_with_ops` ¶

This tuple is actually split in two: `gimple_statement_with_ops_base` and `gimple_statement_with_ops`. This is needed to accommodate the way the operand vector is allocated. The operand vector is defined to be an array of 1 element. So, to allocate a dynamic number of operands, the memory allocator (`gimple_alloc`) simply allocates enough memory to hold the structure itself plus `N - 1` operands which run “off the end” of the structure. For example, to allocate space for a tuple with 3 operands, `gimple_alloc` reserves `sizeof (struct gimple_statement_with_ops) + 2 * sizeof (tree)` bytes.

On the other hand, several fields in this tuple need to be shared with the `gimple_statement_with_memory_ops` tuple. So, these common fields are placed in `gimple_statement_with_ops_base` which is then inherited from the other two tuples.

`gsbase` | 256
`def_ops` | 64
`use_ops` | 64
`op` | `num_ops` * 64
Total size | 48 + 8 * `num_ops` bytes

- `gsbase` Inherited from `struct gimple`.
- `def_ops` Array of pointers into the operand array indicating all the slots that contain a variable written-to by the statement. This array is also used for immediate use chaining. Note that it would be possible to not rely on this array, but the changes required to implement this are pretty invasive.
- `use_ops` Similar to `def_ops` but for variables read by the statement.
- `op` Array of trees with `num_ops` slots.

#### 12.1.3 `gimple_statement_with_memory_ops` ¶

This tuple is essentially identical to `gimple_statement_with_ops`, except that it contains 4 additional fields to hold vectors related memory stores and loads. Similar to the previous case, the structure is split in two to accommodate for the operand vector (`gimple_statement_with_memory_ops_base` and `gimple_statement_with_memory_ops`).

Field | Size (bits)
`gsbase` | 256
`def_ops` | 64
`use_ops` | 64
`vdef_ops` | 64
`vuse_ops` | 64
`stores` | 64
`loads` | 64
`op` | `num_ops` * 64
Total size | 80 + 8 * `num_ops` bytes

- `vdef_ops` Similar to `def_ops` but for `VDEF` operators. There is one entry per memory symbol written by this statement. This is used to maintain the memory SSA use-def and def-def chains.
- `vuse_ops` Similar to `use_ops` but for `VUSE` operators. There is one entry per memory symbol loaded by this statement. This is used to maintain the memory SSA use-def chains.
- `stores` Bitset with all the UIDs for the symbols written-to by the statement. This is different than `vdef_ops` in that all the affected symbols are mentioned in this set. If memory partitioning is enabled, the `vdef_ops` vector will refer to memory partitions. Furthermore, no SSA information is stored in this set.
- `loads` Similar to `stores`, but for memory loads. (Note that there is some amount of redundancy here, it should be possible to reduce memory utilization further by removing these sets).

All the other tuples are defined in terms of these three basic ones. Each tuple will add some fields.

### 12.2 Class hierarchy of GIMPLE statements ¶

The following diagram shows the C++ inheritance hierarchy of statement kinds, along with their relationships to `GSS_` values (layouts) and `GIMPLE_` values (codes):

       gimple
         |    layout: GSS_BASE
         |    used for 4 codes: GIMPLE_ERROR_MARK
         |                      GIMPLE_NOP
         |                      GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS_SWITCH
         |                      GIMPLE_PREDICT
         |
         + gimple_statement_with_ops_base
         |   |    (no GSS layout)
         |   |
         |   + gimple_statement_with_ops
         |   |   |    layout: GSS_WITH_OPS
         |   |   |
         |   |   + gcond
         |   |   |     code: GIMPLE_COND
         |   |   |
         |   |   + gdebug
         |   |   |     code: GIMPLE_DEBUG
         |   |   |
         |   |   + ggoto
         |   |   |     code: GIMPLE_GOTO
         |   |   |
         |   |   + glabel
         |   |   |     code: GIMPLE_LABEL
         |   |   |
         |   |   + gswitch
         |   |         code: GIMPLE_SWITCH
         |   |
         |   + gimple_statement_with_memory_ops_base
         |       |    layout: GSS_WITH_MEM_OPS_BASE
         |       |
         |       + gimple_statement_with_memory_ops
         |       |   |    layout: GSS_WITH_MEM_OPS
         |       |   |
         |       |   + gassign
         |       |   |    code GIMPLE_ASSIGN
         |       |   |
         |       |   + greturn
         |       |        code GIMPLE_RETURN
         |       |
         |       + gcall
         |       |        layout: GSS_CALL, code: GIMPLE_CALL
         |       |
         |       + gasm
         |       |        layout: GSS_ASM, code: GIMPLE_ASM
         |       |
         |       + gtransaction
         |                layout: GSS_TRANSACTION, code: GIMPLE_TRANSACTION
         |
         + gimple_statement_omp
         |   |    layout: GSS_OMP.  Used for code GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION
         |   |
         |   + gomp_critical
         |   |        layout: GSS_OMP_CRITICAL, code: GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL
         |   |
         |   + gomp_for
         |   |        layout: GSS_OMP_FOR, code: GIMPLE_OMP_FOR
         |   |
         |   + gomp_parallel_layout
         |   |   |    layout: GSS_OMP_PARALLEL_LAYOUT
         |   |   |
         |   |   + gimple_statement_omp_taskreg
         |   |   |   |
         |   |   |   + gomp_parallel
         |   |   |   |        code: GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL
         |   |   |   |
         |   |   |   + gomp_task
         |   |   |            code: GIMPLE_OMP_TASK
         |   |   |
         |   |   + gimple_statement_omp_target
         |   |            code: GIMPLE_OMP_TARGET
         |   |
         |   + gomp_sections
         |   |        layout: GSS_OMP_SECTIONS, code: GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS
         |   |
         |   + gimple_statement_omp_single_layout
         |       |    layout: GSS_OMP_SINGLE_LAYOUT
         |       |
         |       + gomp_single
         |       |        code: GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE
         |       |
         |       + gomp_teams
         |                code: GIMPLE_OMP_TEAMS
         |
         + gbind
         |        layout: GSS_BIND, code: GIMPLE_BIND
         |
         + gcatch
         |        layout: GSS_CATCH, code: GIMPLE_CATCH
         |
         + geh_filter
         |        layout: GSS_EH_FILTER, code: GIMPLE_EH_FILTER
         |
         + geh_else
         |        layout: GSS_EH_ELSE, code: GIMPLE_EH_ELSE
         |
         + geh_mnt
         |        layout: GSS_EH_MNT, code: GIMPLE_EH_MUST_NOT_THROW
         |
         + gphi
         |        layout: GSS_PHI, code: GIMPLE_PHI
         |
         + gimple_statement_eh_ctrl
         |   |    layout: GSS_EH_CTRL
         |   |
         |   + gresx
         |   |        code: GIMPLE_RESX
         |   |
         |   + geh_dispatch
         |            code: GIMPLE_EH_DISPATCH
         |
         + gtry
         |        layout: GSS_TRY, code: GIMPLE_TRY
         |
         + gimple_statement_wce
         |        layout: GSS_WCE, code: GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR
         |
         + gomp_continue
         |        layout: GSS_OMP_CONTINUE, code: GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE
         |
         + gomp_atomic_load
         |        layout: GSS_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD, code: GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD
         |
         + gimple_statement_omp_atomic_store_layout
             |    layout: GSS_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE_LAYOUT,
             |    code: GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE
             |
             + gomp_atomic_store
             |        code: GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE
             |
             + gomp_return
                      code: GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN

### 12.3 GIMPLE instruction set ¶

The following table briefly describes the GIMPLE instruction set.

Instruction | High GIMPLE | Low GIMPLE
`GIMPLE_ASM` | x | x
`GIMPLE_ASSIGN` | x | x
`GIMPLE_BIND` | x |
`GIMPLE_CALL` | x | x
`GIMPLE_CATCH` | x |
`GIMPLE_COND` | x | x
`GIMPLE_DEBUG` | x | x
`GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` | x |
`GIMPLE_GOTO` | x | x
`GIMPLE_LABEL` | x | x
`GIMPLE_NOP` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_FOR` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_MASTER` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_ORDERED` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS_SWITCH` | x | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE` | x | x
`GIMPLE_PHI` |  | x
`GIMPLE_OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK` | x |
`GIMPLE_RESX` |  | x
`GIMPLE_RETURN` | x | x
`GIMPLE_SWITCH` | x | x
`GIMPLE_TRY` | x |

### 12.4 Exception Handling ¶

Other exception handling constructs are represented using `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH`. `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH` has two operands. The first operand is a sequence of statements to execute. If executing these statements does not throw an exception, then the second operand is ignored. Otherwise, if an exception is thrown, then the second operand of the `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH` is checked. The second operand may have the following forms:

1. A sequence of statements to execute. When an exception occurs, these statements are executed, and then the exception is rethrown.
2. A sequence of `GIMPLE_CATCH` statements. Each `GIMPLE_CATCH` has a list of applicable exception types and handler code. If the thrown exception matches one of the caught types, the associated handler code is executed. If the handler code falls off the bottom, execution continues after the original `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH`.
3. A `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` statement. This has a list of permitted exception types, and code to handle a match failure. If the thrown exception does not match one of the allowed types, the associated match failure code is executed. If the thrown exception does match, it continues unwinding the stack looking for the next handler.

Currently throwing an exception is not directly represented in GIMPLE, since it is implemented by calling a function. At some point in the future we will want to add some way to express that the call will throw an exception of a known type.

Just before running the optimizers, the compiler lowers the high-level EH constructs above into a set of ‘`goto`’s, magic labels, and EH regions. Continuing to unwind at the end of a cleanup is represented with a `GIMPLE_RESX`.

### 12.5 Temporaries ¶

When gimplification encounters a subexpression that is too complex, it creates a new temporary variable to hold the value of the subexpression, and adds a new statement to initialize it before the current statement. These special temporaries are known as ‘`expression temporaries`’, and are allocated using `get_formal_tmp_var`. The compiler tries to always evaluate identical expressions into the same temporary, to simplify elimination of redundant calculations.

We can only use expression temporaries when we know that it will not be reevaluated before its value is used, and that it will not be otherwise modified3. Other temporaries can be allocated using `get_initialized_tmp_var` or `create_tmp_var`.

Currently, an expression like `a = b + 5` is not reduced any further. We tried converting it to something like

    T1 = b + 5;
    a = T1;

but this bloated the representation for minimal benefit. However, a variable which must live in memory cannot appear in an expression; its value is explicitly loaded into a temporary first. Similarly, storing the value of an expression to a memory variable goes through a temporary.

### 12.6 Operands ¶

In general, expressions in GIMPLE consist of an operation and the appropriate number of simple operands; these operands must either be a GIMPLE rvalue (`is_gimple_val`), i.e. a constant or a register variable. More complex operands are factored out into temporaries, so that

    a = b + c + d

becomes

    T1 = b + c;
    a = T1 + d;

The same rule holds for arguments to a `GIMPLE_CALL`.

The target of an assignment is usually a variable, but can also be a `MEM_REF` or a compound lvalue as described below.

#### 12.6.1 Compound Expressions ¶

The left-hand side of a C comma expression is simply moved into a separate statement.

#### 12.6.2 Compound Lvalues ¶

Currently compound lvalues involving array and structure field references are not broken down; an expression like `a.b[2] = 42` is not reduced any further (though complex array subscripts are). This restriction is a workaround for limitations in later optimizers; if we were to convert this to

    T1 = &a.b;
    T1[2] = 42;

alias analysis would not remember that the reference to `T1[2]` came by way of `a.b`, so it would think that the assignment could alias another member of `a`; this broke `struct-alias-1.c`. Future optimizer improvements may make this limitation unnecessary.

#### 12.6.3 Conditional Expressions ¶

A C `?:` expression is converted into an `if` statement with each branch assigning to the same temporary. So,

    a = b ? c : d;

becomes

    if (b == 1)
      T1 = c;
    else
      T1 = d;
    a = T1;

The GIMPLE level if-conversion pass re-introduces `?:` expression, if appropriate. It is used to vectorize loops with conditions using vector conditional operations.

Note that in GIMPLE, `if` statements are represented using `GIMPLE_COND`, as described below.

#### 12.6.4 Logical Operators ¶

Except when they appear in the condition operand of a `GIMPLE_COND`, logical ‘and’ and ‘or’ operators are simplified as follows: `a = b && c` becomes

    T1 = (bool)b;
    if (T1 == true)
      T1 = (bool)c;
    a = T1;

Note that `T1` in this example cannot be an expression temporary, because it has two different assignments.

#### 12.6.5 Manipulating operands ¶

All gimple operands are of type `tree`. But only certain types of trees are allowed to be used as operand tuples. Basic validation is controlled by the function `get_gimple_rhs_class`, which given a tree code, returns an `enum` with the following values of type `enum gimple_rhs_class`

- `GIMPLE_INVALID_RHS` The tree cannot be used as a GIMPLE operand.
- `GIMPLE_TERNARY_RHS` The tree is a valid GIMPLE ternary operation.
- `GIMPLE_BINARY_RHS` The tree is a valid GIMPLE binary operation.
- `GIMPLE_UNARY_RHS` The tree is a valid GIMPLE unary operation.
- `GIMPLE_SINGLE_RHS` The tree is a single object, that cannot be split into simpler operands (for instance, `SSA_NAME`, `VAR_DECL`, `COMPONENT_REF`, etc).

  This operand class also acts as an escape hatch for tree nodes that may be flattened out into the operand vector, but would need more than two slots on the RHS. For instance, a `COND_EXPR` expression of the form `(a op b) ? x : y` could be flattened out on the operand vector using 4 slots, but it would also require additional processing to distinguish `c = a op b` from `c = a op b ? x : y`. In time, these special case tree expressions should be flattened into the operand vector.

For tree nodes in the categories `GIMPLE_TERNARY_RHS`, `GIMPLE_BINARY_RHS` and `GIMPLE_UNARY_RHS`, they cannot be stored inside tuples directly. They first need to be flattened and separated into individual components. For instance, given the GENERIC expression

    a = b + c

its tree representation is:

    MODIFY_EXPR <VAR_DECL  <a>, PLUS_EXPR <VAR_DECL <b>, VAR_DECL <c>>>

In this case, the GIMPLE form for this statement is logically identical to its GENERIC form but in GIMPLE, the `PLUS_EXPR` on the RHS of the assignment is not represented as a tree, instead the two operands are taken out of the `PLUS_EXPR` sub-tree and flattened into the GIMPLE tuple as follows:

    GIMPLE_ASSIGN <PLUS_EXPR, VAR_DECL <a>, VAR_DECL <b>, VAR_DECL <c>>

#### 12.6.6 Operand vector allocation ¶

The operand vector is stored at the bottom of the three tuple structures that accept operands. This means, that depending on the code of a given statement, its operand vector will be at different offsets from the base of the structure. To access tuple operands use the following accessors

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_num_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Returns the number of operands in statement G.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_op `(gimple g, unsigned i)` ¶

  Returns operand `I` from statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Returns a pointer into the operand vector for statement `G`. This is computed using an internal table called `gimple_ops_offset_`[]. This table is indexed by the gimple code of `G`.

  When the compiler is built, this table is filled-in using the sizes of the structures used by each statement code defined in gimple.def. Since the operand vector is at the bottom of the structure, for a gimple code `C` the offset is computed as sizeof (struct-of `C`) - sizeof (tree).

  This mechanism adds one memory indirection to every access when using `gimple_op`(), if this becomes a bottleneck, a pass can choose to memoize the result from `gimple_ops`() and use that to access the operands.

#### 12.6.7 Operand validation ¶

When adding a new operand to a gimple statement, the operand will be validated according to what each tuple accepts in its operand vector. These predicates are called by the `gimple_name_set_...()`. Each tuple will use one of the following predicates (Note, this list is not exhaustive):

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_val `(tree t)` ¶

  Returns true if t is a "GIMPLE value", which are all the non-addressable stack variables (variables for which `is_gimple_reg` returns true) and constants (expressions for which `is_gimple_min_invariant` returns true).

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_addressable `(tree t)` ¶

  Returns true if t is a symbol or memory reference whose address can be taken.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_asm_val `(tree t)` ¶

  Similar to `is_gimple_val` but it also accepts hard registers.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_call_addr `(tree t)` ¶

  Return true if t is a valid expression to use as the function called by a `GIMPLE_CALL`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_mem_ref_addr `(tree t)` ¶

  Return true if t is a valid expression to use as first operand of a `MEM_REF` expression.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_constant `(tree t)` ¶

  Return true if t is a valid gimple constant.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_min_invariant `(tree t)` ¶

  Return true if t is a valid minimal invariant. This is different from constants, in that the specific value of t may not be known at compile time, but it is known that it doesn’t change (e.g., the address of a function local variable).

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_ip_invariant `(tree t)` ¶

  Return true if t is an interprocedural invariant. This means that t is a valid invariant in all functions (e.g. it can be an address of a global variable but not of a local one).

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_ip_invariant_address `(tree t)` ¶

  Return true if t is an `ADDR_EXPR` that does not change once the program is running (and which is valid in all functions).

#### 12.6.8 Statement validation ¶

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_assign `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if the code of g is `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_call `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if the code of g is `GIMPLE_CALL`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_debug `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if the code of g is `GIMPLE_DEBUG`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_assign_cast_p `(const_gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if g is a `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` that performs a type cast operation.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_debug_bind_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if g is a `GIMPLE_DEBUG` that binds the value of an expression to a variable.

GIMPLE function: `bool` is_gimple_omp `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if g is any of the OpenMP codes.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_debug_begin_stmt_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if g is a `GIMPLE_DEBUG` that marks the beginning of a source statement.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_debug_inline_entry_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if g is a `GIMPLE_DEBUG` that marks the entry point of an inlined function.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_debug_nonbind_marker_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if g is a `GIMPLE_DEBUG` that marks a program location, without any variable binding.

### 12.7 Manipulating GIMPLE statements ¶

This section documents all the functions available to handle each of the GIMPLE instructions.

#### 12.7.1 Common accessors ¶

The following are common accessors for gimple statements.

GIMPLE function: `enum gimple_code` gimple_code `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the code for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `basic_block` gimple_bb `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the basic block to which statement `G` belongs to.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_block `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the lexical scope block holding statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `enum tree_code` gimple_expr_code `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return the tree code for the expression computed by `STMT`. This is only meaningful for `GIMPLE_CALL`, `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` and `GIMPLE_COND`. If `STMT` is `GIMPLE_CALL`, it will return `CALL_EXPR`. For `GIMPLE_COND`, it returns the code of the comparison predicate. For `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` it returns the code of the operation performed by the `RHS` of the assignment.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_block `(gimple g, tree block)` ¶

  Set the lexical scope block of `G` to `BLOCK`.

GIMPLE function: `location_t` gimple_locus `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return locus information for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_locus `(gimple g, location_t locus)` ¶

  Set locus information for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_locus_empty_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if `G` does not have locus information.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_no_warning_p `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return true if no warnings should be emitted for statement `STMT`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_visited `(gimple stmt, bool visited_p)` ¶

  Set the visited status on statement `STMT` to `VISITED_P`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_visited_p `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return the visited status on statement `STMT`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_plf `(gimple stmt, enum plf_mask plf, bool val_p)` ¶

  Set pass local flag `PLF` on statement `STMT` to `VAL_P`.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned int` gimple_plf `(gimple stmt, enum plf_mask plf)` ¶

  Return the value of pass local flag `PLF` on statement `STMT`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_has_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if statement `G` has register or memory operands.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_has_mem_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if statement `G` has memory operands.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_num_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the number of operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the array of operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_op `(gimple g, unsigned i)` ¶

  Return operand `I` for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_op_ptr `(gimple g, unsigned i)` ¶

  Return a pointer to operand `I` for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_op `(gimple g, unsigned i, tree op)` ¶

  Set operand `I` of statement `G` to `OP`.

GIMPLE function: `bitmap` gimple_addresses_taken `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return the set of symbols that have had their address taken by `STMT`.

GIMPLE function: `struct def_optype_d *` gimple_def_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the set of `DEF` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_def_ops `(gimple g, struct def_optype_d *def)` ¶

  Set `DEF` to be the set of `DEF` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `struct use_optype_d *` gimple_use_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the set of `USE` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_use_ops `(gimple g, struct use_optype_d *use)` ¶

  Set `USE` to be the set of `USE` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `struct voptype_d *` gimple_vuse_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the set of `VUSE` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_vuse_ops `(gimple g, struct voptype_d *ops)` ¶

  Set `OPS` to be the set of `VUSE` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `struct voptype_d *` gimple_vdef_ops `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the set of `VDEF` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_vdef_ops `(gimple g, struct voptype_d *ops)` ¶

  Set `OPS` to be the set of `VDEF` operands for statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `bitmap` gimple_loaded_syms `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the set of symbols loaded by statement `G`. Each element of the set is the `DECL_UID` of the corresponding symbol.

GIMPLE function: `bitmap` gimple_stored_syms `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the set of symbols stored by statement `G`. Each element of the set is the `DECL_UID` of the corresponding symbol.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_modified_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if statement `G` has operands and the modified field has been set.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_has_volatile_ops `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return true if statement `STMT` contains volatile operands.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_set_has_volatile_ops `(gimple stmt, bool volatilep)` ¶

  Return true if statement `STMT` contains volatile operands.

GIMPLE function: `void` update_stmt `(gimple s)` ¶

  Mark statement `S` as modified, and update it.

GIMPLE function: `void` update_stmt_if_modified `(gimple s)` ¶

  Update statement `S` if it has been marked modified.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_copy `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return a deep copy of statement `STMT`.

### 12.8 Tuple specific accessors ¶

#### 12.8.1 `GIMPLE_ASM` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gasm` *gimple_build_asm_vec `( const char *string, vec<tree, va_gc> *inputs, vec<tree, va_gc> *outputs, vec<tree, va_gc> *clobbers, vec<tree, va_gc> *labels)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_ASM` statement. This statement is used for building in-line assembly constructs. `STRING` is the assembly code. `INPUTS`, `OUTPUTS`, `CLOBBERS` and `LABELS` are the inputs, outputs, clobbered registers and labels.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_asm_ninputs `(const gasm *g)` ¶

  Return the number of input operands for `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_asm_noutputs `(const gasm *g)` ¶

  Return the number of output operands for `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_asm_nclobbers `(const gasm *g)` ¶

  Return the number of clobber operands for `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_asm_input_op `(const gasm *g, unsigned index)` ¶

  Return input operand `INDEX` of `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_asm_set_input_op `(gasm *g, unsigned index, tree in_op)` ¶

  Set `IN_OP` to be input operand `INDEX` in `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_asm_output_op `(const gasm *g, unsigned index)` ¶

  Return output operand `INDEX` of `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_asm_set_output_op `(gasm *g, unsigned index, tree out_op)` ¶

  Set `OUT_OP` to be output operand `INDEX` in `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_asm_clobber_op `(const gasm *g, unsigned index)` ¶

  Return clobber operand `INDEX` of `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_asm_set_clobber_op `(gasm *g, unsigned index, tree clobber_op)` ¶

  Set `CLOBBER_OP` to be clobber operand `INDEX` in `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `const char *` gimple_asm_string `(const gasm *g)` ¶

  Return the string representing the assembly instruction in `GIMPLE_ASM` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_asm_volatile_p `(const gasm *g)` ¶

  Return true if `G` is an asm statement marked volatile.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_asm_set_volatile `(gasm *g, bool volatile_p)` ¶

  Mark asm statement `G` as volatile or non-volatile based on `VOLATILE_P`.

#### 12.8.2 `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gassign` *gimple_build_assign `(tree lhs, tree rhs)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` statement. The left-hand side is an lvalue passed in lhs. The right-hand side can be either a unary or binary tree expression. The expression tree rhs will be flattened and its operands assigned to the corresponding operand slots in the new statement. This function is useful when you already have a tree expression that you want to convert into a tuple. However, try to avoid building expression trees for the sole purpose of calling this function. If you already have the operands in separate trees, it is better to use `gimple_build_assign` with `enum tree_code` argument and separate arguments for each operand.

GIMPLE function: `gassign` *gimple_build_assign `(tree lhs, enum tree_code subcode, tree op1, tree op2, tree op3)` ¶

  This function is similar to two operand `gimple_build_assign`, but is used to build a `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` statement when the operands of the right-hand side of the assignment are already split into different operands.

  The left-hand side is an lvalue passed in lhs. Subcode is the `tree_code` for the right-hand side of the assignment. Op1, op2 and op3 are the operands.

GIMPLE function: `gassign` *gimple_build_assign `(tree lhs, enum tree_code subcode, tree op1, tree op2)` ¶

  Like the above 5 operand `gimple_build_assign`, but with the last argument `NULL` - this overload should not be used for `GIMPLE_TERNARY_RHS` assignments.

GIMPLE function: `gassign` *gimple_build_assign `(tree lhs, enum tree_code subcode, tree op1)` ¶

  Like the above 4 operand `gimple_build_assign`, but with the last argument `NULL` - this overload should be used only for `GIMPLE_UNARY_RHS` and `GIMPLE_SINGLE_RHS` assignments.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimplify_assign `(tree dst, tree src, gimple_seq *seq_p)` ¶

  Build a new `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` tuple and append it to the end of `*SEQ_P`.

`DST`/`SRC` are the destination and source respectively. You can pass ungimplified trees in `DST` or `SRC`, in which case they will be converted to a gimple operand if necessary.

This function returns the newly created `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` tuple.

GIMPLE function: `enum tree_code` gimple_assign_rhs_code `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the code of the expression computed on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `enum gimple_rhs_class` gimple_assign_rhs_class `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the gimple rhs class of the code for the expression computed on the rhs of assignment statement `G`. This will never return `GIMPLE_INVALID_RHS`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_assign_lhs `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the `LHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_assign_lhs_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the `LHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_assign_rhs1 `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the first operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_assign_rhs1_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the address of the first operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_assign_rhs2 `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the second operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_assign_rhs2_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the address of the second operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_assign_rhs3 `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the third operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_assign_rhs3_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the address of the third operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_assign_set_lhs `(gimple g, tree lhs)` ¶

  Set `LHS` to be the `LHS` operand of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_assign_set_rhs1 `(gimple g, tree rhs)` ¶

  Set `RHS` to be the first operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_assign_set_rhs2 `(gimple g, tree rhs)` ¶

  Set `RHS` to be the second operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_assign_set_rhs3 `(gimple g, tree rhs)` ¶

  Set `RHS` to be the third operand on the `RHS` of assignment statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_assign_cast_p `(const_gimple s)` ¶

  Return true if `S` is a type-cast assignment.

#### 12.8.3 `GIMPLE_BIND` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gbind` *gimple_build_bind `(tree vars, gimple_seq body)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_BIND` statement with a list of variables in `VARS` and a body of statements in sequence `BODY`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_bind_vars `(const gbind *g)` ¶

  Return the variables declared in the `GIMPLE_BIND` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_bind_set_vars `(gbind *g, tree vars)` ¶

  Set `VARS` to be the set of variables declared in the `GIMPLE_BIND` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_bind_append_vars `(gbind *g, tree vars)` ¶

  Append `VARS` to the set of variables declared in the `GIMPLE_BIND` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_bind_body `(gbind *g)` ¶

  Return the GIMPLE sequence contained in the `GIMPLE_BIND` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_bind_set_body `(gbind *g, gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Set `SEQ` to be sequence contained in the `GIMPLE_BIND` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_bind_add_stmt `(gbind *gs, gimple stmt)` ¶

  Append a statement to the end of a `GIMPLE_BIND`’s body.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_bind_add_seq `(gbind *gs, gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Append a sequence of statements to the end of a `GIMPLE_BIND`’s body.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_bind_block `(const gbind *g)` ¶

  Return the `TREE_BLOCK` node associated with `GIMPLE_BIND` statement `G`. This is analogous to the `BIND_EXPR_BLOCK` field in trees.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_bind_set_block `(gbind *g, tree block)` ¶

  Set `BLOCK` to be the `TREE_BLOCK` node associated with `GIMPLE_BIND` statement `G`.

#### 12.8.4 `GIMPLE_CALL` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gcall` *gimple_build_call `(tree fn, unsigned nargs, ...)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_CALL` statement to function `FN`. The argument `FN` must be either a `FUNCTION_DECL` or a gimple call address as determined by `is_gimple_call_addr`. `NARGS` are the number of arguments. The rest of the arguments follow the argument `NARGS`, and must be trees that are valid as rvalues in gimple (i.e., each operand is validated with `is_gimple_operand`).

GIMPLE function: `gcall` *gimple_build_call_from_tree `(tree call_expr, tree fnptrtype)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_CALL` from a `CALL_EXPR` node. The arguments and the function are taken from the expression directly. The type of the `GIMPLE_CALL` is set from the second parameter passed by a caller. This routine assumes that `call_expr` is already in GIMPLE form. That is, its operands are GIMPLE values and the function call needs no further simplification. All the call flags in `call_expr` are copied over to the new `GIMPLE_CALL`.

GIMPLE function: `gcall` *gimple_build_call_vec `(tree fn, `vec<tree>` args)` ¶

  Identical to `gimple_build_call` but the arguments are stored in a `vec<tree>`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_call_lhs `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the `LHS` of call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_call_lhs_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the `LHS` of call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_call_set_lhs `(gimple g, tree lhs)` ¶

  Set `LHS` to be the `LHS` operand of call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_call_fn `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the tree node representing the function called by call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_call_set_fn `(gcall *g, tree fn)` ¶

  Set `FN` to be the function called by call statement `G`. This has to be a gimple value specifying the address of the called function.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_call_fndecl `(gimple g)` ¶

  If a given `GIMPLE_CALL`’s callee is a `FUNCTION_DECL`, return it. Otherwise return `NULL`. This function is analogous to `get_callee_fndecl` in `GENERIC`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_call_set_fndecl `(gimple g, tree fndecl)` ¶

  Set the called function to `FNDECL`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_call_return_type `(const gcall *g)` ¶

  Return the type returned by call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_call_chain `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the static chain for call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_call_set_chain `(gcall *g, tree chain)` ¶

  Set `CHAIN` to be the static chain for call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_call_num_args `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the number of arguments used by call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_call_arg `(gimple g, unsigned index)` ¶

  Return the argument at position `INDEX` for call statement `G`. The first argument is 0.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_call_arg_ptr `(gimple g, unsigned index)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the argument at position `INDEX` for call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_call_set_arg `(gimple g, unsigned index, tree arg)` ¶

  Set `ARG` to be the argument at position `INDEX` for call statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_call_set_tail `(gcall *s)` ¶

  Mark call statement `S` as being a tail call (i.e., a call just before the exit of a function). These calls are candidate for tail call optimization.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_call_tail_p `(gcall *s)` ¶

  Return true if `GIMPLE_CALL` `S` is marked as a tail call.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_call_noreturn_p `(gimple s)` ¶

  Return true if `S` is a noreturn call.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_call_copy_skip_args `(gcall *stmt, bitmap args_to_skip)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_CALL` identical to `STMT` but skipping the arguments in the positions marked by the set `ARGS_TO_SKIP`.

#### 12.8.5 `GIMPLE_CATCH` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gcatch` *gimple_build_catch `(tree types, gimple_seq handler)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_CATCH` statement. `TYPES` are the tree types this catch handles. `HANDLER` is a sequence of statements with the code for the handler.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_catch_types `(const gcatch *g)` ¶

  Return the types handled by `GIMPLE_CATCH` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_catch_types_ptr `(gcatch *g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the types handled by `GIMPLE_CATCH` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_catch_handler `(gcatch *g)` ¶

  Return the GIMPLE sequence representing the body of the handler of `GIMPLE_CATCH` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_catch_set_types `(gcatch *g, tree t)` ¶

  Set `T` to be the set of types handled by `GIMPLE_CATCH` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_catch_set_handler `(gcatch *g, gimple_seq handler)` ¶

  Set `HANDLER` to be the body of `GIMPLE_CATCH` `G`.

#### 12.8.6 `GIMPLE_COND` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gcond` *gimple_build_cond `( enum tree_code pred_code, tree lhs, tree rhs, tree t_label, tree f_label)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_COND` statement. `A` `GIMPLE_COND` statement compares `LHS` and `RHS` and if the condition in `PRED_CODE` is true, jump to the label in `t_label`, otherwise jump to the label in `f_label`. `PRED_CODE` are relational operator tree codes like `EQ_EXPR`, `LT_EXPR`, `LE_EXPR`, `NE_EXPR`, etc.

GIMPLE function: `gcond` *gimple_build_cond_from_tree `(tree cond, tree t_label, tree f_label)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_COND` statement from the conditional expression tree `COND`. `T_LABEL` and `F_LABEL` are as in `gimple_build_cond`.

GIMPLE function: `enum tree_code` gimple_cond_code `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the code of the predicate computed by conditional statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_cond_set_code `(gcond *g, enum tree_code code)` ¶

  Set `CODE` to be the predicate code for the conditional statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_cond_lhs `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the `LHS` of the predicate computed by conditional statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_cond_set_lhs `(gcond *g, tree lhs)` ¶

  Set `LHS` to be the `LHS` operand of the predicate computed by conditional statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_cond_rhs `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the `RHS` operand of the predicate computed by conditional `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_cond_set_rhs `(gcond *g, tree rhs)` ¶

  Set `RHS` to be the `RHS` operand of the predicate computed by conditional statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_cond_true_label `(const gcond *g)` ¶

  Return the label used by conditional statement `G` when its predicate evaluates to true.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_cond_set_true_label `(gcond *g, tree label)` ¶

  Set `LABEL` to be the label used by conditional statement `G` when its predicate evaluates to true.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_cond_set_false_label `(gcond *g, tree label)` ¶

  Set `LABEL` to be the label used by conditional statement `G` when its predicate evaluates to false.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_cond_false_label `(const gcond *g)` ¶

  Return the label used by conditional statement `G` when its predicate evaluates to false.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_cond_make_false `(gcond *g)` ¶

  Set the conditional `COND_STMT` to be of the form ’if (1 == 0)’.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_cond_make_true `(gcond *g)` ¶

  Set the conditional `COND_STMT` to be of the form ’if (1 == 1)’.

#### 12.8.7 `GIMPLE_DEBUG` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gdebug` *gimple_build_debug_bind `(tree var, tree value, gimple stmt)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_DEBUG` statement with `GIMPLE_DEBUG_BIND` `subcode`. The effect of this statement is to tell debug information generation machinery that the value of user variable `var` is given by `value` at that point, and to remain with that value until `var` runs out of scope, a dynamically-subsequent debug bind statement overrides the binding, or conflicting values reach a control flow merge point. Even if components of the `value` expression change afterwards, the variable is supposed to retain the same value, though not necessarily the same location.

  It is expected that `var` be most often a tree for automatic user variables (`VAR_DECL` or `PARM_DECL`) that satisfy the requirements for gimple registers, but it may also be a tree for a scalarized component of a user variable (`ARRAY_REF`, `COMPONENT_REF`), or a debug temporary (`DEBUG_EXPR_DECL`).

  As for `value`, it can be an arbitrary tree expression, but it is recommended that it be in a suitable form for a gimple assignment `RHS`. It is not expected that user variables that could appear as `var` ever appear in `value`, because in the latter we’d have their `SSA_NAME`s instead, but even if they were not in SSA form, user variables appearing in `value` are to be regarded as part of the executable code space, whereas those in `var` are to be regarded as part of the source code space. There is no way to refer to the value bound to a user variable within a `value` expression.

  If `value` is `GIMPLE_DEBUG_BIND_NOVALUE`, debug information generation machinery is informed that the variable `var` is unbound, i.e., that its value is indeterminate, which sometimes means it is really unavailable, and other times that the compiler could not keep track of it.

  Block and location information for the newly-created stmt are taken from `stmt`, if given.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_debug_bind_get_var `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return the user variable var that is bound at `stmt`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_debug_bind_get_value `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return the value expression that is bound to a user variable at `stmt`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_debug_bind_get_value_ptr `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the value expression that is bound to a user variable at `stmt`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_debug_bind_set_var `(gimple stmt, tree var)` ¶

  Modify the user variable bound at `stmt` to var.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_debug_bind_set_value `(gimple stmt, tree var)` ¶

  Modify the value bound to the user variable bound at `stmt` to value.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_debug_bind_reset_value `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Modify the value bound to the user variable bound at `stmt` so that the variable becomes unbound.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_debug_bind_has_value_p `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Return `TRUE` if `stmt` binds a user variable to a value, and `FALSE` if it unbinds the variable.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_debug_begin_stmt `(tree block, location_t location)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_DEBUG` statement with `GIMPLE_DEBUG_BEGIN_STMT` `subcode`. The effect of this statement is to tell debug information generation machinery that the user statement at the given `location` and `block` starts at the point at which the statement is inserted. The intent is that side effects (e.g. variable bindings) of all prior user statements are observable, and that none of the side effects of subsequent user statements are.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_debug_inline_entry `(tree block, location_t location)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_DEBUG` statement with `GIMPLE_DEBUG_INLINE_ENTRY` `subcode`. The effect of this statement is to tell debug information generation machinery that a function call at `location` underwent inline substitution, that `block` is the enclosing lexical block created for the substitution, and that at the point of the program in which the stmt is inserted, all parameters for the inlined function are bound to the respective arguments, and none of the side effects of its stmts are observable.

#### 12.8.8 `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` ¶

GIMPLE function: `geh_filter` *gimple_build_eh_filter `(tree types, gimple_seq failure)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` statement. `TYPES` are the filter’s types. `FAILURE` is a sequence with the filter’s failure action.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_eh_filter_types `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the types handled by `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_eh_filter_types_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the types handled by `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_eh_filter_failure `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the sequence of statement to execute when `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` statement fails.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_eh_filter_set_types `(geh_filter *g, tree types)` ¶

  Set `TYPES` to be the set of types handled by `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_eh_filter_set_failure `(geh_filter *g, gimple_seq failure)` ¶

  Set `FAILURE` to be the sequence of statements to execute on failure for `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_eh_must_not_throw_fndecl `( geh_mnt *eh_mnt_stmt)` ¶

  Get the function decl to be called by the MUST_NOT_THROW region.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_eh_must_not_throw_set_fndecl `( geh_mnt *eh_mnt_stmt, tree decl)` ¶

  Set the function decl to be called by GS to DECL.

#### 12.8.9 `GIMPLE_LABEL` ¶

GIMPLE function: `glabel` *gimple_build_label `(tree label)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_LABEL` statement with corresponding to the tree label, `LABEL`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_label_label `(const glabel *g)` ¶

  Return the `LABEL_DECL` node used by `GIMPLE_LABEL` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_label_set_label `(glabel *g, tree label)` ¶

  Set `LABEL` to be the `LABEL_DECL` node used by `GIMPLE_LABEL` statement `G`.

#### 12.8.10 `GIMPLE_GOTO` ¶

GIMPLE function: `ggoto` *gimple_build_goto `(tree dest)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_GOTO` statement to label `DEST`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_goto_dest `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the destination of the unconditional jump `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_goto_set_dest `(ggoto *g, tree dest)` ¶

  Set `DEST` to be the destination of the unconditional jump `G`.

#### 12.8.11 `GIMPLE_NOP` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_nop `(void)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_NOP` statement.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_nop_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Returns `TRUE` if statement `G` is a `GIMPLE_NOP`.

#### 12.8.12 `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_atomic_load` *gimple_build_omp_atomic_load `( tree lhs, tree rhs)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD` statement. `LHS` is the left-hand side of the assignment. `RHS` is the right-hand side of the assignment.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_atomic_load_set_lhs `( gomp_atomic_load *g, tree lhs)` ¶

  Set the `LHS` of an atomic load.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_atomic_load_lhs `( const gomp_atomic_load *g)` ¶

  Get the `LHS` of an atomic load.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_atomic_load_set_rhs `( gomp_atomic_load *g, tree rhs)` ¶

  Set the `RHS` of an atomic set.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_atomic_load_rhs `( const gomp_atomic_load *g)` ¶

  Get the `RHS` of an atomic set.

#### 12.8.13 `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_atomic_store` *gimple_build_omp_atomic_store `( tree val)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE` statement. `VAL` is the value to be stored.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_atomic_store_set_val `( gomp_atomic_store *g, tree val)` ¶

  Set the value being stored in an atomic store.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_atomic_store_val `( const gomp_atomic_store *g)` ¶

  Return the value being stored in an atomic store.

#### 12.8.14 `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_continue` *gimple_build_omp_continue `( tree control_def, tree control_use)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` statement. `CONTROL_DEF` is the definition of the control variable. `CONTROL_USE` is the use of the control variable.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_continue_control_def `( const gomp_continue *s)` ¶

  Return the definition of the control variable on a `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` in `S`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_continue_control_def_ptr `( gomp_continue *s)` ¶

  Same as above, but return the pointer.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_continue_set_control_def `( gomp_continue *s)` ¶

  Set the control variable definition for a `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` statement in `S`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_continue_control_use `( const gomp_continue *s)` ¶

  Return the use of the control variable on a `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` in `S`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_continue_control_use_ptr `( gomp_continue *s)` ¶

  Same as above, but return the pointer.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_continue_set_control_use `( gomp_continue *s)` ¶

  Set the control variable use for a `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` statement in `S`.

#### 12.8.15 `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_critical` *gimple_build_omp_critical `( gimple_seq body, tree name)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL` statement. `BODY` is the sequence of statements for which only one thread can execute. `NAME` is an optional identifier for this critical block.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_critical_name `( const gomp_critical *g)` ¶

  Return the name associated with `OMP_CRITICAL` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_critical_name_ptr `( gomp_critical *g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the name associated with `OMP` critical statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_critical_set_name `( gomp_critical *g, tree name)` ¶

  Set `NAME` to be the name associated with `OMP` critical statement `G`.

#### 12.8.16 `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_for` *gimple_build_omp_for `(gimple_seq body, tree clauses, tree index, tree initial, tree final, tree incr, gimple_seq pre_body, enum tree_code omp_for_cond)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR` statement. `BODY` is sequence of statements inside the for loop. `CLAUSES`, are any of the loop construct’s clauses. `PRE_BODY` is the sequence of statements that are loop invariant. `INDEX` is the index variable. `INITIAL` is the initial value of `INDEX`. `FINAL` is final value of `INDEX`. OMP_FOR_COND is the predicate used to compare `INDEX` and `FINAL`. `INCR` is the increment expression.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_for_clauses `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the clauses associated with `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_for_clauses_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_for_set_clauses `(gimple g, tree clauses)` ¶

  Set `CLAUSES` to be the list of clauses associated with `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_for_index `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the index variable for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_for_index_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the index variable for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_for_set_index `(gimple g, tree index)` ¶

  Set `INDEX` to be the index variable for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_for_initial `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the initial value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_for_initial_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the initial value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_for_set_initial `(gimple g, tree initial)` ¶

  Set `INITIAL` to be the initial value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_for_final `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the final value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_for_final_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  turn a pointer to the final value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_for_set_final `(gimple g, tree final)` ¶

  Set `FINAL` to be the final value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_for_incr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the increment value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_for_incr_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the increment value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_for_set_incr `(gimple g, tree incr)` ¶

  Set `INCR` to be the increment value for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_omp_for_pre_body `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the sequence of statements to execute before the `OMP_FOR` statement `G` starts.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_for_set_pre_body `(gimple g, gimple_seq pre_body)` ¶

  Set `PRE_BODY` to be the sequence of statements to execute before the `OMP_FOR` statement `G` starts.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_for_set_cond `(gimple g, enum tree_code cond)` ¶

  Set `COND` to be the condition code for `OMP_FOR` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `enum tree_code` gimple_omp_for_cond `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the condition code associated with `OMP_FOR` `G`.

#### 12.8.17 `GIMPLE_OMP_MASTER` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_omp_master `(gimple_seq body)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_MASTER` statement. `BODY` is the sequence of statements to be executed by just the master.

#### 12.8.18 `GIMPLE_OMP_ORDERED` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_omp_ordered `(gimple_seq body)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_ORDERED` statement.

  `BODY` is the sequence of statements inside a loop that will executed in sequence.

#### 12.8.19 `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_parallel` *gimple_build_omp_parallel `(gimple_seq body, tree clauses, tree child_fn, tree data_arg)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL` statement.

  `BODY` is sequence of statements which are executed in parallel. `CLAUSES`, are the `OMP` parallel construct’s clauses. `CHILD_FN` is the function created for the parallel threads to execute. `DATA_ARG` are the shared data argument(s).

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_omp_parallel_combined_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if `OMP` parallel statement `G` has the `GF_OMP_PARALLEL_COMBINED` flag set.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_parallel_set_combined_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Set the `GF_OMP_PARALLEL_COMBINED` field in `OMP` parallel statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_omp_body `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the body for the `OMP` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_set_body `(gimple g, gimple_seq body)` ¶

  Set `BODY` to be the body for the `OMP` statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_parallel_clauses `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the clauses associated with `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_parallel_clauses_ptr `( gomp_parallel *g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the clauses associated with `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_parallel_set_clauses `( gomp_parallel *g, tree clauses)` ¶

  Set `CLAUSES` to be the list of clauses associated with `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_parallel_child_fn `( const gomp_parallel *g)` ¶

  Return the child function used to hold the body of `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_parallel_child_fn_ptr `( gomp_parallel *g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the child function used to hold the body of `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_parallel_set_child_fn `( gomp_parallel *g, tree child_fn)` ¶

  Set `CHILD_FN` to be the child function for `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_parallel_data_arg `( const gomp_parallel *g)` ¶

  Return the artificial argument used to send variables and values from the parent to the children threads in `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_parallel_data_arg_ptr `( gomp_parallel *g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the data argument for `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_parallel_set_data_arg `( gomp_parallel *g, tree data_arg)` ¶

  Set `DATA_ARG` to be the data argument for `OMP_PARALLEL` `G`.

#### 12.8.20 `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_omp_return `(bool wait_p)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN` statement. `WAIT_P` is true if this is a non-waiting return.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_return_set_nowait `(gimple s)` ¶

  Set the nowait flag on `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN` statement `S`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_omp_return_nowait_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if `OMP` return statement `G` has the `GF_OMP_RETURN_NOWAIT` flag set.

#### 12.8.21 `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_omp_section `(gimple_seq body)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION` statement for a sections statement.

  `BODY` is the sequence of statements in the section.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_omp_section_last_p `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return true if `OMP` section statement `G` has the `GF_OMP_SECTION_LAST` flag set.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_section_set_last `(gimple g)` ¶

  Set the `GF_OMP_SECTION_LAST` flag on `G`.

#### 12.8.22 `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_sections` *gimple_build_omp_sections `( gimple_seq body, tree clauses)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS` statement. `BODY` is a sequence of section statements. `CLAUSES` are any of the `OMP` sections construct’s clauses: private, firstprivate, lastprivate, reduction, and nowait.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_omp_sections_switch `(void)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS_SWITCH` statement.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_sections_control `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the control variable associated with the `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS` in `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_sections_control_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the clauses associated with the `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS` in `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_sections_set_control `(gimple g, tree control)` ¶

  Set `CONTROL` to be the set of clauses associated with the `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS` in `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_sections_clauses `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the clauses associated with `OMP_SECTIONS` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_sections_clauses_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the clauses associated with `OMP_SECTIONS` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_sections_set_clauses `(gimple g, tree clauses)` ¶

  Set `CLAUSES` to be the set of clauses associated with `OMP_SECTIONS` `G`.

#### 12.8.23 `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gomp_single` *gimple_build_omp_single `( gimple_seq body, tree clauses)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE` statement. `BODY` is the sequence of statements that will be executed once. `CLAUSES` are any of the `OMP` single construct’s clauses: private, firstprivate, copyprivate, nowait.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_omp_single_clauses `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the clauses associated with `OMP_SINGLE` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_omp_single_clauses_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the clauses associated with `OMP_SINGLE` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_omp_single_set_clauses `( gomp_single *g, tree clauses)` ¶

  Set `CLAUSES` to be the clauses associated with `OMP_SINGLE` `G`.

#### 12.8.24 `GIMPLE_OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK` ¶

Like the GENERIC equivalent `OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK`, this GIMPLE statement does not correspond directly to an OpenMP directive, and exists only to permit error checking of transfers of control in/out of structured block sequences (the `diagnose_omp_blocks` pass in `omp-low.cc`). All `GIMPLE_OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK` nodes are eliminated during OpenMP lowering.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_omp_structured_block `(gimple_seq body)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK` statement. `BODY` is the sequence of statements in the structured block sequence.

#### 12.8.25 `GIMPLE_PHI` ¶

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_phi_capacity `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the maximum number of arguments supported by `GIMPLE_PHI` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_phi_num_args `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the number of arguments in `GIMPLE_PHI` `G`. This must always be exactly the number of incoming edges for the basic block holding `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_phi_result `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the `SSA` name created by `GIMPLE_PHI` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree *` gimple_phi_result_ptr `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the `SSA` name created by `GIMPLE_PHI` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_phi_set_result `(gphi *g, tree result)` ¶

  Set `RESULT` to be the `SSA` name created by `GIMPLE_PHI` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `struct phi_arg_d *` gimple_phi_arg `(gimple g, index)` ¶

  Return the `PHI` argument corresponding to incoming edge `INDEX` for `GIMPLE_PHI` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_phi_set_arg `(gphi *g, index, struct phi_arg_d * phiarg)` ¶

  Set `PHIARG` to be the argument corresponding to incoming edge `INDEX` for `GIMPLE_PHI` `G`.

#### 12.8.26 `GIMPLE_RESX` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gresx` *gimple_build_resx `(int region)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_RESX` statement which is a statement. This statement is a placeholder for _Unwind_Resume before we know if a function call or a branch is needed. `REGION` is the exception region from which control is flowing.

GIMPLE function: `int` gimple_resx_region `(const gresx *g)` ¶

  Return the region number for `GIMPLE_RESX` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_resx_set_region `(gresx *g, int region)` ¶

  Set `REGION` to be the region number for `GIMPLE_RESX` `G`.

#### 12.8.27 `GIMPLE_RETURN` ¶

GIMPLE function: `greturn` *gimple_build_return `(tree retval)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_RETURN` statement whose return value is retval.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_return_retval `(const greturn *g)` ¶

  Return the return value for `GIMPLE_RETURN` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_return_set_retval `(greturn *g, tree retval)` ¶

  Set `RETVAL` to be the return value for `GIMPLE_RETURN` `G`.

#### 12.8.28 `GIMPLE_SWITCH` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gswitch` *gimple_build_switch `(tree index, tree default_label, `vec`<tree> *args)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_SWITCH` statement. `INDEX` is the index variable to switch on, and `DEFAULT_LABEL` represents the default label. `ARGS` is a vector of `CASE_LABEL_EXPR` trees that contain the non-default case labels. Each label is a tree of code `CASE_LABEL_EXPR`.

GIMPLE function: `unsigned` gimple_switch_num_labels `( const gswitch *g)` ¶

  Return the number of labels associated with the switch statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_switch_set_num_labels `(gswitch *g, unsigned nlabels)` ¶

  Set `NLABELS` to be the number of labels for the switch statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_switch_index `(const gswitch *g)` ¶

  Return the index variable used by the switch statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_switch_set_index `(gswitch *g, tree index)` ¶

  Set `INDEX` to be the index variable for switch statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_switch_label `(const gswitch *g, unsigned index)` ¶

  Return the label numbered `INDEX`. The default label is 0, followed by any labels in a switch statement.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_switch_set_label `(gswitch *g, unsigned index, tree label)` ¶

  Set the label number `INDEX` to `LABEL`. 0 is always the default label.

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_switch_default_label `( const gswitch *g)` ¶

  Return the default label for a switch statement.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_switch_set_default_label `(gswitch *g, tree label)` ¶

  Set the default label for a switch statement.

#### 12.8.29 `GIMPLE_TRY` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gtry` *gimple_build_try `(gimple_seq eval, gimple_seq cleanup, unsigned int kind)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_TRY` statement. `EVAL` is a sequence with the expression to evaluate. `CLEANUP` is a sequence of statements to run at clean-up time. `KIND` is the enumeration value `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH` if this statement denotes a try/catch construct or `GIMPLE_TRY_FINALLY` if this statement denotes a try/finally construct.

GIMPLE function: `enum gimple_try_flags` gimple_try_kind `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the kind of try block represented by `GIMPLE_TRY` `G`. This is either `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH` or `GIMPLE_TRY_FINALLY`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_try_catch_is_cleanup `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH_IS_CLEANUP` flag.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_try_eval `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the sequence of statements used as the body for `GIMPLE_TRY` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_try_cleanup `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the sequence of statements used as the cleanup body for `GIMPLE_TRY` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_try_set_catch_is_cleanup `(gimple g, bool catch_is_cleanup)` ¶

  Set the `GIMPLE_TRY_CATCH_IS_CLEANUP` flag.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_try_set_eval `(gtry *g, gimple_seq eval)` ¶

  Set `EVAL` to be the sequence of statements to use as the body for `GIMPLE_TRY` `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_try_set_cleanup `(gtry *g, gimple_seq cleanup)` ¶

  Set `CLEANUP` to be the sequence of statements to use as the cleanup body for `GIMPLE_TRY` `G`.

#### 12.8.30 `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR` ¶

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_build_wce `(gimple_seq cleanup)` ¶

  Build a `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR` statement. `CLEANUP` is the clean-up expression.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_wce_cleanup `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the cleanup sequence for cleanup statement `G`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_wce_set_cleanup `(gimple g, gimple_seq cleanup)` ¶

  Set `CLEANUP` to be the cleanup sequence for `G`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_wce_cleanup_eh_only `(gimple g)` ¶

  Return the `CLEANUP_EH_ONLY` flag for a `WCE` tuple.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_wce_set_cleanup_eh_only `(gimple g, bool eh_only_p)` ¶

  Set the `CLEANUP_EH_ONLY` flag for a `WCE` tuple.

### 12.9 GIMPLE sequences ¶

GIMPLE sequences are the tuple equivalent of `STATEMENT_LIST`’s used in `GENERIC`. They are used to chain statements together, and when used in conjunction with sequence iterators, provide a framework for iterating through statements.

GIMPLE sequences are of type struct `gimple_sequence`, but are more commonly passed by reference to functions dealing with sequences. The type for a sequence pointer is `gimple_seq` which is the same as struct `gimple_sequence` *. When declaring a local sequence, you can define a local variable of type struct `gimple_sequence`. When declaring a sequence allocated on the garbage collected heap, use the function `gimple_seq_alloc` documented below.

There are convenience functions for iterating through sequences in the section entitled Sequence Iterators.

Below is a list of functions to manipulate and query sequences.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_seq_add_stmt `(gimple_seq *seq, gimple g)` ¶

  Link a gimple statement to the end of the sequence *`SEQ` if `G` is not `NULL`. If *`SEQ` is `NULL`, allocate a sequence before linking.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_seq_add_seq `(gimple_seq *dest, gimple_seq src)` ¶

  Append sequence `SRC` to the end of sequence *`DEST` if `SRC` is not `NULL`. If *`DEST` is `NULL`, allocate a new sequence before appending.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_seq_deep_copy `(gimple_seq src)` ¶

  Perform a deep copy of sequence `SRC` and return the result.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_seq_reverse `(gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Reverse the order of the statements in the sequence `SEQ`. Return `SEQ`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_seq_first `(gimple_seq s)` ¶

  Return the first statement in sequence `S`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gimple_seq_last `(gimple_seq s)` ¶

  Return the last statement in sequence `S`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_seq_set_last `(gimple_seq s, gimple last)` ¶

  Set the last statement in sequence `S` to the statement in `LAST`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_seq_set_first `(gimple_seq s, gimple first)` ¶

  Set the first statement in sequence `S` to the statement in `FIRST`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_seq_init `(gimple_seq s)` ¶

  Initialize sequence `S` to an empty sequence.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gimple_seq_alloc `(void)` ¶

  Allocate a new sequence in the garbage collected store and return it.

GIMPLE function: `void` gimple_seq_copy `(gimple_seq dest, gimple_seq src)` ¶

  Copy the sequence `SRC` into the sequence `DEST`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_seq_empty_p `(gimple_seq s)` ¶

  Return true if the sequence `S` is empty.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` bb_seq `(basic_block bb)` ¶

  Returns the sequence of statements in `BB`.

GIMPLE function: `void` set_bb_seq `(basic_block bb, gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Sets the sequence of statements in `BB` to `SEQ`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gimple_seq_singleton_p `(gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Determine whether `SEQ` contains exactly one statement.

### 12.10 Sequence iterators ¶

Sequence iterators are convenience constructs for iterating through statements in a sequence. Given a sequence `SEQ`, here is a typical use of gimple sequence iterators:

    gimple_stmt_iterator gsi;

    for (gsi = gsi_start (seq); !gsi_end_p (gsi); gsi_next (&gsi))
      {
        gimple g = gsi_stmt (gsi);
        /* Do something with gimple statement G.  */
      }

Backward iterations are possible:

            for (gsi = gsi_last (seq); !gsi_end_p (gsi); gsi_prev (&gsi))

Forward and backward iterations on basic blocks are possible with `gsi_start_bb` and `gsi_last_bb`.

In the documentation below we sometimes refer to enum `gsi_iterator_update`. The valid options for this enumeration are:

- `GSI_NEW_STMT` Only valid when a single statement is added. Move the iterator to it.
- `GSI_SAME_STMT` Leave the iterator at the same statement.
- `GSI_CONTINUE_LINKING` Move iterator to whatever position is suitable for linking other statements in the same direction.

Below is a list of the functions used to manipulate and use statement iterators.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_stmt_iterator` gsi_start `(gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Return a new iterator pointing to the sequence `SEQ`’s first statement. If `SEQ` is empty, the iterator’s basic block is `NULL`. Use `gsi_start_bb` instead when the iterator needs to always have the correct basic block set.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_stmt_iterator` gsi_start_bb `(basic_block bb)` ¶

  Return a new iterator pointing to the first statement in basic block `BB`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_stmt_iterator` gsi_last `(gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Return a new iterator initially pointing to the last statement of sequence `SEQ`. If `SEQ` is empty, the iterator’s basic block is `NULL`. Use `gsi_last_bb` instead when the iterator needs to always have the correct basic block set.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_stmt_iterator` gsi_last_bb `(basic_block bb)` ¶

  Return a new iterator pointing to the last statement in basic block `BB`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gsi_end_p `(gimple_stmt_iterator i)` ¶

  Return `TRUE` if at the end of `I`.

GIMPLE function: `bool` gsi_one_before_end_p `(gimple_stmt_iterator i)` ¶

  Return `TRUE` if we’re one statement before the end of `I`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_next `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i)` ¶

  Advance the iterator to the next gimple statement.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_prev `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i)` ¶

  Advance the iterator to the previous gimple statement.

GIMPLE function: `gimple` gsi_stmt `(gimple_stmt_iterator i)` ¶

  Return the current stmt.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_stmt_iterator` gsi_after_labels `(basic_block bb)` ¶

  Return a block statement iterator that points to the first non-label statement in block `BB`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple *` gsi_stmt_ptr `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i)` ¶

  Return a pointer to the current stmt.

GIMPLE function: `basic_block` gsi_bb `(gimple_stmt_iterator i)` ¶

  Return the basic block associated with this iterator.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gsi_seq `(gimple_stmt_iterator i)` ¶

  Return the sequence associated with this iterator.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_remove `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, bool remove_eh_info)` ¶

  Remove the current stmt from the sequence. The iterator is updated to point to the next statement. When `REMOVE_EH_INFO` is true we remove the statement pointed to by iterator `I` from the `EH` tables. Otherwise we do not modify the `EH` tables. Generally, `REMOVE_EH_INFO` should be true when the statement is going to be removed from the `IL` and not reinserted elsewhere.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_link_seq_before `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple_seq seq, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Links the sequence of statements `SEQ` before the statement pointed by iterator `I`. `MODE` indicates what to do with the iterator after insertion (see `enum gsi_iterator_update` above).

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_link_before `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple g, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Links statement `G` before the statement pointed-to by iterator `I`. Updates iterator `I` according to `MODE`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_link_seq_after `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple_seq seq, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Links sequence `SEQ` after the statement pointed-to by iterator `I`. `MODE` is as in `gsi_insert_after`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_link_after `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple g, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Links statement `G` after the statement pointed-to by iterator `I`. `MODE` is as in `gsi_insert_after`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gsi_split_seq_after `(gimple_stmt_iterator i)` ¶

  Move all statements in the sequence after `I` to a new sequence. Return this new sequence.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_seq` gsi_split_seq_before `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i)` ¶

  Move all statements in the sequence before `I` to a new sequence. Return this new sequence.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_replace `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple stmt, bool update_eh_info)` ¶

  Replace the statement pointed-to by `I` to `STMT`. If `UPDATE_EH_INFO` is true, the exception handling information of the original statement is moved to the new statement.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_insert_before `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple stmt, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Insert statement `STMT` before the statement pointed-to by iterator `I`, update `STMT`’s basic block and scan it for new operands. `MODE` specifies how to update iterator `I` after insertion (see enum `gsi_iterator_update`).

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_insert_seq_before `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple_seq seq, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Like `gsi_insert_before`, but for all the statements in `SEQ`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_insert_after `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple stmt, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Insert statement `STMT` after the statement pointed-to by iterator `I`, update `STMT`’s basic block and scan it for new operands. `MODE` specifies how to update iterator `I` after insertion (see enum `gsi_iterator_update`).

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_insert_seq_after `(gimple_stmt_iterator *i, gimple_seq seq, enum gsi_iterator_update mode)` ¶

  Like `gsi_insert_after`, but for all the statements in `SEQ`.

GIMPLE function: `gimple_stmt_iterator` gsi_for_stmt `(gimple stmt)` ¶

  Finds iterator for `STMT`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_move_after `(gimple_stmt_iterator *from, gimple_stmt_iterator *to)` ¶

  Move the statement at `FROM` so it comes right after the statement at `TO`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_move_before `(gimple_stmt_iterator *from, gimple_stmt_iterator *to)` ¶

  Move the statement at `FROM` so it comes right before the statement at `TO`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_move_to_bb_end `(gimple_stmt_iterator *from, basic_block bb)` ¶

  Move the statement at `FROM` to the end of basic block `BB`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_insert_on_edge `(edge e, gimple stmt)` ¶

  Add `STMT` to the pending list of edge `E`. No actual insertion is made until a call to `gsi_commit_edge_inserts`() is made.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_insert_seq_on_edge `(edge e, gimple_seq seq)` ¶

  Add the sequence of statements in `SEQ` to the pending list of edge `E`. No actual insertion is made until a call to `gsi_commit_edge_inserts`() is made.

GIMPLE function: `basic_block` gsi_insert_on_edge_immediate `(edge e, gimple stmt)` ¶

  Similar to `gsi_insert_on_edge`+`gsi_commit_edge_inserts`. If a new block has to be created, it is returned.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_commit_one_edge_insert `(edge e, basic_block *new_bb)` ¶

  Commit insertions pending at edge `E`. If a new block is created, set `NEW_BB` to this block, otherwise set it to `NULL`.

GIMPLE function: `void` gsi_commit_edge_inserts `(void)` ¶

  This routine will commit all pending edge insertions, creating any new basic blocks which are necessary.

### 12.11 Adding a new GIMPLE statement code ¶

The first step in adding a new GIMPLE statement code, is modifying the file `gimple.def`, which contains all the GIMPLE codes. Then you must add a corresponding gimple subclass located in `gimple.h`. This in turn, will require you to add a corresponding `GTY` tag in `gsstruct.def`, and code to handle this tag in `gss_for_code` which is located in `gimple.cc`.

In order for the garbage collector to know the size of the structure you created in `gimple.h`, you need to add a case to handle your new GIMPLE statement in `gimple_size` which is located in `gimple.cc`.

You will probably want to create a function to build the new gimple statement in `gimple.cc`. The function should be called `gimple_build_new-tuple-name`, and should return the new tuple as a pointer to the appropriate gimple subclass.

If your new statement requires accessors for any members or operands it may have, put simple inline accessors in `gimple.h` and any non-trivial accessors in `gimple.cc` with a corresponding prototype in `gimple.h`.

You should add the new statement subclass to the class hierarchy diagram in `gimple.texi`.

### 12.12 Statement and operand traversals ¶

There are two functions available for walking statements and sequences: `walk_gimple_stmt` and `walk_gimple_seq`, accordingly, and a third function for walking the operands in a statement: `walk_gimple_op`.

GIMPLE function: `tree` walk_gimple_stmt `(gimple_stmt_iterator *gsi, walk_stmt_fn callback_stmt, walk_tree_fn callback_op, struct walk_stmt_info *wi)` ¶

  This function is used to walk the current statement in `GSI`, optionally using traversal state stored in `WI`. If `WI` is `NULL`, no state is kept during the traversal.

  The callback `CALLBACK_STMT` is called. If `CALLBACK_STMT` returns true, it means that the callback function has handled all the operands of the statement and it is not necessary to walk its operands.

  If `CALLBACK_STMT` is `NULL` or it returns false, `CALLBACK_OP` is called on each operand of the statement via `walk_gimple_op`. If `walk_gimple_op` returns non-`NULL` for any operand, the remaining operands are not scanned.

  The return value is that returned by the last call to `walk_gimple_op`, or `NULL_TREE` if no `CALLBACK_OP` is specified.

GIMPLE function: `tree` walk_gimple_op `(gimple stmt, walk_tree_fn callback_op, struct walk_stmt_info *wi)` ¶

  Use this function to walk the operands of statement `STMT`. Every operand is walked via `walk_tree` with optional state information in `WI`.

  `CALLBACK_OP` is called on each operand of `STMT` via `walk_tree`. Additional parameters to `walk_tree` must be stored in `WI`. For each operand `OP`, `walk_tree` is called as:

      walk_tree (&OP, CALLBACK_OP, WI, PSET)

  If `CALLBACK_OP` returns non-`NULL` for an operand, the remaining operands are not scanned. The return value is that returned by the last call to `walk_tree`, or `NULL_TREE` if no `CALLBACK_OP` is specified.

GIMPLE function: `tree` walk_gimple_seq `(gimple_seq seq, walk_stmt_fn callback_stmt, walk_tree_fn callback_op, struct walk_stmt_info *wi)` ¶

  This function walks all the statements in the sequence `SEQ` calling `walk_gimple_stmt` on each one. `WI` is as in `walk_gimple_stmt`. If `walk_gimple_stmt` returns non-`NULL`, the walk is stopped and the value returned. Otherwise, all the statements are walked and `NULL_TREE` returned.

## 13 Analysis and Optimization of GIMPLE tuples ¶

GCC uses three main intermediate languages to represent the program during compilation: GENERIC, GIMPLE and RTL. GENERIC is a language-independent representation generated by each front end. It is used to serve as an interface between the parser and optimizer. GENERIC is a common representation that is able to represent programs written in all the languages supported by GCC.

GIMPLE and RTL are used to optimize the program. GIMPLE is used for target and language independent optimizations (e.g., inlining, constant propagation, tail call elimination, redundancy elimination, etc). Much like GENERIC, GIMPLE is a language independent, tree based representation. However, it differs from GENERIC in that the GIMPLE grammar is more restrictive: expressions contain no more than 3 operands (except function calls), it has no control flow structures and expressions with side effects are only allowed on the right hand side of assignments. See the chapter describing GENERIC and GIMPLE for more details.

This chapter describes the data structures and functions used in the GIMPLE optimizers (also known as “tree optimizers” or “middle end”). In particular, it focuses on all the macros, data structures, functions and programming constructs needed to implement optimization passes for GIMPLE.

### 13.1 Annotations ¶

The optimizers need to associate attributes with variables during the optimization process. For instance, we need to know whether a variable has aliases. All these attributes are stored in data structures called annotations which are then linked to the field `ann` in `struct tree_common`.

### 13.2 SSA Operands ¶

Almost every GIMPLE statement will contain a reference to a variable or memory location. Since statements come in different shapes and sizes, their operands are going to be located at various spots inside the statement’s tree. To facilitate access to the statement’s operands, they are organized into lists associated inside each statement’s annotation. Each element in an operand list is a pointer to a `VAR_DECL`, `PARM_DECL` or `SSA_NAME` tree node. This provides a very convenient way of examining and replacing operands.

Data flow analysis and optimization is done on all tree nodes representing variables. Any node for which `SSA_VAR_P` returns nonzero is considered when scanning statement operands. However, not all `SSA_VAR_P` variables are processed in the same way. For the purposes of optimization, we need to distinguish between references to local scalar variables and references to globals, statics, structures, arrays, aliased variables, etc. The reason is simple, the compiler can gather complete data flow information for a local scalar. On the other hand, a global variable may be modified by a function call, it may not be possible to keep track of all the elements of an array or the fields of a structure, etc.

The operand scanner gathers two kinds of operands: real and virtual. An operand for which `is_gimple_reg` returns true is considered real, otherwise it is a virtual operand. We also distinguish between uses and definitions. An operand is used if its value is loaded by the statement (e.g., the operand at the RHS of an assignment). If the statement assigns a new value to the operand, the operand is considered a definition (e.g., the operand at the LHS of an assignment).

Virtual and real operands also have very different data flow properties. Real operands are unambiguous references to the full object that they represent. For instance, given

    {
      int a, b;
      a = b
    }

Since `a` and `b` are non-aliased locals, the statement `a = b` will have one real definition and one real use because variable `a` is completely modified with the contents of variable `b`. Real definition are also known as killing definitions. Similarly, the use of `b` reads all its bits.

In contrast, virtual operands are used with variables that can have a partial or ambiguous reference. This includes structures, arrays, globals, and aliased variables. In these cases, we have two types of definitions. For globals, structures, and arrays, we can determine from a statement whether a variable of these types has a killing definition. If the variable does, then the statement is marked as having a must definition of that variable. However, if a statement is only defining a part of the variable (i.e. a field in a structure), or if we know that a statement might define the variable but we cannot say for sure, then we mark that statement as having a may definition. For instance, given

    {
      int a, b, *p;

      if (...)
        p = &a;
      else
        p = &b;
      *p = 5;
      return *p;
    }

The assignment `*p = 5` may be a definition of `a` or `b`. If we cannot determine statically where `p` is pointing to at the time of the store operation, we create virtual definitions to mark that statement as a potential definition site for `a` and `b`. Memory loads are similarly marked with virtual use operands. Virtual operands are shown in tree dumps right before the statement that contains them. To request a tree dump with virtual operands, use the `-vops` option to `-fdump-tree`:

    {
      int a, b, *p;

      if (...)
        p = &a;
      else
        p = &b;
      # a = VDEF <a>
      # b = VDEF <b>
      *p = 5;

      # VUSE <a>
      # VUSE <b>
      return *p;
    }

Notice that `VDEF` operands have two copies of the referenced variable. This indicates that this is not a killing definition of that variable. In this case we refer to it as a may definition or aliased store. The presence of the second copy of the variable in the `VDEF` operand will become important when the function is converted into SSA form. This will be used to link all the non-killing definitions to prevent optimizations from making incorrect assumptions about them.

Operands are updated as soon as the statement is finished via a call to `update_stmt`. If statement elements are changed via `SET_USE` or `SET_DEF`, then no further action is required (i.e., those macros take care of updating the statement). If changes are made by manipulating the statement’s tree directly, then a call must be made to `update_stmt` when complete. Calling one of the `bsi_insert` routines or `bsi_replace` performs an implicit call to `update_stmt`.

#### 13.2.1 Operand Iterators And Access Routines ¶

Operands are collected by `tree-ssa-operands.cc`. They are stored inside each statement’s annotation and can be accessed through either the operand iterators or an access routine.

The following access routines are available for examining operands:

1. `SINGLE_SSA_{USE,DEF,TREE}_OPERAND`: These accessors will return NULL unless there is exactly one operand matching the specified flags. If there is exactly one operand, the operand is returned as either a `tree`, `def_operand_p`, or `use_operand_p`.

       tree t = SINGLE_SSA_TREE_OPERAND (stmt, flags);
       use_operand_p u = SINGLE_SSA_USE_OPERAND (stmt, SSA_ALL_VIRTUAL_USES);
       def_operand_p d = SINGLE_SSA_DEF_OPERAND (stmt, SSA_OP_ALL_DEFS);

2. `ZERO_SSA_OPERANDS`: This macro returns true if there are no operands matching the specified flags.

       if (ZERO_SSA_OPERANDS (stmt, SSA_OP_ALL_VIRTUALS))
         return;

3. `NUM_SSA_OPERANDS`: This macro Returns the number of operands matching ’flags’. This actually executes a loop to perform the count, so only use this if it is really needed.

       int count = NUM_SSA_OPERANDS (stmt, flags)

If you wish to iterate over some or all operands, use the `FOR_EACH_SSA_{USE,DEF,TREE}_OPERAND` iterator. For example, to print all the operands for a statement:

    void
    print_ops (tree stmt)
    {
      ssa_op_iter;
      tree var;

      FOR_EACH_SSA_TREE_OPERAND (var, stmt, iter, SSA_OP_ALL_OPERANDS)
        print_generic_expr (stderr, var, TDF_SLIM);
    }

How to choose the appropriate iterator:

1. Determine whether you are need to see the operand pointers, or just the trees, and choose the appropriate macro:

       Need            Macro:
       ----            -------
       use_operand_p   FOR_EACH_SSA_USE_OPERAND
       def_operand_p   FOR_EACH_SSA_DEF_OPERAND
       tree            FOR_EACH_SSA_TREE_OPERAND

2. You need to declare a variable of the type you are interested in, and an ssa_op_iter structure which serves as the loop controlling variable.
3. Determine which operands you wish to use, and specify the flags of those you are interested in. They are documented in `tree-ssa-operands.h`:

       #define SSA_OP_USE              0x01    /* Real USE operands.  */
       #define SSA_OP_DEF              0x02    /* Real DEF operands.  */
       #define SSA_OP_VUSE             0x04    /* VUSE operands.  */
       #define SSA_OP_VDEF             0x08    /* VDEF operands.  */

       /* These are commonly grouped operand flags.  */
       #define SSA_OP_VIRTUAL_USES	(SSA_OP_VUSE)
       #define SSA_OP_VIRTUAL_DEFS	(SSA_OP_VDEF)
       #define SSA_OP_ALL_VIRTUALS     (SSA_OP_VIRTUAL_USES | SSA_OP_VIRTUAL_DEFS)
       #define SSA_OP_ALL_USES		(SSA_OP_VIRTUAL_USES | SSA_OP_USE)
       #define SSA_OP_ALL_DEFS		(SSA_OP_VIRTUAL_DEFS | SSA_OP_DEF)
       #define SSA_OP_ALL_OPERANDS	(SSA_OP_ALL_USES | SSA_OP_ALL_DEFS)

So if you want to look at the use pointers for all the `USE` and `VUSE` operands, you would do something like:

      use_operand_p use_p;
      ssa_op_iter iter;

      FOR_EACH_SSA_USE_OPERAND (use_p, stmt, iter, (SSA_OP_USE | SSA_OP_VUSE))
        {
          process_use_ptr (use_p);
        }

The `TREE` macro is basically the same as the `USE` and `DEF` macros, only with the use or def dereferenced via `USE_FROM_PTR (use_p)` and `DEF_FROM_PTR (def_p)`. Since we aren’t using operand pointers, use and defs flags can be mixed.

      tree var;
      ssa_op_iter iter;

      FOR_EACH_SSA_TREE_OPERAND (var, stmt, iter, SSA_OP_VUSE)
        {
           print_generic_expr (stderr, var, TDF_SLIM);
        }

`VDEF`s are broken into two flags, one for the `DEF` portion (`SSA_OP_VDEF`) and one for the USE portion (`SSA_OP_VUSE`).

There are many examples in the code, in addition to the documentation in `tree-ssa-operands.h` and `ssa-iterators.h`.

There are also a couple of variants on the stmt iterators regarding PHI nodes.

`FOR_EACH_PHI_ARG` Works exactly like `FOR_EACH_SSA_USE_OPERAND`, except it works over `PHI` arguments instead of statement operands.

    /* Look at every virtual PHI use.  */
    FOR_EACH_PHI_ARG (use_p, phi_stmt, iter, SSA_OP_VIRTUAL_USES)
    {
       my_code;
    }

    /* Look at every real PHI use.  */
    FOR_EACH_PHI_ARG (use_p, phi_stmt, iter, SSA_OP_USES)
      my_code;

    /* Look at every PHI use.  */
    FOR_EACH_PHI_ARG (use_p, phi_stmt, iter, SSA_OP_ALL_USES)
      my_code;

`FOR_EACH_PHI_OR_STMT_{USE,DEF}` works exactly like `FOR_EACH_SSA_{USE,DEF}_OPERAND`, except it will function on either a statement or a `PHI` node. These should be used when it is appropriate but they are not quite as efficient as the individual `FOR_EACH_PHI` and `FOR_EACH_SSA` routines.

    FOR_EACH_PHI_OR_STMT_USE (use_operand_p, stmt, iter, flags)
      {
         my_code;
      }

    FOR_EACH_PHI_OR_STMT_DEF (def_operand_p, phi, iter, flags)
      {
         my_code;
      }

#### 13.2.2 Immediate Uses ¶

Immediate use information is now always available. Using the immediate use iterators, you may examine every use of any `SSA_NAME`. For instance, to change each use of `ssa_var` to `ssa_var2` and call fold_stmt on each stmt after that is done:

      use_operand_p imm_use_p;
      imm_use_iterator iterator;
      tree ssa_var, stmt;

      FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_STMT (stmt, iterator, ssa_var)
        {
          FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_ON_STMT (imm_use_p, iterator)
            SET_USE (imm_use_p, ssa_var_2);
          fold_stmt (stmt);
        }

There are 2 iterators which can be used. `FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_FAST` is used when the immediate uses are not changed, i.e., you are looking at the uses, but not setting them.

If they do get changed, then care must be taken that things are not changed under the iterators, so use the `FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_STMT` and `FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_ON_STMT` iterators. They attempt to preserve the sanity of the use list by moving all the uses for a statement into a controlled position, and then iterating over those uses. Then the optimization can manipulate the stmt when all the uses have been processed. This is a little slower than the FAST version since it adds a placeholder element and must sort through the list a bit for each statement. This placeholder element must be also be removed if the loop is terminated early; a destructor takes care of that when leaving the `FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_STMT` scope.

There are checks in `verify_ssa` which verify that the immediate use list is up to date, as well as checking that an optimization didn’t break from the loop without using this macro. It is safe to simply ’break’; from a `FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_FAST` traverse.

Some useful functions and macros:

1. `has_zero_uses (ssa_var)` : Returns true if there are no uses of `ssa_var`.
2. `has_single_use (ssa_var)` : Returns true if there is only a single use of `ssa_var`.
3. `single_imm_use (ssa_var, use_operand_p *ptr, tree *stmt)` : Returns true if there is only a single use of `ssa_var`, and also returns the use pointer and statement it occurs in, in the second and third parameters.
4. `num_imm_uses (ssa_var)` : Returns the number of immediate uses of `ssa_var`. It is better not to use this if possible since it simply utilizes a loop to count the uses.
5. `PHI_ARG_INDEX_FROM_USE (use_p)` : Given a use within a `PHI` node, return the index number for the use. An assert is triggered if the use isn’t located in a `PHI` node.
6. `USE_STMT (use_p)` : Return the statement a use occurs in.

Note that uses are not put into an immediate use list until their statement is actually inserted into the instruction stream via a `bsi_*` routine.

It is also still possible to utilize lazy updating of statements, but this should be used only when absolutely required. Both alias analysis and the dominator optimizations currently do this.

When lazy updating is being used, the immediate use information is out of date and cannot be used reliably. Lazy updating is achieved by simply marking statements modified via calls to `gimple_set_modified` instead of `update_stmt`. When lazy updating is no longer required, all the modified statements must have `update_stmt` called in order to bring them up to date. This must be done before the optimization is finished, or `verify_ssa` will trigger an abort.

This is done with a simple loop over the instruction stream:

      block_stmt_iterator bsi;
      basic_block bb;
      FOR_EACH_BB (bb)
        {
          for (bsi = bsi_start (bb); !bsi_end_p (bsi); bsi_next (&bsi))
            update_stmt_if_modified (bsi_stmt (bsi));
        }

### 13.3 Static Single Assignment ¶

Most of the tree optimizers rely on the data flow information provided by the Static Single Assignment (SSA) form. We implement the SSA form as described in R. Cytron, J. Ferrante, B. Rosen, M. Wegman, and K. Zadeck. Efficiently Computing Static Single Assignment Form and the Control Dependence Graph. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 13(4):451-490, October 1991.

The SSA form is based on the premise that program variables are assigned in exactly one location in the program. Multiple assignments to the same variable create new versions of that variable. Naturally, actual programs are seldom in SSA form initially because variables tend to be assigned multiple times. The compiler modifies the program representation so that every time a variable is assigned in the code, a new version of the variable is created. Different versions of the same variable are distinguished by subscripting the variable name with its version number. Variables used in the right-hand side of expressions are renamed so that their version number matches that of the most recent assignment.

We represent variable versions using `SSA_NAME` nodes. The renaming process in `tree-ssa.cc` wraps every real and virtual operand with an `SSA_NAME` node which contains the version number and the statement that created the `SSA_NAME`. Only definitions and virtual definitions may create new `SSA_NAME` nodes.

Sometimes, flow of control makes it impossible to determine the most recent version of a variable. In these cases, the compiler inserts an artificial definition for that variable called PHI function or PHI node. This new definition merges all the incoming versions of the variable to create a new name for it. For instance,

    if (...)
      a_1 = 5;
    else if (...)
      a_2 = 2;
    else
      a_3 = 13;

    # a_4 = PHI <a_1, a_2, a_3>
    return a_4;

Since it is not possible to determine which of the three branches will be taken at runtime, we don’t know which of `a_1`, `a_2` or `a_3` to use at the return statement. So, the SSA renamer creates a new version `a_4` which is assigned the result of “merging” `a_1`, `a_2` and `a_3`. Hence, PHI nodes mean “one of these operands. I don’t know which”.

The following functions can be used to examine PHI nodes

Function: gimple_phi_result (phi) ¶

  Returns the `SSA_NAME` created by PHI node phi (i.e., phi’s LHS).

Function: gimple_phi_num_args (phi) ¶

  Returns the number of arguments in phi. This number is exactly the number of incoming edges to the basic block holding phi.

Function: gimple_phi_arg (phi, i) ¶

  Returns ith argument of phi.

Function: gimple_phi_arg_edge (phi, i) ¶

  Returns the incoming edge for the ith argument of phi.

Function: gimple_phi_arg_def (phi, i) ¶

  Returns the `SSA_NAME` for the ith argument of phi.

#### 13.3.1 Preserving the SSA form ¶

Some optimization passes make changes to the function that invalidate the SSA property. This can happen when a pass has added new symbols or changed the program so that variables that were previously aliased aren’t anymore. Whenever something like this happens, the affected symbols must be renamed into SSA form again. Transformations that emit new code or replicate existing statements will also need to update the SSA form.

Since GCC implements two different SSA forms for register and virtual variables, keeping the SSA form up to date depends on whether you are updating register or virtual names. In both cases, the general idea behind incremental SSA updates is similar: when new SSA names are created, they typically are meant to replace other existing names in the program.

For instance, given the following code:

         1  L0:
         2  x_1 = PHI (0, x_5)
         3  if (x_1 < 10)
         4    if (x_1 > 7)
         5      y_2 = 0
         6    else
         7      y_3 = x_1 + x_7
         8    endif
         9    x_5 = x_1 + 1
         10   goto L0;
         11 endif

Suppose that we insert new names `x_10` and `x_11` (lines `4` and `8`).

         1  L0:
         2  x_1 = PHI (0, x_5)
         3  if (x_1 < 10)
         4    x_10 = ...
         5    if (x_1 > 7)
         6      y_2 = 0
         7    else
         8      x_11 = ...
         9      y_3 = x_1 + x_7
         10   endif
         11   x_5 = x_1 + 1
         12   goto L0;
         13 endif

We want to replace all the uses of `x_1` with the new definitions of `x_10` and `x_11`. Note that the only uses that should be replaced are those at lines `5`, `9` and `11`. Also, the use of `x_7` at line `9` should not be replaced (this is why we cannot just mark symbol `x` for renaming).

Additionally, we may need to insert a PHI node at line `11` because that is a merge point for `x_10` and `x_11`. So the use of `x_1` at line `11` will be replaced with the new PHI node. The insertion of PHI nodes is optional. They are not strictly necessary to preserve the SSA form, and depending on what the caller inserted, they may not even be useful for the optimizers.

Updating the SSA form is a two step process. First, the pass has to identify which names need to be updated and/or which symbols need to be renamed into SSA form for the first time. When new names are introduced to replace existing names in the program, the mapping between the old and the new names are registered by calling `register_new_name_mapping` (note that if your pass creates new code by duplicating basic blocks, the call to `tree_duplicate_bb` will set up the necessary mappings automatically).

After the replacement mappings have been registered and new symbols marked for renaming, a call to `update_ssa` makes the registered changes. This can be done with an explicit call or by creating `TODO` flags in the `tree_opt_pass` structure for your pass. There are several `TODO` flags that control the behavior of `update_ssa`:

- `TODO_update_ssa`. Update the SSA form inserting PHI nodes for newly exposed symbols and virtual names marked for updating. When updating real names, only insert PHI nodes for a real name `O_j` in blocks reached by all the new and old definitions for `O_j`. If the iterated dominance frontier for `O_j` is not pruned, we may end up inserting PHI nodes in blocks that have one or more edges with no incoming definition for `O_j`. This would lead to uninitialized warnings for `O_j`’s symbol.
- `TODO_update_ssa_no_phi`. Update the SSA form without inserting any new PHI nodes at all. This is used by passes that have either inserted all the PHI nodes themselves or passes that need only to patch use-def and def-def chains for virtuals (e.g., DCE).
- `TODO_update_ssa_full_phi`. Insert PHI nodes everywhere they are needed. No pruning of the IDF is done. This is used by passes that need the PHI nodes for `O_j` even if it means that some arguments will come from the default definition of `O_j`’s symbol (e.g., `pass_linear_transform`).

  WARNING: If you need to use this flag, chances are that your pass may be doing something wrong. Inserting PHI nodes for an old name where not all edges carry a new replacement may lead to silent codegen errors or spurious uninitialized warnings.

- `TODO_update_ssa_only_virtuals`. Passes that update the SSA form on their own may want to delegate the updating of virtual names to the generic updater. Since FUD chains are easier to maintain, this simplifies the work they need to do. NOTE: If this flag is used, any OLD->NEW mappings for real names are explicitly destroyed and only the symbols marked for renaming are processed.

#### 13.3.2 Examining `SSA_NAME` nodes ¶

The following macros can be used to examine `SSA_NAME` nodes

Macro: SSA_NAME_DEF_STMT (var) ¶

  Returns the statement s that creates the `SSA_NAME` var. If s is an empty statement (i.e., `IS_EMPTY_STMT (s)` returns `true`), it means that the first reference to this variable is a USE or a VUSE.

Macro: SSA_NAME_VERSION (var) ¶

  Returns the version number of the `SSA_NAME` object var.

#### 13.3.3 Walking the dominator tree ¶

Tree SSA function: `void` walk_dominator_tree `(walk_data, bb)` ¶

  This function walks the dominator tree for the current CFG calling a set of callback functions defined in struct dom_walk_data in `domwalk.h`. The call back functions you need to define give you hooks to execute custom code at various points during traversal:

  1. Once to initialize any local data needed while processing bb and its children. This local data is pushed into an internal stack which is automatically pushed and popped as the walker traverses the dominator tree.
  2. Once before traversing all the statements in the bb.
  3. Once for every statement inside bb.
  4. Once after traversing all the statements and before recursing into bb’s dominator children.
  5. It then recurses into all the dominator children of bb.
  6. After recursing into all the dominator children of bb it can, optionally, traverse every statement in bb again (i.e., repeating steps 2 and 3).
  7. Once after walking the statements in bb and bb’s dominator children. At this stage, the block local data stack is popped.

### 13.4 Alias analysis ¶

Alias analysis in GIMPLE SSA form consists of two pieces. First the virtual SSA web ties conflicting memory accesses and provides a SSA use-def chain and SSA immediate-use chains for walking possibly dependent memory accesses. Second an alias-oracle can be queried to disambiguate explicit and implicit memory references.

1. Memory SSA form.

   All statements that may use memory have exactly one accompanied use of a virtual SSA name that represents the state of memory at the given point in the IL.

   All statements that may define memory have exactly one accompanied definition of a virtual SSA name using the previous state of memory and defining the new state of memory after the given point in the IL.

       int i;
       int foo (void)
       {
         # .MEM_3 = VDEF <.MEM_2(D)>
         i = 1;
         # VUSE <.MEM_3>
         return i;
       }

   The virtual SSA names in this case are `.MEM_2(D)` and `.MEM_3`. The store to the global variable `i` defines `.MEM_3` invalidating `.MEM_2(D)`. The load from `i` uses that new state `.MEM_3`.

   The virtual SSA web serves as constraints to SSA optimizers preventing illegitimate code-motion and optimization. It also provides a way to walk related memory statements.

2. Points-to and escape analysis.

   Points-to analysis builds a set of constraints from the GIMPLE SSA IL representing all pointer operations and facts we do or do not know about pointers. Solving this set of constraints yields a conservatively correct solution for each pointer variable in the program (though we are only interested in SSA name pointers) as to what it may possibly point to.

   This points-to solution for a given SSA name pointer is stored in the `pt_solution` sub-structure of the `SSA_NAME_PTR_INFO` record. The following accessor functions are available:

   - `pt_solution_includes`
   - `pt_solutions_intersect`

   Points-to analysis also computes the solution for two special set of pointers, `ESCAPED` and `CALLUSED`. Those represent all memory that has escaped the scope of analysis or that is used by pure or nested const calls.

3. Type-based alias analysis

   Type-based alias analysis is frontend dependent though generic support is provided by the middle-end in `alias.cc`. TBAA code is used by both tree optimizers and RTL optimizers.

   Every language that wishes to perform language-specific alias analysis should define a function that computes, given a `tree` node, an alias set for the node. Nodes in different alias sets are not allowed to alias. For an example, see the C front-end function `c_get_alias_set`.

4. Tree alias-oracle

   The tree alias-oracle provides means to disambiguate two memory references and memory references against statements. The following queries are available:

   - `refs_may_alias_p`
   - `ref_maybe_used_by_stmt_p`
   - `stmt_may_clobber_ref_p`

   In addition to those two kind of statement walkers are available walking statements related to a reference ref. `walk_non_aliased_vuses` walks over dominating memory defining statements and calls back if the statement does not clobber ref providing the non-aliased VUSE. The walk stops at the first clobbering statement or if asked to. `walk_aliased_vdefs` walks over dominating memory defining statements and calls back on each statement clobbering ref providing its aliasing VDEF. The walk stops if asked to.

### 13.5 Memory model ¶

The memory model used by the middle-end models that of the C/C++ languages. The middle-end has the notion of an effective type of a memory region which is used for type-based alias analysis.

The following is a refinement of ISO C99 6.5/6, clarifying the block copy case to follow common sense and extending the concept of a dynamic effective type to objects with a declared type as required for C++.

    The effective type of an object for an access to its stored value is
    the declared type of the object or the effective type determined by
    a previous store to it.  If a value is stored into an object through
    an lvalue having a type that is not a character type, then the
    type of the lvalue becomes the effective type of the object for that
    access and for subsequent accesses that do not modify the stored value.
    If a value is copied into an object using memcpy or memmove,
    or is copied as an array of character type, then the effective type
    of the modified object for that access and for subsequent accesses that
    do not modify the value is undetermined.  For all other accesses to an
    object, the effective type of the object is simply the type of the
    lvalue used for the access.

## 14 RTL Representation ¶

The last part of the compiler work is done on a low-level intermediate representation called Register Transfer Language. In this language, the instructions to be output are described, pretty much one by one, in an algebraic form that describes what the instruction does.

RTL is inspired by Lisp lists. It has both an internal form, made up of structures that point at other structures, and a textual form that is used in the machine description and in printed debugging dumps. The textual form uses nested parentheses to indicate the pointers in the internal form.

### 14.1 RTL Object Types ¶

RTL uses five kinds of objects: expressions, integers, wide integers, strings and vectors. Expressions are the most important ones. An RTL expression (“RTX”, for short) is a C structure, but it is usually referred to with a pointer; a type that is given the typedef name `rtx`.

An integer is simply an `int`; their written form uses decimal digits. A wide integer is an integral object whose type is `HOST_WIDE_INT`; their written form uses decimal digits.

A string is a sequence of characters. In core it is represented as a `char *` in usual C fashion, and it is written in C syntax as well. However, strings in RTL may never be null. If you write an empty string in a machine description, it is represented in core as a null pointer rather than as a pointer to a null character. In certain contexts, these null pointers instead of strings are valid. Within RTL code, strings are most commonly found inside `symbol_ref` expressions, but they appear in other contexts in the RTL expressions that make up machine descriptions.

In a machine description, strings are normally written with double quotes, as you would in C. However, strings in machine descriptions may extend over many lines, which is invalid C, and adjacent string constants are not concatenated as they are in C. Any string constant may be surrounded with a single set of parentheses. Sometimes this makes the machine description easier to read.

There is also a special syntax for strings, which can be useful when C code is embedded in a machine description. Wherever a string can appear, it is also valid to write a C-style brace block. The entire brace block, including the outermost pair of braces, is considered to be the string constant. Double quote characters inside the braces are not special. Therefore, if you write string constants in the C code, you need not escape each quote character with a backslash.

A vector contains an arbitrary number of pointers to expressions. The number of elements in the vector is explicitly present in the vector. The written form of a vector consists of square brackets (‘`[…]`’) surrounding the elements, in sequence and with whitespace separating them. Vectors of length zero are not created; null pointers are used instead.

Expressions are classified by expression codes (also called RTX codes). The expression code is a name defined in `rtl.def`, which is also (in uppercase) a C enumeration constant. The possible expression codes and their meanings are machine-independent. The code of an RTX can be extracted with the macro `GET_CODE (x)` and altered with `PUT_CODE (x, newcode)`.

The expression code determines how many operands the expression contains, and what kinds of objects they are. In RTL, unlike Lisp, you cannot tell by looking at an operand what kind of object it is. Instead, you must know from its context—from the expression code of the containing expression. For example, in an expression of code `subreg`, the first operand is to be regarded as an expression and the second operand as a polynomial integer. In an expression of code `plus`, there are two operands, both of which are to be regarded as expressions. In a `symbol_ref` expression, there is one operand, which is to be regarded as a string.

Expressions are written as parentheses containing the name of the expression type, its flags and machine mode if any, and then the operands of the expression (separated by spaces).

Expression code names in the ‘`md`’ file are written in lowercase, but when they appear in C code they are written in uppercase. In this manual, they are shown as follows: `const_int`.

In a few contexts a null pointer is valid where an expression is normally wanted. The written form of this is `(nil)`.

### 14.2 RTL Classes and Formats ¶

The various expression codes are divided into several classes, which are represented by single characters. You can determine the class of an RTX code with the macro `GET_RTX_CLASS (code)`. Currently, `rtl.def` defines these classes:

`RTX_OBJ`

  An RTX code that represents an actual object, such as a register (`REG`) or a memory location (`MEM`, `SYMBOL_REF`). `LO_SUM` is also included; instead, `SUBREG` and `STRICT_LOW_PART` are not in this class, but in class `RTX_EXTRA`.

`RTX_CONST_OBJ`

  An RTX code that represents a constant object. `HIGH` is also included in this class.

`RTX_COMPARE`

  An RTX code for a non-symmetric comparison, such as `GEU` or `LT`.

`RTX_COMM_COMPARE`

  An RTX code for a symmetric (commutative) comparison, such as `EQ` or `ORDERED`.

`RTX_UNARY`

  An RTX code for a unary arithmetic operation, such as `NEG`, `NOT`, or `ABS`. This category also includes value extension (sign or zero) and conversions between integer and floating point.

`RTX_COMM_ARITH`

  An RTX code for a commutative binary operation, such as `PLUS` or `AND`. `NE` and `EQ` are comparisons, so they have class `RTX_COMM_COMPARE`.

`RTX_BIN_ARITH`

  An RTX code for a non-commutative binary operation, such as `MINUS`, `DIV`, or `ASHIFTRT`.

`RTX_BITFIELD_OPS`

  An RTX code for a bit-field operation. Currently only `ZERO_EXTRACT` and `SIGN_EXTRACT`. These have three inputs and are lvalues (so they can be used for insertion as well). See Bit-Fields.

`RTX_TERNARY`

  An RTX code for other three input operations. Currently only `IF_THEN_ELSE`, `VEC_MERGE`, `SIGN_EXTRACT`, `ZERO_EXTRACT`, and `FMA`.

`RTX_INSN`

  An RTX code for an entire instruction: `INSN`, `JUMP_INSN`, and `CALL_INSN`. See Insns.

`RTX_MATCH`

  An RTX code for something that matches in insns, such as `MATCH_DUP`. These only occur in machine descriptions.

`RTX_AUTOINC`

  An RTX code for an auto-increment addressing mode, such as `POST_INC`. ‘`XEXP (x, 0)`’ gives the auto-modified register.

`RTX_EXTRA`

  All other RTX codes. This category includes the remaining codes used only in machine descriptions (`DEFINE_*`, etc.). It also includes all the codes describing side effects (`SET`, `USE`, `CLOBBER`, etc.) and the non-insns that may appear on an insn chain, such as `NOTE`, `BARRIER`, and `CODE_LABEL`. `SUBREG` is also part of this class.

For each expression code, `rtl.def` specifies the number of contained objects and their kinds using a sequence of characters called the format of the expression code. For example, the format of `subreg` is ‘`ep`’.

These are the most commonly used format characters:

`e`

  An expression (actually a pointer to an expression).

`i`

  An integer.

`w`

  A wide integer.

`s`

  A string.

`E`

  A vector of expressions.

A few other format characters are used occasionally:

`u`

  ‘`u`’ is equivalent to ‘`e`’ except that it is printed differently in debugging dumps. It is used for pointers to insns.

`n`

  ‘`n`’ is equivalent to ‘`i`’ except that it is printed differently in debugging dumps. It is used for the line number or code number of a `note` insn.

`S`

  ‘`S`’ indicates a string which is optional. In the RTL objects in core, ‘`S`’ is equivalent to ‘`s`’, but when the object is read, from an ‘`md`’ file, the string value of this operand may be omitted. An omitted string is taken to be the null string.

`V`

  ‘`V`’ indicates a vector which is optional. In the RTL objects in core, ‘`V`’ is equivalent to ‘`E`’, but when the object is read from an ‘`md`’ file, the vector value of this operand may be omitted. An omitted vector is effectively the same as a vector of no elements.

`B`

  ‘`B`’ indicates a pointer to basic block structure.

`p`

  A polynomial integer. At present this is used only for `SUBREG_BYTE`.

`0`

  ‘`0`’ means a slot whose contents do not fit any normal category. ‘`0`’ slots are not printed at all in dumps, and are often used in special ways by small parts of the compiler.

There are macros to get the number of operands and the format of an expression code:

`GET_RTX_LENGTH (code)` ¶

  Number of operands of an RTX of code code.

`GET_RTX_FORMAT (code)` ¶

  The format of an RTX of code code, as a C string.

Some classes of RTX codes always have the same format. For example, it is safe to assume that all comparison operations have format `ee`.

`RTX_UNARY`

  All codes of this class have format `e`.

`RTX_BIN_ARITH`
`RTX_COMM_ARITH`
`RTX_COMM_COMPARE`
`RTX_COMPARE`

  All codes of these classes have format `ee`.

`RTX_BITFIELD_OPS`
`RTX_TERNARY`

  All codes of these classes have format `eee`.

`RTX_INSN`

  All codes of this class have formats that begin with `iuueiee`. See Insns. Note that not all RTL objects linked onto an insn chain are of class `RTX_INSN`.

`RTX_CONST_OBJ`
`RTX_OBJ`
`RTX_MATCH`
`RTX_EXTRA`

  You can make no assumptions about the format of these codes.

### 14.3 Access to Operands ¶

Operands of expressions are accessed using the macros `XEXP`, `XINT`, `XWINT` and `XSTR`. Each of these macros takes two arguments: an expression-pointer (RTX) and an operand number (counting from zero). Thus,

    XEXP (x, 2)

accesses operand 2 of expression x, as an expression.

    XINT (x, 2)

accesses the same operand as an integer. `XSTR`, used in the same fashion, would access it as a string.

Any operand can be accessed as an integer, as an expression or as a string. You must choose the correct method of access for the kind of value actually stored in the operand. You would do this based on the expression code of the containing expression. That is also how you would know how many operands there are.

For example, if x is an `int_list` expression, you know that it has two operands which can be correctly accessed as `XINT (x, 0)` and `XEXP (x, 1)`. Incorrect accesses like `XEXP (x, 0)` and `XINT (x, 1)` would compile, but would trigger an internal compiler error when rtl checking is enabled. Nothing stops you from writing `XEXP (x, 28)` either, but this will access memory past the end of the expression with unpredictable results.

Access to operands which are vectors is more complicated. You can use the macro `XVEC` to get the vector-pointer itself, or the macros `XVECEXP` and `XVECLEN` to access the elements and length of a vector.

`XVEC (exp, idx)` ¶

  Access the vector-pointer which is operand number idx in exp.

`XVECLEN (exp, idx)` ¶

  Access the length (number of elements) in the vector which is in operand number idx in exp. This value is an `int`.

`XVECEXP (exp, idx, eltnum)` ¶

  Access element number eltnum in the vector which is in operand number idx in exp. This value is an RTX.

  It is up to you to make sure that eltnum is not negative and is less than `XVECLEN (exp, idx)`.

All the macros defined in this section expand into lvalues and therefore can be used to assign the operands, lengths and vector elements as well as to access them.

### 14.4 Access to Special Operands ¶

Some RTL nodes have special annotations associated with them.

`MEM`
  `MEM_ALIAS_SET (x)` ¶

    If 0, x is not in any alias set, and may alias anything. Otherwise, x can only alias `MEM`s in a conflicting alias set. This value is set in a language-dependent manner in the front-end, and should not be altered in the back-end. In some front-ends, these numbers may correspond in some way to types, or other language-level entities, but they need not, and the back-end makes no such assumptions. These set numbers are tested with `alias_sets_conflict_p`.

  `MEM_EXPR (x)` ¶

    If this register is known to hold the value of some user-level declaration, this is that tree node. It may also be a `COMPONENT_REF`, in which case this is some field reference, and `TREE_OPERAND (x, 0)` contains the declaration, or another `COMPONENT_REF`, or null if there is no compile-time object associated with the reference.

  `MEM_OFFSET_KNOWN_P (x)` ¶

    True if the offset of the memory reference from `MEM_EXPR` is known. ‘`MEM_OFFSET (x)`’ provides the offset if so.

  `MEM_OFFSET (x)` ¶

    The offset from the start of `MEM_EXPR`. The value is only valid if ‘`MEM_OFFSET_KNOWN_P (x)`’ is true.

  `MEM_SIZE_KNOWN_P (x)` ¶

    True if the size of the memory reference is known. ‘`MEM_SIZE (x)`’ provides its size if so.

  `MEM_SIZE (x)` ¶

    The size in bytes of the memory reference. This is mostly relevant for `BLKmode` references as otherwise the size is implied by the mode. The value is only valid if ‘`MEM_SIZE_KNOWN_P (x)`’ is true.

  `MEM_ALIGN (x)` ¶

    The known alignment in bits of the memory reference.

  `MEM_ADDR_SPACE (x)` ¶

    The address space of the memory reference. This will commonly be zero for the generic address space.

`REG`
  `ORIGINAL_REGNO (x)` ¶

    This field holds the number the register “originally” had; for a pseudo register turned into a hard reg this will hold the old pseudo register number.

  `REG_EXPR (x)` ¶

    If this register is known to hold the value of some user-level declaration, this is that tree node.

  `REG_OFFSET (x)` ¶

    If this register is known to hold the value of some user-level declaration, this is the offset into that logical storage.

`SYMBOL_REF`
  `SYMBOL_REF_DECL (x)` ¶

    If the `symbol_ref` x was created for a `VAR_DECL` or a `FUNCTION_DECL`, that tree is recorded here. If this value is null, then x was created by back end code generation routines, and there is no associated front end symbol table entry.

    `SYMBOL_REF_DECL` may also point to a tree of class `'c'`, that is, some sort of constant. In this case, the `symbol_ref` is an entry in the per-file constant pool; again, there is no associated front end symbol table entry.

  `SYMBOL_REF_CONSTANT (x)` ¶

    If ‘`CONSTANT_POOL_ADDRESS_P (x)`’ is true, this is the constant pool entry for x. It is null otherwise.

  `SYMBOL_REF_DATA (x)` ¶

    A field of opaque type used to store `SYMBOL_REF_DECL` or `SYMBOL_REF_CONSTANT`.

  `SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS (x)` ¶

    In a `symbol_ref`, this is used to communicate various predicates about the symbol. Some of these are common enough to be computed by common code, some are specific to the target. The common bits are:

    `SYMBOL_FLAG_FUNCTION` ¶

      Set if the symbol refers to a function.

    `SYMBOL_FLAG_LOCAL` ¶

      Set if the symbol is local to this “module”. See `TARGET_BINDS_LOCAL_P`.

    `SYMBOL_FLAG_EXTERNAL` ¶

      Set if this symbol is not defined in this translation unit. Note that this is not the inverse of `SYMBOL_FLAG_LOCAL`.

    `SYMBOL_FLAG_SMALL` ¶

      Set if the symbol is located in the small data section. See `TARGET_IN_SMALL_DATA_P`.

    `SYMBOL_REF_TLS_MODEL (x)` ¶

      This is a multi-bit field accessor that returns the `tls_model` to be used for a thread-local storage symbol. It returns zero for non-thread-local symbols.

    `SYMBOL_FLAG_HAS_BLOCK_INFO` ¶

      Set if the symbol has `SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK` and `SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK_OFFSET` fields.

    `SYMBOL_FLAG_ANCHOR` ¶

      Set if the symbol is used as a section anchor. “Section anchors” are symbols that have a known position within an `object_block` and that can be used to access nearby members of that block. They are used to implement `-fsection-anchors`.

      If this flag is set, then `SYMBOL_FLAG_HAS_BLOCK_INFO` will be too.

    Bits beginning with `SYMBOL_FLAG_MACH_DEP` are available for the target’s use.

`SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK (x)` ¶

  If ‘`SYMBOL_REF_HAS_BLOCK_INFO_P (x)`’, this is the ‘`object_block`’ structure to which the symbol belongs, or `NULL` if it has not been assigned a block.

`SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK_OFFSET (x)` ¶

  If ‘`SYMBOL_REF_HAS_BLOCK_INFO_P (x)`’, this is the offset of x from the first object in ‘`SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK (x)`’. The value is negative if x has not yet been assigned to a block, or it has not been given an offset within that block.

### 14.5 Flags in an RTL Expression ¶

RTL expressions contain several flags (one-bit bit-fields) that are used in certain types of expression. Most often they are accessed with the following macros, which expand into lvalues.

`CROSSING_JUMP_P (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in a `jump_insn` if it crosses between hot and cold sections, which could potentially be very far apart in the executable. The presence of this flag indicates to other optimizations that this branching instruction should not be “collapsed” into a simpler branching construct. It is used when the optimization to partition basic blocks into hot and cold sections is turned on.

`CONSTANT_POOL_ADDRESS_P (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in a `symbol_ref` if it refers to part of the current function’s constant pool. For most targets these addresses are in a `.rodata` section entirely separate from the function, but for some targets the addresses are close to the beginning of the function. In either case GCC assumes these addresses can be addressed directly, perhaps with the help of base registers. Stored in the `unchanging` field and printed as ‘`/u`’.

`INSN_ANNULLED_BRANCH_P (x)` ¶

  In a `jump_insn`, `call_insn`, or `insn` indicates that the branch is an annulling one. See the discussion under `sequence` below. Stored in the `unchanging` field and printed as ‘`/u`’.

`INSN_DELETED_P (x)` ¶

  In an `insn`, `call_insn`, `jump_insn`, `code_label`, `jump_table_data`, `barrier`, or `note`, nonzero if the insn has been deleted. Stored in the `volatil` field and printed as ‘`/v`’.

`INSN_FROM_TARGET_P (x)` ¶

  In an `insn` or `jump_insn` or `call_insn` in a delay slot of a branch, indicates that the insn is from the target of the branch. If the branch insn has `INSN_ANNULLED_BRANCH_P` set, this insn will only be executed if the branch is taken. For annulled branches with `INSN_FROM_TARGET_P` clear, the insn will be executed only if the branch is not taken. When `INSN_ANNULLED_BRANCH_P` is not set, this insn will always be executed. Stored in the `in_struct` field and printed as ‘`/s`’.

`LABEL_PRESERVE_P (x)` ¶

  In a `code_label` or `note`, indicates that the label is referenced by code or data not visible to the RTL of a given function. Labels referenced by a non-local goto will have this bit set. Stored in the `in_struct` field and printed as ‘`/s`’.

`LABEL_REF_NONLOCAL_P (x)` ¶

  In `label_ref` and `reg_label` expressions, nonzero if this is a reference to a non-local label. Stored in the `volatil` field and printed as ‘`/v`’.

`MEM_KEEP_ALIAS_SET_P (x)` ¶

  In `mem` expressions, 1 if we should keep the alias set for this mem unchanged when we access a component. Set to 1, for example, when we are already in a non-addressable component of an aggregate. Stored in the `jump` field and printed as ‘`/j`’.

`MEM_VOLATILE_P (x)` ¶

  In `mem`, `asm_operands`, and `asm_input` expressions, nonzero for volatile memory references. Stored in the `volatil` field and printed as ‘`/v`’.

`MEM_NOTRAP_P (x)` ¶

  In `mem`, nonzero for memory references that will not trap. Stored in the `call` field and printed as ‘`/c`’.

`MEM_POINTER (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in a `mem` if the memory reference holds a pointer. Stored in the `frame_related` field and printed as ‘`/f`’.

`MEM_READONLY_P (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in a `mem`, if the memory is statically allocated and read-only.

  Read-only in this context means never modified during the lifetime of the program, not necessarily in ROM or in write-disabled pages. A common example of the later is a shared library’s global offset table. This table is initialized by the runtime loader, so the memory is technically writable, but after control is transferred from the runtime loader to the application, this memory will never be subsequently modified.

  Stored in the `unchanging` field and printed as ‘`/u`’.

`PREFETCH_SCHEDULE_BARRIER_P (x)` ¶

  In a `prefetch`, indicates that the prefetch is a scheduling barrier. No other INSNs will be moved over it. Stored in the `volatil` field and printed as ‘`/v`’.

`REG_FUNCTION_VALUE_P (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in a `reg` if it is the place in which this function’s value is going to be returned. (This happens only in a hard register.) Stored in the `return_val` field and printed as ‘`/i`’.

`REG_POINTER (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in a `reg` if the register holds a pointer. Stored in the `frame_related` field and printed as ‘`/f`’.

`REG_USERVAR_P (x)` ¶

  In a `reg`, nonzero if it corresponds to a variable present in the user’s source code. Zero for temporaries generated internally by the compiler. Stored in the `volatil` field and printed as ‘`/v`’.

  The same hard register may be used also for collecting the values of functions called by this one, but `REG_FUNCTION_VALUE_P` is zero in this kind of use.

`RTL_CONST_CALL_P (x)` ¶

  In a `call_insn` indicates that the insn represents a call to a const function. Stored in the `unchanging` field and printed as ‘`/u`’.

`RTL_PURE_CALL_P (x)` ¶

  In a `call_insn` indicates that the insn represents a call to a pure function. Stored in the `return_val` field and printed as ‘`/i`’.

`RTL_CONST_OR_PURE_CALL_P (x)` ¶

  In a `call_insn`, true if `RTL_CONST_CALL_P` or `RTL_PURE_CALL_P` is true.

`RTL_LOOPING_CONST_OR_PURE_CALL_P (x)` ¶

  In a `call_insn` indicates that the insn represents a possibly infinite looping call to a const or pure function. Stored in the `call` field and printed as ‘`/c`’. Only true if one of `RTL_CONST_CALL_P` or `RTL_PURE_CALL_P` is true.

`RTX_FRAME_RELATED_P (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in an `insn`, `call_insn`, `jump_insn`, `barrier`, or `set` which is part of a function prologue and sets the stack pointer, sets the frame pointer, or saves a register. This flag should also be set on an instruction that sets up a temporary register to use in place of the frame pointer. Stored in the `frame_related` field and printed as ‘`/f`’.

  In particular, on RISC targets where there are limits on the sizes of immediate constants, it is sometimes impossible to reach the register save area directly from the stack pointer. In that case, a temporary register is used that is near enough to the register save area, and the Canonical Frame Address, i.e., DWARF2’s logical frame pointer, register must (temporarily) be changed to be this temporary register. So, the instruction that sets this temporary register must be marked as `RTX_FRAME_RELATED_P`.

  If the marked instruction is overly complex (defined in terms of what `dwarf2out_frame_debug_expr` can handle), you will also have to create a `REG_FRAME_RELATED_EXPR` note and attach it to the instruction. This note should contain a simple expression of the computation performed by this instruction, i.e., one that `dwarf2out_frame_debug_expr` can handle.

  This flag is required for exception handling support on targets with RTL prologues.

`SCHED_GROUP_P (x)` ¶

  During instruction scheduling, in an `insn`, `call_insn`, `jump_insn` or `jump_table_data`, indicates that the previous insn must be scheduled together with this insn. This is used to ensure that certain groups of instructions will not be split up by the instruction scheduling pass, for example, `use` insns before a `call_insn` may not be separated from the `call_insn`. Stored in the `in_struct` field and printed as ‘`/s`’.

`SET_IS_RETURN_P (x)` ¶

  For a `set`, nonzero if it is for a return. Stored in the `jump` field and printed as ‘`/j`’.

`SIBLING_CALL_P (x)` ¶

  For a `call_insn`, nonzero if the insn is a sibling call. Stored in the `jump` field and printed as ‘`/j`’.

`STRING_POOL_ADDRESS_P (x)` ¶

  For a `symbol_ref` expression, nonzero if it addresses this function’s string constant pool. Stored in the `frame_related` field and printed as ‘`/f`’.

`SUBREG_PROMOTED_UNSIGNED_P (x)` ¶

  Returns a value greater then zero for a `subreg` that has `SUBREG_PROMOTED_VAR_P` nonzero if the object being referenced is kept zero-extended, zero if it is kept sign-extended, and less then zero if it is extended some other way via the `ptr_extend` instruction. Stored in the `unchanging` field and `volatil` field, printed as ‘`/u`’ and ‘`/v`’. This macro may only be used to get the value it may not be used to change the value. Use `SUBREG_PROMOTED_UNSIGNED_SET` to change the value.

`SUBREG_PROMOTED_UNSIGNED_SET (x)` ¶

  Set the `unchanging` and `volatil` fields in a `subreg` to reflect zero, sign, or other extension. If `volatil` is zero, then `unchanging` as nonzero means zero extension and as zero means sign extension. If `volatil` is nonzero then some other type of extension was done via the `ptr_extend` instruction.

`SUBREG_PROMOTED_VAR_P (x)` ¶

  Nonzero in a `subreg` if it was made when accessing an object that was promoted to a wider mode in accord with the `PROMOTED_MODE` machine description macro (see Storage Layout). In this case, the mode of the `subreg` is the declared mode of the object and the mode of `SUBREG_REG` is the mode of the register that holds the object. Promoted variables are always either sign- or zero-extended to the wider mode on every assignment. Stored in the `in_struct` field and printed as ‘`/s`’.

`SYMBOL_REF_USED (x)` ¶

  In a `symbol_ref`, indicates that x has been used. This is normally only used to ensure that x is only declared external once. Stored in the `used` field.

`SYMBOL_REF_WEAK (x)` ¶

  In a `symbol_ref`, indicates that x has been declared weak. Stored in the `return_val` field and printed as ‘`/i`’.

`SYMBOL_REF_FLAG (x)` ¶

  In a `symbol_ref`, this is used as a flag for machine-specific purposes. Stored in the `volatil` field and printed as ‘`/v`’.

  Most uses of `SYMBOL_REF_FLAG` are historic and may be subsumed by `SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS`. Certainly use of `SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS` is mandatory if the target requires more than one bit of storage.

These are the fields to which the above macros refer:

`call` ¶

  In a `mem`, 1 means that the memory reference will not trap.

  In a `call`, 1 means that this pure or const call may possibly infinite loop.

  In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as ‘`/c`’.

`frame_related` ¶

  In an `insn` or `set` expression, 1 means that it is part of a function prologue and sets the stack pointer, sets the frame pointer, saves a register, or sets up a temporary register to use in place of the frame pointer.

  In `reg` expressions, 1 means that the register holds a pointer.

  In `mem` expressions, 1 means that the memory reference holds a pointer.

  In `symbol_ref` expressions, 1 means that the reference addresses this function’s string constant pool.

  In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as ‘`/f`’.

`in_struct` ¶

  In `reg` expressions, it is 1 if the register has its entire life contained within the test expression of some loop.

  In `subreg` expressions, 1 means that the `subreg` is accessing an object that has had its mode promoted from a wider mode.

  In `label_ref` expressions, 1 means that the referenced label is outside the innermost loop containing the insn in which the `label_ref` was found.

  In `code_label` expressions, it is 1 if the label may never be deleted. This is used for labels which are the target of non-local gotos. Such a label that would have been deleted is replaced with a `note` of type `NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL`.

  In an `insn` during dead-code elimination, 1 means that the insn is dead code.

  In an `insn` or `jump_insn` during reorg for an insn in the delay slot of a branch, 1 means that this insn is from the target of the branch.

  In an `insn` during instruction scheduling, 1 means that this insn must be scheduled as part of a group together with the previous insn.

  In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as ‘`/s`’.

`return_val` ¶

  In `reg` expressions, 1 means the register contains the value to be returned by the current function. On machines that pass parameters in registers, the same register number may be used for parameters as well, but this flag is not set on such uses.

  In `symbol_ref` expressions, 1 means the referenced symbol is weak.

  In `call` expressions, 1 means the call is pure.

  In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as ‘`/i`’.

`jump` ¶

  In a `mem` expression, 1 means we should keep the alias set for this mem unchanged when we access a component.

  In a `set`, 1 means it is for a return.

  In a `call_insn`, 1 means it is a sibling call.

  In a `jump_insn`, 1 means it is a crossing jump.

  In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as ‘`/j`’.

`unchanging` ¶

  In `reg` and `mem` expressions, 1 means that the value of the expression never changes.

  In `subreg` expressions, it is 1 if the `subreg` references an unsigned object whose mode has been promoted to a wider mode.

  In an `insn` or `jump_insn` in the delay slot of a branch instruction, 1 means an annulling branch should be used.

  In a `symbol_ref` expression, 1 means that this symbol addresses something in the per-function constant pool.

  In a `call_insn` 1 means that this instruction is a call to a const function.

  In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as ‘`/u`’.

`used` ¶

  This flag is used directly (without an access macro) at the end of RTL generation for a function, to count the number of times an expression appears in insns. Expressions that appear more than once are copied, according to the rules for shared structure (see Structure Sharing Assumptions).

  For a `reg`, it is used directly (without an access macro) by the leaf register renumbering code to ensure that each register is only renumbered once.

  In a `symbol_ref`, it indicates that an external declaration for the symbol has already been written.

`volatil` ¶

  In a `mem`, `asm_operands`, or `asm_input` expression, it is 1 if the memory reference is volatile. Volatile memory references may not be deleted, reordered or combined.

  In a `symbol_ref` expression, it is used for machine-specific purposes.

  In a `reg` expression, it is 1 if the value is a user-level variable. 0 indicates an internal compiler temporary.

  In an `insn`, 1 means the insn has been deleted.

  In `label_ref` and `reg_label` expressions, 1 means a reference to a non-local label.

  In `prefetch` expressions, 1 means that the containing insn is a scheduling barrier.

  In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as ‘`/v`’.

### 14.6 Machine Modes ¶

A machine mode describes a size of data object and the representation used for it. In the C code, machine modes are represented by an enumeration type, `machine_mode`, defined in `machmode.def`. Each RTL expression has room for a machine mode and so do certain kinds of tree expressions (declarations and types, to be precise).

In debugging dumps and machine descriptions, the machine mode of an RTL expression is written after the expression code with a colon to separate them. The letters ‘`mode`’ which appear at the end of each machine mode name are omitted. For example, `(reg:SI 38)` is a `reg` expression with machine mode `SImode`. If the mode is `VOIDmode`, it is not written at all.

Here is a table of machine modes. The term “byte” below refers to an object of `BITS_PER_UNIT` bits (see Storage Layout).

`BImode` ¶

  “Bit” mode represents a single bit, for predicate registers.

`QImode` ¶

  “Quarter-Integer” mode represents a single byte treated as an integer.

`HImode` ¶

  “Half-Integer” mode represents a two-byte integer.

`PSImode` ¶

  “Partial Single Integer” mode represents an integer which occupies four bytes but which doesn’t really use all four. On some machines, this is the right mode to use for pointers.

`SImode` ¶

  “Single Integer” mode represents a four-byte integer.

`PDImode` ¶

  “Partial Double Integer” mode represents an integer which occupies eight bytes but which doesn’t really use all eight. On some machines, this is the right mode to use for certain pointers.

`DImode` ¶

  “Double Integer” mode represents an eight-byte integer.

`TImode` ¶

  “Tetra Integer” (?) mode represents a sixteen-byte integer.

`OImode` ¶

  “Octa Integer” (?) mode represents a thirty-two-byte integer.

`XImode` ¶

  “Hexadeca Integer” (?) mode represents a sixty-four-byte integer.

`QFmode` ¶

  “Quarter-Floating” mode represents a quarter-precision (single byte) floating point number.

`HFmode` ¶

  “Half-Floating” mode represents a half-precision (two byte) floating point number.

`TQFmode` ¶

  “Three-Quarter-Floating” (?) mode represents a three-quarter-precision (three byte) floating point number.

`SFmode` ¶

  “Single Floating” mode represents a four byte floating point number. In the common case, of a processor with IEEE arithmetic and 8-bit bytes, this is a single-precision IEEE floating point number; it can also be used for double-precision (on processors with 16-bit bytes) and single-precision VAX and IBM types.

`DFmode` ¶

  “Double Floating” mode represents an eight byte floating point number. In the common case, of a processor with IEEE arithmetic and 8-bit bytes, this is a double-precision IEEE floating point number.

`XFmode` ¶

  “Extended Floating” mode represents an IEEE extended floating point number. This mode only has 80 meaningful bits (ten bytes). Some processors require such numbers to be padded to twelve bytes, others to sixteen; this mode is used for either.

`SDmode` ¶

  “Single Decimal Floating” mode represents a four byte decimal floating point number (as distinct from conventional binary floating point).

`DDmode` ¶

  “Double Decimal Floating” mode represents an eight byte decimal floating point number.

`TDmode` ¶

  “Tetra Decimal Floating” mode represents a sixteen byte decimal floating point number all 128 of whose bits are meaningful.

`TFmode` ¶

  “Tetra Floating” mode represents a sixteen byte floating point number all 128 of whose bits are meaningful. One common use is the IEEE quad-precision format.

`QQmode` ¶

  “Quarter-Fractional” mode represents a single byte treated as a signed fractional number. The default format is “s.7”.

`HQmode` ¶

  “Half-Fractional” mode represents a two-byte signed fractional number. The default format is “s.15”.

`SQmode` ¶

  “Single Fractional” mode represents a four-byte signed fractional number. The default format is “s.31”.

`DQmode` ¶

  “Double Fractional” mode represents an eight-byte signed fractional number. The default format is “s.63”.

`TQmode` ¶

  “Tetra Fractional” mode represents a sixteen-byte signed fractional number. The default format is “s.127”.

`UQQmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Quarter-Fractional” mode represents a single byte treated as an unsigned fractional number. The default format is “.8”.

`UHQmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Half-Fractional” mode represents a two-byte unsigned fractional number. The default format is “.16”.

`USQmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Single Fractional” mode represents a four-byte unsigned fractional number. The default format is “.32”.

`UDQmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Double Fractional” mode represents an eight-byte unsigned fractional number. The default format is “.64”.

`UTQmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Tetra Fractional” mode represents a sixteen-byte unsigned fractional number. The default format is “.128”.

`HAmode` ¶

  “Half-Accumulator” mode represents a two-byte signed accumulator. The default format is “s8.7”.

`SAmode` ¶

  “Single Accumulator” mode represents a four-byte signed accumulator. The default format is “s16.15”.

`DAmode` ¶

  “Double Accumulator” mode represents an eight-byte signed accumulator. The default format is “s32.31”.

`TAmode` ¶

  “Tetra Accumulator” mode represents a sixteen-byte signed accumulator. The default format is “s64.63”.

`UHAmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Half-Accumulator” mode represents a two-byte unsigned accumulator. The default format is “8.8”.

`USAmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Single Accumulator” mode represents a four-byte unsigned accumulator. The default format is “16.16”.

`UDAmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Double Accumulator” mode represents an eight-byte unsigned accumulator. The default format is “32.32”.

`UTAmode` ¶

  “Unsigned Tetra Accumulator” mode represents a sixteen-byte unsigned accumulator. The default format is “64.64”.

`CCmode` ¶

  “Condition Code” mode represents the value of a condition code, which is a machine-specific set of bits used to represent the result of a comparison operation. Other machine-specific modes may also be used for the condition code. (see Condition Code Status).

`BLKmode` ¶

  “Block” mode represents values that are aggregates to which none of the other modes apply. In RTL, only memory references can have this mode, and only if they appear in string-move or vector instructions. On machines which have no such instructions, `BLKmode` will not appear in RTL.

`VOIDmode` ¶

  Void mode means the absence of a mode or an unspecified mode. For example, RTL expressions of code `const_int` have mode `VOIDmode` because they can be taken to have whatever mode the context requires. In debugging dumps of RTL, `VOIDmode` is expressed by the absence of any mode.

`QCmode, HCmode, SCmode, DCmode, XCmode, TCmode` ¶

  These modes stand for a complex number represented as a pair of floating point values. The floating point values are in `QFmode`, `HFmode`, `SFmode`, `DFmode`, `XFmode`, and `TFmode`, respectively.

`CQImode, CHImode, CSImode, CDImode, CTImode, COImode, CPSImode` ¶

  These modes stand for a complex number represented as a pair of integer values. The integer values are in `QImode`, `HImode`, `SImode`, `DImode`, `TImode`, `OImode`, and `PSImode`, respectively.

`BND32mode BND64mode` ¶

  These modes stand for bounds for pointer of 32 and 64 bit size respectively. Mode size is double pointer mode size.

The machine description defines `Pmode` as a C macro which expands into the machine mode used for addresses. Normally this is the mode whose size is `BITS_PER_WORD`, `SImode` on 32-bit machines.

The only modes which a machine description must support are `QImode`, and the modes corresponding to `BITS_PER_WORD`, `FLOAT_TYPE_SIZE` and `DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE`. The compiler will attempt to use `DImode` for 8-byte structures and unions, but this can be prevented by overriding the definition of `MAX_FIXED_MODE_SIZE`. Alternatively, you can have the compiler use `TImode` for 16-byte structures and unions. Likewise, you can arrange for the C type `short int` to avoid using `HImode`.

Very few explicit references to machine modes remain in the compiler and these few references will soon be removed. Instead, the machine modes are divided into mode classes. These are represented by the enumeration type `enum mode_class` defined in `machmode.h`. The possible mode classes are:

`MODE_INT` ¶

  Integer modes. By default these are `BImode`, `QImode`, `HImode`, `SImode`, `DImode`, `TImode`, and `OImode`.

`MODE_PARTIAL_INT` ¶

  The “partial integer” modes, `PQImode`, `PHImode`, `PSImode` and `PDImode`.

`MODE_FLOAT` ¶

  Floating point modes. By default these are `QFmode`, `HFmode`, `TQFmode`, `SFmode`, `DFmode`, `XFmode` and `TFmode`.

`MODE_DECIMAL_FLOAT` ¶

  Decimal floating point modes. By default these are `SDmode`, `DDmode` and `TDmode`.

`MODE_FRACT` ¶

  Signed fractional modes. By default these are `QQmode`, `HQmode`, `SQmode`, `DQmode` and `TQmode`.

`MODE_UFRACT` ¶

  Unsigned fractional modes. By default these are `UQQmode`, `UHQmode`, `USQmode`, `UDQmode` and `UTQmode`.

`MODE_ACCUM` ¶

  Signed accumulator modes. By default these are `HAmode`, `SAmode`, `DAmode` and `TAmode`.

`MODE_UACCUM` ¶

  Unsigned accumulator modes. By default these are `UHAmode`, `USAmode`, `UDAmode` and `UTAmode`.

`MODE_COMPLEX_INT` ¶

  Complex integer modes. (These are not currently implemented).

`MODE_COMPLEX_FLOAT` ¶

  Complex floating point modes. By default these are `QCmode`, `HCmode`, `SCmode`, `DCmode`, `XCmode`, and `TCmode`.

`MODE_CC` ¶

  Modes representing condition code values. These are `CCmode` plus any `CC_MODE` modes listed in the `machine-modes.def`. See Defining Jump Instruction Patterns, also see Condition Code Status.

`MODE_POINTER_BOUNDS` ¶

  Pointer bounds modes. Used to represent values of pointer bounds type. Operations in these modes may be executed as NOPs depending on hardware features and environment setup.

`MODE_OPAQUE` ¶

  This is a mode class for modes that don’t want to provide operations other than register moves, memory moves, loads, stores, and `unspec`s. They have a size and precision and that’s all.

`MODE_RANDOM` ¶

  This is a catchall mode class for modes which don’t fit into the above classes. Currently `VOIDmode` and `BLKmode` are in `MODE_RANDOM`.

`machmode.h` also defines various wrapper classes that combine a `machine_mode` with a static assertion that a particular condition holds. The classes are:

`scalar_int_mode` ¶

  A mode that has class `MODE_INT` or `MODE_PARTIAL_INT`.

`scalar_float_mode` ¶

  A mode that has class `MODE_FLOAT` or `MODE_DECIMAL_FLOAT`.

`scalar_mode` ¶

  A mode that holds a single numerical value. In practice this means that the mode is a `scalar_int_mode`, is a `scalar_float_mode`, or has class `MODE_FRACT`, `MODE_UFRACT`, `MODE_ACCUM`, `MODE_UACCUM` or `MODE_POINTER_BOUNDS`.

`complex_mode` ¶

  A mode that has class `MODE_COMPLEX_INT` or `MODE_COMPLEX_FLOAT`.

`fixed_size_mode` ¶

  A mode whose size is known at compile time.

Named modes use the most constrained of the available wrapper classes, if one exists, otherwise they use `machine_mode`. For example, `QImode` is a `scalar_int_mode`, `SFmode` is a `scalar_float_mode` and `BLKmode` is a plain `machine_mode`. It is possible to refer to any mode as a raw `machine_mode` by adding the `E_` prefix, where `E` stands for “enumeration”. For example, the raw `machine_mode` names of the modes just mentioned are `E_QImode`, `E_SFmode` and `E_BLKmode` respectively.

The wrapper classes implicitly convert to `machine_mode` and to any wrapper class that represents a more general condition; for example `scalar_int_mode` and `scalar_float_mode` both convert to `scalar_mode` and all three convert to `fixed_size_mode`. The classes act like `machine_mode`s that accept only certain named modes.

`machmode.h` also defines a template class `opt_mode<T>` that holds a `T` or nothing, where `T` can be either `machine_mode` or one of the wrapper classes above. The main operations on an `opt_mode<T>` x are as follows:

‘`x.exists ()`’

  Return true if x holds a mode rather than nothing.

‘`x.exists (&y)`’

  Return true if x holds a mode rather than nothing, storing the mode in y if so. y must be assignment-compatible with T.

‘`x.require ()`’

  Assert that x holds a mode rather than nothing and return that mode.

‘`x = y`’

  Set x to y, where y is a T or implicitly converts to a T.

The default constructor sets an `opt_mode<T>` to nothing. There is also a constructor that takes an initial value of type T.

It is possible to use the `is-a.h` accessors on a `machine_mode` or machine mode wrapper x:

‘`is_a <T> (x)`’ ¶

  Return true if x meets the conditions for wrapper class T.

‘`is_a <T> (x, &y)`’

  Return true if x meets the conditions for wrapper class T, storing it in y if so. y must be assignment-compatible with T.

‘`as_a <T> (x)`’

  Assert that x meets the conditions for wrapper class T and return it as a T.

‘`dyn_cast <T> (x)`’

  Return an `opt_mode<T>` that holds x if x meets the conditions for wrapper class T and that holds nothing otherwise.

The purpose of these wrapper classes is to give stronger static type checking. For example, if a function takes a `scalar_int_mode`, a caller that has a general `machine_mode` must either check or assert that the code is indeed a scalar integer first, using one of the functions above.

The wrapper classes are normal C++ classes, with user-defined constructors. Sometimes it is useful to have a POD version of the same type, particularly if the type appears in a `union`. The template class `pod_mode<T>` provides a POD version of wrapper class T. It is assignment-compatible with T and implicitly converts to both `machine_mode` and T.

Here are some C macros that relate to machine modes:

`GET_MODE (x)` ¶

  Returns the machine mode of the RTX x.

`PUT_MODE (x, newmode)` ¶

  Alters the machine mode of the RTX x to be newmode.

`NUM_MACHINE_MODES` ¶

  Stands for the number of machine modes available on the target machine. This is one greater than the largest numeric value of any machine mode.

`GET_MODE_NAME (m)` ¶

  Returns the name of mode m as a string.

`GET_MODE_CLASS (m)` ¶

  Returns the mode class of mode m.

`GET_MODE_WIDER_MODE (m)` ¶

  Returns the next wider natural mode. For example, the expression `GET_MODE_WIDER_MODE (QImode)` returns `HImode`.

`GET_MODE_SIZE (m)` ¶

  Returns the size in bytes of a datum of mode m.

`GET_MODE_BITSIZE (m)` ¶

  Returns the size in bits of a datum of mode m.

`GET_MODE_IBIT (m)` ¶

  Returns the number of integral bits of a datum of fixed-point mode m.

`GET_MODE_FBIT (m)` ¶

  Returns the number of fractional bits of a datum of fixed-point mode m.

`GET_MODE_MASK (m)` ¶

  Returns a bitmask containing 1 for all bits in a word that fit within mode m. This macro can only be used for modes whose bitsize is less than or equal to `HOST_BITS_PER_INT`.

`GET_MODE_ALIGNMENT (m)` ¶

  Return the required alignment, in bits, for an object of mode m.

`GET_MODE_UNIT_SIZE (m)` ¶

  Returns the size in bytes of the subunits of a datum of mode m. This is the same as `GET_MODE_SIZE` except in the case of complex modes. For them, the unit size is the size of the real or imaginary part.

`GET_MODE_NUNITS (m)` ¶

  Returns the number of units contained in a mode, i.e., `GET_MODE_SIZE` divided by `GET_MODE_UNIT_SIZE`.

`GET_CLASS_NARROWEST_MODE (c)` ¶

  Returns the narrowest mode in mode class c.

The following 3 variables are defined on every target. They can be used to allocate buffers that are guaranteed to be large enough to hold any value that can be represented on the target. The first two can be overridden by defining them in the target’s mode.def file, however, the value must be a constant that can determined very early in the compilation process. The third symbol cannot be overridden.

`BITS_PER_UNIT` ¶

  The number of bits in an addressable storage unit (byte). If you do not define this, the default is 8.

`MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_INT` ¶

  The maximum bitsize of any mode that is used in integer math. This should be overridden by the target if it uses large integers as containers for larger vectors but otherwise never uses the contents to compute integer values.

`MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_MODE` ¶

  The bitsize of the largest mode on the target. The default value is the largest mode size given in the mode definition file, which is always correct for targets whose modes have a fixed size. Targets that might increase the size of a mode beyond this default should define `MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_MODE` to the actual upper limit in `machine-modes.def`.

The global variables `byte_mode` and `word_mode` contain modes whose classes are `MODE_INT` and whose bitsizes are either `BITS_PER_UNIT` or `BITS_PER_WORD`, respectively. On 32-bit machines, these are `QImode` and `SImode`, respectively.

### 14.7 Constant Expression Types ¶

The simplest RTL expressions are those that represent constant values.

`(const_int i)` ¶

  This type of expression represents the integer value i. i is customarily accessed with the macro `INTVAL` as in `INTVAL (exp)`, which is equivalent to `XWINT (exp, 0)`.

  Constants generated for modes with fewer bits than in `HOST_WIDE_INT` must be sign extended to full width (e.g., with `gen_int_mode`). For constants for modes with more bits than in `HOST_WIDE_INT` the implied high order bits of that constant are copies of the top bit. Note however that values are neither inherently signed nor inherently unsigned; where necessary, signedness is determined by the rtl operation instead.

  There is only one expression object for the integer value zero; it is the value of the variable `const0_rtx`. Likewise, the only expression for integer value one is found in `const1_rtx`, the only expression for integer value two is found in `const2_rtx`, and the only expression for integer value negative one is found in `constm1_rtx`. Any attempt to create an expression of code `const_int` and value zero, one, two or negative one will return `const0_rtx`, `const1_rtx`, `const2_rtx` or `constm1_rtx` as appropriate.

  Similarly, there is only one object for the integer whose value is `STORE_FLAG_VALUE`. It is found in `const_true_rtx`. If `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` is one, `const_true_rtx` and `const1_rtx` will point to the same object. If `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` is −1, `const_true_rtx` and `constm1_rtx` will point to the same object.

`(const_double:m i0 i1 …)` ¶

  This represents either a floating-point constant of mode m or (on older ports that do not define `TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT`) an integer constant too large to fit into `HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT` bits but small enough to fit within twice that number of bits. In the latter case, m will be `VOIDmode`. For integral values constants for modes with more bits than twice the number in `HOST_WIDE_INT` the implied high order bits of that constant are copies of the top bit of `CONST_DOUBLE_HIGH`. Note however that integral values are neither inherently signed nor inherently unsigned; where necessary, signedness is determined by the rtl operation instead.

  On more modern ports, `CONST_DOUBLE` only represents floating point values. New ports define `TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT` to make this designation.

  If m is `VOIDmode`, the bits of the value are stored in i0 and i1. i0 is customarily accessed with the macro `CONST_DOUBLE_LOW` and i1 with `CONST_DOUBLE_HIGH`.

  If the constant is floating point (regardless of its precision), then the number of integers used to store the value depends on the size of `REAL_VALUE_TYPE` (see Cross Compilation and Floating Point). The integers represent a floating point number, but not precisely in the target machine’s or host machine’s floating point format. To convert them to the precise bit pattern used by the target machine, use the macro `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DOUBLE` and friends (see Output of Data).

  The host dependency for the number of integers used to store a double value makes it problematic for machine descriptions to use expressions of code `const_double` and therefore a syntactic alias has been provided:

      (const_double_zero:m)

  standing for:

      (const_double:m 0 0 ...)

  for matching the floating-point value zero, possibly the only useful one.

`(const_wide_int:m nunits elt0 …)` ¶

  This contains an array of `HOST_WIDE_INT`s that is large enough to hold any constant that can be represented on the target. This form of rtl is only used on targets that define `TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT` to be nonzero and then `CONST_DOUBLE`s are only used to hold floating-point values. If the target leaves `TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT` defined as 0, `CONST_WIDE_INT`s are not used and `CONST_DOUBLE`s are as they were before.

  The values are stored in a compressed format. The higher-order 0s or -1s are not represented if they are just the logical sign extension of the number that is represented.

`CONST_WIDE_INT_VEC (code)` ¶

  Returns the entire array of `HOST_WIDE_INT`s that are used to store the value. This macro should be rarely used.

`CONST_WIDE_INT_NUNITS (code)` ¶

  The number of `HOST_WIDE_INT`s used to represent the number. Note that this generally is smaller than the number of `HOST_WIDE_INT`s implied by the mode size.

`CONST_WIDE_INT_ELT (code,i)` ¶

  Returns the `i`th element of the array. Element 0 is contains the low order bits of the constant.

`(const_fixed:m …)` ¶

  Represents a fixed-point constant of mode m. The operand is a data structure of type `struct fixed_value` and is accessed with the macro `CONST_FIXED_VALUE`. The high part of data is accessed with `CONST_FIXED_VALUE_HIGH`; the low part is accessed with `CONST_FIXED_VALUE_LOW`.

`(const_poly_int:m [c0 c1 …])` ¶

  Represents a `poly_int`-style polynomial integer with coefficients c0, c1, …. The coefficients are `wide_int`-based integers rather than rtxes. `CONST_POLY_INT_COEFFS` gives the values of individual coefficients (which is mostly only useful in low-level routines) and `const_poly_int_value` gives the full `poly_int` value.

`(const_vector:m [x0 x1 …])` ¶

  Represents a vector constant. The values in square brackets are elements of the vector, which are always `const_int`, `const_wide_int`, `const_double` or `const_fixed` expressions.

  Each vector constant v is treated as a specific instance of an arbitrary-length sequence that itself contains ‘`CONST_VECTOR_NPATTERNS (v)`’ interleaved patterns. Each pattern has the form:

      { base0, base1, base1 + step, base1 + step * 2, ... }

  The first three elements in each pattern are enough to determine the values of the other elements. However, if all steps are zero, only the first two elements are needed. If in addition each base1 is equal to the corresponding base0, only the first element in each pattern is needed. The number of determining elements per pattern is given by ‘`CONST_VECTOR_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v)`’.

  For example, the constant:

      { 0, 1, 2, 6, 3, 8, 4, 10, 5, 12, 6, 14, 7, 16, 8, 18 }

  is interpreted as an interleaving of the sequences:

      { 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 }
      { 1, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 }

  where the sequences are represented by the following patterns:

      base0 == 0, base1 == 2, step == 1
      base0 == 1, base1 == 6, step == 2

  In this case:

      CONST_VECTOR_NPATTERNS (v) == 2
      CONST_VECTOR_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v) == 3

  Thus the first 6 elements (‘`{ 0, 1, 2, 6, 3, 8 }`’) are enough to determine the whole sequence; we refer to them as the “encoded” elements. They are the only elements present in the square brackets for variable-length `const_vector`s (i.e. for `const_vector`s whose mode m has a variable number of elements). However, as a convenience to code that needs to handle both `const_vector`s and `parallel`s, all elements are present in the square brackets for fixed-length `const_vector`s; the encoding scheme simply reduces the amount of work involved in processing constants that follow a regular pattern.

  Sometimes this scheme can create two possible encodings of the same vector. For example { 0, 1 } could be seen as two patterns with one element each or one pattern with two elements (base0 and base1). The canonical encoding is always the one with the fewest patterns or (if both encodings have the same number of patterns) the one with the fewest encoded elements.

  ‘`const_vector_encoding_nelts (v)`’ gives the total number of encoded elements in v, which is 6 in the example above. `CONST_VECTOR_ENCODED_ELT (v, i)` accesses the value of encoded element i.

  ‘`CONST_VECTOR_DUPLICATE_P (v)`’ is true if v simply contains repeated instances of ‘`CONST_VECTOR_NPATTERNS (v)`’ values. This is a shorthand for testing ‘`CONST_VECTOR_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v) == 1`’.

  ‘`CONST_VECTOR_STEPPED_P (v)`’ is true if at least one pattern in v has a nonzero step. This is a shorthand for testing ‘`CONST_VECTOR_NELTS_PER_PATTERN (v) == 3`’.

  `CONST_VECTOR_NUNITS (v)` gives the total number of elements in v; it is a shorthand for getting the number of units in ‘`GET_MODE (v)`’.

  The utility function `const_vector_elt` gives the value of an arbitrary element as an `rtx`. `const_vector_int_elt` gives the same value as a `wide_int`.

`(const_string str)` ¶

  Represents a constant string with value str. Currently this is used only for insn attributes (see Instruction Attributes) since constant strings in C are placed in memory.

`(symbol_ref:mode symbol)` ¶

  Represents the value of an assembler label for data. symbol is a string that describes the name of the assembler label. If it starts with a ‘`*`’, the label is the rest of symbol not including the ‘`*`’. Otherwise, the label is symbol, usually prefixed with ‘`_`’.

  The `symbol_ref` contains a mode, which is usually `Pmode`. Usually that is the only mode for which a symbol is directly valid.

`(label_ref:mode label)` ¶

  Represents the value of an assembler label for code. It contains one operand, an expression, which must be a `code_label` or a `note` of type `NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL` that appears in the instruction sequence to identify the place where the label should go.

  The reason for using a distinct expression type for code label references is so that jump optimization can distinguish them.

  The `label_ref` contains a mode, which is usually `Pmode`. Usually that is the only mode for which a label is directly valid.

`(const:m exp)` ¶

  Represents a constant that is the result of an assembly-time arithmetic computation. The operand, exp, contains only `const_int`, `symbol_ref`, `label_ref` or `unspec` expressions, combined with `plus` and `minus`. Any such `unspec`s are target-specific and typically represent some form of relocation operator. m should be a valid address mode.

`(high:m exp)` ¶

  Represents the high-order bits of exp. The number of bits is machine-dependent and is normally the number of bits specified in an instruction that initializes the high order bits of a register. It is used with `lo_sum` to represent the typical two-instruction sequence used in RISC machines to reference large immediate values and/or link-time constants such as global memory addresses. In the latter case, m is `Pmode` and exp is usually a constant expression involving `symbol_ref`.

The macro `CONST0_RTX (mode)` refers to an expression with value 0 in mode mode. If mode mode is of mode class `MODE_INT`, it returns `const0_rtx`. If mode mode is of mode class `MODE_FLOAT`, it returns a `CONST_DOUBLE` expression in mode mode. Otherwise, it returns a `CONST_VECTOR` expression in mode mode. Similarly, the macro `CONST1_RTX (mode)` refers to an expression with value 1 in mode mode and similarly for `CONST2_RTX`. The `CONST1_RTX` and `CONST2_RTX` macros are undefined for vector modes.

### 14.8 Registers and Memory ¶

Here are the RTL expression types for describing access to machine registers and to main memory.

`(reg:m n)` ¶

  For small values of the integer n (those that are less than `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER`), this stands for a reference to machine register number n: a hard register. For larger values of n, it stands for a temporary value or pseudo register. The compiler’s strategy is to generate code assuming an unlimited number of such pseudo registers, and later convert them into hard registers or into memory references.

  m is the machine mode of the reference. It is necessary because machines can generally refer to each register in more than one mode. For example, a register may contain a full word but there may be instructions to refer to it as a half word or as a single byte, as well as instructions to refer to it as a floating point number of various precisions.

  Even for a register that the machine can access in only one mode, the mode must always be specified.

  The symbol `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER` is defined by the machine description, since the number of hard registers on the machine is an invariant characteristic of the machine. Note, however, that not all of the machine registers must be general registers. All the machine registers that can be used for storage of data are given hard register numbers, even those that can be used only in certain instructions or can hold only certain types of data.

  A hard register may be accessed in various modes throughout one function, but each pseudo register is given a natural mode and is accessed only in that mode. When it is necessary to describe an access to a pseudo register using a nonnatural mode, a `subreg` expression is used.

  A `reg` expression with a machine mode that specifies more than one word of data may actually stand for several consecutive registers. If in addition the register number specifies a hardware register, then it actually represents several consecutive hardware registers starting with the specified one.

  Each pseudo register number used in a function’s RTL code is represented by a unique `reg` expression.

  Some pseudo register numbers, those within the range of `FIRST_VIRTUAL_REGISTER` to `LAST_VIRTUAL_REGISTER` only appear during the RTL generation phase and are eliminated before the optimization phases. These represent locations in the stack frame that cannot be determined until RTL generation for the function has been completed. The following virtual register numbers are defined:

  `VIRTUAL_INCOMING_ARGS_REGNUM` ¶

    This points to the first word of the incoming arguments passed on the stack. Normally these arguments are placed there by the caller, but the callee may have pushed some arguments that were previously passed in registers.

    When RTL generation is complete, this virtual register is replaced by the sum of the register given by `ARG_POINTER_REGNUM` and the value of `FIRST_PARM_OFFSET`.

  `VIRTUAL_STACK_VARS_REGNUM` ¶

    If `FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD` is defined to a nonzero value, this points to immediately above the first variable on the stack. Otherwise, it points to the first variable on the stack.

    `VIRTUAL_STACK_VARS_REGNUM` is replaced with the sum of the register given by `FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` and the value `TARGET_STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET`.

  `VIRTUAL_STACK_DYNAMIC_REGNUM` ¶

    This points to the location of dynamically allocated memory on the stack immediately after the stack pointer has been adjusted by the amount of memory desired.

    This virtual register is replaced by the sum of the register given by `STACK_POINTER_REGNUM` and the value `STACK_DYNAMIC_OFFSET`.

  `VIRTUAL_OUTGOING_ARGS_REGNUM` ¶

    This points to the location in the stack at which outgoing arguments should be written when the stack is pre-pushed (arguments pushed using push insns should always use `STACK_POINTER_REGNUM`).

    This virtual register is replaced by the sum of the register given by `STACK_POINTER_REGNUM` and the value `STACK_POINTER_OFFSET`.

`(subreg:m1 reg:m2 bytenum)` ¶

  `subreg` expressions are used to refer to a register in a machine mode other than its natural one, or to refer to one register of a multi-part `reg` that actually refers to several registers.

  Each pseudo register has a natural mode. If it is necessary to operate on it in a different mode, the register must be enclosed in a `subreg`.

  There are currently three supported types for the first operand of a `subreg`:

  - pseudo registers This is the most common case. Most `subreg`s have pseudo `reg`s as their first operand.
  - mem `subreg`s of `mem` were common in earlier versions of GCC and are still supported. During the reload pass these are replaced by plain `mem`s. On machines that do not do instruction scheduling, use of `subreg`s of `mem` are still used, but this is no longer recommended. Such `subreg`s are considered to be `register_operand`s rather than `memory_operand`s before and during reload. Because of this, the scheduling passes cannot properly schedule instructions with `subreg`s of `mem`, so for machines that do scheduling, `subreg`s of `mem` should never be used. To support this, the combine and recog passes have explicit code to inhibit the creation of `subreg`s of `mem` when `INSN_SCHEDULING` is defined.

    The use of `subreg`s of `mem` after the reload pass is an area that is not well understood and should be avoided. There is still some code in the compiler to support this, but this code has possibly rotted. This use of `subreg`s is discouraged and will most likely not be supported in the future.

  - hard registers It is seldom necessary to wrap hard registers in `subreg`s; such registers would normally reduce to a single `reg` rtx. This use of `subreg`s is discouraged and may not be supported in the future.

  `subreg`s of `subreg`s are not supported. Using `simplify_gen_subreg` is the recommended way to avoid this problem.

  `subreg`s come in two distinct flavors, each having its own usage and rules:

  Paradoxical subregs

    When m1 is strictly wider than m2, the `subreg` expression is called paradoxical. The canonical test for this class of `subreg` is:

        paradoxical_subreg_p (m1, m2)

    Paradoxical `subreg`s can be used as both lvalues and rvalues. When used as an lvalue, the low-order bits of the source value are stored in reg and the high-order bits are discarded. When used as an rvalue, the low-order bits of the `subreg` are taken from reg while the high-order bits may or may not be defined.

    The high-order bits of rvalues are defined in the following circumstances:

    - `subreg`s of `mem` When m2 is smaller than a word, the macro `LOAD_EXTEND_OP`, can control how the high-order bits are defined.
    - `subreg` of `reg`s The upper bits are defined when `SUBREG_PROMOTED_VAR_P` is true. `SUBREG_PROMOTED_UNSIGNED_P` describes what the upper bits hold. Such subregs usually represent local variables, register variables and parameter pseudo variables that have been promoted to a wider mode.

    bytenum is always zero for a paradoxical `subreg`, even on big-endian targets.

    For example, the paradoxical `subreg`:

        (set (subreg:SI (reg:HI x) 0) y)

    stores the lower 2 bytes of y in x and discards the upper 2 bytes. A subsequent:

        (set z (subreg:SI (reg:HI x) 0))

    would set the lower two bytes of z to y and set the upper two bytes to an unknown value assuming `SUBREG_PROMOTED_VAR_P` is false.

  Normal subregs

    When m1 is at least as narrow as m2 the `subreg` expression is called normal.

    Normal `subreg`s restrict consideration to certain bits of reg. For this purpose, reg is divided into individually-addressable blocks in which each block has:

        REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE (m2)

    bytes. Usually the value is `UNITS_PER_WORD`; that is, most targets usually treat each word of a register as being independently addressable.

    There are two types of normal `subreg`. If m1 is known to be no bigger than a block, the `subreg` refers to the least-significant part (or lowpart) of one block of reg. If m1 is known to be larger than a block, the `subreg` refers to two or more complete blocks.

    When used as an lvalue, `subreg` is a block-based accessor. Storing to a `subreg` modifies all the blocks of reg that overlap the `subreg`, but it leaves the other blocks of reg alone.

    When storing to a normal `subreg` that is smaller than a block, the other bits of the referenced block are usually left in an undefined state. This laxity makes it easier to generate efficient code for such instructions. To represent an instruction that preserves all the bits outside of those in the `subreg`, use `strict_low_part` or `zero_extract` around the `subreg`.

    bytenum must identify the offset of the first byte of the `subreg` from the start of reg, assuming that reg is laid out in memory order. The memory order of bytes is defined by two target macros, `WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` and `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN`:

    - `WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN`, if set to 1, says that byte number zero is part of the most significant word; otherwise, it is part of the least significant word.
    - `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN`, if set to 1, says that byte number zero is the most significant byte within a word; otherwise, it is the least significant byte within a word.

    On a few targets, `FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` disagrees with `WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN`. However, most parts of the compiler treat floating point values as if they had the same endianness as integer values. This works because they handle them solely as a collection of integer values, with no particular numerical value. Only real.cc and the runtime libraries care about `FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN`.

    Thus,

        (subreg:HI (reg:SI x) 2)

    on a `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN`, ‘`UNITS_PER_WORD == 4`’ target is the same as

        (subreg:HI (reg:SI x) 0)

    on a little-endian, ‘`UNITS_PER_WORD == 4`’ target. Both `subreg`s access the lower two bytes of register x.

    Note that the byte offset is a polynomial integer; it may not be a compile-time constant on targets with variable-sized modes. However, the restrictions above mean that there are only a certain set of acceptable offsets for a given combination of m1 and m2. The compiler can always tell which blocks a valid subreg occupies, and whether the subreg is a lowpart of a block.

  A `MODE_PARTIAL_INT` mode behaves as if it were as wide as the corresponding `MODE_INT` mode, except that it has a number of undefined bits, which are determined by the precision of the mode.

  For example, on a little-endian target which defines `PSImode` to have a precision of 20 bits:

      (subreg:PSI (reg:SI 0) 0)

  accesses the low 20 bits of ‘`(reg:SI 0)`’.

  Continuing with a `PSImode` precision of 20 bits, if we assume ‘`REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE (DImode) <= 4`’, then the following two `subreg`s:

      (subreg:PSI (reg:DI 0) 0)
      (subreg:PSI (reg:DI 0) 4)

  represent accesses to the low 20 bits of the two halves of ‘`(reg:DI 0)`’.

  If ‘`REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE (PSImode) <= 2`’ then these two `subreg`s:

      (subreg:HI (reg:PSI 0) 0)
      (subreg:HI (reg:PSI 0) 2)

  represent independent 2-byte accesses that together span the whole of ‘`(reg:PSI 0)`’. Storing to the first `subreg` does not affect the value of the second, and vice versa, so the assignment:

      (set (subreg:HI (reg:PSI 0) 0) (reg:HI 4))

  sets the low 16 bits of ‘`(reg:PSI 0)`’ to ‘`(reg:HI 4)`’, and the high 4 defined bits of ‘`(reg:PSI 0)`’ retain their original value. The behavior here is the same as for normal `subreg`s, when there are no `MODE_PARTIAL_INT` modes involved.

  The rules above apply to both pseudo regs and hard regs. If the semantics are not correct for particular combinations of m1, m2 and hard reg, the target-specific code must ensure that those combinations are never used. For example:

      TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS (m2, m1, class)

  must be false for every class class that includes reg.

  GCC must be able to determine at compile time whether a subreg is paradoxical, whether it occupies a whole number of blocks, or whether it is a lowpart of a block. This means that certain combinations of variable-sized mode are not permitted. For example, if m2 holds n `SI` values, where n is greater than zero, it is not possible to form a `DI` `subreg` of it; such a `subreg` would be paradoxical when n is 1 but not when n is greater than 1.

  The first operand of a `subreg` expression is customarily accessed with the `SUBREG_REG` macro and the second operand is customarily accessed with the `SUBREG_BYTE` macro.

  It has been several years since a platform in which `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN` not equal to `WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` has been tested. Anyone wishing to support such a platform in the future may be confronted with code rot.

`(scratch:m)` ¶

  This represents a scratch register that will be required for the execution of a single instruction and not used subsequently. It is converted into a `reg` by either the local register allocator or the reload pass.

  `scratch` is usually present inside a `clobber` operation (see Side Effect Expressions).

  On some machines, the condition code register is given a register number and a `reg` is used. Other machines store condition codes in general registers; in such cases a pseudo register should be used.

  Some machines, such as the SPARC and RS/6000, have two sets of arithmetic instructions, one that sets and one that does not set the condition code. This is best handled by normally generating the instruction that does not set the condition code, and making a pattern that both performs the arithmetic and sets the condition code register. For examples, search for ‘`addcc`’ and ‘`andcc`’ in `sparc.md`.

`(pc)` ¶

  This represents the machine’s program counter. It has no operands and may not have a machine mode. `(pc)` may be validly used only in certain specific contexts in jump instructions.

  There is only one expression object of code `pc`; it is the value of the variable `pc_rtx`. Any attempt to create an expression of code `pc` will return `pc_rtx`.

  All instructions that do not jump alter the program counter implicitly by incrementing it, but there is no need to mention this in the RTL.

`(mem:m addr alias)` ¶

  This RTX represents a reference to main memory at an address represented by the expression addr. m specifies how large a unit of memory is accessed. alias specifies an alias set for the reference. In general two items are in different alias sets if they cannot reference the same memory address.

  The construct `(mem:BLK (scratch))` is considered to alias all other memories. Thus it may be used as a memory barrier in epilogue stack deallocation patterns.

`(concatm rtx rtx)` ¶

  This RTX represents the concatenation of two other RTXs. This is used for complex values. It should only appear in the RTL attached to declarations and during RTL generation. It should not appear in the ordinary insn chain.

`(concatnm [rtx …])` ¶

  This RTX represents the concatenation of all the rtx to make a single value. Like `concat`, this should only appear in declarations, and not in the insn chain.

### 14.9 RTL Expressions for Arithmetic ¶

Unless otherwise specified, all the operands of arithmetic expressions must be valid for mode m. An operand is valid for mode m if it has mode m, or if it is a `const_int` or `const_double` and m is a mode of class `MODE_INT`.

For commutative binary operations, constants should be placed in the second operand.

`(plus:m x y)` ¶
`(ss_plus:m x y)`
`(us_plus:m x y)`

  These three expressions all represent the sum of the values represented by x and y carried out in machine mode m. They differ in their behavior on overflow of integer modes. `plus` wraps round modulo the width of m; `ss_plus` saturates at the maximum signed value representable in m; `us_plus` saturates at the maximum unsigned value.

`(lo_sum:m x y)` ¶

  This expression represents the sum of x and the low-order bits of y. It is used with `high` (see Constant Expression Types) to represent the typical two-instruction sequence used in RISC machines to reference large immediate values and/or link-time constants such as global memory addresses. In the latter case, m is `Pmode` and y is usually a constant expression involving `symbol_ref`.

  The number of low order bits is machine-dependent but is normally the number of bits in mode m minus the number of bits set by `high`.

`(minus:m x y)` ¶
`(ss_minus:m x y)`
`(us_minus:m x y)`

  These three expressions represent the result of subtracting y from x, carried out in mode M. Behavior on overflow is the same as for the three variants of `plus` (see above).

`(compare:m x y)` ¶

  Represents the result of subtracting y from x for purposes of comparison. The result is computed without overflow, as if with infinite precision.

  Of course, machines cannot really subtract with infinite precision. However, they can pretend to do so when only the sign of the result will be used, which is the case when the result is stored in the condition code. And that is the only way this kind of expression may validly be used: as a value to be stored in the condition codes, in a register. See Comparison Operations.

  The mode m is not related to the modes of x and y, but instead is the mode of the condition code value. It is some mode in class `MODE_CC`, often `CCmode`. See Condition Code Status. If m is `CCmode`, the operation returns sufficient information (in an unspecified format) so that any comparison operator can be applied to the result of the `COMPARE` operation. For other modes in class `MODE_CC`, the operation only returns a subset of this information.

  Normally, x and y must have the same mode. Otherwise, `compare` is valid only if the mode of x is in class `MODE_INT` and y is a `const_int` or `const_double` with mode `VOIDmode`. The mode of x determines what mode the comparison is to be done in; thus it must not be `VOIDmode`.

  If one of the operands is a constant, it should be placed in the second operand and the comparison code adjusted as appropriate.

  A `compare` specifying two `VOIDmode` constants is not valid since there is no way to know in what mode the comparison is to be performed; the comparison must either be folded during the compilation or the first operand must be loaded into a register while its mode is still known.

`(neg:m x)` ¶
`(ss_neg:m x)`
`(us_neg:m x)`

  These two expressions represent the negation (subtraction from zero) of the value represented by x, carried out in mode m. They differ in the behavior on overflow of integer modes. In the case of `neg`, the negation of the operand may be a number not representable in mode m, in which case it is truncated to m. `ss_neg` and `us_neg` ensure that an out-of-bounds result saturates to the maximum or minimum signed or unsigned value.

`(mult:m x y)` ¶
`(ss_mult:m x y)`
`(us_mult:m x y)`

  Represents the signed product of the values represented by x and y carried out in machine mode m. `ss_mult` and `us_mult` ensure that an out-of-bounds result saturates to the maximum or minimum signed or unsigned value.

  Some machines support a multiplication that generates a product wider than the operands. Write the pattern for this as

      (mult:m (sign_extend:m x) (sign_extend:m y))

  where m is wider than the modes of x and y, which need not be the same.

  For unsigned widening multiplication, use the same idiom, but with `zero_extend` instead of `sign_extend`.

`(smul_highpart:m x y)` ¶
`(umul_highpart:m x y)`

  Represents the high-part multiplication of x and y carried out in machine mode m. `smul_highpart` returns the high part of a signed multiplication, `umul_highpart` returns the high part of an unsigned multiplication.

`(fma:m x y z)` ¶

  Represents the `fma`, `fmaf`, and `fmal` builtin functions, which compute ‘`x * y + z`’ without doing an intermediate rounding step.

`(div:m x y)` ¶
`(ss_div:m x y)`

  Represents the quotient in signed division of x by y, carried out in machine mode m. If m is a floating point mode, it represents the exact quotient; otherwise, the integerized quotient. `ss_div` ensures that an out-of-bounds result saturates to the maximum or minimum signed value.

  Some machines have division instructions in which the operands and quotient widths are not all the same; you should represent such instructions using `truncate` and `sign_extend` as in,

      (truncate:m1 (div:m2 x (sign_extend:m2 y)))

`(udiv:m x y)` ¶
`(us_div:m x y)`

  Like `div` but represents unsigned division. `us_div` ensures that an out-of-bounds result saturates to the maximum or minimum unsigned value.

`(mod:m x y)` ¶
`(umod:m x y)`

  Like `div` and `udiv` but represent the remainder instead of the quotient.

`(smin:m x y)` ¶
`(smax:m x y)`

  Represents the smaller (for `smin`) or larger (for `smax`) of x and y, interpreted as signed values in mode m. When used with floating point, if both operands are zeros, or if either operand is `NaN`, then it is unspecified which of the two operands is returned as the result.

`(umin:m x y)` ¶
`(umax:m x y)`

  Like `smin` and `smax`, but the values are interpreted as unsigned integers.

`(not:m x)` ¶

  Represents the bitwise complement of the value represented by x, carried out in mode m, which must be a fixed-point machine mode.

`(and:m x y)` ¶

  Represents the bitwise logical-and of the values represented by x and y, carried out in machine mode m, which must be a fixed-point machine mode.

`(ior:m x y)` ¶

  Represents the bitwise inclusive-or of the values represented by x and y, carried out in machine mode m, which must be a fixed-point mode.

`(xor:m x y)` ¶

  Represents the bitwise exclusive-or of the values represented by x and y, carried out in machine mode m, which must be a fixed-point mode.

`(ashift:m x c)` ¶
`(ss_ashift:m x c)`
`(us_ashift:m x c)`

  These three expressions represent the result of arithmetically shifting x left by c places. They differ in their behavior on overflow of integer modes. An `ashift` operation is a plain shift with no special behavior in case of a change in the sign bit; `ss_ashift` and `us_ashift` saturates to the minimum or maximum representable value if any of the bits shifted out differs from the final sign bit.

  x have mode m, a fixed-point machine mode. c be a fixed-point mode or be a constant with mode `VOIDmode`; which mode is determined by the mode called for in the machine description entry for the left-shift instruction. For example, on the VAX, the mode of c is `QImode` regardless of m.

`(lshiftrt:m x c)` ¶
`(ashiftrt:m x c)`

  Like `ashift` but for right shift. Unlike the case for left shift, these two operations are distinct.

`(rotate:m x c)` ¶
`(rotatert:m x c)`

  Similar but represent left and right rotate. If c is a constant, use `rotate`.

`(abs:m x)` ¶
`(ss_abs:m x)`

  Represents the absolute value of x, computed in mode m. `ss_abs` ensures that an out-of-bounds result saturates to the maximum signed value.

`(sqrt:m x)` ¶

  Represents the square root of x, computed in mode m. Most often m will be a floating point mode.

`(ffs:m x)` ¶

  Represents one plus the index of the least significant 1-bit in x, represented as an integer of mode m. (The value is zero if x is zero.) The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(clrsb:m x)` ¶

  Represents the number of redundant leading sign bits in x, represented as an integer of mode m, starting at the most significant bit position. This is one less than the number of leading sign bits (either 0 or 1), with no special cases. The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(clz:m x)` ¶

  Represents the number of leading 0-bits in x, represented as an integer of mode m, starting at the most significant bit position. If x is zero, the value is determined by `CLZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO` (see Miscellaneous Parameters). Note that this is one of the few expressions that is not invariant under widening. The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(ctz:m x)` ¶

  Represents the number of trailing 0-bits in x, represented as an integer of mode m, starting at the least significant bit position. If x is zero, the value is determined by `CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO` (see Miscellaneous Parameters). Except for this case, `ctz(x)` is equivalent to `ffs(x) - 1`. The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(popcount:m x)` ¶

  Represents the number of 1-bits in x, represented as an integer of mode m. The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(parity:m x)` ¶

  Represents the number of 1-bits modulo 2 in x, represented as an integer of mode m. The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(bswap:m x)` ¶

  Represents the value x with the order of bytes reversed, carried out in mode m, which must be a fixed-point machine mode. The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(bitreverse:m x)` ¶

  Represents the value x with the order of bits reversed, carried out in mode m, which must be a fixed-point machine mode. The mode of x must be m or `VOIDmode`.

`(copysign:m x y)` ¶

  Represents the value x with the sign of y. Both x and y must have floating point machine mode m.

### 14.10 Comparison Operations ¶

Comparison operators test a relation on two operands and are considered to represent a machine-dependent nonzero value described by, but not necessarily equal to, `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` (see Miscellaneous Parameters) if the relation holds, or zero if it does not, for comparison operators whose results have a ‘MODE_INT’ mode, `FLOAT_STORE_FLAG_VALUE` (see Miscellaneous Parameters) if the relation holds, or zero if it does not, for comparison operators that return floating-point values, and a vector of either `VECTOR_STORE_FLAG_VALUE` (see Miscellaneous Parameters) if the relation holds, or of zeros if it does not, for comparison operators that return vector results. The mode of the comparison operation is independent of the mode of the data being compared. If the comparison operation is being tested (e.g., the first operand of an `if_then_else`), the mode must be `VOIDmode`.

A comparison operation compares two data objects. The mode of the comparison is determined by the operands; they must both be valid for a common machine mode. A comparison with both operands constant would be invalid as the machine mode could not be deduced from it, but such a comparison should never exist in RTL due to constant folding.

Usually only one style of comparisons is supported on a particular machine, but the combine pass will try to merge operations to produce code like `(eq x y)`, in case it exists in the context of the particular insn involved.

Inequality comparisons come in two flavors, signed and unsigned. Thus, there are distinct expression codes `gt` and `gtu` for signed and unsigned greater-than. These can produce different results for the same pair of integer values: for example, 1 is signed greater-than −1 but not unsigned greater-than, because −1 when regarded as unsigned is actually `0xffffffff` which is greater than 1.

The signed comparisons are also used for floating point values. Floating point comparisons are distinguished by the machine modes of the operands.

`(eq:m x y)` ¶

  `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` if the values represented by x and y are equal, otherwise 0.

`(ne:m x y)` ¶

  `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` if the values represented by x and y are not equal, otherwise 0.

`(gt:m x y)` ¶

  `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` if the x is greater than y. If they are fixed-point, the comparison is done in a signed sense.

`(gtu:m x y)` ¶

  Like `gt` but does unsigned comparison, on fixed-point numbers only.

`(lt:m x y)` ¶
`(ltu:m x y)`

  Like `gt` and `gtu` but test for “less than”.

`(ge:m x y)` ¶
`(geu:m x y)`

  Like `gt` and `gtu` but test for “greater than or equal”.

`(le:m x y)` ¶
`(leu:m x y)`

  Like `gt` and `gtu` but test for “less than or equal”.

`(if_then_else cond then else)` ¶

  This is not a comparison operation but is listed here because it is always used in conjunction with a comparison operation. To be precise, cond is a comparison expression. This expression represents a choice, according to cond, between the value represented by then and the one represented by else.

  On most machines, `if_then_else` expressions are valid only to express conditional jumps.

`(cond [test1 value1 test2 value2 …] default)` ¶

  Similar to `if_then_else`, but more general. Each of test1, test2, … is performed in turn. The result of this expression is the value corresponding to the first nonzero test, or default if none of the tests are nonzero expressions.

  This is currently not valid for instruction patterns and is supported only for insn attributes. See Instruction Attributes.

### 14.11 Bit-Fields ¶

Special expression codes exist to represent bit-field instructions.

`(sign_extract:m loc size pos)` ¶

  This represents a reference to a sign-extended bit-field contained or starting in loc (a memory or register reference). The bit-field is size bits wide and starts at bit pos. The compilation option `BITS_BIG_ENDIAN` says which end of the memory unit pos counts from.

  If loc is in memory, its mode must be a single-byte integer mode. If loc is in a register, the mode to use is specified by the operand of the `insv` or `extv` pattern (see Standard Pattern Names For Generation) and is usually a full-word integer mode, which is the default if none is specified.

  The mode of pos is machine-specific and is also specified in the `insv` or `extv` pattern.

  The mode m is the same as the mode that would be used for loc if it were a register.

  A `sign_extract` cannot appear as an lvalue, or part thereof, in RTL.

`(zero_extract:m loc size pos)` ¶

  Like `sign_extract` but refers to an unsigned or zero-extended bit-field. The same sequence of bits are extracted, but they are filled to an entire word with zeros instead of by sign-extension.

  Unlike `sign_extract`, this type of expressions can be lvalues in RTL; they may appear on the left side of an assignment, indicating insertion of a value into the specified bit-field.

### 14.12 Vector Operations ¶

All normal RTL expressions can be used with vector modes; they are interpreted as operating on each part of the vector independently. Additionally, there are a few new expressions to describe specific vector operations.

`(vec_merge:m vec1 vec2 items)` ¶

  This describes a merge operation between two vectors. The result is a vector of mode m; its elements are selected from either vec1 or vec2. Which elements are selected is described by items, which is a bit mask represented by a `const_int`; a zero bit indicates the corresponding element in the result vector is taken from vec2 while a set bit indicates it is taken from vec1.

`(vec_select:m vec1 selection)` ¶

  This describes an operation that selects parts of a vector. vec1 is the source vector, and selection is a `parallel` that contains a `const_int` (or another expression, if the selection can be made at runtime) for each of the subparts of the result vector, giving the number of the source subpart that should be stored into it. The result mode m is either the submode for a single element of vec1 (if only one subpart is selected), or another vector mode with that element submode (if multiple subparts are selected).

`(vec_concat:m x1 x2)` ¶

  Describes a vector concat operation. The result is a concatenation of the vectors or scalars x1 and x2; its length is the sum of the lengths of the two inputs.

`(vec_duplicate:m x)` ¶

  This operation converts a scalar into a vector or a small vector into a larger one by duplicating the input values. The output vector mode must have the same submodes as the input vector mode or the scalar modes, and the number of output parts must be an integer multiple of the number of input parts.

`(vec_series:m base step)` ¶

  This operation creates a vector in which element i is equal to ‘`base + i*step`’. m must be a vector integer mode.

### 14.13 Conversions ¶

All conversions between machine modes must be represented by explicit conversion operations. For example, an expression which is the sum of a byte and a full word cannot be written as `(plus:SI (reg:QI 34) (reg:SI 80))` because the `plus` operation requires two operands of the same machine mode. Therefore, the byte-sized operand is enclosed in a conversion operation, as in

    (plus:SI (sign_extend:SI (reg:QI 34)) (reg:SI 80))

The conversion operation is not a mere placeholder, because there may be more than one way of converting from a given starting mode to the desired final mode. The conversion operation code says how to do it.

For all conversion operations, x must not be `VOIDmode` because the mode in which to do the conversion would not be known. The conversion must either be done at compile-time or x must be placed into a register.

`(sign_extend:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of sign-extending the value x to machine mode m. m must be a fixed-point mode and x a fixed-point value of a mode narrower than m.

`(zero_extend:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of zero-extending the value x to machine mode m. m must be a fixed-point mode and x a fixed-point value of a mode narrower than m.

`(float_extend:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of extending the value x to machine mode m. m must be a floating point mode and x a floating point value of a mode narrower than m.

`(truncate:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of truncating the value x to machine mode m. m must be a fixed-point mode and x a fixed-point value of a mode wider than m.

`(ss_truncate:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of truncating the value x to machine mode m, using signed saturation in the case of overflow. Both m and the mode of x must be fixed-point modes.

`(us_truncate:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of truncating the value x to machine mode m, using unsigned saturation in the case of overflow. Both m and the mode of x must be fixed-point modes.

`(float_truncate:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of truncating the value x to machine mode m. m must be a floating point mode and x a floating point value of a mode wider than m.

`(float:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of converting fixed point value x, regarded as signed, to floating point mode m.

`(unsigned_float:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of converting fixed point value x, regarded as unsigned, to floating point mode m.

`(fix:m x)` ¶

  When m is a floating-point mode, represents the result of converting floating point value x (valid for mode m) to an integer, still represented in floating point mode m, by rounding towards zero.

  When m is a fixed-point mode, represents the result of converting floating point value x to mode m, regarded as signed. How rounding is done is not specified, so this operation may be used validly in compiling C code only for integer-valued operands.

`(unsigned_fix:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of converting floating point value x to fixed point mode m, regarded as unsigned. How rounding is done is not specified.

`(fract_convert:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of converting fixed-point value x to fixed-point mode m, signed integer value x to fixed-point mode m, floating-point value x to fixed-point mode m, fixed-point value x to integer mode m regarded as signed, or fixed-point value x to floating-point mode m. When overflows or underflows happen, the results are undefined.

`(sat_fract:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of converting fixed-point value x to fixed-point mode m, signed integer value x to fixed-point mode m, or floating-point value x to fixed-point mode m. When overflows or underflows happen, the results are saturated to the maximum or the minimum.

`(unsigned_fract_convert:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of converting fixed-point value x to integer mode m regarded as unsigned, or unsigned integer value x to fixed-point mode m. When overflows or underflows happen, the results are undefined.

`(unsigned_sat_fract:m x)` ¶

  Represents the result of converting unsigned integer value x to fixed-point mode m. When overflows or underflows happen, the results are saturated to the maximum or the minimum.

### 14.14 Declarations ¶

Declaration expression codes do not represent arithmetic operations but rather state assertions about their operands.

`(strict_low_part (subreg:m (reg:n r) 0))` ¶

  This expression code is used in only one context: as the destination operand of a `set` expression. In addition, the operand of this expression must be a non-paradoxical `subreg` expression.

  The presence of `strict_low_part` says that the part of the register which is meaningful in mode n, but is not part of mode m, is not to be altered. Normally, an assignment to such a subreg is allowed to have undefined effects on the rest of the register when m is smaller than ‘`REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE (n)`’.

### 14.15 Side Effect Expressions ¶

The expression codes described so far represent values, not actions. But machine instructions never produce values; they are meaningful only for their side effects on the state of the machine. Special expression codes are used to represent side effects.

The body of an instruction is always one of these side effect codes; the codes described above, which represent values, appear only as the operands of these.

`(set lval x)` ¶

  Represents the action of storing the value of x into the place represented by lval. lval must be an expression representing a place that can be stored in: `reg` (or `subreg`, `strict_low_part` or `zero_extract`), `mem`, `pc`, or `parallel`.

  If lval is a `reg`, `subreg` or `mem`, it has a machine mode; then x must be valid for that mode.

  If lval is a `reg` whose machine mode is less than the full width of the register, then it means that the part of the register specified by the machine mode is given the specified value and the rest of the register receives an undefined value. Likewise, if lval is a `subreg` whose machine mode is narrower than the mode of the register, the rest of the register can be changed in an undefined way.

  If lval is a `strict_low_part` of a subreg, then the part of the register specified by the machine mode of the `subreg` is given the value x and the rest of the register is not changed.

  If lval is a `zero_extract`, then the referenced part of the bit-field (a memory or register reference) specified by the `zero_extract` is given the value x and the rest of the bit-field is not changed. Note that `sign_extract` cannot appear in lval.

  If lval is a `parallel`, it is used to represent the case of a function returning a structure in multiple registers. Each element of the `parallel` is an `expr_list` whose first operand is a `reg` and whose second operand is a `const_int` representing the offset (in bytes) into the structure at which the data in that register corresponds. The first element may be null to indicate that the structure is also passed partly in memory.

  If lval is `(pc)`, we have a jump instruction, and the possibilities for x are very limited. It may be a `label_ref` expression (unconditional jump). It may be an `if_then_else` (conditional jump), in which case either the second or the third operand must be `(pc)` (for the case which does not jump) and the other of the two must be a `label_ref` (for the case which does jump). x may also be a `mem` or `(plus:SI (pc) y)`, where y may be a `reg` or a `mem`; these unusual patterns are used to represent jumps through branch tables.

  If lval is not `(pc)`, the mode of lval must not be `VOIDmode` and the mode of x must be valid for the mode of lval.

  lval is customarily accessed with the `SET_DEST` macro and x with the `SET_SRC` macro.

`(return)` ¶

  As the sole expression in a pattern, represents a return from the current function, on machines where this can be done with one instruction, such as VAXen. On machines where a multi-instruction “epilogue” must be executed in order to return from the function, returning is done by jumping to a label which precedes the epilogue, and the `return` expression code is never used.

  Inside an `if_then_else` expression, represents the value to be placed in `pc` to return to the caller.

  Note that an insn pattern of `(return)` is logically equivalent to `(set (pc) (return))`, but the latter form is never used.

`(simple_return)` ¶

  Like `(return)`, but truly represents only a function return, while `(return)` may represent an insn that also performs other functions of the function epilogue. Like `(return)`, this may also occur in conditional jumps.

`(call function nargs)` ¶

  Represents a function call. function is a `mem` expression whose address is the address of the function to be called. nargs is an expression which can be used for two purposes: on some machines it represents the number of bytes of stack argument; on others, it represents the number of argument registers.

  Each machine has a standard machine mode which function must have. The machine description defines macro `FUNCTION_MODE` to expand into the requisite mode name. The purpose of this mode is to specify what kind of addressing is allowed, on machines where the allowed kinds of addressing depend on the machine mode being addressed.

`(clobber x)` ¶

  Represents the storing or possible storing of an unpredictable, undescribed value into x, which must be a `reg`, `scratch`, `parallel` or `mem` expression.

  One place this is used is in string instructions that store standard values into particular hard registers. It may not be worth the trouble to describe the values that are stored, but it is essential to inform the compiler that the registers will be altered, lest it attempt to keep data in them across the string instruction.

  If x is `(mem:BLK (const_int 0))` or `(mem:BLK (scratch))`, it means that all memory locations must be presumed clobbered. If x is a `parallel`, it has the same meaning as a `parallel` in a `set` expression.

  Note that the machine description classifies certain hard registers as “call-clobbered”. All function call instructions are assumed by default to clobber these registers, so there is no need to use `clobber` expressions to indicate this fact. Also, each function call is assumed to have the potential to alter any memory location, unless the function is declared `const`.

  If the last group of expressions in a `parallel` are each a `clobber` expression whose arguments are `reg` or `match_scratch` (see RTL Template) expressions, the combiner phase can add the appropriate `clobber` expressions to an insn it has constructed when doing so will cause a pattern to be matched.

  This feature can be used, for example, on a machine that whose multiply and add instructions don’t use an MQ register but which has an add-accumulate instruction that does clobber the MQ register. Similarly, a combined instruction might require a temporary register while the constituent instructions might not.

  When a `clobber` expression for a register appears inside a `parallel` with other side effects, the register allocator guarantees that the register is unoccupied both before and after that insn if it is a hard register clobber. For pseudo-register clobber, the register allocator and the reload pass do not assign the same hard register to the clobber and the input operands if there is an insn alternative containing the ‘`&`’ constraint (see Constraint Modifier Characters) for the clobber and the hard register is in register classes of the clobber in the alternative. You can clobber either a specific hard register, a pseudo register, or a `scratch` expression; in the latter two cases, GCC will allocate a hard register that is available there for use as a temporary.

  For instructions that require a temporary register, you should use `scratch` instead of a pseudo-register because this will allow the combiner phase to add the `clobber` when required. You do this by coding (`clobber` (`match_scratch` …)). If you do clobber a pseudo register, use one which appears nowhere else—generate a new one each time. Otherwise, you may confuse CSE.

  There is one other known use for clobbering a pseudo register in a `parallel`: when one of the input operands of the insn is also clobbered by the insn. In this case, using the same pseudo register in the clobber and elsewhere in the insn produces the expected results.

`(use x)` ¶

  Represents the use of the value of x. It indicates that the value in x at this point in the program is needed, even though it may not be apparent why this is so. Therefore, the compiler will not attempt to delete previous instructions whose only effect is to store a value in x. x must be a `reg` expression.

  In some situations, it may be tempting to add a `use` of a register in a `parallel` to describe a situation where the value of a special register will modify the behavior of the instruction. A hypothetical example might be a pattern for an addition that can either wrap around or use saturating addition depending on the value of a special control register:

      (parallel [(set (reg:SI 2) (unspec:SI [(reg:SI 3)
                                             (reg:SI 4)] 0))
                 (use (reg:SI 1))])

  This will not work, several of the optimizers only look at expressions locally; it is very likely that if you have multiple insns with identical inputs to the `unspec`, they will be optimized away even if register 1 changes in between.

  This means that `use` can only be used to describe that the register is live. You should think twice before adding `use` statements, more often you will want to use `unspec` instead. The `use` RTX is most commonly useful to describe that a fixed register is implicitly used in an insn. It is also safe to use in patterns where the compiler knows for other reasons that the result of the whole pattern is variable, such as ‘`cpymemm`’ or ‘`call`’ patterns.

  During the reload phase, an insn that has a `use` as pattern can carry a reg_equal note. These `use` insns will be deleted before the reload phase exits.

  During the delayed branch scheduling phase, x may be an insn. This indicates that x previously was located at this place in the code and its data dependencies need to be taken into account. These `use` insns will be deleted before the delayed branch scheduling phase exits.

`(parallel [x0 x1 …])` ¶

  Represents several side effects performed in parallel. The square brackets stand for a vector; the operand of `parallel` is a vector of expressions. x0, x1 and so on are individual side effect expressions—expressions of code `set`, `call`, `return`, `simple_return`, `clobber` or `use`.

  “In parallel” means that first all the values used in the individual side-effects are computed, and second all the actual side-effects are performed. For example,

      (parallel [(set (reg:SI 1) (mem:SI (reg:SI 1)))
                 (set (mem:SI (reg:SI 1)) (reg:SI 1))])

  says unambiguously that the values of hard register 1 and the memory location addressed by it are interchanged. In both places where `(reg:SI 1)` appears as a memory address it refers to the value in register 1 before the execution of the insn.

  It follows that it is incorrect to use `parallel` and expect the result of one `set` to be available for the next one. For example, people sometimes attempt to represent a jump-if-zero instruction this way:

      (parallel [(set (reg:CC CC_REG) (reg:SI 34))
                 (set (pc) (if_then_else
                              (eq (reg:CC CC_REG) (const_int 0))
                              (label_ref ...)
                              (pc)))])

  But this is incorrect, because it says that the jump condition depends on the condition code value before this instruction, not on the new value that is set by this instruction.

  Peephole optimization, which takes place together with final assembly code output, can produce insns whose patterns consist of a `parallel` whose elements are the operands needed to output the resulting assembler code—often `reg`, `mem` or constant expressions. This would not be well-formed RTL at any other stage in compilation, but it is OK then because no further optimization remains to be done.

`(cond_exec [cond expr])` ¶

  Represents a conditionally executed expression. The expr is executed only if the cond is nonzero. The cond expression must not have side-effects, but the expr may very well have side-effects.

`(sequence [insns …])` ¶

  Represents a sequence of insns. If a `sequence` appears in the chain of insns, then each of the insns that appears in the sequence must be suitable for appearing in the chain of insns, i.e. must satisfy the `INSN_P` predicate.

  After delay-slot scheduling is completed, an insn and all the insns that reside in its delay slots are grouped together into a `sequence`. The insn requiring the delay slot is the first insn in the vector; subsequent insns are to be placed in the delay slot.

  `INSN_ANNULLED_BRANCH_P` is set on an insn in a delay slot to indicate that a branch insn should be used that will conditionally annul the effect of the insns in the delay slots. In such a case, `INSN_FROM_TARGET_P` indicates that the insn is from the target of the branch and should be executed only if the branch is taken; otherwise the insn should be executed only if the branch is not taken. See Delay Slot Scheduling.

  Some back ends also use `sequence` objects for purposes other than delay-slot groups. This is not supported in the common parts of the compiler, which treat such sequences as delay-slot groups.

  DWARF2 Call Frame Address (CFA) adjustments are sometimes also expressed using `sequence` objects as the value of a `RTX_FRAME_RELATED_P` note. This only happens if the CFA adjustments cannot be easily derived from the pattern of the instruction to which the note is attached. In such cases, the value of the note is used instead of best-guesing the semantics of the instruction. The back end can attach notes containing a `sequence` of `set` patterns that express the effect of the parent instruction.

These expression codes appear in place of a side effect, as the body of an insn, though strictly speaking they do not always describe side effects as such:

`(asm_input s)` ¶

  Represents literal assembler code as described by the string s.

`(unspec [operands …] index)` ¶
`(unspec_volatile [operands …] index)`

  Represents a machine-specific operation on operands. index selects between multiple machine-specific operations. `unspec_volatile` is used for volatile operations and operations that may trap; `unspec` is used for other operations.

  These codes may appear inside a `pattern` of an insn, inside a `parallel`, or inside an expression.

`(addr_vec:m [lr0 lr1 …])` ¶

  Represents a table of jump addresses. The vector elements lr0, etc., are `label_ref` expressions. The mode m specifies how much space is given to each address; normally m would be `Pmode`.

`(addr_diff_vec:m base [lr0 lr1 …] min max flags)` ¶

  Represents a table of jump addresses expressed as offsets from base. The vector elements lr0, etc., are `label_ref` expressions and so is base. The mode m specifies how much space is given to each address-difference. min and max are set up by branch shortening and hold a label with a minimum and a maximum address, respectively. flags indicates the relative position of base, min and max to the containing insn and of min and max to base. See rtl.def for details.

`(prefetch:m addr rw locality)` ¶

  Represents prefetch of memory at address addr. Operand rw is 1 if the prefetch is for data to be written, 0 otherwise; targets that do not support write prefetches should treat this as a normal prefetch. Operand locality specifies the amount of temporal locality; 0 if there is none or 1, 2, or 3 for increasing levels of temporal locality; targets that do not support locality hints should ignore this.

  This insn is used to minimize cache-miss latency by moving data into a cache before it is accessed. It should use only non-faulting data prefetch instructions.

### 14.16 Embedded Side-Effects on Addresses ¶

Six special side-effect expression codes appear as memory addresses.

`(pre_dec:m x)` ¶

  Represents the side effect of decrementing x by a standard amount and represents also the value that x has after being decremented. x must be a `reg` or `mem`, but most machines allow only a `reg`. m must be the machine mode for pointers on the machine in use. The amount x is decremented by is the length in bytes of the machine mode of the containing memory reference of which this expression serves as the address. Here is an example of its use:

      (mem:DF (pre_dec:SI (reg:SI 39)))

  This says to decrement pseudo register 39 by the length of a `DFmode` value and use the result to address a `DFmode` value.

`(pre_inc:m x)` ¶

  Similar, but specifies incrementing x instead of decrementing it.

`(post_dec:m x)` ¶

  Represents the same side effect as `pre_dec` but a different value. The value represented here is the value x has before being decremented.

`(post_inc:m x)` ¶

  Similar, but specifies incrementing x instead of decrementing it.

`(post_modify:m x y)` ¶

  Represents the side effect of setting x to y and represents x before x is modified. x must be a `reg` or `mem`, but most machines allow only a `reg`. m must be the machine mode for pointers on the machine in use.

  The expression y must be one of three forms: `(plus:m x z)`, `(minus:m x z)`, or `(plus:m x i)`, where z is an index register and i is a constant.

  Here is an example of its use:

      (mem:SF (post_modify:SI (reg:SI 42) (plus (reg:SI 42)
                                                (reg:SI 48))))

  This says to modify pseudo register 42 by adding the contents of pseudo register 48 to it, after the use of what ever 42 points to.

`(pre_modify:m x expr)` ¶

  Similar except side effects happen before the use.

These embedded side effect expressions must be used with care. Instruction patterns may not use them. Until the ‘`flow`’ pass of the compiler, they may occur only to represent pushes onto the stack. The ‘`flow`’ pass finds cases where registers are incremented or decremented in one instruction and used as an address shortly before or after; these cases are then transformed to use pre- or post-increment or -decrement.

If a register used as the operand of these expressions is used in another address in an insn, the original value of the register is used. Uses of the register outside of an address are not permitted within the same insn as a use in an embedded side effect expression because such insns behave differently on different machines and hence must be treated as ambiguous and disallowed.

An instruction that can be represented with an embedded side effect could also be represented using `parallel` containing an additional `set` to describe how the address register is altered. This is not done because machines that allow these operations at all typically allow them wherever a memory address is called for. Describing them as additional parallel stores would require doubling the number of entries in the machine description.

### 14.17 Assembler Instructions as Expressions ¶

The RTX code `asm_operands` represents a value produced by a user-specified assembler instruction. It is used to represent an `asm` statement with arguments. An `asm` statement with a single output operand, like this:

    asm ("foo %1,%2,%0" : "=a" (outputvar) : "g" (x + y), "di" (*z));

is represented using a single `asm_operands` RTX which represents the value that is stored in `outputvar`:

    (set rtx-for-outputvar
         (asm_operands "foo %1,%2,%0" "a" 0
                       [rtx-for-addition-result rtx-for-*z]
                       [(asm_input:m1 "g")
                        (asm_input:m2 "di")]))

Here the operands of the `asm_operands` RTX are the assembler template string, the output-operand’s constraint, the index-number of the output operand among the output operands specified, a vector of input operand RTX’s, and a vector of input-operand modes and constraints. The mode m1 is the mode of the sum `x+y`; m2 is that of `*z`.

When an `asm` statement has multiple output values, its insn has several such `set` RTX’s inside of a `parallel`. Each `set` contains an `asm_operands`; all of these share the same assembler template and vectors, but each contains the constraint for the respective output operand. They are also distinguished by the output-operand index number, which is 0, 1, … for successive output operands.

### 14.18 Variable Location Debug Information in RTL ¶

Variable tracking relies on `MEM_EXPR` and `REG_EXPR` annotations to determine what user variables memory and register references refer to.

Variable tracking at assignments uses these notes only when they refer to variables that live at fixed locations (e.g., addressable variables, global non-automatic variables). For variables whose location may vary, it relies on the following types of notes.

`(var_location:mode var exp stat)` ¶

  Binds variable `var`, a tree, to value exp, an RTL expression. It appears only in `NOTE_INSN_VAR_LOCATION` and `DEBUG_INSN`s, with slightly different meanings. mode, if present, represents the mode of exp, which is useful if it is a modeless expression. stat is only meaningful in notes, indicating whether the variable is known to be initialized or uninitialized.

`(debug_expr:mode decl)` ¶

  Stands for the value bound to the `DEBUG_EXPR_DECL` decl, that points back to it, within value expressions in `VAR_LOCATION` nodes.

`(debug_implicit_ptr:mode decl)` ¶

  Stands for the location of a decl that is no longer addressable.

`(entry_value:mode decl)` ¶

  Stands for the value a decl had at the entry point of the containing function.

`(debug_parameter_ref:mode decl)` ¶

  Refers to a parameter that was completely optimized out.

`(debug_marker:mode)` ¶

  Marks a program location. With `VOIDmode`, it stands for the beginning of a statement, a recommended inspection point logically after all prior side effects, and before any subsequent side effects. With `BLKmode`, it indicates an inline entry point: the lexical block encoded in the `INSN_LOCATION` is the enclosing block that encloses the inlined function.

### 14.19 Insns ¶

The RTL representation of the code for a function is a doubly-linked chain of objects called insns. Insns are expressions with special codes that are used for no other purpose. Some insns are actual instructions; others represent dispatch tables for `switch` statements; others represent labels to jump to or various sorts of declarative information.

In addition to its own specific data, each insn must have a unique id-number that distinguishes it from all other insns in the current function (after delayed branch scheduling, copies of an insn with the same id-number may be present in multiple places in a function, but these copies will always be identical and will only appear inside a `sequence`), and chain pointers to the preceding and following insns. These three fields occupy the same position in every insn, independent of the expression code of the insn. They could be accessed with `XEXP` and `XINT`, but instead three special macros are always used:

`INSN_UID (i)` ¶

  Accesses the unique id of insn i.

`PREV_INSN (i)` ¶

  Accesses the chain pointer to the insn preceding i. If i is the first insn, this is a null pointer.

`NEXT_INSN (i)` ¶

  Accesses the chain pointer to the insn following i. If i is the last insn, this is a null pointer.

The first insn in the chain is obtained by calling `get_insns`; the last insn is the result of calling `get_last_insn`. Within the chain delimited by these insns, the `NEXT_INSN` and `PREV_INSN` pointers must always correspond: if insn is not the first insn,

    NEXT_INSN (PREV_INSN (insn)) == insn

is always true and if insn is not the last insn,

    PREV_INSN (NEXT_INSN (insn)) == insn

is always true.

After delay slot scheduling, some of the insns in the chain might be `sequence` expressions, which contain a vector of insns. The value of `NEXT_INSN` in all but the last of these insns is the next insn in the vector; the value of `NEXT_INSN` of the last insn in the vector is the same as the value of `NEXT_INSN` for the `sequence` in which it is contained. Similar rules apply for `PREV_INSN`.

This means that the above invariants are not necessarily true for insns inside `sequence` expressions. Specifically, if insn is the first insn in a `sequence`, `NEXT_INSN (PREV_INSN (insn))` is the insn containing the `sequence` expression, as is the value of `PREV_INSN (NEXT_INSN (insn))` if insn is the last insn in the `sequence` expression. You can use these expressions to find the containing `sequence` expression.

Every insn has one of the following expression codes:

`insn` ¶

  The expression code `insn` is used for instructions that do not jump and do not do function calls. `sequence` expressions are always contained in insns with code `insn` even if one of those insns should jump or do function calls.

  Insns with code `insn` have four additional fields beyond the three mandatory ones listed above. These four are described in a table below.

`jump_insn` ¶

  The expression code `jump_insn` is used for instructions that may jump (or, more generally, may contain `label_ref` expressions to which `pc` can be set in that instruction). If there is an instruction to return from the current function, it is recorded as a `jump_insn`.

  `jump_insn` insns have the same extra fields as `insn` insns, accessed in the same way and in addition contain a field `JUMP_LABEL` which is defined once jump optimization has completed.

  For simple conditional and unconditional jumps, this field contains the `code_label` to which this insn will (possibly conditionally) branch. In a more complex jump, `JUMP_LABEL` records one of the labels that the insn refers to; other jump target labels are recorded as `REG_LABEL_TARGET` notes. The exception is `addr_vec` and `addr_diff_vec`, where `JUMP_LABEL` is `NULL_RTX` and the only way to find the labels is to scan the entire body of the insn.

  Return insns count as jumps, but their `JUMP_LABEL` is `RETURN` or `SIMPLE_RETURN`.

`call_insn` ¶

  The expression code `call_insn` is used for instructions that may do function calls. It is important to distinguish these instructions because they imply that certain registers and memory locations may be altered unpredictably.

  `call_insn` insns have the same extra fields as `insn` insns, accessed in the same way and in addition contain a field `CALL_INSN_FUNCTION_USAGE`, which contains a list (chain of `expr_list` expressions) containing `use`, `clobber` and sometimes `set` expressions that denote hard registers and `mem`s used or clobbered by the called function.

  A `mem` generally points to a stack slot in which arguments passed to the libcall by reference (see TARGET_PASS_BY_REFERENCE) are stored. If the argument is caller-copied (see TARGET_CALLEE_COPIES), the stack slot will be mentioned in `clobber` and `use` entries; if it’s callee-copied, only a `use` will appear, and the `mem` may point to addresses that are not stack slots.

  Registers occurring inside a `clobber` in this list augment registers specified in `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` (see Basic Characteristics of Registers).

  If the list contains a `set` involving two registers, it indicates that the function returns one of its arguments. Such a `set` may look like a no-op if the same register holds the argument and the return value.

`code_label` ¶

  A `code_label` insn represents a label that a jump insn can jump to. It contains two special fields of data in addition to the three standard ones. `CODE_LABEL_NUMBER` is used to hold the label number, a number that identifies this label uniquely among all the labels in the compilation (not just in the current function). Ultimately, the label is represented in the assembler output as an assembler label, usually of the form ‘`Ln`’ where n is the label number.

  When a `code_label` appears in an RTL expression, it normally appears within a `label_ref` which represents the address of the label, as a number.

  Besides as a `code_label`, a label can also be represented as a `note` of type `NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL`.

  The field `LABEL_NUSES` is only defined once the jump optimization phase is completed. It contains the number of times this label is referenced in the current function.

  The field `LABEL_KIND` differentiates four different types of labels: `LABEL_NORMAL`, `LABEL_STATIC_ENTRY`, `LABEL_GLOBAL_ENTRY`, and `LABEL_WEAK_ENTRY`. The only labels that do not have type `LABEL_NORMAL` are alternate entry points to the current function. These may be static (visible only in the containing translation unit), global (exposed to all translation units), or weak (global, but can be overridden by another symbol with the same name).

  Much of the compiler treats all four kinds of label identically. Some of it needs to know whether or not a label is an alternate entry point; for this purpose, the macro `LABEL_ALT_ENTRY_P` is provided. It is equivalent to testing whether ‘`LABEL_KIND (label) == LABEL_NORMAL`’. The only place that cares about the distinction between static, global, and weak alternate entry points, besides the front-end code that creates them, is the function `output_alternate_entry_point`, in `final.cc`.

  To set the kind of a label, use the `SET_LABEL_KIND` macro.

`jump_table_data` ¶

  A `jump_table_data` insn is a placeholder for the jump-table data of a `casesi` or `tablejump` insn. They are placed after a `tablejump_p` insn. A `jump_table_data` insn is not part o a basic blockm but it is associated with the basic block that ends with the `tablejump_p` insn. The `PATTERN` of a `jump_table_data` is always either an `addr_vec` or an `addr_diff_vec`, and a `jump_table_data` insn is always preceded by a `code_label`. The `tablejump_p` insn refers to that `code_label` via its `JUMP_LABEL`.

`barrier` ¶

  Barriers are placed in the instruction stream when control cannot flow past them. They are placed after unconditional jump instructions to indicate that the jumps are unconditional and after calls to `volatile` functions, which do not return (e.g., `exit`). They contain no information beyond the three standard fields.

`note` ¶

  `note` insns are used to represent additional debugging and declarative information. They contain two nonstandard fields, an integer which is accessed with the macro `NOTE_LINE_NUMBER` and a string accessed with `NOTE_SOURCE_FILE`.

  If `NOTE_LINE_NUMBER` is positive, the note represents the position of a source line and `NOTE_SOURCE_FILE` is the source file name that the line came from. These notes control generation of line number data in the assembler output.

  Otherwise, `NOTE_LINE_NUMBER` is not really a line number but a code with one of the following values (and `NOTE_SOURCE_FILE` must contain a null pointer):

  `NOTE_INSN_DELETED` ¶

    Such a note is completely ignorable. Some passes of the compiler delete insns by altering them into notes of this kind.

  `NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL` ¶

    This marks what used to be a `code_label`, but was not used for other purposes than taking its address and was transformed to mark that no code jumps to it.

  `NOTE_INSN_BLOCK_BEG` ¶
  `NOTE_INSN_BLOCK_END`

    These types of notes indicate the position of the beginning and end of a level of scoping of variable names. They control the output of debugging information.

  `NOTE_INSN_EH_REGION_BEG` ¶
  `NOTE_INSN_EH_REGION_END`

    These types of notes indicate the position of the beginning and end of a level of scoping for exception handling. `NOTE_EH_HANDLER` identifies which region is associated with these notes.

  `NOTE_INSN_FUNCTION_BEG` ¶

    Appears at the start of the function body, after the function prologue.

  `NOTE_INSN_VAR_LOCATION` ¶

    This note is used to generate variable location debugging information. It indicates that the user variable in its `VAR_LOCATION` operand is at the location given in the RTL expression, or holds a value that can be computed by evaluating the RTL expression from that static point in the program up to the next such note for the same user variable.

  `NOTE_INSN_BEGIN_STMT` ¶

    This note is used to generate `is_stmt` markers in line number debugging information. It indicates the beginning of a user statement.

  `NOTE_INSN_INLINE_ENTRY` ¶

    This note is used to generate `entry_pc` for inlined subroutines in debugging information. It indicates an inspection point at which all arguments for the inlined function have been bound, and before its first statement.

  These codes are printed symbolically when they appear in debugging dumps.

`debug_insn` ¶

  The expression code `debug_insn` is used for pseudo-instructions that hold debugging information for variable tracking at assignments (see `-fvar-tracking-assignments` option). They are the RTL representation of `GIMPLE_DEBUG` statements (`GIMPLE_DEBUG`), with a `VAR_LOCATION` operand that binds a user variable tree to an RTL representation of the `value` in the corresponding statement. A `DEBUG_EXPR` in it stands for the value bound to the corresponding `DEBUG_EXPR_DECL`.

  `GIMPLE_DEBUG_BEGIN_STMT` and `GIMPLE_DEBUG_INLINE_ENTRY` are expanded to RTL as a `DEBUG_INSN` with a `DEBUG_MARKER` `PATTERN`; the difference is the RTL mode: the former’s `DEBUG_MARKER` is `VOIDmode`, whereas the latter is `BLKmode`; information about the inlined function can be taken from the lexical block encoded in the `INSN_LOCATION`. These `DEBUG_INSN`s, that do not carry `VAR_LOCATION` information, just `DEBUG_MARKER`s, can be detected by testing `DEBUG_MARKER_INSN_P`, whereas those that do can be recognized as `DEBUG_BIND_INSN_P`.

  Throughout optimization passes, `DEBUG_INSN`s are not reordered with respect to each other, particularly during scheduling. Binding information is kept in pseudo-instruction form, so that, unlike notes, it gets the same treatment and adjustments that regular instructions would. It is the variable tracking pass that turns these pseudo-instructions into `NOTE_INSN_VAR_LOCATION`, `NOTE_INSN_BEGIN_STMT` and `NOTE_INSN_INLINE_ENTRY` notes, analyzing control flow, value equivalences and changes to registers and memory referenced in value expressions, propagating the values of debug temporaries and determining expressions that can be used to compute the value of each user variable at as many points (ranges, actually) in the program as possible.

  Unlike `NOTE_INSN_VAR_LOCATION`, the value expression in an `INSN_VAR_LOCATION` denotes a value at that specific point in the program, rather than an expression that can be evaluated at any later point before an overriding `VAR_LOCATION` is encountered. E.g., if a user variable is bound to a `REG` and then a subsequent insn modifies the `REG`, the note location would keep mapping the user variable to the register across the insn, whereas the insn location would keep the variable bound to the value, so that the variable tracking pass would emit another location note for the variable at the point in which the register is modified.

The machine mode of an insn is normally `VOIDmode`, but some phases use the mode for various purposes.

The common subexpression elimination pass sets the mode of an insn to `QImode` when it is the first insn in a block that has already been processed.

The second Haifa scheduling pass, for targets that can multiple issue, sets the mode of an insn to `TImode` when it is believed that the instruction begins an issue group. That is, when the instruction cannot issue simultaneously with the previous. This may be relied on by later passes, in particular machine-dependent reorg.

Here is a table of the extra fields of `insn`, `jump_insn` and `call_insn` insns:

`PATTERN (i)` ¶

  An expression for the side effect performed by this insn. This must be one of the following codes: `set`, `call`, `use`, `clobber`, `return`, `simple_return`, `asm_input`, `asm_output`, `addr_vec`, `addr_diff_vec`, `trap_if`, `unspec`, `unspec_volatile`, `parallel`, `cond_exec`, or `sequence`. If it is a `parallel`, each element of the `parallel` must be one these codes, except that `parallel` expressions cannot be nested and `addr_vec` and `addr_diff_vec` are not permitted inside a `parallel` expression.

`INSN_CODE (i)` ¶

  An integer that says which pattern in the machine description matches this insn, or −1 if the matching has not yet been attempted.

  Such matching is never attempted and this field remains −1 on an insn whose pattern consists of a single `use`, `clobber`, `asm_input`, `addr_vec` or `addr_diff_vec` expression.

  Matching is also never attempted on insns that result from an `asm` statement. These contain at least one `asm_operands` expression. The function `asm_noperands` returns a non-negative value for such insns.

  In the debugging output, this field is printed as a number followed by a symbolic representation that locates the pattern in the `md` file as some small positive or negative offset from a named pattern.

`REG_NOTES (i)` ¶

  A list (chain of `expr_list`, `insn_list` and `int_list` expressions) giving miscellaneous information about the insn. It is often information pertaining to the registers used in this insn.

The `REG_NOTES` field of an insn is a chain that includes `expr_list` and `int_list` expressions as well as `insn_list` expressions. There are several kinds of register notes, which are distinguished by the machine mode, which in a register note is really understood as being an `enum reg_note`. The first operand op of the note is data whose meaning depends on the kind of note.

The macro `REG_NOTE_KIND (x)` returns the kind of register note. Its counterpart, the macro `PUT_REG_NOTE_KIND (x, newkind)` sets the register note type of x to be newkind.

Register notes are of three classes: They may say something about an input to an insn, they may say something about an output of an insn, or they may create a linkage between two insns.

These register notes annotate inputs to an insn:

`REG_DEAD` ¶

  The value in op dies in this insn; that is to say, altering the value immediately after this insn would not affect the future behavior of the program.

  It does not follow that the register op has no useful value after this insn since op is not necessarily modified by this insn. Rather, no subsequent instruction uses the contents of op.

`REG_UNUSED` ¶

  The register op being set by this insn will not be used in a subsequent insn. This differs from a `REG_DEAD` note, which indicates that the value in an input will not be used subsequently. These two notes are independent; both may be present for the same register.

`REG_INC` ¶

  The register op is incremented (or decremented; at this level there is no distinction) by an embedded side effect inside this insn. This means it appears in a `post_inc`, `pre_inc`, `post_dec` or `pre_dec` expression.

`REG_NONNEG` ¶

  The register op is known to have a nonnegative value when this insn is reached. This is used by special looping instructions that terminate when the register goes negative.

  The `REG_NONNEG` note is added only to ‘`doloop_end`’ insns, if its pattern uses a `ge` condition.

`REG_LABEL_OPERAND` ¶

  This insn uses op, a `code_label` or a `note` of type `NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL`, but is not a `jump_insn`, or it is a `jump_insn` that refers to the operand as an ordinary operand. The label may still eventually be a jump target, but if so in an indirect jump in a subsequent insn. The presence of this note allows jump optimization to be aware that op is, in fact, being used, and flow optimization to build an accurate flow graph.

`REG_LABEL_TARGET` ¶

  This insn is a `jump_insn` but not an `addr_vec` or `addr_diff_vec`. It uses op, a `code_label` as a direct or indirect jump target. Its purpose is similar to that of `REG_LABEL_OPERAND`. This note is only present if the insn has multiple targets; the last label in the insn (in the highest numbered insn-field) goes into the `JUMP_LABEL` field and does not have a `REG_LABEL_TARGET` note. See JUMP_LABEL.

`REG_SETJMP` ¶

  Appears attached to each `CALL_INSN` to `setjmp` or a related function.

The following notes describe attributes of outputs of an insn:

`REG_EQUIV` ¶
`REG_EQUAL`

  This note is only valid on an insn that sets only one register and indicates that that register will be equal to op at run time; the scope of this equivalence differs between the two types of notes. The value which the insn explicitly copies into the register may look different from op, but they will be equal at run time. If the output of the single `set` is a `strict_low_part` or `zero_extract` expression, the note refers to the register that is contained in its first operand.

  For `REG_EQUIV`, the register is equivalent to op throughout the entire function, and could validly be replaced in all its occurrences by op. (“Validly” here refers to the data flow of the program; simple replacement may make some insns invalid.) For example, when a constant is loaded into a register that is never assigned any other value, this kind of note is used.

  When a parameter is copied into a pseudo-register at entry to a function, a note of this kind records that the register is equivalent to the stack slot where the parameter was passed. Although in this case the register may be set by other insns, it is still valid to replace the register by the stack slot throughout the function.

  A `REG_EQUIV` note is also used on an instruction which copies a register parameter into a pseudo-register at entry to a function, if there is a stack slot where that parameter could be stored. Although other insns may set the pseudo-register, it is valid for the compiler to replace the pseudo-register by stack slot throughout the function, provided the compiler ensures that the stack slot is properly initialized by making the replacement in the initial copy instruction as well. This is used on machines for which the calling convention allocates stack space for register parameters. See `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` in Passing Function Arguments on the Stack.

  In the case of `REG_EQUAL`, the register that is set by this insn will be equal to op at run time at the end of this insn but not necessarily elsewhere in the function. In this case, op is typically an arithmetic expression. For example, when a sequence of insns such as a library call is used to perform an arithmetic operation, this kind of note is attached to the insn that produces or copies the final value.

  These two notes are used in different ways by the compiler passes. `REG_EQUAL` is used by passes prior to register allocation (such as common subexpression elimination and loop optimization) to tell them how to think of that value. `REG_EQUIV` notes are used by register allocation to indicate that there is an available substitute expression (either a constant or a `mem` expression for the location of a parameter on the stack) that may be used in place of a register if insufficient registers are available.

  Except for stack homes for parameters, which are indicated by a `REG_EQUIV` note and are not useful to the early optimization passes and pseudo registers that are equivalent to a memory location throughout their entire life, which is not detected until later in the compilation, all equivalences are initially indicated by an attached `REG_EQUAL` note. In the early stages of register allocation, a `REG_EQUAL` note is changed into a `REG_EQUIV` note if op is a constant and the insn represents the only set of its destination register.

  Thus, compiler passes prior to register allocation need only check for `REG_EQUAL` notes and passes subsequent to register allocation need only check for `REG_EQUIV` notes.

These notes describe linkages between insns. They occur in pairs: one insn has one of a pair of notes that points to a second insn, which has the inverse note pointing back to the first insn.

`REG_DEP_TRUE` ¶

  This indicates a true dependence (a read after write dependence).

`REG_DEP_OUTPUT` ¶

  This indicates an output dependence (a write after write dependence).

`REG_DEP_ANTI` ¶

  This indicates an anti dependence (a write after read dependence).

These notes describe information gathered from gcov profile data. They are stored in the `REG_NOTES` field of an insn.

`REG_BR_PROB` ¶

  This is used to specify the ratio of branches to non-branches of a branch insn according to the profile data. The note is represented as an `int_list` expression whose integer value is an encoding of `profile_probability` type. `profile_probability` provide member function `from_reg_br_prob_note` and `to_reg_br_prob_note` to extract and store the probability into the RTL encoding.

`REG_BR_PRED` ¶

  These notes are found in JUMP insns after delayed branch scheduling has taken place. They indicate both the direction and the likelihood of the JUMP. The format is a bitmask of ATTR_FLAG_* values.

`REG_FRAME_RELATED_EXPR` ¶

  This is used on an RTX_FRAME_RELATED_P insn wherein the attached expression is used in place of the actual insn pattern. This is done in cases where the pattern is either complex or misleading.

The note `REG_CALL_NOCF_CHECK` is used in conjunction with the `-fcf-protection=branch` option. The note is set if a `nocf_check` attribute is specified for a function type or a pointer to function type. The note is stored in the `REG_NOTES` field of an insn.

`REG_CALL_NOCF_CHECK` ¶

  Users have control through the `nocf_check` attribute to identify which calls to a function should be skipped from control-flow instrumentation when the option `-fcf-protection=branch` is specified. The compiler puts a `REG_CALL_NOCF_CHECK` note on each `CALL_INSN` instruction that has a function type marked with a `nocf_check` attribute.

For convenience, the machine mode in an `insn_list` or `expr_list` is printed using these symbolic codes in debugging dumps.

The only difference between the expression codes `insn_list` and `expr_list` is that the first operand of an `insn_list` is assumed to be an insn and is printed in debugging dumps as the insn’s unique id; the first operand of an `expr_list` is printed in the ordinary way as an expression.

### 14.20 RTL Representation of Function-Call Insns ¶

Insns that call subroutines have the RTL expression code `call_insn`. These insns must satisfy special rules, and their bodies must use a special RTL expression code, `call`.

A `call` expression has two operands, as follows:

    (call (mem:fm addr) nbytes)

Here nbytes is an operand that represents the number of bytes of argument data being passed to the subroutine, fm is a machine mode (which must equal as the definition of the `FUNCTION_MODE` macro in the machine description) and addr represents the address of the subroutine.

For a subroutine that returns no value, the `call` expression as shown above is the entire body of the insn, except that the insn might also contain `use` or `clobber` expressions.

For a subroutine that returns a value whose mode is not `BLKmode`, the value is returned in a hard register. If this register’s number is r, then the body of the call insn looks like this:

    (set (reg:m r)
         (call (mem:fm addr) nbytes))

This RTL expression makes it clear (to the optimizer passes) that the appropriate register receives a useful value in this insn.

When a subroutine returns a `BLKmode` value, it is handled by passing to the subroutine the address of a place to store the value. So the call insn itself does not “return” any value, and it has the same RTL form as a call that returns nothing.

On some machines, the call instruction itself clobbers some register, for example to contain the return address. `call_insn` insns on these machines should have a body which is a `parallel` that contains both the `call` expression and `clobber` expressions that indicate which registers are destroyed. Similarly, if the call instruction requires some register other than the stack pointer that is not explicitly mentioned in its RTL, a `use` subexpression should mention that register.

Functions that are called are assumed to modify all registers listed in the configuration macro `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` (see Basic Characteristics of Registers) and, with the exception of `const` functions and library calls, to modify all of memory.

Insns containing just `use` expressions directly precede the `call_insn` insn to indicate which registers contain inputs to the function. Similarly, if registers other than those in `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` are clobbered by the called function, insns containing a single `clobber` follow immediately after the call to indicate which registers.

### 14.21 On-the-Side SSA Form for RTL ¶

The patterns of an individual RTL instruction describe which registers are inputs to that instruction and which registers are outputs from that instruction. However, it is often useful to know where the definition of a register input comes from and where the result of a register output is used. One way of obtaining this information is to use the RTL SSA form, which provides a Static Single Assignment representation of the RTL instructions.

The RTL SSA code is located in the `rtl-ssa` subdirectory of the GCC source tree. This section only gives a brief overview of it; please see the comments in the source code for more details.

#### 14.21.1 Using RTL SSA in a pass ¶

A pass that wants to use the RTL SSA form should start with the following:

    #define INCLUDE_ALGORITHM
    #define INCLUDE_FUNCTIONAL
    #include "config.h"
    #include "system.h"
    #include "coretypes.h"
    #include "backend.h"
    #include "rtl.h"
    #include "df.h"
    #include "rtl-ssa.h"

All the RTL SSA code is contained in the `rtl_ssa` namespace, so most passes will then want to do:

    using namespace rtl_ssa;

However, this is purely a matter of taste, and the examples in the rest of this section do not require it.

The RTL SSA represention is an optional on-the-side feature that applies on top of the normal RTL instructions. It is currently local to individual RTL passes and is not maintained across passes.

However, in order to allow the RTL SSA information to be preserved across passes in future, ‘`crtl->ssa`’ points to the current function’s SSA form (if any). Passes that want to use the RTL SSA form should first do:

    crtl->ssa = new rtl_ssa::function_info (fn);

where fn is the function that the pass is processing. (Passes that are `using namespace rtl_ssa` do not need the ‘`rtl_ssa::`’.)

Once the pass has finished with the SSA form, it should do the following:

    free_dominance_info (CDI_DOMINATORS);
    if (crtl->ssa->perform_pending_updates ())
      cleanup_cfg (0);

    delete crtl->ssa;
    crtl->ssa = nullptr;

The `free_dominance_info` call is necessary because dominance information is not currently maintained between RTL passes. The next two lines commit any changes to the RTL instructions that were queued for later; see the comment above the declaration of `perform_pending_updates` for details. The final two lines discard the RTL SSA form and free the associated memory.

#### 14.21.2 RTL SSA Instructions ¶

RTL SSA instructions are represented by an `rtl_ssa::insn_info`. These instructions are chained together in a single list that follows a reverse postorder (RPO) traversal of the function. This means that if any path through the function can execute an instruction I1 and then later execute an instruction I2 for the first time, I1 appears before I2 in the list4.

Two RTL SSA instructions can be compared to find which instruction occurs earlier than the other in the RPO. One way to do this is to use the C++ comparison operators, such as:

    *insn1 < *insn2

Another way is to use the `compare_with` function:

    insn1->compare_with (insn2)

This expression is greater than zero if insn1 comes after insn2 in the RPO, less than zero if insn1 comes before insn2 in the RPO, or zero if insn1 and insn2 are the same. This order is maintained even if instructions are added to the function or moved around.

The main purpose of `rtl_ssa::insn_info` is to hold SSA information about an instruction. However, it also caches certain properties of the instruction, such as whether it is an inline assembly instruction, whether it has volatile accesses, and so on.

#### 14.21.3 RTL SSA Basic Blocks ¶

RTL SSA instructions (see RTL SSA Instructions) are organized into basic blocks, with each block being represented by an `rtl_ssa:bb_info`. There is a one-to-one mapping between these `rtl_ssa:bb_info` structures and the underlying CFG `basic_block` structures (see Basic Blocks).

If a CFG basic block bb contains an RTL instruction insn, the RTL SSA represenation of bb also contains an RTL SSA representation of insn 5. Within RTL SSA, these instructions are referred to as “real” instructions. These real instructions fall into two groups: debug instructions and nondebug instructions. Only nondebug instructions should affect code generation decisions.

In addition, each RTL SSA basic block has two “artificial” instructions: a “head” instruction that comes before all the real instructions and an “end” instruction that comes after all real instructions. These instructions exist to represent things that are conceptually defined or used at the start and end of a basic block. The instructions always exist, even if they do not currently do anything.

Like instructions, these blocks are chained together in a reverse postorder. This list includes the entry block (which always comes first) and the exit block (which always comes last).

RTL SSA basic blocks are chained together into “extended basic blocks” (EBBs), represented by an `rtl_ssa::ebb_info`. Extended basic blocks contain one or more basic blocks. They have the property that if a block bby comes immediately after a block bbx in an EBB, then bby can only be reached by bbx; in other words, bbx is the sole predecessor of bby.

Each extended basic block starts with an artificial “phi node” instruction. This instruction defines all phi nodes for the EBB (see RTL SSA Phi Nodes). (Individual blocks in an EBB do not need phi nodes because their live values can only come from one source.)

The contents of a function are therefore represented using a four-level hierarchy:

- functions (`rtl_ssa::function_info`), which contain …
- extended basic blocks (`rtl_ssa::ebb_info`), which contain …
- basic blocks (`rtl_ssa::bb_info`), which contain …
- instructions (`rtl_ssa::insn_info`)

In dumps, a basic block is identified as `bbn`, where n is the index of the associated CFG `basic_block` structure. An EBB is in turn identified by the index of its first block. For example, an EBB that contains ‘`bb10`’, `bb5`, `bb6` and `bb9` is identified as ebb10.

#### 14.21.4 RTL SSA Resources ¶

The RTL SSA form tracks two types of “resource”: registers and memory. Each hard and pseudo register is a separate resource. Memory is a single unified resource, like it is in GIMPLE (see GIMPLE).

Each resource has a unique identifier. The unique identifier for a register is simply its register number. The unique identifier for memory is a special register number called `MEM_REGNO`.

Since resource numbers so closely match register numbers, it is sometimes convenient to refer to them simply as register numbers, or “regnos” for short. However, the RTL SSA form also provides an abstraction of resources in the form of `rtl_ssa::resource_info`. This is a lightweight class that records both the regno of a resource and the `machine_mode` that the resource has (see Machine Modes). It has functions for testing whether a resource is a register or memory. In principle it could be extended to other kinds of resource in future.

#### 14.21.5 RTL SSA Register and Memory Accesses ¶

In the RTL SSA form, most reads or writes of a resource are represented as a `rtl_ssa::access_info` 6. These `rtl_ssa::access_info`s are organized into the following class hierarchy:

    rtl_ssa::access_info
      |
      +-- rtl_ssa::use_info
      |
      +-- rtl_ssa::def_info
            |
            +-- rtl_ssa::clobber_info
            |
            +-- rtl_ssa::set_info
                  |
                  +-- rtl_ssa::phi_info

A `rtl_ssa::use_info` represents a read or use of a resource and a `rtl_ssa::def_info` represents a write or definition of a resource. As in the main RTL representation, there are two basic types of definition: clobbers and sets. The difference is that a clobber leaves the register with an unspecified value that cannot be used or relied on by later instructions, while a set leaves the register with a known value that later instructions could use if they wanted to. A `rtl_ssa::clobber_info` represents a clobber and a `rtl_ssa::set_info` represent a set.

Each `rtl_ssa::use_info` records which single `rtl_ssa::set_info` provides the value of the resource; this is null if the resource is completely undefined at the point of use. Each `rtl_ssa::set_info` in turn records all the `rtl_ssa::use_info`s that use its value.

If a value of a resource can come from multiple sources, a `rtl_ssa::phi_info` brings those multiple sources together into a single definition (see RTL SSA Phi Nodes).

#### 14.21.6 RTL SSA Phi Nodes ¶

If a resource is live on entry to an extended basic block and if the resource’s value can come from multiple sources, the extended basic block has a “phi node” that collects together these multiple sources. The phi node conceptually has one input for each incoming edge of the extended basic block, with the input specifying the value of the resource on that edge. For example, suppose a function contains the following RTL:

    ;; Basic block bb3
    ...
    (set (reg:SI R1) (const_int 0))  ;; A
    (set (pc) (label_ref bb5))

    ;; Basic block bb4
    ...
    (set (reg:SI R1) (const_int 1))  ;; B
    ;; Fall through

    ;; Basic block bb5
    ;; preds: bb3, bb4
    ;; live in: R1 ...
    (code_label bb5)
    ...
    (set (reg:SI R2)
         (plus:SI (reg:SI R1) ...))  ;; C

The value of R1 on entry to block 5 can come from either A or B. The extended basic block that contains block 5 would therefore have a phi node with two inputs: the first input would have the value of R1 defined by A and the second input would have the value of R1 defined by B. This phi node would then provide the value of R1 for C (assuming that R1 does not change again between the start of block 5 and C).

Since RTL is not a “native” SSA representation, these phi nodes simply collect together definitions that already exist. Each input to a phi node for a resource R is itself a definition of resource R (or is null if the resource is completely undefined for a particular incoming edge). This is in contrast to a native SSA representation like GIMPLE, where the phi inputs can be arbitrary expressions. As a result, RTL SSA phi nodes never involve “hidden” moves: all moves are instead explicit.

Phi nodes are represented as a `rtl_ssa::phi_node`. Each input to a phi node is represented as an `rtl_ssa::use_info`.

#### 14.21.7 RTL SSA Access Lists ¶

All the definitions of a resource are chained together in reverse postorder. In general, this list can contain an arbitrary mix of both sets (`rtl_ssa::set_info`) and clobbers (`rtl_ssa::clobber_info`). However, it is often useful to skip over all intervening clobbers of a resource in order to find the next set. The list is constructed in such a way that this can be done in amortized constant time.

All uses (`rtl_ssa::use_info`) of a given set are also chained together into a list. This list of uses is divided into three parts:

1. uses by “real” nondebug instructions (see real RTL SSA insns)
2. uses by real debug instructions
3. uses by phi nodes (see RTL SSA Phi Nodes)

The first and second parts individually follow reverse postorder. The third part has no particular order.

The last use by a real nondebug instruction always comes earlier in the reverse postorder than the next definition of the resource (if any). This means that the accesses follow a linear sequence of the form:

- first definition of resource R
  - first use by a real nondebug instruction of the first definition of resource R
  - …
  - last use by a real nondebug instruction of the first definition of resource R
- second definition of resource R
  - first use by a real nondebug instruction of the second definition of resource R
  - …
  - last use by a real nondebug instruction of the second definition of resource R
- …
- last definition of resource R
  - first use by a real nondebug instruction of the last definition of resource R
  - …
  - last use by a real nondebug instruction of the last definition of resource R

(Note that clobbers never have uses; only sets do.)

This linear view is easy to achieve when there is only a single definition of a resource, which is commonly true for pseudo registers. However, things are more complex if code has a structure like the following:

    // ebb2, bb2
    R = va;        // A
    if (...)
      {
        // ebb2, bb3
        use1 (R);  // B
        ...
        R = vc;    // C
      }
    else
      {
        // ebb4, bb4
        use2 (R);  // D
      }

The list of accesses would begin as follows:

- definition of R by A
  - use of A’s definition of R by B
- definition of R by C

The next access to R is in D, but the value of R that D uses comes from A rather than C.

This is resolved by adding a phi node for `ebb4`. All inputs to this phi node have the same value, which in the example above is A’s definition of R. In other circumstances, it would not be necessary to create a phi node when all inputs are equal, so these phi nodes are referred to as “degenerate” phi nodes.

The full list of accesses to R is therefore:

- definition of R by A
  - use of A’s definition of R by B
- definition of R by C
- definition of R by ebb4’s phi instruction, with the input coming from A
  - use of the ebb4’s R phi definition of R by B

Note that A’s definition is also used by ebb4’s phi node, but this use belongs to the third part of the use list described above and so does not form part of the linear sequence.

It is possible to “look through” any degenerate phi to the ultimate definition using the function `look_through_degenerate_phi`. Note that the input to a degenerate phi is never itself provided by a degenerate phi.

At present, the SSA form takes this principle one step further and guarantees that, for any given resource res, one of the following is true:

- The resource has a single definition def, which is not a phi node. Excluding uses of undefined registers, all uses of res by real nondebug instructions use the value provided by def.
- Excluding uses of undefined registers, all uses of res use values provided by definitions that occur earlier in the same extended basic block. These definitions might come from phi nodes or from real instructions.

#### 14.21.8 Using the RTL SSA framework to change instructions ¶

There are various routines that help to change a single RTL instruction or a group of RTL instructions while keeping the RTL SSA form up-to-date. This section first describes the process for changing a single instruction, then goes on to describe the differences when changing multiple instructions.

#### 14.21.8.1 Changing One RTL SSA Instruction ¶

Before making a change, passes should first use a statement like the following:

    auto attempt = crtl->ssa->new_change_attempt ();

Here, `attempt` is an RAII object that should remain in scope for the entire change attempt. It automatically frees temporary memory related to the changes when it goes out of scope.

Next, the pass should create an `rtl_ssa::insn_change` object for the instruction that it wants to change. This object specifies several things:

- what the instruction’s new list of uses should be (`new_uses`). By default this is the same as the instruction’s current list of uses.
- what the instruction’s new list of definitions should be (`new_defs`). By default this is the same as the instruction’s current list of definitions.
- where the instruction should be located (`move_range`). This is a range of instructions after which the instruction could be placed, represented as an `rtl_ssa::insn_range`. By default the instruction must remain at its current position.

If a pass was attempting to change all these properties of an instruction `insn`, it might do something like this:

    rtl_ssa::insn_change change (insn);
    change.new_defs = ...;
    change.new_uses = ...;
    change.move_range = ...;

This `rtl_ssa::insn_change` only describes something that the pass might do; at this stage, nothing has actually changed.

As noted above, the default `move_range` requires the instruction to remain where it is. At the other extreme, it is possible to allow the instruction to move anywhere within its extended basic block, provided that all the new uses and definitions can be performed at the new location. The way to do this is:

    change.move_range = insn->ebb ()->insn_range ();

In either case, the next step is to make sure that move range is consistent with the new uses and definitions. The way to do this is:

    if (!rtl_ssa::restrict_movement (change))
      return false;

This function tries to limit `move_range` to a range of instructions at which `new_uses` and `new_defs` can be correctly performed. It returns true on success or false if no suitable location exists.

The pass should also tentatively change the pattern of the instruction to whatever form the pass wants the instruction to have. This should use the facilities provided by `recog.cc`. For example:

    rtl_insn *rtl = insn->rtl ();
    insn_change_watermark watermark;
    validate_change (rtl, &PATTERN (rtl), new_pat, 1);

will tentatively replace `insn`’s pattern with `new_pat`.

These changes and the construction of the `rtl_ssa::insn_change` can happen in either order or be interleaved.

After the tentative changes to the instruction are complete, the pass should check whether the new pattern matches a target instruction or satisfies the requirements of an inline asm:

    if (!rtl_ssa::recog (attempt, change))
      return false;

This step might change the instruction pattern further in order to make it match. It might also add new definitions or restrict the range of the move. For example, if the new pattern did not match in its original form, but could be made to match by adding a clobber of the flags register, `rtl_ssa::recog` will check whether the flags register is free at an appropriate point. If so, it will add a clobber of the flags register to `new_defs` and restrict `move_range` to the locations at which the flags register can be safely clobbered.

Even if the proposed new instruction is valid according to `rtl_ssa::recog`, the change might not be worthwhile. For example, when optimizing for speed, the new instruction might turn out to be slower than the original one. When optimizing for size, the new instruction might turn out to be bigger than the original one.

Passes should check for this case using `change_is_worthwhile`. For example:

    if (!rtl_ssa::change_is_worthwhile (change))
      return false;

If the change passes this test too then the pass can perform the change using:

    confirm_change_group ();
    crtl->ssa->change_insn (change);

Putting all this together, the change has the following form:

    auto attempt = crtl->ssa->new_change_attempt ();

    rtl_ssa::insn_change change (insn);
    change.new_defs = ...;
    change.new_uses = ...;
    change.move_range = ...;

    if (!rtl_ssa::restrict_movement (change))
      return false;

    insn_change_watermark watermark;
    // Use validate_change etc. to change INSN's pattern.
    ...
    if (!rtl_ssa::recog (attempt, change)
        || !rtl_ssa::change_is_worthwhile (change))
      return false;

    confirm_change_group ();
    crtl->ssa->change_insn (change);

#### 14.21.8.2 Changing Multiple RTL SSA Instructions ¶

The process for changing multiple instructions is similar to the process for changing single instructions (see Changing One RTL SSA Instruction). The pass should again start the change attempt with:

    auto attempt = crtl->ssa->new_change_attempt ();

and keep `attempt` in scope for the duration of the change attempt. It should then construct an `rtl_ssa::insn_change` for each change that it wants to make.

After this, it should combine the changes into a sequence of `rtl_ssa::insn_change` pointers. This sequence must be in reverse postorder; the instructions will remain strictly in the order that the sequence specifies.

For example, if a pass is changing exactly two instructions, it might do:

    rtl_ssa::insn_change *changes[] = { &change1, &change2 };

where `change1`’s instruction must come before `change2`’s. Alternatively, if the pass is changing a variable number of instructions, it might build up the sequence in a `vec<rtl_ssa::insn_change *>`.

By default, `rtl_ssa::restrict_movement` assumes that all instructions other than the one passed to it will remain in their current positions and will retain their current uses and definitions. When changing multiple instructions, it is usually more effective to ignore the other instructions that are changing. The sequencing described above ensures that the changing instructions remain in the correct order with respect to each other. The way to do this is:

    if (!rtl_ssa::restrict_movement_ignoring (change, insn_is_changing (changes)))
      return false;

Similarly, when `rtl_ssa::restrict_movement` is detecting whether a register can be clobbered, it by default assumes that all other instructions will remain in their current positions and retain their current form. It is again more effective to ignore changing instructions (which might, for example, no longer need to clobber the flags register). The way to do this is:

    if (!rtl_ssa::recog_ignoring (attempt, change, insn_is_changing (changes)))
      return false;

When changing multiple instructions, the important question is usually not whether each individual change is worthwhile, but whether the changes as a whole are worthwhile. The way to test this is:

    if (!rtl_ssa::changes_are_worthwhile (changes))
      return false;

The process for changing single instructions makes sure that one `rtl_ssa::insn_change` in isolation is valid. But when changing multiple instructions, it is also necessary to test whether the sequence as a whole is valid. For example, it might be impossible to satisfy all of the `move_range`s at once.

Therefore, once the pass has a sequence of changes that are individually correct, it should use:

    if (!crtl->ssa->verify_insn_changes (changes))
      return false;

to check whether the sequence as a whole is valid. If all checks pass, the final step is:

    confirm_change_group ();
    crtl->ssa->change_insns (changes);

Putting all this together, the process for a two-instruction change is:

    auto attempt = crtl->ssa->new_change_attempt ();

    rtl_ssa::insn_change change1 (insn1);
    change1.new_defs = ...;
    change1.new_uses = ...;
    change1.move_range = ...;

    rtl_ssa::insn_change change2 (insn2);
    change2.new_defs = ...;
    change2.new_uses = ...;
    change2.move_range = ...;

    rtl_ssa::insn_change *changes[] = { &change1, &change2 };

    auto is_changing = insn_is_changing (changes);
    if (!rtl_ssa::restrict_movement_ignoring (change1, is_changing)
        || !rtl_ssa::restrict_movement_ignoring (change2, is_changing))
      return false;

    insn_change_watermark watermark;
    // Use validate_change etc. to change INSN1's and INSN2's patterns.
    ...
    if (!rtl_ssa::recog_ignoring (attempt, change1, is_changing)
        || !rtl_ssa::recog_ignoring (attempt, change2, is_changing)
        || !rtl_ssa::changes_are_worthwhile (changes)
        || !crtl->ssa->verify_insn_changes (changes))
      return false;

    confirm_change_group ();
    crtl->ssa->change_insns (changes);

### 14.22 Structure Sharing Assumptions ¶

The compiler assumes that certain kinds of RTL expressions are unique; there do not exist two distinct objects representing the same value. In other cases, it makes an opposite assumption: that no RTL expression object of a certain kind appears in more than one place in the containing structure.

These assumptions refer to a single function; except for the RTL objects that describe global variables and external functions, and a few standard objects such as small integer constants, no RTL objects are common to two functions.

- Each pseudo-register has only a single `reg` object to represent it, and therefore only a single machine mode.
- For any symbolic label, there is only one `symbol_ref` object referring to it.
- All `const_int` expressions with equal values are shared.
- All `const_poly_int` expressions with equal modes and values are shared.
- There is only one `pc` expression.
- There is only one `const_double` expression with value 0 for each floating point mode. Likewise for values 1 and 2.
- There is only one `const_vector` expression with value 0 for each vector mode, be it an integer or a double constant vector.
- No `label_ref` or `scratch` appears in more than one place in the RTL structure; in other words, it is safe to do a tree-walk of all the insns in the function and assume that each time a `label_ref` or `scratch` is seen it is distinct from all others that are seen.
- Only one `mem` object is normally created for each static variable or stack slot, so these objects are frequently shared in all the places they appear. However, separate but equal objects for these variables are occasionally made.
- When a single `asm` statement has multiple output operands, a distinct `asm_operands` expression is made for each output operand. However, these all share the vector which contains the sequence of input operands. This sharing is used later on to test whether two `asm_operands` expressions come from the same statement, so all optimizations must carefully preserve the sharing if they copy the vector at all.
- No RTL object appears in more than one place in the RTL structure except as described above. Many passes of the compiler rely on this by assuming that they can modify RTL objects in place without unwanted side-effects on other insns.
- During initial RTL generation, shared structure is freely introduced. After all the RTL for a function has been generated, all shared structure is copied by `unshare_all_rtl` in `emit-rtl.cc`, after which the above rules are guaranteed to be followed.
- During the combiner pass, shared structure within an insn can exist temporarily. However, the shared structure is copied before the combiner is finished with the insn. This is done by calling `copy_rtx_if_shared`, which is a subroutine of `unshare_all_rtl`.

### 14.23 Reading RTL ¶

To read an RTL object from a file, call `read_rtx`. It takes one argument, a stdio stream, and returns a single RTL object. This routine is defined in `read-rtl.cc`. It is not available in the compiler itself, only the various programs that generate the compiler back end from the machine description.

People frequently have the idea of using RTL stored as text in a file as an interface between a language front end and the bulk of GCC. This idea is not feasible.

GCC was designed to use RTL internally only. Correct RTL for a given program is very dependent on the particular target machine. And the RTL does not contain all the information about the program.

The proper way to interface GCC to a new language front end is with the “tree” data structure, described in the files `tree.h` and `tree.def`. The documentation for this structure (see GENERIC) is incomplete.

## 15 Control Flow Graph ¶

A control flow graph (CFG) is a data structure built on top of the intermediate code representation (the RTL or `GIMPLE` instruction stream) abstracting the control flow behavior of a function that is being compiled. The CFG is a directed graph where the vertices represent basic blocks and edges represent possible transfer of control flow from one basic block to another. The data structures used to represent the control flow graph are defined in `basic-block.h`.

In GCC, the representation of control flow is maintained throughout the compilation process, from constructing the CFG early in `pass_build_cfg` to `pass_free_cfg` (see `passes.def`). The CFG takes various different modes and may undergo extensive manipulations, but the graph is always valid between its construction and its release. This way, transfer of information such as data flow, a measured profile, or the loop tree, can be propagated through the passes pipeline, and even from `GIMPLE` to `RTL`.

Often the CFG may be better viewed as integral part of instruction chain, than structure built on the top of it. Updating the compiler’s intermediate representation for instructions cannot be easily done without proper maintenance of the CFG simultaneously.

### 15.1 Basic Blocks ¶

A basic block is a straight-line sequence of code with only one entry point and only one exit. In GCC, basic blocks are represented using the `basic_block` data type.

Special basic blocks represent possible entry and exit points of a function. These blocks are called `ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR` and `EXIT_BLOCK_PTR`. These blocks do not contain any code.

The `BASIC_BLOCK` array contains all basic blocks in an unspecified order. Each `basic_block` structure has a field that holds a unique integer identifier `index` that is the index of the block in the `BASIC_BLOCK` array. The total number of basic blocks in the function is `n_basic_blocks`. Both the basic block indices and the total number of basic blocks may vary during the compilation process, as passes reorder, create, duplicate, and destroy basic blocks. The index for any block should never be greater than `last_basic_block`. The indices 0 and 1 are special codes reserved for `ENTRY_BLOCK` and `EXIT_BLOCK`, the indices of `ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR` and `EXIT_BLOCK_PTR`.

Two pointer members of the `basic_block` structure are the pointers `next_bb` and `prev_bb`. These are used to keep doubly linked chain of basic blocks in the same order as the underlying instruction stream. The chain of basic blocks is updated transparently by the provided API for manipulating the CFG. The macro `FOR_EACH_BB` can be used to visit all the basic blocks in lexicographical order, except `ENTRY_BLOCK` and `EXIT_BLOCK`. The macro `FOR_ALL_BB` also visits all basic blocks in lexicographical order, including `ENTRY_BLOCK` and `EXIT_BLOCK`.

The functions `post_order_compute` and `inverted_post_order_compute` can be used to compute topological orders of the CFG. The orders are stored as vectors of basic block indices. The `BASIC_BLOCK` array can be used to iterate each basic block by index. Dominator traversals are also possible using `walk_dominator_tree`. Given two basic blocks A and B, block A dominates block B if A is always executed before B.

Each `basic_block` also contains pointers to the first instruction (the head) and the last instruction (the tail) or end of the instruction stream contained in a basic block. In fact, since the `basic_block` data type is used to represent blocks in both major intermediate representations of GCC (`GIMPLE` and RTL), there are pointers to the head and end of a basic block for both representations, stored in intermediate representation specific data in the `il` field of `struct basic_block_def`.

For RTL, these pointers are `BB_HEAD` and `BB_END`.

In the RTL representation of a function, the instruction stream contains not only the “real” instructions, but also notes or insn notes (to distinguish them from reg notes). Any function that moves or duplicates the basic blocks needs to take care of updating of these notes. Many of these notes expect that the instruction stream consists of linear regions, so updating can sometimes be tedious. All types of insn notes are defined in `insn-notes.def`.

In the RTL function representation, the instructions contained in a basic block always follow a `NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK`, but zero or more `CODE_LABEL` nodes can precede the block note. A basic block ends with a control flow instruction or with the last instruction before the next `CODE_LABEL` or `NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK`. By definition, a `CODE_LABEL` cannot appear in the middle of the instruction stream of a basic block.

In addition to notes, the jump table vectors are also represented as “pseudo-instructions” inside the insn stream. These vectors never appear in the basic block and should always be placed just after the table jump instructions referencing them. After removing the table-jump it is often difficult to eliminate the code computing the address and referencing the vector, so cleaning up these vectors is postponed until after liveness analysis. Thus the jump table vectors may appear in the insn stream unreferenced and without any purpose. Before any edge is made fall-thru, the existence of such construct in the way needs to be checked by calling `can_fallthru` function.

For the `GIMPLE` representation, the PHI nodes and statements contained in a basic block are in a `gimple_seq` pointed to by the basic block intermediate language specific pointers. Abstract containers and iterators are used to access the PHI nodes and statements in a basic blocks. These iterators are called GIMPLE statement iterators (GSIs). Grep for `^gsi` in the various `gimple-*` and `tree-*` files. There is a `gimple_stmt_iterator` type for iterating over all kinds of statement, and a `gphi_iterator` subclass for iterating over PHI nodes. The following snippet will pretty-print all PHI nodes the statements of the current function in the GIMPLE representation.

    basic_block bb;

    FOR_EACH_BB (bb)
      {
       gphi_iterator pi;
       gimple_stmt_iterator si;

       for (pi = gsi_start_phis (bb); !gsi_end_p (pi); gsi_next (&pi))
         {
           gphi *phi = pi.phi ();
           print_gimple_stmt (dump_file, phi, 0, TDF_SLIM);
         }
       for (si = gsi_start_bb (bb); !gsi_end_p (si); gsi_next (&si))
         {
           gimple stmt = gsi_stmt (si);
           print_gimple_stmt (dump_file, stmt, 0, TDF_SLIM);
         }
      }

### 15.2 Edges ¶

Edges represent possible control flow transfers from the end of some basic block A to the head of another basic block B. We say that A is a predecessor of B, and B is a successor of A. Edges are represented in GCC with the `edge` data type. Each `edge` acts as a link between two basic blocks: The `src` member of an edge points to the predecessor basic block of the `dest` basic block. The members `preds` and `succs` of the `basic_block` data type point to type-safe vectors of edges to the predecessors and successors of the block.

When walking the edges in an edge vector, edge iterators should be used. Edge iterators are constructed using the `edge_iterator` data structure and several methods are available to operate on them:

`ei_start` ¶

  This function initializes an `edge_iterator` that points to the first edge in a vector of edges.

`ei_last` ¶

  This function initializes an `edge_iterator` that points to the last edge in a vector of edges.

`ei_end_p` ¶

  This predicate is `true` if an `edge_iterator` represents the last edge in an edge vector.

`ei_one_before_end_p` ¶

  This predicate is `true` if an `edge_iterator` represents the second last edge in an edge vector.

`ei_next` ¶

  This function takes a pointer to an `edge_iterator` and makes it point to the next edge in the sequence.

`ei_prev` ¶

  This function takes a pointer to an `edge_iterator` and makes it point to the previous edge in the sequence.

`ei_edge` ¶

  This function returns the `edge` currently pointed to by an `edge_iterator`.

`ei_safe_edge` ¶

  This function returns the `edge` currently pointed to by an `edge_iterator`, but returns `NULL` if the iterator is pointing at the end of the sequence. This function has been provided for existing code makes the assumption that a `NULL` edge indicates the end of the sequence.

The convenience macro `FOR_EACH_EDGE` can be used to visit all of the edges in a sequence of predecessor or successor edges. It must not be used when an element might be removed during the traversal, otherwise elements will be missed. Here is an example of how to use the macro:

    edge e;
    edge_iterator ei;

    FOR_EACH_EDGE (e, ei, bb->succs)
      {
         if (e->flags & EDGE_FALLTHRU)
           break;
      }

There are various reasons why control flow may transfer from one block to another. One possibility is that some instruction, for example a `CODE_LABEL`, in a linearized instruction stream just always starts a new basic block. In this case a fall-thru edge links the basic block to the first following basic block. But there are several other reasons why edges may be created. The `flags` field of the `edge` data type is used to store information about the type of edge we are dealing with. Each edge is of one of the following types:

jump

  No type flags are set for edges corresponding to jump instructions. These edges are used for unconditional or conditional jumps and in RTL also for table jumps. They are the easiest to manipulate as they may be freely redirected when the flow graph is not in SSA form.

fall-thru ¶

  Fall-thru edges are present in case where the basic block may continue execution to the following one without branching. These edges have the `EDGE_FALLTHRU` flag set. Unlike other types of edges, these edges must come into the basic block immediately following in the instruction stream. The function `force_nonfallthru` is available to insert an unconditional jump in the case that redirection is needed. Note that this may require creation of a new basic block.

exception handling ¶

  Exception handling edges represent possible control transfers from a trapping instruction to an exception handler. The definition of “trapping” varies. In C++, only function calls can throw, but for Ada exceptions like division by zero or segmentation fault are defined and thus each instruction possibly throwing this kind of exception needs to be handled as control flow instruction. Exception edges have the `EDGE_ABNORMAL` and `EDGE_EH` flags set.

  When updating the instruction stream it is easy to change possibly trapping instruction to non-trapping, by simply removing the exception edge. The opposite conversion is difficult, but should not happen anyway. The edges can be eliminated via `purge_dead_edges` call.

  In the RTL representation, the destination of an exception edge is specified by `REG_EH_REGION` note attached to the insn. In case of a trapping call the `EDGE_ABNORMAL_CALL` flag is set too. In the `GIMPLE` representation, this extra flag is not set.

  In the RTL representation, the predicate `may_trap_p` may be used to check whether instruction still may trap or not. For the tree representation, the `tree_could_trap_p` predicate is available, but this predicate only checks for possible memory traps, as in dereferencing an invalid pointer location.

sibling calls ¶

  Sibling calls or tail calls terminate the function in a non-standard way and thus an edge to the exit must be present. `EDGE_SIBCALL` and `EDGE_ABNORMAL` are set in such case. These edges only exist in the RTL representation.

computed jumps ¶

  Computed jumps contain edges to all labels in the function referenced from the code. All those edges have `EDGE_ABNORMAL` flag set. The edges used to represent computed jumps often cause compile time performance problems, since functions consisting of many taken labels and many computed jumps may have very dense flow graphs, so these edges need to be handled with special care. During the earlier stages of the compilation process, GCC tries to avoid such dense flow graphs by factoring computed jumps. For example, given the following series of jumps,

        goto *x;
        [ ... ]

        goto *x;
        [ ... ]

        goto *x;
        [ ... ]

  factoring the computed jumps results in the following code sequence which has a much simpler flow graph:

        goto y;
        [ ... ]

        goto y;
        [ ... ]

        goto y;
        [ ... ]

      y:
        goto *x;

  However, the classic problem with this transformation is that it has a runtime cost in there resulting code: An extra jump. Therefore, the computed jumps are un-factored in the later passes of the compiler (in the pass called `pass_duplicate_computed_gotos`). Be aware of that when you work on passes in that area. There have been numerous examples already where the compile time for code with unfactored computed jumps caused some serious headaches.

nonlocal goto handlers ¶

  GCC allows nested functions to return into caller using a `goto` to a label passed to as an argument to the callee. The labels passed to nested functions contain special code to cleanup after function call. Such sections of code are referred to as “nonlocal goto receivers”. If a function contains such nonlocal goto receivers, an edge from the call to the label is created with the `EDGE_ABNORMAL` and `EDGE_ABNORMAL_CALL` flags set.

function entry points ¶

  By definition, execution of function starts at basic block 0, so there is always an edge from the `ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR` to basic block 0. There is no `GIMPLE` representation for alternate entry points at this moment. In RTL, alternate entry points are specified by `CODE_LABEL` with `LABEL_ALTERNATE_NAME` defined. This feature is currently used for multiple entry point prologues and is limited to post-reload passes only. This can be used by back-ends to emit alternate prologues for functions called from different contexts. In future full support for multiple entry functions defined by Fortran 90 needs to be implemented.

function exits

  In the pre-reload representation a function terminates after the last instruction in the insn chain and no explicit return instructions are used. This corresponds to the fall-thru edge into exit block. After reload, optimal RTL epilogues are used that use explicit (conditional) return instructions that are represented by edges with no flags set.

### 15.3 Profile information ¶

In many cases a compiler must make a choice whether to trade speed in one part of code for speed in another, or to trade code size for code speed. In such cases it is useful to know information about how often some given block will be executed. That is the purpose for maintaining profile within the flow graph. GCC can handle profile information obtained through profile feedback, but it can also estimate branch probabilities based on statics and heuristics.

The feedback based profile is produced by compiling the program with instrumentation, executing it on a train run and reading the numbers of executions of basic blocks and edges back to the compiler while re-compiling the program to produce the final executable. This method provides very accurate information about where a program spends most of its time on the train run. Whether it matches the average run of course depends on the choice of train data set, but several studies have shown that the behavior of a program usually changes just marginally over different data sets.

When profile feedback is not available, the compiler may be asked to attempt to predict the behavior of each branch in the program using a set of heuristics (see `predict.def` for details) and compute estimated frequencies of each basic block by propagating the probabilities over the graph.

Each `basic_block` contains two integer fields to represent profile information: `frequency` and `count`. The `frequency` is an estimation how often is basic block executed within a function. It is represented as an integer scaled in the range from 0 to `BB_FREQ_BASE`. The most frequently executed basic block in function is initially set to `BB_FREQ_BASE` and the rest of frequencies are scaled accordingly. During optimization, the frequency of the most frequent basic block can both decrease (for instance by loop unrolling) or grow (for instance by cross-jumping optimization), so scaling sometimes has to be performed multiple times.

The `count` contains hard-counted numbers of execution measured during training runs and is nonzero only when profile feedback is available. This value is represented as the host’s widest integer (typically a 64 bit integer) of the special type `gcov_type`.

Most optimization passes can use only the frequency information of a basic block, but a few passes may want to know hard execution counts. The frequencies should always match the counts after scaling, however during updating of the profile information numerical error may accumulate into quite large errors.

Each edge also contains a branch probability field: an integer in the range from 0 to `REG_BR_PROB_BASE`. It represents probability of passing control from the end of the `src` basic block to the `dest` basic block, i.e. the probability that control will flow along this edge. The `EDGE_FREQUENCY` macro is available to compute how frequently a given edge is taken. There is a `count` field for each edge as well, representing same information as for a basic block.

The basic block frequencies are not represented in the instruction stream, but in the RTL representation the edge frequencies are represented for conditional jumps (via the `REG_BR_PROB` macro) since they are used when instructions are output to the assembly file and the flow graph is no longer maintained.

The probability that control flow arrives via a given edge to its destination basic block is called reverse probability and is not directly represented, but it may be easily computed from frequencies of basic blocks.

Updating profile information is a delicate task that can unfortunately not be easily integrated with the CFG manipulation API. Many of the functions and hooks to modify the CFG, such as `redirect_edge_and_branch`, do not have enough information to easily update the profile, so updating it is in the majority of cases left up to the caller. It is difficult to uncover bugs in the profile updating code, because they manifest themselves only by producing worse code, and checking profile consistency is not possible because of numeric error accumulation. Hence special attention needs to be given to this issue in each pass that modifies the CFG.

It is important to point out that `REG_BR_PROB_BASE` and `BB_FREQ_BASE` are both set low enough to be possible to compute second power of any frequency or probability in the flow graph, it is not possible to even square the `count` field, as modern CPUs are fast enough to execute $2^32$ operations quickly.

### 15.4 Maintaining the CFG ¶

An important task of each compiler pass is to keep both the control flow graph and all profile information up-to-date. Reconstruction of the control flow graph after each pass is not an option, since it may be very expensive and lost profile information cannot be reconstructed at all.

GCC has two major intermediate representations, and both use the `basic_block` and `edge` data types to represent control flow. Both representations share as much of the CFG maintenance code as possible. For each representation, a set of hooks is defined so that each representation can provide its own implementation of CFG manipulation routines when necessary. These hooks are defined in `cfghooks.h`. There are hooks for almost all common CFG manipulations, including block splitting and merging, edge redirection and creating and deleting basic blocks. These hooks should provide everything you need to maintain and manipulate the CFG in both the RTL and `GIMPLE` representation.

At the moment, the basic block boundaries are maintained transparently when modifying instructions, so there rarely is a need to move them manually (such as in case someone wants to output instruction outside basic block explicitly).

In the RTL representation, each instruction has a `BLOCK_FOR_INSN` value that represents pointer to the basic block that contains the instruction. In the `GIMPLE` representation, the function `gimple_bb` returns a pointer to the basic block containing the queried statement.

When changes need to be applied to a function in its `GIMPLE` representation, GIMPLE statement iterators should be used. These iterators provide an integrated abstraction of the flow graph and the instruction stream. Block statement iterators are constructed using the `gimple_stmt_iterator` data structure and several modifiers are available, including the following:

`gsi_start` ¶

  This function initializes a `gimple_stmt_iterator` that points to the first non-empty statement in a basic block.

`gsi_last` ¶

  This function initializes a `gimple_stmt_iterator` that points to the last statement in a basic block.

`gsi_end_p` ¶

  This predicate is `true` if a `gimple_stmt_iterator` represents the end of a basic block.

`gsi_next` ¶

  This function takes a `gimple_stmt_iterator` and makes it point to its successor.

`gsi_prev` ¶

  This function takes a `gimple_stmt_iterator` and makes it point to its predecessor.

`gsi_insert_after` ¶

  This function inserts a statement after the `gimple_stmt_iterator` passed in. The final parameter determines whether the statement iterator is updated to point to the newly inserted statement, or left pointing to the original statement.

`gsi_insert_before` ¶

  This function inserts a statement before the `gimple_stmt_iterator` passed in. The final parameter determines whether the statement iterator is updated to point to the newly inserted statement, or left pointing to the original statement.

`gsi_remove` ¶

  This function removes the `gimple_stmt_iterator` passed in and rechains the remaining statements in a basic block, if any.

In the RTL representation, the macros `BB_HEAD` and `BB_END` may be used to get the head and end `rtx` of a basic block. No abstract iterators are defined for traversing the insn chain, but you can just use `NEXT_INSN` and `PREV_INSN` instead. See Insns.

Usually a code manipulating pass simplifies the instruction stream and the flow of control, possibly eliminating some edges. This may for example happen when a conditional jump is replaced with an unconditional jump. Updating of edges is not transparent and each optimization pass is required to do so manually. However only few cases occur in practice. The pass may call `purge_dead_edges` on a given basic block to remove superfluous edges, if any.

Another common scenario is redirection of branch instructions, but this is best modeled as redirection of edges in the control flow graph and thus use of `redirect_edge_and_branch` is preferred over more low level functions, such as `redirect_jump` that operate on RTL chain only. The CFG hooks defined in `cfghooks.h` should provide the complete API required for manipulating and maintaining the CFG.

It is also possible that a pass has to insert control flow instruction into the middle of a basic block, thus creating an entry point in the middle of the basic block, which is impossible by definition: The block must be split to make sure it only has one entry point, i.e. the head of the basic block. The CFG hook `split_block` may be used when an instruction in the middle of a basic block has to become the target of a jump or branch instruction.

For a global optimizer, a common operation is to split edges in the flow graph and insert instructions on them. In the RTL representation, this can be easily done using the `insert_insn_on_edge` function that emits an instruction “on the edge”, caching it for a later `commit_edge_insertions` call that will take care of moving the inserted instructions off the edge into the instruction stream contained in a basic block. This includes the creation of new basic blocks where needed. In the `GIMPLE` representation, the equivalent functions are `gsi_insert_on_edge` which inserts a block statement iterator on an edge, and `gsi_commit_edge_inserts` which flushes the instruction to actual instruction stream.

While debugging the optimization pass, the `verify_flow_info` function may be useful to find bugs in the control flow graph updating code.

### 15.5 Liveness information ¶

Liveness information is useful to determine whether some register is “live” at given point of program, i.e. that it contains a value that may be used at a later point in the program. This information is used, for instance, during register allocation, as the pseudo registers only need to be assigned to a unique hard register or to a stack slot if they are live. The hard registers and stack slots may be freely reused for other values when a register is dead.

Liveness information is available in the back end starting with `pass_df_initialize` and ending with `pass_df_finish`. Three flavors of live analysis are available: With `LR`, it is possible to determine at any point `P` in the function if the register may be used on some path from `P` to the end of the function. With `UR`, it is possible to determine if there is a path from the beginning of the function to `P` that defines the variable. `LIVE` is the intersection of the `LR` and `UR` and a variable is live at `P` if there is both an assignment that reaches it from the beginning of the function and a use that can be reached on some path from `P` to the end of the function.

In general `LIVE` is the most useful of the three. The macros `DF_[LR,UR,LIVE]_[IN,OUT]` can be used to access this information. The macros take a basic block number and return a bitmap that is indexed by the register number. This information is only guaranteed to be up to date after calls are made to `df_analyze`. See the file `df-core.cc` for details on using the dataflow.

The liveness information is stored partly in the RTL instruction stream and partly in the flow graph. Local information is stored in the instruction stream: Each instruction may contain `REG_DEAD` notes representing that the value of a given register is no longer needed, or `REG_UNUSED` notes representing that the value computed by the instruction is never used. The second is useful for instructions computing multiple values at once.

## 16 Analysis and Representation of Loops ¶

GCC provides extensive infrastructure for work with natural loops, i.e., strongly connected components of CFG with only one entry block. This chapter describes representation of loops in GCC, both on GIMPLE and in RTL, as well as the interfaces to loop-related analyses (induction variable analysis and number of iterations analysis).

### 16.1 Loop representation ¶

This chapter describes the representation of loops in GCC, and functions that can be used to build, modify and analyze this representation. Most of the interfaces and data structures are declared in `cfgloop.h`. Loop structures are analyzed and this information disposed or updated at the discretion of individual passes. Still most of the generic CFG manipulation routines are aware of loop structures and try to keep them up-to-date. By this means an increasing part of the compilation pipeline is setup to maintain loop structure across passes to allow attaching meta information to individual loops for consumption by later passes.

In general, a natural loop has one entry block (header) and possibly several back edges (latches) leading to the header from the inside of the loop. Loops with several latches may appear if several loops share a single header, or if there is a branching in the middle of the loop. The representation of loops in GCC however allows only loops with a single latch. During loop analysis, headers of such loops are split and forwarder blocks are created in order to disambiguate their structures. Heuristic based on profile information and structure of the induction variables in the loops is used to determine whether the latches correspond to sub-loops or to control flow in a single loop. This means that the analysis sometimes changes the CFG, and if you run it in the middle of an optimization pass, you must be able to deal with the new blocks. You may avoid CFG changes by passing `LOOPS_MAY_HAVE_MULTIPLE_LATCHES` flag to the loop discovery, note however that most other loop manipulation functions will not work correctly for loops with multiple latch edges (the functions that only query membership of blocks to loops and subloop relationships, or enumerate and test loop exits, can be expected to work).

Body of the loop is the set of blocks that are dominated by its header, and reachable from its latch against the direction of edges in CFG. The loops are organized in a containment hierarchy (tree) such that all the loops immediately contained inside loop L are the children of L in the tree. This tree is represented by the `struct loops` structure. The root of this tree is a fake loop that contains all blocks in the function. Each of the loops is represented in a `struct loop` structure. Each loop is assigned an index (`num` field of the `struct loop` structure), and the pointer to the loop is stored in the corresponding field of the `larray` vector in the loops structure. The indices do not have to be continuous, there may be empty (`NULL`) entries in the `larray` created by deleting loops. Also, there is no guarantee on the relative order of a loop and its subloops in the numbering. The index of a loop never changes.

The entries of the `larray` field should not be accessed directly. The function `get_loop` returns the loop description for a loop with the given index. `number_of_loops` function returns number of loops in the function. To traverse all loops, use a range-based for loop with class `loops_list` instance. The `flags` argument passed to the constructor function of class `loops_list` is used to determine the direction of traversal and the set of loops visited. Each loop is guaranteed to be visited exactly once, regardless of the changes to the loop tree, and the loops may be removed during the traversal. The newly created loops are never traversed, if they need to be visited, this must be done separately after their creation.

Each basic block contains the reference to the innermost loop it belongs to (`loop_father`). For this reason, it is only possible to have one `struct loops` structure initialized at the same time for each CFG. The global variable `current_loops` contains the `struct loops` structure. Many of the loop manipulation functions assume that dominance information is up-to-date.

The loops are analyzed through `loop_optimizer_init` function. The argument of this function is a set of flags represented in an integer bitmask. These flags specify what other properties of the loop structures should be calculated/enforced and preserved later:

- `LOOPS_MAY_HAVE_MULTIPLE_LATCHES`: If this flag is set, no changes to CFG will be performed in the loop analysis, in particular, loops with multiple latch edges will not be disambiguated. If a loop has multiple latches, its latch block is set to NULL. Most of the loop manipulation functions will not work for loops in this shape. No other flags that require CFG changes can be passed to loop_optimizer_init.
- `LOOPS_HAVE_PREHEADERS`: Forwarder blocks are created in such a way that each loop has only one entry edge, and additionally, the source block of this entry edge has only one successor. This creates a natural place where the code can be moved out of the loop, and ensures that the entry edge of the loop leads from its immediate super-loop.
- `LOOPS_HAVE_SIMPLE_LATCHES`: Forwarder blocks are created to force the latch block of each loop to have only one successor. This ensures that the latch of the loop does not belong to any of its sub-loops, and makes manipulation with the loops significantly easier. Most of the loop manipulation functions assume that the loops are in this shape. Note that with this flag, the “normal” loop without any control flow inside and with one exit consists of two basic blocks.
- `LOOPS_HAVE_MARKED_IRREDUCIBLE_REGIONS`: Basic blocks and edges in the strongly connected components that are not natural loops (have more than one entry block) are marked with `BB_IRREDUCIBLE_LOOP` and `EDGE_IRREDUCIBLE_LOOP` flags. The flag is not set for blocks and edges that belong to natural loops that are in such an irreducible region (but it is set for the entry and exit edges of such a loop, if they lead to/from this region).
- `LOOPS_HAVE_RECORDED_EXITS`: The lists of exits are recorded and updated for each loop. This makes some functions (e.g., `get_loop_exit_edges`) more efficient. Some functions (e.g., `single_exit`) can be used only if the lists of exits are recorded.

These properties may also be computed/enforced later, using functions `create_preheaders`, `force_single_succ_latches`, `mark_irreducible_loops` and `record_loop_exits`. The properties can be queried using `loops_state_satisfies_p`.

The memory occupied by the loops structures should be freed with `loop_optimizer_finalize` function. When loop structures are setup to be preserved across passes this function reduces the information to be kept up-to-date to a minimum (only `LOOPS_MAY_HAVE_MULTIPLE_LATCHES` set).

The CFG manipulation functions in general do not update loop structures. Specialized versions that additionally do so are provided for the most common tasks. On GIMPLE, `cleanup_tree_cfg_loop` function can be used to cleanup CFG while updating the loops structures if `current_loops` is set.

At the moment loop structure is preserved from the start of GIMPLE loop optimizations until the end of RTL loop optimizations. During this time a loop can be tracked by its `struct loop` and number.

### 16.2 Loop querying ¶

The functions to query the information about loops are declared in `cfgloop.h`. Some of the information can be taken directly from the structures. `loop_father` field of each basic block contains the innermost loop to that the block belongs. The most useful fields of loop structure (that are kept up-to-date at all times) are:

- `header`, `latch`: Header and latch basic blocks of the loop.
- `num_nodes`: Number of basic blocks in the loop (including the basic blocks of the sub-loops).
- `outer`, `inner`, `next`: The super-loop, the first sub-loop, and the sibling of the loop in the loops tree.

There are other fields in the loop structures, many of them used only by some of the passes, or not updated during CFG changes; in general, they should not be accessed directly.

The most important functions to query loop structures are:

- `loop_depth`: The depth of the loop in the loops tree, i.e., the number of super-loops of the loop.
- `flow_loops_dump`: Dumps the information about loops to a file.
- `verify_loop_structure`: Checks consistency of the loop structures.
- `loop_latch_edge`: Returns the latch edge of a loop.
- `loop_preheader_edge`: If loops have preheaders, returns the preheader edge of a loop.
- `flow_loop_nested_p`: Tests whether loop is a sub-loop of another loop.
- `flow_bb_inside_loop_p`: Tests whether a basic block belongs to a loop (including its sub-loops).
- `find_common_loop`: Finds the common super-loop of two loops.
- `superloop_at_depth`: Returns the super-loop of a loop with the given depth.
- `tree_num_loop_insns`, `num_loop_insns`: Estimates the number of insns in the loop, on GIMPLE and on RTL.
- `loop_exit_edge_p`: Tests whether edge is an exit from a loop.
- `mark_loop_exit_edges`: Marks all exit edges of all loops with `EDGE_LOOP_EXIT` flag.
- `get_loop_body`, `get_loop_body_in_dom_order`, `get_loop_body_in_bfs_order`: Enumerates the basic blocks in the loop in depth-first search order in reversed CFG, ordered by dominance relation, and breath-first search order, respectively.
- `single_exit`: Returns the single exit edge of the loop, or `NULL` if the loop has more than one exit. You can only use this function if `LOOPS_HAVE_RECORDED_EXITS` is used.
- `get_loop_exit_edges`: Enumerates the exit edges of a loop.
- `just_once_each_iteration_p`: Returns true if the basic block is executed exactly once during each iteration of a loop (that is, it does not belong to a sub-loop, and it dominates the latch of the loop).

### 16.3 Loop manipulation ¶

The loops tree can be manipulated using the following functions:

- `flow_loop_tree_node_add`: Adds a node to the tree.
- `flow_loop_tree_node_remove`: Removes a node from the tree.
- `add_bb_to_loop`: Adds a basic block to a loop.
- `remove_bb_from_loops`: Removes a basic block from loops.

Most low-level CFG functions update loops automatically. The following functions handle some more complicated cases of CFG manipulations:

- `remove_path`: Removes an edge and all blocks it dominates.
- `split_loop_exit_edge`: Splits exit edge of the loop, ensuring that PHI node arguments remain in the loop (this ensures that loop-closed SSA form is preserved). Only useful on GIMPLE.

Finally, there are some higher-level loop transformations implemented. While some of them are written so that they should work on non-innermost loops, they are mostly untested in that case, and at the moment, they are only reliable for the innermost loops:

- `create_iv`: Creates a new induction variable. Only works on GIMPLE. `standard_iv_increment_position` can be used to find a suitable place for the iv increment.
- `duplicate_loop_body_to_header_edge`, `tree_duplicate_loop_body_to_header_edge`: These functions (on RTL and on GIMPLE) duplicate the body of the loop prescribed number of times on one of the edges entering loop header, thus performing either loop unrolling or loop peeling. `can_duplicate_loop_p` (`can_unroll_loop_p` on GIMPLE) must be true for the duplicated loop.
- `loop_version`: This function creates a copy of a loop, and a branch before them that selects one of them depending on the prescribed condition. This is useful for optimizations that need to verify some assumptions in runtime (one of the copies of the loop is usually left unchanged, while the other one is transformed in some way).
- `tree_unroll_loop`: Unrolls the loop, including peeling the extra iterations to make the number of iterations divisible by unroll factor, updating the exit condition, and removing the exits that now cannot be taken. Works only on GIMPLE.

### 16.4 Loop-closed SSA form ¶

Throughout the loop optimizations on tree level, one extra condition is enforced on the SSA form: No SSA name is used outside of the loop in that it is defined. The SSA form satisfying this condition is called “loop-closed SSA form” – LCSSA. To enforce LCSSA, PHI nodes must be created at the exits of the loops for the SSA names that are used outside of them. Only the real operands (not virtual SSA names) are held in LCSSA, in order to save memory.

There are various benefits of LCSSA:

- Many optimizations (value range analysis, final value replacement) are interested in the values that are defined in the loop and used outside of it, i.e., exactly those for that we create new PHI nodes.
- In induction variable analysis, it is not necessary to specify the loop in that the analysis should be performed – the scalar evolution analysis always returns the results with respect to the loop in that the SSA name is defined.
- It makes updating of SSA form during loop transformations simpler. Without LCSSA, operations like loop unrolling may force creation of PHI nodes arbitrarily far from the loop, while in LCSSA, the SSA form can be updated locally. However, since we only keep real operands in LCSSA, we cannot use this advantage (we could have local updating of real operands, but it is not much more efficient than to use generic SSA form updating for it as well; the amount of changes to SSA is the same).

However, it also means LCSSA must be updated. This is usually straightforward, unless you create a new value in loop and use it outside, or unless you manipulate loop exit edges (functions are provided to make these manipulations simple). `rewrite_into_loop_closed_ssa` is used to rewrite SSA form to LCSSA, and `verify_loop_closed_ssa` to check that the invariant of LCSSA is preserved.

### 16.5 Scalar evolutions ¶

Scalar evolutions (SCEV) are used to represent results of induction variable analysis on GIMPLE. They enable us to represent variables with complicated behavior in a simple and consistent way (we only use it to express values of polynomial induction variables, but it is possible to extend it). The interfaces to SCEV analysis are declared in `tree-scalar-evolution.h`. To use scalar evolutions analysis, `scev_initialize` must be used. To stop using SCEV, `scev_finalize` should be used. SCEV analysis caches results in order to save time and memory. This cache however is made invalid by most of the loop transformations, including removal of code. If such a transformation is performed, `scev_reset` must be called to clean the caches.

Given an SSA name, its behavior in loops can be analyzed using the `analyze_scalar_evolution` function. The returned SCEV however does not have to be fully analyzed and it may contain references to other SSA names defined in the loop. To resolve these (potentially recursive) references, `instantiate_parameters` or `resolve_mixers` functions must be used. `instantiate_parameters` is useful when you use the results of SCEV only for some analysis, and when you work with whole nest of loops at once. It will try replacing all SSA names by their SCEV in all loops, including the super-loops of the current loop, thus providing a complete information about the behavior of the variable in the loop nest. `resolve_mixers` is useful if you work with only one loop at a time, and if you possibly need to create code based on the value of the induction variable. It will only resolve the SSA names defined in the current loop, leaving the SSA names defined outside unchanged, even if their evolution in the outer loops is known.

The SCEV is a normal tree expression, except for the fact that it may contain several special tree nodes. One of them is `SCEV_NOT_KNOWN`, used for SSA names whose value cannot be expressed. The other one is `POLYNOMIAL_CHREC`. Polynomial chrec has three arguments – base, step and loop (both base and step may contain further polynomial chrecs). Type of the expression and of base and step must be the same. A variable has evolution `POLYNOMIAL_CHREC(base, step, loop)` if it is (in the specified loop) equivalent to `x_1` in the following example

    while (...)
      {
        x_1 = phi (base, x_2);
        x_2 = x_1 + step;
      }

Note that this includes the language restrictions on the operations. For example, if we compile C code and `x` has signed type, then the overflow in addition would cause undefined behavior, and we may assume that this does not happen. Hence, the value with this SCEV cannot overflow (which restricts the number of iterations of such a loop).

In many cases, one wants to restrict the attention just to affine induction variables. In this case, the extra expressive power of SCEV is not useful, and may complicate the optimizations. In this case, `simple_iv` function may be used to analyze a value – the result is a loop-invariant base and step.

### 16.6 IV analysis on RTL ¶

The induction variable on RTL is simple and only allows analysis of affine induction variables, and only in one loop at once. The interface is declared in `cfgloop.h`. Before analyzing induction variables in a loop L, `iv_analysis_loop_init` function must be called on L. After the analysis (possibly calling `iv_analysis_loop_init` for several loops) is finished, `iv_analysis_done` should be called. The following functions can be used to access the results of the analysis:

- `iv_analyze`: Analyzes a single register used in the given insn. If no use of the register in this insn is found, the following insns are scanned, so that this function can be called on the insn returned by get_condition.
- `iv_analyze_result`: Analyzes result of the assignment in the given insn.
- `iv_analyze_expr`: Analyzes a more complicated expression. All its operands are analyzed by `iv_analyze`, and hence they must be used in the specified insn or one of the following insns.

The description of the induction variable is provided in `struct rtx_iv`. In order to handle subregs, the representation is a bit complicated; if the value of the `extend` field is not `UNKNOWN`, the value of the induction variable in the i-th iteration is

    delta + mult * extend_{extend_mode} (subreg_{mode} (base + i * step)),

with the following exception: if `first_special` is true, then the value in the first iteration (when `i` is zero) is `delta + mult * base`. However, if `extend` is equal to `UNKNOWN`, then `first_special` must be false, `delta` 0, `mult` 1 and the value in the i-th iteration is

    subreg_{mode} (base + i * step)

The function `get_iv_value` can be used to perform these calculations.

### 16.7 Number of iterations analysis ¶

Both on GIMPLE and on RTL, there are functions available to determine the number of iterations of a loop, with a similar interface. The number of iterations of a loop in GCC is defined as the number of executions of the loop latch. In many cases, it is not possible to determine the number of iterations unconditionally – the determined number is correct only if some assumptions are satisfied. The analysis tries to verify these conditions using the information contained in the program; if it fails, the conditions are returned together with the result. The following information and conditions are provided by the analysis:

- `assumptions`: If this condition is false, the rest of the information is invalid.
- `noloop_assumptions` on RTL, `may_be_zero` on GIMPLE: If this condition is true, the loop exits in the first iteration.
- `infinite`: If this condition is true, the loop is infinite. This condition is only available on RTL. On GIMPLE, conditions for finiteness of the loop are included in `assumptions`.
- `niter_expr` on RTL, `niter` on GIMPLE: The expression that gives number of iterations. The number of iterations is defined as the number of executions of the loop latch.

Both on GIMPLE and on RTL, it necessary for the induction variable analysis framework to be initialized (SCEV on GIMPLE, loop-iv on RTL). On GIMPLE, the results are stored to `struct tree_niter_desc` structure. Number of iterations before the loop is exited through a given exit can be determined using `number_of_iterations_exit` function. On RTL, the results are returned in `struct niter_desc` structure. The corresponding function is named `check_simple_exit`. There are also functions that pass through all the exits of a loop and try to find one with easy to determine number of iterations – `find_loop_niter` on GIMPLE and `find_simple_exit` on RTL. Finally, there are functions that provide the same information, but additionally cache it, so that repeated calls to number of iterations are not so costly – `number_of_latch_executions` on GIMPLE and `get_simple_loop_desc` on RTL.

Note that some of these functions may behave slightly differently than others – some of them return only the expression for the number of iterations, and fail if there are some assumptions. The function `number_of_latch_executions` works only for single-exit loops. The function `number_of_cond_exit_executions` can be used to determine number of executions of the exit condition of a single-exit loop (i.e., the `number_of_latch_executions` increased by one).

On GIMPLE, below constraint flags affect semantics of some APIs of number of iterations analyzer:

- `LOOP_C_INFINITE`: If this constraint flag is set, the loop is known to be infinite. APIs like `number_of_iterations_exit` can return false directly without doing any analysis.
- `LOOP_C_FINITE`: If this constraint flag is set, the loop is known to be finite, in other words, loop’s number of iterations can be computed with `assumptions` be true.

Generally, the constraint flags are set/cleared by consumers which are loop optimizers. It’s also the consumers’ responsibility to set/clear constraints correctly. Failing to do that might result in hard to track down bugs in scev/niter consumers. One typical use case is vectorizer: it drives number of iterations analyzer by setting `LOOP_C_FINITE` and vectorizes possibly infinite loop by versioning loop with analysis result. In return, constraints set by consumers can also help number of iterations analyzer in following optimizers. For example, `niter` of a loop versioned under `assumptions` is valid unconditionally.

Other constraints may be added in the future, for example, a constraint indicating that loops’ latch must roll thus `may_be_zero` would be false unconditionally.

### 16.8 Data Dependency Analysis ¶

The code for the data dependence analysis can be found in `tree-data-ref.cc` and its interface and data structures are described in `tree-data-ref.h`. The function that computes the data dependences for all the array and pointer references for a given loop is `compute_data_dependences_for_loop`. This function is currently used by the linear loop transform and the vectorization passes. Before calling this function, one has to allocate two vectors: a first vector will contain the set of data references that are contained in the analyzed loop body, and the second vector will contain the dependence relations between the data references. Thus if the vector of data references is of size `n`, the vector containing the dependence relations will contain `n*n` elements. However if the analyzed loop contains side effects, such as calls that potentially can interfere with the data references in the current analyzed loop, the analysis stops while scanning the loop body for data references, and inserts a single `chrec_dont_know` in the dependence relation array.

The data references are discovered in a particular order during the scanning of the loop body: the loop body is analyzed in execution order, and the data references of each statement are pushed at the end of the data reference array. Two data references syntactically occur in the program in the same order as in the array of data references. This syntactic order is important in some classical data dependence tests, and mapping this order to the elements of this array avoids costly queries to the loop body representation.

Three types of data references are currently handled: ARRAY_REF, INDIRECT_REF and COMPONENT_REF. The data structure for the data reference is `data_reference`, where `data_reference_p` is a name of a pointer to the data reference structure. The structure contains the following elements:

- `base_object_info`: Provides information about the base object of the data reference and its access functions. These access functions represent the evolution of the data reference in the loop relative to its base, in keeping with the classical meaning of the data reference access function for the support of arrays. For example, for a reference `a.b[i][j]`, the base object is `a.b` and the access functions, one for each array subscript, are: `{i_init, + i_step}_1, {j_init, +, j_step}_2`.
- `first_location_in_loop`: Provides information about the first location accessed by the data reference in the loop and about the access function used to represent evolution relative to this location. This data is used to support pointers, and is not used for arrays (for which we have base objects). Pointer accesses are represented as a one-dimensional access that starts from the first location accessed in the loop. For example:

            for1 i
               for2 j
                *((int *)p + i + j) = a[i][j];

  The access function of the pointer access is `{0, + 4B}_for2` relative to `p + i`. The access functions of the array are `{i_init, + i_step}_for1` and `{j_init, +, j_step}_for2` relative to `a`.

  Usually, the object the pointer refers to is either unknown, or we cannot prove that the access is confined to the boundaries of a certain object.

  Two data references can be compared only if at least one of these two representations has all its fields filled for both data references.

  The current strategy for data dependence tests is as follows: If both `a` and `b` are represented as arrays, compare `a.base_object` and `b.base_object`; if they are equal, apply dependence tests (use access functions based on base_objects). Else if both `a` and `b` are represented as pointers, compare `a.first_location` and `b.first_location`; if they are equal, apply dependence tests (use access functions based on first location). However, if `a` and `b` are represented differently, only try to prove that the bases are definitely different.

- Aliasing information.
- Alignment information.

The structure describing the relation between two data references is `data_dependence_relation` and the shorter name for a pointer to such a structure is `ddr_p`. This structure contains:

- a pointer to each data reference,
- a tree node `are_dependent` that is set to `chrec_known` if the analysis has proved that there is no dependence between these two data references, `chrec_dont_know` if the analysis was not able to determine any useful result and potentially there could exist a dependence between these data references, and `are_dependent` is set to `NULL_TREE` if there exist a dependence relation between the data references, and the description of this dependence relation is given in the `subscripts`, `dir_vects`, and `dist_vects` arrays,
- a boolean that determines whether the dependence relation can be represented by a classical distance vector,
- an array `subscripts` that contains a description of each subscript of the data references. Given two array accesses a subscript is the tuple composed of the access functions for a given dimension. For example, given `A[f1][f2][f3]` and `B[g1][g2][g3]`, there are three subscripts: `(f1, g1), (f2, g2), (f3, g3)`.
- two arrays `dir_vects` and `dist_vects` that contain classical representations of the data dependences under the form of direction and distance dependence vectors,
- an array of loops `loop_nest` that contains the loops to which the distance and direction vectors refer to.

Several functions for pretty printing the information extracted by the data dependence analysis are available: `dump_ddrs` prints with a maximum verbosity the details of a data dependence relations array, `dump_dist_dir_vectors` prints only the classical distance and direction vectors for a data dependence relations array, and `dump_data_references` prints the details of the data references contained in a data reference array.

## 17 Machine Descriptions ¶

A machine description has two parts: a file of instruction patterns (`.md` file) and a C header file of macro definitions.

The `.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.

### 17.1 Overview of How the Machine Description is Used ¶

There are three main conversions that happen in the compiler:

1. The front end reads the source code and builds a parse tree.
2. The parse tree is used to generate an RTL insn list based on named instruction patterns.
3. The insn list is matched against the RTL templates to produce assembler code.

For the generate pass, only the names of the insns matter, from either a named `define_insn` or a `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 `define_insn` is used, the template given is inserted into the insn list. If a `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 `emit_insn()`, and invoke `DONE`. For certain named patterns, it may invoke `FAIL` to tell the compiler to use an alternate way of performing that task. If it invokes neither `DONE` nor `FAIL`, the template given in the pattern is inserted, as if the `define_expand` were a `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 `define_split` and `define_peephole` patterns get used, for example.

Finally, the insn list’s RTL is matched up with the RTL templates in the `define_insn` patterns, and those patterns are used to emit the final assembly code. For this purpose, each named `define_insn` acts like it’s unnamed, since the names are ignored.

### 17.2 Everything about Instruction Patterns ¶

A `define_insn` expression is used to define instruction patterns to which insns may be matched. A `define_insn` expression 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 template or C code to generate the assembler output.

A `define_insn` is an RTL expression containing four or five operands:

1. An optional name n. When a name is present, the compiler automically generates a C++ function ‘`gen_n`’ that takes the operands of the instruction as arguments and returns the instruction’s rtx pattern. The compiler also assigns the instruction a unique code ‘`CODE_FOR_n`’, with all such codes belonging to an enum called `insn_code`.

   These names serve one of two purposes. The first is to indicate that the instruction performs a certain standard job for the RTL-generation pass of the compiler, such as a move, an addition, or a conditional jump. The second is to help the target generate certain target-specific operations, such as when implementing target-specific intrinsic functions.

   It is better to prefix target-specific names with the name of the target, to avoid any clash with current or future standard names.

   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.

   For the purpose of debugging the compiler, you may also specify a name beginning with the ‘`*`’ character. Such a name is used only for identifying the instruction in RTL dumps; it is equivalent to having a nameless pattern for all other purposes. Names beginning with the ‘`*`’ character are not required to be unique.

   The name may also have the form ‘`@n`’. This has the same effect as a name ‘`n`’, but in addition tells the compiler to generate further helper functions; see Parameterized Names for details.

2. The RTL template: This is a vector of incomplete RTL expressions which describe the semantics of the instruction (see RTL Template). It is incomplete because it may contain `match_operand`, `match_operator`, and `match_dup` expressions that stand for operands of the instruction.

   If the vector has multiple elements, the RTL template is treated as a `parallel` expression.

3. The condition: This is a string which contains a C expression. When the compiler attempts to match RTL against a pattern, the condition is evaluated. If the condition evaluates to `true`, the match is permitted. The condition may be an empty string, which is treated as always `true`.

   For a named pattern, the condition 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.

   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 `operands`.

   An instruction condition cannot become more restrictive as compilation progresses. If the condition accepts a particular RTL instruction at one stage of compilation, it must continue to accept that instruction until the final pass. For example, ‘`!reload_completed`’ and ‘`can_create_pseudo_p ()`’ are both invalid instruction conditions, because they are true during the earlier RTL passes and false during the later ones. For the same reason, if a condition accepts an instruction before register allocation, it cannot later try to control register allocation by excluding certain register or value combinations.

   Although a condition cannot become more restrictive as compilation progresses, the condition for a nameless pattern can become more permissive. For example, a nameless instruction can require ‘`reload_completed`’ to be true, in which case it only matches after register allocation.

4. The output template or output statement: This is either a string, or a fragment of C code which returns a string.

   When simple substitution isn’t general enough, you can specify a piece of C code to compute the output. See C Statements for Assembler Output.

5. The insn attributes: This is an optional vector containing the values of attributes for insns matching this pattern (see Instruction Attributes).

### 17.3 Example of `define_insn` ¶

Here is an example of an instruction pattern, taken from the machine description for the 68000/68020.

    (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\";
    }")

This can also be written using braced strings:

    (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";
    })

This describes an instruction which sets the condition codes based on the value of a general operand. It has no condition, so any insn with an RTL description of the form shown may be matched to this pattern. The name ‘`tstsi`’ means “test a `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.

‘`"rm"`’ is an operand constraint. Its meaning is explained below.

### 17.4 RTL Template ¶

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.

`(match_operand:m n predicate constraint)` ¶

  This expression is a placeholder for operand number n of the insn. When constructing an insn, operand number 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 n; but it must satisfy 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 `match_operand` expression in the pattern for each operand number. Usually operands are numbered in the order of appearance in `match_operand` expressions. In the case of a `define_expand`, any operand numbers used only in `match_dup` expressions have higher values than all other operand numbers.

  predicate is a string that is the name of a function that accepts two arguments, an expression and a machine mode. See Predicates. During matching, the function will be called with the putative operand as the expression and m as the mode argument (if m is not specified, `VOIDmode` will be used, which normally causes predicate to accept any mode). If it returns zero, this instruction pattern fails to match. 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, predicate will reject modes other than m—but not always. For example, the predicate `address_operand` uses m as the mode of memory ref that the address should be valid for. Many predicates accept `const_int` nodes even though their mode is `VOIDmode`.

  constraint controls reloading and the choice of the best register class to use for a value, as explained later (see Operand 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.

`(match_scratch:m n constraint)` ¶

  This expression is also a placeholder for operand number n and indicates that operand must be a `scratch` or `reg` expression.

  When matching patterns, this is equivalent to

      (match_operand:m n "scratch_operand" constraint)

  but, when generating RTL, it produces a (`scratch`:m) expression.

  If the last few expressions in a `parallel` are `clobber` expressions whose operands are either a hard register or `match_scratch`, the combiner can add or delete them when necessary. See Side Effect Expressions.

`(match_dup n)` ¶

  This expression is also a placeholder for operand number n. It is used when the operand needs to appear more than once in the insn.

  In construction, `match_dup` acts just like `match_operand`: the operand is substituted into the insn being constructed. But in matching, `match_dup` behaves differently. It assumes that operand number n has already been determined by a `match_operand` appearing earlier in the recognition template, and it matches only an identical-looking expression.

  Note that `match_dup` should not be used to tell the compiler that a particular register is being used for two operands (example: `add` that adds one register to another; the second register is both an input operand and the output operand). Use a matching constraint (see Simple Constraints) for those. `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.

`(match_operator:m n predicate [operands…])` ¶

  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 n, and whose operands are constructed from the patterns operands.

  When matching an expression, it matches an expression if the function predicate returns nonzero on that expression and the patterns operands match the operands of the expression.

  Suppose that the function `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 mode:

      int
      commutative_operator (x, mode)
           rtx x;
           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);
      }

  Then the following pattern will match any RTL expression consisting of a commutative operator applied to two general operands:

      (match_operator:SI 3 "commutative_operator"
        [(match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "g")
         (match_operand:SI 2 "general_operand" "g")])

  Here the vector `[operands…]` 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 `match_operand`.) Operand 3 of the insn will be the entire commutative expression: use `GET_CODE (operands[3])` to see which commutative operator was used.

  The machine mode m of `match_operator` works like that of `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 `match_operator` is used in a pattern for matching an insn, it usually best if the operand number of the `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 `match_operator`. The operand of the insn which corresponds to the `match_operator` never has any constraints because it is never reloaded as a whole. However, if parts of its operands are matched by `match_operand` patterns, those parts may have constraints of their own.

`(match_op_dup:m n[operands…])` ¶

  Like `match_dup`, except that it applies to operators instead of operands. When constructing an insn, operand number n will be substituted at this point. But in matching, `match_op_dup` behaves differently. It assumes that operand number n has already been determined by a `match_operator` appearing earlier in the recognition template, and it matches only an identical-looking expression.

`(match_parallel n predicate [subpat…])` ¶

  This pattern is a placeholder for an insn that consists of a `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 n will be substituted at this point. When matching an insn, it matches if the body of the insn is a `parallel` expression with at least as many elements as the vector of subpat expressions in the `match_parallel`, if each subpat matches the corresponding element of the `parallel`, and the function predicate returns nonzero on the `parallel` that is the body of the insn. It is the responsibility of the predicate to validate elements of the `parallel` beyond those listed in the `match_parallel`.

  A typical use of `match_parallel` is to match load and store multiple expressions, which can contain a variable number of elements in a `parallel`. For example,

      (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")

  This example comes from `a29k.md`. The function `load_multiple_operation` is defined in `a29k.c` and checks that subsequent elements in the `parallel` are the same as the `set` in the pattern, except that they are referencing subsequent registers and memory locations.

  An insn that matches this pattern might look like:

      (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))))])

`(match_par_dup n [subpat…])` ¶

  Like `match_op_dup`, but for `match_parallel` instead of `match_operator`.

### 17.5 Output Templates and Operand Substitution ¶

The 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 ‘`%`’ 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 ‘`%`’ followed by a digit n says to output operand n at that point in the string.

‘`%`’ 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 `PRINT_OPERAND` can define additional letters with nonstandard meanings.

‘`%cdigit`’ can be used to substitute an operand that is a constant value without the syntax that normally indicates an immediate operand.

‘`%ndigit`’ is like ‘`%cdigit`’ except that the value of the constant is negated before printing.

‘`%adigit`’ 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.

‘`%ldigit`’ is used to substitute a `label_ref` into a jump instruction.

‘`%=`’ 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.

‘`%`’ followed by a punctuation character specifies a substitution that does not use an operand. Only one case is standard: ‘`%%`’ outputs a ‘`%`’ into the assembler code. Other nonstandard cases can be defined in the `PRINT_OPERAND` macro. You must also define which punctuation characters are valid with the `PRINT_OPERAND_PUNCT_VALID_P` macro.

The template may generate multiple assembler instructions. Write the text for the instructions, with ‘`\;`’ between them.

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 ‘`%`’ 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 ‘`movel`’ in MIT syntax is ‘`move.l`’ in Motorola syntax. The same file of patterns is used for both kinds of output syntax, but the character sequence ‘`%.`’ is used in each place where Motorola syntax wants a period. The `PRINT_OPERAND` macro for Motorola syntax defines the sequence to output a period; the macro for MIT syntax defines it to do nothing.

As a special case, a template consisting of the single character `#` 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 `define_insn` that needs to emit multiple assembler instructions, and there is a matching `define_split` already defined, then you can simply use `#` as the output template instead of writing an output template that emits the multiple assembler instructions.

Note that `#` only has an effect while generating assembly code; it does not affect whether a split occurs earlier. An associated `define_split` must exist and it must be suitable for use after register allocation.

If the macro `ASSEMBLER_DIALECT` is defined, you can use construct of the form ‘`{option0|option1|option2}`’ in the templates. These describe multiple variants of assembler language syntax. See Output of Assembler Instructions.

### 17.6 C Statements for 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 ‘`@`’, 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 (see Multiple Alternative Constraints). For example, if a target machine has a two-address add instruction ‘`addr`’ to add into a register and another ‘`addm`’ to add a register to memory, you might write this pattern:

    (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")

If the output control string starts with a ‘`*`’, then it is not an output template but rather a piece of C program that should compute a template. It should execute a `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 ‘`\`’.

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 `operands`, whose C data type is `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 `INTVAL` is an integer on the host machine. If the host machine has more bits in an `int` than the target machine has in the mode in which the constant will be used, then some of the bits you get from `INTVAL` will be superfluous. For proper results, you must carefully disregard the values of those bits.

It is possible to output an assembler instruction and then go on to output or compute more of them, using the subroutine `output_asm_insn`. This receives two arguments: a template-string and a vector of operands. The vector may be `operands`, or it may be another array of `rtx` that you declare locally and initialize yourself.

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 `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, ‘`clrreg`’ for registers and ‘`clrmem`’ for memory locations. Here is how a pattern could use `which_alternative` to choose between them:

    (define_insn ""
      [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r,m")
            (const_int 0))]
      ""
      {
      return (which_alternative == 0
              ? "clrreg %0" : "clrmem %0");
      })

The example above, where the assembler code to generate was solely determined by the alternative, could also have been specified as follows, having the output control string start with a ‘`@`’:

    (define_insn ""
      [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r,m")
            (const_int 0))]
      ""
      "@
       clrreg %0
       clrmem %0")

If you just need a little bit of C code in one (or a few) alternatives, you can use ‘`*`’ inside of a ‘`@`’ multi-alternative template:

    (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")

### 17.7 Compact Syntax ¶

When a `define_insn` or `define_insn_and_split` has multiple alternatives it may be beneficial to use the compact syntax when specifying alternatives.

This syntax puts the constraints and attributes on the same horizontal line as the instruction assembly template.

As an example

    (define_insn_and_split ""
      [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "nonimmediate_operand" "=r,k,r,r,r,r")
    	(match_operand:SI 1 "aarch64_mov_operand"  " r,r,k,M,n,Usv"))]
      ""
      "@
       mov\\t%w0, %w1
       mov\\t%w0, %w1
       mov\\t%w0, %w1
       mov\\t%w0, %1
       #
       * return aarch64_output_sve_cnt_immediate ('cnt', '%x0', operands[1]);"
      "&& true"
       [(const_int 0)]
      {
         aarch64_expand_mov_immediate (operands[0], operands[1]);
         DONE;
      }
      [(set_attr "type" "mov_reg,mov_reg,mov_reg,mov_imm,mov_imm,mov_imm")
       (set_attr "arch"   "*,*,*,*,*,sve")
       (set_attr "length" "4,4,4,4,*,  4")
    ]
    )

can be better expressed as:

    (define_insn_and_split ""
      [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "nonimmediate_operand")
    	(match_operand:SI 1 "aarch64_mov_operand"))]
      ""
      {@ [cons: =0, 1; attrs: type, arch, length]
         [r , r  ; mov_reg  , *   , 4] mov\t%w0, %w1
         [k , r  ; mov_reg  , *   , 4] ^
         [r , k  ; mov_reg  , *   , 4] ^
         [r , M  ; mov_imm  , *   , 4] mov\t%w0, %1
         [r , n  ; mov_imm  , *   , *] #
         [r , Usv; mov_imm  , sve , 4] << aarch64_output_sve_cnt_immediate ("cnt", "%x0", operands[1]);
      }
      "&& true"
      [(const_int 0)]
      {
        aarch64_expand_mov_immediate (operands[0], operands[1]);
        DONE;
      }
    )

The syntax rules are as follows:

- Templates must start with ‘`{@`’ to use the new syntax.
- ‘`{@`’ is followed by a layout in square brackets which is ‘`cons:`’ followed by a comma-separated list of `match_operand`/`match_scratch` operand numbers, then a semicolon, followed by the same for attributes (‘`attrs:`’). Operand modifiers like `=` and `+` can be placed before an operand number. Both sections are optional (so you can use only ‘`cons`’, or only ‘`attrs`’, or both), and ‘`cons`’ must come before ‘`attrs`’ if present.
- Each alternative begins with any amount of whitespace.
- Following the whitespace is a comma-separated list of "constraints" and/or "attributes" within brackets `[]`, with sections separated by a semicolon.
- Should you want to copy the previous asm line, the symbol `^` can be used. This allows less copy pasting between alternative and reduces the number of lines to update on changes.
- When using C functions for output, the idiom ‘`* return function;`’ can be replaced with the shorthand ‘`<< function;`’.
- Following the closing ‘`]`’ is any amount of whitespace, and then the actual asm output.
- Spaces are allowed in the list (they will simply be removed).
- All constraint alternatives should be specified. For example, a list of of three blank alternatives should be written ‘`[,,]`’ rather than ‘`[]`’.
- All attribute alternatives should be non-empty, with ‘`*`’ representing the default attribute value. For example, a list of three default attribute values should be written ‘`[*,*,*]`’ rather than ‘`[]`’.
- Within an ‘`{@`’ block both multiline and singleline C comments are allowed, but when used outside of a C block they must be the only non-whitespace blocks on the line.
- Within an ‘`{@`’ block, any iterators that do not get expanded will result in an error. If for some reason it is required to have `<` or `>` in the output then these must be escaped using ‘`\`’.
- It is possible to use the ‘`attrs`’ list to specify some attributes and to use the normal `set_attr` syntax to specify other attributes. There must not be any overlap between the two lists.

  In other words, the following is valid:

      (define_insn_and_split ""
        [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "nonimmediate_operand")
      	(match_operand:SI 1 "aarch64_mov_operand"))]
        ""
        {@ [cons: 0, 1; attrs: type, arch, length]}
        ...
        [(set_attr "foo" "mov_imm")]
      )

  but this is not valid:

      (define_insn_and_split ""
        [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "nonimmediate_operand")
      	(match_operand:SI 1 "aarch64_mov_operand"))]
        ""
        {@ [cons: 0, 1; attrs: type, arch, length]}
        ...
        [(set_attr "arch" "bar")
         (set_attr "foo" "mov_imm")]
      )

  because it specifies `arch` twice.

### 17.8 Predicates ¶

A predicate determines whether a `match_operand` or `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 `match_operand` have names that end in ‘`_operand`’, and those used with `match_operator` have names that end in ‘`_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 `match_operand` or `match_operator` specifies. In this section, the first argument is called op and the second argument 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 (see Operand 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.

Most predicates handle their mode argument in a uniform manner. If mode is `VOIDmode` (unspecified), then op can have any mode. If mode is anything else, then op must have the same mode, unless op is a `CONST_INT` or integer `CONST_DOUBLE`. These RTL expressions always have `VOIDmode`, so it would be counterproductive to check that their mode matches. Instead, predicates that accept `CONST_INT` and/or integer `CONST_DOUBLE` check that the value stored in the constant will fit in the requested mode.

Predicates with this behavior are called normal. `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 mode argument are called special. The generic predicates `address_operand` and `pmode_register_operand` are special predicates. `genrecog` does not do any optimizations or diagnosis when special predicates are used.

#### 17.8.1 Machine-Independent Predicates ¶

These are the generic predicates available to all back ends. They are defined in `recog.cc`. The first category of predicates allow only constant, or immediate, operands.

Function: immediate_operand ¶

  This predicate allows any sort of constant that fits in mode. It is an appropriate choice for instructions that take operands that must be constant.

Function: const_int_operand ¶

  This predicate allows any `CONST_INT` expression that fits in mode. It is an appropriate choice for an immediate operand that does not allow a symbol or label.

Function: const_double_operand ¶

  This predicate accepts any `CONST_DOUBLE` expression that has exactly mode. If mode is `VOIDmode`, it will also accept `CONST_INT`. It is intended for immediate floating point constants.

The second category of predicates allow only some kind of machine register.

Function: register_operand ¶

  This predicate allows any `REG` or `SUBREG` expression that is valid for mode. It is often suitable for arithmetic instruction operands on a RISC machine.

Function: pmode_register_operand ¶

  This is a slight variant on `register_operand` which works around a limitation in the machine-description reader.

      (match_operand n "pmode_register_operand" constraint)

  means exactly what

      (match_operand:P n "register_operand" constraint)

  would mean, if the machine-description reader accepted ‘`:P`’ mode suffixes. Unfortunately, it cannot, because `Pmode` is an alias for some other mode, and might vary with machine-specific options. See Miscellaneous Parameters.

Function: scratch_operand ¶

  This predicate allows hard registers and `SCRATCH` expressions, but not pseudo-registers. It is used internally by `match_scratch`; it should not be used directly.

The third category of predicates allow only some kind of memory reference.

Function: memory_operand ¶

  This predicate allows any valid reference to a quantity of mode mode in memory, as determined by the weak form of `GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS` (see Addressing Modes).

Function: address_operand ¶

  This predicate is a little unusual; it allows any operand that is a valid expression for the address of a quantity of mode mode, again determined by the weak form of `GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS`. To first order, if ‘`(mem:mode (exp))`’ is acceptable to `memory_operand`, then exp is acceptable to `address_operand`. Note that exp does not necessarily have the mode mode.

Function: indirect_operand ¶

  This is a stricter form of `memory_operand` which allows only memory references with a `general_operand` as the address expression. New uses of this predicate are discouraged, because `general_operand` is very permissive, so it’s hard to tell what an `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.

Function: push_operand ¶

  This predicate allows a memory reference suitable for pushing a value onto the stack. This will be a `MEM` which refers to `stack_pointer_rtx`, with a side effect in its address expression (see Embedded Side-Effects on Addresses); which one is determined by the `STACK_PUSH_CODE` macro (see Basic Stack Layout).

Function: pop_operand ¶

  This predicate allows a memory reference suitable for popping a value off the stack. Again, this will be a `MEM` referring to `stack_pointer_rtx`, with a side effect in its address expression. However, this time `STACK_POP_CODE` is expected.

The fourth category of predicates allow some combination of the above operands.

Function: nonmemory_operand ¶

  This predicate allows any immediate or register operand valid for mode.

Function: nonimmediate_operand ¶

  This predicate allows any register or memory operand valid for mode.

Function: general_operand ¶

  This predicate allows any immediate, register, or memory operand valid for mode.

Finally, there are two generic operator predicates.

Function: comparison_operator ¶

  This predicate matches any expression which performs an arithmetic comparison in mode; that is, `COMPARISON_P` is true for the expression code.

Function: ordered_comparison_operator ¶

  This predicate matches any expression which performs an arithmetic comparison in mode and whose expression code is valid for integer modes; that is, the expression code will be one of `eq`, `ne`, `lt`, `ltu`, `le`, `leu`, `gt`, `gtu`, `ge`, `geu`.

#### 17.8.2 Defining Machine-Specific Predicates ¶

Many machines have requirements for their operands that cannot be expressed precisely using the generic predicates. You can define additional predicates using `define_predicate` and `define_special_predicate` expressions. These expressions have three operands:

- The name of the predicate, as it will be referred to in `match_operand` or `match_operator` expressions.
- An RTL expression which evaluates to true if the predicate allows the operand op, false if it does not. This expression can only use the following RTL codes:
  `MATCH_OPERAND`

    When written inside a predicate expression, a `MATCH_OPERAND` expression evaluates to true if the predicate it names would allow op. The operand number and constraint are ignored. Due to limitations in `genrecog`, you can only refer to generic predicates and predicates that have already been defined.

  `MATCH_CODE`

    This expression evaluates to true if op or a specified subexpression of 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 `MATCH_CODE` will be true.

    The second operand is a string constant which indicates what subexpression of op to examine. If it is absent or the empty string, 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 op, for the second and subsequent characters it is the result of the previous character. A digit n extracts ‘`XEXP (e, n)`’; a letter l extracts ‘`XVECEXP (e, 0, n)`’ where n is the alphabetic ordinal of l (0 for ‘a’, 1 for ’b’, and so on). The `MATCH_CODE` then examines the RTX code of the subexpression extracted by the complete string. It is not possible to extract components of an `rtvec` that is not at position 0 within its RTX object.

  `MATCH_TEST`

    This expression has one operand, a string constant containing a C expression. The predicate’s arguments, op and mode, are available with those names in the C expression. The `MATCH_TEST` evaluates to true if the C expression evaluates to a nonzero value. `MATCH_TEST` expressions must not have side effects.

  `AND`
  `IOR`
  `NOT`
  `IF_THEN_ELSE`

    The basic ‘`MATCH_`’ expressions can be combined using these logical operators, which have the semantics of the C operators ‘`&&`’, ‘`||`’, ‘`!`’, and ‘`? :`’ respectively. As in Common Lisp, you may give an `AND` or `IOR` expression an arbitrary number of arguments; this has exactly the same effect as writing a chain of two-argument `AND` or `IOR` expressions.

- An optional block of C code, which should execute ‘`return true`’ if the predicate is found to match and ‘`return false`’ if it does not. It must not have any side effects. The predicate arguments, op and mode, are available with those names.

  If a code block is present in a predicate definition, then the RTL expression must evaluate to true and the code block must execute ‘`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.

The program `genrecog` scans `define_predicate` and `define_special_predicate` expressions to determine which RTX codes are possibly allowed. You should always make this explicit in the RTL predicate expression, using `MATCH_OPERAND` and `MATCH_CODE`.

Here is an example of a simple predicate definition, from the IA64 machine description:

    ;; True if op is a 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)")))

And here is another, showing the use of the C block.

    ;; True if 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));
    })

Predicates written with `define_predicate` automatically include a test that mode is `VOIDmode`, or op has the same mode as mode, or op is a `CONST_INT` or `CONST_DOUBLE`. They do not check specifically for integer `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 `CONST_INT` or `CONST_DOUBLE` that the generic predicates provide, use a `MATCH_OPERAND` subexpression to call `const_int_operand`, `const_double_operand`, or `immediate_operand`.

Predicates written with `define_special_predicate` do not get any automatic mode checks, and are treated as having special mode handling by `genrecog`.

The program `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 `cpu-protos.h`.

### 17.9 Operand Constraints ¶

Each `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.

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 `asm`, unless ‘`<`’ or ‘`>`’ 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.

#### 17.9.1 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:

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.

‘`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 `TARGET_MEM_CONSTRAINT` macro.

‘`o`’ ¶

  A memory operand is allowed, but only if the address is 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.

  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 ‘`o`’ is valid only when accompanied by both ‘`<`’ (if the target machine has predecrement addressing) and ‘`>`’ (if the target machine has preincrement addressing).

‘`V`’ ¶

  A memory operand that is not offsettable. In other words, anything that would fit the ‘`m`’ constraint but not the ‘`o`’ constraint.

‘`<`’ ¶

  A memory operand with autodecrement addressing (either predecrement or postdecrement) is allowed. In inline `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 ‘`<`’ in constraint string in the inline `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 ‘`<`’ in constraint string must be accompanied by special instruction suffixes like `%U0` instruction suffix on PowerPC or `%P0` on IA-64.

‘`>`’ ¶

  A memory operand with autoincrement addressing (either preincrement or postincrement) is allowed. In inline `asm` the same restrictions as for ‘`<`’ apply.

‘`r`’ ¶

  A register operand is allowed provided that it is in a general register.

‘`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.

‘`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 ‘`n`’ rather than ‘`i`’.

‘`I`’, ‘`J`’, ‘`K`’, … ‘`P`’ ¶

  Other letters in the range ‘`I`’ through ‘`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, ‘`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.

‘`E`’ ¶

  An immediate floating operand (expression 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).

‘`F`’ ¶

  An immediate floating operand (expression code `const_double` or `const_vector`) is allowed.

‘`G`’, ‘`H`’ ¶

  ‘`G`’ and ‘`H`’ may be defined in a machine-dependent fashion to permit immediate floating operands in particular ranges of values.

‘`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 ‘`s`’ instead of ‘`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 −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 ‘`moveq`’ instruction. We arrange for this to happen by defining the letter ‘`K`’ to mean “any integer outside the range −128 to 127”, and then specifying ‘`Ks`’ in the operand constraints.

‘`g`’ ¶

  Any register, memory or immediate integer operand is allowed, except for registers that are not general registers.

‘`X`’ ¶

  Any operand whatsoever is allowed, even if it does not satisfy `general_operand`. This is normally used in the constraint of a `match_scratch` when certain alternatives will not actually require a scratch register.

‘`0`’, ‘`1`’, ‘`2`’, … ‘`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 ‘`10`’ be interpreted as matching either operand 1 or operand 0. Should this be desired, one can use multiple alternatives instead.

  This is called a matching constraint and what it really means is that the assembler has only a single operand that fills two roles 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 machines an add instruction really has only two operands, one of them an input-output operand:

      addl #35,r12

  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.

  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, `*x` as an input operand will match `*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.

‘`p`’ ¶

  An operand that is a valid memory address is allowed. This is for “load address” and “push address” instructions.

  ‘`p`’ in the constraint must be accompanied by `address_operand` as the predicate in the `match_operand`. This predicate interprets the mode specified in the `match_operand` as the mode of the memory reference for which the address would be valid.

other-letters ¶

  Other letters can be defined in machine-dependent fashion to stand for particular classes of registers or other arbitrary operand types. ‘`d`’, ‘`a`’ and ‘`f`’ are defined on the 68000/68020 to stand for data, address and floating point registers.

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:

    (define_insn ""
      [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=r")
            (plus:SI (match_dup 0)
                     (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "r")))]
      ""
      "...")

which has two operands, one of which must appear in two places, and

    (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")))]
      ""
      "...")

which has three operands, two of which are required by a constraint to be identical. If we are considering an insn of the form

    (insn n prev next
      (set (reg:SI 3)
           (plus:SI (reg:SI 6) (reg:SI 109)))
      ...)

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:

    (insn n2 prev n
      (set (reg:SI 3) (reg:SI 6))
      ...)

    (insn n n2 next
      (set (reg:SI 3)
           (plus:SI (reg:SI 3) (reg:SI 109)))
      ...)

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 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.

- 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 ‘`i`’. If any possible constant value is accepted, then nothing less than ‘`i`’ will do; if the predicate is more selective, then the constraints may also be more selective.

- 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.
- A nonoffsettable memory reference can be reloaded by copying the address into a register. So if the constraint uses the letter ‘`o`’, all memory references are taken care of.
- 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 ‘`o`’ or ‘`m`’, constant operands are not a problem.
- 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.

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 `SImode` to produce a `DImode` result, but only if the registers are correctly sign extended. This predicate for the input operands accepts a `sign_extend` of an `SImode` register. Write the constraint to indicate the type of register that is required for the operand of the `sign_extend`.

#### 17.9.2 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. All operands for a single instruction must have the same number of alternatives. Here is how it is done for fullword logical-or on the 68000:

    (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")))]
      ...)

The first alternative has ‘`m`’ (memory) for operand 0, ‘`0`’ for operand 1 (meaning it must match operand 0), and ‘`dKs`’ for operand 2. The second alternative has ‘`d`’ (data register) for operand 0, ‘`0`’ for operand 1, and ‘`dmKs`’ for operand 2. The ‘`=`’ and ‘`%`’ in the constraints apply to all the alternatives; their meaning is explained in a later section (see Constraint Modifier Characters).

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 ‘`?`’ and ‘`!`’ characters:

`?` ¶

  Disparage slightly the alternative that the ‘`?`’ appears in, as a choice when no alternative applies exactly. The compiler regards this alternative as one unit more costly for each ‘`?`’ that appears in it.

`!` ¶

  Disparage severely the alternative that the ‘`!`’ appears in. This alternative can still be used if it fits without reloading, but if reloading is needed, some other alternative will be used.

`^` ¶

  This constraint is analogous to ‘`?`’ but it disparages slightly the alternative only if the operand with the ‘`^`’ needs a reload.

`$` ¶

  This constraint is analogous to ‘`!`’ but it disparages severely the alternative only if the operand with the ‘`$`’ needs a reload.

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 `which_alternative`, which is the ordinal number of the alternative that was actually satisfied (0 for the first, 1 for the second alternative, etc.). See C Statements for Assembler Output.

#### 17.9.3 Register Class Preferences ¶

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 ‘`d`’ and ‘`a`’ that specify classes of registers. The pseudo register is put in whichever class gets the most “votes”. The constraint letters ‘`g`’ and ‘`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.

#### 17.9.4 Constraint Modifier Characters ¶

Here are constraint modifier characters.

‘`=`’ ¶

  Means that this operand is written to by this instruction: the previous value is discarded and replaced by new data.

‘`+`’ ¶

  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 read by the instruction and which are written by it. ‘`=`’ identifies an operand which is only written; ‘`+`’ identifies an operand that is both read and written; all other operands are assumed to only be read.

  If you specify ‘`=`’ or ‘`+`’ in a constraint, you put it in the first character of the constraint string.

‘`&`’ ¶

  Means (in a particular alternative) that this operand is an earlyclobber operand, which is written before the instruction is finished using the input operands. Therefore, this operand may not lie in a register that is read by the instruction or as part of any memory address.

  ‘`&`’ applies only to the alternative in which it is written. In constraints with multiple alternatives, sometimes one alternative requires ‘`&`’ while others do not. See, for example, the ‘`movdf`’ insn of the 68000.

  An operand which is read by the instruction 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 read operands can be affected by the earlyclobber. See, for example, the ‘`mulsi3`’ insn of the ARM.

  Furthermore, if the earlyclobber operand is also a read/write operand, then that operand is written only after it’s used.

  ‘`&`’ does not obviate the need to write ‘`=`’ or ‘`+`’. As earlyclobber operands are always written, a read-only earlyclobber operand is ill-formed and will be rejected by the compiler.

‘`%`’ ¶

  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. ‘`%`’ applies to all alternatives and must appear as the first character in the constraint. Only read-only operands can use ‘`%`’.

  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:

      (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")))]
        ...)

  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 `define_peephole2` and `define_split`s performed after reload cannot rely on ‘`%`’ to make the intended insn match.

‘`#`’ ¶

  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.

‘`*`’ ¶

  Says that the following character should be ignored when choosing register preferences. ‘`*`’ has no effect on the meaning of the constraint as a constraint, and no effect on reloading. For LRA ‘`*`’ additionally disparages slightly the alternative if the following character matches the operand.

  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, ‘`*`’ is used so that the ‘`d`’ constraint letter (for data register) is ignored when computing register preferences.

      (define_insn "extendhisi2"
        [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "=*d,a")
              (sign_extend:SI
               (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand" "0,g")))]
        ...)

#### 17.9.5 Constraints for Particular Machines ¶

Whenever possible, you should use the general-purpose constraint letters in `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 ‘`m`’ and ‘`r`’ (for memory and general-purpose registers respectively; see Simple Constraints), and ‘`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 `asm` statements; therefore, some of the constraints are not particularly useful for `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 `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.

AArch64 family—`config/aarch64/constraints.md`
  `k`

    The stack pointer register (`SP`)

  `w`

    Floating point register, Advanced SIMD vector register or SVE vector register

  `x`

    Like `w`, but restricted to registers 0 to 15 inclusive.

  `y`

    Like `w`, but restricted to registers 0 to 7 inclusive.

  `Upl`

    One of the low eight SVE predicate registers (`P0` to `P7`)

  `Upa`

    Any of the SVE predicate registers (`P0` to `P15`)

  `I`

    Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in an `ADD` instruction

  `J`

    Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in a `SUB` instruction (once negated)

  `K`

    Integer constant that can be used with a 32-bit logical instruction

  `L`

    Integer constant that can be used with a 64-bit logical instruction

  `M`

    Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in a 32-bit `MOV` pseudo instruction. The `MOV` may be assembled to one of several different machine instructions depending on the value

  `N`

    Integer constant that is valid as an immediate operand in a 64-bit `MOV` pseudo instruction

  `S`

    An absolute symbolic address or a label reference

  `Y`

    Floating point constant zero

  `Z`

    Integer constant zero

  `Ush`

    The high part (bits 12 and upwards) of the pc-relative address of a symbol within 4GB of the instruction

  `Q`

    A memory address which uses a single base register with no offset

  `Ump`

    A memory address suitable for a load/store pair instruction in SI, DI, SF and DF modes

AMD GCN —`config/gcn/constraints.md`
  `I`

    Immediate integer in the range −16 to 64

  `J`

    Immediate 16-bit signed integer

  `Kf`

    Immediate constant −1

  `L`

    Immediate 15-bit unsigned integer

  `A`

    Immediate constant that can be inlined in an instruction encoding: integer −16..64, or float 0.0, +/−0.5, +/−1.0, +/−2.0, +/−4.0, 1.0/(2.0*PI)

  `B`

    Immediate 32-bit signed integer that can be attached to an instruction encoding

  `C`

    Immediate 32-bit integer in range −16..4294967295 (i.e. 32-bit unsigned integer or ‘`A`’ constraint)

  `DA`

    Immediate 64-bit constant that can be split into two ‘`A`’ constants

  `DB`

    Immediate 64-bit constant that can be split into two ‘`B`’ constants

  `U`

    Any `unspec`

  `Y`

    Any `symbol_ref` or `label_ref`

  `v`

    VGPR register

  `a`

    Accelerator VGPR register (CDNA1 onwards)

  `Sg`

    SGPR register

  `SD`

    SGPR registers valid for instruction destinations, including VCC, M0 and EXEC

  `SS`

    SGPR registers valid for instruction sources, including VCC, M0, EXEC and SCC

  `Sm`

    SGPR registers valid as a source for scalar memory instructions (excludes M0 and EXEC)

  `Sv`

    SGPR registers valid as a source or destination for vector instructions (excludes EXEC)

  `ca`

    All condition registers: SCC, VCCZ, EXECZ

  `cs`

    Scalar condition register: SCC

  `cV`

    Vector condition register: VCC, VCC_LO, VCC_HI

  `e`

    EXEC register (EXEC_LO and EXEC_HI)

  `RB`

    Memory operand with address space suitable for `buffer_*` instructions

  `RF`

    Memory operand with address space suitable for `flat_*` instructions

  `RS`

    Memory operand with address space suitable for `s_*` instructions

  `RL`

    Memory operand with address space suitable for `ds_*` LDS instructions

  `RG`

    Memory operand with address space suitable for `ds_*` GDS instructions

  `RD`

    Memory operand with address space suitable for any `ds_*` instructions

  `RM`

    Memory operand with address space suitable for `global_*` instructions

ARC —`config/arc/constraints.md`
  `q`

    Registers usable in ARCompact 16-bit instructions: `r0`-`r3`, `r12`-`r15`. This constraint can only match when the `-mq` option is in effect.

  `e`

    Registers usable as base-regs of memory addresses in ARCompact 16-bit memory instructions: `r0`-`r3`, `r12`-`r15`, `sp`. This constraint can only match when the `-mq` option is in effect.

  `D`

    ARC FPX (dpfp) 64-bit registers. `D0`, `D1`.

  `I`

    A signed 12-bit integer constant.

  `Cal`

    constant for arithmetic/logical operations. This might be any constant that can be put into a long immediate by the assmbler or linker without involving a PIC relocation.

  `K`

    A 3-bit unsigned integer constant.

  `L`

    A 6-bit unsigned integer constant.

  `CnL`

    One’s complement of a 6-bit unsigned integer constant.

  `CmL`

    Two’s complement of a 6-bit unsigned integer constant.

  `M`

    A 5-bit unsigned integer constant.

  `O`

    A 7-bit unsigned integer constant.

  `P`

    A 8-bit unsigned integer constant.

  `H`

    Any const_double value.

ARM family—`config/arm/constraints.md`
  `h`

    In Thumb state, the core registers `r8`-`r15`.

  `k`

    The stack pointer register.

  `l`

    In Thumb State the core registers `r0`-`r7`. In ARM state this is an alias for the `r` constraint.

  `t`

    VFP floating-point registers `s0`-`s31`. Used for 32 bit values.

  `w`

    VFP floating-point registers `d0`-`d31` and the appropriate subset `d0`-`d15` based on command line options. Used for 64 bit values only. Not valid for Thumb1.

  `y`

    The iWMMX co-processor registers.

  `z`

    The iWMMX GR registers.

  `G`

    The floating-point constant 0.0

  `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

  `J`

    Integer in the range −4095 to 4095

  `K`

    Integer that satisfies constraint ‘`I`’ when inverted (ones complement)

  `L`

    Integer that satisfies constraint ‘`I`’ when negated (twos complement)

  `M`

    Integer in the range 0 to 32

  `Q`

    A memory reference where the exact address is in a single register (‘‘`m`’’ is preferable for `asm` statements)

  `R`

    An item in the constant pool

  `S`

    A symbol in the text segment of the current file

  `Uv`

    A memory reference suitable for VFP load/store insns (reg+constant offset)

  `Uy`

    A memory reference suitable for iWMMXt load/store instructions.

  `Uq`

    A memory reference suitable for the ARMv4 ldrsb instruction.

AVR family—`config/avr/constraints.md`
  `l`

    Registers from r0 to r15

  `a`

    Registers from r16 to r23

  `d`

    Registers from r16 to r31

  `w`

    Registers from r24 to r31. These registers can be used in ‘`adiw`’ command

  `e`

    Pointer register (r26–r31)

  `b`

    Base pointer register (r28–r31)

  `q`

    Stack pointer register (SPH:SPL)

  `t`

    Temporary register r0

  `x`

    Register pair X (r27:r26)

  `y`

    Register pair Y (r29:r28)

  `z`

    Register pair Z (r31:r30)

  `I`

    Constant greater than −1, less than 64

  `J`

    Constant greater than −64, less than 1

  `K`

    Constant integer 2

  `L`

    Constant integer 0

  `M`

    Constant that fits in 8 bits

  `N`

    Constant integer −1

  `O`

    Constant integer 8, 16, or 24

  `P`

    Constant integer 1

  `G`

    A floating point constant 0.0

  `Q`

    A memory address based on Y or Z pointer with displacement.

Blackfin family—`config/bfin/constraints.md`
  `a`

    P register

  `d`

    D register

  `z`

    A call clobbered P register.

  `qn`

    A single register. If n is in the range 0 to 7, the corresponding D register. If it is `A`, then the register P0.

  `D`

    Even-numbered D register

  `W`

    Odd-numbered D register

  `e`

    Accumulator register.

  `A`

    Even-numbered accumulator register.

  `B`

    Odd-numbered accumulator register.

  `b`

    I register

  `v`

    B register

  `f`

    M register

  `c`

    Registers used for circular buffering, i.e. I, B, or L registers.

  `C`

    The CC register.

  `t`

    LT0 or LT1.

  `k`

    LC0 or LC1.

  `u`

    LB0 or LB1.

  `x`

    Any D, P, B, M, I or L register.

  `y`

    Additional registers typically used only in prologues and epilogues: RETS, RETN, RETI, RETX, RETE, ASTAT, SEQSTAT and USP.

  `w`

    Any register except accumulators or CC.

  `Ksh`

    Signed 16 bit integer (in the range −32768 to 32767)

  `Kuh`

    Unsigned 16 bit integer (in the range 0 to 65535)

  `Ks7`

    Signed 7 bit integer (in the range −64 to 63)

  `Ku7`

    Unsigned 7 bit integer (in the range 0 to 127)

  `Ku5`

    Unsigned 5 bit integer (in the range 0 to 31)

  `Ks4`

    Signed 4 bit integer (in the range −8 to 7)

  `Ks3`

    Signed 3 bit integer (in the range −3 to 4)

  `Ku3`

    Unsigned 3 bit integer (in the range 0 to 7)

  `Pn`

    Constant n, where n is a single-digit constant in the range 0 to 4.

  `PA`

    An integer equal to one of the MACFLAG_XXX constants that is suitable for use with either accumulator.

  `PB`

    An integer equal to one of the MACFLAG_XXX constants that is suitable for use only with accumulator A1.

  `M1`

    Constant 255.

  `M2`

    Constant 65535.

  `J`

    An integer constant with exactly a single bit set.

  `L`

    An integer constant with all bits set except exactly one.

  `H`
  `Q`

    Any SYMBOL_REF.

C-SKY—`config/csky/constraints.md`
  `a`

    The mini registers r0 - r7.

  `b`

    The low registers r0 - r15.

  `c`

    C register.

  `y`

    HI and LO registers.

  `l`

    LO register.

  `h`

    HI register.

  `v`

    Vector registers.

  `z`

    Stack pointer register (SP).

  `Q`

    A memory address which uses a base register with a short offset or with a index register with its scale.

  `W`

    A memory address which uses a base register with a index register with its scale.

  The C-SKY back end supports a large set of additional constraints that are only useful for instruction selection or splitting rather than inline asm, such as constraints representing constant integer ranges accepted by particular instruction encodings. Refer to the source code for details.

Epiphany—`config/epiphany/constraints.md`
  `U16`

    An unsigned 16-bit constant.

  `K`

    An unsigned 5-bit constant.

  `L`

    A signed 11-bit constant.

  `Cm1`

    A signed 11-bit constant added to −1. Can only match when the `-m1reg-reg` option is active.

  `Cl1`

    Left-shift of −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 `-m1reg-reg` option is active.

  `Cr1`

    Right-shift of −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 `-m1reg-reg` option is active.

  `Cal`

    Constant for arithmetic/logical operations. This is like `i`, except that for position independent code, no symbols / expressions needing relocations are allowed.

  `Csy`

    Symbolic constant for call/jump instruction.

  `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 `-mprefer-short-insn-regs` is in effect.

  `Rsc`

    The register class of registers that can be used to hold a sibcall call address. I.e., a caller-saved register.

  `Rct`

    Core control register class.

  `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.

  `Car`

    Constant suitable for the addsi3_r pattern. This is a valid offset For byte, halfword, or word addressing.

  `Rra`

    Matches the return address if it can be replaced with the link register.

  `Rcc`

    Matches the integer condition code register.

  `Sra`

    Matches the return address if it is in a stack slot.

  `Cfm`

    Matches control register values to switch fp mode, which are encapsulated in `UNSPEC_FP_MODE`.

FRV—`config/frv/frv.h`
  `a`

    Register in the class `ACC_REGS` (`acc0` to `acc7`).

  `b`

    Register in the class `EVEN_ACC_REGS` (`acc0` to `acc7`).

  `c`

    Register in the class `CC_REGS` (`fcc0` to `fcc3` and `icc0` to `icc3`).

  `d`

    Register in the class `GPR_REGS` (`gr0` to `gr63`).

  `e`

    Register in the class `EVEN_REGS` (`gr0` to `gr63`). Odd registers are excluded not in the class but through the use of a machine mode larger than 4 bytes.

  `f`

    Register in the class `FPR_REGS` (`fr0` to `fr63`).

  `h`

    Register in the class `FEVEN_REGS` (`fr0` to `fr63`). Odd registers are excluded not in the class but through the use of a machine mode larger than 4 bytes.

  `l`

    Register in the class `LR_REG` (the `lr` register).

  `q`

    Register in the class `QUAD_REGS` (`gr2` to `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.

  `t`

    Register in the class `ICC_REGS` (`icc0` to `icc3`).

  `u`

    Register in the class `FCC_REGS` (`fcc0` to `fcc3`).

  `v`

    Register in the class `ICR_REGS` (`cc4` to `cc7`).

  `w`

    Register in the class `FCR_REGS` (`cc0` to `cc3`).

  `x`

    Register in the class `QUAD_FPR_REGS` (`fr0` to `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.

  `z`

    Register in the class `SPR_REGS` (`lcr` and `lr`).

  `A`

    Register in the class `QUAD_ACC_REGS` (`acc0` to `acc7`).

  `B`

    Register in the class `ACCG_REGS` (`accg0` to `accg7`).

  `C`

    Register in the class `CR_REGS` (`cc0` to `cc7`).

  `G`

    Floating point constant zero

  `I`

    6-bit signed integer constant

  `J`

    10-bit signed integer constant

  `L`

    16-bit signed integer constant

  `M`

    16-bit unsigned integer constant

  `N`

    12-bit signed integer constant that is negative—i.e. in the range of −2048 to −1

  `O`

    Constant zero

  `P`

    12-bit signed integer constant that is greater than zero—i.e. in the range of 1 to 2047.

FT32—`config/ft32/constraints.md`
  `A`

    An absolute address

  `B`

    An offset address

  `W`

    A register indirect memory operand

  `e`

    An offset address.

  `f`

    An offset address.

  `O`

    The constant zero or one

  `I`

    A 16-bit signed constant (−32768 … 32767)

  `w`

    A bitfield mask suitable for bext or bins

  `x`

    An inverted bitfield mask suitable for bext or bins

  `L`

    A 16-bit unsigned constant, multiple of 4 (0 … 65532)

  `S`

    A 20-bit signed constant (−524288 … 524287)

  `b`

    A constant for a bitfield width (1 … 16)

  `KA`

    A 10-bit signed constant (−512 … 511)

Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC—`config/pa/pa.h`
  `a`

    General register 1

  `f`

    Floating point register

  `q`

    Shift amount register

  `x`

    Floating point register (deprecated)

  `y`

    Upper floating point register (32-bit), floating point register (64-bit)

  `Z`

    Any register

  `I`

    Signed 11-bit integer constant

  `J`

    Signed 14-bit integer constant

  `K`

    Integer constant that can be deposited with a `zdepi` instruction

  `L`

    Signed 5-bit integer constant

  `M`

    Integer constant 0

  `N`

    Integer constant that can be loaded with a `ldil` instruction

  `O`

    Integer constant whose value plus one is a power of 2

  `P`

    Integer constant that can be used for `and` operations in `depi` and `extru` instructions

  `S`

    Integer constant 31

  `U`

    Integer constant 63

  `G`

    Floating-point constant 0.0

  `A`

    A `lo_sum` data-linkage-table memory operand

  `Q`

    A memory operand that can be used as the destination operand of an integer store instruction

  `R`

    A scaled or unscaled indexed memory operand

  `T`

    A memory operand for floating-point loads and stores

  `W`

    A register indirect memory operand

Intel IA-64—`config/ia64/ia64.h`
  `a`

    General register `r0` to `r3` for `addl` instruction

  `b`

    Branch register

  `c`

    Predicate register (‘`c`’ as in “conditional”)

  `d`

    Application register residing in M-unit

  `e`

    Application register residing in I-unit

  `f`

    Floating-point register

  `m`

    Memory operand. If used together with ‘`<`’ or ‘`>`’, the operand can have postincrement and postdecrement which require printing with ‘`%Pn`’ on IA-64.

  `G`

    Floating-point constant 0.0 or 1.0

  `I`

    14-bit signed integer constant

  `J`

    22-bit signed integer constant

  `K`

    8-bit signed integer constant for logical instructions

  `L`

    8-bit adjusted signed integer constant for compare pseudo-ops

  `M`

    6-bit unsigned integer constant for shift counts

  `N`

    9-bit signed integer constant for load and store postincrements

  `O`

    The constant zero

  `P`

    0 or −1 for `dep` instruction

  `Q`

    Non-volatile memory for floating-point loads and stores

  `R`

    Integer constant in the range 1 to 4 for `shladd` instruction

  `S`

    Memory operand except postincrement and postdecrement. This is now roughly the same as ‘`m`’ when not used together with ‘`<`’ or ‘`>`’.

M32C—`config/m32c/m32c.cc`
  `Rsp`
  `Rfb`
  `Rsb`

    ‘`$sp`’, ‘`$fb`’, ‘`$sb`’.

  `Rcr`

    Any control register, when they’re 16 bits wide (nothing if control registers are 24 bits wide)

  `Rcl`

    Any control register, when they’re 24 bits wide.

  `R0w`
  `R1w`
  `R2w`
  `R3w`

    $r0, $r1, $r2, $r3.

  `R02`

    $r0 or $r2, or $r2r0 for 32 bit values.

  `R13`

    $r1 or $r3, or $r3r1 for 32 bit values.

  `Rdi`

    A register that can hold a 64 bit value.

  `Rhl`

    $r0 or $r1 (registers with addressable high/low bytes)

  `R23`

    $r2 or $r3

  `Raa`

    Address registers

  `Raw`

    Address registers when they’re 16 bits wide.

  `Ral`

    Address registers when they’re 24 bits wide.

  `Rqi`

    Registers that can hold QI values.

  `Rad`

    Registers that can be used with displacements ($a0, $a1, $sb).

  `Rsi`

    Registers that can hold 32 bit values.

  `Rhi`

    Registers that can hold 16 bit values.

  `Rhc`

    Registers chat can hold 16 bit values, including all control registers.

  `Rra`

    $r0 through R1, plus $a0 and $a1.

  `Rfl`

    The flags register.

  `Rmm`

    The memory-based pseudo-registers $mem0 through $mem15.

  `Rpi`

    Registers that can hold pointers (16 bit registers for r8c, m16c; 24 bit registers for m32cm, m32c).

  `Rpa`

    Matches multiple registers in a PARALLEL to form a larger register. Used to match function return values.

  `Is3`

    −8 … 7

  `IS1`

    −128 … 127

  `IS2`

    −32768 … 32767

  `IU2`

    0 … 65535

  `In4`

    −8 … −1 or 1 … 8

  `In5`

    −16 … −1 or 1 … 16

  `In6`

    −32 … −1 or 1 … 32

  `IM2`

    −65536 … −1

  `Ilb`

    An 8 bit value with exactly one bit set.

  `Ilw`

    A 16 bit value with exactly one bit set.

  `Sd`

    The common src/dest memory addressing modes.

  `Sa`

    Memory addressed using $a0 or $a1.

  `Si`

    Memory addressed with immediate addresses.

  `Ss`

    Memory addressed using the stack pointer ($sp).

  `Sf`

    Memory addressed using the frame base register ($fb).

  `Ss`

    Memory addressed using the small base register ($sb).

  `S1`

    $r1h

LoongArch—`config/loongarch/constraints.md`
  `f`

    A floating-point or vector register (if available).

  `k`

    A memory operand whose address is formed by a base register and (optionally scaled) index register.

  `l`

    A signed 16-bit constant.

  `m`

    A memory operand whose address is formed by a base register and offset that is suitable for use in instructions with the same addressing mode as `st.w` and `ld.w`.

  `I`

    A signed 12-bit constant (for arithmetic instructions).

  `K`

    An unsigned 12-bit constant (for logic instructions).

  `M`

    A constant that cannot be loaded using `lui`, `addiu` or `ori`.

  `N`

    A constant in the range -65535 to -1 (inclusive).

  `O`

    A signed 15-bit constant.

  `P`

    A constant in the range 1 to 65535 (inclusive).

  `R`

    An address that can be used in a non-macro load or store.

  `ZB`

    An address that is held in a general-purpose register. The offset is zero.

  `ZC`

    A memory operand whose address is formed by a base register and offset that is suitable for use in instructions with the same addressing mode as `ll.w` and `sc.w`.

MicroBlaze—`config/microblaze/constraints.md`
  `d`

    A general register (`r0` to `r31`).

  `z`

    A status register (`rmsr`, `$fcc1` to `$fcc7`).

MIPS—`config/mips/constraints.md`
  `d`

    A general-purpose register. This is equivalent to `r` unless generating MIPS16 code, in which case the MIPS16 register set is used.

  `f`

    A floating-point register (if available).

  `h`

    Formerly the `hi` register. This constraint is no longer supported.

  `l`

    The `lo` register. Use this register to store values that are no bigger than a word.

  `x`

    The concatenated `hi` and `lo` registers. Use this register to store doubleword values.

  `c`

    A register suitable for use in an indirect jump. This will always be `$25` for `-mabicalls`.

  `v`

    Register `$3`. Do not use this constraint in new code; it is retained only for compatibility with glibc.

  `y`

    Equivalent to `r`; retained for backwards compatibility.

  `z`

    A floating-point condition code register.

  `I`

    A signed 16-bit constant (for arithmetic instructions).

  `J`

    Integer zero.

  `K`

    An unsigned 16-bit constant (for logic instructions).

  `L`

    A signed 32-bit constant in which the lower 16 bits are zero. Such constants can be loaded using `lui`.

  `M`

    A constant that cannot be loaded using `lui`, `addiu` or `ori`.

  `N`

    A constant in the range −65535 to −1 (inclusive).

  `O`

    A signed 15-bit constant.

  `P`

    A constant in the range 1 to 65535 (inclusive).

  `G`

    Floating-point zero.

  `R`

    An address that can be used in a non-macro load or store.

  `ZC`

    A memory operand whose address is formed by a base register and offset that is suitable for use in instructions with the same addressing mode as `ll` and `sc`.

  `ZD`

    An address suitable for a `prefetch` instruction, or for any other instruction with the same addressing mode as `prefetch`.

Motorola 680x0—`config/m68k/constraints.md`
  `a`

    Address register

  `d`

    Data register

  `f`

    68881 floating-point register, if available

  `I`

    Integer in the range 1 to 8

  `J`

    16-bit signed number

  `K`

    Signed number whose magnitude is greater than 0x80

  `L`

    Integer in the range −8 to −1

  `M`

    Signed number whose magnitude is greater than 0x100

  `N`

    Range 24 to 31, rotatert:SI 8 to 1 expressed as rotate

  `O`

    16 (for rotate using swap)

  `P`

    Range 8 to 15, rotatert:HI 8 to 1 expressed as rotate

  `R`

    Numbers that mov3q can handle

  `G`

    Floating point constant that is not a 68881 constant

  `S`

    Operands that satisfy ’m’ when -mpcrel is in effect

  `T`

    Operands that satisfy ’s’ when -mpcrel is not in effect

  `Q`

    Address register indirect addressing mode

  `U`

    Register offset addressing

  `W`

    const_call_operand

  `Cs`

    symbol_ref or const

  `Ci`

    const_int

  `C0`

    const_int 0

  `Cj`

    Range of signed numbers that don’t fit in 16 bits

  `Cmvq`

    Integers valid for mvq

  `Capsw`

    Integers valid for a moveq followed by a swap

  `Cmvz`

    Integers valid for mvz

  `Cmvs`

    Integers valid for mvs

  `Ap`

    push_operand

  `Ac`

    Non-register operands allowed in clr

Moxie—`config/moxie/constraints.md`
  `A`

    An absolute address

  `B`

    An offset address

  `W`

    A register indirect memory operand

  `I`

    A constant in the range of 0 to 255.

  `N`

    A constant in the range of 0 to −255.

MSP430–`config/msp430/constraints.md`
  `R12`

    Register R12.

  `R13`

    Register R13.

  `K`

    Integer constant 1.

  `L`

    Integer constant -1^20..1^19.

  `M`

    Integer constant 1-4.

  `Ya`

    Memory references which do not require an extended MOVX instruction.

  `Yl`

    Memory reference, labels only.

  `Ys`

    Memory reference, stack only.

NDS32—`config/nds32/constraints.md`
  `w`

    LOW register class $r0 to $r7 constraint for V3/V3M ISA.

  `l`

    LOW register class $r0 to $r7.

  `d`

    MIDDLE register class $r0 to $r11, $r16 to $r19.

  `h`

    HIGH register class $r12 to $r14, $r20 to $r31.

  `t`

    Temporary assist register $ta (i.e. $r15).

  `k`

    Stack register $sp.

  `Iu03`

    Unsigned immediate 3-bit value.

  `In03`

    Negative immediate 3-bit value in the range of −7–0.

  `Iu04`

    Unsigned immediate 4-bit value.

  `Is05`

    Signed immediate 5-bit value.

  `Iu05`

    Unsigned immediate 5-bit value.

  `In05`

    Negative immediate 5-bit value in the range of −31–0.

  `Ip05`

    Unsigned immediate 5-bit value for movpi45 instruction with range 16–47.

  `Iu06`

    Unsigned immediate 6-bit value constraint for addri36.sp instruction.

  `Iu08`

    Unsigned immediate 8-bit value.

  `Iu09`

    Unsigned immediate 9-bit value.

  `Is10`

    Signed immediate 10-bit value.

  `Is11`

    Signed immediate 11-bit value.

  `Is15`

    Signed immediate 15-bit value.

  `Iu15`

    Unsigned immediate 15-bit value.

  `Ic15`

    A constant which is not in the range of imm15u but ok for bclr instruction.

  `Ie15`

    A constant which is not in the range of imm15u but ok for bset instruction.

  `It15`

    A constant which is not in the range of imm15u but ok for btgl instruction.

  `Ii15`

    A constant whose compliment value is in the range of imm15u and ok for bitci instruction.

  `Is16`

    Signed immediate 16-bit value.

  `Is17`

    Signed immediate 17-bit value.

  `Is19`

    Signed immediate 19-bit value.

  `Is20`

    Signed immediate 20-bit value.

  `Ihig`

    The immediate value that can be simply set high 20-bit.

  `Izeb`

    The immediate value 0xff.

  `Izeh`

    The immediate value 0xffff.

  `Ixls`

    The immediate value 0x01.

  `Ix11`

    The immediate value 0x7ff.

  `Ibms`

    The immediate value with power of 2.

  `Ifex`

    The immediate value with power of 2 minus 1.

  `U33`

    Memory constraint for 333 format.

  `U45`

    Memory constraint for 45 format.

  `U37`

    Memory constraint for 37 format.

Nios II family—`config/nios2/constraints.md`
  `I`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand in an instruction taking a signed 16-bit number. Range −32768 to 32767.

  `J`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand in an instruction taking an unsigned 16-bit number. Range 0 to 65535.

  `K`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand in an instruction taking only the upper 16-bits of a 32-bit number. Range 32-bit numbers with the lower 16-bits being 0.

  `L`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand for a shift instruction. Range 0 to 31.

  `M`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand for only the value 0. Can be used in conjunction with the format modifier `z` to use `r0` instead of `0` in the assembly output.

  `N`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand for a custom instruction opcode. Range 0 to 255.

  `P`

    An immediate operand for R2 andchi/andci instructions.

  `S`

    Matches immediates which are addresses in the small data section and therefore can be added to `gp` as a 16-bit immediate to re-create their 32-bit value.

  `U`

    Matches constants suitable as an operand for the rdprs and cache instructions.

  `v`

    A memory operand suitable for Nios II R2 load/store exclusive instructions.

  `w`

    A memory operand suitable for load/store IO and cache instructions.

  `T`

    A `const` wrapped `UNSPEC` expression, representing a supported PIC or TLS relocation.

OpenRISC—`config/or1k/constraints.md`
  `I`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand in an instruction taking a signed 16-bit number. Range −32768 to 32767.

  `K`

    Integer that is valid as an immediate operand in an instruction taking an unsigned 16-bit number. Range 0 to 65535.

  `M`

    Signed 16-bit constant shifted left 16 bits. (Used with `l.movhi`)

  `O`

    Zero

  `c`

    Register usable for sibcalls.

PDP-11—`config/pdp11/constraints.md`
  `a`

    Floating point registers AC0 through AC3. These can be loaded from/to memory with a single instruction.

  `d`

    Odd numbered general registers (R1, R3, R5). These are used for 16-bit multiply operations.

  `D`

    A memory reference that is encoded within the opcode, but not auto-increment or auto-decrement.

  `f`

    Any of the floating point registers (AC0 through AC5).

  `G`

    Floating point constant 0.

  `h`

    Floating point registers AC4 and AC5. These cannot be loaded from/to memory with a single instruction.

  `I`

    An integer constant that fits in 16 bits.

  `J`

    An integer constant whose low order 16 bits are zero.

  `K`

    An integer constant that does not meet the constraints for codes ‘`I`’ or ‘`J`’.

  `L`

    The integer constant 1.

  `M`

    The integer constant −1.

  `N`

    The integer constant 0.

  `O`

    Integer constants 0 through 3; shifts by these amounts are handled as multiple single-bit shifts rather than a single variable-length shift.

  `Q`

    A memory reference which requires an additional word (address or offset) after the opcode.

  `R`

    A memory reference that is encoded within the opcode.

PowerPC and IBM RS6000—`config/rs6000/constraints.md`
  `r`

    A general purpose register (GPR), `r0`…`r31`.

  `b`

    A base register. Like `r`, but `r0` is not allowed, so `r1`…`r31`.

  `f`

    A floating point register (FPR), `f0`…`f31`.

  `d`

    A floating point register. This is the same as `f` nowadays; historically `f` was for single-precision and `d` was for double-precision floating point.

  `v`

    An Altivec vector register (VR), `v0`…`v31`.

  `wa`

    A VSX register (VSR), `vs0`…`vs63`. This is either an FPR (`vs0`…`vs31` are `f0`…`f31`) or a VR (`vs32`…`vs63` are `v0`…`v31`).

    When using `wa`, you should use the `%x` output modifier, so that the correct register number is printed. For example:

        asm ("xvadddp %x0,%x1,%x2"
             : "=wa" (v1)
             : "wa" (v2), "wa" (v3));

    You should not use `%x` for `v` operands:

        asm ("xsaddqp %0,%1,%2"
             : "=v" (v1)
             : "v" (v2), "v" (v3));

  `h`

    A special register (`vrsave`, `ctr`, or `lr`).

  `c`

    The count register, `ctr`.

  `l`

    The link register, `lr`.

  `x`

    Condition register field 0, `cr0`.

  `y`

    Any condition register field, `cr0`…`cr7`.

  `z`

    The carry bit, `XER[CA]`.

  `we`

    Like `wa`, if this is a POWER9 or later and `-mvsx` and `-m64` are used; otherwise, `NO_REGS`.

  `wn`

    No register (`NO_REGS`).

  `wr`

    Like `r`, if `-mpowerpc64` is used; otherwise, `NO_REGS`.

  `wx`

    Like `d`, if `-mpowerpc-gfxopt` is used; otherwise, `NO_REGS`.

  `wA`

    Like `b`, if `-mpowerpc64` is used; otherwise, `NO_REGS`.

  `wB`

    Signed 5-bit constant integer that can be loaded into an Altivec register.

  `wE`

    Vector constant that can be loaded with the XXSPLTIB instruction.

  `wF`

    Memory operand suitable for power8 GPR load fusion.

  `wL`

    Int constant that is the element number mfvsrld accesses in a vector.

  `wM`

    Match vector constant with all 1’s if the XXLORC instruction is available.

  `wO`

    Memory operand suitable for the ISA 3.0 vector d-form instructions.

  `wQ`

    Memory operand suitable for the load/store quad instructions.

  `wS`

    Vector constant that can be loaded with XXSPLTIB & sign extension.

  `wY`

    A memory operand for a DS-form instruction.

  `wZ`

    An indexed or indirect memory operand, ignoring the bottom 4 bits.

  `I`

    A signed 16-bit constant.

  `J`

    An unsigned 16-bit constant shifted left 16 bits (use `L` instead for `SImode` constants).

  `K`

    An unsigned 16-bit constant.

  `L`

    A signed 16-bit constant shifted left 16 bits.

  `M`

    An integer constant greater than 31.

  `N`

    An exact power of 2.

  `O`

    The integer constant zero.

  `P`

    A constant whose negation is a signed 16-bit constant.

  `eI`

    A signed 34-bit integer constant if prefixed instructions are supported.

  `eP`

    A scalar floating point constant or a vector constant that can be loaded to a VSX register with one prefixed instruction.

  `eQ`

    An IEEE 128-bit constant that can be loaded into a VSX register with the `lxvkq` instruction.

  `G`

    A floating point constant that can be loaded into a register with one instruction per word.

  `H`

    A floating point constant that can be loaded into a register using three instructions.

  `m`

    A memory operand. Normally, `m` does not allow addresses that update the base register. If the `<` or `>` constraint is also used, they are allowed and therefore on PowerPC targets in that case it is only safe to use `m<>` in an `asm` statement if that `asm` statement accesses the operand exactly once. The `asm` statement must also use `%U<opno>` as a placeholder for the “update” flag in the corresponding load or store instruction. For example:

        asm ("st%U0 %1,%0" : "=m<>" (mem) : "r" (val));

    is correct but:

        asm ("st %1,%0" : "=m<>" (mem) : "r" (val));

    is not.

  `es`

    A “stable” memory operand; that is, one which does not include any automodification of the base register. This used to be useful when `m` allowed automodification of the base register, but as those are now only allowed when `<` or `>` is used, `es` is basically the same as `m` without `<` and `>`.

  `Q`

    A memory operand addressed by just a base register.

  `Y`

    A memory operand for a DQ-form instruction.

  `Z`

    A memory operand accessed with indexed or indirect addressing.

  `R`

    An AIX TOC entry.

  `a`

    An indexed or indirect address.

  `U`

    A V.4 small data reference.

  `W`

    A vector constant that does not require memory.

  `j`

    The zero vector constant.

PRU—`config/pru/constraints.md`
  `I`

    An unsigned 8-bit integer constant.

  `J`

    An unsigned 16-bit integer constant.

  `L`

    An unsigned 5-bit integer constant (for shift counts).

  `T`

    A text segment (program memory) constant label.

  `Z`

    Integer constant zero.

RL78—`config/rl78/constraints.md`
  `Int3`

    An integer constant in the range 1 … 7.

  `Int8`

    An integer constant in the range 0 … 255.

  `J`

    An integer constant in the range −255 … 0

  `K`

    The integer constant 1.

  `L`

    The integer constant -1.

  `M`

    The integer constant 0.

  `N`

    The integer constant 2.

  `O`

    The integer constant -2.

  `P`

    An integer constant in the range 1 … 15.

  `Qbi`

    The built-in compare types–eq, ne, gtu, ltu, geu, and leu.

  `Qsc`

    The synthetic compare types–gt, lt, ge, and le.

  `Wab`

    A memory reference with an absolute address.

  `Wbc`

    A memory reference using `BC` as a base register, with an optional offset.

  `Wca`

    A memory reference using `AX`, `BC`, `DE`, or `HL` for the address, for calls.

  `Wcv`

    A memory reference using any 16-bit register pair for the address, for calls.

  `Wd2`

    A memory reference using `DE` as a base register, with an optional offset.

  `Wde`

    A memory reference using `DE` as a base register, without any offset.

  `Wfr`

    Any memory reference to an address in the far address space.

  `Wh1`

    A memory reference using `HL` as a base register, with an optional one-byte offset.

  `Whb`

    A memory reference using `HL` as a base register, with `B` or `C` as the index register.

  `Whl`

    A memory reference using `HL` as a base register, without any offset.

  `Ws1`

    A memory reference using `SP` as a base register, with an optional one-byte offset.

  `Y`

    Any memory reference to an address in the near address space.

  `A`

    The `AX` register.

  `B`

    The `BC` register.

  `D`

    The `DE` register.

  `R`

    `A` through `L` registers.

  `S`

    The `SP` register.

  `T`

    The `HL` register.

  `Z08W`

    The 16-bit `R8` register.

  `Z10W`

    The 16-bit `R10` register.

  `Zint`

    The registers reserved for interrupts (`R24` to `R31`).

  `a`

    The `A` register.

  `b`

    The `B` register.

  `c`

    The `C` register.

  `d`

    The `D` register.

  `e`

    The `E` register.

  `h`

    The `H` register.

  `l`

    The `L` register.

  `v`

    The virtual registers.

  `w`

    The `PSW` register.

  `x`

    The `X` register.

RISC-V—`config/riscv/constraints.md`
  `f`

    A floating-point register (if available).

  `I`

    An I-type 12-bit signed immediate.

  `J`

    Integer zero.

  `K`

    A 5-bit unsigned immediate for CSR access instructions.

  `A`

    An address that is held in a general-purpose register.

  `S`

    A constraint that matches an absolute symbolic address.

  `vr`

    A vector register (if available)..

  `vd`

    A vector register, excluding v0 (if available).

  `vm`

    A vector register, only v0 (if available).

RX—`config/rx/constraints.md`
  `Q`

    An address which does not involve register indirect addressing or pre/post increment/decrement addressing.

  `Symbol`

    A symbol reference.

  `Int08`

    A constant in the range −256 to 255, inclusive.

  `Sint08`

    A constant in the range −128 to 127, inclusive.

  `Sint16`

    A constant in the range −32768 to 32767, inclusive.

  `Sint24`

    A constant in the range −8388608 to 8388607, inclusive.

  `Uint04`

    A constant in the range 0 to 15, inclusive.

S/390 and zSeries—`config/s390/s390.h`
  `a`

    Address register (general purpose register except r0)

  `c`

    Condition code register

  `d`

    Data register (arbitrary general purpose register)

  `f`

    Floating-point register

  `I`

    Unsigned 8-bit constant (0–255)

  `J`

    Unsigned 12-bit constant (0–4095)

  `K`

    Signed 16-bit constant (−32768–32767)

  `L`

    Value appropriate as displacement.

    `(0..4095)`

      for short displacement

    `(−524288..524287)`

      for long displacement

  `M`

    Constant integer with a value of 0x7fffffff.

  `N`

    Multiple letter constraint followed by 4 parameter letters.

    `0..9:`

      number of the part counting from most to least significant

    `H,Q:`

      mode of the part

    `D,S,H:`

      mode of the containing operand

    `0,F:`

      value of the other parts (F—all bits set)

    The constraint matches if the specified part of a constant has a value different from its other parts.

  `Q`

    Memory reference without index register and with short displacement.

  `R`

    Memory reference with index register and short displacement.

  `S`

    Memory reference without index register but with long displacement.

  `T`

    Memory reference with index register and long displacement.

  `U`

    Pointer with short displacement.

  `W`

    Pointer with long displacement.

  `Y`

    Shift count operand.

SPARC—`config/sparc/sparc.h`
  `f`

    Floating-point register on the SPARC-V8 architecture and lower floating-point register on the SPARC-V9 architecture.

  `e`

    Floating-point register. It is equivalent to ‘`f`’ on the SPARC-V8 architecture and contains both lower and upper floating-point registers on the SPARC-V9 architecture.

  `c`

    Floating-point condition code register.

  `d`

    Lower floating-point register. It is only valid on the SPARC-V9 architecture when the Visual Instruction Set is available.

  `b`

    Floating-point register. It is only valid on the SPARC-V9 architecture when the Visual Instruction Set is available.

  `h`

    64-bit global or out register for the SPARC-V8+ architecture.

  `C`

    The constant all-ones, for floating-point.

  `A`

    Signed 5-bit constant

  `D`

    A vector constant

  `I`

    Signed 13-bit constant

  `J`

    Zero

  `K`

    32-bit constant with the low 12 bits clear (a constant that can be loaded with the `sethi` instruction)

  `L`

    A constant in the range supported by `movcc` instructions (11-bit signed immediate)

  `M`

    A constant in the range supported by `movrcc` instructions (10-bit signed immediate)

  `N`

    Same as ‘`K`’, except that it verifies that bits that are not in the lower 32-bit range are all zero. Must be used instead of ‘`K`’ for modes wider than `SImode`

  `O`

    The constant 4096

  `G`

    Floating-point zero

  `H`

    Signed 13-bit constant, sign-extended to 32 or 64 bits

  `P`

    The constant -1

  `Q`

    Floating-point constant whose integral representation can be moved into an integer register using a single sethi instruction

  `R`

    Floating-point constant whose integral representation can be moved into an integer register using a single mov instruction

  `S`

    Floating-point constant whose integral representation can be moved into an integer register using a high/lo_sum instruction sequence

  `T`

    Memory address aligned to an 8-byte boundary

  `U`

    Even register

  `W`

    Memory address for ‘`e`’ constraint registers

  `w`

    Memory address with only a base register

  `Y`

    Vector zero

TI C6X family—`config/c6x/constraints.md`
  `a`

    Register file A (A0–A31).

  `b`

    Register file B (B0–B31).

  `A`

    Predicate registers in register file A (A0–A2 on C64X and higher, A1 and A2 otherwise).

  `B`

    Predicate registers in register file B (B0–B2).

  `C`

    A call-used register in register file B (B0–B9, B16–B31).

  `Da`

    Register file A, excluding predicate registers (A3–A31, plus A0 if not C64X or higher).

  `Db`

    Register file B, excluding predicate registers (B3–B31).

  `Iu4`

    Integer constant in the range 0 … 15.

  `Iu5`

    Integer constant in the range 0 … 31.

  `In5`

    Integer constant in the range −31 … 0.

  `Is5`

    Integer constant in the range −16 … 15.

  `I5x`

    Integer constant that can be the operand of an ADDA or a SUBA insn.

  `IuB`

    Integer constant in the range 0 … 65535.

  `IsB`

    Integer constant in the range −32768 … 32767.

  `IsC`

    Integer constant in the range -2^{20} … 2^{20} - 1.

  `Jc`

    Integer constant that is a valid mask for the clr instruction.

  `Js`

    Integer constant that is a valid mask for the set instruction.

  `Q`

    Memory location with A base register.

  `R`

    Memory location with B base register.

  `S0`

    On C64x+ targets, a GP-relative small data reference.

  `S1`

    Any kind of `SYMBOL_REF`, for use in a call address.

  `Si`

    Any kind of immediate operand, unless it matches the S0 constraint.

  `T`

    Memory location with B base register, but not using a long offset.

  `W`

    A memory operand with an address that cannot be used in an unaligned access.

  `Z`

    Register B14 (aka DP).

Visium—`config/visium/constraints.md`
  `b`

    EAM register `mdb`

  `c`

    EAM register `mdc`

  `f`

    Floating point register

  `k`

    Register for sibcall optimization

  `l`

    General register, but not `r29`, `r30` and `r31`

  `t`

    Register `r1`

  `u`

    Register `r2`

  `v`

    Register `r3`

  `G`

    Floating-point constant 0.0

  `J`

    Integer constant in the range 0 .. 65535 (16-bit immediate)

  `K`

    Integer constant in the range 1 .. 31 (5-bit immediate)

  `L`

    Integer constant in the range −65535 .. −1 (16-bit negative immediate)

  `M`

    Integer constant −1

  `O`

    Integer constant 0

  `P`

    Integer constant 32

x86 family—`config/i386/constraints.md`
  `R`

    Legacy register—the eight integer registers available on all i386 processors (`a`, `b`, `c`, `d`, `si`, `di`, `bp`, `sp`).

  `q`

    Any register accessible as `rl`. In 32-bit mode, `a`, `b`, `c`, and `d`; in 64-bit mode, any integer register.

  `Q`

    Any register accessible as `rh`: `a`, `b`, `c`, and `d`.

  `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.

  `a`

    The `a` register.

  `b`

    The `b` register.

  `c`

    The `c` register.

  `d`

    The `d` register.

  `S`

    The `si` register.

  `D`

    The `di` register.

  `A`

    The `a` and `d` registers. This class is used for instructions that return double word results in the `ax:dx` register pair. Single word values will be allocated either in `ax` or `dx`. For example on i386 the following implements `rdtsc`:

        unsigned long long rdtsc (void)
        {
          unsigned long long tick;
          __asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc":"=A"(tick));
          return tick;
        }

    This is not correct on x86-64 as it would allocate tick in either `ax` or `dx`. You have to use the following variant instead:

        unsigned long long rdtsc (void)
        {
          unsigned int tickl, tickh;
          __asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc":"=a"(tickl),"=d"(tickh));
          return ((unsigned long long)tickh << 32)|tickl;
        }

  `U`

    The call-clobbered integer registers.

  `f`

    Any 80387 floating-point (stack) register.

  `t`

    Top of 80387 floating-point stack (`%st(0)`).

  `u`

    Second from top of 80387 floating-point stack (`%st(1)`).

  `Yk`

    Any mask register that can be used as a predicate, i.e. `k1-k7`.

  `k`

    Any mask register.

  `y`

    Any MMX register.

  `x`

    Any SSE register.

  `v`

    Any EVEX encodable SSE register (`%xmm0-%xmm31`).

  `w`

    Any bound register.

  `Yz`

    First SSE register (`%xmm0`).

  `Yi`

    Any SSE register, when SSE2 and inter-unit moves are enabled.

  `Yj`

    Any SSE register, when SSE2 and inter-unit moves from vector registers are enabled.

  `Ym`

    Any MMX register, when inter-unit moves are enabled.

  `Yn`

    Any MMX register, when inter-unit moves from vector registers are enabled.

  `Yp`

    Any integer register when `TARGET_PARTIAL_REG_STALL` is disabled.

  `Ya`

    Any integer register when zero extensions with `AND` are disabled.

  `Yb`

    Any register that can be used as the GOT base when calling
    `___tls_get_addr`: that is, any general register except `a` and `sp` registers, for `-fno-plt` if linker supports it. Otherwise, `b` register.

  `Yf`

    Any x87 register when 80387 floating-point arithmetic is enabled.

  `Yr`

    Lower SSE register when avoiding REX prefix and all SSE registers otherwise.

  `Yv`

    For AVX512VL, any EVEX-encodable SSE register (`%xmm0-%xmm31`), otherwise any SSE register.

  `Yh`

    Any EVEX-encodable SSE register, that has number factor of four.

  `Bf`

    Flags register operand.

  `Bg`

    GOT memory operand.

  `Bm`

    Vector memory operand.

  `Bc`

    Constant memory operand.

  `Bn`

    Memory operand without REX prefix.

  `Bs`

    Sibcall memory operand.

  `Bw`

    Call memory operand.

  `Bz`

    Constant call address operand.

  `BC`

    SSE constant -1 operand.

  `I`

    Integer constant in the range 0 … 31, for 32-bit shifts.

  `J`

    Integer constant in the range 0 … 63, for 64-bit shifts.

  `K`

    Signed 8-bit integer constant.

  `L`

    `0xFF` or `0xFFFF`, for andsi as a zero-extending move.

  `M`

    0, 1, 2, or 3 (shifts for the `lea` instruction).

  `N`

    Unsigned 8-bit integer constant (for `in` and `out` instructions).

  `O`

    Integer constant in the range 0 … 127, for 128-bit shifts.

  `G`

    Standard 80387 floating point constant.

  `C`

    SSE constant zero operand.

  `e`

    32-bit signed integer constant, or a symbolic reference known to fit that range (for immediate operands in sign-extending x86-64 instructions).

  `We`

    32-bit signed integer constant, or a symbolic reference known to fit that range (for sign-extending conversion operations that require non-`VOIDmode` immediate operands).

  `Wz`

    32-bit unsigned integer constant, or a symbolic reference known to fit that range (for zero-extending conversion operations that require non-`VOIDmode` immediate operands).

  `Wd`

    128-bit integer constant where both the high and low 64-bit word satisfy the `e` constraint.

  `Ws`

    A symbolic reference or label reference. You can use the `%p` modifier to print the raw symbol.

  `Z`

    32-bit unsigned integer constant, or a symbolic reference known to fit that range (for immediate operands in zero-extending x86-64 instructions).

  `Tv`

    VSIB address operand.

  `Ts`

    Address operand without segment register.

Xstormy16—`config/stormy16/stormy16.h`
  `a`

    Register r0.

  `b`

    Register r1.

  `c`

    Register r2.

  `d`

    Register r8.

  `e`

    Registers r0 through r7.

  `t`

    Registers r0 and r1.

  `y`

    The carry register.

  `z`

    Registers r8 and r9.

  `I`

    A constant between 0 and 3 inclusive.

  `J`

    A constant that has exactly one bit set.

  `K`

    A constant that has exactly one bit clear.

  `L`

    A constant between 0 and 255 inclusive.

  `M`

    A constant between −255 and 0 inclusive.

  `N`

    A constant between −3 and 0 inclusive.

  `O`

    A constant between 1 and 4 inclusive.

  `P`

    A constant between −4 and −1 inclusive.

  `Q`

    A memory reference that is a stack push.

  `R`

    A memory reference that is a stack pop.

  `S`

    A memory reference that refers to a constant address of known value.

  `T`

    The register indicated by Rx (not implemented yet).

  `U`

    A constant that is not between 2 and 15 inclusive.

  `Z`

    The constant 0.

Xtensa—`config/xtensa/constraints.md`
  `a`

    General-purpose 32-bit register

  `b`

    One-bit boolean register

  `A`

    MAC16 40-bit accumulator register

  `I`

    Signed 12-bit integer constant, for use in MOVI instructions

  `J`

    Signed 8-bit integer constant, for use in ADDI instructions

  `K`

    Integer constant valid for BccI instructions

  `L`

    Unsigned constant valid for BccUI instructions

#### 17.9.6 Disable insn alternatives using the `enabled` attribute ¶

There are three insn attributes that may be used to selectively disable instruction alternatives:

`enabled`

  Says whether an alternative is available on the current subtarget.

`preferred_for_size`

  Says whether an enabled alternative should be used in code that is optimized for size.

`preferred_for_speed`

  Says whether an enabled alternative should be used in code that is optimized for speed.

All these attributes should use `(const_int 1)` to allow an alternative or `(const_int 0)` to disallow it. The attributes must be a static property of the subtarget; they cannot for example depend on the current operands, on the current optimization level, on the location of the insn within the body of a loop, on whether register allocation has finished, or on the current compiler pass.

The `enabled` attribute is a correctness property. It tells GCC to act as though the disabled alternatives were never defined in the first place. This is useful when adding new instructions to an existing pattern in cases where the new instructions are only available for certain cpu architecture levels (typically mapped to the `-march=` command-line option).

In contrast, the `preferred_for_size` and `preferred_for_speed` attributes are strong optimization hints rather than correctness properties. `preferred_for_size` tells GCC which alternatives to consider when adding or modifying an instruction that GCC wants to optimize for size. `preferred_for_speed` does the same thing for speed. Note that things like code motion can lead to cases where code optimized for size uses alternatives that are not preferred for size, and similarly for speed.

Although `define_insn`s can in principle specify the `enabled` attribute directly, it is often clearer to have subsiduary attributes for each architectural feature of interest. The `define_insn`s can then use these subsiduary attributes to say which alternatives require which features. The example below does this for `cpu_facility`.

E.g. the following two patterns could easily be merged using the `enabled` attribute:

    (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")

to:

    (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")])

with the `enabled` attribute defined like this:

    (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)))

#### 17.9.7 Defining Machine-Specific Constraints ¶

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 `reload` more information.

Machine-specific constraints can be given names of arbitrary length, but they must be entirely composed of letters, digits, underscores (‘`_`’), and angle brackets (‘`< >`’). 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 `x` is defined as a constraint name, `xy` may not be, and vice versa. As a consequence of this rule, no constraint may begin with one of the generic constraint letters: ‘`E F V X g i m n o p r s`’.

Register constraints correspond directly to register classes. See Register Classes. There is thus not much flexibility in their definitions.

MD Expression: define_register_constraint name regclass docstring [filter] ¶

  All arguments are string constants. name is the name of the constraint, as it will appear in `match_operand` expressions. If name is a multi-letter constraint its length shall be the same for all constraints starting with the same letter. regclass can be either the name of the corresponding register class (see 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 `NO_REGS` when the register class is not available on a given subarchitecture.

  If an operand occupies multiple hard registers, the constraint requires all of those registers to belong to regclass. For example, if regclass is `GENERAL_REGS` and `GENERAL_REGS` contains registers `r0` to `r15`, the constraint does not allow r15 to be used for modes that occupy more than one register.

  The choice of register is also constrained by `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK`. For example, if `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` disallows ‘`(reg:DI r1)`’, that requirement applies to all constraints whose classes include `r1`.

  However, it is sometimes useful to impose extra operand-specific requirements on the register number. For example, a target might not want to prevent all odd-even pairs from holding `DImode` values, but it might still need to prevent specific operands from having an odd-numbered register. The optional filter argument exists for such cases. When given, filter is a C++ expression that evaluates to true if `regno` is a valid register for the operand. If an operand occupies multiple registers, the condition applies only to the first register.

  For example:

      (define_register_constraint "e" "GENERAL_REGS" "..." "regno % 2 == 0")

  defines a constraint that requires an even-numbered general register.

  Filter conditions that impose an alignment are encouraged to test the alignment of `regno` itself, as in the example, rather than calculate an offset relative to the start of the class. If it is sometimes necessary for a register of class c to be aligned to n, the first register in c should itself by divisible by n.

  docstring is a sentence documenting the meaning of the constraint. Docstrings are explained further below.

Non-register constraints are more like predicates: the constraint definition gives a boolean expression which indicates whether the constraint matches.

MD Expression: define_constraint name docstring exp ¶

  The name and docstring arguments are the same as for `define_register_constraint`, but note that the docstring comes immediately after the name for these expressions. exp is an RTL expression, obeying the same rules as the RTL expressions in predicate definitions. See Defining Machine-Specific 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.

  `match_test` C expressions have access to the following variables:

  op

    The RTL object defining the operand.

  mode

    The machine mode of op.

  ival

    ‘`INTVAL (op)`’, if op is a `const_int`.

  hval

    ‘`CONST_DOUBLE_HIGH (op)`’, if op is an integer `const_double`.

  lval

    ‘`CONST_DOUBLE_LOW (op)`’, if op is an integer `const_double`.

  rval

    ‘`CONST_DOUBLE_REAL_VALUE (op)`’, if op is a floating-point `const_double`.

  The *val variables should only be used once another piece of the expression has verified that op is the appropriate kind of RTL object.

Most non-register constraints should be defined with `define_constraint`. The remaining two definition expressions are only appropriate for constraints that should be handled specially by `reload` if they fail to match.

MD Expression: define_memory_constraint name docstring exp ¶

  Use this expression for constraints that match a subset of all memory operands: that is, `reload` can make them match by converting the operand to the form ‘`(mem (reg X))`’, where X is a base register (from the register class specified by `BASE_REG_CLASS`, see 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 ‘`Q`’ is defined to represent a memory address of this type. If ‘`Q`’ is defined with `define_memory_constraint`, a ‘`Q`’ constraint can handle any memory operand, because `reload` knows it can simply copy the memory address into a base register if required. This is analogous to the way an ‘`o`’ constraint can handle any memory operand.

  The syntax and semantics are otherwise identical to `define_constraint`.

MD Expression: define_special_memory_constraint name docstring exp ¶

  Use this expression for constraints that match a subset of all memory operands: that is, `reload` cannot make them match by reloading the address as it is described for `define_memory_constraint` or such address reload is undesirable with the performance point of view.

  For example, `define_special_memory_constraint` can be useful if specifically aligned memory is necessary or desirable for some insn operand.

  The syntax and semantics are otherwise identical to `define_memory_constraint`.

MD Expression: define_relaxed_memory_constraint name docstring exp ¶

  The test expression in a `define_memory_constraint` can assume that `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P` holds for the address inside a `mem` rtx and so it does not need to test this condition itself. In other words, a `define_memory_constraint` test of the form:

      (match_test "mem")

  is enough to test whether an rtx is a `mem` and whether its address satisfies `TARGET_MEM_CONSTRAINT` (which is usually ‘`'m'`’). Thus the conditions imposed by a `define_memory_constraint` always apply on top of the conditions imposed by `TARGET_MEM_CONSTRAINT`.

  However, it is sometimes useful to define memory constraints that allow addresses beyond those accepted by `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P`. `define_relaxed_memory_constraint` exists for this case. The test expression in a `define_relaxed_memory_constraint` is applied with no preconditions, so that the expression can determine “from scratch” exactly which addresses are valid and which are not.

  The syntax and semantics are otherwise identical to `define_memory_constraint`.

MD Expression: define_address_constraint name docstring exp ¶

  Use this expression for constraints that match a subset of all address operands: that is, `reload` can make the constraint match by converting the operand to the form ‘`(reg X)`’, again with X a base register.

  Constraints defined with `define_address_constraint` can only be used with the `address_operand` predicate, or machine-specific predicates that work the same way. They are treated analogously to the generic ‘`p`’ constraint.

  The syntax and semantics are otherwise identical to `define_constraint`.

For historical reasons, names beginning with the letters ‘`G H`’ are reserved for constraints that match only `const_double`s, and names beginning with the letters ‘`I J K L M N O P`’ are reserved for constraints that match only `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 `genpreds` can tell you did it correctly:

    (define_constraint "[GHIJKLMNOP]..."
      "doc..."
      (and (match_code "const_int")  ; const_double for G/H
           condition...))            ; usually a match_test

It is fine to use names beginning with other letters for constraints that match `const_double`s or `const_int`s.

Each docstring in a constraint definition should be one or more complete sentences, marked up in Texinfo format. They are currently unused. In the future they will be copied into the GCC manual, in Constraints for Particular Machines, 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 `asm` constraints causes a reload failure.

If you put the pseudo-Texinfo directive ‘`@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 `asm` statements.

#### 17.9.8 Testing constraints from C ¶

It is occasionally useful to test a constraint from C code rather than implicitly via the constraint string in a `match_operand`. The generated file `tm_p.h` declares a few interfaces for working with constraints. At present these are defined for all constraints except `g` (which is equivalent to `general_operand`).

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 ‘`<`’ is replaced with ‘`_l`’, and each ‘`>`’ with ‘`_g`’. Here are some examples:

    Original
    Mangled
    x
    x
    P42x
    P42x
    P4_x
    P4__x
    P4>x
    P4_gx
    P4>>
    P4_g_g
    P4_g>
    P4__g_g

Throughout this section, the variable c is either a constraint in the abstract sense, or a constant from `enum constraint_num`; the variable m is a mangled constraint name (usually as part of a larger identifier).

Enum: constraint_num ¶

  For each constraint except `g`, there is a corresponding enumeration constant: ‘`CONSTRAINT_`’ plus the mangled name of the constraint. Functions that take an `enum constraint_num` as an argument expect one of these constants.

Function: `inline bool` satisfies_constraint_m `(rtx exp)` ¶

  For each non-register constraint m except `g`, there is one of these functions; it returns `true` if exp satisfies the constraint. These functions are only visible if `rtl.h` was included before `tm_p.h`.

Function: `bool` constraint_satisfied_p `(rtx exp, enum constraint_num c)` ¶

  Like the `satisfies_constraint_m` functions, but the constraint to test is given as an argument, c. If c specifies a register constraint, this function will always return `false`.

Function: `enum reg_class` reg_class_for_constraint `(enum constraint_num c)` ¶

  Returns the register class associated with c. If c is not a register constraint, or those registers are not available for the currently selected subtarget, returns `NO_REGS`.

Here is an example use of `satisfies_constraint_m`. In peephole optimizations (see Machine-Specific Peephole Optimizers), 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 not satisfy the ‘`K`’ constraint. (This is a simplified version of a peephole definition from the i386 machine description.)

    (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)))]

      "")

### 17.10 Standard Pattern Names For Generation ¶

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.

‘`movm`’ ¶

  Here 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, ‘`movsi`’ moves full-word data.

  If operand 0 is a `subreg` with mode m of a register whose own mode is wider than m, the effect of this instruction is to store the specified value in the part of the register that corresponds to mode m. Bits outside of m, but which are within the same target word as the `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 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, ‘`movm`’ 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.

  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 `define_expand`, then in such a case the `define_expand` mustn’t call `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.

  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 `change_address`) that will do so may be called. Note that `general_operand` will fail when applied to such an address.

  The global variable `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 `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.

  The macro `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 `gen_reg_rtx` to allocate a new pseudo.

  The constraints on a ‘`movm`’ must permit moving any hard register to any other hard register provided that `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` permits mode m in both registers and `TARGET_REGISTER_MOVE_COST` applied to their classes returns a value of 2.

  It is obligatory to support floating point ‘`movm`’ instructions into and out of any registers that can hold fixed point values, because unions and structures (which have modes `SImode` or `DImode`) can be in those registers and they may have floating point members.

  There may also be a need to support fixed point ‘`movm`’ 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 `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` rejects fixed point values in floating point registers, then the constraints of the fixed point ‘`movm`’ instructions must be designed to avoid ever trying to reload into a floating point register.

‘`reload_inm`’ ¶
‘`reload_outm`’

  These named patterns have been obsoleted by the target hook `secondary_reload`.

  Like ‘`movm`’, 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 `SECONDARY_RELOAD_CLASS` macro in see Register Classes.

  There are special restrictions on the form of the `match_operand`s used in these patterns. First, only the predicate for the reload operand is examined, i.e., `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 `ALL_REGS` register class. This may relieve ports of the burden of defining an `ALL_REGS` constraint letter just for these patterns.

‘`movstrictm`’ ¶

  Like ‘`movm`’ except that if operand 0 is a `subreg` with mode m of a register whose natural mode is wider, the ‘`movstrictm`’ instruction is guaranteed not to alter any of the register except the part which belongs to mode m.

‘`movmisalignm`’ ¶

  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 `MISALIGNED_INDIRECT_REF` expression.

‘`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 `define_expand` (see Defining RTL Sequences for Code Generation) and make the pattern fail if the restrictions are not met.

  Write the generated insn as a `parallel` with elements being a `set` of one register from the appropriate memory location (you may also need `use` or `clobber` elements). Use a `match_parallel` (see RTL Template) to recognize the insn. See `rs6000.md` for examples of the use of this insn pattern.

‘`store_multiple`’ ¶

  Similar to ‘`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.

‘`vec_load_lanesmn`’ ¶

  Perform an interleaved load of several vectors from memory operand 1 into register operand 0. Both operands have mode m. The register operand is viewed as holding consecutive vectors of mode n, while the memory operand is a flat array that contains the same number of elements. The operation is equivalent to:

      int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (m) / GET_MODE_SIZE (n);
      for (j = 0; j < GET_MODE_NUNITS (n); j++)
        for (i = 0; i < c; i++)
          operand0[i][j] = operand1[j * c + i];

  For example, ‘`vec_load_lanestiv4hi`’ loads 8 16-bit values from memory into a register of mode ‘`TI`’. The register contains two consecutive vectors of mode ‘`V4HI`’.

  This pattern can only be used if:

      TARGET_ARRAY_MODE_SUPPORTED_P (n, c)

  is true. GCC assumes that, if a target supports this kind of instruction for some mode n, it also supports unaligned loads for vectors of mode n.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_mask_load_lanesmn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`vec_load_lanesmn`’, but takes an additional mask operand (operand 2) that specifies which elements of the destination vectors should be loaded. Other elements of the destination vectors are set to zero. The operation is equivalent to:

      int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (m) / GET_MODE_SIZE (n);
      for (j = 0; j < GET_MODE_NUNITS (n); j++)
        if (operand2[j])
          for (i = 0; i < c; i++)
            operand0[i][j] = operand1[j * c + i];
        else
          for (i = 0; i < c; i++)
            operand0[i][j] = 0;

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_mask_len_load_lanesmn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`vec_load_lanesmn`’, but takes an additional mask operand (operand 2), length operand (operand 3) as well as bias operand (operand 4) that specifies which elements of the destination vectors should be loaded. Other elements of the destination vectors are undefined. The operation is equivalent to:

      int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (m) / GET_MODE_SIZE (n);
      for (j = 0; j < operand3 + operand4; j++)
        if (operand2[j])
          for (i = 0; i < c; i++)
            operand0[i][j] = operand1[j * c + i];

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_store_lanesmn`’ ¶

  Equivalent to ‘`vec_load_lanesmn`’, with the memory and register operands reversed. That is, the instruction is equivalent to:

      int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (m) / GET_MODE_SIZE (n);
      for (j = 0; j < GET_MODE_NUNITS (n); j++)
        for (i = 0; i < c; i++)
          operand0[j * c + i] = operand1[i][j];

  for a memory operand 0 and register operand 1.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_mask_store_lanesmn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`vec_store_lanesmn`’, but takes an additional mask operand (operand 2) that specifies which elements of the source vectors should be stored. The operation is equivalent to:

      int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (m) / GET_MODE_SIZE (n);
      for (j = 0; j < GET_MODE_NUNITS (n); j++)
        if (operand2[j])
          for (i = 0; i < c; i++)
            operand0[j * c + i] = operand1[i][j];

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_mask_len_store_lanesmn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`vec_store_lanesmn`’, but takes an additional mask operand (operand 2), length operand (operand 3) as well as bias operand (operand 4) that specifies which elements of the source vectors should be stored. The operation is equivalent to:

      int c = GET_MODE_SIZE (m) / GET_MODE_SIZE (n);
      for (j = 0; j < operand3 + operand4; j++)
        if (operand2[j])
          for (i = 0; i < c; i++)
            operand0[j * c + i] = operand1[i][j];

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`gather_loadmn`’ ¶

  Load several separate memory locations into a vector of mode m. Operand 1 is a scalar base address and operand 2 is a vector of mode n containing offsets from that base. Operand 0 is a destination vector with the same number of elements as n. For each element index i:

  - extend the offset element i to address width, using zero extension if operand 3 is 1 and sign extension if operand 3 is zero;
  - multiply the extended offset by operand 4;
  - add the result to the base; and
  - load the value at that address into element i of operand 0.

  The value of operand 3 does not matter if the offsets are already address width.

‘`mask_gather_loadmn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`gather_loadmn`’, but takes an extra mask operand as operand 5. Bit i of the mask is set if element i of the result should be loaded from memory and clear if element i of the result should be set to zero.

‘`mask_len_gather_loadmn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`gather_loadmn`’, but takes an extra mask operand (operand 5), a len operand (operand 6) as well as a bias operand (operand 7). Similar to mask_len_load, the instruction loads at most (operand 6 + operand 7) elements from memory. Bit i of the mask is set if element i of the result should be loaded from memory and clear if element i of the result should be undefined. Mask elements i with i > (operand 6 + operand 7) are ignored.

‘`scatter_storemn`’ ¶

  Store a vector of mode m into several distinct memory locations. Operand 0 is a scalar base address and operand 1 is a vector of mode n containing offsets from that base. Operand 4 is the vector of values that should be stored, which has the same number of elements as n. For each element index i:

  - extend the offset element i to address width, using zero extension if operand 2 is 1 and sign extension if operand 2 is zero;
  - multiply the extended offset by operand 3;
  - add the result to the base; and
  - store element i of operand 4 to that address.

  The value of operand 2 does not matter if the offsets are already address width.

‘`mask_scatter_storemn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`scatter_storemn`’, but takes an extra mask operand as operand 5. Bit i of the mask is set if element i of the result should be stored to memory.

‘`mask_len_scatter_storemn`’ ¶

  Like ‘`scatter_storemn`’, but takes an extra mask operand (operand 5), a len operand (operand 6) as well as a bias operand (operand 7). The instruction stores at most (operand 6 + operand 7) elements of (operand 4) to memory. Bit i of the mask is set if element i of (operand 4) should be stored. Mask elements i with i > (operand 6 + operand 7) are ignored.

‘`vec_setm`’ ¶

  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.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_extractmn`’ ¶

  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. The n mode is the mode of the field or vector of fields that should be extracted, should be either element mode of the vector mode m, or a vector mode with the same element mode and smaller number of elements. If n is a vector mode the index is counted in multiples of mode n.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_initmn`’ ¶

  Initialize the vector to given values. Operand 0 is the vector to initialize and operand 1 is parallel containing values for individual fields. The n mode is the mode of the elements, should be either element mode of the vector mode m, or a vector mode with the same element mode and smaller number of elements.

‘`vec_duplicatem`’ ¶

  Initialize vector output operand 0 so that each element has the value given by scalar input operand 1. The vector has mode m and the scalar has the mode appropriate for one element of m.

  This pattern only handles duplicates of non-constant inputs. Constant vectors go through the `movm` pattern instead.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_seriesm`’ ¶

  Initialize vector output operand 0 so that element i is equal to operand 1 plus i times operand 2. In other words, create a linear series whose base value is operand 1 and whose step is operand 2.

  The vector output has mode m and the scalar inputs have the mode appropriate for one element of m. This pattern is not used for floating-point vectors, in order to avoid having to specify the rounding behavior for i > 1.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

`while_ultmn` ¶

  Set operand 0 to a mask that is true while incrementing operand 1 gives a value that is less than operand 2, for a vector length up to operand 3. Operand 0 has mode n and operands 1 and 2 are scalar integers of mode m. Operand 3 should be omitted when n is a vector mode, and a `CONST_INT` otherwise. The operation for vector modes is equivalent to:

      operand0[0] = operand1 < operand2;
      for (i = 1; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (n); i++)
        operand0[i] = operand0[i - 1] && (operand1 + i < operand2);

  And for non-vector modes the operation is equivalent to:

      operand0[0] = operand1 < operand2;
      for (i = 1; i < operand3; i++)
        operand0[i] = operand0[i - 1] && (operand1 + i < operand2);

`select_vlm` ¶

  Set operand 0 to the number of scalar iterations that should be handled by one iteration of a vector loop. Operand 1 is the total number of scalar iterations that the loop needs to process and operand 2 is a maximum bound on the result (also known as the maximum “vectorization factor”).

  The maximum value of operand 0 is given by:

      operand0 = MIN (operand1, operand2)

  However, targets might choose a lower value than this, based on target-specific criteria. Each iteration of the vector loop might therefore process a different number of scalar iterations, which in turn means that induction variables will have a variable step. Because of this, it is generally not useful to define this instruction if it will always calculate the maximum value.

  This optab is only useful on targets that implement ‘`len_load_m`’ and/or ‘`len_store_m`’.

‘`check_raw_ptrsm`’ ¶

  Check whether, given two pointers a and b and a length len, a write of len bytes at a followed by a read of len bytes at b can be split into interleaved byte accesses ‘`a[0], b[0], a[1], b[1], …`’ without affecting the dependencies between the bytes. Set operand 0 to true if the split is possible and false otherwise.

  Operands 1, 2 and 3 provide the values of a, b and len respectively. Operand 4 is a constant integer that provides the known common alignment of a and b. All inputs have mode m.

  This split is possible if:

      a == b || a + len <= b || b + len <= a

  You should only define this pattern if the target has a way of accelerating the test without having to do the individual comparisons.

‘`check_war_ptrsm`’ ¶

  Like ‘`check_raw_ptrsm`’, but with the read and write swapped round. The split is possible in this case if:

      b <= a || a + len <= b

‘`vec_cmpmn`’ ¶

  Output a vector comparison. Operand 0 of mode n is the destination for predicate in operand 1 which is a signed vector comparison with operands of mode m in operands 2 and 3. Predicate is computed by element-wise evaluation of the vector comparison with a truth value of all-ones and a false value of all-zeros.

‘`vec_cmpumn`’ ¶

  Similar to `vec_cmpmn` but perform unsigned vector comparison.

‘`vec_cmpeqmn`’ ¶

  Similar to `vec_cmpmn` but perform equality or non-equality vector comparison only. If `vec_cmpmn` or `vec_cmpumn` instruction pattern is supported, it will be preferred over `vec_cmpeqmn`, so there is no need to define this instruction pattern if the others are supported.

‘`vcondmn`’ ¶

  Output a conditional vector move. Operand 0 is the destination to receive a combination of operand 1 and operand 2, which are of mode m, dependent on the outcome of the predicate in operand 3 which is a signed vector comparison with operands of mode n in operands 4 and 5. The modes m and n should have the same size. Operand 0 will be set to the value op1 & msk | op2 & ~msk where 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.

‘`vcondumn`’ ¶

  Similar to `vcondmn` but performs unsigned vector comparison.

‘`vcondeqmn`’ ¶

  Similar to `vcondmn` but performs equality or non-equality vector comparison only. If `vcondmn` or `vcondumn` instruction pattern is supported, it will be preferred over `vcondeqmn`, so there is no need to define this instruction pattern if the others are supported.

‘`vcond_mask_mn`’ ¶

  Similar to `vcondmn` but operand 3 holds a pre-computed result of vector comparison.

‘`vcond_mask_mn`’ ¶

  Set each element of operand 0 to the corresponding element of operand 2 or operand 3. Choose operand 2 if both the element index is less than operand 4 plus operand 5 and the corresponding element of operand 1 is nonzero:

      for (i = 0; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (m); i++)
        op0[i] = i < op4 + op5 && op1[i] ? op2[i] : op3[i];

  Operands 0, 2 and 3 have mode m. Operand 1 has mode n. Operands 4 and 5 have a target-dependent scalar integer mode.

‘`maskloadmn`’ ¶

  Perform a masked load of vector from memory operand 1 of mode m into register operand 0. Mask is provided in register operand 2 of mode n.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`maskstoremn`’ ¶

  Perform a masked store of vector from register operand 1 of mode m into memory operand 0. Mask is provided in register operand 2 of mode n.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`len_load_m`’ ¶

  Load (operand 2 + operand 3) elements from memory operand 1 into vector register operand 0, setting the other elements of operand 0 to undefined values. Operands 0 and 1 have mode m, which must be a vector mode. Operand 2 has whichever integer mode the target prefers. Operand 3 conceptually has mode `QI`.

  Operand 2 can be a variable or a constant amount. Operand 3 specifies a constant bias: it is either a constant 0 or a constant -1. The predicate on operand 3 must only accept the bias values that the target actually supports. GCC handles a bias of 0 more efficiently than a bias of -1.

  If (operand 2 + operand 3) exceeds the number of elements in mode m, the behavior is undefined.

  If the target prefers the length to be measured in bytes rather than elements, it should only implement this pattern for vectors of `QI` elements.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`len_store_m`’ ¶

  Store (operand 2 + operand 3) vector elements from vector register operand 1 into memory operand 0, leaving the other elements of operand 0 unchanged. Operands 0 and 1 have mode m, which must be a vector mode. Operand 2 has whichever integer mode the target prefers. Operand 3 conceptually has mode `QI`.

  Operand 2 can be a variable or a constant amount. Operand 3 specifies a constant bias: it is either a constant 0 or a constant -1. The predicate on operand 3 must only accept the bias values that the target actually supports. GCC handles a bias of 0 more efficiently than a bias of -1.

  If (operand 2 + operand 3) exceeds the number of elements in mode m, the behavior is undefined.

  If the target prefers the length to be measured in bytes rather than elements, it should only implement this pattern for vectors of `QI` elements.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`mask_len_loadmn`’ ¶

  Perform a masked load from the memory location pointed to by operand 1 into register operand 0. (operand 3 + operand 4) elements are loaded from memory and other elements in operand 0 are set to undefined values. This is a combination of len_load and maskload. Operands 0 and 1 have mode m, which must be a vector mode. Operand 3 has whichever integer mode the target prefers. A mask is specified in operand 2 which must be of type n. The mask has lower precedence than the length and is itself subject to length masking, i.e. only mask indices < (operand 3 + operand 4) are used. Operand 4 conceptually has mode `QI`.

  Operand 2 can be a variable or a constant amount. Operand 4 specifies a constant bias: it is either a constant 0 or a constant -1. The predicate on operand 4 must only accept the bias values that the target actually supports. GCC handles a bias of 0 more efficiently than a bias of -1.

  If (operand 2 + operand 4) exceeds the number of elements in mode m, the behavior is undefined.

  If the target prefers the length to be measured in bytes rather than elements, it should only implement this pattern for vectors of `QI` elements.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`mask_len_storemn`’ ¶

  Perform a masked store from vector register operand 1 into memory operand 0. (operand 3 + operand 4) elements are stored to memory and leave the other elements of operand 0 unchanged. This is a combination of len_store and maskstore. Operands 0 and 1 have mode m, which must be a vector mode. Operand 3 has whichever integer mode the target prefers. A mask is specified in operand 2 which must be of type n. The mask has lower precedence than the length and is itself subject to length masking, i.e. only mask indices < (operand 3 + operand 4) are used. Operand 4 conceptually has mode `QI`.

  Operand 2 can be a variable or a constant amount. Operand 3 specifies a constant bias: it is either a constant 0 or a constant -1. The predicate on operand 4 must only accept the bias values that the target actually supports. GCC handles a bias of 0 more efficiently than a bias of -1.

  If (operand 2 + operand 4) exceeds the number of elements in mode m, the behavior is undefined.

  If the target prefers the length to be measured in bytes rather than elements, it should only implement this pattern for vectors of `QI` elements.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`vec_permm`’ ¶

  Output a (variable) vector permutation. Operand 0 is the destination to receive elements from operand 1 and operand 2, which are of mode m. Operand 3 is the selector. It is an integral mode vector of the same width and number of elements as mode m.

  The input elements are numbered from 0 in operand 1 through 2*N-1 in operand 2. The elements of the selector must be computed modulo 2*N. Note that if `rtx_equal_p(operand1, operand2)`, this can be implemented with just operand 1 and selector elements modulo N.

  In order to make things easy for a number of targets, if there is no ‘`vec_perm`’ pattern for mode m, but there is for mode q where q is a vector of `QImode` of the same width as m, the middle-end will lower the mode m `VEC_PERM_EXPR` to mode q.

  See also `TARGET_VECTORIZER_VEC_PERM_CONST`, which performs the analogous operation for constant selectors.

‘`pushm1`’ ¶

  Output a push instruction. Operand 0 is value to push. Used only when `PUSH_ROUNDING` is defined. For historical reason, this pattern may be missing and in such case an `mov` expander is used instead, with a `MEM` expression forming the push operation. The `mov` expander method is deprecated.

‘`addm3`’ ¶

  Add operand 2 and operand 1, storing the result in operand 0. All operands must have mode m. This can be used even on two-address machines, by means of constraints requiring operands 1 and 0 to be the same location.

‘`ssaddm3`’, ‘`usaddm3`’ ¶
‘`subm3`’, ‘`sssubm3`’, ‘`ussubm3`’
‘`mulm3`’, ‘`ssmulm3`’, ‘`usmulm3`’
‘`divm3`’, ‘`ssdivm3`’
‘`udivm3`’, ‘`usdivm3`’
‘`modm3`’, ‘`umodm3`’
‘`uminm3`’, ‘`umaxm3`’
‘`andm3`’, ‘`iorm3`’, ‘`xorm3`’

  Similar, for other arithmetic operations.

‘`addvm4`’ ¶

  Like `addm3` but takes a `code_label` as operand 3 and emits code to jump to it if signed overflow occurs during the addition. This pattern is used to implement the built-in functions performing signed integer addition with overflow checking.

‘`subvm4`’, ‘`mulvm4`’ ¶

  Similar, for other signed arithmetic operations.

‘`uaddvm4`’ ¶

  Like `addvm4` but for unsigned addition. That is to say, the operation is the same as signed addition but the jump is taken only on unsigned overflow.

‘`usubvm4`’, ‘`umulvm4`’ ¶

  Similar, for other unsigned arithmetic operations.

‘`uaddcm5`’ ¶

  Adds unsigned operands 2, 3 and 4 (where the last operand is guaranteed to have only values 0 or 1) together, sets operand 0 to the result of the addition of the 3 operands and sets operand 1 to 1 iff there was overflow on the unsigned additions, and to 0 otherwise. So, it is an addition with carry in (operand 4) and carry out (operand 1). All operands have the same mode.

‘`usubcm5`’ ¶

  Similarly to ‘`uaddcm5`’, except subtracts unsigned operands 3 and 4 from operand 2 instead of adding them. So, it is a subtraction with carry/borrow in (operand 4) and carry/borrow out (operand 1). All operands have the same mode.

‘`addptrm3`’ ¶

  Like `addm3` but is guaranteed to only be used for address calculations. The expanded code is not allowed to clobber the condition code. It only needs to be defined if `addm3` sets the condition code. If adds used for address calculations and normal adds are not compatible it is required to expand a distinct pattern (e.g. using an unspec). The pattern is used by LRA to emit address calculations. `addm3` is used if `addptrm3` is not defined.

‘`fmam4`’ ¶

  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 m. This pattern is used to implement the `fma`, `fmaf`, and `fmal` builtin functions from the ISO C99 standard.

‘`fmsm4`’ ¶

  Like `fmam4`, except operand 3 subtracted from the product instead of added to the product. This is represented in the rtl as

      (fma:m op1 op2 (neg:m op3))

‘`fnmam4`’ ¶

  Like `fmam4` except that the intermediate product is negated before being added to operand 3. This is represented in the rtl as

      (fma:m (neg:m op1) op2 op3)

‘`fnmsm4`’ ¶

  Like `fmsm4` except that the intermediate product is negated before subtracting operand 3. This is represented in the rtl as

      (fma:m (neg:m op1) op2 (neg:m op3))

‘`sminm3`’, ‘`smaxm3`’ ¶

  Signed minimum and maximum operations. When used with floating point, if both operands are zeros, or if either operand is `NaN`, then it is unspecified which of the two operands is returned as the result.

‘`fminm3`’, ‘`fmaxm3`’ ¶

  IEEE-conformant minimum and maximum operations. If one operand is a quiet `NaN`, then the other operand is returned. If both operands are quiet `NaN`, then a quiet `NaN` is returned. In the case when gcc supports signaling `NaN` (-fsignaling-nans) an invalid floating point exception is raised and a quiet `NaN` is returned.

  All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode. These patterns are not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`reduc_smin_scal_m`’, ‘`reduc_smax_scal_m`’ ¶

  Find the signed minimum/maximum of the elements of a vector. The vector is operand 1, and operand 0 is the scalar result, with mode equal to the mode of the elements of the input vector.

‘`reduc_umin_scal_m`’, ‘`reduc_umax_scal_m`’ ¶

  Find the unsigned minimum/maximum of the elements of a vector. The vector is operand 1, and operand 0 is the scalar result, with mode equal to the mode of the elements of the input vector.

‘`reduc_fmin_scal_m`’, ‘`reduc_fmax_scal_m`’ ¶

  Find the floating-point minimum/maximum of the elements of a vector, using the same rules as `fminm3` and `fmaxm3`. Operand 1 is a vector of mode m and operand 0 is the scalar result, which has mode `GET_MODE_INNER (m)`.

‘`reduc_plus_scal_m`’ ¶

  Compute the sum of the elements of a vector. The vector is operand 1, and operand 0 is the scalar result, with mode equal to the mode of the elements of the input vector.

‘`reduc_and_scal_m`’ ¶
‘`reduc_ior_scal_m`’
‘`reduc_xor_scal_m`’

  Compute the bitwise `AND`/`IOR`/`XOR` reduction of the elements of a vector of mode m. Operand 1 is the vector input and operand 0 is the scalar result. The mode of the scalar result is the same as one element of m.

`extract_last_m` ¶

  Find the last set bit in mask operand 1 and extract the associated element of vector operand 2. Store the result in scalar operand 0. Operand 2 has vector mode m while operand 0 has the mode appropriate for one element of m. Operand 1 has the usual mask mode for vectors of mode m; see `TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE`.

`fold_extract_last_m` ¶

  If any bits of mask operand 2 are set, find the last set bit, extract the associated element from vector operand 3, and store the result in operand 0. Store operand 1 in operand 0 otherwise. Operand 3 has mode m and operands 0 and 1 have the mode appropriate for one element of m. Operand 2 has the usual mask mode for vectors of mode m; see `TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE`.

`len_fold_extract_last_m` ¶

  Like ‘`fold_extract_last_m`’, but takes an extra length operand as operand 4 and an extra bias operand as operand 5. The last associated element is extracted should have the index i < len (operand 4) + bias (operand 5).

`fold_left_plus_m` ¶

  Take scalar operand 1 and successively add each element from vector operand 2. Store the result in scalar operand 0. The vector has mode m and the scalars have the mode appropriate for one element of m. The operation is strictly in-order: there is no reassociation.

`mask_fold_left_plus_m` ¶

  Like ‘`fold_left_plus_m`’, but takes an additional mask operand (operand 3) that specifies which elements of the source vector should be added.

`mask_len_fold_left_plus_m` ¶

  Like ‘`fold_left_plus_m`’, but takes an additional mask operand (operand 3), len operand (operand 4) and bias operand (operand 5) that performs following operations strictly in-order (no reassociation):

      operand0 = operand1;
      for (i = 0; i < LEN + BIAS; i++)
        if (operand3[i])
          operand0 += operand2[i];

‘`sdot_prodm`’ ¶

  Compute the sum of the products of two signed 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. m is the mode of operand 1 and operand 2.

  Semantically the expressions perform the multiplication in the following signs

      sdot<signed op0, signed op1, signed op2, signed op3> ==
         op0 = sign-ext (op1) * sign-ext (op2) + op3
      ...

‘`udot_prodm`’ ¶

  Compute the sum of the products of two 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. m is the mode of operand 1 and operand 2.

  Semantically the expressions perform the multiplication in the following signs

      udot<unsigned op0, unsigned op1, unsigned op2, unsigned op3> ==
         op0 = zero-ext (op1) * zero-ext (op2) + op3
      ...

‘`usdot_prodm`’ ¶

  Compute the sum of the products of elements of different signs. Operand 1 must be unsigned and operand 2 signed. 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. m is the mode of operand 1 and operand 2.

  Semantically the expressions perform the multiplication in the following signs

      usdot<signed op0, unsigned op1, signed op2, signed op3> ==
         op0 = ((signed-conv) zero-ext (op1)) * sign-ext (op2) + op3
      ...

‘`ssadm`’ ¶
‘`usadm`’

  Compute the sum of absolute differences of two signed/unsigned elements. Operand 1 and operand 2 are of the same mode. Their absolute difference, 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 absolute difference. The result is placed in operand 0, which is of the same mode as operand 3. m is the mode of operand 1 and operand 2.

‘`widen_ssumm3`’ ¶
‘`widen_usumm3`’

  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.) m is the mode of operand 1.

‘`smulhsm3`’ ¶
‘`umulhsm3`’

  Signed/unsigned multiply high with scale. This is equivalent to the C code:

      narrow op0, op1, op2;
      ...
      op0 = (narrow) (((wide) op1 * (wide) op2) >> (N / 2 - 1));

  where the sign of ‘`narrow`’ determines whether this is a signed or unsigned operation, and N is the size of ‘`wide`’ in bits. m is the mode for all 3 operands (narrow). The wide mode is not specified and is defined to fit the whole multiply.

‘`smulhrsm3`’ ¶
‘`umulhrsm3`’

  Signed/unsigned multiply high with round and scale. This is equivalent to the C code:

      narrow op0, op1, op2;
      ...
      op0 = (narrow) (((((wide) op1 * (wide) op2) >> (N / 2 - 2)) + 1) >> 1);

  where the sign of ‘`narrow`’ determines whether this is a signed or unsigned operation, and N is the size of ‘`wide`’ in bits. m is the mode for all 3 operands (narrow). The wide mode is not specified and is defined to fit the whole multiply.

‘`sdiv_pow2m3`’ ¶
‘`sdiv_pow2m3`’

  Signed division by power-of-2 immediate. Equivalent to:

      signed op0, op1;
      ...
      op0 = op1 / (1 << imm);

‘`vec_shl_insert_m`’ ¶

  Shift the elements in vector input operand 1 left one element (i.e. away from element 0) and fill the vacated element 0 with the scalar in operand 2. Store the result in vector output operand 0. Operands 0 and 1 have mode m and operand 2 has the mode appropriate for one element of m.

‘`vec_shl_m`’ ¶

  Whole vector left shift in bits, i.e. away from element 0. 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.

‘`vec_shr_m`’ ¶

  Whole vector right shift in bits, i.e. towards element 0. 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.

‘`vec_pack_trunc_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 S/2 are concatenated after narrowing them down using truncation.

‘`vec_pack_sbool_trunc_m`’ ¶

  Narrow and merge the elements of two vectors. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors of the same type having N boolean elements. Operand 0 is the resulting vector in which 2*N elements are concatenated. The last operand (operand 3) is the number of elements in the output vector 2*N as a `CONST_INT`. This instruction pattern is used when all the vector input and output operands have the same scalar mode m and thus using `vec_pack_trunc_m` would be ambiguous.

‘`vec_pack_ssat_m`’, ‘`vec_pack_usat_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.

‘`vec_pack_sfix_trunc_m`’, ‘`vec_pack_ufix_trunc_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 S/2 are concatenated.

‘`vec_packs_float_m`’, ‘`vec_packu_float_m`’ ¶

  Narrow, convert to floating point type and merge the elements of two vectors. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors of the same mode having N signed/unsigned integral elements of size S. Operand 0 is the resulting vector in which 2*N elements of size S/2 are concatenated.

‘`vec_unpacks_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_unpacks_lo_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).

‘`vec_unpacku_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_unpacku_lo_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).

‘`vec_unpacks_sbool_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_unpacks_sbool_lo_m`’ ¶

  Extract the high/low part of a vector of boolean elements that have scalar mode m. The input vector (operand 1) has N elements, the output vector (operand 0) has N/2 elements. The last operand (operand 2) is the number of elements of the input vector N as a `CONST_INT`. These patterns are used if both the input and output vectors have the same scalar mode m and thus using `vec_unpacks_hi_m` or `vec_unpacks_lo_m` would be ambiguous.

‘`vec_unpacks_float_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_unpacks_float_lo_m`’ ¶
‘`vec_unpacku_float_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_unpacku_float_lo_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).

‘`vec_unpack_sfix_trunc_hi_m`’, ¶
‘`vec_unpack_sfix_trunc_lo_m`’
‘`vec_unpack_ufix_trunc_hi_m`’
‘`vec_unpack_ufix_trunc_lo_m`’

  Extract, convert to signed/unsigned integer type and widen the high/low part of a vector of floating point elements. The input vector (operand 1) has N elements of size S. Convert the high/low elements of the vector to integers and place the resulting N/2 values of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0).

‘`vec_widen_umult_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_umult_lo_m`’ ¶
‘`vec_widen_smult_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_smult_lo_m`’
‘`vec_widen_umult_even_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_umult_odd_m`’
‘`vec_widen_smult_even_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_smult_odd_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). A target shouldn’t implement even/odd pattern pair if it is less efficient than lo/hi one.

‘`vec_widen_ushiftl_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_ushiftl_lo_m`’ ¶
‘`vec_widen_sshiftl_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_sshiftl_lo_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).

‘`vec_widen_uaddl_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_uaddl_lo_m`’ ¶
‘`vec_widen_saddl_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_saddl_lo_m`’

  Signed/Unsigned widening add long. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors with N signed/unsigned elements of size S. Add the high/low elements of 1 and 2 together, widen the resulting elements and put the N/2 results of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0).

‘`vec_widen_usubl_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_usubl_lo_m`’ ¶
‘`vec_widen_ssubl_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_ssubl_lo_m`’

  Signed/Unsigned widening subtract long. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors with N signed/unsigned elements of size S. Subtract the high/low elements of 2 from 1 and widen the resulting elements. Put the N/2 results of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0).

‘`vec_widen_uabd_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_uabd_lo_m`’ ¶
‘`vec_widen_uabd_odd_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_uabd_even_m`’
‘`vec_widen_sabd_hi_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_sabd_lo_m`’
‘`vec_widen_sabd_odd_m`’, ‘`vec_widen_sabd_even_m`’

  Signed/Unsigned widening absolute difference. Operands 1 and 2 are vectors with N signed/unsigned elements of size S. Find the absolute difference between operands 1 and 2 and widen the resulting elements. Put the N/2 results of size 2*S in the output vector (operand 0).

‘`vec_addsubm3`’ ¶

  Alternating subtract, add with even lanes doing subtract and odd lanes doing addition. Operands 1 and 2 and the outout operand are vectors with mode m.

‘`vec_fmaddsubm4`’ ¶

  Alternating multiply subtract, add with even lanes doing subtract and odd lanes doing addition of the third operand to the multiplication result of the first two operands. Operands 1, 2 and 3 and the outout operand are vectors with mode m.

‘`vec_fmsubaddm4`’ ¶

  Alternating multiply add, subtract with even lanes doing addition and odd lanes doing subtraction of the third operand to the multiplication result of the first two operands. Operands 1, 2 and 3 and the outout operand are vectors with mode m.

  These instructions are not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`mulhisi3`’ ¶

  Multiply operands 1 and 2, which have mode `HImode`, and store a `SImode` product in operand 0.

‘`mulqihi3`’, ‘`mulsidi3`’ ¶

  Similar widening-multiplication instructions of other widths.

‘`umulqihi3`’, ‘`umulhisi3`’, ‘`umulsidi3`’ ¶

  Similar widening-multiplication instructions that do unsigned multiplication.

‘`usmulqihi3`’, ‘`usmulhisi3`’, ‘`usmulsidi3`’ ¶

  Similar widening-multiplication instructions that interpret the first operand as unsigned and the second operand as signed, then do a signed multiplication.

‘`smulm3_highpart`’ ¶

  Perform a signed multiplication of operands 1 and 2, which have mode m, and store the most significant half of the product in operand 0. The least significant half of the product is discarded. This may be represented in RTL using a `smul_highpart` RTX expression.

‘`umulm3_highpart`’ ¶

  Similar, but the multiplication is unsigned. This may be represented in RTL using an `umul_highpart` RTX expression.

‘`maddmn4`’ ¶

  Multiply operands 1 and 2, sign-extend them to mode n, add operand 3, and store the result in operand 0. Operands 1 and 2 have mode m and operands 0 and 3 have mode n. Both modes must be integer or fixed-point modes and n must be twice the size of m.

  In other words, `maddmn4` is like `mulmn3` except that it also adds operand 3.

  These instructions are not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`umaddmn4`’ ¶

  Like `maddmn4`, but zero-extend the multiplication operands instead of sign-extending them.

‘`ssmaddmn4`’ ¶

  Like `maddmn4`, but all involved operations must be signed-saturating.

‘`usmaddmn4`’ ¶

  Like `umaddmn4`, but all involved operations must be unsigned-saturating.

‘`msubmn4`’ ¶

  Multiply operands 1 and 2, sign-extend them to mode n, subtract the result from operand 3, and store the result in operand 0. Operands 1 and 2 have mode m and operands 0 and 3 have mode n. Both modes must be integer or fixed-point modes and n must be twice the size of m.

  In other words, `msubmn4` is like `mulmn3` except that it also subtracts the result from operand 3.

  These instructions are not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`umsubmn4`’ ¶

  Like `msubmn4`, but zero-extend the multiplication operands instead of sign-extending them.

‘`ssmsubmn4`’ ¶

  Like `msubmn4`, but all involved operations must be signed-saturating.

‘`usmsubmn4`’ ¶

  Like `umsubmn4`, but all involved operations must be unsigned-saturating.

‘`divmodm4`’ ¶

  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 ‘`divmodm4`’ but do not provide patterns for ‘`divm3`’ and ‘`modm3`’. 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 ‘`divmodm4`’ to call `find_reg_note` and look for a `REG_UNUSED` note on the quotient or remainder and generate the appropriate instruction.

‘`udivmodm4`’ ¶

  Similar, but does unsigned division.

‘`ashlm3`’, ‘`ssashlm3`’, ‘`usashlm3`’ ¶

  Arithmetic-shift operand 1 left by a number of bits specified by operand 2, and store the result in operand 0. Here 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 shift or rotate expander or instruction pattern should explicitly specify the mode of the operand 2, it should never be `VOIDmode`. The meaning of out-of-range shift counts can optionally be specified by `TARGET_SHIFT_TRUNCATION_MASK`. See TARGET_SHIFT_TRUNCATION_MASK. Operand 2 is always a scalar type.

‘`ashrm3`’, ‘`lshrm3`’, ‘`rotlm3`’, ‘`rotrm3`’ ¶

  Other shift and rotate instructions, analogous to the `ashlm3` instructions. Operand 2 is always a scalar type.

‘`vashlm3`’, ‘`vashrm3`’, ‘`vlshrm3`’, ‘`vrotlm3`’, ‘`vrotrm3`’ ¶

  Vector shift and rotate instructions that take vectors as operand 2 instead of a scalar type.

‘`uabdm`’, ‘`sabdm`’ ¶

  Signed and unsigned absolute difference instructions. These instructions find the difference between operands 1 and 2 then return the absolute value. A C code equivalent would be:

      op0 = op1 > op2 ? op1 - op2 : op2 - op1;

‘`avgm3_floor`’ ¶
‘`uavgm3_floor`’

  Signed and unsigned average instructions. These instructions add operands 1 and 2 without truncation, divide the result by 2, round towards -Inf, and store the result in operand 0. This is equivalent to the C code:

      narrow op0, op1, op2;
      ...
      op0 = (narrow) (((wide) op1 + (wide) op2) >> 1);

  where the sign of ‘`narrow`’ determines whether this is a signed or unsigned operation.

‘`avgm3_ceil`’ ¶
‘`uavgm3_ceil`’

  Like ‘`avgm3_floor`’ and ‘`uavgm3_floor`’, but round towards +Inf. This is equivalent to the C code:

      narrow op0, op1, op2;
      ...
      op0 = (narrow) (((wide) op1 + (wide) op2 + 1) >> 1);

‘`bswapm2`’ ¶

  Reverse the order of bytes of operand 1 and store the result in operand 0.

‘`negm2`’, ‘`ssnegm2`’, ‘`usnegm2`’ ¶

  Negate operand 1 and store the result in operand 0.

‘`negvm3`’ ¶

  Like `negm2` but takes a `code_label` as operand 2 and emits code to jump to it if signed overflow occurs during the negation.

‘`absm2`’ ¶

  Store the absolute value of operand 1 into operand 0.

‘`sqrtm2`’ ¶

  Store the square root of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`rsqrtm2`’ ¶

  Store the reciprocal of the square root of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  On most architectures this pattern is only approximate, so either its C condition or the `TARGET_OPTAB_SUPPORTED_P` hook should check for the appropriate math flags. (Using the C condition is more direct, but using `TARGET_OPTAB_SUPPORTED_P` can be useful if a target-specific built-in also uses the ‘`rsqrtm2`’ pattern.)

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`fmodm3`’ ¶

  Store the remainder of dividing operand 1 by operand 2 into operand 0, rounded towards zero to an integer. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`remainderm3`’ ¶

  Store the remainder of dividing operand 1 by operand 2 into operand 0, rounded to the nearest integer. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`scalbm3`’ ¶

  Raise `FLT_RADIX` to the power of operand 2, multiply it by operand 1, and store the result in operand 0. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`ldexpm3`’ ¶

  Raise 2 to the power of operand 2, multiply it by operand 1, and store the result in operand 0. Operands 0 and 1 have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode. Operand 2’s mode has the same number of elements as m and each element is wide enough to store an `int`. The integers are signed.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cosm2`’ ¶

  Store the cosine of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`sinm2`’ ¶

  Store the sine of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`sincosm3`’ ¶

  Store the cosine of operand 2 into operand 0 and the sine of operand 2 into operand 1. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  Targets that can calculate the sine and cosine simultaneously can implement this pattern as opposed to implementing individual `sinm2` and `cosm2` patterns. The `sin` and `cos` built-in functions will then be expanded to the `sincosm3` pattern, with one of the output values left unused.

‘`tanm2`’ ¶

  Store the tangent of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`asinm2`’ ¶

  Store the arc sine of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`acosm2`’ ¶

  Store the arc cosine of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`atanm2`’ ¶

  Store the arc tangent of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`fegetroundm`’ ¶

  Store the current machine floating-point rounding mode into operand 0. Operand 0 has mode m, which is scalar. This pattern is used to implement the `fegetround` function from the ISO C99 standard.

‘`feclearexceptm`’ ¶
‘`feraiseexceptm`’

  Clears or raises the supported machine floating-point exceptions represented by the bits in operand 1. Error status is stored as nonzero value in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar. These patterns are used to implement the `feclearexcept` and `feraiseexcept` functions from the ISO C99 standard.

‘`expm2`’ ¶

  Raise e (the base of natural logarithms) to the power of operand 1 and store the result in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`expm1m2`’ ¶

  Raise e (the base of natural logarithms) to the power of operand 1, subtract 1, and store the result in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  For inputs close to zero, the pattern is expected to be more accurate than a separate `expm2` and `subm3` would be.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`exp10m2`’ ¶

  Raise 10 to the power of operand 1 and store the result in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`exp2m2`’ ¶

  Raise 2 to the power of operand 1 and store the result in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`logm2`’ ¶

  Store the natural logarithm of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`log1pm2`’ ¶

  Add 1 to operand 1, compute the natural logarithm, and store the result in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  For inputs close to zero, the pattern is expected to be more accurate than a separate `addm3` and `logm2` would be.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`log10m2`’ ¶

  Store the base-10 logarithm of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`log2m2`’ ¶

  Store the base-2 logarithm of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`logbm2`’ ¶

  Store the base-`FLT_RADIX` logarithm of operand 1 into operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`signbitm2`’ ¶

  Store the sign bit of floating-point operand 1 in operand 0. m is either a scalar or vector mode. When it is a scalar, operand 1 has mode m but operand 0 must have mode `SImode`. When m is a vector, operand 1 has the mode m. operand 0’s mode should be an vector integer mode which has the same number of elements and the same size as mode m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`significandm2`’ ¶

  Store the significand of floating-point operand 1 in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`powm3`’ ¶

  Store the value of operand 1 raised to the exponent operand 2 into operand 0. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`atan2m3`’ ¶

  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. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`floorm2`’ ¶

  Store the largest integral value not greater than operand 1 in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode. If `-ffp-int-builtin-inexact` is in effect, the “inexact” exception may be raised for noninteger operands; otherwise, it may not.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`btruncm2`’ ¶

  Round operand 1 to an integer, towards zero, and store the result in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode. If `-ffp-int-builtin-inexact` is in effect, the “inexact” exception may be raised for noninteger operands; otherwise, it may not.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`roundm2`’ ¶

  Round operand 1 to the nearest integer, rounding away from zero in the event of a tie, and store the result in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode. If `-ffp-int-builtin-inexact` is in effect, the “inexact” exception may be raised for noninteger operands; otherwise, it may not.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`ceilm2`’ ¶

  Store the smallest integral value not less than operand 1 in operand 0. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode. If `-ffp-int-builtin-inexact` is in effect, the “inexact” exception may be raised for noninteger operands; otherwise, it may not.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`nearbyintm2`’ ¶

  Round operand 1 to an integer, using the current rounding mode, and store the result in operand 0. Do not raise an inexact condition when the result is different from the argument. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`rintm2`’ ¶

  Round operand 1 to an integer, using the current rounding mode, and store the result in operand 0. Raise an inexact condition when the result is different from the argument. Both operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`lrintmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode m) to fixed point mode n as a signed number according to the current rounding mode and store in operand 0 (which has mode n).

‘`lroundmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode m) to fixed point mode n as a signed number rounding to nearest and away from zero and store in operand 0 (which has mode n).

‘`lfloormn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode m) to fixed point mode n as a signed number rounding down and store in operand 0 (which has mode n).

‘`lceilmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode m) to fixed point mode n as a signed number rounding up and store in operand 0 (which has mode n).

‘`copysignm3`’ ¶

  Store a value with the magnitude of operand 1 and the sign of operand 2 into operand 0. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`xorsignm3`’ ¶

  Equivalent to ‘`op0 = op1 * copysign (1.0, op2)`’: store a value with the magnitude of operand 1 and the sign of operand 2 into operand 0. All operands have mode m, which is a scalar or vector floating-point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`issignalingm2`’ ¶

  Set operand 0 to 1 if operand 1 is a signaling NaN and to 0 otherwise.

‘`cadd90m3`’ ¶

  Perform vector add and subtract on even/odd number pairs. The operation being matched is semantically described as

        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 2)
          {
            c[i] = a[i] - b[i+1];
            c[i+1] = a[i+1] + b[i];
          }

  This operation is semantically equivalent to performing a vector addition of complex numbers in operand 1 with operand 2 rotated by 90 degrees around the argand plane and storing the result in operand 0.

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cadd270m3`’ ¶

  Perform vector add and subtract on even/odd number pairs. The operation being matched is semantically described as

        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 2)
          {
            c[i] = a[i] + b[i+1];
            c[i+1] = a[i+1] - b[i];
          }

  This operation is semantically equivalent to performing a vector addition of complex numbers in operand 1 with operand 2 rotated by 270 degrees around the argand plane and storing the result in operand 0.

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cmlam4`’ ¶

  Perform a vector multiply and accumulate that is semantically the same as a multiply and accumulate of complex numbers.

        complex TYPE op0[N];
        complex TYPE op1[N];
        complex TYPE op2[N];
        complex TYPE op3[N];
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 1)
          {
            op0[i] = op1[i] * op2[i] + op3[i];
          }

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cmla_conjm4`’ ¶

  Perform a vector multiply by conjugate and accumulate that is semantically the same as a multiply and accumulate of complex numbers where the second multiply arguments is conjugated.

        complex TYPE op0[N];
        complex TYPE op1[N];
        complex TYPE op2[N];
        complex TYPE op3[N];
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 1)
          {
            op0[i] = op1[i] * conj (op2[i]) + op3[i];
          }

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cmlsm4`’ ¶

  Perform a vector multiply and subtract that is semantically the same as a multiply and subtract of complex numbers.

        complex TYPE op0[N];
        complex TYPE op1[N];
        complex TYPE op2[N];
        complex TYPE op3[N];
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 1)
          {
            op0[i] = op1[i] * op2[i] - op3[i];
          }

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cmls_conjm4`’ ¶

  Perform a vector multiply by conjugate and subtract that is semantically the same as a multiply and subtract of complex numbers where the second multiply arguments is conjugated.

        complex TYPE op0[N];
        complex TYPE op1[N];
        complex TYPE op2[N];
        complex TYPE op3[N];
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 1)
          {
            op0[i] = op1[i] * conj (op2[i]) - op3[i];
          }

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cmulm4`’ ¶

  Perform a vector multiply that is semantically the same as multiply of complex numbers.

        complex TYPE op0[N];
        complex TYPE op1[N];
        complex TYPE op2[N];
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 1)
          {
            op0[i] = op1[i] * op2[i];
          }

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`cmul_conjm4`’ ¶

  Perform a vector multiply by conjugate that is semantically the same as a multiply of complex numbers where the second multiply arguments is conjugated.

        complex TYPE op0[N];
        complex TYPE op1[N];
        complex TYPE op2[N];
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 1)
          {
            op0[i] = op1[i] * conj (op2[i]);
          }

  In GCC lane ordering the real part of the number must be in the even lanes with the imaginary part in the odd lanes.

  The operation is only supported for vector modes m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`ffsm2`’ ¶

  Store into operand 0 one plus the index of the least significant 1-bit of operand 1. If operand 1 is zero, store zero.

  m is either a scalar or vector integer mode. When it is a scalar, operand 1 has mode m but operand 0 can have whatever scalar integer mode is suitable for the target. The compiler will insert conversion instructions as necessary (typically to convert the result to the same width as `int`). When m is a vector, both operands must have mode m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`clrsbm2`’ ¶

  Count leading redundant sign bits. Store into operand 0 the number of redundant sign bits in operand 1, starting at the most significant bit position. A redundant sign bit is defined as any sign bit after the first. As such, this count will be one less than the count of leading sign bits.

  m is either a scalar or vector integer mode. When it is a scalar, operand 1 has mode m but operand 0 can have whatever scalar integer mode is suitable for the target. The compiler will insert conversion instructions as necessary (typically to convert the result to the same width as `int`). When m is a vector, both operands must have mode m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`clzm2`’ ¶

  Store into operand 0 the number of leading 0-bits in operand 1, starting at the most significant bit position. If operand 1 is 0, the `CLZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO` (see Miscellaneous Parameters) macro defines if the result is undefined or has a useful value.

  m is either a scalar or vector integer mode. When it is a scalar, operand 1 has mode m but operand 0 can have whatever scalar integer mode is suitable for the target. The compiler will insert conversion instructions as necessary (typically to convert the result to the same width as `int`). When m is a vector, both operands must have mode m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`ctzm2`’ ¶

  Store into operand 0 the number of trailing 0-bits in operand 1, starting at the least significant bit position. If operand 1 is 0, the `CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO` (see Miscellaneous Parameters) macro defines if the result is undefined or has a useful value.

  m is either a scalar or vector integer mode. When it is a scalar, operand 1 has mode m but operand 0 can have whatever scalar integer mode is suitable for the target. The compiler will insert conversion instructions as necessary (typically to convert the result to the same width as `int`). When m is a vector, both operands must have mode m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`popcountm2`’ ¶

  Store into operand 0 the number of 1-bits in operand 1.

  m is either a scalar or vector integer mode. When it is a scalar, operand 1 has mode m but operand 0 can have whatever scalar integer mode is suitable for the target. The compiler will insert conversion instructions as necessary (typically to convert the result to the same width as `int`). When m is a vector, both operands must have mode m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`paritym2`’ ¶

  Store into operand 0 the parity of operand 1, i.e. the number of 1-bits in operand 1 modulo 2.

  m is either a scalar or vector integer mode. When it is a scalar, operand 1 has mode m but operand 0 can have whatever scalar integer mode is suitable for the target. The compiler will insert conversion instructions as necessary (typically to convert the result to the same width as `int`). When m is a vector, both operands must have mode m.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

‘`one_cmplm2`’ ¶

  Store the bitwise-complement of operand 1 into operand 0.

‘`cpymemm`’ ¶

  Block copy instruction. The destination and source blocks of memory are the first two operands, and both are `mem:BLK`s with an address in mode `Pmode`.

  The number of bytes to copy is the third operand, in mode m. Usually, you specify `Pmode` for m. However, if you can generate better code knowing the range of valid lengths is smaller than those representable in a full Pmode pointer, you should provide a pattern with a mode corresponding to the range of values you can handle efficiently (e.g., `QImode` for values in the range 0–127; note we avoid numbers that appear negative) and also a pattern with `Pmode`.

  The fourth operand is the known shared alignment of the source and destination, in the form of a `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 `(const_int -1)`.

  Descriptions of multiple `cpymemm` 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 m in `cpymemm` does not impose any restriction on the mode of individually copied data units in the block.

  The `cpymemm` patterns need not give special consideration to the possibility that the source and destination strings might overlap. An exception is the case where source and destination are equal, this case needs to be handled correctly. These patterns are used to do inline expansion of `__builtin_memcpy`.

‘`movmemm`’ ¶

  Block move instruction. The destination and source blocks of memory are the first two operands, and both are `mem:BLK`s with an address in mode `Pmode`.

  The number of bytes to copy is the third operand, in mode m. Usually, you specify `Pmode` for m. However, if you can generate better code knowing the range of valid lengths is smaller than those representable in a full Pmode pointer, you should provide a pattern with a mode corresponding to the range of values you can handle efficiently (e.g., `QImode` for values in the range 0–127; note we avoid numbers that appear negative) and also a pattern with `Pmode`.

  The fourth operand is the known shared alignment of the source and destination, in the form of a `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 `(const_int -1)`.

  Descriptions of multiple `movmemm` 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 m in `movmemm` does not impose any restriction on the mode of individually copied data units in the block.

  The `movmemm` patterns must correctly handle the case where the source and destination strings overlap. These patterns are used to do inline expansion of `__builtin_memmove`.

‘`movstr`’ ¶

  String copy instruction, with `stpcpy` semantics. Operand 0 is an output operand in mode `Pmode`. The addresses of the destination and source strings are operands 1 and 2, and both are `mem:BLK`s with addresses in mode `Pmode`. The execution of the expansion of this pattern should store in operand 0 the address in which the `NUL` terminator was stored in the destination string.

  This pattern has also several optional operands that are same as in `setmem`.

‘`setmemm`’ ¶

  Block set instruction. The destination string is the first operand, given as a `mem:BLK` whose address is in mode `Pmode`. The number of bytes to set is the second operand, in mode 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 ‘`cpymemm`’ for a discussion of the choice of mode.

  The fourth operand is the known alignment of the destination, in the form of a `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 `(const_int -1)`. Operand 7 is the minimal size of the block and operand 8 is the maximal size of the block (NULL if it cannot be represented as CONST_INT). Operand 9 is the probable maximal size (i.e. we cannot rely on it for correctness, but it can be used for choosing proper code sequence for a given size).

  The use for multiple `setmemm` is as for `cpymemm`.

‘`cmpstrnm`’ ¶

  String compare instruction, with five operands. Operand 0 is the output; it has mode m. The remaining four operands are like the operands of ‘`cpymemm`’. 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.

‘`cmpstrm`’ ¶

  String compare instruction, without known maximum length. Operand 0 is the output; it has mode m. The second and third operand are the blocks of memory to be compared; both are `mem:BLK` with an address in mode `Pmode`.

  The fourth operand is the known shared alignment of the source and destination, in the form of a `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.

‘`cmpmemm`’ ¶

  Block compare instruction, with five operands like the operands of ‘`cmpstrm`’. The two memory blocks specified are compared byte by byte in lexicographic order starting at the beginning of each block. Unlike ‘`cmpstrm`’ the instruction can prefetch any bytes in the two memory blocks. Also unlike ‘`cmpstrm`’ 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.

‘`strlenm`’ ¶

  Compute the length of a string, with three operands. Operand 0 is the result (of mode m), operand 1 is a `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.

‘`rawmemchrm`’ ¶

  Scan memory referred to by operand 1 for the first occurrence of operand 2. Operand 1 is a `mem` and operand 2 a `const_int` of mode m. Operand 0 is the result, i.e., a pointer to the first occurrence of operand 2 in the memory block given by operand 1.

‘`floatmn2`’ ¶

  Convert signed integer operand 1 (valid for fixed point mode m) to floating point mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n).

‘`floatunsmn2`’ ¶

  Convert unsigned integer operand 1 (valid for fixed point mode m) to floating point mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n).

‘`fixmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode m) to fixed point mode n as a signed number and store in operand 0 (which has mode 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 `ftrunc` pattern.

‘`fixunsmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode m) to fixed point mode n as an unsigned number and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). This instruction’s result is defined only when the value of operand 1 is an integer.

‘`ftruncm2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 (valid for floating point mode m) to an integer value, still represented in floating point mode m, and store it in operand 0 (valid for floating point mode m).

‘`fix_truncmn2`’ ¶

  Like ‘`fixmn2`’ but works for any floating point value of mode m by converting the value to an integer.

‘`fixuns_truncmn2`’ ¶

  Like ‘`fixunsmn2`’ but works for any floating point value of mode m by converting the value to an integer.

‘`truncmn2`’ ¶

  Truncate operand 1 (valid for mode m) to mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). Both modes must be fixed point or both floating point.

‘`extendmn2`’ ¶

  Sign-extend operand 1 (valid for mode m) to mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). Both modes must be fixed point or both floating point.

‘`zero_extendmn2`’ ¶

  Zero-extend operand 1 (valid for mode m) to mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). Both modes must be fixed point.

‘`fractmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 of mode m to mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). Mode m and mode 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.

‘`satfractmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 of mode m to mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). Mode m and mode 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.

‘`fractunsmn2`’ ¶

  Convert operand 1 of mode m to mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). Mode m and mode n could be unsigned integer to fixed-point, or fixed-point to unsigned integer. When overflows or underflows happen, the results are undefined.

‘`satfractunsmn2`’ ¶

  Convert unsigned integer operand 1 of mode m to fixed-point mode n and store in operand 0 (which has mode n). When overflows or underflows happen, the instruction saturates the results to the maximum or the minimum.

‘`extvm`’ ¶

  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 ‘`BITS_BIG_ENDIAN`’ is true and from the least significant bit otherwise.

  Operands 0 and 1 both have mode m. Operands 2 and 3 have a target-specific mode.

‘`extvmisalignm`’ ¶

  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 ‘`BITS_BIG_ENDIAN`’ is true and from the least significant bit otherwise.

  Operand 0 has mode m while operand 1 has `BLK` mode. Operands 2 and 3 have a target-specific mode.

  The instruction must not read beyond the last byte of the bit-field.

‘`extzvm`’ ¶

  Like ‘`extvm`’ except that the bit-field value is zero-extended.

‘`extzvmisalignm`’ ¶

  Like ‘`extvmisalignm`’ except that the bit-field value is zero-extended.

‘`insvm`’ ¶

  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 ‘`BITS_BIG_ENDIAN`’ is true and from the least significant bit otherwise.

  Operands 0 and 3 both have mode m. Operands 1 and 2 have a target-specific mode.

‘`insvmisalignm`’ ¶

  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 ‘`BITS_BIG_ENDIAN`’ is true and from the least significant bit otherwise.

  Operand 3 has mode m while operand 0 has `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.

‘`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 `word_mode`. Operand 1 may have mode `byte_mode` or `word_mode`; often `word_mode` is allowed only for registers. Operands 2 and 3 must be valid for `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 ‘`extvm`’ and `extvmisalignm` instead.

‘`extzv`’ ¶

  Like ‘`extv`’ except that the bit-field value is zero-extended.

  This pattern is deprecated; please use ‘`extzvm`’ and `extzvmisalignm` instead.

‘`insv`’ ¶

  Store operand 3 (which must be valid for `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 `byte_mode` or `word_mode`; often `word_mode` is allowed only for registers. Operands 1 and 2 must be valid for `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 ‘`insvm`’ and `insvmisalignm` instead.

‘`movmodecc`’ ¶

  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.

‘`addmodecc`’ ¶

  Similar to ‘`movmodecc`’ 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.

‘`cond_negmode`’ ¶
‘`cond_one_cmplmode`’

  When operand 1 is true, perform an operation on operands 2 and store the result in operand 0, otherwise store operand 3 in operand 0. The operation works elementwise if the operands are vectors.

  The scalar case is equivalent to:

      op0 = op1 ? op op2 : op3;

  while the vector case is equivalent to:

      for (i = 0; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (m); i++)
        op0[i] = op1[i] ? op op2[i] : op3[i];

  where, for example, op is `~` for ‘`cond_one_cmplmode`’.

  When defined for floating-point modes, the contents of ‘`op2[i]`’ are not interpreted if ‘`op1[i]`’ is false, just like they would not be in a normal C ‘`?:`’ condition.

  Operands 0, 2, and 3 all have mode m. Operand 1 is a scalar integer if m is scalar, otherwise it has the mode returned by `TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE`.

  ‘`cond_opmode`’ generally corresponds to a conditional form of ‘`opmode2`’.

‘`cond_addmode`’ ¶
‘`cond_submode`’
‘`cond_mulmode`’
‘`cond_divmode`’
‘`cond_udivmode`’
‘`cond_modmode`’
‘`cond_umodmode`’
‘`cond_andmode`’
‘`cond_iormode`’
‘`cond_xormode`’
‘`cond_sminmode`’
‘`cond_smaxmode`’
‘`cond_uminmode`’
‘`cond_umaxmode`’
‘`cond_copysignmode`’
‘`cond_fminmode`’
‘`cond_fmaxmode`’
‘`cond_ashlmode`’
‘`cond_ashrmode`’
‘`cond_lshrmode`’

  When operand 1 is true, perform an operation on operands 2 and 3 and store the result in operand 0, otherwise store operand 4 in operand 0. The operation works elementwise if the operands are vectors.

  The scalar case is equivalent to:

      op0 = op1 ? op2 op op3 : op4;

  while the vector case is equivalent to:

      for (i = 0; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (m); i++)
        op0[i] = op1[i] ? op2[i] op op3[i] : op4[i];

  where, for example, op is `+` for ‘`cond_addmode`’.

  When defined for floating-point modes, the contents of ‘`op3[i]`’ are not interpreted if ‘`op1[i]`’ is false, just like they would not be in a normal C ‘`?:`’ condition.

  Operands 0, 2, 3 and 4 all have mode m. Operand 1 is a scalar integer if m is scalar, otherwise it has the mode returned by `TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE`.

  ‘`cond_opmode`’ generally corresponds to a conditional form of ‘`opmode3`’. As an exception, the vector forms of shifts correspond to patterns like `vashlmode3` rather than patterns like `ashlmode3`.

  ‘`cond_copysignmode`’ is only defined for floating point modes.

‘`cond_fmamode`’ ¶
‘`cond_fmsmode`’
‘`cond_fnmamode`’
‘`cond_fnmsmode`’

  Like ‘`cond_addm`’, except that the conditional operation takes 3 operands rather than two. For example, the vector form of ‘`cond_fmamode`’ is equivalent to:

      for (i = 0; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (m); i++)
        op0[i] = op1[i] ? fma (op2[i], op3[i], op4[i]) : op5[i];

‘`cond_len_negmode`’ ¶
‘`cond_len_one_cmplmode`’

  When operand 1 is true and element index < operand 4 + operand 5, perform an operation on operands 1 and store the result in operand 0, otherwise store operand 2 in operand 0. The operation only works for the operands are vectors.

      for (i = 0; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (m); i++)
        op0[i] = (i < ops[4] + ops[5] && op1[i]
                  ? op op2[i]
                  : op3[i]);

  where, for example, op is `~` for ‘`cond_len_one_cmplmode`’.

  When defined for floating-point modes, the contents of ‘`op2[i]`’ are not interpreted if ‘`op1[i]`’ is false, just like they would not be in a normal C ‘`?:`’ condition.

  Operands 0, 2, and 3 all have mode m. Operand 1 is a scalar integer if m is scalar, otherwise it has the mode returned by `TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE`. Operand 4 has whichever integer mode the target prefers.

  ‘`cond_len_opmode`’ generally corresponds to a conditional form of ‘`opmode2`’.

‘`cond_len_addmode`’ ¶
‘`cond_len_submode`’
‘`cond_len_mulmode`’
‘`cond_len_divmode`’
‘`cond_len_udivmode`’
‘`cond_len_modmode`’
‘`cond_len_umodmode`’
‘`cond_len_andmode`’
‘`cond_len_iormode`’
‘`cond_len_xormode`’
‘`cond_len_sminmode`’
‘`cond_len_smaxmode`’
‘`cond_len_uminmode`’
‘`cond_len_umaxmode`’
‘`cond_len_copysignmode`’
‘`cond_len_fminmode`’
‘`cond_len_fmaxmode`’
‘`cond_len_ashlmode`’
‘`cond_len_ashrmode`’
‘`cond_len_lshrmode`’

  When operand 1 is true and element index < operand 5 + operand 6, perform an operation on operands 2 and 3 and store the result in operand 0, otherwise store operand 4 in operand 0. The operation only works for the operands are vectors.

      for (i = 0; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (m); i++)
        op0[i] = (i < ops[5] + ops[6] && op1[i]
                  ? op2[i] op op3[i]
                  : op4[i]);

  where, for example, op is `+` for ‘`cond_len_addmode`’.

  When defined for floating-point modes, the contents of ‘`op3[i]`’ are not interpreted if ‘`op1[i]`’ is false, just like they would not be in a normal C ‘`?:`’ condition.

  Operands 0, 2, 3 and 4 all have mode m. Operand 1 is a scalar integer if m is scalar, otherwise it has the mode returned by `TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE`. Operand 5 has whichever integer mode the target prefers.

  ‘`cond_len_opmode`’ generally corresponds to a conditional form of ‘`opmode3`’. As an exception, the vector forms of shifts correspond to patterns like `vashlmode3` rather than patterns like `ashlmode3`.

  ‘`cond_len_copysignmode`’ is only defined for floating point modes.

‘`cond_len_fmamode`’ ¶
‘`cond_len_fmsmode`’
‘`cond_len_fnmamode`’
‘`cond_len_fnmsmode`’

  Like ‘`cond_len_addm`’, except that the conditional operation takes 3 operands rather than two. For example, the vector form of ‘`cond_len_fmamode`’ is equivalent to:

      for (i = 0; i < GET_MODE_NUNITS (m); i++)
        op0[i] = (i < ops[6] + ops[7] && op1[i]
                  ? fma (op2[i], op3[i], op4[i])
                  : op5[i]);

‘`negmodecc`’ ¶

  Similar to ‘`movmodecc`’ but for conditional negation. Conditionally move the negation of operand 2 or the unchanged operand 3 into operand 0 according to the comparison in operand 1. If the comparison is true, the negation of operand 2 is moved into operand 0, otherwise operand 3 is moved.

‘`notmodecc`’ ¶

  Similar to ‘`negmodecc`’ but for conditional complement. Conditionally move the bitwise complement of operand 2 or the unchanged operand 3 into operand 0 according to the comparison in operand 1. If the comparison is true, the complement of operand 2 is moved into operand 0, otherwise operand 3 is moved.

‘`cstoremode4`’ ¶

  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 `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 `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` (see Miscellaneous Parameters). If a description cannot be found that can be used for all the possible comparison operators, you should pick one and use a `define_expand` to map all results onto the one you chose.

  These operations may `FAIL`, but should do so only in relatively uncommon cases; if they would `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 `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 ‘`cstoremode4`’ pattern followed by those required to convert a positive result from `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` to 1; in this case, you can and should make operand 1’s predicate reject some operators in the ‘`cstoremode4`’ pattern, or remove the pattern altogether from the machine description.

‘`tbranch_opmode3`’ ¶

  Conditional branch instruction combined with a bit test-and-compare instruction. Operand 0 is the operand of the comparison. Operand 1 is the bit position of Operand 1 to test. Operand 3 is the `code_label` to jump to. op is one of eq or ne.

‘`cbranchmode4`’ ¶

  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 the `code_label` to jump to.

‘`jump`’ ¶

  A jump inside a function; an unconditional branch. Operand 0 is the `code_label` to jump to. This pattern name is mandatory on all machines.

‘`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 `const_int`. Operand 2 is the result of calling the target hook `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` with the second argument `arg` yielding true for `arg.end_marker_p ()`, in a call after all parameters have been passed to that hook. By default this is the first register beyond those used for arguments in the call, or `NULL` if all the argument-registers are used in the call.

  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 `mem` RTX whose address is the address of the function. Note, however, that this address can be a `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 `define_expand` (see Defining RTL Sequences for Code Generation) that places the address into a register and uses that register in the call instruction.

‘`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 ‘`call`’ instruction (but with numbers increased by one).

  Subroutines that return `BLKmode` objects use the ‘`call`’ insn.

‘`call_pop`’, ‘`call_value_pop`’ ¶

  Similar to ‘`call`’ and ‘`call_value`’, except used if defined and if `RETURN_POPS_ARGS` is nonzero. They should emit a `parallel` that contains both the function call and a `set` to indicate the adjustment made to the frame pointer.

  For machines where `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.

‘`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 `parallel` expression where each element is a `set` expression that indicates the saving of a function return value into the result block.

  This instruction pattern should be defined to support `__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. `FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P` is true for more than one register).

‘`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 ‘`movm`’ 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 `simple_return` if no epilogue is required.

‘`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 `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.

  For such machines, the condition specified in this pattern should only be true when `reload_completed` is nonzero and the function’s epilogue would only be a single instruction. For machines with register windows, the routine `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

      (define_insn ""
        [(set (pc)
              (if_then_else (match_operator
                               0 "comparison_operator"
                               [(reg:CC CC_REG) (const_int 0)])
                            (return)
                            (pc)))]
        "condition"
        "...")

  where condition would normally be the same condition specified on the named ‘`return`’ pattern.

‘`untyped_return`’ ¶

  Untyped subroutine return instruction. This instruction pattern should be defined to support `__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 `__builtin_apply` is stored; operand 1 is a `parallel` expression where each element is a `set` expression that indicates the restoring of a function return value from the result block.

‘`nop`’ ¶

  No-op instruction. This instruction pattern name should always be defined to output a no-op in assembler code. `(const_int 0)` will do as an RTL pattern.

‘`indirect_jump`’ ¶

  An instruction to jump to an address which is operand zero. This pattern name is mandatory on all machines.

‘`casesi`’ ¶

  Instruction to jump through a dispatch table, including bounds checking. This instruction takes five operands:

  1. The index to dispatch on, which has mode `SImode`.
  2. The lower bound for indices in the table, an integer constant.
  3. The total range of indices in the table—the largest index minus the smallest one (both inclusive).
  4. A label that precedes the table itself.
  5. A label to jump to if the index has a value outside the bounds.

  The table is an `addr_vec` or `addr_diff_vec` inside of a `jump_table_data`. The number of elements in the table is one plus the difference between the upper bound and the lower bound.

‘`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 ‘`casesi`’ pattern.

  This pattern requires two operands: the address or offset, and a label which should immediately precede the jump table. If the macro `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 `Pmode`.

  The ‘`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.

‘`doloop_end`’ ¶

  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. See Defining Looping Instruction 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. The target hook `TARGET_CAN_USE_DOLOOP_P` controls the conditions under which low-overhead loops can be used.

‘`doloop_begin`’ ¶

  Companion instruction to `doloop_end` required for machines that need to perform some initialization, such as loading a special counter register. Operand 1 is the associated `doloop_end` pattern and operand 0 is the register that it decrements.

  If initialization insns do not always need to be emitted, use a `define_expand` (see Defining RTL Sequences for Code Generation) and make it fail.

‘`canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare`’ ¶

  Canonicalize the function pointer in operand 1 and store the result into operand 0.

  Operand 0 is always a `reg` and has mode `Pmode`; operand 1 may be a `reg`, `mem`, `symbol_ref`, `const_int`, etc and also has mode `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.

‘`save_stack_block`’ ¶
‘`save_stack_function`’
‘`save_stack_nonlocal`’
‘`restore_stack_block`’
‘`restore_stack_function`’
‘`restore_stack_nonlocal`’

  Most machines save and restore the stack pointer by copying it to or from an object of mode `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 `define_expand` (see Defining RTL Sequences for Code Generation) that produces the required insns. The three types of saves and restores are:

  1. ‘`save_stack_block`’ saves the stack pointer at the start of a block that allocates a variable-sized object, and ‘`restore_stack_block`’ restores the stack pointer when the block is exited.
  2. ‘`save_stack_function`’ and ‘`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 `alloca`. Only the epilogue uses the restored stack pointer, allowing a simpler save or restore sequence on some machines.
  3. ‘`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 ‘`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.

  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 `Pmode` but you can override that choice by defining the `STACK_SAVEAREA_MODE` macro (see Storage Layout). You must specify an integral mode, or `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 ‘`save_stack_block`’ is defined, operand 0 must not be `VOIDmode` since these saves can be arbitrarily nested.

  A save area is a `mem` that is at a constant offset from `virtual_stack_vars_rtx` when the stack pointer is saved for use by nonlocal gotos and a `reg` in the other two cases.

‘`allocate_stack`’ ¶

  Subtract (or add if `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 `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.

‘`check_stack`’ ¶

  If stack checking (see Specifying How Stack Checking is Done) 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.

‘`probe_stack_address`’ ¶

  If stack checking (see Specifying How Stack Checking is Done) 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.

‘`probe_stack`’ ¶

  If stack checking (see Specifying How Stack Checking is Done) 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.

‘`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 ‘`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.

‘`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.

‘`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.

‘`builtin_setjmp_setup`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, contains additional code needed to initialize the `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 `jmp_buf`. Note that the buffer is five words long and that the first three are normally used by the generic mechanism.

‘`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.

‘`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 `builtin_setjmp_setup`. The single argument is a pointer to the `jmp_buf`.

‘`eh_return`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, affects the way `__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 `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 `EH_RETURN_HANDLER_RTX`. Either that macro or this pattern needs to be defined if call frame exception handling is to be used.

‘`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 `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE` to emit assembly code for the prologue.

  The `prologue` pattern is particularly useful for targets which perform instruction scheduling.

‘`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.

‘`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 `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` to emit assembly code for the epilogue.

  The `epilogue` pattern is particularly useful for targets which perform instruction scheduling or which have delay slots for their return instruction.

‘`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 `sibcall_epilogue` pattern must not clobber any arguments used for parameter passing or any stack slots for arguments passed to the current function.

‘`trap`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, signals an error, typically by causing some kind of signal to be raised.

‘`ctrapMM4`’ ¶

  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 `ctrap` pattern looks like

      (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"))]
        ""
        "...")

‘`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.

‘`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.

‘`memory_blockage`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, represents a compiler memory barrier, and will be placed at points across which RTL passes may not propagate memory accesses. This instruction needs to read and write volatile BLKmode memory. It does not need to generate any machine instruction. If this pattern is not defined, the compiler falls back to emitting an instruction corresponding to `asm volatile ("" ::: "memory")`.

‘`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.

‘`speculation_barrier`’ ¶

  If the target can support speculative execution, then this pattern should be defined to an instruction that will block subsequent execution until any prior speculation conditions has been resolved. The pattern must also ensure that the compiler cannot move memory operations past the barrier, so it needs to be an UNSPEC_VOLATILE pattern. The pattern has no operands.

  If this pattern is not defined then the default expansion of `__builtin_speculation_safe_value` will emit a warning. You can suppress this warning by defining this pattern with a final condition of `0` (zero), which tells the compiler that a speculation barrier is not needed for this target.

‘`sync_compare_and_swapmode`’ ¶

  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 `MODE_CC` set in the output of `sync_compare_and_swapmode`; if the machine description includes such a set, the target should also define special `cbranchcc4` and/or `cstorecc4` instructions. GCC will then be able to take the destination of the `MODE_CC` set and pass it to the `cbranchcc4` or `cstorecc4` pattern as the first operand of the comparison (the second will be `(const_int 0)`).

  For targets where the operating system may provide support for this operation via library calls, the `sync_compare_and_swap_optab` may be initialized to a function with the same interface as the `__sync_val_compare_and_swap_n` built-in. If the entire set of __sync builtins are supported via library calls, the target can initialize all of the optabs at once with `init_sync_libfuncs`. For the purposes of C++11 `std::atomic::is_lock_free`, it is assumed that these library calls do not use any kind of interruptable locking.

‘`sync_addmode`’, ‘`sync_submode`’ ¶
‘`sync_iormode`’, ‘`sync_andmode`’
‘`sync_xormode`’, ‘`sync_nandmode`’

  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.

‘`sync_old_addmode`’, ‘`sync_old_submode`’ ¶
‘`sync_old_iormode`’, ‘`sync_old_andmode`’
‘`sync_old_xormode`’, ‘`sync_old_nandmode`’

  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.

‘`sync_new_addmode`’, ‘`sync_new_submode`’ ¶
‘`sync_new_iormode`’, ‘`sync_new_andmode`’
‘`sync_new_xormode`’, ‘`sync_new_nandmode`’

  These patterns are like their `sync_old_op` counterparts, except that they return the value that exists in the memory location after the operation, rather than before the operation.

‘`sync_lock_test_and_setmode`’ ¶

  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 `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.

‘`sync_lock_releasemode`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, releases a lock set by `sync_lock_test_and_setmode`. 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 `sync_lock_test_and_setmode`, any value operand which is not the constant 0 should be rejected with `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 `memory_barrier` pattern will be emitted, followed by a store of the value to the memory operand.

‘`atomic_compare_and_swapmode`’ ¶

  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 `__atomic_compare_exchange` built-in functions will utilize the legacy `sync_compare_and_swap` pattern with an `__ATOMIC_SEQ_CST` memory model.

‘`atomic_loadmode`’ ¶

  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 `__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.

‘`atomic_storemode`’ ¶

  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 `__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 `__atomic_exchange` is attempted with the result being ignored.

‘`atomic_exchangemode`’ ¶

  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 `__atomic_exchange` will attempt to preform the operation with a compare and swap loop.

‘`atomic_addmode`’, ‘`atomic_submode`’ ¶
‘`atomic_ormode`’, ‘`atomic_andmode`’
‘`atomic_xormode`’, ‘`atomic_nandmode`’

  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 `sync` patterns, or equivalent patterns which return a result. If none of these are available a compare-and-swap loop will be used.

‘`atomic_fetch_addmode`’, ‘`atomic_fetch_submode`’ ¶
‘`atomic_fetch_ormode`’, ‘`atomic_fetch_andmode`’
‘`atomic_fetch_xormode`’, ‘`atomic_fetch_nandmode`’

  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 `sync` patterns. If none of these are available a compare-and-swap loop will be used.

‘`atomic_add_fetchmode`’, ‘`atomic_sub_fetchmode`’ ¶
‘`atomic_or_fetchmode`’, ‘`atomic_and_fetchmode`’
‘`atomic_xor_fetchmode`’, ‘`atomic_nand_fetchmode`’

  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 `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.

‘`atomic_test_and_set`’ ¶

  This pattern emits code for `__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 `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.

‘`atomic_bit_test_and_setmode`’ ¶
‘`atomic_bit_test_and_complementmode`’
‘`atomic_bit_test_and_resetmode`’

  These patterns emit code for an atomic bitwise operation on memory with memory model semantics, and return the original value of the specified bit. Operand 0 is an output operand which contains the value of the specified bit from the memory location before the operation was performed. Operand 1 is the memory on which the atomic operation is performed. Operand 2 is the bit within the operand, starting with least significant bit. Operand 3 is the memory model to be used by the operation. Operand 4 is a flag - it is `const1_rtx` if operand 0 should contain the original value of the specified bit in the least significant bit of the operand, and `const0_rtx` if the bit should be in its original position in the operand. `atomic_bit_test_and_setmode` atomically sets the specified bit after remembering its original value, `atomic_bit_test_and_complementmode` inverts the specified bit and `atomic_bit_test_and_resetmode` clears the specified bit.

  If these patterns are not defined, attempts will be made to use `atomic_fetch_ormode`, `atomic_fetch_xormode` or `atomic_fetch_andmode` instruction patterns, or their `sync` counterparts. If none of these are available a compare-and-swap loop will be used.

‘`atomic_add_fetch_cmp_0mode`’ ¶
‘`atomic_sub_fetch_cmp_0mode`’
‘`atomic_and_fetch_cmp_0mode`’
‘`atomic_or_fetch_cmp_0mode`’
‘`atomic_xor_fetch_cmp_0mode`’

  These patterns emit code for an atomic operation on memory with memory model semantics if the fetch result is used only in a comparison against zero. Operand 0 is an output operand which contains a boolean result of comparison of the value after the operation against zero. 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. Operand 4 is an integer holding the comparison code, one of `EQ`, `NE`, `LT`, `GT`, `LE` or `GE`.

  If these patterns are not defined, attempts will be made to use separate atomic operation and fetch pattern followed by comparison of the result against zero.

‘`mem_thread_fence`’ ¶

  This pattern emits code required to implement a thread fence with memory model semantics. Operand 0 is the memory model to be used.

  For the `__ATOMIC_RELAXED` model no instructions need to be issued and this expansion is not invoked.

  The compiler always emits a compiler memory barrier regardless of what expanding this pattern produced.

  If this pattern is not defined, the compiler falls back to expanding the `memory_barrier` pattern, then to emitting `__sync_synchronize` library call, and finally to just placing a compiler memory barrier.

‘`get_thread_pointermode`’ ¶
‘`set_thread_pointermode`’

  These patterns emit code that reads/sets the TLS thread pointer. Currently, these are only needed if the target needs to support the `__builtin_thread_pointer` and `__builtin_set_thread_pointer` builtins.

  The get/set patterns have a single output/input operand respectively, with mode intended to be `Pmode`.

‘`stack_protect_combined_set`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, moves a `ptr_mode` value from an address whose declaration RTX is given in operand 1 to the memory in operand 0 without leaving the value in a register afterward. If several instructions are needed by the target to perform the operation (eg. to load the address from a GOT entry then load the `ptr_mode` value and finally store it), it is the backend’s responsibility to ensure no intermediate result gets spilled. 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 the address declaration is expanded first in the standard way and a `stack_protect_set` pattern is then generated to move the value from that address to the address in operand 0.

‘`stack_protect_set`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, moves a `ptr_mode` value from the valid memory location 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.

  Note: on targets where the addressing modes do not allow to load directly from stack guard address, the address is expanded in a standard way first which could cause some spills.

  If this pattern is not defined, then a plain move pattern is generated.

‘`stack_protect_combined_test`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, compares a `ptr_mode` value from an address whose declaration RTX is given 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 several instructions are needed by the target to perform the operation (eg. to load the address from a GOT entry then load the `ptr_mode` value and finally store it), it is the backend’s responsibility to ensure no intermediate result gets spilled. 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 the address declaration is expanded first in the standard way and a `stack_protect_test` pattern is then generated to compare the value from that address to the value at the memory in operand 0.

‘`stack_protect_test`’ ¶

  This pattern, if defined, compares a `ptr_mode` value from the valid memory location 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.

‘`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 `__clear_cache` is used.

‘`spaceshipm3`’ ¶

  Initialize output operand 0 with mode of integer type to -1, 0, 1 or 2 if operand 1 with mode m compares less than operand 2, equal to operand 2, greater than operand 2 or is unordered with operand 2. m should be a scalar floating point mode.

  This pattern is not allowed to `FAIL`.

### 17.11 When the Order of Patterns Matters ¶

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.

### 17.12 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

    (set (match_operand:SI 0 ...)
         (extend:SI (match_operand:HI 1 ...)))

    (set (match_operand:SI 0 ...)
         (extend:SI (match_operand:QI 1 ...)))

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 (`HImode`, here). If the pattern matches the `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.

### 17.13 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 `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 `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 on most machines that use a separate condition code register (see Condition Code Status).

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.

### 17.14 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 ‘`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 ‘`dbra`’-like instruction and avoids pipeline stalls associated with the jump.

GCC has two special named patterns to support low overhead looping. They are ‘`doloop_begin`’ and ‘`doloop_end`’. These 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 ‘`doloop_end`’ pattern describes the actual looping instruction (or the implicit looping operation) and the ‘`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 `doloop` insn is emitted at the end of the loop. The machine dependent reorg pass checks for the presence of this `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.

For the ‘`doloop_end`’ pattern, the loop optimizer allocates an additional pseudo register 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.

The ‘`doloop_end`’ pattern must have a specific structure to be handled correctly by GCC. The example below is taken (slightly simplified) from the PDP-11 target:

    (define_expand "doloop_end"
      [(parallel [(set (pc)
                       (if_then_else
                        (ne (match_operand:HI 0 "nonimmediate_operand" "+r,!m")
                            (const_int 1))
                        (label_ref (match_operand 1 "" ""))
                        (pc)))
                  (set (match_dup 0)
                       (plus:HI (match_dup 0)
                             (const_int -1)))])]
      ""
      "{
        if (GET_MODE (operands[0]) != HImode)
          FAIL;
      }")

    (define_insn "doloop_end_insn"
      [(set (pc)
            (if_then_else
             (ne (match_operand:HI 0 "nonimmediate_operand" "+r,!m")
                 (const_int 1))
             (label_ref (match_operand 1 "" ""))
             (pc)))
       (set (match_dup 0)
            (plus:HI (match_dup 0)
                  (const_int -1)))]
      ""

      {
        if (which_alternative == 0)
          return "sob %0,%l1";

        /* emulate sob */
        output_asm_insn ("dec %0", operands);
        return "bne %l1";
      })

The first part of the pattern describes the branch condition. GCC supports three cases for the way the target machine handles the loop counter:

- Loop terminates when the loop register decrements to zero. This is represented by a `ne` comparison of the register (its old value) with constant 1 (as in the example above).
- Loop terminates when the loop register decrements to −1. This is represented by a `ne` comparison of the register with constant zero.
- Loop terminates when the loop register decrements to a negative value. This is represented by a `ge` comparison of the register with constant zero. For this case, GCC will attach a `REG_NONNEG` note to the `doloop_end` insn if it can determine that the register will be non-negative.

Since the `doloop_end` insn is a jump insn that also has an output, the reload pass does not handle the output operand. Therefore, the constraint must allow for that operand to be in memory rather than a register. In the example shown above, that is handled (in the `doloop_end_insn` pattern) by using a loop instruction sequence that can handle memory operands when the memory alternative appears.

GCC does not check the mode of the loop register operand when generating the `doloop_end` pattern. If the pattern is only valid for some modes but not others, the pattern should be a `define_expand` pattern that checks the operand mode in the preparation code, and issues `FAIL` if an unsupported mode is found. The example above does this, since the machine instruction to be used only exists for `HImode`.

If the `doloop_end` pattern is a `define_expand`, there must also be a `define_insn` or `define_insn_and_split` matching the generated pattern. Otherwise, the compiler will fail during loop optimization.

### 17.15 Canonicalization of Instructions ¶

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:

- 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.
- For the `vec_merge` with constant mask(the third operand), the first and the second operand can be exchanged by inverting the mask. In such cases, a constant is always made the second operand, otherwise the least significant bit of the mask is always set(select the first operand first).
- For associative operators, a sequence of operators will always chain to the left; for instance, only the left operand of an integer `plus` can itself be a `plus`. `and`, `ior`, `xor`, `plus`, `mult`, `smin`, `smax`, `umin`, and `umax` are associative when applied to integers, and sometimes to floating-point.
- For these operators, if only one operand is a `neg`, `not`, `mult`, `plus`, or `minus` expression, it will be the first operand.
- In combinations of `neg`, `mult`, `plus`, and `minus`, the `neg` operations (if any) will be moved inside the operations as far as possible. For instance, `(neg (mult A B))` is canonicalized as `(mult (neg A) B)`, but `(plus (mult (neg B) C) A)` is canonicalized as `(minus A (mult B C))`.
- For the `compare` operator, a constant is always the second operand if the first argument is a condition code register.
- For instructions that inherently set a condition code register, the `compare` operator is always written as the first RTL expression of the `parallel` instruction pattern. For example,

      (define_insn ""
        [(set (reg:CCZ FLAGS_REG)
      	(compare:CCZ
      	  (plus:SI
      	    (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "%r")
      	    (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "r"))
      	  (const_int 0)))
         (set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=r")
      	(plus:SI (match_dup 1) (match_dup 2)))]
        ""
        "addl %0, %1, %2")

- An operand of `neg`, `not`, `mult`, `plus`, or `minus` is made the first operand under the same conditions as above.
- `(ltu (plus a b) b)` is converted to `(ltu (plus a b) a)`. Likewise with `geu` instead of `ltu`.
- `(minus x (const_int n))` is converted to `(plus x (const_int -n))`.
- Within address computations (i.e., inside `mem`), a left shift is converted into the appropriate multiplication by a power of two.
- 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 `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

      (define_insn ""
        [(set (match_operand:m 0 ...)
              (and:m (not:m (match_operand:m 1 ...))
                           (match_operand:m 2 ...)))]
        "..."
        "...")

  Similarly, a pattern for a “NAND” instruction should be written

      (define_insn ""
        [(set (match_operand:m 0 ...)
              (ior:m (not:m (match_operand:m 1 ...))
                           (not:m (match_operand:m 2 ...))))]
        "..."
        "...")

  In both cases, it is not necessary to include patterns for the many logically equivalent RTL expressions.

- The only possible RTL expressions involving both bitwise exclusive-or and bitwise negation are `(xor:m x y)` and `(not:m (xor:m x y))`.
- The sum of three items, one of which is a constant, will only appear in the form

      (plus:m (plus:m x y) constant)

- Equality comparisons of a group of bits (usually a single bit) with zero will be written using `zero_extract` rather than the equivalent `and` or `sign_extract` operations.
- `(sign_extend:m1 (mult:m2 (sign_extend:m2 x) (sign_extend:m2 y)))` is converted to `(mult:m1 (sign_extend:m1 x) (sign_extend:m1 y))`, and likewise for `zero_extend`.
- `(sign_extend:m1 (mult:m2 (ashiftrt:m2 x s) (sign_extend:m2 y)))` is converted to `(mult:m1 (sign_extend:m1 (ashiftrt:m2 x s)) (sign_extend:m1 y))`, and likewise for patterns using `zero_extend` and `lshiftrt`. If the second operand of `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.

Further canonicalization rules are defined in the function `commutative_operand_precedence` in `gcc/rtlanal.cc`.

### 17.16 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 `define_expand` to specify how to generate the sequence of RTL.

A `define_expand` is an RTL expression that looks almost like a `define_insn`; but, unlike the latter, a `define_expand` is used only for RTL generation and it can produce more than one RTL insn.

A `define_expand` RTX has four operands:

- The name. Each `define_expand` must have a name, since the only use for it is to refer to it by name.
- The RTL template. This is a vector of RTL expressions representing a sequence of separate instructions. Unlike `define_insn`, there is no implicit surrounding `PARALLEL`.
- 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 `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.
- 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 `emit_insn`, etc. Any such insns precede the ones that come from the RTL template.

- Optionally, a vector containing the values of attributes. See Instruction Attributes.

Every RTL insn emitted by a `define_expand` must match some `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 `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 `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 `define_expand`. Internal operands are substituted into the RTL template with `match_dup`, never with `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 `operands` so that `match_dup` can find them.

There are two special macros defined for use in the preparation statements: `DONE` and `FAIL`. Use them with a following semicolon, as a statement.

`DONE` ¶

  Use the `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 `emit_insn` within the preparation statements; the RTL template will not be generated.

`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 (`extv`, `extzv`, and `insv`) operations.

If the preparation falls through (invokes neither `DONE` nor `FAIL`), then the `define_expand` acts like a `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 `DONE` or `FAIL`, the RTL template may be reduced to a simple list of operands, such as this example:

    (define_expand "addsi3"
      [(match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "")
       (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "")
       (match_operand:SI 2 "register_operand" "")]
      ""
      "
    {
      handle_add (operands[0], operands[1], operands[2]);
      DONE;
    }")

Here is an example, the definition of left-shift for the SPUR chip:

    (define_expand "ashlsi3"
      [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "")
            (ashift:SI
              (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "")
              (match_operand:SI 2 "nonmemory_operand" "")))]
      ""
      "
    {
      if (GET_CODE (operands[2]) != CONST_INT
          || (unsigned) INTVAL (operands[2]) > 3)
        FAIL;
    }")

This example uses `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 `define_insn` in that case. Here is another case (zero-extension on the 68000) which makes more use of the power of `define_expand`:

    (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]);")

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 `make_safe_from` copies the `operands[1]` into a temporary register if it refers to `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 `and`-ing the result against a halfword mask. But this mask cannot be represented by a `const_int` because the constant value is too large to be legitimate on this machine. So it must be copied into a register with `force_reg` and then the register used in the `and`.

    (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)); ")

Note: If the `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_label`, `barrier` or `note`. It must be an `insn`, `jump_insn` or `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.

### 17.17 Defining How to Split 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 (see Delay Slot Scheduling) or that have instructions whose output is not available for multiple cycles (see Specifying 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 `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.

The `define_split` definition tells the compiler how to split a complex insn into several simpler insns. It looks like this:

    (define_split
      [insn-pattern]
      "condition"
      [new-insn-pattern-1
       new-insn-pattern-2
       ...]
      "preparation-statements")

insn-pattern is a pattern that needs to be split and condition is the final condition to be tested, as in a `define_insn`. When an insn matching insn-pattern and satisfying condition is found, it is replaced in the insn list with the insns given by new-insn-pattern-1, new-insn-pattern-2, etc.

The preparation-statements are similar to those statements that are specified for `define_expand` (see Defining RTL Sequences for Code Generation) 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 `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.

There are two special macros defined for use in the preparation statements: `DONE` and `FAIL`. Use them with a following semicolon, as a statement.

`DONE` ¶

  Use the `DONE` macro to end RTL generation for the splitter. The only RTL insns generated as replacement for the matched input insn will be those already emitted by explicit calls to `emit_insn` within the preparation statements; the replacement pattern is not used.

`FAIL` ¶

  Make the `define_split` fail on this occasion. When a `define_split` fails, it means that the splitter was not truly available for the inputs it was given, and the input insn will not be split.

If the preparation falls through (invokes neither `DONE` nor `FAIL`), then the `define_split` uses the replacement template.

Patterns are matched against 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 `define_insn` and, if `reload_completed` is nonzero, is known to satisfy the constraints of that `define_insn`. In that case, the new insn patterns must also be insns that are matched by some `define_insn` and, if `reload_completed` is nonzero, must also satisfy the constraints of those definitions.

As an example of this usage of `define_split`, consider the following example from `a29k.md`, which splits a `sign_extend` from `HImode` to `SImode` into a pair of shift insns:

    (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]); }")

When the combiner phase tries to split an insn pattern, it is always the case that the pattern is not matched by any `define_insn`. The combiner pass first tries to split a single `set` expression and then the same `set` expression inside a `parallel`, but followed by a `clobber` of a pseudo-reg to use as a scratch register. In these cases, the combiner expects exactly one or two new insn patterns to be generated. It will verify that these patterns match some `define_insn` definitions, so you need not do this test in the `define_split` (of course, there is no point in writing a `define_split` that will never produce insns that match).

Here is an example of this use of `define_split`, taken from `rs6000.md`:

    (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);
    }")

Here the predicate `non_add_cint_operand` matches any `const_int` that is 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:

    (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)))]
      "
    {
      /* 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);
    }")

To avoid confusion, don’t write a single `define_split` that accepts some insns that match some `define_insn` as well as some insns that don’t. Instead, write two separate `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 a sequence of jumps or create new jumps while splitting non-jump instructions. As the control flow graph and branch prediction information needs to be updated after the splitter runs, several restrictions apply.

Splitting of a jump instruction into a sequence that has another jump instruction to the same label is always valid, as the compiler expects identical behavior of the new jump. When the new sequence contains multiple jump instructions or new labels, more assistance is needed. The splitter is permitted to create only unconditional jumps, or simple conditional jump instructions. Additionally it must attach a `REG_BR_PROB` note to each conditional jump. A global variable `split_branch_probability` holds the probability of the original branch in case it was a simple conditional jump, −1 otherwise. To simplify recomputing of edge frequencies, the new sequence is permitted to have only forward jumps to the newly-created labels.

For the common case where the pattern of a define_split exactly matches the pattern of a define_insn, use `define_insn_and_split`. It looks like this:

    (define_insn_and_split
      [insn-pattern]
      "condition"
      "output-template"
      "split-condition"
      [new-insn-pattern-1
       new-insn-pattern-2
       ...]
      "preparation-statements"
      [insn-attributes])

insn-pattern, condition, output-template, and insn-attributes are used as in `define_insn`. The new-insn-pattern vector and the preparation-statements are used as in a `define_split`. The split-condition is also used as in `define_split`, with the additional behavior that if the condition starts with ‘`&&`’, 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:

    (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")])

In this case, the actual split condition will be ‘`TARGET_ZERO_EXTEND_WITH_AND && !optimize_size && reload_completed`’.

The `define_insn_and_split` construction provides exactly the same functionality as two separate `define_insn` and `define_split` patterns. It exists for compactness, and as a maintenance tool to prevent having to ensure the two patterns’ templates match.

It is sometimes useful to have a `define_insn_and_split` that replaces specific operands of an instruction but leaves the rest of the instruction pattern unchanged. You can do this directly with a `define_insn_and_split`, but it requires a new-insn-pattern-1 that repeats most of the original insn-pattern. There is also the complication that an implicit `parallel` in insn-pattern must become an explicit `parallel` in new-insn-pattern-1, which is easy to overlook. A simpler alternative is to use `define_insn_and_rewrite`, which is a form of `define_insn_and_split` that automatically generates new-insn-pattern-1 by replacing each `match_operand` in insn-pattern with a corresponding `match_dup`, and each `match_operator` in the pattern with a corresponding `match_op_dup`. The arguments are otherwise identical to `define_insn_and_split`:

    (define_insn_and_rewrite
      [insn-pattern]
      "condition"
      "output-template"
      "split-condition"
      "preparation-statements"
      [insn-attributes])

The `match_dup`s and `match_op_dup`s in the new instruction pattern use any new operand values that the preparation-statements store in the `operands` array, as for a normal `define_insn_and_split`. preparation-statements can also emit additional instructions before the new instruction. They can even emit an entirely different sequence of instructions and use `DONE` to avoid emitting a new form of the original instruction.

The split in a `define_insn_and_rewrite` is only intended to apply to existing instructions that match insn-pattern. split-condition must therefore start with `&&`, so that the split condition applies on top of condition.

Here is an example from the AArch64 SVE port, in which operand 1 is known to be equivalent to an all-true constant and isn’t used by the output template:

    (define_insn_and_rewrite "*while_ult<GPI:mode><PRED_ALL:mode>_cc"
      [(set (reg:CC CC_REGNUM)
            (compare:CC
              (unspec:SI [(match_operand:PRED_ALL 1)
                          (unspec:PRED_ALL
                            [(match_operand:GPI 2 "aarch64_reg_or_zero" "rZ")
                             (match_operand:GPI 3 "aarch64_reg_or_zero" "rZ")]
                            UNSPEC_WHILE_LO)]
                         UNSPEC_PTEST_PTRUE)
              (const_int 0)))
       (set (match_operand:PRED_ALL 0 "register_operand" "=Upa")
            (unspec:PRED_ALL [(match_dup 2)
                              (match_dup 3)]
                             UNSPEC_WHILE_LO))]
      "TARGET_SVE"
      "whilelo\t%0.<PRED_ALL:Vetype>, %<w>2, %<w>3"
      ;; Force the compiler to drop the unused predicate operand, so that we
      ;; don't have an unnecessary PTRUE.
      "&& !CONSTANT_P (operands[1])"
      {
        operands[1] = CONSTM1_RTX (<MODE>mode);
      }
    )

The splitter in this case simply replaces operand 1 with the constant value that it is known to have. The equivalent `define_insn_and_split` would be:

    (define_insn_and_split "*while_ult<GPI:mode><PRED_ALL:mode>_cc"
      [(set (reg:CC CC_REGNUM)
            (compare:CC
              (unspec:SI [(match_operand:PRED_ALL 1)
                          (unspec:PRED_ALL
                            [(match_operand:GPI 2 "aarch64_reg_or_zero" "rZ")
                             (match_operand:GPI 3 "aarch64_reg_or_zero" "rZ")]
                            UNSPEC_WHILE_LO)]
                         UNSPEC_PTEST_PTRUE)
              (const_int 0)))
       (set (match_operand:PRED_ALL 0 "register_operand" "=Upa")
            (unspec:PRED_ALL [(match_dup 2)
                              (match_dup 3)]
                             UNSPEC_WHILE_LO))]
      "TARGET_SVE"
      "whilelo\t%0.<PRED_ALL:Vetype>, %<w>2, %<w>3"
      ;; Force the compiler to drop the unused predicate operand, so that we
      ;; don't have an unnecessary PTRUE.
      "&& !CONSTANT_P (operands[1])"
      [(parallel
         [(set (reg:CC CC_REGNUM)
               (compare:CC
                 (unspec:SI [(match_dup 1)
                             (unspec:PRED_ALL [(match_dup 2)
                                               (match_dup 3)]
                                              UNSPEC_WHILE_LO)]
                            UNSPEC_PTEST_PTRUE)
                 (const_int 0)))
          (set (match_dup 0)
               (unspec:PRED_ALL [(match_dup 2)
                                 (match_dup 3)]
                                UNSPEC_WHILE_LO))])]
      {
        operands[1] = CONSTM1_RTX (<MODE>mode);
      }
    )

### 17.18 Including Patterns in Machine Descriptions. ¶

The `include` pattern tells the compiler tools where to look for patterns that are in files other than in the file `.md`. This is used only at build time and there is no preprocessing allowed.

It looks like:

    (include pathname)

For example:

    (include "filestuff")

Where pathname is a string that specifies the location of the file, specifies the include file to be in `gcc/config/target/filestuff`. The directory `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:

    (include "BOGUS/filestuff")

the include file is specified to be in `gcc/config/target/BOGUS/filestuff`.

Specifying an absolute path for the include file such as;

    (include "/u2/BOGUS/filestuff")

is permitted but is not encouraged.

#### 17.18.1 RTL Generation Tool Options for Directory Search ¶

The `-Idir` option specifies directories to search for machine descriptions. For example:

    genrecog -I/p1/abc/proc1 -I/p2/abcd/pro2 target.md

Add the directory 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 `-I` option, the directories are scanned in left-to-right order; the standard default directory come after.

### 17.19 Machine-Specific Peephole Optimizers ¶

In addition to instruction patterns the `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 `define_peephole` is run at assembly output time to match insns and substitute assembly text. Use of `define_peephole` is deprecated.

A newer `define_peephole2` matches insns and substitutes new insns. The `peephole2` pass is run after register allocation but before scheduling, which may result in much better code for targets that do scheduling.

#### 17.19.1 RTL to Text Peephole Optimizers ¶

A definition looks like this:

    (define_peephole
      [insn-pattern-1
       insn-pattern-2
       ...]
      "condition"
      "template"
      "optional-insn-attributes")

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 `define_insn`.

In this skeleton, insn-pattern-1 and so on are patterns to match consecutive insns. The optimization applies to a sequence of insns when insn-pattern-1 matches the first one, insn-pattern-2 matches the next, and so on.

Each of the insns matched by a peephole must also match a `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 `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 `match_operands`, `match_operator`, and `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 `match_operand` in one insn and `match_dup` in the other.

The operand constraints used in `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 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 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.

The way to refer to the operands in condition is to write `operands[i]` for operand number i (as matched by `(match_operand i …)`). Use the variable `insn` to refer to the last of the insns being matched; use `prev_active_insn` to find the preceding insns.

When optimizing computations with intermediate results, you can use condition to match only when the intermediate results are not used elsewhere. Use the C expression `dead_or_set_p (insn, op)`, where insn is the insn in which you expect the value to be used for the last time (from the value of `insn`, together with use of `prev_nonnote_insn`), and op is the intermediate value (from `operands[i]`).

Applying the optimization means replacing the sequence of insns with one new insn. The template controls ultimate output of assembler code for this combined insn. It works exactly like the template of a `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:

    (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
    })

The effect of this optimization is to change

    jbsr _foobar
    addql #4,sp
    movel d1,sp@-
    movel d0,sp@-
    fmoved sp@+,fp0

into

    jbsr _foobar
    movel d1,sp@
    movel d0,sp@-
    fmoved sp@+,fp0

insn-pattern-1 and so on look almost like the second operand of `define_insn`. There is one important difference: the second operand of `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 `define_peephole`. But when there are multiple actions in a `define_insn`, they are implicitly enclosed in a `parallel`. Then you must explicitly write the `parallel`, and the square brackets within it, in the `define_peephole`. Thus, if an insn pattern looks like this,

    (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")

then the way to mention this insn in a peephole is as follows:

    (define_peephole
      [...
       (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)))])
       ...]
      ...)

#### 17.19.2 RTL to RTL Peephole Optimizers ¶

The `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.

    (define_peephole2
      [insn-pattern-1
       insn-pattern-2
       ...]
      "condition"
      [new-insn-pattern-1
       new-insn-pattern-2
       ...]
      "preparation-statements")

The definition is almost identical to `define_split` (see Defining How to Split Instructions) 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.

Scratch registers are requested with a `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 `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:

    (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))])]
      "")

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 `SImode` register of class `GENERAL_REGS` (`"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:

    (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))]
      "/* 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))]
      "")

If we had not added the `(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 `set`.

There are two special macros defined for use in the preparation statements: `DONE` and `FAIL`. Use them with a following semicolon, as a statement.

`DONE` ¶

  Use the `DONE` macro to end RTL generation for the peephole. The only RTL insns generated as replacement for the matched input insn will be those already emitted by explicit calls to `emit_insn` within the preparation statements; the replacement pattern is not used.

`FAIL` ¶

  Make the `define_peephole2` fail on this occasion. When a `define_peephole2` fails, it means that the replacement was not truly available for the particular inputs it was given. In that case, GCC may still apply a later `define_peephole2` that also matches the given insn pattern. (Note that this is different from `define_split`, where `FAIL` prevents the input insn from being split at all.)

If the preparation falls through (invokes neither `DONE` nor `FAIL`), then the `define_peephole2` uses the replacement template.

Insns are scanned in forward order from beginning to end for each basic block. Matches are attempted in order of `define_peephole2` appearance in the `md` file. After a successful replacement, scanning for further opportunities for `define_peephole2`, resumes with the first generated replacement insn as the first insn to be matched against all `define_peephole2`. For the example above, after its successful replacement, the first insn that can be matched by a `define_peephole2` is `(set (match_dup 4) (match_dup 1))`.

### 17.20 Instruction Attributes ¶

In addition to describing the instruction supported by the target machine, the `md` file also defines a group of 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.

#### 17.20.1 Defining Attributes and their Values ¶

The `define_attr` expression is used to define each attribute required by the target machine. It looks like:

    (define_attr name list-of-values default)

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 `enabled` attribute can be used to conditionally enable or disable insn alternatives (see Disable insn alternatives using the `enabled` attribute). The `predicable` attribute, together with a suitable `define_cond_exec` (see Conditional Execution), can be used to automatically generate conditional variants of instruction patterns. The `mnemonic` attribute can be used to check for the instruction mnemonic (see Mnemonic Attribute). The compiler internally uses the names `ce_enabled` and `nonce_enabled`, so they should not be used elsewhere as alternative names.

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.

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. See Example of Attribute Specifications, for more information on the handling of defaults. See Constant Attributes, for information on attributes that do not depend on any particular insn.

For each defined attribute, a number of definitions are written to the `insn-attr.h` file. For cases where an explicit set of values is specified for an attribute, the following are defined:

- A ‘`#define`’ is written for the symbol ‘`HAVE_ATTR_name`’.
- An enumerated class is defined for ‘`attr_name`’ with elements of the form ‘`upper-name_upper-value`’ where the attribute name and value are first converted to uppercase.
- A function ‘`get_attr_name`’ is defined that is passed an insn and returns the attribute value for that insn.

For example, if the following is present in the `md` file:

    (define_attr "type" "branch,fp,load,store,arith" ...)

the following lines will be written to the file `insn-attr.h`.

    #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 ();

If the attribute takes numeric values, no `enum` type will be defined and the function to obtain the attribute’s value will return `int`.

There are attributes which are tied to a specific meaning. These attributes are not free to use for other purposes:

`length`

  The `length` attribute is used to calculate the length of emitted code chunks. This is especially important when verifying branch distances. See Computing the Length of an Insn.

`enabled`

  The `enabled` attribute can be defined to prevent certain alternatives of an insn definition from being used during code generation. See Disable insn alternatives using the `enabled` attribute.

`mnemonic`

  The `mnemonic` attribute can be defined to implement instruction specific checks in e.g. the pipeline description. See Mnemonic Attribute.

For each of these special attributes, the corresponding ‘`HAVE_ATTR_name`’ ‘`#define`’ is also written when the attribute is not defined; in that case, it is defined as ‘`0`’.

Another way of defining an attribute is to use:

    (define_enum_attr "attr" "enum" default)

This works in just the same way as `define_attr`, except that the list of values is taken from a separate enumeration called enum (see 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:

    (define_enum "processor" [
      model_a
      model_b
      ...
    ])
    (define_enum_attr "arch" "processor"
      (const (symbol_ref "target_arch")))
    (define_enum_attr "tune" "processor"
      (const (symbol_ref "target_tune")))

defines the same attributes as:

    (define_attr "arch" "model_a,model_b,..."
      (const (symbol_ref "target_arch")))
    (define_attr "tune" "model_a,model_b,..."
      (const (symbol_ref "target_tune")))

but without duplicating the processor list. The second example defines two separate C enums (`attr_arch` and `attr_tune`) whereas the first defines a single C enum (`processor`).

#### 17.20.2 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:

`(const_int i)` ¶

  The integer i specifies the value of a numeric attribute. i must be non-negative.

  The value of a numeric attribute can be specified either with a `const_int`, or as an integer represented as a string in `const_string`, `eq_attr` (see below), `attr`, `symbol_ref`, simple arithmetic expressions, and `set_attr` overrides on specific instructions (see Assigning Attribute Values to Insns).

`(const_string value)` ¶

  The string value specifies a constant attribute value. If value is specified as ‘`"*"`’, it means that the default value of the attribute is to be used for the insn containing this expression. ‘`"*"`’ obviously cannot be used in the default expression of a `define_attr`.

  If the attribute whose value is being specified is numeric, value must be a string containing a non-negative integer (normally `const_int` would be used in this case). Otherwise, it must contain one of the valid values for the attribute.

`(if_then_else test true-value false-value)` ¶

  test specifies an attribute test, whose format is defined below. The value of this expression is true-value if test is true, otherwise it is false-value.

`(cond [test1 value1 …] default)` ¶

  The first operand of this expression is a vector containing an even number of expressions and consisting of pairs of test and value expressions. The value of the `cond` expression is that of the value corresponding to the first true test expression. If none of the test expressions are true, the value of the `cond` expression is that of the default expression.

test expressions can have one of the following forms:

`(const_int i)` ¶

  This test is true if i is nonzero and false otherwise.

`(not test)` ¶
`(ior test1 test2)`
`(and test1 test2)`

  These tests are true if the indicated logical function is true.

`(match_operand:m n pred constraints)` ¶

  This test is true if operand n of the insn whose attribute value is being determined has mode m (this part of the test is ignored if m is `VOIDmode`) and the function specified by the string pred returns a nonzero value when passed operand n and mode m (this part of the test is ignored if pred is the null string).

  The constraints operand is ignored and should be the null string.

`(match_test c-expr)` ¶

  The test is true if C expression c-expr is true. In non-constant attributes, c-expr has access to the following variables:

  insn

    The rtl instruction under test.

  which_alternative

    The `define_insn` alternative that insn matches. See C Statements for Assembler Output.

  operands

    An array of insn’s rtl operands.

  c-expr behaves like the condition in a C `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:

      (match_test "x & 2")
      (match_test "(x & 2) != 0")

`(le arith1 arith2)` ¶
`(leu arith1 arith2)`
`(lt arith1 arith2)`
`(ltu arith1 arith2)`
`(gt arith1 arith2)`
`(gtu arith1 arith2)`
`(ge arith1 arith2)`
`(geu arith1 arith2)`
`(ne arith1 arith2)`
`(eq arith1 arith2)`

  These tests are true if the indicated comparison of the two arithmetic expressions is true. Arithmetic expressions are formed with `plus`, `minus`, `mult`, `div`, `mod`, `abs`, `neg`, `and`, `ior`, `xor`, `not`, `ashift`, `lshiftrt`, and `ashiftrt` expressions.

  `const_int` and `symbol_ref` are always valid terms (see Computing the Length of an Insn,for additional forms). `symbol_ref` is a string denoting a C expression that yields an `int` when evaluated by the ‘`get_attr_…`’ routine. It should normally be a global variable.

`(eq_attr name value)` ¶

  name is a string specifying the name of an attribute.

  value is a string that is either a valid value for attribute name, a comma-separated list of values, or ‘`!`’ followed by a value or list. If value does not begin with a ‘`!`’, this test is true if the value of the name attribute of the current insn is in the list specified by value. If value begins with a ‘`!`’, this test is true if the attribute’s value is not in the specified list.

  For example,

      (eq_attr "type" "load,store")

  is equivalent to

      (ior (eq_attr "type" "load") (eq_attr "type" "store"))

  If name specifies an attribute of ‘`alternative`’, it refers to the value of the compiler variable `which_alternative` (see C Statements for Assembler Output) and the values must be small integers. For example,

      (eq_attr "alternative" "2,3")

  is equivalent to

      (ior (eq (symbol_ref "which_alternative") (const_int 2))
           (eq (symbol_ref "which_alternative") (const_int 3)))

  Note that, for most attributes, an `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.

`(attr_flag name)` ¶

  The value of an `attr_flag` expression is true if the flag specified by name is true for the `insn` currently being scheduled.

  name is a string specifying one of a fixed set of flags to test. Test the flags `forward` and `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).

      (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"))])

  The `forward` and `backward` flags are false if the current `insn` being scheduled is not a conditional branch.

  `attr_flag` is only used during delay slot scheduling and has no meaning to other passes of the compiler.

`(attr name)` ¶

  The value of another attribute is returned. This is most useful for numeric attributes, as `eq_attr` and `attr_flag` produce more efficient code for non-numeric attributes.

#### 17.20.3 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 `define_peephole` generated it). Every `define_insn` and `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 `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 `define_insn` and `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 `set` expression whose first operand is an `attr` expression giving the name of the attribute being set. The second operand of the `set` is an attribute expression (see Attribute Expressions) giving the value of the attribute.

When the attribute value depends on the ‘`alternative`’ attribute (i.e., which is the applicable alternative in the constraint of the insn), the `set_attr_alternative` expression can be used. It allows the specification of a vector of attribute expressions, one for each alternative.

When the generality of arbitrary attribute expressions is not required, the simpler `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, name is a string specifying the attribute to be set.

`(set_attr name value-string)`

  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 ‘`*`’ for some alternative, in which case the attribute will assume its default value for insns matching that alternative.

`(set_attr_alternative name [value1 value2 …])` ¶

  Depending on the alternative of the insn, the value will be one of the specified values. This is a shorthand for using a `cond` with tests on the ‘`alternative`’ attribute.

`(set (attr name) value)` ¶

  The first operand of this `set` must be the special RTL expression `attr`, whose sole operand is a string giving the name of the attribute being set. value is the value of the attribute.

The following shows three different ways of representing the same attribute value specification:

    (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")))

The `define_asm_attributes` expression provides a mechanism to specify the attributes assigned to insns produced from an `asm` statement. It has the form:

    (define_asm_attributes [attr-sets])

where attr-sets is specified the same as for both the `define_insn` and the `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 `length` attribute is handled specially. The way to compute the length of an `asm` insn is to multiply the length specified in the expression `define_asm_attributes` by the number of machine instructions specified in the `asm` statement, determined by counting the number of semicolons and newlines in the string. Therefore, the value of the `length` attribute specified in a `define_asm_attributes` should be the maximum possible length of a single machine instruction.

#### 17.20.4 Example of Attribute Specifications ¶

The judicious use of defaulting is important in the efficient use of insn attributes. Typically, insns are divided into types and an attribute, customarily called `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 `md` file for such a machine:

    (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")])

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.

#### 17.20.5 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 `length` attribute, is defined. This attribute must be defined to have numeric values by specifying a null string in its `define_attr`.

In the case of the `length` attribute, two additional forms of arithmetic terms are allowed in test expressions:

`(match_dup n)` ¶

  This refers to the address of operand n of the current insn, which must be a `label_ref`.

`(pc)` ¶

  For non-branch instructions and backward branch instructions, this refers to the address of the current insn. But for forward branch instructions, this refers to the address of the next insn, because the length of the current insn is to be computed.

For normal insns, the length will be determined by value of the `length` attribute. In the case of `addr_vec` and `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).

Note that it is possible to call functions via the `symbol_ref` mechanism to compute the length of an insn. However, if you use this mechanism you must provide dummy clauses to express the maximum length without using the function call. You can see an example of this in the `pa` machine description for the `call_symref` pattern.

The following macros can be used to refine the length computation:

`ADJUST_INSN_LENGTH (insn, length)` ¶

  If defined, modifies the length assigned to instruction insn as a function of the context in which it is used. 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 `addr_vec` insn must be increased by two to compensate for the fact that alignment may be required.

The routine that returns `get_attr_length` (the value of the `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:

    (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)))])

#### 17.20.6 Constant Attributes ¶

A special form of `define_attr`, where the expression for the default value is a `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,

    (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"))))

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 `symbol_ref` form, but may not use either the `match_operand` form or `eq_attr` forms involving insn attributes.

#### 17.20.7 Mnemonic Attribute ¶

The `mnemonic` attribute is a string type attribute holding the instruction mnemonic for an insn alternative. The attribute values will automatically be generated by the machine description parser if there is an attribute definition in the md file:

    (define_attr "mnemonic" "unknown" (const_string "unknown"))

The default value can be freely chosen as long as it does not collide with any of the instruction mnemonics. This value will be used whenever the machine description parser is not able to determine the mnemonic string. This might be the case for output templates containing more than a single instruction as in `"mvcle\t%0,%1,0\;jo\t.-4"`.

The `mnemonic` attribute set is not generated automatically if the instruction string is generated via C code.

An existing `mnemonic` attribute set in an insn definition will not be overriden by the md file parser. That way it is possible to manually set the instruction mnemonics for the cases where the md file parser fails to determine it automatically.

The `mnemonic` attribute is useful for dealing with instruction specific properties in the pipeline description without defining additional insn attributes.

    (define_attr "ooo_expanded" ""
      (cond [(eq_attr "mnemonic" "dlr,dsgr,d,dsgf,stam,dsgfr,dlgr")
             (const_int 1)]
            (const_int 0)))

#### 17.20.8 Delay Slot Scheduling ¶

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 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 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.

The requirement of an insn needing one or more delay slots is indicated via the `define_delay` expression. It has the following form:

    (define_delay test
                  [delay-1 annul-true-1 annul-false-1
                   delay-2 annul-true-2 annul-false-2
                   ...])

test is an attribute test that indicates whether this `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 n must satisfy attribute test delay-n. annul-true-n is an attribute test that specifies which insns may be annulled if the branch is true. Similarly, 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, `(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 `md` file:

    (define_delay (eq_attr "type" "branch,call")
                  [(eq_attr "type" "!branch,call") (nil) (nil)])

Multiple `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 `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:

    (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)])

#### 17.20.9 Specifying processor pipeline description ¶

To achieve better performance, most modern processors (super-pipelined, superscalar RISC, and VLIW processors) have many 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 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 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 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 pipeline description). GCC machine descriptions describe processor parallelism and functional unit reservations for groups of instructions with the aid of regular expressions.

The GCC instruction scheduler uses a 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 (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 complexity7.

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.

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.

    (define_automaton automata-names)

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 `define_cpu_unit` and `define_query_cpu_unit`.

Each processor functional unit used in the description of instruction reservations should be described by the following construction.

    (define_cpu_unit unit-names [automaton-name])

unit-names is a string giving the names of the functional units separated by commas. Don’t use name ‘`nothing`’, it is reserved for other goals.

automaton-name is a string giving the name of the automaton with which the unit is bound. The automaton should be described in construction `define_automaton`. You should give 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.

The following construction describes CPU functional units analogously to `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 VLIW insn templates).

    (define_query_cpu_unit unit-names [automaton-name])

unit-names is a string giving names of the functional units separated by commas.

automaton-name is a string giving the name of the automaton with which the unit is bound.

The following construction is the major one to describe pipeline characteristics of an instruction.

    (define_insn_reservation insn-name default_latency
                             condition regexp)

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 `TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_COST` (see Adjusting the Instruction Scheduler).

insn-name is a string giving the internal name of the insn. The internal names are used in constructions `define_bypass` and in the automaton description file generated for debugging. The internal name has nothing in common with the names in `define_insn`. It is a good practice to use insn classes described in the processor manual.

condition defines what RTL insns are described by this construction. You should remember that you will be in trouble if condition for two or more different `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 `symbol_ref`). It is also not checked during the pipeline hazard recognizer work because it would slow down the recognizer considerably.

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:

           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 ")"

- ‘`,`’ is used for describing the start of the next cycle in the reservation.
- ‘`|`’ is used for describing a reservation described by the first regular expression or a reservation described by the second regular expression or etc.
- ‘`+`’ is used for describing a reservation described by the first regular expression and a reservation described by the second regular expression and etc.
- ‘`*`’ is used for convenience and simply means a sequence in which the regular expression are repeated number times with cycle advancing (see ‘`,`’).
- ‘`cpu_function_unit_name`’ denotes reservation of the named functional unit.
- ‘`reservation_name`’ — see description of construction ‘`define_reservation`’.
- ‘`nothing`’ denotes no unit reservations.

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

    (define_reservation reservation-name regexp)

reservation-name is a string giving name of 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 cannot be the reserved name ‘`nothing`’.

The following construction is used to describe exceptions in the latency time for given instruction pair. This is so called bypasses.

    (define_bypass number out_insn_names in_insn_names
                   [guard])

number defines when the result generated by the instructions given in string out_insn_names will be ready for the instructions given in string in_insn_names. Each of these strings is a comma-separated list of filename-style globs and they refer to the names of `define_insn_reservation`s. For example:

    (define_bypass 1 "cpu1_load_*, cpu1_store_*" "cpu1_load_*")

defines a bypass between instructions that start with ‘`cpu1_load_`’ or ‘`cpu1_store_`’ and those that start with ‘`cpu1_load_`’.

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 ‘`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.

The following five constructions are usually used to describe VLIW processors, or more precisely, to describe a placement of small instructions into VLIW instruction slots. They can be used for RISC processors, too.

    (exclusion_set unit-names unit-names)
    (presence_set unit-names patterns)
    (final_presence_set unit-names patterns)
    (absence_set unit-names patterns)
    (final_absence_set unit-names patterns)

unit-names is a string giving names of functional units separated by commas.

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 (‘`exclusion_set`’) means that each functional unit in the first string cannot 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 (‘`presence_set`’) means that each functional unit in the first string cannot 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 VLIW ‘`slot1`’ is reserved after ‘`slot0`’ reservation. We could describe it by the following construction

    (presence_set "slot1" "slot0")

Or ‘`slot1`’ is reserved only after ‘`slot0`’ and unit ‘`b0`’ reservation. In this case we could write

    (presence_set "slot1" "slot0 b0")

The third construction (‘`final_presence_set`’) is analogous to ‘`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 ‘`presence_set`’ is done on the source state reservation, checking for ‘`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

    (presence_set "slot1" "slot0")

the following insn will be never issued (because ‘`slot1`’ requires ‘`slot0`’ which is absent in the source state).

    (define_reservation "insn_and_nop" "slot0 + slot1")

but it can be issued if we use analogous ‘`final_presence_set`’.

The forth construction (‘`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 ‘`exclusion_set`’ is analogous to this one but it is symmetric). For example it might be useful in a VLIW description to say that ‘`slot0`’ cannot be reserved after either ‘`slot1`’ or ‘`slot2`’ have been reserved. This can be described as:

    (absence_set "slot0" "slot1, slot2")

Or ‘`slot2`’ cannot be reserved if ‘`slot0`’ and unit ‘`b0`’ are reserved or ‘`slot1`’ and unit ‘`b1`’ are reserved. In this case we could write

    (absence_set "slot2" "slot0 b0, slot1 b1")

All functional units mentioned in a set should belong to the same automaton.

The last construction (‘`final_absence_set`’) is analogous to ‘`absence_set`’ but checking is done on the result (state) reservation. See comments for ‘`final_presence_set`’.

You can control the generator of the pipeline hazard recognizer with the following construction.

    (automata_option options)

options is a string giving options which affect the generated code. Currently there are the following options:

- 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.
- time means printing time statistics about the generation of automata.
- stats means printing statistics about the generated automata such as the number of DFA states, NDFA states and arcs.
- v means a generation of the file describing the result automata. The file has suffix ‘`.dfa`’ and can be used for the description verification and debugging.
- w means a generation of warning instead of error for non-critical errors.
- 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.
- ndfa makes nondeterministic finite state automata. This affects the treatment of operator ‘`|`’ 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.
- collapse-ndfa modifies the behavior of the generator when producing an automaton. An additional state transition to collapse a nondeterministic NDFA state to a deterministic DFA state is generated. It can be triggered by passing `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 `ndfa` option, but also want to use `define_query_cpu_unit` to assign units to insns issued in a cycle.
- 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 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.

As an example, consider a superscalar 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.

    (define_cpu_unit "i0_pipeline, i1_pipeline, f_pipeline")
    (define_cpu_unit "port0, port1")

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 9 and 4 cycles. The integer division is not pipelined, i.e. the subsequent integer division insn cannot 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

    (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" 9 (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")

To simplify the description we could describe the following reservation

    (define_reservation "finish" "port0|port1")

and use it in all `define_insn_reservation` as in the following construction

    (define_insn_reservation "simple" 2 (eq_attr "type" "int")
                             "(i0_pipeline | i1_pipeline), finish")

### 17.21 Conditional Execution ¶

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 `.md` file. An alternative is the `define_cond_exec` template.

    (define_cond_exec
      [predicate-pattern]
      "condition"
      "output-template"
      "optional-insn-attribues")

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 `match_operator` to match several relational operators at once. Any `match_operand` operands must have no more than one alternative.

condition is a C expression that must be true for the generated pattern to match.

output-template is a string similar to the `define_insn` output template (see Output Templates and Operand Substitution), except that the ‘`*`’ and ‘`@`’ 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 `current_insn_predicate` that will contain the entire predicate if the current insn is predicated, and will otherwise be `NULL`.

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 `define_cond_exec` is used, an implicit reference to the `predicable` instruction attribute is made. See Instruction Attributes. This attribute must be a boolean (i.e. have exactly two elements in its list-of-values), with the possible values being `no` and `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 `enabled` attribute (see Disable insn alternatives using the `enabled` attribute), which should also allow only `no` and `yes` as its values.

For each `define_insn` for which the `predicable` attribute is true, a new `define_insn` pattern will be generated that matches a predicated version of the instruction. For example,

    (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")))]
      "test1"
      "add %2,%1,%0")

    (define_cond_exec
      [(ne (match_operand:CC 0 "register_operand" "c")
           (const_int 0))]
      "test2"
      "(%0)")

generates a new pattern

    (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"))))]
      "(test2) && (test1)"
      "(%3) add %2,%1,%0")

### 17.22 RTL Templates Transformations ¶

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., `i386.md` contains an RTL template for the ordinary `sub` instruction— `*subsi_1`, and for the `sub` instruction with subsequent zero-extension—`*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:

    (define_subst "name"
      [input-template]
      "condition"
      [output-template])

input-template is a pattern describing the source RTL template, which will be transformed.

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.

output-template is a pattern that will be used in the resulting template.

`define_subst` mechanism is tightly coupled with the notion of the subst attribute (see Subst Iterators). The use of `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 `define_subst`. This transformation can fail in the case when the source RTL template is not matched against the input-template of the `define_subst`. In such case the copy is deleted.

`define_subst` can be used only in `define_insn` and `define_expand`, it cannot be used in other expressions (e.g. in `define_insn_and_split`).

#### 17.22.1 `define_subst` Example ¶

To illustrate how `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 `define_subst`:

    (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))])

This `define_subst` can be applied to any RTL pattern containing `set` of mode SI and generates a copy with clobber when it is applied.

Assume there is an RTL template for a `max` instruction to be used in `define_subst` mentioned above:

    (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}"
     [...])

To mark the RTL template for `define_subst` application, subst-attributes are used. They should be declared in advance:

    (define_subst_attr "add_clobber_name" "add_clobber_subst" "_noclobber" "_clobber")

Here ‘`add_clobber_name`’ is the attribute name, ‘`add_clobber_subst`’ is the name of the corresponding `define_subst`, the third argument (‘`_noclobber`’) is the attribute value that would be substituted into the unchanged version of the source RTL template, and the last argument (‘`_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 `define_subst`. So, the original RTL template should be changed:

    (define_insn "maxsi<add_clobber_name>"
      [(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}"
     [...])

The result of the `define_subst` usage would look like the following:

    (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}"
     [...])
    (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}"
     [...])

#### 17.22.2 Pattern Matching in `define_subst` ¶

All expressions, allowed in `define_insn` or `define_expand`, are allowed in the input-template of `define_subst`, except `match_par_dup`, `match_scratch`, `match_parallel`. The meanings of expressions in the input-template were changed:

`match_operand` matches any expression (possibly, a subtree in RTL-template), if modes of the `match_operand` and this expression are the same, or mode of the `match_operand` is `VOIDmode`, or this expression is `match_dup`, `match_op_dup`. If the expression is `match_operand` too, and predicate of `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.

`match_operator` matches common operators (like `plus`, `minus`), `unspec`, `unspec_volatile` operators and `match_operator`s from the original pattern if the modes match and `match_operator` from the input pattern has the same number of operands as the operator from the original pattern.

#### 17.22.3 Generation of output template in `define_subst` ¶

If all necessary checks for `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 `define_subst`. Thus, `match_dup` is used for copying the whole expression from the original pattern, which matched corresponding `match_operand` from the input pattern.

`match_dup N` is used in the output template to be replaced with the expression from the original pattern, which matched `match_operand N` from the input pattern. As a consequence, `match_dup` cannot be used to point to `match_operand`s from the output pattern, it should always refer to a `match_operand` from the input pattern. If a `match_dup N` occurs more than once in the output template, its first occurrence is replaced with the expression from the original pattern, and the subsequent expressions are replaced with `match_dup N`, i.e., a reference to the first expression.

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 `match_operand`.

After replacing `match_dup` with some RTL-subtree from the original pattern, it could happen that several `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 `match_dup`, so such conflicts in indexes are inevitable. To overcome this issue, `match_operands` and `match_operators`, which were introduced into the output pattern, are renumerated when all `match_dup`s are replaced.

Number of alternatives in `match_operand`s introduced into the output template `M` could differ from the number of alternatives in the original pattern `N`, so in the resultant pattern there would be `N*M` alternatives. Thus, constraints from the original pattern would be duplicated `N` times, constraints from the output pattern would be duplicated `M` times, producing all possible combinations.

### 17.23 Constant Definitions ¶

Using literal constants inside instruction patterns reduces legibility and can be a maintenance problem.

To overcome this problem, you may use the `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 `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

    (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")

You could write:

    (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")

The constants that are defined with a define_constant are also output in the insn-codes.h header file as #defines.

You can also use the machine description file to define enumerations. Like the constants defined by `define_constant`, these enumerations are visible to both the machine description file and the main C code.

The syntax is as follows:

    (define_c_enum "name" [
      value0
      value1
      (value32 32)
      value33
      ...
      valuen
    ])

This definition causes the equivalent of the following C code to appear in `insn-constants.h`:

    enum name {
      value0 = 0,
      value1 = 1,
      value32 = 32,
      value33 = 33,
      ...
      valuen = n
    };
    #define NUM_cname_VALUES (n + 1)

where cname is the capitalized form of name. It also makes each valuei available in the machine description file, just as if it had been declared with:

    (define_constants [(valuei i)])

Each valuei is usually an upper-case identifier and usually begins with cname.

You can split the enumeration definition into as many statements as you like. The above example is directly equivalent to:

    (define_c_enum "name" [value0])
    (define_c_enum "name" [value1])
    ...
    (define_c_enum "name" [valuen])

Splitting the enumeration helps to improve the modularity of each individual `.md` file. For example, if a port defines its synchronization instructions in a separate `sync.md` file, it is convenient to define all synchronization-specific enumeration values in `sync.md` rather than in the main `.md` file.

Some enumeration names have special significance to GCC:

`unspecv` ¶

  If an enumeration called `unspecv` is defined, GCC will use it when printing out `unspec_volatile` expressions. For example:

      (define_c_enum "unspecv" [
        UNSPECV_BLOCKAGE
      ])

  causes GCC to print ‘`(unspec_volatile … 0)`’ as:

      (unspec_volatile ... UNSPECV_BLOCKAGE)

`unspec` ¶

  If an enumeration called `unspec` is defined, GCC will use it when printing out `unspec` expressions. GCC will also use it when printing out `unspec_volatile` expressions unless an `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.

Another way of defining an enumeration is to use `define_enum`:

    (define_enum "name" [
      value0
      value1
      ...
      valuen
    ])

This directive implies:

    (define_c_enum "name" [
      cname_cvalue0
      cname_cvalue1
      ...
      cname_cvaluen
    ])

where cvaluei is the capitalized form of valuei. However, unlike `define_c_enum`, the enumerations defined by `define_enum` can be used in attribute specifications (see define_enum_attr).

### 17.24 Iterators ¶

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.

#### 17.24.1 Mode Iterators ¶

Ports often need to define similar patterns for two or more different modes. For example:

- If a processor has hardware support for both single and double floating-point arithmetic, the `SFmode` patterns tend to be very similar to the `DFmode` ones.
- If a port uses `SImode` pointers in one configuration and `DImode` pointers in another, it will usually have very similar `SImode` and `DImode` patterns for manipulating pointers.

Mode iterators allow several patterns to be instantiated from one `.md` file template. They can be used with any type of rtx-based construct, such as a `define_insn`, `define_split`, or `define_peephole2`.

#### 17.24.1.1 Defining Mode Iterators ¶

The syntax for defining a mode iterator is:

    (define_mode_iterator name [(mode1 "cond1") ... (moden "condn")])

This allows subsequent `.md` file constructs to use the mode suffix `:name`. Every construct that does so will be expanded n times, once with every use of `:name` replaced by `:mode1`, once with every use replaced by `:mode2`, and so on. In the expansion for a particular modei, every C condition will also require that condi be true.

For example:

    (define_mode_iterator P [(SI "Pmode == SImode") (DI "Pmode == DImode")])

defines a new mode suffix `:P`. Every construct that uses `:P` will be expanded twice, once with every `:P` replaced by `:SI` and once with every `:P` replaced by `:DI`. The `:SI` version will only apply if `Pmode == SImode` and the `:DI` version will only apply if `Pmode == DImode`.

As with other `.md` conditions, an empty string is treated as “always true”. `(mode "")` can also be abbreviated to `mode`. For example:

    (define_mode_iterator GPR [SI (DI "TARGET_64BIT")])

means that the `:DI` expansion only applies if `TARGET_64BIT` but that the `:SI` expansion has no such constraint.

It is also possible to include iterators in other iterators. For example:

    (define_mode_iterator VI [V16QI V8HI V4SI V2DI])
    (define_mode_iterator VF [V8HF V4SF (V2DF "TARGET_DOUBLE")])
    (define_mode_iterator V [VI (VF "TARGET_FLOAT")])

makes ‘`:V`’ iterate over the modes in `VI` and the modes in `VF`. When a construct uses ‘`:V`’, the `V8HF` and `V4SF` expansions require ‘`TARGET_FLOAT`’ while the `V2DF` expansion requires ‘`TARGET_DOUBLE && TARGET_FLOAT`’.

Iterators are applied in the order they are defined. This can be significant if two iterators are used in a construct that requires substitutions. See Substitution in Mode Iterators.

#### 17.24.1.2 Substitution in Mode Iterators ¶

If an `.md` file construct uses mode iterators, each version of the construct will often need slightly different strings or modes. For example:

- When a `define_expand` defines several `addm3` patterns (see Standard Pattern Names For Generation), each expander will need to use the appropriate mode name for m.
- When a `define_insn` defines several instruction patterns, each instruction will often use a different assembler mnemonic.
- When a `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).

GCC supports such variations through a system of “mode attributes”. There are two standard attributes: `mode`, which is the name of the mode in lower case, and `MODE`, which is the same thing in upper case. You can define other attributes using:

    (define_mode_attr name [(mode1 "value1") ... (moden "valuen")])

where name is the name of the attribute and valuei is the value associated with modei.

When GCC replaces some :iterator with :mode, it will scan each string and mode in the pattern for sequences of the form `<iterator:attr>`, where attr is the name of a mode attribute. If the attribute is defined for mode, the whole `<…>` sequence will be replaced by the appropriate attribute value.

For example, suppose an `.md` file has:

    (define_mode_iterator P [(SI "Pmode == SImode") (DI "Pmode == DImode")])
    (define_mode_attr load [(SI "lw") (DI "ld")])

If one of the patterns that uses `:P` contains the string `"<P:load>\t%0,%1"`, the `SI` version of that pattern will use `"lw\t%0,%1"` and the `DI` version will use `"ld\t%0,%1"`.

Here is an example of using an attribute for a mode:

    (define_mode_iterator LONG [SI DI])
    (define_mode_attr SHORT [(SI "HI") (DI "SI")])
    (define_insn ...
      (sign_extend:LONG (match_operand:<LONG:SHORT> ...)) ...)

The `iterator:` prefix may be omitted, in which case the substitution will be attempted for every iterator expansion.

#### 17.24.1.3 Mode Iterator Examples ¶

Here is an example from the MIPS port. It defines the following modes and attributes (among others):

    (define_mode_iterator GPR [SI (DI "TARGET_64BIT")])
    (define_mode_attr d [(SI "") (DI "d")])

and uses the following template to define both `subsi3` and `subdi3`:

    (define_insn "sub<mode>3"
      [(set (match_operand:GPR 0 "register_operand" "=d")
            (minus:GPR (match_operand:GPR 1 "register_operand" "d")
                       (match_operand:GPR 2 "register_operand" "d")))]
      ""
      "<d>subu\t%0,%1,%2"
      [(set_attr "type" "arith")
       (set_attr "mode" "<MODE>")])

This is exactly equivalent to:

    (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")))]
      "TARGET_64BIT"
      "dsubu\t%0,%1,%2"
      [(set_attr "type" "arith")
       (set_attr "mode" "DI")])

#### 17.24.2 Code Iterators ¶

Code iterators operate in a similar way to mode iterators. See Mode Iterators.

The construct:

    (define_code_iterator name [(code1 "cond1") ... (coden "condn")])

defines a pseudo rtx code name that can be instantiated as codei if condition condi is true. Each codei must have the same rtx format. See RTL Classes and Formats.

As with mode iterators, each pattern that uses name will be expanded n times, once with all uses of name replaced by code1, once with all uses replaced by code2, and so on. See Defining Mode Iterators.

It is possible to define attributes for codes as well as for modes. There are two standard code attributes: `code`, the name of the code in lower case, and `CODE`, the name of the code in upper case. Other attributes are defined using:

    (define_code_attr name [(code1 "value1") ... (coden "valuen")])

Instruction patterns can use code attributes as rtx codes, which can be useful if two sets of codes act in tandem. For example, the following `define_insn` defines two patterns, one calculating a signed absolute difference and another calculating an unsigned absolute difference:

    (define_code_iterator any_max [smax umax])
    (define_code_attr paired_min [(smax "smin") (umax "umin")])
    (define_insn ...
      [(set (match_operand:SI 0 ...)
            (minus:SI (any_max:SI (match_operand:SI 1 ...)
                                  (match_operand:SI 2 ...))
                      (<paired_min>:SI (match_dup 1) (match_dup 2))))]
      ...)

The signed version of the instruction uses `smax` and `smin` while the unsigned version uses `umax` and `umin`. There are no versions that pair `smax` with `umin` or `umax` with `smin`.

Here’s an example of code iterators in action, taken from the MIPS port:

    (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<code>"
      [(set (pc)
            (if_then_else (any_cond:CC (cc0)
                                       (const_int 0))
                          (label_ref (match_operand 0 ""))
                          (pc)))]
      ""
    {
      gen_conditional_branch (operands, <CODE>);
      DONE;
    })

This is equivalent to:

    (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;
    })

    ...

#### 17.24.3 Int Iterators ¶

Int iterators operate in a similar way to code iterators. See Code Iterators.

The construct:

    (define_int_iterator name [(int1 "cond1") ... (intn "condn")])

defines a pseudo integer constant name that can be instantiated as inti if condition condi is true. Int iterators can appear in only those rtx fields that have ‘i’, ‘n’, ‘w’, or ‘p’ as the specifier. This means that each int has to be a constant defined using ‘`define_constant`’ or ‘`define_c_enum`’.

As with mode and code iterators, each pattern that uses name will be expanded n times, once with all uses of name replaced by int1, once with all uses replaced by int2, and so on. See Defining Mode Iterators.

It is possible to define attributes for ints as well as for codes and modes. Attributes are defined using:

    (define_int_attr attr_name [(int1 "value1") ... (intn "valuen")])

In additon to these user-defined attributes, it is possible to use ‘`<name>`’ to refer to the current expansion of iterator name (such as int1, int2, and so on).

Here’s an example of int iterators in action, taken from the ARM port:

    (define_int_iterator QABSNEG [UNSPEC_VQABS UNSPEC_VQNEG])

    (define_int_attr absneg [(UNSPEC_VQABS "abs") (UNSPEC_VQNEG "neg")])

    (define_insn "neon_vq<absneg><mode>"
      [(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<absneg>.<V_s_elem>\t%<V_reg>0, %<V_reg>1"
      [(set_attr "type" "neon_vqneg_vqabs")]
    )

This is equivalent to:

    (define_insn "neon_vqabs<mode>"
      [(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.<V_s_elem>\t%<V_reg>0, %<V_reg>1"
      [(set_attr "type" "neon_vqneg_vqabs")]
    )

    (define_insn "neon_vqneg<mode>"
      [(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.<V_s_elem>\t%<V_reg>0, %<V_reg>1"
      [(set_attr "type" "neon_vqneg_vqabs")]
    )

#### 17.24.4 Subst Iterators ¶

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 `define_insn`/`define_expand`. The name of the added attribute matches the name of `define_subst`. Such attributes are declared implicitly, and it is not allowed to have a `define_attr` named as a `define_subst`.

Each subst iterator is linked to a `define_subst`. It is declared implicitly by the first appearance of the corresponding `define_subst_attr`, and it is not allowed to define it explicitly.

Declarations of subst-attributes have the following syntax:

    (define_subst_attr "name"
      "subst-name"
      "no-subst-value"
      "subst-applied-value")

name is a string with which the given subst-attribute could be referred to.

subst-name shows which `define_subst` should be applied to an RTL-template if the given subst-attribute is present in the RTL-template.

no-subst-value is a value with which subst-attribute would be replaced in the first copy of the original RTL-template.

subst-applied-value is a value with which subst-attribute would be replaced in the second copy of the original RTL-template.

#### 17.24.5 Parameterized Names ¶

Ports sometimes need to apply iterators using C++ code, in order to get the code or RTL pattern for a specific instruction. For example, suppose we have the ‘`neon_vq<absneg><mode>`’ pattern given above:

    (define_int_iterator QABSNEG [UNSPEC_VQABS UNSPEC_VQNEG])

    (define_int_attr absneg [(UNSPEC_VQABS "abs") (UNSPEC_VQNEG "neg")])

    (define_insn "neon_vq<absneg><mode>"
      [(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))]
      ...
    )

A port might need to generate this pattern for a variable ‘`QABSNEG`’ value and a variable ‘`VDQIW`’ mode. There are two ways of doing this. The first is to build the rtx for the pattern directly from C++ code; this is a valid technique and avoids any risk of combinatorial explosion. The second is to prefix the instruction name with the special character ‘`@`’, which tells GCC to generate the four additional functions below. In each case, name is the name of the instruction without the leading ‘`@`’ character, without the ‘`<…>`’ placeholders, and with any underscore before a ‘`<…>`’ placeholder removed if keeping it would lead to a double or trailing underscore.

‘`insn_code maybe_code_for_name (i1, i2, …)`’

  See whether replacing the first ‘`<…>`’ placeholder with iterator value i1, the second with iterator value i2, and so on, gives a valid instruction. Return its code if so, otherwise return `CODE_FOR_nothing`.

‘`insn_code code_for_name (i1, i2, …)`’

  Same, but abort the compiler if the requested instruction does not exist.

‘`rtx maybe_gen_name (i1, i2, …, op0, op1, …)`’

  Check for a valid instruction in the same way as `maybe_code_for_name`. If the instruction exists, generate an instance of it using the operand values given by op0, op1, and so on, otherwise return null.

‘`rtx gen_name (i1, i2, …, op0, op1, …)`’

  Same, but abort the compiler if the requested instruction does not exist, or if the instruction generator invoked the `FAIL` macro.

For example, changing the pattern above to:

    (define_insn "@neon_vq<absneg><mode>"
      [(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))]
      ...
    )

would define the same patterns as before, but in addition would generate the four functions below:

    insn_code maybe_code_for_neon_vq (int, machine_mode);
    insn_code code_for_neon_vq (int, machine_mode);
    rtx maybe_gen_neon_vq (int, machine_mode, rtx, rtx, rtx);
    rtx gen_neon_vq (int, machine_mode, rtx, rtx, rtx);

Calling ‘`code_for_neon_vq (UNSPEC_VQABS, V8QImode)`’ would then give `CODE_FOR_neon_vqabsv8qi`.

It is possible to have multiple ‘`@`’ patterns with the same name and same types of iterator. For example:

    (define_insn "@some_arithmetic_op<mode>"
      [(set (match_operand:INTEGER_MODES 0 "register_operand") ...)]
      ...
    )

    (define_insn "@some_arithmetic_op<mode>"
      [(set (match_operand:FLOAT_MODES 0 "register_operand") ...)]
      ...
    )

would produce a single set of functions that handles both `INTEGER_MODES` and `FLOAT_MODES`.

It is also possible for these ‘`@`’ patterns to have different numbers of operands from each other. For example, patterns with a binary rtl code might take three operands (one output and two inputs) while patterns with a ternary rtl code might take four operands (one output and three inputs). This combination would produce separate ‘`maybe_gen_name`’ and ‘`gen_name`’ functions for each operand count, but it would still produce a single ‘`maybe_code_for_name`’ and a single ‘`code_for_name`’.

## 18 Target Description Macros and Functions ¶

In addition to the file `machine.md`, a machine description includes a C header file conventionally given the name `machine.h` and a C source file named `machine.c`. The header file defines numerous macros that convey the information about the target machine that does not fit into the scheme of the `.md` file. The file `tm.h` should be a link to `machine.h`. The header file `config.h` includes `tm.h` and most compiler source files include `config.h`. The source file defines a variable `targetm`, which is a structure containing pointers to functions and data relating to the target machine. `machine.c` should also contain their definitions, if they are not defined elsewhere in GCC, and other functions called through the macros defined in the `.h` file.

### 18.1 The Global `targetm` Variable ¶

Variable: `struct gcc_target` targetm ¶

  The target `.c` file must define the global `targetm` variable which contains pointers to functions and data relating to the target machine. The variable is declared in `target.h`; `target-def.h` defines the macro `TARGET_INITIALIZER` which is used to initialize the variable, and macros for the default initializers for elements of the structure. The `.c` file should override those macros for which the default definition is inappropriate. For example:

      #include "target.h"
      #include "target-def.h"

      /* Initialize the GCC target structure.  */

      #undef TARGET_COMP_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES
      #define TARGET_COMP_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES machine_comp_type_attributes

      struct gcc_target targetm = TARGET_INITIALIZER;

Where a macro should be defined in the `.c` file in this manner to form part of the `targetm` structure, it is documented below as a “Target Hook” with a prototype. Many macros will change in future from being defined in the `.h` file to being part of the `targetm` structure.

Similarly, there is a `targetcm` variable for hooks that are specific to front ends for C-family languages, documented as “C Target Hook”. This is declared in `c-family/c-target.h`, the initializer `TARGETCM_INITIALIZER` in `c-family/c-target-def.h`. If targets initialize `targetcm` themselves, they should set `target_has_targetcm=yes` in `config.gcc`; otherwise a default definition is used.

Similarly, there is a `targetm_common` variable for hooks that are shared between the compiler driver and the compilers proper, documented as “Common Target Hook”. This is declared in `common/common-target.h`, the initializer `TARGETM_COMMON_INITIALIZER` in `common/common-target-def.h`. If targets initialize `targetm_common` themselves, they should set `target_has_targetm_common=yes` in `config.gcc`; otherwise a default definition is used.

Similarly, there is a `targetdm` variable for hooks that are specific to the D language front end, documented as “D Target Hook”. This is declared in `d/d-target.h`, the initializer `TARGETDM_INITIALIZER` in `d/d-target-def.h`. If targets initialize `targetdm` themselves, they should set `target_has_targetdm=yes` in `config.gcc`; otherwise a default definition is used.

Similarly, there is a `targetrustm` variable for hooks that are specific to the Rust language front end, documented as “Rust Target Hook”. This is declared in `rust/rust-target.h`, the initializer `TARGETRUSTM_INITIALIZER` in `rust/rust-target-def.h`. If targets initialize `targetrustm` themselves, they should set `target_has_targetrustm=yes` in `config.gcc`; otherwise a default definition is used.

### 18.2 Controlling the Compilation Driver, `gcc` ¶

You can control the compilation driver.

Macro: DRIVER_SELF_SPECS ¶

  A list of specs for the driver itself. It should be a suitable initializer for an array of strings, with no surrounding braces.

  The driver applies these specs to its own command line between loading default `specs` files (but not command-line specified ones) and choosing the multilib directory or running any subcommands. It applies them in the order given, so each spec can depend on the options added by earlier ones. It is also possible to remove options using ‘`%<option`’ in the usual way.

  This macro can be useful when a port has several interdependent target options. It provides a way of standardizing the command line so that the other specs are easier to write.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: OPTION_DEFAULT_SPECS ¶

  A list of specs used to support configure-time default options (i.e. `--with` options) in the driver. It should be a suitable initializer for an array of structures, each containing two strings, without the outermost pair of surrounding braces.

  The first item in the pair is the name of the default. This must match the code in `config.gcc` for the target. The second item is a spec to apply if a default with this name was specified. The string ‘`%(VALUE)`’ in the spec will be replaced by the value of the default everywhere it occurs.

  The driver will apply these specs to its own command line between loading default `specs` files and processing `DRIVER_SELF_SPECS`, using the same mechanism as `DRIVER_SELF_SPECS`.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: CPP_SPEC ¶

  A C string constant that tells the GCC driver program options to pass to CPP. It can also specify how to translate options you give to GCC into options for GCC to pass to the CPP.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: CPLUSPLUS_CPP_SPEC ¶

  This macro is just like `CPP_SPEC`, but is used for C++, rather than C. If you do not define this macro, then the value of `CPP_SPEC` (if any) will be used instead.

Macro: CC1_SPEC ¶

  A C string constant that tells the GCC driver program options to pass to `cc1`, `cc1plus`, `f771`, and the other language front ends. It can also specify how to translate options you give to GCC into options for GCC to pass to front ends.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: CC1PLUS_SPEC ¶

  A C string constant that tells the GCC driver program options to pass to `cc1plus`. It can also specify how to translate options you give to GCC into options for GCC to pass to the `cc1plus`.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything. Note that everything defined in CC1_SPEC is already passed to `cc1plus` so there is no need to duplicate the contents of CC1_SPEC in CC1PLUS_SPEC.

Macro: ASM_SPEC ¶

  A C string constant that tells the GCC driver program options to pass to the assembler. It can also specify how to translate options you give to GCC into options for GCC to pass to the assembler. See the file `sun3.h` for an example of this.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: ASM_FINAL_SPEC ¶

  A C string constant that tells the GCC driver program how to run any programs which cleanup after the normal assembler. Normally, this is not needed. See the file `mips.h` for an example of this.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: AS_NEEDS_DASH_FOR_PIPED_INPUT ¶

  Define this macro, with no value, if the driver should give the assembler an argument consisting of a single dash, `-`, to instruct it to read from its standard input (which will be a pipe connected to the output of the compiler proper). This argument is given after any `-o` option specifying the name of the output file.

  If you do not define this macro, the assembler is assumed to read its standard input if given no non-option arguments. If your assembler cannot read standard input at all, use a ‘`%{pipe:%e}`’ construct; see `mips.h` for instance.

Macro: LINK_SPEC ¶

  A C string constant that tells the GCC driver program options to pass to the linker. It can also specify how to translate options you give to GCC into options for GCC to pass to the linker.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: LIB_SPEC ¶

  Another C string constant used much like `LINK_SPEC`. The difference between the two is that `LIB_SPEC` is used at the end of the command given to the linker.

  If this macro is not defined, a default is provided that loads the standard C library from the usual place. See `gcc.cc`.

Macro: LIBGCC_SPEC ¶

  Another C string constant that tells the GCC driver program how and when to place a reference to `libgcc.a` into the linker command line. This constant is placed both before and after the value of `LIB_SPEC`.

  If this macro is not defined, the GCC driver provides a default that passes the string `-lgcc` to the linker.

Macro: REAL_LIBGCC_SPEC ¶

  By default, if `ENABLE_SHARED_LIBGCC` is defined, the `LIBGCC_SPEC` is not directly used by the driver program but is instead modified to refer to different versions of `libgcc.a` depending on the values of the command line flags `-static`, `-shared`, `-static-libgcc`, and `-shared-libgcc`. On targets where these modifications are inappropriate, define `REAL_LIBGCC_SPEC` instead. `REAL_LIBGCC_SPEC` tells the driver how to place a reference to `libgcc` on the link command line, but, unlike `LIBGCC_SPEC`, it is used unmodified.

Macro: USE_LD_AS_NEEDED ¶

  A macro that controls the modifications to `LIBGCC_SPEC` mentioned in `REAL_LIBGCC_SPEC`. If nonzero, a spec will be generated that uses `--as-needed` or equivalent options and the shared `libgcc` in place of the static exception handler library, when linking without any of `-static`, `-static-libgcc`, or `-shared-libgcc`.

Macro: LINK_EH_SPEC ¶

  If defined, this C string constant is added to `LINK_SPEC`. When `USE_LD_AS_NEEDED` is zero or undefined, it also affects the modifications to `LIBGCC_SPEC` mentioned in `REAL_LIBGCC_SPEC`.

Macro: STARTFILE_SPEC ¶

  Another C string constant used much like `LINK_SPEC`. The difference between the two is that `STARTFILE_SPEC` is used at the very beginning of the command given to the linker.

  If this macro is not defined, a default is provided that loads the standard C startup file from the usual place. See `gcc.cc`.

Macro: ENDFILE_SPEC ¶

  Another C string constant used much like `LINK_SPEC`. The difference between the two is that `ENDFILE_SPEC` is used at the very end of the command given to the linker.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

Macro: THREAD_MODEL_SPEC ¶

  GCC `-v` will print the thread model GCC was configured to use. However, this doesn’t work on platforms that are multilibbed on thread models, such as AIX 4.3. On such platforms, define `THREAD_MODEL_SPEC` such that it evaluates to a string without blanks that names one of the recognized thread models. `%*`, the default value of this macro, will expand to the value of `thread_file` set in `config.gcc`.

Macro: SYSROOT_SUFFIX_SPEC ¶

  Define this macro to add a suffix to the target sysroot when GCC is configured with a sysroot. This will cause GCC to search for usr/lib, et al, within sysroot+suffix.

Macro: SYSROOT_HEADERS_SUFFIX_SPEC ¶

  Define this macro to add a headers_suffix to the target sysroot when GCC is configured with a sysroot. This will cause GCC to pass the updated sysroot+headers_suffix to CPP, causing it to search for usr/include, et al, within sysroot+headers_suffix.

Macro: EXTRA_SPECS ¶

  Define this macro to provide additional specifications to put in the `specs` file that can be used in various specifications like `CC1_SPEC`.

  The definition should be an initializer for an array of structures, containing a string constant, that defines the specification name, and a string constant that provides the specification.

  Do not define this macro if it does not need to do anything.

  `EXTRA_SPECS` is useful when an architecture contains several related targets, which have various `…_SPECS` which are similar to each other, and the maintainer would like one central place to keep these definitions.

  For example, the PowerPC System V.4 targets use `EXTRA_SPECS` to define either `_CALL_SYSV` when the System V calling sequence is used or `_CALL_AIX` when the older AIX-based calling sequence is used.

  The `config/rs6000/rs6000.h` target file defines:

      #define EXTRA_SPECS \
        { "cpp_sysv_default", CPP_SYSV_DEFAULT },

      #define CPP_SYS_DEFAULT ""

  The `config/rs6000/sysv.h` target file defines:

      #undef CPP_SPEC
      #define CPP_SPEC \
      "%{posix: -D_POSIX_SOURCE } \
      %{mcall-sysv: -D_CALL_SYSV } \
      %{!mcall-sysv: %(cpp_sysv_default) } \
      %{msoft-float: -D_SOFT_FLOAT} %{mcpu=403: -D_SOFT_FLOAT}"

      #undef CPP_SYSV_DEFAULT
      #define CPP_SYSV_DEFAULT "-D_CALL_SYSV"

  while the `config/rs6000/eabiaix.h` target file defines `CPP_SYSV_DEFAULT` as:

      #undef CPP_SYSV_DEFAULT
      #define CPP_SYSV_DEFAULT "-D_CALL_AIX"

Macro: LINK_LIBGCC_SPECIAL_1 ¶

  Define this macro if the driver program should find the library `libgcc.a`. If you do not define this macro, the driver program will pass the argument `-lgcc` to tell the linker to do the search.

Macro: LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC ¶

  The sequence in which libgcc and libc are specified to the linker. By default this is `%G %L %G`.

Macro: POST_LINK_SPEC ¶

  Define this macro to add additional steps to be executed after linker. The default value of this macro is empty string.

Macro: LINK_COMMAND_SPEC ¶

  A C string constant giving the complete command line need to execute the linker. When you do this, you will need to update your port each time a change is made to the link command line within `gcc.cc`. Therefore, define this macro only if you need to completely redefine the command line for invoking the linker and there is no other way to accomplish the effect you need. Overriding this macro may be avoidable by overriding `LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC` instead.

Common Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ALWAYS_STRIP_DOTDOT ¶

  True if `..` components should always be removed from directory names computed relative to GCC’s internal directories, false (default) if such components should be preserved and directory names containing them passed to other tools such as the linker.

Macro: MULTILIB_DEFAULTS ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression for the initializer of an array of string to tell the driver program which options are defaults for this target and thus do not need to be handled specially when using `MULTILIB_OPTIONS`.

  Do not define this macro if `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` is not defined in the target makefile fragment or if none of the options listed in `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` are set by default. See Target Makefile Fragments.

Macro: RELATIVE_PREFIX_NOT_LINKDIR ¶

  Define this macro to tell `gcc` that it should only translate a `-B` prefix into a `-L` linker option if the prefix indicates an absolute file name.

Macro: MD_EXEC_PREFIX ¶

  If defined, this macro is an additional prefix to try after `STANDARD_EXEC_PREFIX`. `MD_EXEC_PREFIX` is not searched when the compiler is built as a cross compiler. If you define `MD_EXEC_PREFIX`, then be sure to add it to the list of directories used to find the assembler in `configure.ac`.

Macro: STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant if you wish to override the standard choice of `libdir` as the default prefix to try when searching for startup files such as `crt0.o`. `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX` is not searched when the compiler is built as a cross compiler.

Macro: STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_1 ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant if you wish to override the standard choice of `/lib` as a prefix to try after the default prefix when searching for startup files such as `crt0.o`. `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_1` is not searched when the compiler is built as a cross compiler.

Macro: STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_2 ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant if you wish to override the standard choice of `/lib` as yet another prefix to try after the default prefix when searching for startup files such as `crt0.o`. `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_2` is not searched when the compiler is built as a cross compiler.

Macro: MD_STARTFILE_PREFIX ¶

  If defined, this macro supplies an additional prefix to try after the standard prefixes. `MD_EXEC_PREFIX` is not searched when the compiler is built as a cross compiler.

Macro: MD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_1 ¶

  If defined, this macro supplies yet another prefix to try after the standard prefixes. It is not searched when the compiler is built as a cross compiler.

Macro: INIT_ENVIRONMENT ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant if you wish to set environment variables for programs called by the driver, such as the assembler and loader. The driver passes the value of this macro to `putenv` to initialize the necessary environment variables.

Macro: LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant if you wish to override the standard choice of `/usr/local/include` as the default prefix to try when searching for local header files. `LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR` comes before `NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR` (set in `config.gcc`, normally `/usr/include`) in the search order.

  Cross compilers do not search either `/usr/local/include` or its replacement.

Macro: NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_COMPONENT ¶

  The “component” corresponding to `NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR`. See `INCLUDE_DEFAULTS`, below, for the description of components. If you do not define this macro, no component is used.

Macro: INCLUDE_DEFAULTS ¶

  Define this macro if you wish to override the entire default search path for include files. For a native compiler, the default search path usually consists of `GCC_INCLUDE_DIR`, `LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR`, `GPLUSPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR`, and `NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR`. In addition, `GPLUSPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR` and `GCC_INCLUDE_DIR` are defined automatically by `Makefile`, and specify private search areas for GCC. The directory `GPLUSPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR` is used only for C++ programs.

  The definition should be an initializer for an array of structures. Each array element should have four elements: the directory name (a string constant), the component name (also a string constant), a flag for C++-only directories, and a flag showing that the includes in the directory don’t need to be wrapped in `extern ‘`C`’` when compiling C++. Mark the end of the array with a null element.

  The component name denotes what GNU package the include file is part of, if any, in all uppercase letters. For example, it might be ‘`GCC`’ or ‘`BINUTILS`’. If the package is part of a vendor-supplied operating system, code the component name as ‘`0`’.

  For example, here is the definition used for VAX/VMS:

      #define INCLUDE_DEFAULTS \
      {                                       \
        { "GNU_GXX_INCLUDE:", "G++", 1, 1},   \
        { "GNU_CC_INCLUDE:", "GCC", 0, 0},    \
        { "SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB.]", 0, 0, 0},  \
        { ".", 0, 0, 0},                      \
        { 0, 0, 0, 0}                         \
      }

Here is the order of prefixes tried for exec files:

1. Any prefixes specified by the user with `-B`.
2. The environment variable `GCC_EXEC_PREFIX` or, if `GCC_EXEC_PREFIX` is not set and the compiler has not been installed in the configure-time prefix, the location in which the compiler has actually been installed.
3. The directories specified by the environment variable `COMPILER_PATH`.
4. The macro `STANDARD_EXEC_PREFIX`, if the compiler has been installed in the configured-time prefix.
5. The location `/usr/libexec/gcc/`, but only if this is a native compiler.
6. The location `/usr/lib/gcc/`, but only if this is a native compiler.
7. The macro `MD_EXEC_PREFIX`, if defined, but only if this is a native compiler.

Here is the order of prefixes tried for startfiles:

1. Any prefixes specified by the user with `-B`.
2. The environment variable `GCC_EXEC_PREFIX` or its automatically determined value based on the installed toolchain location.
3. The directories specified by the environment variable `LIBRARY_PATH` (or port-specific name; native only, cross compilers do not use this).
4. The macro `STANDARD_EXEC_PREFIX`, but only if the toolchain is installed in the configured prefix or this is a native compiler.
5. The location `/usr/lib/gcc/`, but only if this is a native compiler.
6. The macro `MD_EXEC_PREFIX`, if defined, but only if this is a native compiler.
7. The macro `MD_STARTFILE_PREFIX`, if defined, but only if this is a native compiler, or we have a target system root.
8. The macro `MD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_1`, if defined, but only if this is a native compiler, or we have a target system root.
9. The macro `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX`, with any sysroot modifications. If this path is relative it will be prefixed by `GCC_EXEC_PREFIX` and the machine suffix or `STANDARD_EXEC_PREFIX` and the machine suffix.
10. The macro `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_1`, but only if this is a native compiler, or we have a target system root. The default for this macro is `/lib/`.
11. The macro `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_2`, but only if this is a native compiler, or we have a target system root. The default for this macro is `/usr/lib/`.

### 18.3 Run-time Target Specification ¶

Here are run-time target specifications.

Macro: TARGET_CPU_CPP_BUILTINS () ¶

  This function-like macro expands to a block of code that defines built-in preprocessor macros and assertions for the target CPU, using the functions `builtin_define`, `builtin_define_std` and `builtin_assert`. When the front end calls this macro it provides a trailing semicolon, and since it has finished command line option processing your code can use those results freely.

  `builtin_assert` takes a string in the form you pass to the command-line option `-A`, such as `cpu=mips`, and creates the assertion. `builtin_define` takes a string in the form accepted by option `-D` and unconditionally defines the macro.

  `builtin_define_std` takes a string representing the name of an object-like macro. If it doesn’t lie in the user’s namespace, `builtin_define_std` defines it unconditionally. Otherwise, it defines a version with two leading underscores, and another version with two leading and trailing underscores, and defines the original only if an ISO standard was not requested on the command line. For example, passing `unix` defines `__unix`, `__unix__` and possibly `unix`; passing `_mips` defines `__mips`, `__mips__` and possibly `_mips`, and passing `_ABI64` defines only `_ABI64`.

  You can also test for the C dialect being compiled. The variable `c_language` is set to one of `clk_c`, `clk_cplusplus` or `clk_objective_c`. Note that if we are preprocessing assembler, this variable will be `clk_c` but the function-like macro `preprocessing_asm_p()` will return true, so you might want to check for that first. If you need to check for strict ANSI, the variable `flag_iso` can be used. The function-like macro `preprocessing_trad_p()` can be used to check for traditional preprocessing.

Macro: TARGET_OS_CPP_BUILTINS () ¶

  Similarly to `TARGET_CPU_CPP_BUILTINS` but this macro is optional and is used for the target operating system instead.

Macro: TARGET_OBJFMT_CPP_BUILTINS () ¶

  Similarly to `TARGET_CPU_CPP_BUILTINS` but this macro is optional and is used for the target object format. `elfos.h` uses this macro to define `__ELF__`, so you probably do not need to define it yourself.

Variable: `extern int` target_flags ¶

  This variable is declared in `options.h`, which is included before any target-specific headers.

Common Target Hook: `int` TARGET_DEFAULT_TARGET_FLAGS ¶

  This variable specifies the initial value of `target_flags`. Its default setting is 0.

Common Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HANDLE_OPTION `(struct gcc_options *opts, struct gcc_options *opts_set, const struct cl_decoded_option *decoded, location_t loc)` ¶

  This hook is called whenever the user specifies one of the target-specific options described by the `.opt` definition files (see Option specification files). It has the opportunity to do some option-specific processing and should return true if the option is valid. The default definition does nothing but return true.

  decoded specifies the option and its arguments. opts and opts_set are the `gcc_options` structures to be used for storing option state, and loc is the location at which the option was passed (`UNKNOWN_LOCATION` except for options passed via attributes).

C Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HANDLE_C_OPTION `(size_t code, const char *arg, int value)` ¶

  This target hook is called whenever the user specifies one of the target-specific C language family options described by the `.opt` definition files(see Option specification files). It has the opportunity to do some option-specific processing and should return true if the option is valid. The arguments are like for `TARGET_HANDLE_OPTION`. The default definition does nothing but return false.

  In general, you should use `TARGET_HANDLE_OPTION` to handle options. However, if processing an option requires routines that are only available in the C (and related language) front ends, then you should use `TARGET_HANDLE_C_OPTION` instead.

C Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_OBJC_CONSTRUCT_STRING_OBJECT `(tree string)` ¶

  Targets may provide a string object type that can be used within and between C, C++ and their respective Objective-C dialects. A string object might, for example, embed encoding and length information. These objects are considered opaque to the compiler and handled as references. An ideal implementation makes the composition of the string object match that of the Objective-C `NSString` (`NXString` for GNUStep), allowing efficient interworking between C-only and Objective-C code. If a target implements string objects then this hook should return a reference to such an object constructed from the normal ‘C’ string representation provided in string. At present, the hook is used by Objective-C only, to obtain a common-format string object when the target provides one.

C Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OBJC_DECLARE_UNRESOLVED_CLASS_REFERENCE `(const char *classname)` ¶

  Declare that Objective C class classname is referenced by the current TU.

C Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OBJC_DECLARE_CLASS_DEFINITION `(const char *classname)` ¶

  Declare that Objective C class classname is defined by the current TU.

C Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_STRING_OBJECT_REF_TYPE_P `(const_tree stringref)` ¶

  If a target implements string objects then this hook should return `true` if stringref is a valid reference to such an object.

C Target Hook: `void` TARGET_CHECK_STRING_OBJECT_FORMAT_ARG `(tree format_arg, tree args_list)` ¶

  If a target implements string objects then this hook should provide a facility to check the function arguments in args_list against the format specifiers in format_arg where the type of format_arg is one recognized as a valid string reference type.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS_AFTER_CHANGE `(void)` ¶

  This target function is similar to the hook `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE` but is called when the optimize level is changed via an attribute or pragma or when it is reset at the end of the code affected by the attribute or pragma. It is not called at the beginning of compilation when `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE` is called so if you want to perform these actions then, you should have `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE` call `TARGET_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS_AFTER_CHANGE`.

Macro: C_COMMON_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS ¶

  This is similar to the `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE` hook but is only used in the C language frontends (C, Objective-C, C++, Objective-C++) and so can be used to alter option flag variables which only exist in those frontends.

Common Target Hook: `const struct default_options *` TARGET_OPTION_OPTIMIZATION_TABLE ¶

  Some machines may desire to change what optimizations are performed for various optimization levels. This variable, if defined, describes options to enable at particular sets of optimization levels. These options are processed once just after the optimization level is determined and before the remainder of the command options have been parsed, so may be overridden by other options passed explicitly.

  This processing is run once at program startup and when the optimization options are changed via `#pragma GCC optimize` or by using the `optimize` attribute.

Common Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OPTION_INIT_STRUCT `(struct gcc_options *opts)` ¶

  Set target-dependent initial values of fields in opts.

Common Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_COMPUTE_MULTILIB `(const struct switchstr *switches, int n_switches, const char *multilib_dir, const char *multilib_defaults, const char *multilib_select, const char *multilib_matches, const char *multilib_exclusions, const char *multilib_reuse)` ¶

  Some targets like RISC-V might have complicated multilib reuse rules which are hard to implement with the current multilib scheme. This hook allows targets to override the result from the built-in multilib mechanism. switches is the raw option list with n_switches items; multilib_dir is the multi-lib result which is computed by the built-in multi-lib mechanism; multilib_defaults is the default options list for multi-lib; multilib_select is the string containing the list of supported multi-libs, and the option checking list. multilib_matches, multilib_exclusions, and multilib_reuse are corresponding to MULTILIB_MATCHES, MULTILIB_EXCLUSIONS, and MULTILIB_REUSE. The default definition does nothing but return multilib_dir directly.

Macro: SWITCHABLE_TARGET ¶

  Some targets need to switch between substantially different subtargets during compilation. For example, the MIPS target has one subtarget for the traditional MIPS architecture and another for MIPS16. Source code can switch between these two subarchitectures using the `mips16` and `nomips16` attributes.

  Such subtargets can differ in things like the set of available registers, the set of available instructions, the costs of various operations, and so on. GCC caches a lot of this type of information in global variables, and recomputing them for each subtarget takes a significant amount of time. The compiler therefore provides a facility for maintaining several versions of the global variables and quickly switching between them; see `target-globals.h` for details.

  Define this macro to 1 if your target needs this facility. The default is 0.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FLOAT_EXCEPTIONS_ROUNDING_SUPPORTED_P `(void)` ¶

  Returns true if the target supports IEEE 754 floating-point exceptions and rounding modes, false otherwise. This is intended to relate to the `float` and `double` types, but not necessarily `long double`. By default, returns true if the `adddf3` instruction pattern is available and false otherwise, on the assumption that hardware floating point supports exceptions and rounding modes but software floating point does not.

### 18.4 Defining data structures for per-function information. ¶

If the target needs to store information on a per-function basis, GCC provides a macro and a couple of variables to allow this. Note, just using statics to store the information is a bad idea, since GCC supports nested functions, so you can be halfway through encoding one function when another one comes along.

GCC defines a data structure called `struct function` which contains all of the data specific to an individual function. This structure contains a field called `machine` whose type is `struct machine_function *`, which can be used by targets to point to their own specific data.

If a target needs per-function specific data it should define the type `struct machine_function` and also the macro `INIT_EXPANDERS`. This macro should be used to initialize the function pointer `init_machine_status`. This pointer is explained below.

One typical use of per-function, target specific data is to create an RTX to hold the register containing the function’s return address. This RTX can then be used to implement the `__builtin_return_address` function, for level 0.

Note—earlier implementations of GCC used a single data area to hold all of the per-function information. Thus when processing of a nested function began the old per-function data had to be pushed onto a stack, and when the processing was finished, it had to be popped off the stack. GCC used to provide function pointers called `save_machine_status` and `restore_machine_status` to handle the saving and restoring of the target specific information. Since the single data area approach is no longer used, these pointers are no longer supported.

Macro: INIT_EXPANDERS ¶

  Macro called to initialize any target specific information. This macro is called once per function, before generation of any RTL has begun. The intention of this macro is to allow the initialization of the function pointer `init_machine_status`.

Variable: `void (*)(struct function *)` init_machine_status ¶

  If this function pointer is non-`NULL` it will be called once per function, before function compilation starts, in order to allow the target to perform any target specific initialization of the `struct function` structure. It is intended that this would be used to initialize the `machine` of that structure.

  `struct machine_function` structures are expected to be freed by GC. Generally, any memory that they reference must be allocated by using GC allocation, including the structure itself.

### 18.5 Storage Layout ¶

Note that the definitions of the macros in this table which are sizes or alignments measured in bits do not need to be constant. They can be C expressions that refer to static variables, such as the `target_flags`. See Run-time Target Specification.

Macro: BITS_BIG_ENDIAN ¶

  Define this macro to have the value 1 if the most significant bit in a byte has the lowest number; otherwise define it to have the value zero. This means that bit-field instructions count from the most significant bit. If the machine has no bit-field instructions, then this must still be defined, but it doesn’t matter which value it is defined to. This macro need not be a constant.

  This macro does not affect the way structure fields are packed into bytes or words; that is controlled by `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN`.

Macro: BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN ¶

  Define this macro to have the value 1 if the most significant byte in a word has the lowest number. This macro need not be a constant.

Macro: WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN ¶

  Define this macro to have the value 1 if, in a multiword object, the most significant word has the lowest number. This applies to both memory locations and registers; see `REG_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` if the order of words in memory is not the same as the order in registers. This macro need not be a constant.

Macro: REG_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN ¶

  On some machines, the order of words in a multiword object differs between registers in memory. In such a situation, define this macro to describe the order of words in a register. The macro `WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` controls the order of words in memory.

Macro: FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN ¶

  Define this macro to have the value 1 if `DFmode`, `XFmode` or `TFmode` floating point numbers are stored in memory with the word containing the sign bit at the lowest address; otherwise define it to have the value 0. This macro need not be a constant.

  You need not define this macro if the ordering is the same as for multi-word integers.

Macro: BITS_PER_WORD ¶

  Number of bits in a word. If you do not define this macro, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * UNITS_PER_WORD`.

Macro: MAX_BITS_PER_WORD ¶

  Maximum number of bits in a word. If this is undefined, the default is `BITS_PER_WORD`. Otherwise, it is the constant value that is the largest value that `BITS_PER_WORD` can have at run-time.

Macro: UNITS_PER_WORD ¶

  Number of storage units in a word; normally the size of a general-purpose register, a power of two from 1 or 8.

Macro: MIN_UNITS_PER_WORD ¶

  Minimum number of units in a word. If this is undefined, the default is `UNITS_PER_WORD`. Otherwise, it is the constant value that is the smallest value that `UNITS_PER_WORD` can have at run-time.

Macro: POINTER_SIZE ¶

  Width of a pointer, in bits. You must specify a value no wider than the width of `Pmode`. If it is not equal to the width of `Pmode`, you must define `POINTERS_EXTEND_UNSIGNED`. If you do not specify a value the default is `BITS_PER_WORD`.

Macro: POINTERS_EXTEND_UNSIGNED ¶

  A C expression that determines how pointers should be extended from `ptr_mode` to either `Pmode` or `word_mode`. It is greater than zero if pointers should be zero-extended, zero if they should be sign-extended, and negative if some other sort of conversion is needed. In the last case, the extension is done by the target’s `ptr_extend` instruction.

  You need not define this macro if the `ptr_mode`, `Pmode` and `word_mode` are all the same width.

Macro: PROMOTE_MODE (m, unsignedp, type) ¶

  A macro to update m and unsignedp when an object whose type is type and which has the specified mode and signedness is to be stored in a register. This macro is only called when type is a scalar type.

  On most RISC machines, which only have operations that operate on a full register, define this macro to set m to `word_mode` if m is an integer mode narrower than `BITS_PER_WORD`. In most cases, only integer modes should be widened because wider-precision floating-point operations are usually more expensive than their narrower counterparts.

  For most machines, the macro definition does not change unsignedp. However, some machines, have instructions that preferentially handle either signed or unsigned quantities of certain modes. For example, on the DEC Alpha, 32-bit loads from memory and 32-bit add instructions sign-extend the result to 64 bits. On such machines, set unsignedp according to which kind of extension is more efficient.

  Do not define this macro if it would never modify m.

Target Hook: `enum flt_eval_method` TARGET_C_EXCESS_PRECISION `(enum excess_precision_type type)` ¶

  Return a value, with the same meaning as the C99 macro `FLT_EVAL_METHOD` that describes which excess precision should be applied. type is either `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_IMPLICIT`, `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_FAST`, `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_STANDARD`, or `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_FLOAT16`. For `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_IMPLICIT`, the target should return which precision and range operations will be implictly evaluated in regardless of the excess precision explicitly added. For `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_STANDARD`, `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_FLOAT16`, and `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_FAST`, the target should return the explicit excess precision that should be added depending on the value set for `-fexcess-precision=[standard|fast|16]`. Note that unpredictable explicit excess precision does not make sense, so a target should never return `FLT_EVAL_METHOD_UNPREDICTABLE` when type is `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_STANDARD`, `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_FLOAT16` or `EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_FAST`.

Return a value, with the same meaning as the C99 macro `FLT_EVAL_METHOD` that describes which excess precision should be applied.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_C_BITINT_TYPE_INFO `(int n, struct bitint_info *info)` ¶

  This target hook returns true if `_BitInt(N)` is supported and provides details on it. `_BitInt(N)` is to be represented as series of `info->abi_limb_mode` `CEIL (N, GET_MODE_PRECISION (info->abi_limb_mode))` limbs, ordered from least significant to most significant if `!info->big_endian`, otherwise from most significant to least significant. If `info->extended` is false, the bits above or equal to N are undefined when stored in a register or memory, otherwise they are zero or sign extended depending on if it is `unsigned _BitInt(N)` or one of `_BitInt(N)` or `signed _BitInt(N)`. Alignment of the type is `GET_MODE_ALIGNMENT (info->limb_mode)`.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_PROMOTE_FUNCTION_MODE `(const_tree type, machine_mode mode, int *punsignedp, const_tree funtype, int for_return)` ¶

  Like `PROMOTE_MODE`, but it is applied to outgoing function arguments or function return values. The target hook should return the new mode and possibly change `*punsignedp` if the promotion should change signedness. This function is called only for scalar or pointer types.

  for_return allows to distinguish the promotion of arguments and return values. If it is `1`, a return value is being promoted and `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE` must perform the same promotions done here. If it is `2`, the returned mode should be that of the register in which an incoming parameter is copied, or the outgoing result is computed; then the hook should return the same mode as `promote_mode`, though the signedness may be different.

  type can be NULL when promoting function arguments of libcalls.

  The default is to not promote arguments and return values. You can also define the hook to `default_promote_function_mode_always_promote` if you would like to apply the same rules given by `PROMOTE_MODE`.

Macro: PARM_BOUNDARY ¶

  Normal alignment required for function parameters on the stack, in bits. All stack parameters receive at least this much alignment regardless of data type. On most machines, this is the same as the size of an integer.

Macro: STACK_BOUNDARY ¶

  Define this macro to the minimum alignment enforced by hardware for the stack pointer on this machine. The definition is a C expression for the desired alignment (measured in bits). This value is used as a default if `PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY` is not defined. On most machines, this should be the same as `PARM_BOUNDARY`.

Macro: PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY ¶

  Define this macro if you wish to preserve a certain alignment for the stack pointer, greater than what the hardware enforces. The definition is a C expression for the desired alignment (measured in bits). This macro must evaluate to a value equal to or larger than `STACK_BOUNDARY`.

Macro: INCOMING_STACK_BOUNDARY ¶

  Define this macro if the incoming stack boundary may be different from `PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY`. This macro must evaluate to a value equal to or larger than `STACK_BOUNDARY`.

Macro: FUNCTION_BOUNDARY ¶

  Alignment required for a function entry point, in bits.

Macro: BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT ¶

  Biggest alignment that any data type can require on this machine, in bits. Note that this is not the biggest alignment that is supported, just the biggest alignment that, when violated, may cause a fault.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_ABSOLUTE_BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT ¶

  If defined, this target hook specifies the absolute biggest alignment that a type or variable can have on this machine, otherwise, `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT` is used.

Macro: MALLOC_ABI_ALIGNMENT ¶

  Alignment, in bits, a C conformant malloc implementation has to provide. If not defined, the default value is `BITS_PER_WORD`.

Macro: ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED_VALUE ¶

  Alignment used by the `__attribute__ ((aligned))` construct. If not defined, the default value is `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT`.

Macro: MINIMUM_ATOMIC_ALIGNMENT ¶

  If defined, the smallest alignment, in bits, that can be given to an object that can be referenced in one operation, without disturbing any nearby object. Normally, this is `BITS_PER_UNIT`, but may be larger on machines that don’t have byte or half-word store operations.

Macro: BIGGEST_FIELD_ALIGNMENT ¶

  Biggest alignment that any structure or union field can require on this machine, in bits. If defined, this overrides `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT` for structure and union fields only, unless the field alignment has been set by the `__attribute__ ((aligned (n)))` construct.

Macro: ADJUST_FIELD_ALIGN (field, type, computed) ¶

  An expression for the alignment of a structure field field of type type if the alignment computed in the usual way (including applying of `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT` and `BIGGEST_FIELD_ALIGNMENT` to the alignment) is computed. It overrides alignment only if the field alignment has not been set by the `__attribute__ ((aligned (n)))` construct. Note that field may be `NULL_TREE` in case we just query for the minimum alignment of a field of type type in structure context.

Macro: MAX_STACK_ALIGNMENT ¶

  Biggest stack alignment guaranteed by the backend. Use this macro to specify the maximum alignment of a variable on stack.

  If not defined, the default value is `STACK_BOUNDARY`.

Macro: MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT ¶

  Biggest alignment supported by the object file format of this machine. Use this macro to limit the alignment which can be specified using the `__attribute__ ((aligned (n)))` construct for functions and objects with static storage duration. The alignment of automatic objects may exceed the object file format maximum up to the maximum supported by GCC. If not defined, the default value is `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT`.

  On systems that use ELF, the default (in `config/elfos.h`) is the largest supported 32-bit ELF section alignment representable on a 32-bit host e.g. ‘`(((uint64_t) 1 << 28) * 8)`’. On 32-bit ELF the largest supported section alignment in bits is ‘`(0x80000000 * 8)`’, but this is not representable on 32-bit hosts.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_LOWER_LOCAL_DECL_ALIGNMENT `(tree decl)` ¶

  Define this hook to lower alignment of local, parm or result decl ‘`(decl)`’.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_STATIC_RTX_ALIGNMENT `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook returns the preferred alignment in bits for a statically-allocated rtx, such as a constant pool entry. mode is the mode of the rtx. The default implementation returns ‘`GET_MODE_ALIGNMENT (mode)`’.

Macro: DATA_ALIGNMENT (type, basic-align) ¶

  If defined, a C expression to compute the alignment for a variable in the static store. type is the data type, and basic-align is the alignment that the object would ordinarily have. The value of this macro is used instead of that alignment to align the object.

  If this macro is not defined, then basic-align is used.

  One use of this macro is to increase alignment of medium-size data to make it all fit in fewer cache lines. Another is to cause character arrays to be word-aligned so that `strcpy` calls that copy constants to character arrays can be done inline.

Macro: DATA_ABI_ALIGNMENT (type, basic-align) ¶

  Similar to `DATA_ALIGNMENT`, but for the cases where the ABI mandates some alignment increase, instead of optimization only purposes. E.g. AMD x86-64 psABI says that variables with array type larger than 15 bytes must be aligned to 16 byte boundaries.

  If this macro is not defined, then basic-align is used.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_CONSTANT_ALIGNMENT `(const_tree constant, HOST_WIDE_INT basic_align)` ¶

  This hook returns the alignment in bits of a constant that is being placed in memory. constant is the constant and basic_align is the alignment that the object would ordinarily have.

  The default definition just returns basic_align.

  The typical use of this hook is to increase alignment for string constants to be word aligned so that `strcpy` calls that copy constants can be done inline. The function `constant_alignment_word_strings` provides such a definition.

Macro: LOCAL_ALIGNMENT (type, basic-align) ¶

  If defined, a C expression to compute the alignment for a variable in the local store. type is the data type, and basic-align is the alignment that the object would ordinarily have. The value of this macro is used instead of that alignment to align the object.

  If this macro is not defined, then basic-align is used.

  One use of this macro is to increase alignment of medium-size data to make it all fit in fewer cache lines.

  If the value of this macro has a type, it should be an unsigned type.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_VECTOR_ALIGNMENT `(const_tree type)` ¶

  This hook can be used to define the alignment for a vector of type type, in order to comply with a platform ABI. The default is to require natural alignment for vector types. The alignment returned by this hook must be a power-of-two multiple of the default alignment of the vector element type.

Macro: STACK_SLOT_ALIGNMENT (type, mode, basic-align) ¶

  If defined, a C expression to compute the alignment for stack slot. type is the data type, mode is the widest mode available, and basic-align is the alignment that the slot would ordinarily have. The value of this macro is used instead of that alignment to align the slot.

  If this macro is not defined, then basic-align is used when type is `NULL`. Otherwise, `LOCAL_ALIGNMENT` will be used.

  This macro is to set alignment of stack slot to the maximum alignment of all possible modes which the slot may have.

  If the value of this macro has a type, it should be an unsigned type.

Macro: LOCAL_DECL_ALIGNMENT (decl) ¶

  If defined, a C expression to compute the alignment for a local variable decl.

  If this macro is not defined, then `LOCAL_ALIGNMENT (TREE_TYPE (decl), DECL_ALIGN (decl))` is used.

  One use of this macro is to increase alignment of medium-size data to make it all fit in fewer cache lines.

  If the value of this macro has a type, it should be an unsigned type.

Macro: MINIMUM_ALIGNMENT (exp, mode, align) ¶

  If defined, a C expression to compute the minimum required alignment for dynamic stack realignment purposes for exp (a type or decl), mode, assuming normal alignment align.

  If this macro is not defined, then align will be used.

Macro: EMPTY_FIELD_BOUNDARY ¶

  Alignment in bits to be given to a structure bit-field that follows an empty field such as `int : 0;`.

  If `PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS` is true, it overrides this macro.

Macro: STRUCTURE_SIZE_BOUNDARY ¶

  Number of bits which any structure or union’s size must be a multiple of. Each structure or union’s size is rounded up to a multiple of this.

  If you do not define this macro, the default is the same as `BITS_PER_UNIT`.

Macro: STRICT_ALIGNMENT ¶

  Define this macro to be the value 1 if instructions will fail to work if given data not on the nominal alignment. If instructions will merely go slower in that case, define this macro as 0.

Macro: PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS ¶

  Define this if you wish to imitate the way many other C compilers handle alignment of bit-fields and the structures that contain them.

  The behavior is that the type written for a named bit-field (`int`, `short`, or other integer type) imposes an alignment for the entire structure, as if the structure really did contain an ordinary field of that type. In addition, the bit-field is placed within the structure so that it would fit within such a field, not crossing a boundary for it.

  Thus, on most machines, a named bit-field whose type is written as `int` would not cross a four-byte boundary, and would force four-byte alignment for the whole structure. (The alignment used may not be four bytes; it is controlled by the other alignment parameters.)

  An unnamed bit-field will not affect the alignment of the containing structure.

  If the macro is defined, its definition should be a C expression; a nonzero value for the expression enables this behavior.

  Note that if this macro is not defined, or its value is zero, some bit-fields may cross more than one alignment boundary. The compiler can support such references if there are ‘`insv`’, ‘`extv`’, and ‘`extzv`’ insns that can directly reference memory.

  The other known way of making bit-fields work is to define `STRUCTURE_SIZE_BOUNDARY` as large as `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT`. Then every structure can be accessed with fullwords.

  Unless the machine has bit-field instructions or you define `STRUCTURE_SIZE_BOUNDARY` that way, you must define `PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS` to have a nonzero value.

  If your aim is to make GCC use the same conventions for laying out bit-fields as are used by another compiler, here is how to investigate what the other compiler does. Compile and run this program:

      struct foo1
      {
        char x;
        char :0;
        char y;
      };

      struct foo2
      {
        char x;
        int :0;
        char y;
      };

      main ()
      {
        printf ("Size of foo1 is %d\n",
                sizeof (struct foo1));
        printf ("Size of foo2 is %d\n",
                sizeof (struct foo2));
        exit (0);
      }

  If this prints 2 and 5, then the compiler’s behavior is what you would get from `PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS`.

Macro: BITFIELD_NBYTES_LIMITED ¶

  Like `PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS` except that its effect is limited to aligning a bit-field within the structure.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ALIGN_ANON_BITFIELD `(void)` ¶

  When `PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS` is true this hook will determine whether unnamed bitfields affect the alignment of the containing structure. The hook should return true if the structure should inherit the alignment requirements of an unnamed bitfield’s type.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_NARROW_VOLATILE_BITFIELD `(void)` ¶

  This target hook should return `true` if accesses to volatile bitfields should use the narrowest mode possible. It should return `false` if these accesses should use the bitfield container type.

  The default is `false`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_MEMBER_TYPE_FORCES_BLK `(const_tree field, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  Return true if a structure, union or array containing field should be accessed using `BLKMODE`.

  If field is the only field in the structure, mode is its mode, otherwise mode is VOIDmode. mode is provided in the case where structures of one field would require the structure’s mode to retain the field’s mode.

  Normally, this is not needed.

Macro: ROUND_TYPE_ALIGN (type, computed, specified) ¶

  Define this macro as an expression for the alignment of a type (given by type as a tree node) if the alignment computed in the usual way is computed and the alignment explicitly specified was specified.

  The default is to use specified if it is larger; otherwise, use the smaller of computed and `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT`

Macro: MAX_FIXED_MODE_SIZE ¶

  An integer expression for the size in bits of the largest integer machine mode that should actually be used. All integer machine modes of this size or smaller can be used for structures and unions with the appropriate sizes. If this macro is undefined, `GET_MODE_BITSIZE (DImode)` is assumed.

Macro: STACK_SAVEAREA_MODE (save_level) ¶

  If defined, an expression of type `machine_mode` that specifies the mode of the save area operand of a `save_stack_level` named pattern (see Standard Pattern Names For Generation). save_level is one of `SAVE_BLOCK`, `SAVE_FUNCTION`, or `SAVE_NONLOCAL` and selects which of the three named patterns is having its mode specified.

  You need not define this macro if it always returns `Pmode`. You would most commonly define this macro if the `save_stack_level` patterns need to support both a 32- and a 64-bit mode.

Macro: STACK_SIZE_MODE ¶

  If defined, an expression of type `machine_mode` that specifies the mode of the size increment operand of an `allocate_stack` named pattern (see Standard Pattern Names For Generation).

  You need not define this macro if it always returns `word_mode`. You would most commonly define this macro if the `allocate_stack` pattern needs to support both a 32- and a 64-bit mode.

Target Hook: `scalar_int_mode` TARGET_LIBGCC_CMP_RETURN_MODE `(void)` ¶

  This target hook should return the mode to be used for the return value of compare instructions expanded to libgcc calls. If not defined `word_mode` is returned which is the right choice for a majority of targets.

Target Hook: `scalar_int_mode` TARGET_LIBGCC_SHIFT_COUNT_MODE `(void)` ¶

  This target hook should return the mode to be used for the shift count operand of shift instructions expanded to libgcc calls. If not defined `word_mode` is returned which is the right choice for a majority of targets.

Target Hook: `scalar_int_mode` TARGET_UNWIND_WORD_MODE `(void)` ¶

  Return machine mode to be used for `_Unwind_Word` type. The default is to use `word_mode`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_MS_BITFIELD_LAYOUT_P `(const_tree record_type)` ¶

  This target hook returns `true` if bit-fields in the given record_type are to be laid out following the rules of Microsoft Visual C/C++, namely: (i) a bit-field won’t share the same storage unit with the previous bit-field if their underlying types have different sizes, and the bit-field will be aligned to the highest alignment of the underlying types of itself and of the previous bit-field; (ii) a zero-sized bit-field will affect the alignment of the whole enclosing structure, even if it is unnamed; except that (iii) a zero-sized bit-field will be disregarded unless it follows another bit-field of nonzero size. If this hook returns `true`, other macros that control bit-field layout are ignored.

  When a bit-field is inserted into a packed record, the whole size of the underlying type is used by one or more same-size adjacent bit-fields (that is, if its long:3, 32 bits is used in the record, and any additional adjacent long bit-fields are packed into the same chunk of 32 bits. However, if the size changes, a new field of that size is allocated). In an unpacked record, this is the same as using alignment, but not equivalent when packing.

  If both MS bit-fields and ‘`__attribute__((packed))`’ are used, the latter will take precedence. If ‘`__attribute__((packed))`’ is used on a single field when MS bit-fields are in use, it will take precedence for that field, but the alignment of the rest of the structure may affect its placement.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_DECIMAL_FLOAT_SUPPORTED_P `(void)` ¶

  Returns true if the target supports decimal floating point.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FIXED_POINT_SUPPORTED_P `(void)` ¶

  Returns true if the target supports fixed-point arithmetic.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_EXPAND_TO_RTL_HOOK `(void)` ¶

  This hook is called just before expansion into rtl, allowing the target to perform additional initializations or analysis before the expansion. For example, the rs6000 port uses it to allocate a scratch stack slot for use in copying SDmode values between memory and floating point registers whenever the function being expanded has any SDmode usage.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_INSTANTIATE_DECLS `(void)` ¶

  This hook allows the backend to perform additional instantiations on rtl that are not actually in any insns yet, but will be later.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_MANGLE_TYPE `(const_tree type)` ¶

  If your target defines any fundamental types, or any types your target uses should be mangled differently from the default, define this hook to return the appropriate encoding for these types as part of a C++ mangled name. The type argument is the tree structure representing the type to be mangled. The hook may be applied to trees which are not target-specific fundamental types; it should return `NULL` for all such types, as well as arguments it does not recognize. If the return value is not `NULL`, it must point to a statically-allocated string constant.

  Target-specific fundamental types might be new fundamental types or qualified versions of ordinary fundamental types. Encode new fundamental types as ‘`u n name`’, where name is the name used for the type in source code, and n is the length of name in decimal. Encode qualified versions of ordinary types as ‘`U n name code`’, where name is the name used for the type qualifier in source code, n is the length of name as above, and code is the code used to represent the unqualified version of this type. (See `write_builtin_type` in `cp/mangle.cc` for the list of codes.) In both cases the spaces are for clarity; do not include any spaces in your string.

  This hook is applied to types prior to typedef resolution. If the mangled name for a particular type depends only on that type’s main variant, you can perform typedef resolution yourself using `TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT` before mangling.

  The default version of this hook always returns `NULL`, which is appropriate for a target that does not define any new fundamental types.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_EMIT_SUPPORT_TINFOS `(emit_support_tinfos_callback callback)` ¶

  If your target defines any fundamental types which depend on ISA flags, they might need C++ tinfo symbols in libsupc++/libstdc++ regardless of ISA flags the library is compiled with. This hook allows creating tinfo symbols even for those cases, by temporarily creating each corresponding fundamental type trees, calling the callback function on it and setting the type back to `nullptr`.

### 18.6 Layout of Source Language Data Types ¶

These macros define the sizes and other characteristics of the standard basic data types used in programs being compiled. Unlike the macros in the previous section, these apply to specific features of C and related languages, rather than to fundamental aspects of storage layout.

Macro: INT_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `int` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is one word.

Macro: SHORT_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `short` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is half a word. (If this would be less than one storage unit, it is rounded up to one unit.)

Macro: LONG_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `long` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is one word.

Macro: ADA_LONG_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  On some machines, the size used for the Ada equivalent of the type `long` by a native Ada compiler differs from that used by C. In that situation, define this macro to be a C expression to be used for the size of that type. If you don’t define this, the default is the value of `LONG_TYPE_SIZE`.

Macro: LONG_LONG_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `long long` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is two words. If you want to support GNU Ada on your machine, the value of this macro must be at least 64.

Macro: CHAR_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `char` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT`.

Macro: BOOL_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the C++ type `bool` and C99 type `_Bool` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, and you probably shouldn’t, the default is `CHAR_TYPE_SIZE`.

Macro: FLOAT_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `float` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is one word.

Macro: DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `double` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is two words.

Macro: LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `long double` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is two words.

Macro: SHORT_FRACT_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `short _Fract` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT`.

Macro: FRACT_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `_Fract` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * 2`.

Macro: LONG_FRACT_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `long _Fract` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * 4`.

Macro: LONG_LONG_FRACT_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `long long _Fract` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * 8`.

Macro: SHORT_ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `short _Accum` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * 2`.

Macro: ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `_Accum` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * 4`.

Macro: LONG_ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `long _Accum` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * 8`.

Macro: LONG_LONG_ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the type `long long _Accum` on the target machine. If you don’t define this, the default is `BITS_PER_UNIT * 16`.

Macro: LIBGCC2_GNU_PREFIX ¶

  This macro corresponds to the `TARGET_LIBFUNC_GNU_PREFIX` target hook and should be defined if that hook is overriden to be true. It causes function names in libgcc to be changed to use a `__gnu_` prefix for their name rather than the default `__`. A port which uses this macro should also arrange to use `t-gnu-prefix` in the libgcc `config.host`.

Macro: WIDEST_HARDWARE_FP_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the widest floating-point format supported by the hardware. If you define this macro, you must specify a value less than or equal to the value of `LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE`. If you do not define this macro, the value of `LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE` is the default.

Macro: DEFAULT_SIGNED_CHAR ¶

  An expression whose value is 1 or 0, according to whether the type `char` should be signed or unsigned by default. The user can always override this default with the options `-fsigned-char` and `-funsigned-char`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_DEFAULT_SHORT_ENUMS `(void)` ¶

  This target hook should return true if the compiler should give an `enum` type only as many bytes as it takes to represent the range of possible values of that type. It should return false if all `enum` types should be allocated like `int`.

  The default is to return false.

Macro: SIZE_TYPE ¶

  A C expression for a string describing the name of the data type to use for size values. The typedef name `size_t` is defined using the contents of the string.

  The string can contain more than one keyword. If so, separate them with spaces, and write first any length keyword, then `unsigned` if appropriate, and finally `int`. The string must exactly match one of the data type names defined in the function `c_common_nodes_and_builtins` in the file `c-family/c-common.cc`. You may not omit `int` or change the order—that would cause the compiler to crash on startup.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is `"long unsigned int"`.

Macro: SIZETYPE ¶

  GCC defines internal types (`sizetype`, `ssizetype`, `bitsizetype` and `sbitsizetype`) for expressions dealing with size. This macro is a C expression for a string describing the name of the data type from which the precision of `sizetype` is extracted.

  The string has the same restrictions as `SIZE_TYPE` string.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is `SIZE_TYPE`.

Macro: PTRDIFF_TYPE ¶

  A C expression for a string describing the name of the data type to use for the result of subtracting two pointers. The typedef name `ptrdiff_t` is defined using the contents of the string. See `SIZE_TYPE` above for more information.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is `"long int"`.

Macro: WCHAR_TYPE ¶

  A C expression for a string describing the name of the data type to use for wide characters. The typedef name `wchar_t` is defined using the contents of the string. See `SIZE_TYPE` above for more information.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is `"int"`.

Macro: WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bits of the data type for wide characters. This is used in `cpp`, which cannot make use of `WCHAR_TYPE`.

Macro: WINT_TYPE ¶

  A C expression for a string describing the name of the data type to use for wide characters passed to `printf` and returned from `getwc`. The typedef name `wint_t` is defined using the contents of the string. See `SIZE_TYPE` above for more information.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is `"unsigned int"`.

Macro: INTMAX_TYPE ¶

  A C expression for a string describing the name of the data type that can represent any value of any standard or extended signed integer type. The typedef name `intmax_t` is defined using the contents of the string. See `SIZE_TYPE` above for more information.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is the first of `"int"`, `"long int"`, or `"long long int"` that has as much precision as `long long int`.

Macro: UINTMAX_TYPE ¶

  A C expression for a string describing the name of the data type that can represent any value of any standard or extended unsigned integer type. The typedef name `uintmax_t` is defined using the contents of the string. See `SIZE_TYPE` above for more information.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is the first of `"unsigned int"`, `"long unsigned int"`, or `"long long unsigned int"` that has as much precision as `long long unsigned int`.

Macro: SIG_ATOMIC_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT8_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT16_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT32_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT64_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT8_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT16_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT32_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT64_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_LEAST8_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_LEAST16_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_LEAST32_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_LEAST64_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_LEAST8_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_LEAST16_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_LEAST32_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_LEAST64_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_FAST8_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_FAST16_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_FAST32_TYPE ¶
Macro: INT_FAST64_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_FAST8_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_FAST16_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_FAST32_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINT_FAST64_TYPE ¶
Macro: INTPTR_TYPE ¶
Macro: UINTPTR_TYPE ¶

  C expressions for the standard types `sig_atomic_t`, `int8_t`, `int16_t`, `int32_t`, `int64_t`, `uint8_t`, `uint16_t`, `uint32_t`, `uint64_t`, `int_least8_t`, `int_least16_t`, `int_least32_t`, `int_least64_t`, `uint_least8_t`, `uint_least16_t`, `uint_least32_t`, `uint_least64_t`, `int_fast8_t`, `int_fast16_t`, `int_fast32_t`, `int_fast64_t`, `uint_fast8_t`, `uint_fast16_t`, `uint_fast32_t`, `uint_fast64_t`, `intptr_t`, and `uintptr_t`. See `SIZE_TYPE` above for more information.

  If any of these macros evaluates to a null pointer, the corresponding type is not supported; if GCC is configured to provide `<stdint.h>` in such a case, the header provided may not conform to C99, depending on the type in question. The defaults for all of these macros are null pointers.

Macro: TARGET_PTRMEMFUNC_VBIT_LOCATION ¶

  The C++ compiler represents a pointer-to-member-function with a struct that looks like:

        struct {
          union {
            void (*fn)();
            ptrdiff_t vtable_index;
          };
          ptrdiff_t delta;
        };

  The C++ compiler must use one bit to indicate whether the function that will be called through a pointer-to-member-function is virtual. Normally, we assume that the low-order bit of a function pointer must always be zero. Then, by ensuring that the vtable_index is odd, we can distinguish which variant of the union is in use. But, on some platforms function pointers can be odd, and so this doesn’t work. In that case, we use the low-order bit of the `delta` field, and shift the remainder of the `delta` field to the left.

  GCC will automatically make the right selection about where to store this bit using the `FUNCTION_BOUNDARY` setting for your platform. However, some platforms such as ARM/Thumb have `FUNCTION_BOUNDARY` set such that functions always start at even addresses, but the lowest bit of pointers to functions indicate whether the function at that address is in ARM or Thumb mode. If this is the case of your architecture, you should define this macro to `ptrmemfunc_vbit_in_delta`.

  In general, you should not have to define this macro. On architectures in which function addresses are always even, according to `FUNCTION_BOUNDARY`, GCC will automatically define this macro to `ptrmemfunc_vbit_in_pfn`.

Macro: TARGET_VTABLE_USES_DESCRIPTORS ¶

  Normally, the C++ compiler uses function pointers in vtables. This macro allows the target to change to use “function descriptors” instead. Function descriptors are found on targets for whom a function pointer is actually a small data structure. Normally the data structure consists of the actual code address plus a data pointer to which the function’s data is relative.

  If vtables are used, the value of this macro should be the number of words that the function descriptor occupies.

Macro: TARGET_VTABLE_ENTRY_ALIGN ¶

  By default, the vtable entries are void pointers, the so the alignment is the same as pointer alignment. The value of this macro specifies the alignment of the vtable entry in bits. It should be defined only when special alignment is necessary. */

Macro: TARGET_VTABLE_DATA_ENTRY_DISTANCE ¶

  There are a few non-descriptor entries in the vtable at offsets below zero. If these entries must be padded (say, to preserve the alignment specified by `TARGET_VTABLE_ENTRY_ALIGN`), set this to the number of words in each data entry.

### 18.7 Register Usage ¶

This section explains how to describe what registers the target machine has, and how (in general) they can be used.

The description of which registers a specific instruction can use is done with register classes; see Register Classes. For information on using registers to access a stack frame, see Registers That Address the Stack Frame. For passing values in registers, see Passing Arguments in Registers. For returning values in registers, see How Scalar Function Values Are Returned.

#### 18.7.1 Basic Characteristics of Registers ¶

Registers have various characteristics.

Macro: FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER ¶

  Number of hardware registers known to the compiler. They receive numbers 0 through `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER-1`; thus, the first pseudo register’s number really is assigned the number `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER`.

Macro: FIXED_REGISTERS ¶

  An initializer that says which registers are used for fixed purposes all throughout the compiled code and are therefore not available for general allocation. These would include the stack pointer, the frame pointer (except on machines where that can be used as a general register when no frame pointer is needed), the program counter on machines where that is considered one of the addressable registers, and any other numbered register with a standard use.

  This information is expressed as a sequence of numbers, separated by commas and surrounded by braces. The nth number is 1 if register n is fixed, 0 otherwise.

  The table initialized from this macro, and the table initialized by the following one, may be overridden at run time either automatically, by the actions of the macro `CONDITIONAL_REGISTER_USAGE`, or by the user with the command options `-ffixed-reg`, `-fcall-used-reg` and `-fcall-saved-reg`.

Macro: CALL_USED_REGISTERS ¶

  Like `FIXED_REGISTERS` but has 1 for each register that is clobbered (in general) by function calls as well as for fixed registers. This macro therefore identifies the registers that are not available for general allocation of values that must live across function calls.

  If a register has 0 in `CALL_USED_REGISTERS`, the compiler automatically saves it on function entry and restores it on function exit, if the register is used within the function.

  Exactly one of `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` and `CALL_REALLY_USED_REGISTERS` must be defined. Modern ports should define `CALL_REALLY_USED_REGISTERS`.

Macro: CALL_REALLY_USED_REGISTERS ¶

  Like `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` except this macro doesn’t require that the entire set of `FIXED_REGISTERS` be included. (`CALL_USED_REGISTERS` must be a superset of `FIXED_REGISTERS`).

  Exactly one of `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` and `CALL_REALLY_USED_REGISTERS` must be defined. Modern ports should define `CALL_REALLY_USED_REGISTERS`.

Target Hook: `const predefined_function_abi &` TARGET_FNTYPE_ABI `(const_tree type)` ¶

  Return the ABI used by a function with type type; see the definition of `predefined_function_abi` for details of the ABI descriptor. Targets only need to define this hook if they support interoperability between several ABIs in the same translation unit.

Target Hook: `const predefined_function_abi &` TARGET_INSN_CALLEE_ABI `(const rtx_insn *insn)` ¶

  This hook returns a description of the ABI used by the target of call instruction insn; see the definition of `predefined_function_abi` for details of the ABI descriptor. Only the global function `insn_callee_abi` should call this hook directly.

  Targets only need to define this hook if they support interoperability between several ABIs in the same translation unit.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HARD_REGNO_CALL_PART_CLOBBERED `(unsigned int abi_id, unsigned int regno, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  ABIs usually specify that calls must preserve the full contents of a particular register, or that calls can alter any part of a particular register. This information is captured by the target macro `CALL_REALLY_USED_REGISTERS`. However, some ABIs specify that calls must preserve certain bits of a particular register but can alter others. This hook should return true if this applies to at least one of the registers in ‘`(reg:mode regno)`’, and if as a result the call would alter part of the mode value. For example, if a call preserves the low 32 bits of a 64-bit hard register regno but can clobber the upper 32 bits, this hook should return true for a 64-bit mode but false for a 32-bit mode.

  The value of abi_id comes from the `predefined_function_abi` structure that describes the ABI of the call; see the definition of the structure for more details. If (as is usual) the target uses the same ABI for all functions in a translation unit, abi_id is always 0.

  The default implementation returns false, which is correct for targets that don’t have partly call-clobbered registers.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_GET_MULTILIB_ABI_NAME `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns name of multilib ABI name.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_CONDITIONAL_REGISTER_USAGE `(void)` ¶

  This hook may conditionally modify five variables `fixed_regs`, `call_used_regs`, `global_regs`, `reg_names`, and `reg_class_contents`, to take into account any dependence of these register sets on target flags. The first three of these are of type `char []` (interpreted as boolean vectors). `global_regs` is a `const char *[]`, and `reg_class_contents` is a `HARD_REG_SET`. Before the macro is called, `fixed_regs`, `call_used_regs`, `reg_class_contents`, and `reg_names` have been initialized from `FIXED_REGISTERS`, `CALL_USED_REGISTERS`, `REG_CLASS_CONTENTS`, and `REGISTER_NAMES`, respectively. `global_regs` has been cleared, and any `-ffixed-reg`, `-fcall-used-reg` and `-fcall-saved-reg` command options have been applied.

  If the usage of an entire class of registers depends on the target flags, you may indicate this to GCC by using this macro to modify `fixed_regs` and `call_used_regs` to 1 for each of the registers in the classes which should not be used by GCC. Also make `define_register_constraint`s return `NO_REGS` for constraints that shouldn’t be used.

  (However, if this class is not included in `GENERAL_REGS` and all of the insn patterns whose constraints permit this class are controlled by target switches, then GCC will automatically avoid using these registers when the target switches are opposed to them.)

Macro: INCOMING_REGNO (out) ¶

  Define this macro if the target machine has register windows. This C expression returns the register number as seen by the called function corresponding to the register number out as seen by the calling function. Return out if register number out is not an outbound register.

Macro: OUTGOING_REGNO (in) ¶

  Define this macro if the target machine has register windows. This C expression returns the register number as seen by the calling function corresponding to the register number in as seen by the called function. Return in if register number in is not an inbound register.

Macro: LOCAL_REGNO (regno) ¶

  Define this macro if the target machine has register windows. This C expression returns true if the register is call-saved but is in the register window. Unlike most call-saved registers, such registers need not be explicitly restored on function exit or during non-local gotos.

Macro: PC_REGNUM ¶

  If the program counter has a register number, define this as that register number. Otherwise, do not define it.

#### 18.7.2 Order of Allocation of Registers ¶

Registers are allocated in order.

Macro: REG_ALLOC_ORDER ¶

  If defined, an initializer for a vector of integers, containing the numbers of hard registers in the order in which GCC should prefer to use them (from most preferred to least).

  If this macro is not defined, registers are used lowest numbered first (all else being equal).

  One use of this macro is on machines where the highest numbered registers must always be saved and the save-multiple-registers instruction supports only sequences of consecutive registers. On such machines, define `REG_ALLOC_ORDER` to be an initializer that lists the highest numbered allocable register first.

Macro: ADJUST_REG_ALLOC_ORDER ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to choose the order in which to allocate hard registers for pseudo-registers local to a basic block.

  Store the desired register order in the array `reg_alloc_order`. Element 0 should be the register to allocate first; element 1, the next register; and so on.

  The macro body should not assume anything about the contents of `reg_alloc_order` before execution of the macro.

  On most machines, it is not necessary to define this macro.

Macro: HONOR_REG_ALLOC_ORDER ¶

  Normally, IRA tries to estimate the costs for saving a register in the prologue and restoring it in the epilogue. This discourages it from using call-saved registers. If a machine wants to ensure that IRA allocates registers in the order given by REG_ALLOC_ORDER even if some call-saved registers appear earlier than call-used ones, then define this macro as a C expression to nonzero. Default is 0.

Macro: IRA_HARD_REGNO_ADD_COST_MULTIPLIER (regno) ¶

  In some case register allocation order is not enough for the Integrated Register Allocator (IRA) to generate a good code. If this macro is defined, it should return a floating point value based on regno. The cost of using regno for a pseudo will be increased by approximately the pseudo’s usage frequency times the value returned by this macro. Not defining this macro is equivalent to having it always return `0.0`.

  On most machines, it is not necessary to define this macro.

#### 18.7.3 How Values Fit in Registers ¶

This section discusses the macros that describe which kinds of values (specifically, which machine modes) each register can hold, and how many consecutive registers are needed for a given mode.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_HARD_REGNO_NREGS `(unsigned int regno, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook returns the number of consecutive hard registers, starting at register number regno, required to hold a value of mode mode. This hook must never return zero, even if a register cannot hold the requested mode - indicate that with `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` and/or `TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS` instead.

  The default definition returns the number of words in mode.

Macro: HARD_REGNO_NREGS_HAS_PADDING (regno, mode) ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if a value of mode mode, stored in memory, ends with padding that causes it to take up more space than in registers starting at register number regno (as determined by multiplying GCC’s notion of the size of the register when containing this mode by the number of registers returned by `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_NREGS`). By default this is zero.

  For example, if a floating-point value is stored in three 32-bit registers but takes up 128 bits in memory, then this would be nonzero.

  This macros only needs to be defined if there are cases where `subreg_get_info` would otherwise wrongly determine that a `subreg` can be represented by an offset to the register number, when in fact such a `subreg` would contain some of the padding not stored in registers and so not be representable.

Macro: HARD_REGNO_NREGS_WITH_PADDING (regno, mode) ¶

  For values of regno and mode for which `HARD_REGNO_NREGS_HAS_PADDING` returns nonzero, a C expression returning the greater number of registers required to hold the value including any padding. In the example above, the value would be four.

Macro: REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE (mode) ¶

  Define this macro if the natural size of registers that hold values of mode mode is not the word size. It is a C expression that should give the natural size in bytes for the specified mode. It is used by the register allocator to try to optimize its results. This happens for example on SPARC 64-bit where the natural size of floating-point registers is still 32-bit.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK `(unsigned int regno, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook returns true if it is permissible to store a value of mode mode in hard register number regno (or in several registers starting with that one). The default definition returns true unconditionally.

  You need not include code to check for the numbers of fixed registers, because the allocation mechanism considers them to be always occupied.

  On some machines, double-precision values must be kept in even/odd register pairs. You can implement that by defining this hook to reject odd register numbers for such modes.

  The minimum requirement for a mode to be OK in a register is that the ‘`movmode`’ instruction pattern support moves between the register and other hard register in the same class and that moving a value into the register and back out not alter it.

  Since the same instruction used to move `word_mode` will work for all narrower integer modes, it is not necessary on any machine for this hook to distinguish between these modes, provided you define patterns ‘`movhi`’, etc., to take advantage of this. This is useful because of the interaction between `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` and `TARGET_MODES_TIEABLE_P`; it is very desirable for all integer modes to be tieable.

  Many machines have special registers for floating point arithmetic. Often people assume that floating point machine modes are allowed only in floating point registers. This is not true. Any registers that can hold integers can safely hold a floating point machine mode, whether or not floating arithmetic can be done on it in those registers. Integer move instructions can be used to move the values.

  On some machines, though, the converse is true: fixed-point machine modes may not go in floating registers. This is true if the floating registers normalize any value stored in them, because storing a non-floating value there would garble it. In this case, `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` should reject fixed-point machine modes in floating registers. But if the floating registers do not automatically normalize, if you can store any bit pattern in one and retrieve it unchanged without a trap, then any machine mode may go in a floating register, so you can define this hook to say so.

  The primary significance of special floating registers is rather that they are the registers acceptable in floating point arithmetic instructions. However, this is of no concern to `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK`. You handle it by writing the proper constraints for those instructions.

  On some machines, the floating registers are especially slow to access, so that it is better to store a value in a stack frame than in such a register if floating point arithmetic is not being done. As long as the floating registers are not in class `GENERAL_REGS`, they will not be used unless some pattern’s constraint asks for one.

Macro: HARD_REGNO_RENAME_OK (from, to) ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if it is OK to rename a hard register from to another hard register to.

  One common use of this macro is to prevent renaming of a register to another register that is not saved by a prologue in an interrupt handler.

  The default is always nonzero.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_MODES_TIEABLE_P `(machine_mode mode1, machine_mode mode2)` ¶

  This hook returns true if a value of mode mode1 is accessible in mode mode2 without copying.

  If `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK (r, mode1)` and `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK (r, mode2)` are always the same for any r, then `TARGET_MODES_TIEABLE_P (mode1, mode2)` should be true. If they differ for any r, you should define this hook to return false unless some other mechanism ensures the accessibility of the value in a narrower mode.

  You should define this hook to return true in as many cases as possible since doing so will allow GCC to perform better register allocation. The default definition returns true unconditionally.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HARD_REGNO_SCRATCH_OK `(unsigned int regno)` ¶

  This target hook should return `true` if it is OK to use a hard register regno as scratch reg in peephole2.

  One common use of this macro is to prevent using of a register that is not saved by a prologue in an interrupt handler.

  The default version of this hook always returns `true`.

Macro: AVOID_CCMODE_COPIES ¶

  Define this macro if the compiler should avoid copies to/from `CCmode` registers. You should only define this macro if support for copying to/from `CCmode` is incomplete.

#### 18.7.4 Handling Leaf Functions ¶

On some machines, a leaf function (i.e., one which makes no calls) can run more efficiently if it does not make its own register window. Often this means it is required to receive its arguments in the registers where they are passed by the caller, instead of the registers where they would normally arrive.

The special treatment for leaf functions generally applies only when other conditions are met; for example, often they may use only those registers for its own variables and temporaries. We use the term “leaf function” to mean a function that is suitable for this special handling, so that functions with no calls are not necessarily “leaf functions”.

GCC assigns register numbers before it knows whether the function is suitable for leaf function treatment. So it needs to renumber the registers in order to output a leaf function. The following macros accomplish this.

Macro: LEAF_REGISTERS ¶

  Name of a char vector, indexed by hard register number, which contains 1 for a register that is allowable in a candidate for leaf function treatment.

  If leaf function treatment involves renumbering the registers, then the registers marked here should be the ones before renumbering—those that GCC would ordinarily allocate. The registers which will actually be used in the assembler code, after renumbering, should not be marked with 1 in this vector.

  Define this macro only if the target machine offers a way to optimize the treatment of leaf functions.

Macro: LEAF_REG_REMAP (regno) ¶

  A C expression whose value is the register number to which regno should be renumbered, when a function is treated as a leaf function.

  If regno is a register number which should not appear in a leaf function before renumbering, then the expression should yield −1, which will cause the compiler to abort.

  Define this macro only if the target machine offers a way to optimize the treatment of leaf functions, and registers need to be renumbered to do this.

`TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE` and `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` must usually treat leaf functions specially. They can test the C variable `current_function_is_leaf` which is nonzero for leaf functions. `current_function_is_leaf` is set prior to local register allocation and is valid for the remaining compiler passes. They can also test the C variable `current_function_uses_only_leaf_regs` which is nonzero for leaf functions which only use leaf registers. `current_function_uses_only_leaf_regs` is valid after all passes that modify the instructions have been run and is only useful if `LEAF_REGISTERS` is defined.

#### 18.7.5 Registers That Form a Stack ¶

There are special features to handle computers where some of the “registers” form a stack. Stack registers are normally written by pushing onto the stack, and are numbered relative to the top of the stack.

Currently, GCC can only handle one group of stack-like registers, and they must be consecutively numbered. Furthermore, the existing support for stack-like registers is specific to the 80387 floating point coprocessor. If you have a new architecture that uses stack-like registers, you will need to do substantial work on `reg-stack.cc` and write your machine description to cooperate with it, as well as defining these macros.

Macro: STACK_REGS ¶

  Define this if the machine has any stack-like registers.

Macro: STACK_REG_COVER_CLASS ¶

  This is a cover class containing the stack registers. Define this if the machine has any stack-like registers.

Macro: FIRST_STACK_REG ¶

  The number of the first stack-like register. This one is the top of the stack.

Macro: LAST_STACK_REG ¶

  The number of the last stack-like register. This one is the bottom of the stack.

### 18.8 Register Classes ¶

On many machines, the numbered registers are not all equivalent. For example, certain registers may not be allowed for indexed addressing; certain registers may not be allowed in some instructions. These machine restrictions are described to the compiler using register classes.

You define a number of register classes, giving each one a name and saying which of the registers belong to it. Then you can specify register classes that are allowed as operands to particular instruction patterns.

In general, each register will belong to several classes. In fact, one class must be named `ALL_REGS` and contain all the registers. Another class must be named `NO_REGS` and contain no registers. Often the union of two classes will be another class; however, this is not required.

One of the classes must be named `GENERAL_REGS`. There is nothing terribly special about the name, but the operand constraint letters ‘`r`’ and ‘`g`’ specify this class. If `GENERAL_REGS` is the same as `ALL_REGS`, just define it as a macro which expands to `ALL_REGS`.

Order the classes so that if class x is contained in class y then x has a lower class number than y.

The way classes other than `GENERAL_REGS` are specified in operand constraints is through machine-dependent operand constraint letters. You can define such letters to correspond to various classes, then use them in operand constraints.

You must define the narrowest register classes for allocatable registers, so that each class either has no subclasses, or that for some mode, the move cost between registers within the class is cheaper than moving a register in the class to or from memory (see Describing Relative Costs of Operations).

You should define a class for the union of two classes whenever some instruction allows both classes. For example, if an instruction allows either a floating point (coprocessor) register or a general register for a certain operand, you should define a class `FLOAT_OR_GENERAL_REGS` which includes both of them. Otherwise you will get suboptimal code, or even internal compiler errors when reload cannot find a register in the class computed via `reg_class_subunion`.

You must also specify certain redundant information about the register classes: for each class, which classes contain it and which ones are contained in it; for each pair of classes, the largest class contained in their union.

When a value occupying several consecutive registers is expected in a certain class, all the registers used must belong to that class. Therefore, register classes cannot be used to enforce a requirement for a register pair to start with an even-numbered register. The way to specify this requirement is with `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK`, or with a filter expression in a `define_register_constraint`.

Register classes used for input-operands of bitwise-and or shift instructions have a special requirement: each such class must have, for each fixed-point machine mode, a subclass whose registers can transfer that mode to or from memory. For example, on some machines, the operations for single-byte values (`QImode`) are limited to certain registers. When this is so, each register class that is used in a bitwise-and or shift instruction must have a subclass consisting of registers from which single-byte values can be loaded or stored. This is so that `PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` can always have a possible value to return.

Data type: enum reg_class ¶

  An enumerated type that must be defined with all the register class names as enumerated values. `NO_REGS` must be first. `ALL_REGS` must be the last register class, followed by one more enumerated value, `LIM_REG_CLASSES`, which is not a register class but rather tells how many classes there are.

  Each register class has a number, which is the value of casting the class name to type `int`. The number serves as an index in many of the tables described below.

Macro: N_REG_CLASSES ¶

  The number of distinct register classes, defined as follows:

      #define N_REG_CLASSES (int) LIM_REG_CLASSES

Macro: REG_CLASS_NAMES ¶

  An initializer containing the names of the register classes as C string constants. These names are used in writing some of the debugging dumps.

Macro: REG_CLASS_CONTENTS ¶

  An initializer containing the contents of the register classes, as integers which are bit masks. The nth integer specifies the contents of class n. The way the integer mask is interpreted is that register r is in the class if `mask & (1 << r)` is 1.

  When the machine has more than 32 registers, an integer does not suffice. Then the integers are replaced by sub-initializers, braced groupings containing several integers. Each sub-initializer must be suitable as an initializer for the type `HARD_REG_SET` which is defined in `hard-reg-set.h`. In this situation, the first integer in each sub-initializer corresponds to registers 0 through 31, the second integer to registers 32 through 63, and so on.

Macro: REGNO_REG_CLASS (regno) ¶

  A C expression whose value is a register class containing hard register regno. In general there is more than one such class; choose a class which is minimal, meaning that no smaller class also contains the register.

Macro: BASE_REG_CLASS ¶

  A macro whose definition is the name of the class to which a valid base register must belong. A base register is one used in an address which is the register value plus a displacement.

Macro: MODE_BASE_REG_CLASS (mode) ¶

  This is a variation of the `BASE_REG_CLASS` macro which allows the selection of a base register in a mode dependent manner. If mode is VOIDmode then it should return the same value as `BASE_REG_CLASS`.

Macro: MODE_BASE_REG_REG_CLASS (mode) ¶

  A C expression whose value is the register class to which a valid base register must belong in order to be used in a base plus index register address. You should define this macro if base plus index addresses have different requirements than other base register uses.

Macro: MODE_CODE_BASE_REG_CLASS (mode, address_space, outer_code, index_code) ¶

  A C expression whose value is the register class to which a valid base register for a memory reference in mode mode to address space address_space must belong. outer_code and index_code define the context in which the base register occurs. outer_code is the code of the immediately enclosing expression (`MEM` for the top level of an address, `ADDRESS` for something that occurs in an `address_operand`). index_code is the code of the corresponding index expression if outer_code is `PLUS`; `SCRATCH` otherwise.

Macro: INSN_BASE_REG_CLASS (insn) ¶

  A C expression whose value is the register class to which a valid base register for a specified insn must belong. This macro is used when some backend insns may have limited usage of base register compared with other insns. If you define this macro, the compiler will use it instead of all other defined macros that relate to BASE_REG_CLASS.

Macro: INDEX_REG_CLASS ¶

  A macro whose definition is the name of the class to which a valid index register must belong. An index register is one used in an address where its value is either multiplied by a scale factor or added to another register (as well as added to a displacement).

Macro: INSN_INDEX_REG_CLASS (insn) ¶

  A C expression whose value is the register class to which a valid index register for a specified insn must belong. This macro is used when some backend insns may have limited usage of index register compared with other insns. If you defined this macro, the compiler will use it instead of `INDEX_REG_CLASS`.

Macro: REGNO_OK_FOR_BASE_P (num) ¶

  A C expression which is nonzero if register number num is suitable for use as a base register in operand addresses.

Macro: REGNO_MODE_OK_FOR_BASE_P (num, mode) ¶

  A C expression that is just like `REGNO_OK_FOR_BASE_P`, except that that expression may examine the mode of the memory reference in mode. You should define this macro if the mode of the memory reference affects whether a register may be used as a base register. If you define this macro, the compiler will use it instead of `REGNO_OK_FOR_BASE_P`. The mode may be `VOIDmode` for addresses that appear outside a `MEM`, i.e., as an `address_operand`.

Macro: REGNO_MODE_OK_FOR_REG_BASE_P (num, mode) ¶

  A C expression which is nonzero if register number num is suitable for use as a base register in base plus index operand addresses, accessing memory in mode mode. It may be either a suitable hard register or a pseudo register that has been allocated such a hard register. You should define this macro if base plus index addresses have different requirements than other base register uses.

  Use of this macro is deprecated; please use the more general `REGNO_MODE_CODE_OK_FOR_BASE_P`.

Macro: REGNO_MODE_CODE_OK_FOR_BASE_P (num, mode, address_space, outer_code, index_code) ¶

  A C expression which is nonzero if register number num is suitable for use as a base register in operand addresses, accessing memory in mode mode in address space address_space. This is similar to `REGNO_MODE_OK_FOR_BASE_P`, except that that expression may examine the context in which the register appears in the memory reference. outer_code is the code of the immediately enclosing expression (`MEM` if at the top level of the address, `ADDRESS` for something that occurs in an `address_operand`). index_code is the code of the corresponding index expression if outer_code is `PLUS`; `SCRATCH` otherwise. The mode may be `VOIDmode` for addresses that appear outside a `MEM`, i.e., as an `address_operand`.

Macro: REGNO_OK_FOR_INSN_BASE_P (num, insn) ¶

  A C expression which is nonzero if register number num is suitable for use as a base register in operand addresses for a specified insn. This macro is used when some backend insn may have limited usage of base register compared with other insns. If you define this macro, the compiler will use it instead of all other defined macros that relate to REGNO_OK_FOR_BASE_P.

Macro: REGNO_OK_FOR_INDEX_P (num) ¶

  A C expression which is nonzero if register number num is suitable for use as an index register in operand addresses. It may be either a suitable hard register or a pseudo register that has been allocated such a hard register.

  The difference between an index register and a base register is that the index register may be scaled. If an address involves the sum of two registers, neither one of them scaled, then either one may be labeled the “base” and the other the “index”; but whichever labeling is used must fit the machine’s constraints of which registers may serve in each capacity. The compiler will try both labelings, looking for one that is valid, and will reload one or both registers only if neither labeling works.

Target Hook: `reg_class_t` TARGET_PREFERRED_RENAME_CLASS `(reg_class_t rclass)` ¶

  A target hook that places additional preference on the register class to use when it is necessary to rename a register in class rclass to another class, or perhaps NO_REGS, if no preferred register class is found or hook `preferred_rename_class` is not implemented. Sometimes returning a more restrictive class makes better code. For example, on ARM, thumb-2 instructions using `LO_REGS` may be smaller than instructions using `GENERIC_REGS`. By returning `LO_REGS` from `preferred_rename_class`, code size can be reduced.

Target Hook: `reg_class_t` TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS `(rtx x, reg_class_t rclass)` ¶

  A target hook that places additional restrictions on the register class to use when it is necessary to copy value x into a register in class rclass. The value is a register class; perhaps rclass, or perhaps another, smaller class.

  The default version of this hook always returns value of `rclass` argument.

  Sometimes returning a more restrictive class makes better code. For example, on the 68000, when x is an integer constant that is in range for a ‘`moveq`’ instruction, the value of this macro is always `DATA_REGS` as long as rclass includes the data registers. Requiring a data register guarantees that a ‘`moveq`’ will be used.

  One case where `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` must not return rclass is if x is a legitimate constant which cannot be loaded into some register class. By returning `NO_REGS` you can force x into a memory location. For example, rs6000 can load immediate values into general-purpose registers, but does not have an instruction for loading an immediate value into a floating-point register, so `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` returns `NO_REGS` when x is a floating-point constant. If the constant can’t be loaded into any kind of register, code generation will be better if `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_CONSTANT_P` makes the constant illegitimate instead of using `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS`.

  If an insn has pseudos in it after register allocation, reload will go through the alternatives and call repeatedly `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` to find the best one. Returning `NO_REGS`, in this case, makes reload add a `!` in front of the constraint: the x86 back-end uses this feature to discourage usage of 387 registers when math is done in the SSE registers (and vice versa).

Macro: PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS (x, class) ¶

  A C expression that places additional restrictions on the register class to use when it is necessary to copy value x into a register in class class. The value is a register class; perhaps class, or perhaps another, smaller class. On many machines, the following definition is safe:

      #define PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS(X,CLASS) CLASS

  Sometimes returning a more restrictive class makes better code. For example, on the 68000, when x is an integer constant that is in range for a ‘`moveq`’ instruction, the value of this macro is always `DATA_REGS` as long as class includes the data registers. Requiring a data register guarantees that a ‘`moveq`’ will be used.

  One case where `PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` must not return class is if x is a legitimate constant which cannot be loaded into some register class. By returning `NO_REGS` you can force x into a memory location. For example, rs6000 can load immediate values into general-purpose registers, but does not have an instruction for loading an immediate value into a floating-point register, so `PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` returns `NO_REGS` when x is a floating-point constant. If the constant cannot be loaded into any kind of register, code generation will be better if `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_CONSTANT_P` makes the constant illegitimate instead of using `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS`.

  If an insn has pseudos in it after register allocation, reload will go through the alternatives and call repeatedly `PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` to find the best one. Returning `NO_REGS`, in this case, makes reload add a `!` in front of the constraint: the x86 back-end uses this feature to discourage usage of 387 registers when math is done in the SSE registers (and vice versa).

Target Hook: `reg_class_t` TARGET_PREFERRED_OUTPUT_RELOAD_CLASS `(rtx x, reg_class_t rclass)` ¶

  Like `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS`, but for output reloads instead of input reloads.

  The default version of this hook always returns value of `rclass` argument.

  You can also use `TARGET_PREFERRED_OUTPUT_RELOAD_CLASS` to discourage reload from using some alternatives, like `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS`.

Macro: LIMIT_RELOAD_CLASS (mode, class) ¶

  A C expression that places additional restrictions on the register class to use when it is necessary to be able to hold a value of mode mode in a reload register for which class class would ordinarily be used.

  Unlike `PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS`, this macro should be used when there are certain modes that simply cannot go in certain reload classes.

  The value is a register class; perhaps class, or perhaps another, smaller class.

  Don’t define this macro unless the target machine has limitations which require the macro to do something nontrivial.

Target Hook: `reg_class_t` TARGET_SECONDARY_RELOAD `(bool in_p, rtx x, reg_class_t reload_class, machine_mode reload_mode, secondary_reload_info *sri)` ¶

  Many machines have some registers that cannot be copied directly to or from memory or even from other types of registers. An example is the ‘`MQ`’ register, which on most machines, can only be copied to or from general registers, but not memory. Below, we shall be using the term ’intermediate register’ when a move operation cannot be performed directly, but has to be done by copying the source into the intermediate register first, and then copying the intermediate register to the destination. An intermediate register always has the same mode as source and destination. Since it holds the actual value being copied, reload might apply optimizations to re-use an intermediate register and eliding the copy from the source when it can determine that the intermediate register still holds the required value.

  Another kind of secondary reload is required on some machines which allow copying all registers to and from memory, but require a scratch register for stores to some memory locations (e.g., those with symbolic address on the RT, and those with certain symbolic address on the SPARC when compiling PIC). Scratch registers need not have the same mode as the value being copied, and usually hold a different value than that being copied. Special patterns in the md file are needed to describe how the copy is performed with the help of the scratch register; these patterns also describe the number, register class(es) and mode(s) of the scratch register(s).

  In some cases, both an intermediate and a scratch register are required.

  For input reloads, this target hook is called with nonzero in_p, and x is an rtx that needs to be copied to a register of class reload_class in reload_mode. For output reloads, this target hook is called with zero in_p, and a register of class reload_class needs to be copied to rtx x in reload_mode.

  If copying a register of reload_class from/to x requires an intermediate register, the hook `secondary_reload` should return the register class required for this intermediate register. If no intermediate register is required, it should return NO_REGS. If more than one intermediate register is required, describe the one that is closest in the copy chain to the reload register.

  If scratch registers are needed, you also have to describe how to perform the copy from/to the reload register to/from this closest intermediate register. Or if no intermediate register is required, but still a scratch register is needed, describe the copy from/to the reload register to/from the reload operand x.

  You do this by setting `sri->icode` to the instruction code of a pattern in the md file which performs the move. Operands 0 and 1 are the output and input of this copy, respectively. Operands from operand 2 onward are for scratch operands. These scratch operands must have a mode, and a single-register-class output constraint.

  When an intermediate register is used, the `secondary_reload` hook will be called again to determine how to copy the intermediate register to/from the reload operand x, so your hook must also have code to handle the register class of the intermediate operand.

  x might be a pseudo-register or a `subreg` of a pseudo-register, which could either be in a hard register or in memory. Use `true_regnum` to find out; it will return −1 if the pseudo is in memory and the hard register number if it is in a register.

  Scratch operands in memory (constraint `"=m"` / `"=&m"`) are currently not supported. For the time being, you will have to continue to use `TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED` for that purpose.

  `copy_cost` also uses this target hook to find out how values are copied. If you want it to include some extra cost for the need to allocate (a) scratch register(s), set `sri->extra_cost` to the additional cost. Or if two dependent moves are supposed to have a lower cost than the sum of the individual moves due to expected fortuitous scheduling and/or special forwarding logic, you can set `sri->extra_cost` to a negative amount.

Macro: SECONDARY_RELOAD_CLASS (class, mode, x) ¶
Macro: SECONDARY_INPUT_RELOAD_CLASS (class, mode, x) ¶
Macro: SECONDARY_OUTPUT_RELOAD_CLASS (class, mode, x) ¶

  These macros are obsolete, new ports should use the target hook `TARGET_SECONDARY_RELOAD` instead.

  These are obsolete macros, replaced by the `TARGET_SECONDARY_RELOAD` target hook. Older ports still define these macros to indicate to the reload phase that it may need to allocate at least one register for a reload in addition to the register to contain the data. Specifically, if copying x to a register class in mode requires an intermediate register, you were supposed to define `SECONDARY_INPUT_RELOAD_CLASS` to return the largest register class all of whose registers can be used as intermediate registers or scratch registers.

  If copying a register class in mode to x requires an intermediate or scratch register, `SECONDARY_OUTPUT_RELOAD_CLASS` was supposed to be defined to return the largest register class required. If the requirements for input and output reloads were the same, the macro `SECONDARY_RELOAD_CLASS` should have been used instead of defining both macros identically.

  The values returned by these macros are often `GENERAL_REGS`. Return `NO_REGS` if no spare register is needed; i.e., if x can be directly copied to or from a register of class in mode without requiring a scratch register. Do not define this macro if it would always return `NO_REGS`.

  If a scratch register is required (either with or without an intermediate register), you were supposed to define patterns for ‘`reload_inm`’ or ‘`reload_outm`’, as required (see Standard Pattern Names For Generation. These patterns, which were normally implemented with a `define_expand`, should be similar to the ‘`movm`’ patterns, except that operand 2 is the scratch register.

  These patterns need constraints for the reload register and scratch register that contain a single register class. If the original reload register (whose class is class) can meet the constraint given in the pattern, the value returned by these macros is used for the class of the scratch register. Otherwise, two additional reload registers are required. Their classes are obtained from the constraints in the insn pattern.

  x might be a pseudo-register or a `subreg` of a pseudo-register, which could either be in a hard register or in memory. Use `true_regnum` to find out; it will return −1 if the pseudo is in memory and the hard register number if it is in a register.

  These macros should not be used in the case where a particular class of registers can only be copied to memory and not to another class of registers. In that case, secondary reload registers are not needed and would not be helpful. Instead, a stack location must be used to perform the copy and the `movm` pattern should use memory as an intermediate storage. This case often occurs between floating-point and general registers.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED `(machine_mode mode, reg_class_t class1, reg_class_t class2)` ¶

  Certain machines have the property that some registers cannot be copied to some other registers without using memory. Define this hook on those machines to return true if objects of mode m in registers of class1 can only be copied to registers of class class2 by storing a register of class1 into memory and loading that memory location into a register of class2. The default definition returns false for all inputs.

Macro: SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED_RTX (mode) ¶

  Normally when `TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED` is defined, the compiler allocates a stack slot for a memory location needed for register copies. If this macro is defined, the compiler instead uses the memory location defined by this macro.

  Do not define this macro if you do not define `TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED`.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED_MODE `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  If `TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED` tells the compiler to use memory when moving between two particular registers of mode mode, this hook specifies the mode that the memory should have.

  The default depends on `TARGET_LRA_P`. Without LRA, the default is to use a word-sized mode for integral modes that are smaller than a a word. This is right thing to do on most machines because it ensures that all bits of the register are copied and prevents accesses to the registers in a narrower mode, which some machines prohibit for floating-point registers.

  However, this default behavior is not correct on some machines, such as the DEC Alpha, that store short integers in floating-point registers differently than in integer registers. On those machines, the default widening will not work correctly and you must define this hook to suppress that widening in some cases. See the file `alpha.cc` for details.

  With LRA, the default is to use mode unmodified.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SELECT_EARLY_REMAT_MODES `(sbitmap modes)` ¶

  On some targets, certain modes cannot be held in registers around a standard ABI call and are relatively expensive to spill to the stack. The early rematerialization pass can help in such cases by aggressively recomputing values after calls, so that they don’t need to be spilled.

  This hook returns the set of such modes by setting the associated bits in modes. The default implementation selects no modes, which has the effect of disabling the early rematerialization pass.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CLASS_LIKELY_SPILLED_P `(reg_class_t rclass)` ¶

  A target hook which returns `true` if pseudos that have been assigned to registers of class rclass would likely be spilled because registers of rclass are needed for spill registers.

  The default version of this target hook returns `true` if rclass has exactly one register and `false` otherwise. On most machines, this default should be used. For generally register-starved machines, such as i386, or machines with right register constraints, such as SH, this hook can be used to avoid excessive spilling.

  This hook is also used by some of the global intra-procedural code transformations to throtle code motion, to avoid increasing register pressure.

Target Hook: `unsigned char` TARGET_CLASS_MAX_NREGS `(reg_class_t rclass, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  A target hook returns the maximum number of consecutive registers of class rclass needed to hold a value of mode mode.

  This is closely related to the macro `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_NREGS`. In fact, the value returned by `TARGET_CLASS_MAX_NREGS (rclass, mode)` target hook should be the maximum value of `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_NREGS (regno, mode)` for all regno values in the class rclass.

  This target hook helps control the handling of multiple-word values in the reload pass.

  The default version of this target hook returns the size of mode in words.

Macro: CLASS_MAX_NREGS (class, mode) ¶

  A C expression for the maximum number of consecutive registers of class class needed to hold a value of mode mode.

  This is closely related to the macro `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_NREGS`. In fact, the value of the macro `CLASS_MAX_NREGS (class, mode)` should be the maximum value of `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_NREGS (regno, mode)` for all regno values in the class class.

  This macro helps control the handling of multiple-word values in the reload pass.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS `(machine_mode from, machine_mode to, reg_class_t rclass)` ¶

  This hook returns true if it is possible to bitcast values held in registers of class rclass from mode from to mode to and if doing so preserves the low-order bits that are common to both modes. The result is only meaningful if rclass has registers that can hold both `from` and `to`. The default implementation returns true.

  As an example of when such bitcasting is invalid, loading 32-bit integer or floating-point objects into floating-point registers on Alpha extends them to 64 bits. Therefore loading a 64-bit object and then storing it as a 32-bit object does not store the low-order 32 bits, as would be the case for a normal register. Therefore, `alpha.h` defines `TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS` to return:

      (GET_MODE_SIZE (from) == GET_MODE_SIZE (to)
       || !reg_classes_intersect_p (FLOAT_REGS, rclass))

  Even if storing from a register in mode to would be valid, if both from and `raw_reg_mode` for rclass are wider than `word_mode`, then we must prevent to narrowing the mode. This happens when the middle-end assumes that it can load or store pieces of an N-word pseudo, and that the pseudo will eventually be allocated to N `word_mode` hard registers. Failure to prevent this kind of mode change will result in the entire `raw_reg_mode` being modified instead of the partial value that the middle-end intended.

Target Hook: `reg_class_t` TARGET_IRA_CHANGE_PSEUDO_ALLOCNO_CLASS `(int, reg_class_t, reg_class_t)` ¶

  A target hook which can change allocno class for given pseudo from allocno and best class calculated by IRA.

  The default version of this target hook always returns given class.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LRA_P `(void)` ¶

  A target hook which returns true if we use LRA instead of reload pass.

  The default version of this target hook returns true. New ports should use LRA, and existing ports are encouraged to convert.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_REGISTER_PRIORITY `(int)` ¶

  A target hook which returns the register priority number to which the register hard_regno belongs to. The bigger the number, the more preferable the hard register usage (when all other conditions are the same). This hook can be used to prefer some hard register over others in LRA. For example, some x86-64 register usage needs additional prefix which makes instructions longer. The hook can return lower priority number for such registers make them less favorable and as result making the generated code smaller.

  The default version of this target hook returns always zero.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_REGISTER_USAGE_LEVELING_P `(void)` ¶

  A target hook which returns true if we need register usage leveling. That means if a few hard registers are equally good for the assignment, we choose the least used hard register. The register usage leveling may be profitable for some targets. Don’t use the usage leveling for targets with conditional execution or targets with big register files as it hurts if-conversion and cross-jumping optimizations.

  The default version of this target hook returns always false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_DIFFERENT_ADDR_DISPLACEMENT_P `(void)` ¶

  A target hook which returns true if an address with the same structure can have different maximal legitimate displacement. For example, the displacement can depend on memory mode or on operand combinations in the insn.

  The default version of this target hook returns always false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CANNOT_SUBSTITUTE_MEM_EQUIV_P `(rtx subst)` ¶

  A target hook which returns `true` if subst can’t substitute safely pseudos with equivalent memory values during register allocation. The default version of this target hook returns `false`. On most machines, this default should be used. For generally machines with non orthogonal register usage for addressing, such as SH, this hook can be used to avoid excessive spilling.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS_DISPLACEMENT `(rtx *offset1, rtx *offset2, poly_int64 orig_offset, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook tries to split address offset orig_offset into two parts: one that should be added to the base address to create a local anchor point, and an additional offset that can be applied to the anchor to address a value of mode mode. The idea is that the local anchor could be shared by other accesses to nearby locations.

  The hook returns true if it succeeds, storing the offset of the anchor from the base in offset1 and the offset of the final address from the anchor in offset2. The default implementation returns false.

Target Hook: `reg_class_t` TARGET_SPILL_CLASS `(reg_class_t, machine_mode)` ¶

  This hook defines a class of registers which could be used for spilling pseudos of the given mode and class, or `NO_REGS` if only memory should be used. Not defining this hook is equivalent to returning `NO_REGS` for all inputs.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ADDITIONAL_ALLOCNO_CLASS_P `(reg_class_t)` ¶

  This hook should return `true` if given class of registers should be an allocno class in any way. Usually RA uses only one register class from all classes containing the same register set. In some complicated cases, you need to have two or more such classes as allocno ones for RA correct work. Not defining this hook is equivalent to returning `false` for all inputs.

Target Hook: `scalar_int_mode` TARGET_CSTORE_MODE `(enum insn_code icode)` ¶

  This hook defines the machine mode to use for the boolean result of conditional store patterns. The ICODE argument is the instruction code for the cstore being performed. Not definiting this hook is the same as accepting the mode encoded into operand 0 of the cstore expander patterns.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_COMPUTE_PRESSURE_CLASSES `(enum reg_class *pressure_classes)` ¶

  A target hook which lets a backend compute the set of pressure classes to be used by those optimization passes which take register pressure into account, as opposed to letting IRA compute them. It returns the number of register classes stored in the array pressure_classes.

### 18.9 Stack Layout and Calling Conventions ¶

This describes the stack layout and calling conventions.

#### 18.9.1 Basic Stack Layout ¶

Here is the basic stack layout.

Macro: STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD ¶

  Define this macro to be true if pushing a word onto the stack moves the stack pointer to a smaller address, and false otherwise.

Macro: STACK_PUSH_CODE ¶

  This macro defines the operation used when something is pushed on the stack. In RTL, a push operation will be `(set (mem (STACK_PUSH_CODE (reg sp))) …)`

  The choices are `PRE_DEC`, `POST_DEC`, `PRE_INC`, and `POST_INC`. Which of these is correct depends on the stack direction and on whether the stack pointer points to the last item on the stack or whether it points to the space for the next item on the stack.

  The default is `PRE_DEC` when `STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD` is true, which is almost always right, and `PRE_INC` otherwise, which is often wrong.

Macro: FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD ¶

  Define this macro to nonzero value if the addresses of local variable slots are at negative offsets from the frame pointer.

Macro: ARGS_GROW_DOWNWARD ¶

  Define this macro if successive arguments to a function occupy decreasing addresses on the stack.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns the offset from the frame pointer to the first local variable slot to be allocated. If `FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD`, it is the offset to end of the first slot allocated, otherwise it is the offset to beginning of the first slot allocated. The default implementation returns 0.

Macro: STACK_ALIGNMENT_NEEDED ¶

  Define to zero to disable final alignment of the stack during reload. The nonzero default for this macro is suitable for most ports.

  On ports where `TARGET_STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET` is nonzero or where there is a register save block following the local block that doesn’t require alignment to `STACK_BOUNDARY`, it may be beneficial to disable stack alignment and do it in the backend.

Macro: STACK_POINTER_OFFSET ¶

  Offset from the stack pointer register to the first location at which outgoing arguments are placed. If not specified, the default value of zero is used. This is the proper value for most machines.

  If `ARGS_GROW_DOWNWARD`, this is the offset to the location above the first location at which outgoing arguments are placed.

Macro: FIRST_PARM_OFFSET (fundecl) ¶

  Offset from the argument pointer register to the first argument’s address. On some machines it may depend on the data type of the function.

  If `ARGS_GROW_DOWNWARD`, this is the offset to the location above the first argument’s address.

Macro: STACK_DYNAMIC_OFFSET (fundecl) ¶

  Offset from the stack pointer register to an item dynamically allocated on the stack, e.g., by `alloca`.

  The default value for this macro is `STACK_POINTER_OFFSET` plus the length of the outgoing arguments. The default is correct for most machines. See `function.cc` for details.

Macro: INITIAL_FRAME_ADDRESS_RTX ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing the address of the initial stack frame. This address is passed to `RETURN_ADDR_RTX` and `DYNAMIC_CHAIN_ADDRESS`. If you don’t define this macro, a reasonable default value will be used. Define this macro in order to make frame pointer elimination work in the presence of `__builtin_frame_address (count)` and `__builtin_return_address (count)` for `count` not equal to zero.

Macro: DYNAMIC_CHAIN_ADDRESS (frameaddr) ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing the address in a stack frame where the pointer to the caller’s frame is stored. Assume that frameaddr is an RTL expression for the address of the stack frame itself.

  If you don’t define this macro, the default is to return the value of frameaddr—that is, the stack frame address is also the address of the stack word that points to the previous frame.

Macro: SETUP_FRAME_ADDRESSES ¶

  A C expression that produces the machine-specific code to setup the stack so that arbitrary frames can be accessed. For example, on the SPARC, we must flush all of the register windows to the stack before we can access arbitrary stack frames. You will seldom need to define this macro. The default is to do nothing.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_BUILTIN_SETJMP_FRAME_VALUE `(void)` ¶

  This target hook should return an rtx that is used to store the address of the current frame into the built in `setjmp` buffer. The default value, `virtual_stack_vars_rtx`, is correct for most machines. One reason you may need to define this target hook is if `hard_frame_pointer_rtx` is the appropriate value on your machine.

Macro: FRAME_ADDR_RTX (frameaddr) ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing the value of the frame address for the current frame. frameaddr is the frame pointer of the current frame. This is used for __builtin_frame_address. You need only define this macro if the frame address is not the same as the frame pointer. Most machines do not need to define it.

Macro: RETURN_ADDR_RTX (count, frameaddr) ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing the value of the return address for the frame count steps up from the current frame, after the prologue. frameaddr is the frame pointer of the count frame, or the frame pointer of the count − 1 frame if `RETURN_ADDR_IN_PREVIOUS_FRAME` is nonzero.

  The value of the expression must always be the correct address when count is zero, but may be `NULL_RTX` if there is no way to determine the return address of other frames.

Macro: RETURN_ADDR_IN_PREVIOUS_FRAME ¶

  Define this macro to nonzero value if the return address of a particular stack frame is accessed from the frame pointer of the previous stack frame. The zero default for this macro is suitable for most ports.

Macro: INCOMING_RETURN_ADDR_RTX ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing the location of the incoming return address at the beginning of any function, before the prologue. This RTL is either a `REG`, indicating that the return value is saved in ‘`REG`’, or a `MEM` representing a location in the stack.

  You only need to define this macro if you want to support call frame debugging information like that provided by DWARF 2.

  If this RTL is a `REG`, you should also define `DWARF_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN` to `DWARF_FRAME_REGNUM (REGNO)`.

Macro: DWARF_ALT_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN ¶

  A C expression whose value is an integer giving a DWARF 2 column number that may be used as an alternative return column. The column must not correspond to any gcc hard register (that is, it must not be in the range of `DWARF_FRAME_REGNUM`).

  This macro can be useful if `DWARF_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN` is set to a general register, but an alternative column needs to be used for signal frames. Some targets have also used different frame return columns over time.

Macro: DWARF_ZERO_REG ¶

  A C expression whose value is an integer giving a DWARF 2 register number that is considered to always have the value zero. This should only be defined if the target has an architected zero register, and someone decided it was a good idea to use that register number to terminate the stack backtrace. New ports should avoid this.

Macro: DWARF_VERSION_DEFAULT ¶

  A C expression whose value is the default dwarf standard version we’ll honor and advertise when generating dwarf debug information, in absence of an explicit `-gdwarf-version` option on the command line.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_DWARF_HANDLE_FRAME_UNSPEC `(const char *label, rtx pattern, int index)` ¶

  This target hook allows the backend to emit frame-related insns that contain UNSPECs or UNSPEC_VOLATILEs. The DWARF 2 call frame debugging info engine will invoke it on insns of the form

      (set (reg) (unspec [...] UNSPEC_INDEX))

  and

      (set (reg) (unspec_volatile [...] UNSPECV_INDEX)).

  to let the backend emit the call frame instructions. label is the CFI label attached to the insn, pattern is the pattern of the insn and index is `UNSPEC_INDEX` or `UNSPECV_INDEX`.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_DWARF_POLY_INDETERMINATE_VALUE `(unsigned int i, unsigned int *factor, int *offset)` ¶

  Express the value of `poly_int` indeterminate i as a DWARF expression, with i counting from 1. Return the number of a DWARF register R and set ‘`*factor`’ and ‘`*offset`’ such that the value of the indeterminate is:

      value_of(R) / factor - offset

  A target only needs to define this hook if it sets ‘`NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS`’ to a value greater than 1.

Macro: INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET ¶

  A C expression whose value is an integer giving the offset, in bytes, from the value of the stack pointer register to the top of the stack frame at the beginning of any function, before the prologue. The top of the frame is defined to be the value of the stack pointer in the previous frame, just before the call instruction.

  You only need to define this macro if you want to support call frame debugging information like that provided by DWARF 2.

Macro: DEFAULT_INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET ¶

  Like `INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET`, but must be the same for all functions of the same ABI, and when using GAS `.cfi_*` directives must also agree with the default CFI GAS emits. Define this macro only if `INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET` can have different values between different functions of the same ABI or when `INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET` does not agree with GAS default CFI.

Macro: ARG_POINTER_CFA_OFFSET (fundecl) ¶

  A C expression whose value is an integer giving the offset, in bytes, from the argument pointer to the canonical frame address (cfa). The final value should coincide with that calculated by `INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET`. Which is unfortunately not usable during virtual register instantiation.

  The default value for this macro is `FIRST_PARM_OFFSET (fundecl) + crtl->args.pretend_args_size`, which is correct for most machines; in general, the arguments are found immediately before the stack frame. Note that this is not the case on some targets that save registers into the caller’s frame, such as SPARC and rs6000, and so such targets need to define this macro.

  You only need to define this macro if the default is incorrect, and you want to support call frame debugging information like that provided by DWARF 2.

Macro: FRAME_POINTER_CFA_OFFSET (fundecl) ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is an integer giving the offset in bytes from the frame pointer to the canonical frame address (cfa). The final value should coincide with that calculated by `INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET`.

  Normally the CFA is calculated as an offset from the argument pointer, via `ARG_POINTER_CFA_OFFSET`, but if the argument pointer is variable due to the ABI, this may not be possible. If this macro is defined, it implies that the virtual register instantiation should be based on the frame pointer instead of the argument pointer. Only one of `FRAME_POINTER_CFA_OFFSET` and `ARG_POINTER_CFA_OFFSET` should be defined.

Macro: CFA_FRAME_BASE_OFFSET (fundecl) ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is an integer giving the offset in bytes from the canonical frame address (cfa) to the frame base used in DWARF 2 debug information. The default is zero. A different value may reduce the size of debug information on some ports.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_STRUB_SUPPORT_FOR `(tree)` ¶

  Returns true if the target supports stack scrubbing for the given function or type, otherwise return false. The default implementation always returns true.

Macro: STACK_ADDRESS_OFFSET ¶

  Offset from the stack pointer register to the boundary address between the stack area claimed by an active function, and stack ranges that could get clobbered if it called another function. It should NOT encompass any stack red zone, that is used in leaf functions.

  This value is added to the stack pointer register to compute the address returned by `__builtin_stack_address`, and this is its only use. If this macro is not defined, no offset is added. Defining it like `STACK_POINTER_OFFSET` may be appropriate for many machines, but not all.

  On SPARC, for example, the register save area is *not* considered active or used by the active function, but rather as akin to the area in which call-preserved registers are saved by callees, so the stack address is above that area, even though the (unbiased) stack pointer points below it. This enables `__strub_leave` to clear what would otherwise overlap with its own register save area.

  On PowerPC, `STACK_POINTER_OFFSET` also reserves space for a save area, but that area is used by the caller rather than the callee, so the boundary address is below it.

  If the address is computed too high or too low, parts of a stack range that should be scrubbed may be left unscrubbed, scrubbing may corrupt active portions of the stack frame, and stack ranges may be doubly-scrubbed by caller and callee.

Macro: TARGET_STRUB_USE_DYNAMIC_ARRAY ¶

  If defined to nonzero, `__strub_leave` will allocate a dynamic array covering the stack range that needs scrubbing before clearing it. Allocating the array tends to make scrubbing slower, but it enables the scrubbing to be safely implemented with a `memset` call, which could make up for the difference.

Macro: TARGET_STRUB_MAY_USE_MEMSET ¶

  If defined to nonzero, enable `__strub_leave` to be optimized so as to call `memset` for stack scrubbing. This is only enabled by default if `TARGET_STRUB_USE_DYNAMIC_ARRAY` is enabled; it’s not advisable to enable it otherwise, since `memset` would then likely overwrite its own stack frame, but it might work if the target ABI enables `memset` to not use the stack at all, not even for arguments or its return address, and its implementation is trivial enough that it doesn’t use a stack frame.

#### 18.9.2 Exception Handling Support ¶

Macro: EH_RETURN_DATA_REGNO (N) ¶

  A C expression whose value is the Nth register number used for data by exception handlers, or `INVALID_REGNUM` if fewer than N registers are usable.

  The exception handling library routines communicate with the exception handlers via a set of agreed upon registers. Ideally these registers should be call-clobbered; it is possible to use call-saved registers, but may negatively impact code size. The target must support at least 2 data registers, but should define 4 if there are enough free registers.

  You must define this macro if you want to support call frame exception handling like that provided by DWARF 2.

Macro: EH_RETURN_STACKADJ_RTX ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing a location in which to store a stack adjustment to be applied before function return. This is used to unwind the stack to an exception handler’s call frame. It will be assigned zero on code paths that return normally.

  Typically this is a call-clobbered hard register that is otherwise untouched by the epilogue, but could also be a stack slot.

  Do not define this macro if the stack pointer is saved and restored by the regular prolog and epilog code in the call frame itself; in this case, the exception handling library routines will update the stack location to be restored in place. Otherwise, you must define this macro if you want to support call frame exception handling like that provided by DWARF 2.

Macro: EH_RETURN_HANDLER_RTX ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing a location in which to store the address of an exception handler to which we should return. It will not be assigned on code paths that return normally.

  Typically this is the location in the call frame at which the normal return address is stored. For targets that return by popping an address off the stack, this might be a memory address just below the target call frame rather than inside the current call frame. If defined, `EH_RETURN_STACKADJ_RTX` will have already been assigned, so it may be used to calculate the location of the target call frame.

  Some targets have more complex requirements than storing to an address calculable during initial code generation. In that case the `eh_return` instruction pattern should be used instead.

  If you want to support call frame exception handling, you must define either this macro or the `eh_return` instruction pattern.

Macro: EH_RETURN_TAKEN_RTX ¶

  A C expression whose value is RTL representing a location in which to store if the EH return path was taken instead of a normal return. This macro allows conditionally executing different code in the epilogue for the EH and normal return cases.

  When this macro is defined, the macros `EH_RETURN_STACKADJ_RTX` and `EH_RETURN_HANDLER_RTX` are only meaningful in the epilogue when 1 is stored to the specified location. The value 0 means normal return.

Macro: RETURN_ADDR_OFFSET ¶

  If defined, an integer-valued C expression for which rtl will be generated to add it to the exception handler address before it is searched in the exception handling tables, and to subtract it again from the address before using it to return to the exception handler.

Macro: ASM_PREFERRED_EH_DATA_FORMAT (code, global) ¶

  This macro chooses the encoding of pointers embedded in the exception handling sections. If at all possible, this should be defined such that the exception handling section will not require dynamic relocations, and so may be read-only.

  code is 0 for data, 1 for code labels, 2 for function pointers. global is true if the symbol may be affected by dynamic relocations. The macro should return a combination of the `DW_EH_PE_*` defines as found in `dwarf2.h`.

  If this macro is not defined, pointers will not be encoded but represented directly.

Macro: ASM_MAYBE_OUTPUT_ENCODED_ADDR_RTX (file, encoding, size, addr, done) ¶

  This macro allows the target to emit whatever special magic is required to represent the encoding chosen by `ASM_PREFERRED_EH_DATA_FORMAT`. Generic code takes care of pc-relative and indirect encodings; this must be defined if the target uses text-relative or data-relative encodings.

  This is a C statement that branches to done if the format was handled. encoding is the format chosen, size is the number of bytes that the format occupies, addr is the `SYMBOL_REF` to be emitted.

Macro: MD_FALLBACK_FRAME_STATE_FOR (context, fs) ¶

  This macro allows the target to add CPU and operating system specific code to the call-frame unwinder for use when there is no unwind data available. The most common reason to implement this macro is to unwind through signal frames.

  This macro is called from `uw_frame_state_for` in `unwind-dw2.c`, `unwind-dw2-xtensa.c` and `unwind-ia64.c`. context is an `_Unwind_Context`; fs is an `_Unwind_FrameState`. Examine `context->ra` for the address of the code being executed and `context->cfa` for the stack pointer value. If the frame can be decoded, the register save addresses should be updated in fs and the macro should evaluate to `_URC_NO_REASON`. If the frame cannot be decoded, the macro should evaluate to `_URC_END_OF_STACK`.

  For proper signal handling in Java this macro is accompanied by `MAKE_THROW_FRAME`, defined in `libjava/include/*-signal.h` headers.

Macro: MD_HANDLE_UNWABI (context, fs) ¶

  This macro allows the target to add operating system specific code to the call-frame unwinder to handle the IA-64 `.unwabi` unwinding directive, usually used for signal or interrupt frames.

  This macro is called from `uw_update_context` in libgcc’s `unwind-ia64.c`. context is an `_Unwind_Context`; fs is an `_Unwind_FrameState`. Examine `fs->unwabi` for the abi and context in the `.unwabi` directive. If the `.unwabi` directive can be handled, the register save addresses should be updated in fs.

Macro: TARGET_USES_WEAK_UNWIND_INFO ¶

  A C expression that evaluates to true if the target requires unwind info to be given comdat linkage. Define it to be `1` if comdat linkage is necessary. The default is `0`.

#### 18.9.3 Specifying How Stack Checking is Done ¶

GCC will check that stack references are within the boundaries of the stack, if the option `-fstack-check` is specified, in one of three ways:

1. If the value of the `STACK_CHECK_BUILTIN` macro is nonzero, GCC will assume that you have arranged for full stack checking to be done at appropriate places in the configuration files. GCC will not do other special processing.
2. If `STACK_CHECK_BUILTIN` is zero and the value of the `STACK_CHECK_STATIC_BUILTIN` macro is nonzero, GCC will assume that you have arranged for static stack checking (checking of the static stack frame of functions) to be done at appropriate places in the configuration files. GCC will only emit code to do dynamic stack checking (checking on dynamic stack allocations) using the third approach below.
3. If neither of the above are true, GCC will generate code to periodically “probe” the stack pointer using the values of the macros defined below.

If neither STACK_CHECK_BUILTIN nor STACK_CHECK_STATIC_BUILTIN is defined, GCC will change its allocation strategy for large objects if the option `-fstack-check` is specified: they will always be allocated dynamically if their size exceeds `STACK_CHECK_MAX_VAR_SIZE` bytes.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_BUILTIN ¶

  A nonzero value if stack checking is done by the configuration files in a machine-dependent manner. You should define this macro if stack checking is required by the ABI of your machine or if you would like to do stack checking in some more efficient way than the generic approach. The default value of this macro is zero.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_STATIC_BUILTIN ¶

  A nonzero value if static stack checking is done by the configuration files in a machine-dependent manner. You should define this macro if you would like to do static stack checking in some more efficient way than the generic approach. The default value of this macro is zero.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_PROBE_INTERVAL_EXP ¶

  An integer specifying the interval at which GCC must generate stack probe instructions, defined as 2 raised to this integer. You will normally define this macro so that the interval be no larger than the size of the “guard pages” at the end of a stack area. The default value of 12 (4096-byte interval) is suitable for most systems.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_MOVING_SP ¶

  An integer which is nonzero if GCC should move the stack pointer page by page when doing probes. This can be necessary on systems where the stack pointer contains the bottom address of the memory area accessible to the executing thread at any point in time. In this situation an alternate signal stack is required in order to be able to recover from a stack overflow. The default value of this macro is zero.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_PROTECT ¶

  The number of bytes of stack needed to recover from a stack overflow, for languages where such a recovery is supported. The default value of 4KB/8KB with the `setjmp`/`longjmp`-based exception handling mechanism and 8KB/12KB with other exception handling mechanisms should be adequate for most architectures and operating systems.

The following macros are relevant only if neither STACK_CHECK_BUILTIN nor STACK_CHECK_STATIC_BUILTIN is defined; you can omit them altogether in the opposite case.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_MAX_FRAME_SIZE ¶

  The maximum size of a stack frame, in bytes. GCC will generate probe instructions in non-leaf functions to ensure at least this many bytes of stack are available. If a stack frame is larger than this size, stack checking will not be reliable and GCC will issue a warning. The default is chosen so that GCC only generates one instruction on most systems. You should normally not change the default value of this macro.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_FIXED_FRAME_SIZE ¶

  GCC uses this value to generate the above warning message. It represents the amount of fixed frame used by a function, not including space for any callee-saved registers, temporaries and user variables. You need only specify an upper bound for this amount and will normally use the default of four words.

Macro: STACK_CHECK_MAX_VAR_SIZE ¶

  The maximum size, in bytes, of an object that GCC will place in the fixed area of the stack frame when the user specifies `-fstack-check`. GCC computed the default from the values of the above macros and you will normally not need to override that default.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_STACK_CLASH_PROTECTION_ALLOCA_PROBE_RANGE `(void)` ¶

  Some targets have an ABI defined interval for which no probing needs to be done. When a probe does need to be done this same interval is used as the probe distance up when doing stack clash protection for alloca. On such targets this value can be set to override the default probing up interval. Define this variable to return nonzero if such a probe range is required or zero otherwise. Defining this hook also requires your functions which make use of alloca to have at least 8 byes of outgoing arguments. If this is not the case the stack will be corrupted. You need not define this macro if it would always have the value zero.

#### 18.9.4 Registers That Address the Stack Frame ¶

This discusses registers that address the stack frame.

Macro: STACK_POINTER_REGNUM ¶

  The register number of the stack pointer register, which must also be a fixed register according to `FIXED_REGISTERS`. On most machines, the hardware determines which register this is.

Macro: FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM ¶

  The register number of the frame pointer register, which is used to access automatic variables in the stack frame. On some machines, the hardware determines which register this is. On other machines, you can choose any register you wish for this purpose.

Macro: HARD_FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM ¶

  On some machines the offset between the frame pointer and starting offset of the automatic variables is not known until after register allocation has been done (for example, because the saved registers are between these two locations). On those machines, define `FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` the number of a special, fixed register to be used internally until the offset is known, and define `HARD_FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` to be the actual hard register number used for the frame pointer.

  You should define this macro only in the very rare circumstances when it is not possible to calculate the offset between the frame pointer and the automatic variables until after register allocation has been completed. When this macro is defined, you must also indicate in your definition of `ELIMINABLE_REGS` how to eliminate `FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` into either `HARD_FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` or `STACK_POINTER_REGNUM`.

  Do not define this macro if it would be the same as `FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM`.

Macro: ARG_POINTER_REGNUM ¶

  The register number of the arg pointer register, which is used to access the function’s argument list. On some machines, this is the same as the frame pointer register. On some machines, the hardware determines which register this is. On other machines, you can choose any register you wish for this purpose. If this is not the same register as the frame pointer register, then you must mark it as a fixed register according to `FIXED_REGISTERS`, or arrange to be able to eliminate it (see Eliminating Frame Pointer and Arg Pointer).

Macro: HARD_FRAME_POINTER_IS_FRAME_POINTER ¶

  Define this to a preprocessor constant that is nonzero if `hard_frame_pointer_rtx` and `frame_pointer_rtx` should be the same. The default definition is ‘`(HARD_FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM == FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM)`’; you only need to define this macro if that definition is not suitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.

Macro: HARD_FRAME_POINTER_IS_ARG_POINTER ¶

  Define this to a preprocessor constant that is nonzero if `hard_frame_pointer_rtx` and `arg_pointer_rtx` should be the same. The default definition is ‘`(HARD_FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM == ARG_POINTER_REGNUM)`’; you only need to define this macro if that definition is not suitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.

Macro: RETURN_ADDRESS_POINTER_REGNUM ¶

  The register number of the return address pointer register, which is used to access the current function’s return address from the stack. On some machines, the return address is not at a fixed offset from the frame pointer or stack pointer or argument pointer. This register can be defined to point to the return address on the stack, and then be converted by `ELIMINABLE_REGS` into either the frame pointer or stack pointer.

  Do not define this macro unless there is no other way to get the return address from the stack.

Macro: STATIC_CHAIN_REGNUM ¶
Macro: STATIC_CHAIN_INCOMING_REGNUM ¶

  Register numbers used for passing a function’s static chain pointer. If register windows are used, the register number as seen by the called function is `STATIC_CHAIN_INCOMING_REGNUM`, while the register number as seen by the calling function is `STATIC_CHAIN_REGNUM`. If these registers are the same, `STATIC_CHAIN_INCOMING_REGNUM` need not be defined.

  The static chain register need not be a fixed register.

  If the static chain is passed in memory, these macros should not be defined; instead, the `TARGET_STATIC_CHAIN` hook should be used.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_STATIC_CHAIN `(const_tree fndecl_or_type, bool incoming_p)` ¶

  This hook replaces the use of `STATIC_CHAIN_REGNUM` et al for targets that may use different static chain locations for different nested functions. This may be required if the target has function attributes that affect the calling conventions of the function and those calling conventions use different static chain locations.

  The default version of this hook uses `STATIC_CHAIN_REGNUM` et al.

  If the static chain is passed in memory, this hook should be used to provide rtx giving `mem` expressions that denote where they are stored. Often the `mem` expression as seen by the caller will be at an offset from the stack pointer and the `mem` expression as seen by the callee will be at an offset from the frame pointer. The variables `stack_pointer_rtx`, `frame_pointer_rtx`, and `arg_pointer_rtx` will have been initialized and should be used to refer to those items.

Macro: DWARF_FRAME_REGISTERS ¶

  This macro specifies the maximum number of hard registers that can be saved in a call frame. This is used to size data structures used in DWARF2 exception handling.

  Prior to GCC 3.0, this macro was needed in order to establish a stable exception handling ABI in the face of adding new hard registers for ISA extensions. In GCC 3.0 and later, the EH ABI is insulated from changes in the number of hard registers. Nevertheless, this macro can still be used to reduce the runtime memory requirements of the exception handling routines, which can be substantial if the ISA contains a lot of registers that are not call-saved.

  If this macro is not defined, it defaults to `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER`.

Macro: PRE_GCC3_DWARF_FRAME_REGISTERS ¶

  This macro is similar to `DWARF_FRAME_REGISTERS`, but is provided for backward compatibility in pre GCC 3.0 compiled code.

  If this macro is not defined, it defaults to `DWARF_FRAME_REGISTERS`.

Macro: DWARF_REG_TO_UNWIND_COLUMN (regno) ¶

  Define this macro if the target’s representation for dwarf registers is different than the internal representation for unwind column. Given a dwarf register, this macro should return the internal unwind column number to use instead.

Macro: DWARF_FRAME_REGNUM (regno) ¶

  Define this macro if the target’s representation for dwarf registers used in .eh_frame or .debug_frame is different from that used in other debug info sections. Given a GCC hard register number, this macro should return the .eh_frame register number. The default is `DEBUGGER_REGNO (regno)`.

Macro: DWARF2_FRAME_REG_OUT (regno, for_eh) ¶

  Define this macro to map register numbers held in the call frame info that GCC has collected using `DWARF_FRAME_REGNUM` to those that should be output in .debug_frame (`for_eh` is zero) and .eh_frame (`for_eh` is nonzero). The default is to return `regno`.

Macro: REG_VALUE_IN_UNWIND_CONTEXT ¶

  Define this macro if the target stores register values as `_Unwind_Word` type in unwind context. It should be defined if target register size is larger than the size of `void *`. The default is to store register values as `void *` type.

Macro: ASSUME_EXTENDED_UNWIND_CONTEXT ¶

  Define this macro to be 1 if the target always uses extended unwind context with version, args_size and by_value fields. If it is undefined, it will be defined to 1 when `REG_VALUE_IN_UNWIND_CONTEXT` is defined and 0 otherwise.

Macro: DWARF_LAZY_REGISTER_VALUE (regno, value) ¶

  Define this macro if the target has pseudo DWARF registers whose values need to be computed lazily on demand by the unwinder (such as when referenced in a CFA expression). The macro returns true if regno is such a register and stores its value in ‘`*value`’ if so.

#### 18.9.5 Eliminating Frame Pointer and Arg Pointer ¶

This is about eliminating the frame pointer and arg pointer.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FRAME_POINTER_REQUIRED `(void)` ¶

  This target hook should return `true` if a function must have and use a frame pointer. This target hook is called in the reload pass. If its return value is `true` the function will have a frame pointer.

  This target hook can in principle examine the current function and decide according to the facts, but on most machines the constant `false` or the constant `true` suffices. Use `false` when the machine allows code to be generated with no frame pointer, and doing so saves some time or space. Use `true` when there is no possible advantage to avoiding a frame pointer.

  In certain cases, the compiler does not know how to produce valid code without a frame pointer. The compiler recognizes those cases and automatically gives the function a frame pointer regardless of what `targetm.frame_pointer_required` returns. You don’t need to worry about them.

  In a function that does not require a frame pointer, the frame pointer register can be allocated for ordinary usage, unless you mark it as a fixed register. See `FIXED_REGISTERS` for more information.

  Default return value is `false`.

Macro: ELIMINABLE_REGS ¶

  This macro specifies a table of register pairs used to eliminate unneeded registers that point into the stack frame.

  The definition of this macro is a list of structure initializations, each of which specifies an original and replacement register.

  On some machines, the position of the argument pointer is not known until the compilation is completed. In such a case, a separate hard register must be used for the argument pointer. This register can be eliminated by replacing it with either the frame pointer or the argument pointer, depending on whether or not the frame pointer has been eliminated.

  In this case, you might specify:

      #define ELIMINABLE_REGS  \
      {{ARG_POINTER_REGNUM, STACK_POINTER_REGNUM}, \
       {ARG_POINTER_REGNUM, FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM}, \
       {FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM, STACK_POINTER_REGNUM}}

  Note that the elimination of the argument pointer with the stack pointer is specified first since that is the preferred elimination.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CAN_ELIMINATE `(const int from_reg, const int to_reg)` ¶

  This target hook should return `true` if the compiler is allowed to try to replace register number from_reg with register number to_reg. This target hook will usually be `true`, since most of the cases preventing register elimination are things that the compiler already knows about.

  Default return value is `true`.

Macro: INITIAL_ELIMINATION_OFFSET (from-reg, to-reg, offset-var) ¶

  This macro returns the initial difference between the specified pair of registers. The value would be computed from information such as the result of `get_frame_size ()` and the tables of registers `df_regs_ever_live_p` and `call_used_regs`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_COMPUTE_FRAME_LAYOUT `(void)` ¶

  This target hook is called once each time the frame layout needs to be recalculated. The calculations can be cached by the target and can then be used by `INITIAL_ELIMINATION_OFFSET` instead of re-computing the layout on every invocation of that hook. This is particularly useful for targets that have an expensive frame layout function. Implementing this callback is optional.

#### 18.9.6 Passing Function Arguments on the Stack ¶

The macros in this section control how arguments are passed on the stack. See the following section for other macros that control passing certain arguments in registers.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_PROMOTE_PROTOTYPES `(const_tree fntype)` ¶

  This target hook returns `true` if an argument declared in a prototype as an integral type smaller than `int` should actually be passed as an `int`. In addition to avoiding errors in certain cases of mismatch, it also makes for better code on certain machines. The default is to not promote prototypes.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_PUSH_ARGUMENT `(unsigned int npush)` ¶

  This target hook returns `true` if push instructions will be used to pass outgoing arguments. When the push instruction usage is optional, npush is nonzero to indicate the number of bytes to push. Otherwise, npush is zero. If the target machine does not have a push instruction or push instruction should be avoided, `false` should be returned. That directs GCC to use an alternate strategy: to allocate the entire argument block and then store the arguments into it. If this target hook may return `true`, `PUSH_ROUNDING` must be defined.

Macro: PUSH_ARGS_REVERSED ¶

  A C expression. If nonzero, function arguments will be evaluated from last to first, rather than from first to last. If this macro is not defined, it defaults to `PUSH_ARGS` on targets where the stack and args grow in opposite directions, and 0 otherwise.

Macro: PUSH_ROUNDING (npushed) ¶

  A C expression that is the number of bytes actually pushed onto the stack when an instruction attempts to push npushed bytes.

  On some machines, the definition

      #define PUSH_ROUNDING(BYTES) (BYTES)

  will suffice. But on other machines, instructions that appear to push one byte actually push two bytes in an attempt to maintain alignment. Then the definition should be

      #define PUSH_ROUNDING(BYTES) (((BYTES) + 1) & ~1)

  If the value of this macro has a type, it should be an unsigned type.

Macro: ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS ¶

  A C expression. If nonzero, the maximum amount of space required for outgoing arguments will be computed and placed into `crtl->outgoing_args_size`. No space will be pushed onto the stack for each call; instead, the function prologue should increase the stack frame size by this amount.

  Setting both `PUSH_ARGS` and `ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS` is not proper.

Macro: REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE (fndecl) ¶

  Define this macro if functions should assume that stack space has been allocated for arguments even when their values are passed in registers.

  The value of this macro is the size, in bytes, of the area reserved for arguments passed in registers for the function represented by fndecl, which can be zero if GCC is calling a library function. The argument fndecl can be the FUNCTION_DECL, or the type itself of the function.

  This space can be allocated by the caller, or be a part of the machine-dependent stack frame: `OUTGOING_REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` says which.

Macro: INCOMING_REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE (fndecl) ¶

  Like `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE`, but for incoming register arguments. Define this macro if space guaranteed when compiling a function body is different to space required when making a call, a situation that can arise with K&R style function definitions.

Macro: OUTGOING_REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE (fntype) ¶

  Define this to a nonzero value if it is the responsibility of the caller to allocate the area reserved for arguments passed in registers when calling a function of fntype. fntype may be NULL if the function called is a library function.

  If `ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS` is defined, this macro controls whether the space for these arguments counts in the value of `crtl->outgoing_args_size`.

Macro: STACK_PARMS_IN_REG_PARM_AREA ¶

  Define this macro if `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` is defined, but the stack parameters don’t skip the area specified by it.

  Normally, when a parameter is not passed in registers, it is placed on the stack beyond the `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` area. Defining this macro suppresses this behavior and causes the parameter to be passed on the stack in its natural location.

Target Hook: `poly_int64` TARGET_RETURN_POPS_ARGS `(tree fundecl, tree funtype, poly_int64 size)` ¶

  This target hook returns the number of bytes of its own arguments that a function pops on returning, or 0 if the function pops no arguments and the caller must therefore pop them all after the function returns.

  fundecl is a C variable whose value is a tree node that describes the function in question. Normally it is a node of type `FUNCTION_DECL` that describes the declaration of the function. From this you can obtain the `DECL_ATTRIBUTES` of the function.

  funtype is a C variable whose value is a tree node that describes the function in question. Normally it is a node of type `FUNCTION_TYPE` that describes the data type of the function. From this it is possible to obtain the data types of the value and arguments (if known).

  When a call to a library function is being considered, fundecl will contain an identifier node for the library function. Thus, if you need to distinguish among various library functions, you can do so by their names. Note that “library function” in this context means a function used to perform arithmetic, whose name is known specially in the compiler and was not mentioned in the C code being compiled.

  size is the number of bytes of arguments passed on the stack. If a variable number of bytes is passed, it is zero, and argument popping will always be the responsibility of the calling function.

  On the VAX, all functions always pop their arguments, so the definition of this macro is size. On the 68000, using the standard calling convention, no functions pop their arguments, so the value of the macro is always 0 in this case. But an alternative calling convention is available in which functions that take a fixed number of arguments pop them but other functions (such as `printf`) pop nothing (the caller pops all). When this convention is in use, funtype is examined to determine whether a function takes a fixed number of arguments.

Macro: CALL_POPS_ARGS (cum) ¶

  A C expression that should indicate the number of bytes a call sequence pops off the stack. It is added to the value of `RETURN_POPS_ARGS` when compiling a function call.

  cum is the variable in which all arguments to the called function have been accumulated.

  On certain architectures, such as the SH5, a call trampoline is used that pops certain registers off the stack, depending on the arguments that have been passed to the function. Since this is a property of the call site, not of the called function, `RETURN_POPS_ARGS` is not appropriate.

#### 18.9.7 Passing Arguments in Registers ¶

This section describes the macros which let you control how various types of arguments are passed in registers or how they are arranged in the stack.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG `(cumulative_args_t ca, const function_arg_info &arg)` ¶

  Return an RTX indicating whether function argument arg is passed in a register and if so, which register. Argument ca summarizes all the previous arguments.

  The return value is usually either a `reg` RTX for the hard register in which to pass the argument, or zero to pass the argument on the stack.

  The value of the expression can also be a `parallel` RTX. This is used when an argument is passed in multiple locations. The mode of the `parallel` should be the mode of the entire argument. The `parallel` holds any number of `expr_list` pairs; each one describes where part of the argument is passed. In each `expr_list` the first operand must be a `reg` RTX for the hard register in which to pass this part of the argument, and the mode of the register RTX indicates how large this part of the argument is. The second operand of the `expr_list` is a `const_int` which gives the offset in bytes into the entire argument of where this part starts. As a special exception the first `expr_list` in the `parallel` RTX may have a first operand of zero. This indicates that the entire argument is also stored on the stack.

  The last time this hook is called, it is called with `MODE == VOIDmode`, and its result is passed to the `call` or `call_value` pattern as operands 2 and 3 respectively.

  The usual way to make the ISO library `stdarg.h` work on a machine where some arguments are usually passed in registers, is to cause nameless arguments to be passed on the stack instead. This is done by making `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` return 0 whenever named is `false`.

  You may use the hook `targetm.calls.must_pass_in_stack` in the definition of this macro to determine if this argument is of a type that must be passed in the stack. If `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` is not defined and `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` returns nonzero for such an argument, the compiler will abort. If `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` is defined, the argument will be computed in the stack and then loaded into a register.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_MUST_PASS_IN_STACK `(const function_arg_info &arg)` ¶

  This target hook should return `true` if we should not pass arg solely in registers. The file `expr.h` defines a definition that is usually appropriate, refer to `expr.h` for additional documentation.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_FUNCTION_INCOMING_ARG `(cumulative_args_t ca, const function_arg_info &arg)` ¶

  Define this hook if the caller and callee on the target have different views of where arguments are passed. Also define this hook if there are functions that are never directly called, but are invoked by the hardware and which have nonstandard calling conventions.

  In this case `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` computes the register in which the caller passes the value, and `TARGET_FUNCTION_INCOMING_ARG` should be defined in a similar fashion to tell the function being called where the arguments will arrive.

  `TARGET_FUNCTION_INCOMING_ARG` can also return arbitrary address computation using hard register, which can be forced into a register, so that it can be used to pass special arguments.

  If `TARGET_FUNCTION_INCOMING_ARG` is not defined, `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` serves both purposes.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_USE_PSEUDO_PIC_REG `(void)` ¶

  This hook should return 1 in case pseudo register should be created for pic_offset_table_rtx during function expand.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_INIT_PIC_REG `(void)` ¶

  Perform a target dependent initialization of pic_offset_table_rtx. This hook is called at the start of register allocation.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_ARG_PARTIAL_BYTES `(cumulative_args_t cum, const function_arg_info &arg)` ¶

  This target hook returns the number of bytes at the beginning of an argument that must be put in registers. The value must be zero for arguments that are passed entirely in registers or that are entirely pushed on the stack.

  On some machines, certain arguments must be passed partially in registers and partially in memory. On these machines, typically the first few words of arguments are passed in registers, and the rest on the stack. If a multi-word argument (a `double` or a structure) crosses that boundary, its first few words must be passed in registers and the rest must be pushed. This macro tells the compiler when this occurs, and how many bytes should go in registers.

  `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` for these arguments should return the first register to be used by the caller for this argument; likewise `TARGET_FUNCTION_INCOMING_ARG`, for the called function.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_PASS_BY_REFERENCE `(cumulative_args_t cum, const function_arg_info &arg)` ¶

  This target hook should return `true` if argument arg at the position indicated by cum should be passed by reference. This predicate is queried after target independent reasons for being passed by reference, such as `TREE_ADDRESSABLE (arg.type)`.

  If the hook returns true, a copy of that argument is made in memory and a pointer to the argument is passed instead of the argument itself. The pointer is passed in whatever way is appropriate for passing a pointer to that type.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CALLEE_COPIES `(cumulative_args_t cum, const function_arg_info &arg)` ¶

  The function argument described by the parameters to this hook is known to be passed by reference. The hook should return true if the function argument should be copied by the callee instead of copied by the caller.

  For any argument for which the hook returns true, if it can be determined that the argument is not modified, then a copy need not be generated.

  The default version of this hook always returns false.

Macro: CUMULATIVE_ARGS ¶

  A C type for declaring a variable that is used as the first argument of `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` and other related values. For some target machines, the type `int` suffices and can hold the number of bytes of argument so far.

  There is no need to record in `CUMULATIVE_ARGS` anything about the arguments that have been passed on the stack. The compiler has other variables to keep track of that. For target machines on which all arguments are passed on the stack, there is no need to store anything in `CUMULATIVE_ARGS`; however, the data structure must exist and should not be empty, so use `int`.

Macro: OVERRIDE_ABI_FORMAT (fndecl) ¶

  If defined, this macro is called before generating any code for a function, but after the cfun descriptor for the function has been created. The back end may use this macro to update cfun to reflect an ABI other than that which would normally be used by default. If the compiler is generating code for a compiler-generated function, fndecl may be `NULL`.

Macro: INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS (cum, fntype, libname, fndecl, n_named_args) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) for initializing the variable cum for the state at the beginning of the argument list. The variable has type `CUMULATIVE_ARGS`. The value of fntype is the tree node for the data type of the function which will receive the args, or 0 if the args are to a compiler support library function. For direct calls that are not libcalls, fndecl contain the declaration node of the function. fndecl is also set when `INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS` is used to find arguments for the function being compiled. n_named_args is set to the number of named arguments, including a structure return address if it is passed as a parameter, when making a call. When processing incoming arguments, n_named_args is set to −1.

  When processing a call to a compiler support library function, libname identifies which one. It is a `symbol_ref` rtx which contains the name of the function, as a string. libname is 0 when an ordinary C function call is being processed. Thus, each time this macro is called, either libname or fntype is nonzero, but never both of them at once.

Macro: INIT_CUMULATIVE_LIBCALL_ARGS (cum, mode, libname) ¶

  Like `INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS` but only used for outgoing libcalls, it gets a `MODE` argument instead of fntype, that would be `NULL`. indirect would always be zero, too. If this macro is not defined, `INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS (cum, NULL_RTX, libname, 0)` is used instead.

Macro: INIT_CUMULATIVE_INCOMING_ARGS (cum, fntype, libname) ¶

  Like `INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS` but overrides it for the purposes of finding the arguments for the function being compiled. If this macro is undefined, `INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS` is used instead.

  The value passed for libname is always 0, since library routines with special calling conventions are never compiled with GCC. The argument libname exists for symmetry with `INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_ADVANCE `(cumulative_args_t ca, const function_arg_info &arg)` ¶

  This hook updates the summarizer variable pointed to by ca to advance past argument arg in the argument list. Once this is done, the variable cum is suitable for analyzing the following argument with `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG`, etc.

  This hook need not do anything if the argument in question was passed on the stack. The compiler knows how to track the amount of stack space used for arguments without any special help.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_OFFSET `(machine_mode mode, const_tree type)` ¶

  This hook returns the number of bytes to add to the offset of an argument of type type and mode mode when passed in memory. This is needed for the SPU, which passes `char` and `short` arguments in the preferred slot that is in the middle of the quad word instead of starting at the top. The default implementation returns 0.

Target Hook: `pad_direction` TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_PADDING `(machine_mode mode, const_tree type)` ¶

  This hook determines whether, and in which direction, to pad out an argument of mode mode and type type. It returns `PAD_UPWARD` to insert padding above the argument, `PAD_DOWNWARD` to insert padding below the argument, or `PAD_NONE` to inhibit padding.

  The amount of padding is not controlled by this hook, but by `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_ROUND_BOUNDARY`. It is always just enough to reach the next multiple of that boundary.

  This hook has a default definition that is right for most systems. For little-endian machines, the default is to pad upward. For big-endian machines, the default is to pad downward for an argument of constant size shorter than an `int`, and upward otherwise.

Macro: PAD_VARARGS_DOWN ¶

  If defined, a C expression which determines whether the default implementation of va_arg will attempt to pad down before reading the next argument, if that argument is smaller than its aligned space as controlled by `PARM_BOUNDARY`. If this macro is not defined, all such arguments are padded down if `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN` is true.

Macro: BLOCK_REG_PADDING (mode, type, first) ¶

  Specify padding for the last element of a block move between registers and memory. first is nonzero if this is the only element. Defining this macro allows better control of register function parameters on big-endian machines, without using `PARALLEL` rtl. In particular, `MUST_PASS_IN_STACK` need not test padding and mode of types in registers, as there is no longer a "wrong" part of a register; For example, a three byte aggregate may be passed in the high part of a register if so required.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_BOUNDARY `(machine_mode mode, const_tree type)` ¶

  This hook returns the alignment boundary, in bits, of an argument with the specified mode and type. The default hook returns `PARM_BOUNDARY` for all arguments.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_ROUND_BOUNDARY `(machine_mode mode, const_tree type)` ¶

  Normally, the size of an argument is rounded up to `PARM_BOUNDARY`, which is the default value for this hook. You can define this hook to return a different value if an argument size must be rounded to a larger value.

Macro: FUNCTION_ARG_REGNO_P (regno) ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if regno is the number of a hard register in which function arguments are sometimes passed. This does not include implicit arguments such as the static chain and the structure-value address. On many machines, no registers can be used for this purpose since all function arguments are pushed on the stack.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SPLIT_COMPLEX_ARG `(const_tree type)` ¶

  This hook should return true if parameter of type type are passed as two scalar parameters. By default, GCC will attempt to pack complex arguments into the target’s word size. Some ABIs require complex arguments to be split and treated as their individual components. For example, on AIX64, complex floats should be passed in a pair of floating point registers, even though a complex float would fit in one 64-bit floating point register.

  The default value of this hook is `NULL`, which is treated as always false.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_BUILD_BUILTIN_VA_LIST `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns a type node for `va_list` for the target. The default version of the hook returns `void*`.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_ENUM_VA_LIST_P `(int idx, const char **pname, tree *ptree)` ¶

  This target hook is used in function `c_common_nodes_and_builtins` to iterate through the target specific builtin types for va_list. The variable idx is used as iterator. pname has to be a pointer to a `const char *` and ptree a pointer to a `tree` typed variable. The arguments pname and ptree are used to store the result of this macro and are set to the name of the va_list builtin type and its internal type. If the return value of this macro is zero, then there is no more element. Otherwise the IDX should be increased for the next call of this macro to iterate through all types.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_FN_ABI_VA_LIST `(tree fndecl)` ¶

  This hook returns the va_list type of the calling convention specified by fndecl. The default version of this hook returns `va_list_type_node`.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_CANONICAL_VA_LIST_TYPE `(tree type)` ¶

  This hook returns the va_list type of the calling convention specified by the type of type. If type is not a valid va_list type, it returns `NULL_TREE`.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_GIMPLIFY_VA_ARG_EXPR `(tree valist, tree type, gimple_seq *pre_p, gimple_seq *post_p)` ¶

  This hook performs target-specific gimplification of `VA_ARG_EXPR`. The first two parameters correspond to the arguments to `va_arg`; the latter two are as in `gimplify.cc:gimplify_expr`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VALID_POINTER_MODE `(scalar_int_mode mode)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero if the port can handle pointers with machine mode mode. The default version of this hook returns true for both `ptr_mode` and `Pmode`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_REF_MAY_ALIAS_ERRNO `(ao_ref *ref)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero if the memory reference ref may alias with the system C library errno location. The default version of this hook assumes the system C library errno location is either a declaration of type int or accessed by dereferencing a pointer to int.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_TRANSLATE_MODE_ATTRIBUTE `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  Define this hook if during mode attribute processing, the port should translate machine_mode mode to another mode. For example, rs6000’s `KFmode`, when it is the same as `TFmode`.

  The default version of the hook returns that mode that was passed in.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCALAR_MODE_SUPPORTED_P `(scalar_mode mode)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero if the port is prepared to handle insns involving scalar mode mode. For a scalar mode to be considered supported, all the basic arithmetic and comparisons must work.

  The default version of this hook returns true for any mode required to handle the basic C types (as defined by the port). Included here are the double-word arithmetic supported by the code in `optabs.cc`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VECTOR_MODE_SUPPORTED_P `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero if the current target is prepared to handle insns involving vector mode mode. At the very least, it must have move patterns for this mode.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VECTOR_MODE_SUPPORTED_ANY_TARGET_P `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero if the port is prepared to handle insns involving vector mode mode in any target configuration. Returning true means that the mode can be used as the ‘`TYPE_MODE`’ for vector types.

  The default version of this hook returns true. The final mode assigned to ‘`TYPE_MODE`’ will also be checked against `TARGET_VECTOR_MODE_SUPPORTED_P` to take target configuration into account.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_COMPATIBLE_VECTOR_TYPES_P `(const_tree type1, const_tree type2)` ¶

  Return true if there is no target-specific reason for treating vector types type1 and type2 as distinct types. The caller has already checked for target-independent reasons, meaning that the types are known to have the same mode, to have the same number of elements, and to have what the caller considers to be compatible element types.

  The main reason for defining this hook is to reject pairs of types that are handled differently by the target’s calling convention. For example, when a new N-bit vector architecture is added to a target, the target may want to handle normal N-bit `VECTOR_TYPE` arguments and return values in the same way as before, to maintain backwards compatibility. However, it may also provide new, architecture-specific `VECTOR_TYPE`s that are passed and returned in a more efficient way. It is then important to maintain a distinction between the “normal” `VECTOR_TYPE`s and the new architecture-specific ones.

  The default implementation returns true, which is correct for most targets.

Target Hook: `opt_machine_mode` TARGET_ARRAY_MODE `(machine_mode mode, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT nelems)` ¶

  Return the mode that GCC should use for an array that has nelems elements, with each element having mode mode. Return no mode if the target has no special requirements. In the latter case, GCC looks for an integer mode of the appropriate size if available and uses BLKmode otherwise. Usually the search for the integer mode is limited to `MAX_FIXED_MODE_SIZE`, but the `TARGET_ARRAY_MODE_SUPPORTED_P` hook allows a larger mode to be used in specific cases.

  The main use of this hook is to specify that an array of vectors should also have a vector mode. The default implementation returns no mode.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ARRAY_MODE_SUPPORTED_P `(machine_mode mode, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT nelems)` ¶

  Return true if GCC should try to use a scalar mode to store an array of nelems elements, given that each element has mode mode. Returning true here overrides the usual `MAX_FIXED_MODE` limit and allows GCC to use any defined integer mode.

  One use of this hook is to support vector load and store operations that operate on several homogeneous vectors. For example, ARM NEON has operations like:

      int8x8x3_t vld3_s8 (const int8_t *)

  where the return type is defined as:

      typedef struct int8x8x3_t
      {
        int8x8_t val[3];
      } int8x8x3_t;

  If this hook allows `val` to have a scalar mode, then `int8x8x3_t` can have the same mode. GCC can then store `int8x8x3_t`s in registers rather than forcing them onto the stack.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LIBGCC_FLOATING_MODE_SUPPORTED_P `(scalar_float_mode mode)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero if libgcc provides support for the floating-point mode mode, which is known to pass `TARGET_SCALAR_MODE_SUPPORTED_P`. The default version of this hook returns true for all of `SFmode`, `DFmode`, `XFmode` and `TFmode`, if such modes exist.

Target Hook: `opt_scalar_float_mode` TARGET_FLOATN_MODE `(int n, bool extended)` ¶

  Define this to return the machine mode to use for the type `_Floatn`, if extended is false, or the type `_Floatnx`, if extended is true. If such a type is not supported, return `opt_scalar_float_mode ()`. The default version of this hook returns `SFmode` for `_Float32`, `DFmode` for `_Float64` and `_Float32x` and `TFmode` for `_Float128`, if those modes exist and satisfy the requirements for those types and pass `TARGET_SCALAR_MODE_SUPPORTED_P` and `TARGET_LIBGCC_FLOATING_MODE_SUPPORTED_P`; for `_Float64x`, it returns the first of `XFmode` and `TFmode` that exists and satisfies the same requirements; for other types, it returns `opt_scalar_float_mode ()`. The hook is only called for values of n and extended that are valid according to ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015; that is, n is one of 32, 64, 128, or, if extended is false, 16 or greater than 128 and a multiple of 32.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FLOATN_BUILTIN_P `(int func)` ¶

  Define this to return true if the `_Floatn` and `_Floatnx` built-in functions should implicitly enable the built-in function without the `__builtin_` prefix in addition to the normal built-in function with the `__builtin_` prefix. The default is to only enable built-in functions without the `__builtin_` prefix for the GNU C langauge. In strict ANSI/ISO mode, the built-in function without the `__builtin_` prefix is not enabled. The argument `FUNC` is the `enum built_in_function` id of the function to be enabled.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES_FOR_MODE_P `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero for machine modes for which the port has small register classes. If this target hook returns nonzero for a given mode, the compiler will try to minimize the lifetime of registers in mode. The hook may be called with `VOIDmode` as argument. In this case, the hook is expected to return nonzero if it returns nonzero for any mode.

  On some machines, it is risky to let hard registers live across arbitrary insns. Typically, these machines have instructions that require values to be in specific registers (like an accumulator), and reload will fail if the required hard register is used for another purpose across such an insn.

  Passes before reload do not know which hard registers will be used in an instruction, but the machine modes of the registers set or used in the instruction are already known. And for some machines, register classes are small for, say, integer registers but not for floating point registers. For example, the AMD x86-64 architecture requires specific registers for the legacy x86 integer instructions, but there are many SSE registers for floating point operations. On such targets, a good strategy may be to return nonzero from this hook for `INTEGRAL_MODE_P` machine modes but zero for the SSE register classes.

  The default version of this hook returns false for any mode. It is always safe to redefine this hook to return with a nonzero value. But if you unnecessarily define it, you will reduce the amount of optimizations that can be performed in some cases. If you do not define this hook to return a nonzero value when it is required, the compiler will run out of spill registers and print a fatal error message.

#### 18.9.8 How Scalar Function Values Are Returned ¶

This section discusses the macros that control returning scalars as values—values that can fit in registers.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE `(const_tree ret_type, const_tree fn_decl_or_type, bool outgoing)` ¶

  Define this to return an RTX representing the place where a function returns or receives a value of data type ret_type, a tree node representing a data type. fn_decl_or_type is a tree node representing `FUNCTION_DECL` or `FUNCTION_TYPE` of a function being called. If outgoing is false, the hook should compute the register in which the caller will see the return value. Otherwise, the hook should return an RTX representing the place where a function returns a value.

  On many machines, only `TYPE_MODE (ret_type)` is relevant. (Actually, on most machines, scalar values are returned in the same place regardless of mode.) The value of the expression is usually a `reg` RTX for the hard register where the return value is stored. The value can also be a `parallel` RTX, if the return value is in multiple places. See `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` for an explanation of the `parallel` form. Note that the callee will populate every location specified in the `parallel`, but if the first element of the `parallel` contains the whole return value, callers will use that element as the canonical location and ignore the others. The m68k port uses this type of `parallel` to return pointers in both ‘`%a0`’ (the canonical location) and ‘`%d0`’.

  If `TARGET_PROMOTE_FUNCTION_RETURN` returns true, you must apply the same promotion rules specified in `PROMOTE_MODE` if valtype is a scalar type.

  If the precise function being called is known, func is a tree node (`FUNCTION_DECL`) for it; otherwise, func is a null pointer. This makes it possible to use a different value-returning convention for specific functions when all their calls are known.

  Some target machines have “register windows” so that the register in which a function returns its value is not the same as the one in which the caller sees the value. For such machines, you should return different RTX depending on outgoing.

  `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE` is not used for return values with aggregate data types, because these are returned in another way. See `TARGET_STRUCT_VALUE_RTX` and related macros, below.

Macro: FUNCTION_VALUE (valtype, func) ¶

  This macro has been deprecated. Use `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE` for a new target instead.

Macro: LIBCALL_VALUE (mode) ¶

  A C expression to create an RTX representing the place where a library function returns a value of mode mode.

  Note that “library function” in this context means a compiler support routine, used to perform arithmetic, whose name is known specially by the compiler and was not mentioned in the C code being compiled.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_LIBCALL_VALUE `(machine_mode mode, const_rtx fun)` ¶

  Define this hook if the back-end needs to know the name of the libcall function in order to determine where the result should be returned.

  The mode of the result is given by mode and the name of the called library function is given by fun. The hook should return an RTX representing the place where the library function result will be returned.

  If this hook is not defined, then LIBCALL_VALUE will be used.

Macro: FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P (regno) ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if regno is the number of a hard register in which the values of called function may come back.

  A register whose use for returning values is limited to serving as the second of a pair (for a value of type `double`, say) need not be recognized by this macro. So for most machines, this definition suffices:

      #define FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P(N) ((N) == 0)

  If the machine has register windows, so that the caller and the called function use different registers for the return value, this macro should recognize only the caller’s register numbers.

  This macro has been deprecated. Use `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P` for a new target instead.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P `(const unsigned int regno)` ¶

  A target hook that return `true` if regno is the number of a hard register in which the values of called function may come back.

  A register whose use for returning values is limited to serving as the second of a pair (for a value of type `double`, say) need not be recognized by this target hook.

  If the machine has register windows, so that the caller and the called function use different registers for the return value, this target hook should recognize only the caller’s register numbers.

  If this hook is not defined, then FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P will be used.

Macro: APPLY_RESULT_SIZE ¶

  Define this macro if ‘`untyped_call`’ and ‘`untyped_return`’ need more space than is implied by `FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P` for saving and restoring an arbitrary return value.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_OMIT_STRUCT_RETURN_REG ¶

  Normally, when a function returns a structure by memory, the address is passed as an invisible pointer argument, but the compiler also arranges to return the address from the function like it would a normal pointer return value. Define this to true if that behavior is undesirable on your target.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_RETURN_IN_MSB `(const_tree type)` ¶

  This hook should return true if values of type type are returned at the most significant end of a register (in other words, if they are padded at the least significant end). You can assume that type is returned in a register; the caller is required to check this.

  Note that the register provided by `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE` must be able to hold the complete return value. For example, if a 1-, 2- or 3-byte structure is returned at the most significant end of a 4-byte register, `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE` should provide an `SImode` rtx.

#### 18.9.9 How Large Values Are Returned ¶

When a function value’s mode is `BLKmode` (and in some other cases), the value is not returned according to `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE` (see How Scalar Function Values Are Returned). Instead, the caller passes the address of a block of memory in which the value should be stored. This address is called the structure value address.

This section describes how to control returning structure values in memory.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_RETURN_IN_MEMORY `(const_tree type, const_tree fntype)` ¶

  This target hook should return a nonzero value to say to return the function value in memory, just as large structures are always returned. Here type will be the data type of the value, and fntype will be the type of the function doing the returning, or `NULL` for libcalls.

  Note that values of mode `BLKmode` must be explicitly handled by this function. Also, the option `-fpcc-struct-return` takes effect regardless of this macro. On most systems, it is possible to leave the hook undefined; this causes a default definition to be used, whose value is the constant 1 for `BLKmode` values, and 0 otherwise.

  Do not use this hook to indicate that structures and unions should always be returned in memory. You should instead use `DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN` to indicate this.

Macro: DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN ¶

  Define this macro to be 1 if all structure and union return values must be in memory. Since this results in slower code, this should be defined only if needed for compatibility with other compilers or with an ABI. If you define this macro to be 0, then the conventions used for structure and union return values are decided by the `TARGET_RETURN_IN_MEMORY` target hook.

  If not defined, this defaults to the value 1.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_STRUCT_VALUE_RTX `(tree fndecl, int incoming)` ¶

  This target hook should return the location of the structure value address (normally a `mem` or `reg`), or 0 if the address is passed as an “invisible” first argument. Note that fndecl may be `NULL`, for libcalls. You do not need to define this target hook if the address is always passed as an “invisible” first argument.

  On some architectures the place where the structure value address is found by the called function is not the same place that the caller put it. This can be due to register windows, or it could be because the function prologue moves it to a different place. incoming is `1` or `2` when the location is needed in the context of the called function, and `0` in the context of the caller.

  If incoming is nonzero and the address is to be found on the stack, return a `mem` which refers to the frame pointer. If incoming is `2`, the result is being used to fetch the structure value address at the beginning of a function. If you need to emit adjusting code, you should do it at this point.

Macro: PCC_STATIC_STRUCT_RETURN ¶

  Define this macro if the usual system convention on the target machine for returning structures and unions is for the called function to return the address of a static variable containing the value.

  Do not define this if the usual system convention is for the caller to pass an address to the subroutine.

  This macro has effect in `-fpcc-struct-return` mode, but it does nothing when you use `-freg-struct-return` mode.

Target Hook: `fixed_size_mode` TARGET_GET_RAW_RESULT_MODE `(int regno)` ¶

  This target hook returns the mode to be used when accessing raw return registers in `__builtin_return`. Define this macro if the value in reg_raw_mode is not correct. Use `VOIDmode` if a register should be ignored for `__builtin_return` purposes.

Target Hook: `fixed_size_mode` TARGET_GET_RAW_ARG_MODE `(int regno)` ¶

  This target hook returns the mode to be used when accessing raw argument registers in `__builtin_apply_args`. Define this macro if the value in reg_raw_mode is not correct. Use `VOIDmode` if a register should be ignored for `__builtin_apply_args` purposes.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_EMPTY_RECORD_P `(const_tree type)` ¶

  This target hook returns true if the type is an empty record. The default is to return `false`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_WARN_PARAMETER_PASSING_ABI `(cumulative_args_t ca, tree type)` ¶

  This target hook warns about the change in empty class parameter passing ABI.

#### 18.9.10 Caller-Saves Register Allocation ¶

If you enable it, GCC can save registers around function calls. This makes it possible to use call-clobbered registers to hold variables that must live across calls.

Macro: HARD_REGNO_CALLER_SAVE_MODE (regno, nregs) ¶

  A C expression specifying which mode is required for saving nregs of a pseudo-register in call-clobbered hard register regno. If regno is unsuitable for caller save, `VOIDmode` should be returned. For most machines this macro need not be defined since GCC will select the smallest suitable mode.

#### 18.9.11 Function Entry and Exit ¶

This section describes the macros that output function entry (prologue) and exit (epilogue) code.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_PRINT_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY `(FILE *file, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT patch_area_size, bool record_p)` ¶

  Generate a patchable area at the function start, consisting of patch_area_size NOP instructions. If the target supports named sections and if record_p is true, insert a pointer to the current location in the table of patchable functions. The default implementation of the hook places the table of pointers in the special section named `__patchable_function_entries`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE `(FILE *file)` ¶

  If defined, a function that outputs the assembler code for entry to a function. The prologue is responsible for setting up the stack frame, initializing the frame pointer register, saving registers that must be saved, and allocating size additional bytes of storage for the local variables. file is a stdio stream to which the assembler code should be output.

  The label for the beginning of the function need not be output by this macro. That has already been done when the macro is run.

  To determine which registers to save, the macro can refer to the array `regs_ever_live`: element r is nonzero if hard register r is used anywhere within the function. This implies the function prologue should save register r, provided it is not one of the call-used registers. (`TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` must likewise use `regs_ever_live`.)

  On machines that have “register windows”, the function entry code does not save on the stack the registers that are in the windows, even if they are supposed to be preserved by function calls; instead it takes appropriate steps to “push” the register stack, if any non-call-used registers are used in the function.

  On machines where functions may or may not have frame-pointers, the function entry code must vary accordingly; it must set up the frame pointer if one is wanted, and not otherwise. To determine whether a frame pointer is in wanted, the macro can refer to the variable `frame_pointer_needed`. The variable’s value will be 1 at run time in a function that needs a frame pointer. See Eliminating Frame Pointer and Arg Pointer.

  The function entry code is responsible for allocating any stack space required for the function. This stack space consists of the regions listed below. In most cases, these regions are allocated in the order listed, with the last listed region closest to the top of the stack (the lowest address if `STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD` is defined, and the highest address if it is not defined). You can use a different order for a machine if doing so is more convenient or required for compatibility reasons. Except in cases where required by standard or by a debugger, there is no reason why the stack layout used by GCC need agree with that used by other compilers for a machine.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_END_PROLOGUE `(FILE *file)` ¶

  If defined, a function that outputs assembler code at the end of a prologue. This should be used when the function prologue is being emitted as RTL, and you have some extra assembler that needs to be emitted. See prologue instruction pattern.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_BEGIN_EPILOGUE `(FILE *file)` ¶

  If defined, a function that outputs assembler code at the start of an epilogue. This should be used when the function epilogue is being emitted as RTL, and you have some extra assembler that needs to be emitted. See epilogue instruction pattern.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE `(FILE *file)` ¶

  If defined, a function that outputs the assembler code for exit from a function. The epilogue is responsible for restoring the saved registers and stack pointer to their values when the function was called, and returning control to the caller. This macro takes the same argument as the macro `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE`, and the registers to restore are determined from `regs_ever_live` and `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` in the same way.

  On some machines, there is a single instruction that does all the work of returning from the function. On these machines, give that instruction the name ‘`return`’ and do not define the macro `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` at all.

  Do not define a pattern named ‘`return`’ if you want the `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` to be used. If you want the target switches to control whether return instructions or epilogues are used, define a ‘`return`’ pattern with a validity condition that tests the target switches appropriately. If the ‘`return`’ pattern’s validity condition is false, epilogues will be used.

  On machines where functions may or may not have frame-pointers, the function exit code must vary accordingly. Sometimes the code for these two cases is completely different. To determine whether a frame pointer is wanted, the macro can refer to the variable `frame_pointer_needed`. The variable’s value will be 1 when compiling a function that needs a frame pointer.

  Normally, `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE` and `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` must treat leaf functions specially. The C variable `current_function_is_leaf` is nonzero for such a function. See Handling Leaf Functions.

  On some machines, some functions pop their arguments on exit while others leave that for the caller to do. For example, the 68020 when given `-mrtd` pops arguments in functions that take a fixed number of arguments.

  Your definition of the macro `RETURN_POPS_ARGS` decides which functions pop their own arguments. `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` needs to know what was decided. The number of bytes of the current function’s arguments that this function should pop is available in `crtl->args.pops_args`. See How Scalar Function Values Are Returned.

- A region of `crtl->args.pretend_args_size` bytes of uninitialized space just underneath the first argument arriving on the stack. (This may not be at the very start of the allocated stack region if the calling sequence has pushed anything else since pushing the stack arguments. But usually, on such machines, nothing else has been pushed yet, because the function prologue itself does all the pushing.) This region is used on machines where an argument may be passed partly in registers and partly in memory, and, in some cases to support the features in `<stdarg.h>`.
- An area of memory used to save certain registers used by the function. The size of this area, which may also include space for such things as the return address and pointers to previous stack frames, is machine-specific and usually depends on which registers have been used in the function. Machines with register windows often do not require a save area.
- A region of at least size bytes, possibly rounded up to an allocation boundary, to contain the local variables of the function. On some machines, this region and the save area may occur in the opposite order, with the save area closer to the top of the stack.
- Optionally, when `ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS` is defined, a region of `crtl->outgoing_args_size` bytes to be used for outgoing argument lists of the function. See Passing Function Arguments on the Stack.

Macro: EXIT_IGNORE_STACK ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression that is nonzero if the return instruction or the function epilogue ignores the value of the stack pointer; in other words, if it is safe to delete an instruction to adjust the stack pointer before a return from the function. The default is 0.

  Note that this macro’s value is relevant only for functions for which frame pointers are maintained. It is never safe to delete a final stack adjustment in a function that has no frame pointer, and the compiler knows this regardless of `EXIT_IGNORE_STACK`.

Macro: EPILOGUE_USES (regno) ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression that is nonzero for registers that are used by the epilogue or the ‘`return`’ pattern. The stack and frame pointer registers are already assumed to be used as needed.

Macro: EH_USES (regno) ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression that is nonzero for registers that are used by the exception handling mechanism, and so should be considered live on entry to an exception edge.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_MI_THUNK `(FILE *file, tree thunk_fndecl, HOST_WIDE_INT delta, HOST_WIDE_INT vcall_offset, tree function)` ¶

  A function that outputs the assembler code for a thunk function, used to implement C++ virtual function calls with multiple inheritance. The thunk acts as a wrapper around a virtual function, adjusting the implicit object parameter before handing control off to the real function.

  First, emit code to add the integer delta to the location that contains the incoming first argument. Assume that this argument contains a pointer, and is the one used to pass the `this` pointer in C++. This is the incoming argument before the function prologue, e.g. ‘`%o0`’ on a sparc. The addition must preserve the values of all other incoming arguments.

  Then, if vcall_offset is nonzero, an additional adjustment should be made after adding `delta`. In particular, if p is the adjusted pointer, the following adjustment should be made:

      p += (*((ptrdiff_t **)p))[vcall_offset/sizeof(ptrdiff_t)]

  After the additions, emit code to jump to function, which is a `FUNCTION_DECL`. This is a direct pure jump, not a call, and does not touch the return address. Hence returning from FUNCTION will return to whoever called the current ‘`thunk`’.

  The effect must be as if function had been called directly with the adjusted first argument. This macro is responsible for emitting all of the code for a thunk function; `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE` and `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` are not invoked.

  The thunk_fndecl is redundant. (delta and function have already been extracted from it.) It might possibly be useful on some targets, but probably not.

  If you do not define this macro, the target-independent code in the C++ front end will generate a less efficient heavyweight thunk that calls function instead of jumping to it. The generic approach does not support varargs.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_CAN_OUTPUT_MI_THUNK `(const_tree thunk_fndecl, HOST_WIDE_INT delta, HOST_WIDE_INT vcall_offset, const_tree function)` ¶

  A function that returns true if TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_MI_THUNK would be able to output the assembler code for the thunk function specified by the arguments it is passed, and false otherwise. In the latter case, the generic approach will be used by the C++ front end, with the limitations previously exposed.

#### 18.9.12 Generating Code for Profiling ¶

These macros will help you generate code for profiling.

Macro: FUNCTION_PROFILER (file, labelno) ¶

  A C statement or compound statement to output to file some assembler code to call the profiling subroutine `mcount`.

  The details of how `mcount` expects to be called are determined by your operating system environment, not by GCC. To figure them out, compile a small program for profiling using the system’s installed C compiler and look at the assembler code that results.

  Older implementations of `mcount` expect the address of a counter variable to be loaded into some register. The name of this variable is ‘`LP`’ followed by the number labelno, so you would generate the name using ‘`LP%d`’ in a `fprintf`.

Macro: PROFILE_HOOK ¶

  A C statement or compound statement to output to file some assembly code to call the profiling subroutine `mcount` even the target does not support profiling.

Macro: NO_PROFILE_COUNTERS ¶

  Define this macro to be an expression with a nonzero value if the `mcount` subroutine on your system does not need a counter variable allocated for each function. This is true for almost all modern implementations. If you define this macro, you must not use the labelno argument to `FUNCTION_PROFILER`.

Macro: PROFILE_BEFORE_PROLOGUE ¶

  Define this macro if the code for function profiling should come before the function prologue. Normally, the profiling code comes after.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_KEEP_LEAF_WHEN_PROFILED `(void)` ¶

  This target hook returns true if the target wants the leaf flag for the current function to stay true even if it calls mcount. This might make sense for targets using the leaf flag only to determine whether a stack frame needs to be generated or not and for which the call to mcount is generated before the function prologue.

#### 18.9.13 Permitting tail calls ¶

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FUNCTION_OK_FOR_SIBCALL `(tree decl, tree exp)` ¶

  True if it is OK to do sibling call optimization for the specified call expression exp. decl will be the called function, or `NULL` if this is an indirect call.

  It is not uncommon for limitations of calling conventions to prevent tail calls to functions outside the current unit of translation, or during PIC compilation. The hook is used to enforce these restrictions, as the `sibcall` md pattern cannot fail, or fall over to a “normal” call. The criteria for successful sibling call optimization may vary greatly between different architectures.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_EXTRA_LIVE_ON_ENTRY `(bitmap regs)` ¶

  Add any hard registers to regs that are live on entry to the function. This hook only needs to be defined to provide registers that cannot be found by examination of FUNCTION_ARG_REGNO_P, the callee saved registers, STATIC_CHAIN_INCOMING_REGNUM, STATIC_CHAIN_REGNUM, TARGET_STRUCT_VALUE_RTX, FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM, EH_USES, FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM, ARG_POINTER_REGNUM, and the PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SET_UP_BY_PROLOGUE `(struct hard_reg_set_container *)` ¶

  This hook should add additional registers that are computed by the prologue to the hard regset for shrink-wrapping optimization purposes.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_WARN_FUNC_RETURN `(tree)` ¶

  True if a function’s return statements should be checked for matching the function’s return type. This includes checking for falling off the end of a non-void function. Return false if no such check should be made.

#### 18.9.14 Shrink-wrapping separate components ¶

The prologue may perform a variety of target dependent tasks such as saving callee-saved registers, saving the return address, aligning the stack, creating a stack frame, initializing the PIC register, setting up the static chain, etc.

On some targets some of these tasks may be independent of others and thus may be shrink-wrapped separately. These independent tasks are referred to as components and are handled generically by the target independent parts of GCC.

Using the following hooks those prologue or epilogue components can be shrink-wrapped separately, so that the initialization (and possibly teardown) those components do is not done as frequently on execution paths where this would unnecessary.

What exactly those components are is up to the target code; the generic code treats them abstractly, as a bit in an `sbitmap`. These `sbitmap`s are allocated by the `shrink_wrap.get_separate_components` and `shrink_wrap.components_for_bb` hooks, and deallocated by the generic code.

Target Hook: `sbitmap` TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_GET_SEPARATE_COMPONENTS `(void)` ¶

  This hook should return an `sbitmap` with the bits set for those components that can be separately shrink-wrapped in the current function. Return `NULL` if the current function should not get any separate shrink-wrapping. Don’t define this hook if it would always return `NULL`. If it is defined, the other hooks in this group have to be defined as well.

Target Hook: `sbitmap` TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_COMPONENTS_FOR_BB `(basic_block)` ¶

  This hook should return an `sbitmap` with the bits set for those components where either the prologue component has to be executed before the `basic_block`, or the epilogue component after it, or both.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_DISQUALIFY_COMPONENTS `(sbitmap components, edge e, sbitmap edge_components, bool is_prologue)` ¶

  This hook should clear the bits in the components bitmap for those components in edge_components that the target cannot handle on edge e, where is_prologue says if this is for a prologue or an epilogue instead.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_EMIT_PROLOGUE_COMPONENTS `(sbitmap)` ¶

  Emit prologue insns for the components indicated by the parameter.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_EMIT_EPILOGUE_COMPONENTS `(sbitmap)` ¶

  Emit epilogue insns for the components indicated by the parameter.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_SET_HANDLED_COMPONENTS `(sbitmap)` ¶

  Mark the components in the parameter as handled, so that the `prologue` and `epilogue` named patterns know to ignore those components. The target code should not hang on to the `sbitmap`, it will be deleted after this call.

#### 18.9.15 Stack smashing protection ¶

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_STACK_PROTECT_GUARD `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns a `DECL` node for the external variable to use for the stack protection guard. This variable is initialized by the runtime to some random value and is used to initialize the guard value that is placed at the top of the local stack frame. The type of this variable must be `ptr_type_node`.

  The default version of this hook creates a variable called ‘`__stack_chk_guard`’, which is normally defined in `libgcc2.c`.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_STACK_PROTECT_FAIL `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns a `CALL_EXPR` that alerts the runtime that the stack protect guard variable has been modified. This expression should involve a call to a `noreturn` function.

  The default version of this hook invokes a function called ‘`__stack_chk_fail`’, taking no arguments. This function is normally defined in `libgcc2.c`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_STACK_PROTECT_RUNTIME_ENABLED_P `(void)` ¶

  Returns true if the target wants GCC’s default stack protect runtime support, otherwise return false. The default implementation always returns true.

Common Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SUPPORTS_SPLIT_STACK `(bool report, struct gcc_options *opts)` ¶

  Whether this target supports splitting the stack when the options described in opts have been passed. This is called after options have been parsed, so the target may reject splitting the stack in some configurations. The default version of this hook returns false. If report is true, this function may issue a warning or error; if report is false, it must simply return a value

Common Target Hook: `vec<const char *>` TARGET_GET_VALID_OPTION_VALUES `(int option_code, const char *prefix)` ¶

  The hook is used for options that have a non-trivial list of possible option values. OPTION_CODE is option code of opt_code enum type. PREFIX is used for bash completion and allows an implementation to return more specific completion based on the prefix. All string values should be allocated from heap memory and consumers should release them. The result will be pruned to cases with PREFIX if not NULL.

#### 18.9.16 Miscellaneous register hooks ¶

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CALL_FUSAGE_CONTAINS_NON_CALLEE_CLOBBERS ¶

  Set to true if each call that binds to a local definition explicitly clobbers or sets all non-fixed registers modified by performing the call. That is, by the call pattern itself, or by code that might be inserted by the linker (e.g. stubs, veneers, branch islands), but not including those modifiable by the callee. The affected registers may be mentioned explicitly in the call pattern, or included as clobbers in CALL_INSN_FUNCTION_USAGE. The default version of this hook is set to false. The purpose of this hook is to enable the fipa-ra optimization.

### 18.10 Implementing the Varargs Macros ¶

GCC comes with an implementation of `<varargs.h>` and `<stdarg.h>` that work without change on machines that pass arguments on the stack. Other machines require their own implementations of varargs, and the two machine independent header files must have conditionals to include it.

ISO `<stdarg.h>` differs from traditional `<varargs.h>` mainly in the calling convention for `va_start`. The traditional implementation takes just one argument, which is the variable in which to store the argument pointer. The ISO implementation of `va_start` takes an additional second argument. The user is supposed to write the last named argument of the function here.

However, `va_start` should not use this argument. The way to find the end of the named arguments is with the built-in functions described below.

Macro: __builtin_saveregs () ¶

  Use this built-in function to save the argument registers in memory so that the varargs mechanism can access them. Both ISO and traditional versions of `va_start` must use `__builtin_saveregs`, unless you use `TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS` (see below) instead.

  On some machines, `__builtin_saveregs` is open-coded under the control of the target hook `TARGET_EXPAND_BUILTIN_SAVEREGS`. On other machines, it calls a routine written in assembler language, found in `libgcc2.c`.

  Code generated for the call to `__builtin_saveregs` appears at the beginning of the function, as opposed to where the call to `__builtin_saveregs` is written, regardless of what the code is. This is because the registers must be saved before the function starts to use them for its own purposes.

Macro: __builtin_next_arg (lastarg) ¶

  This builtin returns the address of the first anonymous stack argument, as type `void *`. If `ARGS_GROW_DOWNWARD`, it returns the address of the location above the first anonymous stack argument. Use it in `va_start` to initialize the pointer for fetching arguments from the stack. Also use it in `va_start` to verify that the second parameter lastarg is the last named argument of the current function.

Macro: __builtin_classify_type (object) ¶

  Since each machine has its own conventions for which data types are passed in which kind of register, your implementation of `va_arg` has to embody these conventions. The easiest way to categorize the specified data type is to use `__builtin_classify_type` together with `sizeof` and `__alignof__`.

  `__builtin_classify_type` ignores the value of object, considering only its data type. It returns an integer describing what kind of type that is—integer, floating, pointer, structure, and so on.

  The file `typeclass.h` defines an enumeration that you can use to interpret the values of `__builtin_classify_type`.

These machine description macros help implement varargs:

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_EXPAND_BUILTIN_SAVEREGS `(void)` ¶

  If defined, this hook produces the machine-specific code for a call to `__builtin_saveregs`. This code will be moved to the very beginning of the function, before any parameter access are made. The return value of this function should be an RTX that contains the value to use as the return of `__builtin_saveregs`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS `(cumulative_args_t args_so_far, const function_arg_info &arg, int *pretend_args_size, int second_time)` ¶

  This target hook offers an alternative to using `__builtin_saveregs` and defining the hook `TARGET_EXPAND_BUILTIN_SAVEREGS`. Use it to store the anonymous register arguments into the stack so that all the arguments appear to have been passed consecutively on the stack. Once this is done, you can use the standard implementation of varargs that works for machines that pass all their arguments on the stack.

  The argument args_so_far points to the `CUMULATIVE_ARGS` data structure, containing the values that are obtained after processing the named arguments. The argument arg describes the last of these named arguments. The argument arg should not be used if the function type satisfies `TYPE_NO_NAMED_ARGS_STDARG_P`, since in that case there are no named arguments and all arguments are accessed with `va_arg`.

  The target hook should do two things: first, push onto the stack all the argument registers not used for the named arguments, and second, store the size of the data thus pushed into the `int`-valued variable pointed to by pretend_args_size. The value that you store here will serve as additional offset for setting up the stack frame.

  Because you must generate code to push the anonymous arguments at compile time without knowing their data types, `TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS` is only useful on machines that have just a single category of argument register and use it uniformly for all data types.

  If the argument second_time is nonzero, it means that the arguments of the function are being analyzed for the second time. This happens for an inline function, which is not actually compiled until the end of the source file. The hook `TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS` should not generate any instructions in this case.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_STRICT_ARGUMENT_NAMING `(cumulative_args_t ca)` ¶

  Define this hook to return `true` if the location where a function argument is passed depends on whether or not it is a named argument.

  This hook controls how the named argument to `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` is set for varargs and stdarg functions. If this hook returns `true`, the named argument is always true for named arguments, and false for unnamed arguments. If it returns `false`, but `TARGET_PRETEND_OUTGOING_VARARGS_NAMED` returns `true`, then all arguments are treated as named. Otherwise, all named arguments except the last are treated as named.

  You need not define this hook if it always returns `false`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_START_CALL_ARGS `(cumulative_args_t complete_args)` ¶

  This target hook is invoked while generating RTL for a function call, after the argument values have been computed, and after stack arguments have been initialized, but before register arguments have been moved into their ABI-defined hard register locations. It precedes calls to the related hooks `TARGET_CALL_ARGS` and `TARGET_END_CALL_ARGS`. The significance of this position in the call expansion is that:

  - No argument registers are live.
  - Although a call sequence can in general involve subcalls (such as using `memcpy` to copy large arguments), no such subcall will occur between the call to this hook and the generation of the main call instruction.

  The single argument complete_args is the state of the target function’s cumulative argument information after the final call to `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG`.

  The hook can be used for things like switching processor mode, in cases where different calls need different processor modes. Most ports do not need to implement anything for this hook.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_CALL_ARGS `(cumulative_args_t complete_args, rtx loc, tree type)` ¶

  While generating RTL for a function call, this target hook is invoked once for each argument passed to the function, either a register returned by `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` or a memory location. It is called just before the point where argument registers are stored.

  complete_args is the state of the target function’s cumulative argument information after the final call to `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG`. loc is the location of the argument. type is the type of the function being called, or `NULL_TREE` for libcalls.

  For functions without arguments, the hook is called once with `pc_rtx` passed instead of an argument register.

  This functionality can be used to perform special setup of call argument registers, if a target needs it. Most ports do not need to implement anything for this hook.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_END_CALL_ARGS `(cumulative_args_t complete_args)` ¶

  This target hook is invoked while generating RTL for a function call, just after the point where the return reg is copied into a pseudo. It signals that all the call argument and return registers for the just emitted call are now no longer in use. complete_args is the state of the target function’s cumulative argument information after the final call to `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG`.

  Most ports do not need to implement anything for this hook.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_PRETEND_OUTGOING_VARARGS_NAMED `(cumulative_args_t ca)` ¶

  If you need to conditionally change ABIs so that one works with `TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS`, but the other works like neither `TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS` nor `TARGET_STRICT_ARGUMENT_NAMING` was defined, then define this hook to return `true` if `TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS` is used, `false` otherwise. Otherwise, you should not define this hook.

### 18.11 Support for Nested Functions ¶

Taking the address of a nested function requires special compiler handling to ensure that the static chain register is loaded when the function is invoked via an indirect call.

GCC has traditionally supported nested functions by creating an executable trampoline at run time when the address of a nested function is taken. This is a small piece of code which normally resides on the stack, in the stack frame of the containing function. The trampoline loads the static chain register and then jumps to the real address of the nested function.

The use of trampolines requires an executable stack, which is a security risk. To avoid this problem, GCC also supports another strategy: using descriptors for nested functions. Under this model, taking the address of a nested function results in a pointer to a non-executable function descriptor object. Initializing the static chain from the descriptor is handled at indirect call sites.

On some targets, including HPPA and IA-64, function descriptors may be mandated by the ABI or be otherwise handled in a target-specific way by the back end in its code generation strategy for indirect calls. GCC also provides its own generic descriptor implementation to support the `-fno-trampolines` option. In this case runtime detection of function descriptors at indirect call sites relies on descriptor pointers being tagged with a bit that is never set in bare function addresses. Since GCC’s generic function descriptors are not ABI-compliant, this option is typically used only on a per-language basis (notably by Ada) or when it can otherwise be applied to the whole program.

For languages other than Ada, the `-ftrampolines` and `-fno-trampolines` options currently have no effect, and trampolines are always generated on platforms that need them for nested functions.

Define the following hook if your backend either implements ABI-specified descriptor support, or can use GCC’s generic descriptor implementation for nested functions.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_CUSTOM_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS ¶

  If the target can use GCC’s generic descriptor mechanism for nested functions, define this hook to a power of 2 representing an unused bit in function pointers which can be used to differentiate descriptors at run time. This value gives the number of bytes by which descriptor pointers are misaligned compared to function pointers. For example, on targets that require functions to be aligned to a 4-byte boundary, a value of either 1 or 2 is appropriate unless the architecture already reserves the bit for another purpose, such as on ARM.

  Define this hook to 0 if the target implements ABI support for function descriptors in its standard calling sequence, like for example HPPA or IA-64.

  Using descriptors for nested functions eliminates the need for trampolines that reside on the stack and require it to be made executable.

The following macros tell GCC how to generate code to allocate and initialize an executable trampoline. You can also use this interface if your back end needs to create ABI-specified non-executable descriptors; in this case the "trampoline" created is the descriptor containing data only.

The instructions in an executable trampoline must do two things: load a constant address into the static chain register, and jump to the real address of the nested function. On CISC machines such as the m68k, this requires two instructions, a move immediate and a jump. Then the two addresses exist in the trampoline as word-long immediate operands. On RISC machines, it is often necessary to load each address into a register in two parts. Then pieces of each address form separate immediate operands.

The code generated to initialize the trampoline must store the variable parts—the static chain value and the function address—into the immediate operands of the instructions. On a CISC machine, this is simply a matter of copying each address to a memory reference at the proper offset from the start of the trampoline. On a RISC machine, it may be necessary to take out pieces of the address and store them separately.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_TRAMPOLINE_TEMPLATE `(FILE *f)` ¶

  This hook is called by `assemble_trampoline_template` to output, on the stream f, assembler code for a block of data that contains the constant parts of a trampoline. This code should not include a label—the label is taken care of automatically.

  If you do not define this hook, it means no template is needed for the target. Do not define this hook on systems where the block move code to copy the trampoline into place would be larger than the code to generate it on the spot.

Macro: TRAMPOLINE_SECTION ¶

  Return the section into which the trampoline template is to be placed (see Dividing the Output into Sections (Texts, Data, …)). The default value is `readonly_data_section`.

Macro: TRAMPOLINE_SIZE ¶

  A C expression for the size in bytes of the trampoline, as an integer.

Macro: TRAMPOLINE_ALIGNMENT ¶

  Alignment required for trampolines, in bits.

  If you don’t define this macro, the value of `FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT` is used for aligning trampolines.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_TRAMPOLINE_INIT `(rtx m_tramp, tree fndecl, rtx static_chain)` ¶

  This hook is called to initialize a trampoline. m_tramp is an RTX for the memory block for the trampoline; fndecl is the `FUNCTION_DECL` for the nested function; static_chain is an RTX for the static chain value that should be passed to the function when it is called.

  If the target defines `TARGET_ASM_TRAMPOLINE_TEMPLATE`, then the first thing this hook should do is emit a block move into m_tramp from the memory block returned by `assemble_trampoline_template`. Note that the block move need only cover the constant parts of the trampoline. If the target isolates the variable parts of the trampoline to the end, not all `TRAMPOLINE_SIZE` bytes need be copied.

  If the target requires any other actions, such as flushing caches (possibly calling function maybe_emit_call_builtin___clear_cache) or enabling stack execution, these actions should be performed after initializing the trampoline proper.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_EMIT_CALL_BUILTIN___CLEAR_CACHE `(rtx begin, rtx end)` ¶

  On targets that do not define a `clear_cache` insn expander, but that define the `CLEAR_CACHE_INSN` macro, maybe_emit_call_builtin___clear_cache relies on this target hook to clear an address range in the instruction cache.

  The default implementation calls the `__clear_cache` builtin, taking the assembler name from the builtin declaration. Overriding definitions may call alternate functions, with alternate calling conventions, or emit alternate RTX to perform the job.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_TRAMPOLINE_ADJUST_ADDRESS `(rtx addr)` ¶

  This hook should perform any machine-specific adjustment in the address of the trampoline. Its argument contains the address of the memory block that was passed to `TARGET_TRAMPOLINE_INIT`. In case the address to be used for a function call should be different from the address at which the template was stored, the different address should be returned; otherwise addr should be returned unchanged. If this hook is not defined, addr will be used for function calls.

Implementing trampolines is difficult on many machines because they have separate instruction and data caches. Writing into a stack location fails to clear the memory in the instruction cache, so when the program jumps to that location, it executes the old contents.

Here are two possible solutions. One is to clear the relevant parts of the instruction cache whenever a trampoline is set up. The other is to make all trampolines identical, by having them jump to a standard subroutine. The former technique makes trampoline execution faster; the latter makes initialization faster.

To clear the instruction cache when a trampoline is initialized, define the following macro.

Macro: CLEAR_INSN_CACHE (beg, end) ¶

  If defined, expands to a C expression clearing the instruction cache in the specified interval. The definition of this macro would typically be a series of `asm` statements. Both beg and end are pointer expressions.

To use a standard subroutine, define the following macro. In addition, you must make sure that the instructions in a trampoline fill an entire cache line with identical instructions, or else ensure that the beginning of the trampoline code is always aligned at the same point in its cache line. Look in `m68k.h` as a guide.

Macro: TRANSFER_FROM_TRAMPOLINE ¶

  Define this macro if trampolines need a special subroutine to do their work. The macro should expand to a series of `asm` statements which will be compiled with GCC. They go in a library function named `__transfer_from_trampoline`.

  If you need to avoid executing the ordinary prologue code of a compiled C function when you jump to the subroutine, you can do so by placing a special label of your own in the assembler code. Use one `asm` statement to generate an assembler label, and another to make the label global. Then trampolines can use that label to jump directly to your special assembler code.

### 18.12 Implicit Calls to Library Routines ¶

Here is an explanation of implicit calls to library routines.

Macro: DECLARE_LIBRARY_RENAMES ¶

  This macro, if defined, should expand to a piece of C code that will get expanded when compiling functions for libgcc.a. It can be used to provide alternate names for GCC’s internal library functions if there are ABI-mandated names that the compiler should provide.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_INIT_LIBFUNCS `(void)` ¶

  This hook should declare additional library routines or rename existing ones, using the functions `set_optab_libfunc` and `init_one_libfunc` defined in `optabs.cc`. `init_optabs` calls this macro after initializing all the normal library routines.

  The default is to do nothing. Most ports don’t need to define this hook.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LIBFUNC_GNU_PREFIX ¶

  If false (the default), internal library routines start with two underscores. If set to true, these routines start with `__gnu_` instead. E.g., `__muldi3` changes to `__gnu_muldi3`. This currently only affects functions defined in `libgcc2.c`. If this is set to true, the `tm.h` file must also `#define LIBGCC2_GNU_PREFIX`.

Macro: FLOAT_LIB_COMPARE_RETURNS_BOOL (mode, comparison) ¶

  This macro should return `true` if the library routine that implements the floating point comparison operator comparison in mode mode will return a boolean, and false if it will return a tristate.

  GCC’s own floating point libraries return tristates from the comparison operators, so the default returns false always. Most ports don’t need to define this macro.

Macro: TARGET_LIB_INT_CMP_BIASED ¶

  This macro should evaluate to `true` if the integer comparison functions (like `__cmpdi2`) return 0 to indicate that the first operand is smaller than the second, 1 to indicate that they are equal, and 2 to indicate that the first operand is greater than the second. If this macro evaluates to `false` the comparison functions return −1, 0, and 1 instead of 0, 1, and 2. If the target uses the routines in `libgcc.a`, you do not need to define this macro.

Macro: TARGET_HAS_NO_HW_DIVIDE ¶

  This macro should be defined if the target has no hardware divide instructions. If this macro is defined, GCC will use an algorithm which make use of simple logical and arithmetic operations for 64-bit division. If the macro is not defined, GCC will use an algorithm which make use of a 64-bit by 32-bit divide primitive.

Macro: TARGET_EDOM ¶

  The value of `EDOM` on the target machine, as a C integer constant expression. If you don’t define this macro, GCC does not attempt to deposit the value of `EDOM` into `errno` directly. Look in `/usr/include/errno.h` to find the value of `EDOM` on your system.

  If you do not define `TARGET_EDOM`, then compiled code reports domain errors by calling the library function and letting it report the error. If mathematical functions on your system use `matherr` when there is an error, then you should leave `TARGET_EDOM` undefined so that `matherr` is used normally.

Macro: GEN_ERRNO_RTX ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression to create an rtl expression that refers to the global “variable” `errno`. (On certain systems, `errno` may not actually be a variable.) If you don’t define this macro, a reasonable default is used.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LIBC_HAS_FUNCTION `(enum function_class fn_class, tree type)` ¶

  This hook determines whether a function from a class of functions fn_class is present in the target C library. If type is NULL, the caller asks for support for all standard (float, double, long double) types. If type is non-NULL, the caller asks for support for a specific type.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LIBC_HAS_FAST_FUNCTION `(int fcode)` ¶

  This hook determines whether a function from a class of functions `(enum function_class)`fcode has a fast implementation.

Target Hook: `unsigned` TARGET_FORTIFY_SOURCE_DEFAULT_LEVEL `(void)` ¶

  This hook determines what value _FORTIFY_SOURCE will be set to when using the command-line option -fhardened.

Target Hook: `unsigned` TARGET_LIBM_FUNCTION_MAX_ERROR `(unsigned cfn, machine_mode mode, bool boundary_p)` ¶

  This hook determines expected maximum errors for math functions measured in ulps (units of the last place). 0 means 0.5ulps precision (correctly rounded). ~0U means unknown errors. The `combined_fn` cfn argument should identify just which math built-in function it is rather than its variant, mode the variant in terms of floating-point machine mode. The hook should also take into account `flag_rounding_math` whether it is maximum error just in default rounding mode, or in all possible rounding modes. boundary_p is `true` for maximum errors on intrinsic math boundaries of functions rather than errors inside of the usual result ranges of the functions. E.g. the sin/cos function finite result is in between -1.0 and 1.0 inclusive, with boundary_p true the function returns how many ulps below or above those boundaries result could be.

Macro: NEXT_OBJC_RUNTIME ¶

  Set this macro to 1 to use the "NeXT" Objective-C message sending conventions by default. This calling convention involves passing the object, the selector and the method arguments all at once to the method-lookup library function. This is the usual setting when targeting Darwin / macOS systems, which have the NeXT runtime installed.

  If the macro is set to 0, the "GNU" Objective-C message sending convention will be used by default. This convention passes just the object and the selector to the method-lookup function, which returns a pointer to the method.

  In either case, it remains possible to select code-generation for the alternate scheme, by means of compiler command line switches.

### 18.13 Addressing Modes ¶

This is about addressing modes.

Macro: HAVE_PRE_INCREMENT ¶
Macro: HAVE_PRE_DECREMENT ¶
Macro: HAVE_POST_INCREMENT ¶
Macro: HAVE_POST_DECREMENT ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if the machine supports pre-increment, pre-decrement, post-increment, or post-decrement addressing respectively.

Macro: HAVE_PRE_MODIFY_DISP ¶
Macro: HAVE_POST_MODIFY_DISP ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if the machine supports pre- or post-address side-effect generation involving constants other than the size of the memory operand.

Macro: HAVE_PRE_MODIFY_REG ¶
Macro: HAVE_POST_MODIFY_REG ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if the machine supports pre- or post-address side-effect generation involving a register displacement.

Macro: CONSTANT_ADDRESS_P (x) ¶

  A C expression that is 1 if the RTX x is a constant which is a valid address. On most machines the default definition of `(CONSTANT_P (x) && GET_CODE (x) != CONST_DOUBLE)` is acceptable, but a few machines are more restrictive as to which constant addresses are supported.

Macro: CONSTANT_P (x) ¶

  `CONSTANT_P`, which is defined by target-independent code, accepts integer-values expressions whose values are not explicitly known, such as `symbol_ref`, `label_ref`, and `high` expressions and `const` arithmetic expressions, in addition to `const_int` and `const_double` expressions.

Macro: MAX_REGS_PER_ADDRESS ¶

  A number, the maximum number of registers that can appear in a valid memory address. Note that it is up to you to specify a value equal to the maximum number that `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P` would ever accept.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P `(machine_mode mode, rtx x, bool strict, code_helper ch)` ¶

  A function that returns whether x (an RTX) is a legitimate memory address on the target machine for a memory operand of mode mode. If ch is not `ERROR_MARK`, it can be called from middle-end to determine if it is valid to use x as a memory operand for RTX insn which is generated for the given code_helper ch. For example, assuming the given ch is IFN_LEN_LOAD, on some target its underlying hardware instructions support fewer addressing modes than what are for the normal vector load and store, then with this ch target can know the actual use context and return more exact result.

  Legitimate addresses are defined in two variants: a strict variant and a non-strict one. The strict parameter chooses which variant is desired by the caller.

  The strict variant is used in the reload pass. It must be defined so that any pseudo-register that has not been allocated a hard register is considered a memory reference. This is because in contexts where some kind of register is required, a pseudo-register with no hard register must be rejected. For non-hard registers, the strict variant should look up the `reg_renumber` array; it should then proceed using the hard register number in the array, or treat the pseudo as a memory reference if the array holds `-1`.

  The non-strict variant is used in other passes. It must be defined to accept all pseudo-registers in every context where some kind of register is required.

  Normally, constant addresses which are the sum of a `symbol_ref` and an integer are stored inside a `const` RTX to mark them as constant. Therefore, there is no need to recognize such sums specifically as legitimate addresses. Normally you would simply recognize any `const` as legitimate.

  Usually `PRINT_OPERAND_ADDRESS` is not prepared to handle constant sums that are not marked with `const`. It assumes that a naked `plus` indicates indexing. If so, then you must reject such naked constant sums as illegitimate addresses, so that none of them will be given to `PRINT_OPERAND_ADDRESS`.

  On some machines, whether a symbolic address is legitimate depends on the section that the address refers to. On these machines, define the target hook `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` to store the information into the `symbol_ref`, and then check for it here. When you see a `const`, you will have to look inside it to find the `symbol_ref` in order to determine the section. See Defining the Output Assembler Language.

  Some ports are still using a deprecated legacy substitute for this hook, the `GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS` macro. This macro has this syntax:

      #define GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS (mode, x, label)

  and should `goto label` if the address x is a valid address on the target machine for a memory operand of mode mode.

  Compiler source files that want to use the strict variant of this macro define the macro `REG_OK_STRICT`. You should use an `#ifdef REG_OK_STRICT` conditional to define the strict variant in that case and the non-strict variant otherwise.

  Using the hook is usually simpler because it limits the number of files that are recompiled when changes are made.

Macro: TARGET_MEM_CONSTRAINT ¶

  A single character to be used instead of the default `'m'` character for general memory addresses. This defines the constraint letter which matches the memory addresses accepted by `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P`. Define this macro if you want to support new address formats in your back end without changing the semantics of the `'m'` constraint. This is necessary in order to preserve functionality of inline assembly constructs using the `'m'` constraint.

Macro: FIND_BASE_TERM (x) ¶

  A C expression to determine the base term of address x, or to provide a simplified version of x from which `alias.cc` can easily find the base term. This macro is used in only two places: `find_base_value` and `find_base_term` in `alias.cc`.

  It is always safe for this macro to not be defined. It exists so that alias analysis can understand machine-dependent addresses.

  The typical use of this macro is to handle addresses containing a label_ref or symbol_ref within an UNSPEC.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS `(rtx x, rtx oldx, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook is given an invalid memory address x for an operand of mode mode and should try to return a valid memory address.

  x will always be the result of a call to `break_out_memory_refs`, and oldx will be the operand that was given to that function to produce x.

  The code of the hook should not alter the substructure of x. If it transforms x into a more legitimate form, it should return the new x.

  It is not necessary for this hook to come up with a legitimate address, with the exception of native TLS addresses (see Emulating TLS). The compiler has standard ways of doing so in all cases. In fact, if the target supports only emulated TLS, it is safe to omit this hook or make it return x if it cannot find a valid way to legitimize the address. But often a machine-dependent strategy can generate better code.

Macro: LEGITIMIZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS (x, mode, opnum, type, ind_levels, win) ¶

  A C compound statement that attempts to replace x, which is an address that needs reloading, with a valid memory address for an operand of mode mode. win will be a C statement label elsewhere in the code. It is not necessary to define this macro, but it might be useful for performance reasons.

  For example, on the i386, it is sometimes possible to use a single reload register instead of two by reloading a sum of two pseudo registers into a register. On the other hand, for number of RISC processors offsets are limited so that often an intermediate address needs to be generated in order to address a stack slot. By defining `LEGITIMIZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS` appropriately, the intermediate addresses generated for adjacent some stack slots can be made identical, and thus be shared.

  Note: This macro should be used with caution. It is necessary to know something of how reload works in order to effectively use this, and it is quite easy to produce macros that build in too much knowledge of reload internals.

  Note: This macro must be able to reload an address created by a previous invocation of this macro. If it fails to handle such addresses then the compiler may generate incorrect code or abort.

  The macro definition should use `push_reload` to indicate parts that need reloading; opnum, type and ind_levels are usually suitable to be passed unaltered to `push_reload`.

  The code generated by this macro must not alter the substructure of x. If it transforms x into a more legitimate form, it should assign x (which will always be a C variable) a new value. This also applies to parts that you change indirectly by calling `push_reload`.

  The macro definition may use `strict_memory_address_p` to test if the address has become legitimate.

  If you want to change only a part of x, one standard way of doing this is to use `copy_rtx`. Note, however, that it unshares only a single level of rtl. Thus, if the part to be changed is not at the top level, you’ll need to replace first the top level. It is not necessary for this macro to come up with a legitimate address; but often a machine-dependent strategy can generate better code.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_MODE_DEPENDENT_ADDRESS_P `(const_rtx addr, addr_space_t addrspace)` ¶

  This hook returns `true` if memory address addr in address space addrspace can have different meanings depending on the machine mode of the memory reference it is used for or if the address is valid for some modes but not others.

  Autoincrement and autodecrement addresses typically have mode-dependent effects because the amount of the increment or decrement is the size of the operand being addressed. Some machines have other mode-dependent addresses. Many RISC machines have no mode-dependent addresses.

  You may assume that addr is a valid address for the machine.

  The default version of this hook returns `false`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LEGITIMATE_CONSTANT_P `(machine_mode mode, rtx x)` ¶

  This hook returns true if x is a legitimate constant for a mode-mode immediate operand on the target machine. You can assume that x satisfies `CONSTANT_P`, so you need not check this.

  The default definition returns true.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_PRECOMPUTE_TLS_P `(machine_mode mode, rtx x)` ¶

  This hook returns true if x is a TLS operand on the target machine that should be pre-computed when used as the argument in a call. You can assume that x satisfies `CONSTANT_P`, so you need not check this.

  The default definition returns false.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_DELEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS `(rtx x)` ¶

  This hook is used to undo the possibly obfuscating effects of the `LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS` and `LEGITIMIZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS` target macros. Some backend implementations of these macros wrap symbol references inside an `UNSPEC` rtx to represent PIC or similar addressing modes. This target hook allows GCC’s optimizers to understand the semantics of these opaque `UNSPEC`s by converting them back into their original form.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CONST_NOT_OK_FOR_DEBUG_P `(rtx x)` ¶

  This hook should return true if x should not be emitted into debug sections.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CANNOT_FORCE_CONST_MEM `(machine_mode mode, rtx x)` ¶

  This hook should return true if x is of a form that cannot (or should not) be spilled to the constant pool. mode is the mode of x.

  The default version of this hook returns false.

  The primary reason to define this hook is to prevent reload from deciding that a non-legitimate constant would be better reloaded from the constant pool instead of spilling and reloading a register holding the constant. This restriction is often true of addresses of TLS symbols for various targets.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_USE_BLOCKS_FOR_CONSTANT_P `(machine_mode mode, const_rtx x)` ¶

  This hook should return true if pool entries for constant x can be placed in an `object_block` structure. mode is the mode of x.

  The default version returns false for all constants.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_USE_BLOCKS_FOR_DECL_P `(const_tree decl)` ¶

  This hook should return true if pool entries for decl should be placed in an `object_block` structure.

  The default version returns true for all decls.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_BUILTIN_RECIPROCAL `(tree fndecl)` ¶

  This hook should return the DECL of a function that implements the reciprocal of the machine-specific builtin function fndecl, or `NULL_TREE` if such a function is not available.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_MASK_FOR_LOAD `(void)` ¶

  This hook should return the DECL of a function f that given an address addr as an argument returns a mask m that can be used to extract from two vectors the relevant data that resides in addr in case addr is not properly aligned.

  The autovectorizer, when vectorizing a load operation from an address addr that may be unaligned, will generate two vector loads from the two aligned addresses around addr. It then generates a `REALIGN_LOAD` operation to extract the relevant data from the two loaded vectors. The first two arguments to `REALIGN_LOAD`, v1 and v2, are the two vectors, each of size VS, and the third argument, OFF, defines how the data will be extracted from these two vectors: if OFF is 0, then the returned vector is v2; otherwise, the returned vector is composed from the last VS-OFF elements of v1 concatenated to the first OFF elements of v2.

  If this hook is defined, the autovectorizer will generate a call to f (using the DECL tree that this hook returns) and will use the return value of f as the argument OFF to `REALIGN_LOAD`. Therefore, the mask m returned by f should comply with the semantics expected by `REALIGN_LOAD` described above. If this hook is not defined, then addr will be used as the argument OFF to `REALIGN_LOAD`, in which case the low log2(VS) − 1 bits of addr will be considered.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_VECTORIZATION_COST `(enum vect_cost_for_stmt type_of_cost, tree vectype, int misalign)` ¶

  Returns cost of different scalar or vector statements for vectorization cost model. For vector memory operations the cost may depend on type (vectype) and misalignment value (misalign).

Target Hook: `poly_uint64` TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_ALIGNMENT `(const_tree type)` ¶

  This hook returns the preferred alignment in bits for accesses to vectors of type type in vectorized code. This might be less than or greater than the ABI-defined value returned by `TARGET_VECTOR_ALIGNMENT`. It can be equal to the alignment of a single element, in which case the vectorizer will not try to optimize for alignment.

  The default hook returns `TYPE_ALIGN (type)`, which is correct for most targets.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VECTORIZE_VECTOR_ALIGNMENT_REACHABLE `(const_tree type, bool is_packed)` ¶

  Return true if vector alignment is reachable (by peeling N iterations) for the given scalar type type. is_packed is false if the scalar access using type is known to be naturally aligned.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VECTORIZE_VEC_PERM_CONST `(machine_mode mode, machine_mode op_mode, rtx output, rtx in0, rtx in1, const vec_perm_indices &sel)` ¶

  This hook is used to test whether the target can permute up to two vectors of mode op_mode using the permutation vector `sel`, producing a vector of mode mode. The hook is also used to emit such a permutation.

  When the hook is being used to test whether the target supports a permutation, in0, in1, and out are all null. When the hook is being used to emit a permutation, in0 and in1 are the source vectors of mode op_mode and out is the destination vector of mode mode. in1 is the same as in0 if sel describes a permutation on one vector instead of two.

  Return true if the operation is possible, emitting instructions for it if rtxes are provided.

  If the hook returns false for a mode with multibyte elements, GCC will try the equivalent byte operation. If that also fails, it will try forcing the selector into a register and using the vec_permmode instruction pattern. There is no need for the hook to handle these two implementation approaches itself.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_DIV_AS_SHIFTS_OVER_MULT `(const_tree type)` ¶

  Sometimes it is possible to implement a vector division using a sequence of two addition-shift pairs, giving four instructions in total. Return true if taking this approach for vectype is likely to be better than using a sequence involving highpart multiplication. Default is false if `can_mult_highpart_p`, otherwise true.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_VECTORIZED_FUNCTION `(unsigned code, tree vec_type_out, tree vec_type_in)` ¶

  This hook should return the decl of a function that implements the vectorized variant of the function with the `combined_fn` code code or `NULL_TREE` if such a function is not available. The return type of the vectorized function shall be of vector type vec_type_out and the argument types should be vec_type_in.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_MD_VECTORIZED_FUNCTION `(tree fndecl, tree vec_type_out, tree vec_type_in)` ¶

  This hook should return the decl of a function that implements the vectorized variant of target built-in function `fndecl`. The return type of the vectorized function shall be of vector type vec_type_out and the argument types should be vec_type_in.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VECTORIZE_SUPPORT_VECTOR_MISALIGNMENT `(machine_mode mode, const_tree type, int misalignment, bool is_packed)` ¶

  This hook should return true if the target supports misaligned vector store/load of a specific factor denoted in the misalignment parameter. The vector store/load should be of machine mode mode and the elements in the vectors should be of type type. is_packed parameter is true if the memory access is defined in a packed struct.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_SIMD_MODE `(scalar_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook should return the preferred mode for vectorizing scalar mode mode. The default is equal to `word_mode`, because the vectorizer can do some transformations even in absence of specialized SIMD hardware.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_VECTORIZE_SPLIT_REDUCTION `(machine_mode)` ¶

  This hook should return the preferred mode to split the final reduction step on mode to. The reduction is then carried out reducing upper against lower halves of vectors recursively until the specified mode is reached. The default is mode which means no splitting.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_VECTORIZE_AUTOVECTORIZE_VECTOR_MODES `(vector_modes *modes, bool all)` ¶

  If using the mode returned by `TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_SIMD_MODE` is not the only approach worth considering, this hook should add one mode to modes for each useful alternative approach. These modes are then passed to `TARGET_VECTORIZE_RELATED_MODE` to obtain the vector mode for a given element mode.

  The modes returned in modes should use the smallest element mode possible for the vectorization approach that they represent, preferring integer modes over floating-poing modes in the event of a tie. The first mode should be the `TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_SIMD_MODE` for its element mode.

  If all is true, add suitable vector modes even when they are generally not expected to be worthwhile.

  The hook returns a bitmask of flags that control how the modes in modes are used. The flags are:

  `VECT_COMPARE_COSTS`

    Tells the loop vectorizer to try all the provided modes and pick the one with the lowest cost. By default the vectorizer will choose the first mode that works.

  The hook does not need to do anything if the vector returned by `TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_SIMD_MODE` is the only one relevant for autovectorization. The default implementation adds no modes and returns 0.

Target Hook: `opt_machine_mode` TARGET_VECTORIZE_RELATED_MODE `(machine_mode vector_mode, scalar_mode element_mode, poly_uint64 nunits)` ¶

  If a piece of code is using vector mode vector_mode and also wants to operate on elements of mode element_mode, return the vector mode it should use for those elements. If nunits is nonzero, ensure that the mode has exactly nunits elements, otherwise pick whichever vector size pairs the most naturally with vector_mode. Return an empty `opt_machine_mode` if there is no supported vector mode with the required properties.

  There is no prescribed way of handling the case in which nunits is zero. One common choice is to pick a vector mode with the same size as vector_mode; this is the natural choice if the target has a fixed vector size. Another option is to choose a vector mode with the same number of elements as vector_mode; this is the natural choice if the target has a fixed number of elements. Alternatively, the hook might choose a middle ground, such as trying to keep the number of elements as similar as possible while applying maximum and minimum vector sizes.

  The default implementation uses `mode_for_vector` to find the requested mode, returning a mode with the same size as vector_mode when nunits is zero. This is the correct behavior for most targets.

Target Hook: `opt_machine_mode` TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  Return the mode to use for a vector mask that holds one boolean result for each element of vector mode mode. The returned mask mode can be a vector of integers (class `MODE_VECTOR_INT`), a vector of booleans (class `MODE_VECTOR_BOOL`) or a scalar integer (class `MODE_INT`). Return an empty `opt_machine_mode` if no such mask mode exists.

  The default implementation returns a `MODE_VECTOR_INT` with the same size and number of elements as mode, if such a mode exists.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VECTORIZE_EMPTY_MASK_IS_EXPENSIVE `(unsigned ifn)` ¶

  This hook returns true if masked internal function ifn (really of type `internal_fn`) should be considered expensive when the mask is all zeros. GCC can then try to branch around the instruction instead.

Target Hook: `class vector_costs *` TARGET_VECTORIZE_CREATE_COSTS `(vec_info *vinfo, bool costing_for_scalar)` ¶

  This hook should initialize target-specific data structures in preparation for modeling the costs of vectorizing a loop or basic block. The default allocates three unsigned integers for accumulating costs for the prologue, body, and epilogue of the loop or basic block. If loop_info is non-NULL, it identifies the loop being vectorized; otherwise a single block is being vectorized. If costing_for_scalar is true, it indicates the current cost model is for the scalar version of a loop or block; otherwise it is for the vector version.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_GATHER `(const_tree mem_vectype, const_tree index_type, int scale)` ¶

  Target builtin that implements vector gather operation. mem_vectype is the vector type of the load and index_type is scalar type of the index, scaled by scale. The default is `NULL_TREE` which means to not vectorize gather loads.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_SCATTER `(const_tree vectype, const_tree index_type, int scale)` ¶

  Target builtin that implements vector scatter operation. vectype is the vector type of the store and index_type is scalar type of the index, scaled by scale. The default is `NULL_TREE` which means to not vectorize scatter stores.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SIMD_CLONE_COMPUTE_VECSIZE_AND_SIMDLEN `(struct cgraph_node *, struct cgraph_simd_clone *, tree, int, bool)` ¶

  This hook should set vecsize_mangle, vecsize_int, vecsize_float fields in simd_clone structure pointed by clone_info argument and also simdlen field if it was previously 0. vecsize_mangle is a marker for the backend only. vecsize_int and vecsize_float should be left zero on targets where the number of lanes is not determined by the bitsize (in which case simdlen is always used). The hook should return 0 if SIMD clones shouldn’t be emitted, or number of vecsize_mangle variants that should be emitted.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SIMD_CLONE_ADJUST `(struct cgraph_node *)` ¶

  This hook should add implicit `attribute(target("..."))` attribute to SIMD clone node if needed.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SIMD_CLONE_USABLE `(struct cgraph_node *)` ¶

  This hook should return -1 if SIMD clone node shouldn’t be used in vectorized loops in current function, or non-negative number if it is usable. In that case, the smaller the number is, the more desirable it is to use it.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SIMT_VF `(void)` ¶

  Return number of threads in SIMT thread group on the target.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_OMP_DEVICE_KIND_ARCH_ISA `(enum omp_device_kind_arch_isa trait, const char *name)` ¶

  Return 1 if trait name is present in the OpenMP context’s device trait set, return 0 if not present in any OpenMP context in the whole translation unit, or -1 if not present in the current OpenMP context but might be present in another OpenMP context in the same TU.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_GOACC_VALIDATE_DIMS `(tree decl, int *dims, int fn_level, unsigned used)` ¶

  This hook should check the launch dimensions provided for an OpenACC compute region, or routine. Defaulted values are represented as -1 and non-constant values as 0. The fn_level is negative for the function corresponding to the compute region. For a routine it is the outermost level at which partitioned execution may be spawned. The hook should verify non-default values. If DECL is NULL, global defaults are being validated and unspecified defaults should be filled in. Diagnostics should be issued as appropriate. Return true, if changes have been made. You must override this hook to provide dimensions larger than 1.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_GOACC_DIM_LIMIT `(int axis)` ¶

  This hook should return the maximum size of a particular dimension, or zero if unbounded.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_GOACC_FORK_JOIN `(gcall *call, const int *dims, bool is_fork)` ¶

  This hook can be used to convert IFN_GOACC_FORK and IFN_GOACC_JOIN function calls to target-specific gimple, or indicate whether they should be retained. It is executed during the oacc_device_lower pass. It should return true, if the call should be retained. It should return false, if it is to be deleted (either because target-specific gimple has been inserted before it, or there is no need for it). The default hook returns false, if there are no RTL expanders for them.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_GOACC_REDUCTION `(gcall *call)` ¶

  This hook is used by the oacc_transform pass to expand calls to the GOACC_REDUCTION internal function, into a sequence of gimple instructions. call is gimple statement containing the call to the function. This hook removes statement call after the expanded sequence has been inserted. This hook is also responsible for allocating any storage for reductions when necessary.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_PREFERRED_ELSE_VALUE `(unsigned ifn, tree type, unsigned nops, tree *ops)` ¶

  This hook returns the target’s preferred final argument for a call to conditional internal function ifn (really of type `internal_fn`). type specifies the return type of the function and ops are the operands to the conditional operation, of which there are nops.

  For example, if ifn is `IFN_COND_ADD`, the hook returns a value of type type that should be used when ‘`ops[0]`’ and ‘`ops[1]`’ are conditionally added together.

  This hook is only relevant if the target supports conditional patterns like `cond_addm`. The default implementation returns a zero constant of type type.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_GOACC_ADJUST_PRIVATE_DECL `(location_t loc, tree var, int level)` ¶

  This hook, if defined, is used by accelerator target back-ends to adjust OpenACC variable declarations that should be made private to the given parallelism level (i.e. `GOMP_DIM_GANG`, `GOMP_DIM_WORKER` or `GOMP_DIM_VECTOR`). A typical use for this hook is to force variable declarations at the `gang` level to reside in GPU shared memory. loc may be used for diagnostic purposes.

  You may also use the `TARGET_GOACC_EXPAND_VAR_DECL` hook if the adjusted variable declaration needs to be expanded to RTL in a non-standard way.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_GOACC_EXPAND_VAR_DECL `(tree var)` ¶

  This hook, if defined, is used by accelerator target back-ends to expand specially handled kinds of `VAR_DECL` expressions. A particular use is to place variables with specific attributes inside special accelarator memories. A return value of `NULL` indicates that the target does not handle this `VAR_DECL`, and normal RTL expanding is resumed.

  Only define this hook if your accelerator target needs to expand certain `VAR_DECL` nodes in a way that differs from the default. You can also adjust private variables at OpenACC device-lowering time using the `TARGET_GOACC_ADJUST_PRIVATE_DECL` target hook.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_GOACC_CREATE_WORKER_BROADCAST_RECORD `(tree rec, bool sender, const char *name, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT offset)` ¶

  Create a record used to propagate local-variable state from an active worker to other workers. A possible implementation might adjust the type of REC to place the new variable in shared GPU memory.

  Presence of this target hook indicates that middle end neutering/broadcasting be used.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_GOACC_SHARED_MEM_LAYOUT `(unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT *, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT *, int[], unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT[], unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT[])` ¶

  Lay out a fixed shared-memory region on the target. The LO and HI arguments should be set to a range of addresses that can be used for worker broadcasting. The dimensions, reduction size and gang-private size arguments are for the current offload region.

### 18.14 Anchored Addresses ¶

GCC usually addresses every static object as a separate entity. For example, if we have:

    static int a, b, c;
    int foo (void) { return a + b + c; }

the code for `foo` will usually calculate three separate symbolic addresses: those of `a`, `b` and `c`. On some targets, it would be better to calculate just one symbolic address and access the three variables relative to it. The equivalent pseudocode would be something like:

    int foo (void)
    {
      register int *xr = &x;
      return xr[&a - &x] + xr[&b - &x] + xr[&c - &x];
    }

(which isn’t valid C). We refer to shared addresses like `x` as “section anchors”. Their use is controlled by `-fsection-anchors`.

The hooks below describe the target properties that GCC needs to know in order to make effective use of section anchors. It won’t use section anchors at all unless either `TARGET_MIN_ANCHOR_OFFSET` or `TARGET_MAX_ANCHOR_OFFSET` is set to a nonzero value.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_MIN_ANCHOR_OFFSET ¶

  The minimum offset that should be applied to a section anchor. On most targets, it should be the smallest offset that can be applied to a base register while still giving a legitimate address for every mode. The default value is 0.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_MAX_ANCHOR_OFFSET ¶

  Like `TARGET_MIN_ANCHOR_OFFSET`, but the maximum (inclusive) offset that should be applied to section anchors. The default value is 0.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_ANCHOR `(rtx x)` ¶

  Write the assembly code to define section anchor x, which is a `SYMBOL_REF` for which ‘`SYMBOL_REF_ANCHOR_P (x)`’ is true. The hook is called with the assembly output position set to the beginning of `SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK (x)`.

  If `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF` is available, the hook’s default definition uses it to define the symbol as ‘`. + SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK_OFFSET (x)`’. If `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF` is not available, the hook’s default definition is `NULL`, which disables the use of section anchors altogether.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_USE_ANCHORS_FOR_SYMBOL_P `(const_rtx x)` ¶

  Return true if GCC should attempt to use anchors to access `SYMBOL_REF` x. You can assume ‘`SYMBOL_REF_HAS_BLOCK_INFO_P (x)`’ and ‘`!SYMBOL_REF_ANCHOR_P (x)`’.

  The default version is correct for most targets, but you might need to intercept this hook to handle things like target-specific attributes or target-specific sections.

### 18.15 Condition Code Status ¶

Condition codes in GCC are represented as registers, which provides better schedulability for architectures that do have a condition code register, but on which most instructions do not affect it. The latter category includes most RISC machines.

Implicit clobbering would pose a strong restriction on the placement of the definition and use of the condition code. In the past the definition and use were always adjacent. However, recent changes to support trapping arithmetic may result in the definition and user being in different blocks. Thus, there may be a `NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK` between them. Additionally, the definition may be the source of exception handling edges.

These restrictions can prevent important optimizations on some machines. For example, on the IBM RS/6000, there is a delay for taken branches unless the condition code register is set three instructions earlier than the conditional branch. The instruction scheduler cannot perform this optimization if it is not permitted to separate the definition and use of the condition code register.

If there is a specific condition code register in the machine, use a hard register. If the condition code or comparison result can be placed in any general register, or if there are multiple condition registers, use a pseudo register. Registers used to store the condition code value will usually have a mode that is in class `MODE_CC`.

Alternatively, you can use `BImode` if the comparison operator is specified already in the compare instruction. In this case, you are not interested in most macros in this section.

#### 18.15.1 Representation of condition codes using registers ¶

Macro: SELECT_CC_MODE (op, x, y) ¶

  On many machines, the condition code may be produced by other instructions than compares, for example the branch can use directly the condition code set by a subtract instruction. However, on some machines when the condition code is set this way some bits (such as the overflow bit) are not set in the same way as a test instruction, so that a different branch instruction must be used for some conditional branches. When this happens, use the machine mode of the condition code register to record different formats of the condition code register. Modes can also be used to record which compare instruction (e.g. a signed or an unsigned comparison) produced the condition codes.

  If other modes than `CCmode` are required, add them to `machine-modes.def` and define `SELECT_CC_MODE` to choose a mode given an operand of a compare. This is needed because the modes have to be chosen not only during RTL generation but also, for example, by instruction combination. The result of `SELECT_CC_MODE` should be consistent with the mode used in the patterns; for example to support the case of the add on the SPARC discussed above, we have the pattern

      (define_insn ""
        [(set (reg:CCNZ 0)
              (compare:CCNZ
                (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "%r")
                         (match_operand:SI 1 "arith_operand" "rI"))
                (const_int 0)))]
        ""
        "...")

  together with a `SELECT_CC_MODE` that returns `CCNZmode` for comparisons whose argument is a `plus`:

      #define SELECT_CC_MODE(OP,X,Y) \
        (GET_MODE_CLASS (GET_MODE (X)) == MODE_FLOAT           \
         ? ((OP == LT || OP == LE || OP == GT || OP == GE)     \
            ? CCFPEmode : CCFPmode)                            \
         : ((GET_CODE (X) == PLUS || GET_CODE (X) == MINUS     \
             || GET_CODE (X) == NEG || GET_CODE (x) == ASHIFT) \
            ? CCNZmode : CCmode))

  Another reason to use modes is to retain information on which operands were used by the comparison; see `REVERSIBLE_CC_MODE` later in this section.

  You should define this macro if and only if you define extra CC modes in `machine-modes.def`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_CANONICALIZE_COMPARISON `(int *code, rtx *op0, rtx *op1, bool op0_preserve_value)` ¶

  On some machines not all possible comparisons are defined, but you can convert an invalid comparison into a valid one. For example, the Alpha does not have a `GT` comparison, but you can use an `LT` comparison instead and swap the order of the operands.

  On such machines, implement this hook to do any required conversions. code is the initial comparison code and op0 and op1 are the left and right operands of the comparison, respectively. If op0_preserve_value is `true` the implementation is not allowed to change the value of op0 since the value might be used in RTXs which aren’t comparisons. E.g. the implementation is not allowed to swap operands in that case.

  GCC will not assume that the comparison resulting from this macro is valid but will see if the resulting insn matches a pattern in the `md` file.

  You need not to implement this hook if it would never change the comparison code or operands.

Macro: REVERSIBLE_CC_MODE (mode) ¶

  A C expression whose value is one if it is always safe to reverse a comparison whose mode is mode. If `SELECT_CC_MODE` can ever return mode for a floating-point inequality comparison, then `REVERSIBLE_CC_MODE (mode)` must be zero.

  You need not define this macro if it would always returns zero or if the floating-point format is anything other than `IEEE_FLOAT_FORMAT`. For example, here is the definition used on the SPARC, where floating-point inequality comparisons are given either `CCFPEmode` or `CCFPmode`:

      #define REVERSIBLE_CC_MODE(MODE) \
         ((MODE) != CCFPEmode && (MODE) != CCFPmode)

Macro: REVERSE_CONDITION (code, mode) ¶

  A C expression whose value is reversed condition code of the code for comparison done in CC_MODE mode. The macro is used only in case `REVERSIBLE_CC_MODE (mode)` is nonzero. Define this macro in case machine has some non-standard way how to reverse certain conditionals. For instance in case all floating point conditions are non-trapping, compiler may freely convert unordered compares to ordered ones. Then definition may look like:

      #define REVERSE_CONDITION(CODE, MODE) \
         ((MODE) != CCFPmode ? reverse_condition (CODE) \
          : reverse_condition_maybe_unordered (CODE))

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FIXED_CONDITION_CODE_REGS `(unsigned int *p1, unsigned int *p2)` ¶

  On targets which use a hard register rather than a pseudo-register to hold condition codes, the regular CSE passes are often not able to identify cases in which the hard register is set to a common value. Use this hook to enable a small pass which optimizes such cases. This hook should return true to enable this pass, and it should set the integers to which its arguments point to the hard register numbers used for condition codes. When there is only one such register, as is true on most systems, the integer pointed to by p2 should be set to `INVALID_REGNUM`.

  The default version of this hook returns false.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_CC_MODES_COMPATIBLE `(machine_mode m1, machine_mode m2)` ¶

  On targets which use multiple condition code modes in class `MODE_CC`, it is sometimes the case that a comparison can be validly done in more than one mode. On such a system, define this target hook to take two mode arguments and to return a mode in which both comparisons may be validly done. If there is no such mode, return `VOIDmode`.

  The default version of this hook checks whether the modes are the same. If they are, it returns that mode. If they are different, it returns `VOIDmode`.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_FLAGS_REGNUM ¶

  If the target has a dedicated flags register, and it needs to use the post-reload comparison elimination pass, or the delay slot filler pass, then this value should be set appropriately.

### 18.16 Describing Relative Costs of Operations ¶

These macros let you describe the relative speed of various operations on the target machine.

Macro: REGISTER_MOVE_COST (mode, from, to) ¶

  A C expression for the cost of moving data of mode mode from a register in class from to one in class to. The classes are expressed using the enumeration values such as `GENERAL_REGS`. A value of 2 is the default; other values are interpreted relative to that.

  It is not required that the cost always equal 2 when from is the same as to; on some machines it is expensive to move between registers if they are not general registers.

  If reload sees an insn consisting of a single `set` between two hard registers, and if `REGISTER_MOVE_COST` applied to their classes returns a value of 2, reload does not check to ensure that the constraints of the insn are met. Setting a cost of other than 2 will allow reload to verify that the constraints are met. You should do this if the ‘`movm`’ pattern’s constraints do not allow such copying.

  These macros are obsolete, new ports should use the target hook `TARGET_REGISTER_MOVE_COST` instead.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_REGISTER_MOVE_COST `(machine_mode mode, reg_class_t from, reg_class_t to)` ¶

  This target hook should return the cost of moving data of mode mode from a register in class from to one in class to. The classes are expressed using the enumeration values such as `GENERAL_REGS`. A value of 2 is the default; other values are interpreted relative to that.

  It is not required that the cost always equal 2 when from is the same as to; on some machines it is expensive to move between registers if they are not general registers.

  If reload sees an insn consisting of a single `set` between two hard registers, and if `TARGET_REGISTER_MOVE_COST` applied to their classes returns a value of 2, reload does not check to ensure that the constraints of the insn are met. Setting a cost of other than 2 will allow reload to verify that the constraints are met. You should do this if the ‘`movm`’ pattern’s constraints do not allow such copying.

  The default version of this function returns 2.

Macro: MEMORY_MOVE_COST (mode, class, in) ¶

  A C expression for the cost of moving data of mode mode between a register of class class and memory; in is zero if the value is to be written to memory, nonzero if it is to be read in. This cost is relative to those in `REGISTER_MOVE_COST`. If moving between registers and memory is more expensive than between two registers, you should define this macro to express the relative cost.

  If you do not define this macro, GCC uses a default cost of 4 plus the cost of copying via a secondary reload register, if one is needed. If your machine requires a secondary reload register to copy between memory and a register of class but the reload mechanism is more complex than copying via an intermediate, define this macro to reflect the actual cost of the move.

  GCC defines the function `memory_move_secondary_cost` if secondary reloads are needed. It computes the costs due to copying via a secondary register. If your machine copies from memory using a secondary register in the conventional way but the default base value of 4 is not correct for your machine, define this macro to add some other value to the result of that function. The arguments to that function are the same as to this macro.

  These macros are obsolete, new ports should use the target hook `TARGET_MEMORY_MOVE_COST` instead.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MEMORY_MOVE_COST `(machine_mode mode, reg_class_t rclass, bool in)` ¶

  This target hook should return the cost of moving data of mode mode between a register of class rclass and memory; in is `false` if the value is to be written to memory, `true` if it is to be read in. This cost is relative to those in `TARGET_REGISTER_MOVE_COST`. If moving between registers and memory is more expensive than between two registers, you should add this target hook to express the relative cost.

  If you do not add this target hook, GCC uses a default cost of 4 plus the cost of copying via a secondary reload register, if one is needed. If your machine requires a secondary reload register to copy between memory and a register of rclass but the reload mechanism is more complex than copying via an intermediate, use this target hook to reflect the actual cost of the move.

  GCC defines the function `memory_move_secondary_cost` if secondary reloads are needed. It computes the costs due to copying via a secondary register. If your machine copies from memory using a secondary register in the conventional way but the default base value of 4 is not correct for your machine, use this target hook to add some other value to the result of that function. The arguments to that function are the same as to this target hook.

Macro: BRANCH_COST (speed_p, predictable_p) ¶

  A C expression for the cost of a branch instruction. A value of 1 is the default; other values are interpreted relative to that. Parameter speed_p is true when the branch in question should be optimized for speed. When it is false, `BRANCH_COST` should return a value optimal for code size rather than performance. predictable_p is true for well-predicted branches. On many architectures the `BRANCH_COST` can be reduced then.

Here are additional macros which do not specify precise relative costs, but only that certain actions are more expensive than GCC would ordinarily expect.

Macro: SLOW_BYTE_ACCESS ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression which is nonzero if accessing less than a word of memory (i.e. a `char` or a `short`) is no faster than accessing a word of memory, i.e., if such access require more than one instruction or if there is no difference in cost between byte and (aligned) word loads.

  When this macro is not defined, the compiler will access a field by finding the smallest containing object; when it is defined, a fullword load will be used if alignment permits. Unless bytes accesses are faster than word accesses, using word accesses is preferable since it may eliminate subsequent memory access if subsequent accesses occur to other fields in the same word of the structure, but to different bytes.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SLOW_UNALIGNED_ACCESS `(machine_mode mode, unsigned int align)` ¶

  This hook returns true if memory accesses described by the mode and alignment parameters have a cost many times greater than aligned accesses, for example if they are emulated in a trap handler. This hook is invoked only for unaligned accesses, i.e. when `alignment < GET_MODE_ALIGNMENT (mode)`.

  When this hook returns true, the compiler will act as if `STRICT_ALIGNMENT` were true when generating code for block moves. This can cause significantly more instructions to be produced. Therefore, do not make this hook return true if unaligned accesses only add a cycle or two to the time for a memory access.

  The hook must return true whenever `STRICT_ALIGNMENT` is true. The default implementation returns `STRICT_ALIGNMENT`.

Macro: MOVE_RATIO (speed) ¶

  The threshold of number of scalar memory-to-memory move insns, below which a sequence of insns should be generated instead of a string move insn or a library call. Increasing the value will always make code faster, but eventually incurs high cost in increased code size.

  Note that on machines where the corresponding move insn is a `define_expand` that emits a sequence of insns, this macro counts the number of such sequences.

  The parameter speed is true if the code is currently being optimized for speed rather than size.

  If you don’t define this, a reasonable default is used.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_USE_BY_PIECES_INFRASTRUCTURE_P `(unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT size, unsigned int alignment, enum by_pieces_operation op, bool speed_p)` ¶

  GCC will attempt several strategies when asked to copy between two areas of memory, or to set, clear or store to memory, for example when copying a `struct`. The `by_pieces` infrastructure implements such memory operations as a sequence of load, store or move insns. Alternate strategies are to expand the `cpymem` or `setmem` optabs, to emit a library call, or to emit unit-by-unit, loop-based operations.

  This target hook should return true if, for a memory operation with a given size and alignment, using the `by_pieces` infrastructure is expected to result in better code generation. Both size and alignment are measured in terms of storage units.

  The parameter op is one of: `CLEAR_BY_PIECES`, `MOVE_BY_PIECES`, `SET_BY_PIECES`, `STORE_BY_PIECES` or `COMPARE_BY_PIECES`. These describe the type of memory operation under consideration.

  The parameter speed_p is true if the code is currently being optimized for speed rather than size.

  Returning true for higher values of size can improve code generation for speed if the target does not provide an implementation of the `cpymem` or `setmem` standard names, if the `cpymem` or `setmem` implementation would be more expensive than a sequence of insns, or if the overhead of a library call would dominate that of the body of the memory operation.

  Returning true for higher values of `size` may also cause an increase in code size, for example where the number of insns emitted to perform a move would be greater than that of a library call.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_OVERLAP_OP_BY_PIECES_P `(void)` ¶

  This target hook should return true if when the `by_pieces` infrastructure is used, an offset adjusted unaligned memory operation in the smallest integer mode for the last piece operation of a memory region can be generated to avoid doing more than one smaller operations.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_COMPARE_BY_PIECES_BRANCH_RATIO `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  When expanding a block comparison in MODE, gcc can try to reduce the number of branches at the expense of more memory operations. This hook allows the target to override the default choice. It should return the factor by which branches should be reduced over the plain expansion with one comparison per mode-sized piece. A port can also prevent a particular mode from being used for block comparisons by returning a negative number from this hook.

Macro: MOVE_MAX_PIECES ¶

  A C expression used by `move_by_pieces` to determine the largest unit a load or store used to copy memory is. Defaults to `MOVE_MAX`.

Macro: STORE_MAX_PIECES ¶

  A C expression used by `store_by_pieces` to determine the largest unit a store used to memory is. Defaults to `MOVE_MAX_PIECES`, or two times the size of `HOST_WIDE_INT`, whichever is smaller.

Macro: COMPARE_MAX_PIECES ¶

  A C expression used by `compare_by_pieces` to determine the largest unit a load or store used to compare memory is. Defaults to `MOVE_MAX_PIECES`.

Macro: CLEAR_RATIO (speed) ¶

  The threshold of number of scalar move insns, below which a sequence of insns should be generated to clear memory instead of a string clear insn or a library call. Increasing the value will always make code faster, but eventually incurs high cost in increased code size.

  The parameter speed is true if the code is currently being optimized for speed rather than size.

  If you don’t define this, a reasonable default is used.

Macro: SET_RATIO (speed) ¶

  The threshold of number of scalar move insns, below which a sequence of insns should be generated to set memory to a constant value, instead of a block set insn or a library call. Increasing the value will always make code faster, but eventually incurs high cost in increased code size.

  The parameter speed is true if the code is currently being optimized for speed rather than size.

  If you don’t define this, it defaults to the value of `MOVE_RATIO`.

Macro: USE_LOAD_POST_INCREMENT (mode) ¶

  A C expression used to determine whether a load postincrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_POST_INCREMENT`.

Macro: USE_LOAD_POST_DECREMENT (mode) ¶

  A C expression used to determine whether a load postdecrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_POST_DECREMENT`.

Macro: USE_LOAD_PRE_INCREMENT (mode) ¶

  A C expression used to determine whether a load preincrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_PRE_INCREMENT`.

Macro: USE_LOAD_PRE_DECREMENT (mode) ¶

  A C expression used to determine whether a load predecrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_PRE_DECREMENT`.

Macro: USE_STORE_POST_INCREMENT (mode) ¶

  A C expression used to determine whether a store postincrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_POST_INCREMENT`.

Macro: USE_STORE_POST_DECREMENT (mode) ¶

  A C expression used to determine whether a store postdecrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_POST_DECREMENT`.

Macro: USE_STORE_PRE_INCREMENT (mode) ¶

  This macro is used to determine whether a store preincrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_PRE_INCREMENT`.

Macro: USE_STORE_PRE_DECREMENT (mode) ¶

  This macro is used to determine whether a store predecrement is a good thing to use for a given mode. Defaults to the value of `HAVE_PRE_DECREMENT`.

Macro: NO_FUNCTION_CSE ¶

  Define this macro to be true if it is as good or better to call a constant function address than to call an address kept in a register.

Macro: LOGICAL_OP_NON_SHORT_CIRCUIT ¶

  Define this macro if a non-short-circuit operation produced by ‘`fold_range_test ()`’ is optimal. This macro defaults to true if `BRANCH_COST` is greater than or equal to the value 2.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_OPTAB_SUPPORTED_P `(int op, machine_mode mode1, machine_mode mode2, optimization_type opt_type)` ¶

  Return true if the optimizers should use optab op with modes mode1 and mode2 for optimization type opt_type. The optab is known to have an associated `.md` instruction whose C condition is true. mode2 is only meaningful for conversion optabs; for direct optabs it is a copy of mode1.

  For example, when called with op equal to `rint_optab` and mode1 equal to `DFmode`, the hook should say whether the optimizers should use optab `rintdf2`.

  The default hook returns true for all inputs.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_RTX_COSTS `(rtx x, machine_mode mode, int outer_code, int opno, int *total, bool speed)` ¶

  This target hook describes the relative costs of RTL expressions.

  The cost may depend on the precise form of the expression, which is available for examination in x, and the fact that x appears as operand opno of an expression with rtx code outer_code. That is, the hook can assume that there is some rtx y such that ‘`GET_CODE (y) == outer_code`’ and such that either (a) ‘`XEXP (y, opno) == x`’ or (b) ‘`XVEC (y, opno)`’ contains x.

  mode is x’s machine mode, or for cases like `const_int` that do not have a mode, the mode in which x is used.

  In implementing this hook, you can use the construct `COSTS_N_INSNS (n)` to specify a cost equal to n fast instructions.

  On entry to the hook, `*total` contains a default estimate for the cost of the expression. The hook should modify this value as necessary. Traditionally, the default costs are `COSTS_N_INSNS (5)` for multiplications, `COSTS_N_INSNS (7)` for division and modulus operations, and `COSTS_N_INSNS (1)` for all other operations.

  When optimizing for code size, i.e. when `speed` is false, this target hook should be used to estimate the relative size cost of an expression, again relative to `COSTS_N_INSNS`.

  The hook returns true when all subexpressions of x have been processed, and false when `rtx_cost` should recurse.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_ADDRESS_COST `(rtx address, machine_mode mode, addr_space_t as, bool speed)` ¶

  This hook computes the cost of an addressing mode that contains address. If not defined, the cost is computed from the address expression and the `TARGET_RTX_COST` hook.

  For most CISC machines, the default cost is a good approximation of the true cost of the addressing mode. However, on RISC machines, all instructions normally have the same length and execution time. Hence all addresses will have equal costs.

  In cases where more than one form of an address is known, the form with the lowest cost will be used. If multiple forms have the same, lowest, cost, the one that is the most complex will be used.

  For example, suppose an address that is equal to the sum of a register and a constant is used twice in the same basic block. When this macro is not defined, the address will be computed in a register and memory references will be indirect through that register. On machines where the cost of the addressing mode containing the sum is no higher than that of a simple indirect reference, this will produce an additional instruction and possibly require an additional register. Proper specification of this macro eliminates this overhead for such machines.

  This hook is never called with an invalid address.

  On machines where an address involving more than one register is as cheap as an address computation involving only one register, defining `TARGET_ADDRESS_COST` to reflect this can cause two registers to be live over a region of code where only one would have been if `TARGET_ADDRESS_COST` were not defined in that manner. This effect should be considered in the definition of this macro. Equivalent costs should probably only be given to addresses with different numbers of registers on machines with lots of registers.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_INSN_COST `(rtx_insn *insn, bool speed)` ¶

  This target hook describes the relative costs of RTL instructions.

  In implementing this hook, you can use the construct `COSTS_N_INSNS (n)` to specify a cost equal to n fast instructions.

  When optimizing for code size, i.e. when `speed` is false, this target hook should be used to estimate the relative size cost of an expression, again relative to `COSTS_N_INSNS`.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_MAX_NOCE_IFCVT_SEQ_COST `(edge e)` ¶

  This hook returns a value in the same units as `TARGET_RTX_COSTS`, giving the maximum acceptable cost for a sequence generated by the RTL if-conversion pass when conditional execution is not available. The RTL if-conversion pass attempts to convert conditional operations that would require a branch to a series of unconditional operations and `movmodecc` insns. This hook returns the maximum cost of the unconditional instructions and the `movmodecc` insns. RTL if-conversion is cancelled if the cost of the converted sequence is greater than the value returned by this hook.

  `e` is the edge between the basic block containing the conditional branch to the basic block which would be executed if the condition were true.

  The default implementation of this hook uses the `max-rtl-if-conversion-[un]predictable` parameters if they are set, and uses a multiple of `BRANCH_COST` otherwise.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_NOCE_CONVERSION_PROFITABLE_P `(rtx_insn *seq, struct noce_if_info *if_info)` ¶

  This hook returns true if the instruction sequence `seq` is a good candidate as a replacement for the if-convertible sequence described in `if_info`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_NEW_ADDRESS_PROFITABLE_P `(rtx memref, rtx_insn * insn, rtx new_addr)` ¶

  Return `true` if it is profitable to replace the address in memref with new_addr. This allows targets to prevent the scheduler from undoing address optimizations. The instruction containing the memref is insn. The default implementation returns `true`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_NO_SPECULATION_IN_DELAY_SLOTS_P `(void)` ¶

  This predicate controls the use of the eager delay slot filler to disallow speculatively executed instructions being placed in delay slots. Targets such as certain MIPS architectures possess both branches with and without delay slots. As the eager delay slot filler can decrease performance, disabling it is beneficial when ordinary branches are available. Use of delay slot branches filled using the basic filler is often still desirable as the delay slot can hide a pipeline bubble.

Target Hook: `HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_ESTIMATED_POLY_VALUE `(poly_int64 val, poly_value_estimate_kind kind)` ¶

  Return an estimate of the runtime value of val, for use in things like cost calculations or profiling frequencies. kind is used to ask for the minimum, maximum, and likely estimates of the value through the `POLY_VALUE_MIN`, `POLY_VALUE_MAX` and `POLY_VALUE_LIKELY` values. The default implementation returns the lowest possible value of val.

### 18.17 Adjusting the Instruction Scheduler ¶

The instruction scheduler may need a fair amount of machine-specific adjustment in order to produce good code. GCC provides several target hooks for this purpose. It is usually enough to define just a few of them: try the first ones in this list first.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_ISSUE_RATE `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns the maximum number of instructions that can ever issue at the same time on the target machine. The default is one. Although the insn scheduler can define itself the possibility of issue an insn on the same cycle, the value can serve as an additional constraint to issue insns on the same simulated processor cycle (see hooks ‘`TARGET_SCHED_REORDER`’ and ‘`TARGET_SCHED_REORDER2`’). This value must be constant over the entire compilation. If you need it to vary depending on what the instructions are, you must use ‘`TARGET_SCHED_VARIABLE_ISSUE`’.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_VARIABLE_ISSUE `(FILE *file, int verbose, rtx_insn *insn, int more)` ¶

  This hook is executed by the scheduler after it has scheduled an insn from the ready list. It should return the number of insns which can still be issued in the current cycle. The default is ‘`more - 1`’ for insns other than `CLOBBER` and `USE`, which normally are not counted against the issue rate. You should define this hook if some insns take more machine resources than others, so that fewer insns can follow them in the same cycle. file is either a null pointer, or a stdio stream to write any debug output to. verbose is the verbose level provided by `-fsched-verbose-n`. insn is the instruction that was scheduled.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_COST `(rtx_insn *insn, int dep_type1, rtx_insn *dep_insn, int cost, unsigned int dw)` ¶

  This function corrects the value of cost based on the relationship between insn and dep_insn through a dependence of type dep_type, and strength dw. It should return the new value. The default is to make no adjustment to cost. This can be used for example to specify to the scheduler using the traditional pipeline description that an output- or anti-dependence does not incur the same cost as a data-dependence. If the scheduler using the automaton based pipeline description, the cost of anti-dependence is zero and the cost of output-dependence is maximum of one and the difference of latency times of the first and the second insns. If these values are not acceptable, you could use the hook to modify them too. See also see Specifying processor pipeline description.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_PRIORITY `(rtx_insn *insn, int priority)` ¶

  This hook adjusts the integer scheduling priority priority of insn. It should return the new priority. Increase the priority to execute insn earlier, reduce the priority to execute insn later. Do not define this hook if you do not need to adjust the scheduling priorities of insns.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_REORDER `(FILE *file, int verbose, rtx_insn **ready, int *n_readyp, int clock)` ¶

  This hook is executed by the scheduler after it has scheduled the ready list, to allow the machine description to reorder it (for example to combine two small instructions together on ‘`VLIW`’ machines). file is either a null pointer, or a stdio stream to write any debug output to. verbose is the verbose level provided by `-fsched-verbose-n`. ready is a pointer to the ready list of instructions that are ready to be scheduled. n_readyp is a pointer to the number of elements in the ready list. The scheduler reads the ready list in reverse order, starting with ready[*n_readyp − 1] and going to ready[0]. clock is the timer tick of the scheduler. You may modify the ready list and the number of ready insns. The return value is the number of insns that can issue this cycle; normally this is just `issue_rate`. See also ‘`TARGET_SCHED_REORDER2`’.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_REORDER2 `(FILE *file, int verbose, rtx_insn **ready, int *n_readyp, int clock)` ¶

  Like ‘`TARGET_SCHED_REORDER`’, but called at a different time. That function is called whenever the scheduler starts a new cycle. This one is called once per iteration over a cycle, immediately after ‘`TARGET_SCHED_VARIABLE_ISSUE`’; it can reorder the ready list and return the number of insns to be scheduled in the same cycle. Defining this hook can be useful if there are frequent situations where scheduling one insn causes other insns to become ready in the same cycle. These other insns can then be taken into account properly.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCHED_MACRO_FUSION_P `(void)` ¶

  This hook is used to check whether target platform supports macro fusion.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCHED_MACRO_FUSION_PAIR_P `(rtx_insn *prev, rtx_insn *curr)` ¶

  This hook is used to check whether two insns should be macro fused for a target microarchitecture. If this hook returns true for the given insn pair (prev and curr), the scheduler will put them into a sched group, and they will not be scheduled apart. The two insns will be either two SET insns or a compare and a conditional jump and this hook should validate any dependencies needed to fuse the two insns together.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_DEPENDENCIES_EVALUATION_HOOK `(rtx_insn *head, rtx_insn *tail)` ¶

  This hook is called after evaluation forward dependencies of insns in chain given by two parameter values (head and tail correspondingly) but before insns scheduling of the insn chain. For example, it can be used for better insn classification if it requires analysis of dependencies. This hook can use backward and forward dependencies of the insn scheduler because they are already calculated.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_INIT `(FILE *file, int verbose, int max_ready)` ¶

  This hook is executed by the scheduler at the beginning of each block of instructions that are to be scheduled. file is either a null pointer, or a stdio stream to write any debug output to. verbose is the verbose level provided by `-fsched-verbose-n`. max_ready is the maximum number of insns in the current scheduling region that can be live at the same time. This can be used to allocate scratch space if it is needed, e.g. by ‘`TARGET_SCHED_REORDER`’.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FINISH `(FILE *file, int verbose)` ¶

  This hook is executed by the scheduler at the end of each block of instructions that are to be scheduled. It can be used to perform cleanup of any actions done by the other scheduling hooks. file is either a null pointer, or a stdio stream to write any debug output to. verbose is the verbose level provided by `-fsched-verbose-n`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_INIT_GLOBAL `(FILE *file, int verbose, int old_max_uid)` ¶

  This hook is executed by the scheduler after function level initializations. file is either a null pointer, or a stdio stream to write any debug output to. verbose is the verbose level provided by `-fsched-verbose-n`. old_max_uid is the maximum insn uid when scheduling begins.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FINISH_GLOBAL `(FILE *file, int verbose)` ¶

  This is the cleanup hook corresponding to `TARGET_SCHED_INIT_GLOBAL`. file is either a null pointer, or a stdio stream to write any debug output to. verbose is the verbose level provided by `-fsched-verbose-n`.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_SCHED_DFA_PRE_CYCLE_INSN `(void)` ¶

  The hook returns an RTL insn. The automaton state used in the pipeline hazard recognizer is changed as if the insn were scheduled when the new simulated processor cycle starts. Usage of the hook may simplify the automaton pipeline description for some VLIW processors. If the hook is defined, it is used only for the automaton based pipeline description. The default is not to change the state when the new simulated processor cycle starts.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_INIT_DFA_PRE_CYCLE_INSN `(void)` ¶

  The hook can be used to initialize data used by the previous hook.

Target Hook: `rtx_insn *` TARGET_SCHED_DFA_POST_CYCLE_INSN `(void)` ¶

  The hook is analogous to ‘`TARGET_SCHED_DFA_PRE_CYCLE_INSN`’ but used to changed the state as if the insn were scheduled when the new simulated processor cycle finishes.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_INIT_DFA_POST_CYCLE_INSN `(void)` ¶

  The hook is analogous to ‘`TARGET_SCHED_INIT_DFA_PRE_CYCLE_INSN`’ but used to initialize data used by the previous hook.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_DFA_PRE_ADVANCE_CYCLE `(void)` ¶

  The hook to notify target that the current simulated cycle is about to finish. The hook is analogous to ‘`TARGET_SCHED_DFA_PRE_CYCLE_INSN`’ but used to change the state in more complicated situations - e.g., when advancing state on a single insn is not enough.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_DFA_POST_ADVANCE_CYCLE `(void)` ¶

  The hook to notify target that new simulated cycle has just started. The hook is analogous to ‘`TARGET_SCHED_DFA_POST_CYCLE_INSN`’ but used to change the state in more complicated situations - e.g., when advancing state on a single insn is not enough.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_DFA_LOOKAHEAD `(void)` ¶

  This hook controls better choosing an insn from the ready insn queue for the DFA-based insn scheduler. Usually the scheduler chooses the first insn from the queue. If the hook returns a positive value, an additional scheduler code tries all permutations of ‘`TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_DFA_LOOKAHEAD ()`’ subsequent ready insns to choose an insn whose issue will result in maximal number of issued insns on the same cycle. For the VLIW processor, the code could actually solve the problem of packing simple insns into the VLIW insn. Of course, if the rules of VLIW packing are described in the automaton.

  This code also could be used for superscalar RISC processors. Let us consider a superscalar RISC processor with 3 pipelines. Some insns can be executed in pipelines A or B, some insns can be executed only in pipelines B or C, and one insn can be executed in pipeline B. The processor may issue the 1st insn into A and the 2nd one into B. In this case, the 3rd insn will wait for freeing B until the next cycle. If the scheduler issues the 3rd insn the first, the processor could issue all 3 insns per cycle.

  Actually this code demonstrates advantages of the automaton based pipeline hazard recognizer. We try quickly and easy many insn schedules to choose the best one.

  The default is no multipass scheduling.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_DFA_LOOKAHEAD_GUARD `(rtx_insn *insn, int ready_index)` ¶

  This hook controls what insns from the ready insn queue will be considered for the multipass insn scheduling. If the hook returns zero for insn, the insn will be considered in multipass scheduling. Positive return values will remove insn from consideration on the current round of multipass scheduling. Negative return values will remove insn from consideration for given number of cycles. Backends should be careful about returning non-zero for highest priority instruction at position 0 in the ready list. ready_index is passed to allow backends make correct judgements.

  The default is that any ready insns can be chosen to be issued.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_BEGIN `(void *data, signed char *ready_try, int n_ready, bool first_cycle_insn_p)` ¶

  This hook prepares the target backend for a new round of multipass scheduling.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_ISSUE `(void *data, signed char *ready_try, int n_ready, rtx_insn *insn, const void *prev_data)` ¶

  This hook is called when multipass scheduling evaluates instruction INSN.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_BACKTRACK `(const void *data, signed char *ready_try, int n_ready)` ¶

  This is called when multipass scheduling backtracks from evaluation of an instruction.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_END `(const void *data)` ¶

  This hook notifies the target about the result of the concluded current round of multipass scheduling.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_INIT `(void *data)` ¶

  This hook initializes target-specific data used in multipass scheduling.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_FINI `(void *data)` ¶

  This hook finalizes target-specific data used in multipass scheduling.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_DFA_NEW_CYCLE `(FILE *dump, int verbose, rtx_insn *insn, int last_clock, int clock, int *sort_p)` ¶

  This hook is called by the insn scheduler before issuing insn on cycle clock. If the hook returns nonzero, insn is not issued on this processor cycle. Instead, the processor cycle is advanced. If *sort_p is zero, the insn ready queue is not sorted on the new cycle start as usually. dump and verbose specify the file and verbosity level to use for debugging output. last_clock and clock are, respectively, the processor cycle on which the previous insn has been issued, and the current processor cycle.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCHED_IS_COSTLY_DEPENDENCE `(struct _dep *_dep, int cost, int distance)` ¶

  This hook is used to define which dependences are considered costly by the target, so costly that it is not advisable to schedule the insns that are involved in the dependence too close to one another. The parameters to this hook are as follows: The first parameter _dep is the dependence being evaluated. The second parameter cost is the cost of the dependence as estimated by the scheduler, and the third parameter distance is the distance in cycles between the two insns. The hook returns `true` if considering the distance between the two insns the dependence between them is considered costly by the target, and `false` otherwise.

  Defining this hook can be useful in multiple-issue out-of-order machines, where (a) it’s practically hopeless to predict the actual data/resource delays, however: (b) there’s a better chance to predict the actual grouping that will be formed, and (c) correctly emulating the grouping can be very important. In such targets one may want to allow issuing dependent insns closer to one another—i.e., closer than the dependence distance; however, not in cases of “costly dependences”, which this hooks allows to define.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_H_I_D_EXTENDED `(void)` ¶

  This hook is called by the insn scheduler after emitting a new instruction to the instruction stream. The hook notifies a target backend to extend its per instruction data structures.

Target Hook: `void *` TARGET_SCHED_ALLOC_SCHED_CONTEXT `(void)` ¶

  Return a pointer to a store large enough to hold target scheduling context.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_INIT_SCHED_CONTEXT `(void *tc, bool clean_p)` ¶

  Initialize store pointed to by tc to hold target scheduling context. It clean_p is true then initialize tc as if scheduler is at the beginning of the block. Otherwise, copy the current context into tc.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_SET_SCHED_CONTEXT `(void *tc)` ¶

  Copy target scheduling context pointed to by tc to the current context.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_CLEAR_SCHED_CONTEXT `(void *tc)` ¶

  Deallocate internal data in target scheduling context pointed to by tc.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FREE_SCHED_CONTEXT `(void *tc)` ¶

  Deallocate a store for target scheduling context pointed to by tc.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_SPECULATE_INSN `(rtx_insn *insn, unsigned int dep_status, rtx *new_pat)` ¶

  This hook is called by the insn scheduler when insn has only speculative dependencies and therefore can be scheduled speculatively. The hook is used to check if the pattern of insn has a speculative version and, in case of successful check, to generate that speculative pattern. The hook should return 1, if the instruction has a speculative form, or −1, if it doesn’t. request describes the type of requested speculation. If the return value equals 1 then new_pat is assigned the generated speculative pattern.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCHED_NEEDS_BLOCK_P `(unsigned int dep_status)` ¶

  This hook is called by the insn scheduler during generation of recovery code for insn. It should return `true`, if the corresponding check instruction should branch to recovery code, or `false` otherwise.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_SCHED_GEN_SPEC_CHECK `(rtx_insn *insn, rtx_insn *label, unsigned int ds)` ¶

  This hook is called by the insn scheduler to generate a pattern for recovery check instruction. If mutate_p is zero, then insn is a speculative instruction for which the check should be generated. label is either a label of a basic block, where recovery code should be emitted, or a null pointer, when requested check doesn’t branch to recovery code (a simple check). If mutate_p is nonzero, then a pattern for a branchy check corresponding to a simple check denoted by insn should be generated. In this case label can’t be null.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_SET_SCHED_FLAGS `(struct spec_info_def *spec_info)` ¶

  This hook is used by the insn scheduler to find out what features should be enabled/used. The structure *spec_info should be filled in by the target. The structure describes speculation types that can be used in the scheduler.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCHED_CAN_SPECULATE_INSN `(rtx_insn *insn)` ¶

  Some instructions should never be speculated by the schedulers, usually because the instruction is too expensive to get this wrong. Often such instructions have long latency, and often they are not fully modeled in the pipeline descriptions. This hook should return `false` if insn should not be speculated.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_SMS_RES_MII `(struct ddg *g)` ¶

  This hook is called by the swing modulo scheduler to calculate a resource-based lower bound which is based on the resources available in the machine and the resources required by each instruction. The target backend can use g to calculate such bound. A very simple lower bound will be used in case this hook is not implemented: the total number of instructions divided by the issue rate.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCHED_DISPATCH `(rtx_insn *insn, int x)` ¶

  This hook is called by Haifa Scheduler. It returns true if dispatch scheduling is supported in hardware and the condition specified in the parameter is true.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_DISPATCH_DO `(rtx_insn *insn, int x)` ¶

  This hook is called by Haifa Scheduler. It performs the operation specified in its second parameter.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SCHED_EXPOSED_PIPELINE ¶

  True if the processor has an exposed pipeline, which means that not just the order of instructions is important for correctness when scheduling, but also the latencies of operations.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_SCHED_REASSOCIATION_WIDTH `(unsigned int opc, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook is called by tree reassociator to determine a level of parallelism required in output calculations chain.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SCHED_FUSION_PRIORITY `(rtx_insn *insn, int max_pri, int *fusion_pri, int *pri)` ¶

  This hook is called by scheduling fusion pass. It calculates fusion priorities for each instruction passed in by parameter. The priorities are returned via pointer parameters.

  insn is the instruction whose priorities need to be calculated. max_pri is the maximum priority can be returned in any cases. fusion_pri is the pointer parameter through which insn’s fusion priority should be calculated and returned. pri is the pointer parameter through which insn’s priority should be calculated and returned.

  Same fusion_pri should be returned for instructions which should be scheduled together. Different pri should be returned for instructions with same fusion_pri. fusion_pri is the major sort key, pri is the minor sort key. All instructions will be scheduled according to the two priorities. All priorities calculated should be between 0 (exclusive) and max_pri (inclusive). To avoid false dependencies, fusion_pri of instructions which need to be scheduled together should be smaller than fusion_pri of irrelevant instructions.

  Given below example:

          ldr r10, [r1, 4]
          add r4, r4, r10
          ldr r15, [r2, 8]
          sub r5, r5, r15
          ldr r11, [r1, 0]
          add r4, r4, r11
          ldr r16, [r2, 12]
          sub r5, r5, r16

  On targets like ARM/AArch64, the two pairs of consecutive loads should be merged. Since peephole2 pass can’t help in this case unless consecutive loads are actually next to each other in instruction flow. That’s where this scheduling fusion pass works. This hook calculates priority for each instruction based on its fustion type, like:

          ldr r10, [r1, 4]  ; fusion_pri=99,  pri=96
          add r4, r4, r10   ; fusion_pri=100, pri=100
          ldr r15, [r2, 8]  ; fusion_pri=98,  pri=92
          sub r5, r5, r15   ; fusion_pri=100, pri=100
          ldr r11, [r1, 0]  ; fusion_pri=99,  pri=100
          add r4, r4, r11   ; fusion_pri=100, pri=100
          ldr r16, [r2, 12] ; fusion_pri=98,  pri=88
          sub r5, r5, r16   ; fusion_pri=100, pri=100

  Scheduling fusion pass then sorts all ready to issue instructions according to the priorities. As a result, instructions of same fusion type will be pushed together in instruction flow, like:

          ldr r11, [r1, 0]
          ldr r10, [r1, 4]
          ldr r15, [r2, 8]
          ldr r16, [r2, 12]
          add r4, r4, r10
          sub r5, r5, r15
          add r4, r4, r11
          sub r5, r5, r16

  Now peephole2 pass can simply merge the two pairs of loads.

  Since scheduling fusion pass relies on peephole2 to do real fusion work, it is only enabled by default when peephole2 is in effect.

  This is firstly introduced on ARM/AArch64 targets, please refer to the hook implementation for how different fusion types are supported.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_EXPAND_DIVMOD_LIBFUNC `(rtx libfunc, machine_mode mode, rtx op0, rtx op1, rtx *quot, rtx *rem)` ¶

  Define this hook for enabling divmod transform if the port does not have hardware divmod insn but defines target-specific divmod libfuncs.

### 18.18 Dividing the Output into Sections (Texts, Data, …) ¶

An object file is divided into sections containing different types of data. In the most common case, there are three sections: the text section, which holds instructions and read-only data; the data section, which holds initialized writable data; and the bss section, which holds uninitialized data. Some systems have other kinds of sections.

`varasm.cc` provides several well-known sections, such as `text_section`, `data_section` and `bss_section`. The normal way of controlling a `foo_section` variable is to define the associated `FOO_SECTION_ASM_OP` macro, as described below. The macros are only read once, when `varasm.cc` initializes itself, so their values must be run-time constants. They may however depend on command-line flags.

Note: Some run-time files, such `crtstuff.c`, also make use of the `FOO_SECTION_ASM_OP` macros, and expect them to be string literals.

Some assemblers require a different string to be written every time a section is selected. If your assembler falls into this category, you should define the `TARGET_ASM_INIT_SECTIONS` hook and use `get_unnamed_section` to set up the sections.

You must always create a `text_section`, either by defining `TEXT_SECTION_ASM_OP` or by initializing `text_section` in `TARGET_ASM_INIT_SECTIONS`. The same is true of `data_section` and `DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP`. If you do not create a distinct `readonly_data_section`, the default is to reuse `text_section`.

All the other `varasm.cc` sections are optional, and are null if the target does not provide them.

Macro: TEXT_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  A C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation that should precede instructions and read-only data. Normally `"\t.text"` is right.

Macro: HOT_TEXT_SECTION_NAME ¶

  If defined, a C string constant for the name of the section containing most frequently executed functions of the program. If not defined, GCC will provide a default definition if the target supports named sections.

Macro: UNLIKELY_EXECUTED_TEXT_SECTION_NAME ¶

  If defined, a C string constant for the name of the section containing unlikely executed functions in the program.

Macro: DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  A C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as writable initialized data. Normally `"\t.data"` is right.

Macro: SDATA_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as initialized, writable small data.

Macro: READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  A C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as read-only initialized data.

Macro: BSS_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as uninitialized global data. If not defined, and `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_BSS` not defined, uninitialized global data will be output in the data section if `-fno-common` is passed, otherwise `ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON` will be used.

Macro: SBSS_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as uninitialized, writable small data.

Macro: TLS_COMMON_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as thread-local common data. The default is `".tls_common"`.

Macro: TLS_SECTION_ASM_FLAG ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a character constant containing the flag used to mark a section as a TLS section. The default is `'T'`.

Macro: INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as initialization code. If not defined, GCC will assume such a section does not exist. This section has no corresponding `init_section` variable; it is used entirely in runtime code.

Macro: FINI_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as finalization code. If not defined, GCC will assume such a section does not exist. This section has no corresponding `fini_section` variable; it is used entirely in runtime code.

Macro: INIT_ARRAY_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as part of the `.init_array` (or equivalent) section. If not defined, GCC will assume such a section does not exist. Do not define both this macro and `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP`.

Macro: FINI_ARRAY_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as part of the `.fini_array` (or equivalent) section. If not defined, GCC will assume such a section does not exist. Do not define both this macro and `FINI_SECTION_ASM_OP`.

Macro: MACH_DEP_SECTION_ASM_FLAG ¶

  If defined, a C expression whose value is a character constant containing the flag used to mark a machine-dependent section. This corresponds to the `SECTION_MACH_DEP` section flag.

Macro: CRT_CALL_STATIC_FUNCTION (section_op, function) ¶

  If defined, an ASM statement that switches to a different section via section_op, calls function, and switches back to the text section. This is used in `crtstuff.c` if `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP` or `FINI_SECTION_ASM_OP` to calls to initialization and finalization functions from the init and fini sections. By default, this macro uses a simple function call. Some ports need hand-crafted assembly code to avoid dependencies on registers initialized in the function prologue or to ensure that constant pools don’t end up too far way in the text section.

Macro: TARGET_LIBGCC_SDATA_SECTION ¶

  If defined, a string which names the section into which small variables defined in crtstuff and libgcc should go. This is useful when the target has options for optimizing access to small data, and you want the crtstuff and libgcc routines to be conservative in what they expect of your application yet liberal in what your application expects. For example, for targets with a `.sdata` section (like MIPS), you could compile crtstuff with `-G 0` so that it doesn’t require small data support from your application, but use this macro to put small data into `.sdata` so that your application can access these variables whether it uses small data or not.

Macro: FORCE_CODE_SECTION_ALIGN ¶

  If defined, an ASM statement that aligns a code section to some arbitrary boundary. This is used to force all fragments of the `.init` and `.fini` sections to have to same alignment and thus prevent the linker from having to add any padding.

Macro: JUMP_TABLES_IN_TEXT_SECTION ¶

  Define this macro to be an expression with a nonzero value if jump tables (for `tablejump` insns) should be output in the text section, along with the assembler instructions. Otherwise, the readonly data section is used.

  This macro is irrelevant if there is no separate readonly data section.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_INIT_SECTIONS `(void)` ¶

  Define this hook if you need to do something special to set up the `varasm.cc` sections, or if your target has some special sections of its own that you need to create.

  GCC calls this hook after processing the command line, but before writing any assembly code, and before calling any of the section-returning hooks described below.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_ASM_RELOC_RW_MASK `(void)` ¶

  Return a mask describing how relocations should be treated when selecting sections. Bit 1 should be set if global relocations should be placed in a read-write section; bit 0 should be set if local relocations should be placed in a read-write section.

  The default version of this function returns 3 when `-fpic` is in effect, and 0 otherwise. The hook is typically redefined when the target cannot support (some kinds of) dynamic relocations in read-only sections even in executables.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_GENERATE_PIC_ADDR_DIFF_VEC `(void)` ¶

  Return true to generate ADDR_DIF_VEC table or false to generate ADDR_VEC table for jumps in case of -fPIC.

  The default version of this function returns true if flag_pic equals true and false otherwise

Target Hook: `section *` TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION `(tree exp, int reloc, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT align)` ¶

  Return the section into which exp should be placed. You can assume that exp is either a `VAR_DECL` node or a constant of some sort. reloc indicates whether the initial value of exp requires link-time relocations. Bit 0 is set when variable contains local relocations only, while bit 1 is set for global relocations. align is the constant alignment in bits.

  The default version of this function takes care of putting read-only variables in `readonly_data_section`.

  See also USE_SELECT_SECTION_FOR_FUNCTIONS.

Macro: USE_SELECT_SECTION_FOR_FUNCTIONS ¶

  Define this macro if you wish TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION to be called for `FUNCTION_DECL`s as well as for variables and constants.

  In the case of a `FUNCTION_DECL`, reloc will be zero if the function has been determined to be likely to be called, and nonzero if it is unlikely to be called.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_UNIQUE_SECTION `(tree decl, int reloc)` ¶

  Build up a unique section name, expressed as a `STRING_CST` node, and assign it to ‘`DECL_SECTION_NAME (decl)`’. As with `TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION`, reloc indicates whether the initial value of exp requires link-time relocations.

  The default version of this function appends the symbol name to the ELF section name that would normally be used for the symbol. For example, the function `foo` would be placed in `.text.foo`. Whatever the actual target object format, this is often good enough.

Target Hook: `section *` TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_RODATA_SECTION `(tree decl, bool relocatable)` ¶

  Return the readonly data or reloc readonly data section associated with ‘`DECL_SECTION_NAME (decl)`’. relocatable selects the latter over the former. The default version of this function selects `.gnu.linkonce.r.name` if the function’s section is `.gnu.linkonce.t.name`, `.rodata.name` or `.data.rel.ro.name` if function is in `.text.name`, and the normal readonly-data or reloc readonly data section otherwise.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_MERGEABLE_RODATA_PREFIX ¶

  Usually, the compiler uses the prefix `".rodata"` to construct section names for mergeable constant data. Define this macro to override the string if a different section name should be used.

Target Hook: `section *` TARGET_ASM_TM_CLONE_TABLE_SECTION `(void)` ¶

  Return the section that should be used for transactional memory clone tables.

Target Hook: `section *` TARGET_ASM_SELECT_RTX_SECTION `(machine_mode mode, rtx x, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT align)` ¶

  Return the section into which a constant x, of mode mode, should be placed. You can assume that x is some kind of constant in RTL. The argument mode is redundant except in the case of a `const_int` rtx. align is the constant alignment in bits.

  The default version of this function takes care of putting symbolic constants in `flag_pic` mode in `data_section` and everything else in `readonly_data_section`.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_MANGLE_DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME `(tree decl, tree id)` ¶

  Define this hook if you need to postprocess the assembler name generated by target-independent code. The id provided to this hook will be the computed name (e.g., the macro `DECL_NAME` of the decl in C, or the mangled name of the decl in C++). The return value of the hook is an `IDENTIFIER_NODE` for the appropriate mangled name on your target system. The default implementation of this hook just returns the id provided.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO `(tree decl, rtx rtl, int new_decl_p)` ¶

  Define this hook if references to a symbol or a constant must be treated differently depending on something about the variable or function named by the symbol (such as what section it is in).

  The hook is executed immediately after rtl has been created for decl, which may be a variable or function declaration or an entry in the constant pool. In either case, rtl is the rtl in question. Do not use `DECL_RTL (decl)` in this hook; that field may not have been initialized yet.

  In the case of a constant, it is safe to assume that the rtl is a `mem` whose address is a `symbol_ref`. Most decls will also have this form, but that is not guaranteed. Global register variables, for instance, will have a `reg` for their rtl. (Normally the right thing to do with such unusual rtl is leave it alone.)

  The new_decl_p argument will be true if this is the first time that `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` has been invoked on this decl. It will be false for subsequent invocations, which will happen for duplicate declarations. Whether or not anything must be done for the duplicate declaration depends on whether the hook examines `DECL_ATTRIBUTES`. new_decl_p is always true when the hook is called for a constant.

  The usual thing for this hook to do is to record flags in the `symbol_ref`, using `SYMBOL_REF_FLAG` or `SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS`. Historically, the name string was modified if it was necessary to encode more than one bit of information, but this practice is now discouraged; use `SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS`.

  The default definition of this hook, `default_encode_section_info` in `varasm.cc`, sets a number of commonly-useful bits in `SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS`. Check whether the default does what you need before overriding it.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_STRIP_NAME_ENCODING `(const char *name)` ¶

  Decode name and return the real name part, sans the characters that `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` may have added.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_IN_SMALL_DATA_P `(const_tree exp)` ¶

  Returns true if exp should be placed into a “small data” section. The default version of this hook always returns false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_SRODATA_SECTION ¶

  Contains the value true if the target places read-only “small data” into a separate section. The default value is false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_PROFILE_BEFORE_PROLOGUE `(void)` ¶

  It returns true if target wants profile code emitted before prologue.

  The default version of this hook use the target macro `PROFILE_BEFORE_PROLOGUE`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_BINDS_LOCAL_P `(const_tree exp)` ¶

  Returns true if exp names an object for which name resolution rules must resolve to the current “module” (dynamic shared library or executable image).

  The default version of this hook implements the name resolution rules for ELF, which has a looser model of global name binding than other currently supported object file formats.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_TLS ¶

  Contains the value true if the target supports thread-local storage. The default value is false.

### 18.19 Position Independent Code ¶

This section describes macros that help implement generation of position independent code. Simply defining these macros is not enough to generate valid PIC; you must also add support to the hook `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P` and to the macro `PRINT_OPERAND_ADDRESS`, as well as `LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS`. You must modify the definition of ‘`movsi`’ to do something appropriate when the source operand contains a symbolic address. You may also need to alter the handling of switch statements so that they use relative addresses.

Macro: PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM ¶

  The register number of the register used to address a table of static data addresses in memory. In some cases this register is defined by a processor’s “application binary interface” (ABI). When this macro is defined, RTL is generated for this register once, as with the stack pointer and frame pointer registers. If this macro is not defined, it is up to the machine-dependent files to allocate such a register (if necessary). Note that this register must be fixed when in use (e.g. when `flag_pic` is true).

Macro: PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REG_CALL_CLOBBERED ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if the register defined by `PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM` is clobbered by calls. If not defined, the default is zero. Do not define this macro if `PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM` is not defined.

Macro: LEGITIMATE_PIC_OPERAND_P (x) ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if x is a legitimate immediate operand on the target machine when generating position independent code. You can assume that x satisfies `CONSTANT_P`, so you need not check this. You can also assume flag_pic is true, so you need not check it either. You need not define this macro if all constants (including `SYMBOL_REF`) can be immediate operands when generating position independent code.

### 18.20 Defining the Output Assembler Language ¶

This section describes macros whose principal purpose is to describe how to write instructions in assembler language—rather than what the instructions do.

#### 18.20.1 The Overall Framework of an Assembler File ¶

This describes the overall framework of an assembly file.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FILE_START `(void)` ¶

  Output to `asm_out_file` any text which the assembler expects to find at the beginning of a file. The default behavior is controlled by two flags, documented below. Unless your target’s assembler is quite unusual, if you override the default, you should call `default_file_start` at some point in your target hook. This lets other target files rely on these variables.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_FILE_START_APP_OFF ¶

  If this flag is true, the text of the macro `ASM_APP_OFF` will be printed as the very first line in the assembly file, unless `-fverbose-asm` is in effect. (If that macro has been defined to the empty string, this variable has no effect.) With the normal definition of `ASM_APP_OFF`, the effect is to notify the GNU assembler that it need not bother stripping comments or extra whitespace from its input. This allows it to work a bit faster.

  The default is false. You should not set it to true unless you have verified that your port does not generate any extra whitespace or comments that will cause GAS to issue errors in NO_APP mode.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_FILE_START_FILE_DIRECTIVE ¶

  If this flag is true, `output_file_directive` will be called for the primary source file, immediately after printing `ASM_APP_OFF` (if that is enabled). Most ELF assemblers expect this to be done. The default is false.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FILE_END `(void)` ¶

  Output to `asm_out_file` any text which the assembler expects to find at the end of a file. The default is to output nothing.

Function: `void` file_end_indicate_exec_stack `()` ¶

  Some systems use a common convention, the ‘`.note.GNU-stack`’ special section, to indicate whether or not an object file relies on the stack being executable. If your system uses this convention, you should define `TARGET_ASM_FILE_END` to this function. If you need to do other things in that hook, have your hook function call this function.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_LTO_START `(void)` ¶

  Output to `asm_out_file` any text which the assembler expects to find at the start of an LTO section. The default is to output nothing.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_LTO_END `(void)` ¶

  Output to `asm_out_file` any text which the assembler expects to find at the end of an LTO section. The default is to output nothing.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_CODE_END `(void)` ¶

  Output to `asm_out_file` any text which is needed before emitting unwind info and debug info at the end of a file. Some targets emit here PIC setup thunks that cannot be emitted at the end of file, because they couldn’t have unwind info then. The default is to output nothing.

Macro: ASM_COMMENT_START ¶

  A C string constant describing how to begin a comment in the target assembler language. The compiler assumes that the comment will end at the end of the line.

Macro: ASM_APP_ON ¶

  A C string constant for text to be output before each `asm` statement or group of consecutive ones. Normally this is `"#APP"`, which is a comment that has no effect on most assemblers but tells the GNU assembler that it must check the lines that follow for all valid assembler constructs.

Macro: ASM_APP_OFF ¶

  A C string constant for text to be output after each `asm` statement or group of consecutive ones. Normally this is `"#NO_APP"`, which tells the GNU assembler to resume making the time-saving assumptions that are valid for ordinary compiler output.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_SOURCE_FILENAME (stream, name) ¶

  A C statement to output COFF information or DWARF debugging information which indicates that filename name is the current source file to the stdio stream stream.

  This macro need not be defined if the standard form of output for the file format in use is appropriate.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_SOURCE_FILENAME `(FILE *file, const char *name)` ¶

  Output DWARF debugging information which indicates that filename name is the current source file to the stdio stream file.

  This target hook need not be defined if the standard form of output for the file format in use is appropriate.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_IDENT `(const char *name)` ¶

  Output a string based on name, suitable for the ‘`#ident`’ directive, or the equivalent directive or pragma in non-C-family languages. If this hook is not defined, nothing is output for the ‘`#ident`’ directive.

Macro: OUTPUT_QUOTED_STRING (stream, string) ¶

  A C statement to output the string string to the stdio stream stream. If you do not call the function `output_quoted_string` in your config files, GCC will only call it to output filenames to the assembler source. So you can use it to canonicalize the format of the filename using this macro.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_NAMED_SECTION `(const char *name, unsigned int flags, tree decl)` ¶

  Output assembly directives to switch to section name. The section should have attributes as specified by flags, which is a bit mask of the `SECTION_*` flags defined in `output.h`. If decl is non-NULL, it is the `VAR_DECL` or `FUNCTION_DECL` with which this section is associated.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_ELF_FLAGS_NUMERIC `(unsigned int flags, unsigned int *num)` ¶

  This hook can be used to encode ELF section flags for which no letter code has been defined in the assembler. It is called by `default_asm_named_section` whenever the section flags need to be emitted in the assembler output. If the hook returns true, then the numerical value for ELF section flags should be calculated from flags and saved in *num; the value is printed out instead of the normal sequence of letter codes. If the hook is not defined, or if it returns false, then num is ignored and the traditional letter sequence is emitted.

Target Hook: `section *` TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_SECTION `(tree decl, enum node_frequency freq, bool startup, bool exit)` ¶

  Return preferred text (sub)section for function decl. Main purpose of this function is to separate cold, normal and hot functions. startup is true when function is known to be used only at startup (from static constructors or it is `main()`). exit is true when function is known to be used only at exit (from static destructors). Return NULL if function should go to default text section.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_SWITCHED_TEXT_SECTIONS `(FILE *file, tree decl, bool new_is_cold)` ¶

  Used by the target to emit any assembler directives or additional labels needed when a function is partitioned between different sections. Output should be written to file. The function decl is available as decl and the new section is ‘cold’ if new_is_cold is `true`.

Common Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_NAMED_SECTIONS ¶

  This flag is true if the target supports `TARGET_ASM_NAMED_SECTION`. It must not be modified by command-line option processing.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_SWITCHABLE_BSS_SECTIONS ¶

  This flag is true if we can create zeroed data by switching to a BSS section and then using `ASM_OUTPUT_SKIP` to allocate the space. This is true on most ELF targets.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_SECTION_TYPE_FLAGS `(tree decl, const char *name, int reloc)` ¶

  Choose a set of section attributes for use by `TARGET_ASM_NAMED_SECTION` based on a variable or function decl, a section name, and whether or not the declaration’s initializer may contain runtime relocations. decl may be null, in which case read-write data should be assumed.

  The default version of this function handles choosing code vs data, read-only vs read-write data, and `flag_pic`. You should only need to override this if your target has special flags that might be set via `__attribute__`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_RECORD_GCC_SWITCHES `(const char *)` ¶

  Provides the target with the ability to record the gcc command line switches provided as argument.

  By default this hook is set to NULL, but an example implementation is provided for ELF based targets. Called elf_record_gcc_switches, it records the switches as ASCII text inside a new, string mergeable section in the assembler output file. The name of the new section is provided by the `TARGET_ASM_RECORD_GCC_SWITCHES_SECTION` target hook.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_RECORD_GCC_SWITCHES_SECTION ¶

  This is the name of the section that will be created by the example ELF implementation of the `TARGET_ASM_RECORD_GCC_SWITCHES` target hook.

#### 18.20.2 Output of Data ¶

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_BYTE_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_HI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_PSI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_SI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_PDI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_DI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_PTI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_TI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_HI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_PSI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_SI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_PDI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_DI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_PTI_OP ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_TI_OP ¶

  These hooks specify assembly directives for creating certain kinds of integer object. The `TARGET_ASM_BYTE_OP` directive creates a byte-sized object, the `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_HI_OP` one creates an aligned two-byte object, and so on. Any of the hooks may be `NULL`, indicating that no suitable directive is available.

  The compiler will print these strings at the start of a new line, followed immediately by the object’s initial value. In most cases, the string should contain a tab, a pseudo-op, and then another tab.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_INTEGER `(rtx x, unsigned int size, int aligned_p)` ¶

  The `assemble_integer` function uses this hook to output an integer object. x is the object’s value, size is its size in bytes and aligned_p indicates whether it is aligned. The function should return `true` if it was able to output the object. If it returns false, `assemble_integer` will try to split the object into smaller parts.

  The default implementation of this hook will use the `TARGET_ASM_BYTE_OP` family of strings, returning `false` when the relevant string is `NULL`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_DECL_END `(void)` ¶

  Define this hook if the target assembler requires a special marker to terminate an initialized variable declaration.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_ADDR_CONST_EXTRA `(FILE *file, rtx x)` ¶

  A target hook to recognize rtx patterns that `output_addr_const` can’t deal with, and output assembly code to file corresponding to the pattern x. This may be used to allow machine-dependent `UNSPEC`s to appear within constants.

  If target hook fails to recognize a pattern, it must return `false`, so that a standard error message is printed. If it prints an error message itself, by calling, for example, `output_operand_lossage`, it may just return `true`.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ASCII (stream, ptr, len) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream an assembler instruction to assemble a string constant containing the len bytes at ptr. ptr will be a C expression of type `char *` and len a C expression of type `int`.

  If the assembler has a `.ascii` pseudo-op as found in the Berkeley Unix assembler, do not define the macro `ASM_OUTPUT_ASCII`.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_FDESC (stream, decl, n) ¶

  A C statement to output word n of a function descriptor for decl. This must be defined if `TARGET_VTABLE_USES_DESCRIPTORS` is defined, and is otherwise unused.

Macro: CONSTANT_POOL_BEFORE_FUNCTION ¶

  You may define this macro as a C expression. You should define the expression to have a nonzero value if GCC should output the constant pool for a function before the code for the function, or a zero value if GCC should output the constant pool after the function. If you do not define this macro, the usual case, GCC will output the constant pool before the function.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_POOL_PROLOGUE (file, funname, fundecl, size) ¶

  A C statement to output assembler commands to define the start of the constant pool for a function. funname is a string giving the name of the function. Should the return type of the function be required, it can be obtained via fundecl. size is the size, in bytes, of the constant pool that will be written immediately after this call.

  If no constant-pool prefix is required, the usual case, this macro need not be defined.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_SPECIAL_POOL_ENTRY (file, x, mode, align, labelno, jumpto) ¶

  A C statement (with or without semicolon) to output a constant in the constant pool, if it needs special treatment. (This macro need not do anything for RTL expressions that can be output normally.)

  The argument file is the standard I/O stream to output the assembler code on. x is the RTL expression for the constant to output, and mode is the machine mode (in case x is a ‘`const_int`’). align is the required alignment for the value x; you should output an assembler directive to force this much alignment.

  The argument labelno is a number to use in an internal label for the address of this pool entry. The definition of this macro is responsible for outputting the label definition at the proper place. Here is how to do this:

      (*targetm.asm_out.internal_label) (file, "LC", labelno);

  When you output a pool entry specially, you should end with a `goto` to the label jumpto. This will prevent the same pool entry from being output a second time in the usual manner.

  You need not define this macro if it would do nothing.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_POOL_EPILOGUE (file funname fundecl size) ¶

  A C statement to output assembler commands to at the end of the constant pool for a function. funname is a string giving the name of the function. Should the return type of the function be required, you can obtain it via fundecl. size is the size, in bytes, of the constant pool that GCC wrote immediately before this call.

  If no constant-pool epilogue is required, the usual case, you need not define this macro.

Macro: IS_ASM_LOGICAL_LINE_SEPARATOR (C, STR) ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression which is nonzero if C is used as a logical line separator by the assembler. STR points to the position in the string where C was found; this can be used if a line separator uses multiple characters.

  If you do not define this macro, the default is that only the character ‘`;`’ is treated as a logical line separator.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_OPEN_PAREN ¶
Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_ASM_CLOSE_PAREN ¶

  These target hooks are C string constants, describing the syntax in the assembler for grouping arithmetic expressions. If not overridden, they default to normal parentheses, which is correct for most assemblers.

These macros are provided by `real.h` for writing the definitions of `ASM_OUTPUT_DOUBLE` and the like:

Macro: REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_SINGLE (x, l) ¶
Macro: REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DOUBLE (x, l) ¶
Macro: REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_LONG_DOUBLE (x, l) ¶
Macro: REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DECIMAL32 (x, l) ¶
Macro: REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DECIMAL64 (x, l) ¶
Macro: REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DECIMAL128 (x, l) ¶

  These translate x, of type `REAL_VALUE_TYPE`, to the target’s floating point representation, and store its bit pattern in the variable l. For `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_SINGLE` and `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DECIMAL32`, this variable should be a simple `long int`. For the others, it should be an array of `long int`. The number of elements in this array is determined by the size of the desired target floating point data type: 32 bits of it go in each `long int` array element. Each array element holds 32 bits of the result, even if `long int` is wider than 32 bits on the host machine.

  The array element values are designed so that you can print them out using `fprintf` in the order they should appear in the target machine’s memory.

#### 18.20.3 Output of Uninitialized Variables ¶

Each of the macros in this section is used to do the whole job of outputting a single uninitialized variable.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON (stream, name, size, rounded) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream the assembler definition of a common-label named name whose size is size bytes. The variable rounded is the size rounded up to whatever alignment the caller wants. It is possible that size may be zero, for instance if a struct with no other member than a zero-length array is defined. In this case, the backend must output a symbol definition that allocates at least one byte, both so that the address of the resulting object does not compare equal to any other, and because some object formats cannot even express the concept of a zero-sized common symbol, as that is how they represent an ordinary undefined external.

  Use the expression `assemble_name (stream, name)` to output the name itself; before and after that, output the additional assembler syntax for defining the name, and a newline.

  This macro controls how the assembler definitions of uninitialized common global variables are output.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_COMMON (stream, name, size, alignment) ¶

  Like `ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON` except takes the required alignment as a separate, explicit argument. If you define this macro, it is used in place of `ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON`, and gives you more flexibility in handling the required alignment of the variable. The alignment is specified as the number of bits.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_DECL_COMMON (stream, decl, name, size, alignment) ¶

  Like `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_COMMON` except that decl of the variable to be output, if there is one, or `NULL_TREE` if there is no corresponding variable. If you define this macro, GCC will use it in place of both `ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON` and `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_COMMON`. Define this macro when you need to see the variable’s decl in order to chose what to output.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_BSS (stream, decl, name, size, alignment) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream the assembler definition of uninitialized global decl named name whose size is size bytes. The variable alignment is the alignment specified as the number of bits.

  Try to use function `asm_output_aligned_bss` defined in file `varasm.cc` when defining this macro. If unable, use the expression `assemble_name (stream, name)` to output the name itself; before and after that, output the additional assembler syntax for defining the name, and a newline.

  There are two ways of handling global BSS. One is to define this macro. The other is to have `TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION` return a switchable BSS section (see TARGET_HAVE_SWITCHABLE_BSS_SECTIONS). You do not need to do both.

  Some languages do not have `common` data, and require a non-common form of global BSS in order to handle uninitialized globals efficiently. C++ is one example of this. However, if the target does not support global BSS, the front end may choose to make globals common in order to save space in the object file.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_LOCAL (stream, name, size, rounded) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream the assembler definition of a local-common-label named name whose size is size bytes. The variable rounded is the size rounded up to whatever alignment the caller wants.

  Use the expression `assemble_name (stream, name)` to output the name itself; before and after that, output the additional assembler syntax for defining the name, and a newline.

  This macro controls how the assembler definitions of uninitialized static variables are output.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL (stream, name, size, alignment) ¶

  Like `ASM_OUTPUT_LOCAL` except takes the required alignment as a separate, explicit argument. If you define this macro, it is used in place of `ASM_OUTPUT_LOCAL`, and gives you more flexibility in handling the required alignment of the variable. The alignment is specified as the number of bits.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_DECL_LOCAL (stream, decl, name, size, alignment) ¶

  Like `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL` except that decl of the variable to be output, if there is one, or `NULL_TREE` if there is no corresponding variable. If you define this macro, GCC will use it in place of both `ASM_OUTPUT_LOCAL` and `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL`. Define this macro when you need to see the variable’s decl in order to chose what to output.

#### 18.20.4 Output and Generation of Labels ¶

This is about outputting labels.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL (stream, name) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream the assembler definition of a label named name. Use the expression `assemble_name (stream, name)` to output the name itself; before and after that, output the additional assembler syntax for defining the name, and a newline. A default definition of this macro is provided which is correct for most systems.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_FUNCTION_LABEL (stream, name, decl) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream the assembler definition of a label named name of a function. Use the expression `assemble_name (stream, name)` to output the name itself; before and after that, output the additional assembler syntax for defining the name, and a newline. A default definition of this macro is provided which is correct for most systems.

  If this macro is not defined, then the function name is defined in the usual manner as a label (by means of `ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL`).

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_INTERNAL_LABEL (stream, name) ¶

  Identical to `ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL`, except that name is known to refer to a compiler-generated label. The default definition uses `assemble_name_raw`, which is like `assemble_name` except that it is more efficient.

Macro: SIZE_ASM_OP ¶

  A C string containing the appropriate assembler directive to specify the size of a symbol, without any arguments. On systems that use ELF, the default (in `config/elfos.h`) is ‘`"\t.size\t"`’; on other systems, the default is not to define this macro.

  Define this macro only if it is correct to use the default definitions of `ASM_OUTPUT_SIZE_DIRECTIVE` and `ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE` for your system. If you need your own custom definitions of those macros, or if you do not need explicit symbol sizes at all, do not define this macro.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_SIZE_DIRECTIVE (stream, name, size) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream a directive telling the assembler that the size of the symbol name is size. size is a `HOST_WIDE_INT`. If you define `SIZE_ASM_OP`, a default definition of this macro is provided.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE (stream, name) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream a directive telling the assembler to calculate the size of the symbol name by subtracting its address from the current address.

  If you define `SIZE_ASM_OP`, a default definition of this macro is provided. The default assumes that the assembler recognizes a special ‘`.`’ symbol as referring to the current address, and can calculate the difference between this and another symbol. If your assembler does not recognize ‘`.`’ or cannot do calculations with it, you will need to redefine `ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE` to use some other technique.

Macro: NO_DOLLAR_IN_LABEL ¶

  Define this macro if the assembler does not accept the character ‘`$`’ in label names. By default constructors and destructors in G++ have ‘`$`’ in the identifiers. If this macro is defined, ‘`.`’ is used instead.

Macro: NO_DOT_IN_LABEL ¶

  Define this macro if the assembler does not accept the character ‘`.`’ in label names. By default constructors and destructors in G++ have names that use ‘`.`’. If this macro is defined, these names are rewritten to avoid ‘`.`’.

Macro: TYPE_ASM_OP ¶

  A C string containing the appropriate assembler directive to specify the type of a symbol, without any arguments. On systems that use ELF, the default (in `config/elfos.h`) is ‘`"\t.type\t"`’; on other systems, the default is not to define this macro.

  Define this macro only if it is correct to use the default definition of `ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE` for your system. If you need your own custom definition of this macro, or if you do not need explicit symbol types at all, do not define this macro.

Macro: TYPE_OPERAND_FMT ¶

  A C string which specifies (using `printf` syntax) the format of the second operand to `TYPE_ASM_OP`. On systems that use ELF, the default (in `config/elfos.h`) is ‘`"@%s"`’; on other systems, the default is not to define this macro.

  Define this macro only if it is correct to use the default definition of `ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE` for your system. If you need your own custom definition of this macro, or if you do not need explicit symbol types at all, do not define this macro.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE (stream, type) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream a directive telling the assembler that the type of the symbol name is type. type is a C string; currently, that string is always either ‘`"function"`’ or ‘`"object"`’, but you should not count on this.

  If you define `TYPE_ASM_OP` and `TYPE_OPERAND_FMT`, a default definition of this macro is provided.

Macro: ASM_DECLARE_FUNCTION_NAME (stream, name, decl) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream any text necessary for declaring the name name of a function which is being defined. This macro is responsible for outputting the label definition (perhaps using `ASM_OUTPUT_FUNCTION_LABEL`). The argument decl is the `FUNCTION_DECL` tree node representing the function.

  If this macro is not defined, then the function name is defined in the usual manner as a label (by means of `ASM_OUTPUT_FUNCTION_LABEL`).

  You may wish to use `ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE` in the definition of this macro.

Macro: ASM_DECLARE_FUNCTION_SIZE (stream, name, decl) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream any text necessary for declaring the size of a function which is being defined. The argument name is the name of the function. The argument decl is the `FUNCTION_DECL` tree node representing the function.

  If this macro is not defined, then the function size is not defined.

  You may wish to use `ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE` in the definition of this macro.

Macro: ASM_DECLARE_COLD_FUNCTION_NAME (stream, name, decl) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream any text necessary for declaring the name name of a cold function partition which is being defined. This macro is responsible for outputting the label definition (perhaps using `ASM_OUTPUT_FUNCTION_LABEL`). The argument decl is the `FUNCTION_DECL` tree node representing the function.

  If this macro is not defined, then the cold partition name is defined in the usual manner as a label (by means of `ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL`).

  You may wish to use `ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE` in the definition of this macro.

Macro: ASM_DECLARE_COLD_FUNCTION_SIZE (stream, name, decl) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream any text necessary for declaring the size of a cold function partition which is being defined. The argument name is the name of the cold partition of the function. The argument decl is the `FUNCTION_DECL` tree node representing the function.

  If this macro is not defined, then the partition size is not defined.

  You may wish to use `ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE` in the definition of this macro.

Macro: ASM_DECLARE_OBJECT_NAME (stream, name, decl) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream any text necessary for declaring the name name of an initialized variable which is being defined. This macro must output the label definition (perhaps using `ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL`). The argument decl is the `VAR_DECL` tree node representing the variable.

  If this macro is not defined, then the variable name is defined in the usual manner as a label (by means of `ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL`).

  You may wish to use `ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE` and/or `ASM_OUTPUT_SIZE_DIRECTIVE` in the definition of this macro.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_DECLARE_CONSTANT_NAME `(FILE *file, const char *name, const_tree expr, HOST_WIDE_INT size)` ¶

  A target hook to output to the stdio stream file any text necessary for declaring the name name of a constant which is being defined. This target hook is responsible for outputting the label definition (perhaps using `assemble_label`). The argument exp is the value of the constant, and size is the size of the constant in bytes. The name will be an internal label.

  The default version of this target hook, define the name in the usual manner as a label (by means of `assemble_label`).

  You may wish to use `ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE` in this target hook.

Macro: ASM_DECLARE_REGISTER_GLOBAL (stream, decl, regno, name) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream any text necessary for claiming a register regno for a global variable decl with name name.

  If you don’t define this macro, that is equivalent to defining it to do nothing.

Macro: ASM_FINISH_DECLARE_OBJECT (stream, decl, toplevel, atend) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to finish up declaring a variable name once the compiler has processed its initializer fully and thus has had a chance to determine the size of an array when controlled by an initializer. This is used on systems where it’s necessary to declare something about the size of the object.

  If you don’t define this macro, that is equivalent to defining it to do nothing.

  You may wish to use `ASM_OUTPUT_SIZE_DIRECTIVE` and/or `ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE` in the definition of this macro.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_GLOBALIZE_LABEL `(FILE *stream, const char *name)` ¶

  This target hook is a function to output to the stdio stream stream some commands that will make the label name global; that is, available for reference from other files.

  The default implementation relies on a proper definition of `GLOBAL_ASM_OP`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_GLOBALIZE_DECL_NAME `(FILE *stream, tree decl)` ¶

  This target hook is a function to output to the stdio stream stream some commands that will make the name associated with decl global; that is, available for reference from other files.

  The default implementation uses the TARGET_ASM_GLOBALIZE_LABEL target hook.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_ASSEMBLE_UNDEFINED_DECL `(FILE *stream, const char *name, const_tree decl)` ¶

  This target hook is a function to output to the stdio stream stream some commands that will declare the name associated with decl which is not defined in the current translation unit. Most assemblers do not require anything to be output in this case.

Macro: ASM_WEAKEN_LABEL (stream, name) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream some commands that will make the label name weak; that is, available for reference from other files but only used if no other definition is available. Use the expression `assemble_name (stream, name)` to output the name itself; before and after that, output the additional assembler syntax for making that name weak, and a newline.

  If you don’t define this macro or `ASM_WEAKEN_DECL`, GCC will not support weak symbols and you should not define the `SUPPORTS_WEAK` macro.

Macro: ASM_WEAKEN_DECL (stream, decl, name, value) ¶

  Combines (and replaces) the function of `ASM_WEAKEN_LABEL` and `ASM_OUTPUT_WEAK_ALIAS`, allowing access to the associated function or variable decl. If value is not `NULL`, this C statement should output to the stdio stream stream assembler code which defines (equates) the weak symbol name to have the value value. If value is `NULL`, it should output commands to make name weak.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_WEAKREF (stream, decl, name, value) ¶

  Outputs a directive that enables name to be used to refer to symbol value with weak-symbol semantics. `decl` is the declaration of `name`.

Macro: SUPPORTS_WEAK ¶

  A preprocessor constant expression which evaluates to true if the target supports weak symbols.

  If you don’t define this macro, `defaults.h` provides a default definition. If either `ASM_WEAKEN_LABEL` or `ASM_WEAKEN_DECL` is defined, the default definition is ‘`1`’; otherwise, it is ‘`0`’.

Macro: TARGET_SUPPORTS_WEAK ¶

  A C expression which evaluates to true if the target supports weak symbols.

  If you don’t define this macro, `defaults.h` provides a default definition. The default definition is ‘`(SUPPORTS_WEAK)`’. Define this macro if you want to control weak symbol support with a compiler flag such as `-melf`.

Macro: MAKE_DECL_ONE_ONLY (decl) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to mark decl to be emitted as a public symbol such that extra copies in multiple translation units will be discarded by the linker. Define this macro if your object file format provides support for this concept, such as the ‘`COMDAT`’ section flags in the Microsoft Windows PE/COFF format, and this support requires changes to decl, such as putting it in a separate section.

Macro: SUPPORTS_ONE_ONLY ¶

  A C expression which evaluates to true if the target supports one-only semantics.

  If you don’t define this macro, `varasm.cc` provides a default definition. If `MAKE_DECL_ONE_ONLY` is defined, the default definition is ‘`1`’; otherwise, it is ‘`0`’. Define this macro if you want to control one-only symbol support with a compiler flag, or if setting the `DECL_ONE_ONLY` flag is enough to mark a declaration to be emitted as one-only.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_ASSEMBLE_VISIBILITY `(tree decl, int visibility)` ¶

  This target hook is a function to output to asm_out_file some commands that will make the symbol(s) associated with decl have hidden, protected or internal visibility as specified by visibility.

Macro: TARGET_WEAK_NOT_IN_ARCHIVE_TOC ¶

  A C expression that evaluates to true if the target’s linker expects that weak symbols do not appear in a static archive’s table of contents. The default is `0`.

  Leaving weak symbols out of an archive’s table of contents means that, if a symbol will only have a definition in one translation unit and will have undefined references from other translation units, that symbol should not be weak. Defining this macro to be nonzero will thus have the effect that certain symbols that would normally be weak (explicit template instantiations, and vtables for polymorphic classes with noninline key methods) will instead be nonweak.

  The C++ ABI requires this macro to be zero. Define this macro for targets where full C++ ABI compliance is impossible and where linker restrictions require weak symbols to be left out of a static archive’s table of contents.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_EXTERNAL (stream, decl, name) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream any text necessary for declaring the name of an external symbol named name which is referenced in this compilation but not defined. The value of decl is the tree node for the declaration.

  This macro need not be defined if it does not need to output anything. The GNU assembler and most Unix assemblers don’t require anything.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_EXTERNAL_LIBCALL `(rtx symref)` ¶

  This target hook is a function to output to asm_out_file an assembler pseudo-op to declare a library function name external. The name of the library function is given by symref, which is a `symbol_ref`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_MARK_DECL_PRESERVED `(const char *symbol)` ¶

  This target hook is a function to output to asm_out_file an assembler directive to annotate symbol as used. The Darwin target uses the .no_dead_code_strip directive.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF (stream, name) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output to the stdio stream stream a reference in assembler syntax to a label named name. This should add ‘`_`’ to the front of the name, if that is customary on your operating system, as it is in most Berkeley Unix systems. This macro is used in `assemble_name`.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_MANGLE_ASSEMBLER_NAME `(const char *name)` ¶

  Given a symbol name, perform same mangling as `varasm.cc`’s `assemble_name`, but in memory rather than to a file stream, returning result as an `IDENTIFIER_NODE`. Required for correct LTO symtabs. The default implementation calls the `TARGET_STRIP_NAME_ENCODING` hook and then prepends the `USER_LABEL_PREFIX`, if any.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_SYMBOL_REF (stream, sym) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output a reference to `SYMBOL_REF` sym. If not defined, `assemble_name` will be used to output the name of the symbol. This macro may be used to modify the way a symbol is referenced depending on information encoded by `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO`.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL_REF (stream, buf) ¶

  A C statement (sans semicolon) to output a reference to buf, the result of `ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL`. If not defined, `assemble_name` will be used to output the name of the symbol. This macro is not used by `output_asm_label`, or the `%l` specifier that calls it; the intention is that this macro should be set when it is necessary to output a label differently when its address is being taken.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_INTERNAL_LABEL `(FILE *stream, const char *prefix, unsigned long labelno)` ¶

  A function to output to the stdio stream stream a label whose name is made from the string prefix and the number labelno.

  It is absolutely essential that these labels be distinct from the labels used for user-level functions and variables. Otherwise, certain programs will have name conflicts with internal labels.

  It is desirable to exclude internal labels from the symbol table of the object file. Most assemblers have a naming convention for labels that should be excluded; on many systems, the letter ‘`L`’ at the beginning of a label has this effect. You should find out what convention your system uses, and follow it.

  The default version of this function utilizes `ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL`.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DEBUG_LABEL (stream, prefix, num) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream a debug info label whose name is made from the string prefix and the number num. This is useful for VLIW targets, where debug info labels may need to be treated differently than branch target labels. On some systems, branch target labels must be at the beginning of instruction bundles, but debug info labels can occur in the middle of instruction bundles.

  If this macro is not defined, then `(*targetm.asm_out.internal_label)` will be used.

Macro: ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL (string, prefix, num) ¶

  A C statement to store into the string string a label whose name is made from the string prefix and the number num.

  This string, when output subsequently by `assemble_name`, should produce the output that `(*targetm.asm_out.internal_label)` would produce with the same prefix and num.

  If the string begins with ‘`*`’, then `assemble_name` will output the rest of the string unchanged. It is often convenient for `ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL` to use ‘`*`’ in this way. If the string doesn’t start with ‘`*`’, then `ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF` gets to output the string, and may change it. (Of course, `ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF` is also part of your machine description, so you should know what it does on your machine.)

Macro: ASM_FORMAT_PRIVATE_NAME (outvar, name, number) ¶

  A C expression to assign to outvar (which is a variable of type `char *`) a newly allocated string made from the string name and the number number, with some suitable punctuation added. Use `alloca` to get space for the string.

  The string will be used as an argument to `ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF` to produce an assembler label for an internal static variable whose name is name. Therefore, the string must be such as to result in valid assembler code. The argument number is different each time this macro is executed; it prevents conflicts between similarly-named internal static variables in different scopes.

  Ideally this string should not be a valid C identifier, to prevent any conflict with the user’s own symbols. Most assemblers allow periods or percent signs in assembler symbols; putting at least one of these between the name and the number will suffice.

  If this macro is not defined, a default definition will be provided which is correct for most systems.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DEF (stream, name, value) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream assembler code which defines (equates) the symbol name to have the value value.

  If `SET_ASM_OP` is defined, a default definition is provided which is correct for most systems.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DEF_FROM_DECLS (stream, decl_of_name, decl_of_value) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream assembler code which defines (equates) the symbol whose tree node is decl_of_name to have the value of the tree node decl_of_value. This macro will be used in preference to ‘`ASM_OUTPUT_DEF`’ if it is defined and if the tree nodes are available.

  If `SET_ASM_OP` is defined, a default definition is provided which is correct for most systems.

Macro: TARGET_DEFERRED_OUTPUT_DEFS (decl_of_name, decl_of_value) ¶

  A C statement that evaluates to true if the assembler code which defines (equates) the symbol whose tree node is decl_of_name to have the value of the tree node decl_of_value should be emitted near the end of the current compilation unit. The default is to not defer output of defines. This macro affects defines output by ‘`ASM_OUTPUT_DEF`’ and ‘`ASM_OUTPUT_DEF_FROM_DECLS`’.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_WEAK_ALIAS (stream, name, value) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream assembler code which defines (equates) the weak symbol name to have the value value. If value is `NULL`, it defines name as an undefined weak symbol.

  Define this macro if the target only supports weak aliases; define `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF` instead if possible.

Macro: OBJC_GEN_METHOD_LABEL (buf, is_inst, class_name, cat_name, sel_name) ¶

  Define this macro to override the default assembler names used for Objective-C methods.

  The default name is a unique method number followed by the name of the class (e.g. ‘`_1_Foo`’). For methods in categories, the name of the category is also included in the assembler name (e.g. ‘`_1_Foo_Bar`’).

  These names are safe on most systems, but make debugging difficult since the method’s selector is not present in the name. Therefore, particular systems define other ways of computing names.

  buf is an expression of type `char *` which gives you a buffer in which to store the name; its length is as long as class_name, cat_name and sel_name put together, plus 50 characters extra.

  The argument is_inst specifies whether the method is an instance method or a class method; class_name is the name of the class; cat_name is the name of the category (or `NULL` if the method is not in a category); and sel_name is the name of the selector.

  On systems where the assembler can handle quoted names, you can use this macro to provide more human-readable names.

#### 18.20.5 How Initialization Functions Are Handled ¶

The compiled code for certain languages includes constructors (also called initialization routines)—functions to initialize data in the program when the program is started. These functions need to be called before the program is “started”—that is to say, before `main` is called.

Compiling some languages generates destructors (also called termination routines) that should be called when the program terminates.

To make the initialization and termination functions work, the compiler must output something in the assembler code to cause those functions to be called at the appropriate time. When you port the compiler to a new system, you need to specify how to do this.

There are two major ways that GCC currently supports the execution of initialization and termination functions. Each way has two variants. Much of the structure is common to all four variations.

The linker must build two lists of these functions—a list of initialization functions, called `__CTOR_LIST__`, and a list of termination functions, called `__DTOR_LIST__`.

Each list always begins with an ignored function pointer (which may hold 0, −1, or a count of the function pointers after it, depending on the environment). This is followed by a series of zero or more function pointers to constructors (or destructors), followed by a function pointer containing zero.

Depending on the operating system and its executable file format, either `crtstuff.c` or `libgcc2.c` traverses these lists at startup time and exit time. Constructors are called in reverse order of the list; destructors in forward order.

The best way to handle static constructors works only for object file formats which provide arbitrarily-named sections. A section is set aside for a list of constructors, and another for a list of destructors. Traditionally these are called ‘`.ctors`’ and ‘`.dtors`’. Each object file that defines an initialization function also puts a word in the constructor section to point to that function. The linker accumulates all these words into one contiguous ‘`.ctors`’ section. Termination functions are handled similarly.

This method will be chosen as the default by `target-def.h` if `TARGET_ASM_NAMED_SECTION` is defined. A target that does not support arbitrary sections, but does support special designated constructor and destructor sections may define `CTORS_SECTION_ASM_OP` and `DTORS_SECTION_ASM_OP` to achieve the same effect.

When arbitrary sections are available, there are two variants, depending upon how the code in `crtstuff.c` is called. On systems that support a .init section which is executed at program startup, parts of `crtstuff.c` are compiled into that section. The program is linked by the `gcc` driver like this:

    ld -o output_file crti.o crtbegin.o ... -lgcc crtend.o crtn.o

The prologue of a function (`__init`) appears in the `.init` section of `crti.o`; the epilogue appears in `crtn.o`. Likewise for the function `__fini` in the .fini section. Normally these files are provided by the operating system or by the GNU C library, but are provided by GCC for a few targets.

The objects `crtbegin.o` and `crtend.o` are (for most targets) compiled from `crtstuff.c`. They contain, among other things, code fragments within the `.init` and `.fini` sections that branch to routines in the `.text` section. The linker will pull all parts of a section together, which results in a complete `__init` function that invokes the routines we need at startup.

To use this variant, you must define the `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP` macro properly.

If no init section is available, when GCC compiles any function called `main` (or more accurately, any function designated as a program entry point by the language front end calling `expand_main_function`), it inserts a procedure call to `__main` as the first executable code after the function prologue. The `__main` function is defined in `libgcc2.c` and runs the global constructors.

In file formats that don’t support arbitrary sections, there are again two variants. In the simplest variant, the GNU linker (GNU `ld`) and an ‘a.out’ format must be used. In this case, `TARGET_ASM_CONSTRUCTOR` is defined to produce a `.stabs` entry of type ‘`N_SETT`’, referencing the name `__CTOR_LIST__`, and with the address of the void function containing the initialization code as its value. The GNU linker recognizes this as a request to add the value to a set; the values are accumulated, and are eventually placed in the executable as a vector in the format described above, with a leading (ignored) count and a trailing zero element. `TARGET_ASM_DESTRUCTOR` is handled similarly. Since no init section is available, the absence of `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP` causes the compilation of `main` to call `__main` as above, starting the initialization process.

The last variant uses neither arbitrary sections nor the GNU linker. This is preferable when you want to do dynamic linking and when using file formats which the GNU linker does not support, such as ‘ECOFF’. In this case, `TARGET_HAVE_CTORS_DTORS` is false, initialization and termination functions are recognized simply by their names. This requires an extra program in the linkage step, called `collect2`. This program pretends to be the linker, for use with GCC; it does its job by running the ordinary linker, but also arranges to include the vectors of initialization and termination functions. These functions are called via `__main` as described above. In order to use this method, `use_collect2` must be defined in the target in `config.gcc`.

#### 18.20.6 Macros Controlling Initialization Routines ¶

Here are the macros that control how the compiler handles initialization and termination functions:

Macro: INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP ¶

  If defined, a C string constant, including spacing, for the assembler operation to identify the following data as initialization code. If not defined, GCC will assume such a section does not exist. When you are using special sections for initialization and termination functions, this macro also controls how `crtstuff.c` and `libgcc2.c` arrange to run the initialization functions.

Macro: HAS_INIT_SECTION ¶

  If defined, `main` will not call `__main` as described above. This macro should be defined for systems that control start-up code on a symbol-by-symbol basis, such as OSF/1, and should not be defined explicitly for systems that support `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP`.

Macro: LD_INIT_SWITCH ¶

  If defined, a C string constant for a switch that tells the linker that the following symbol is an initialization routine.

Macro: LD_FINI_SWITCH ¶

  If defined, a C string constant for a switch that tells the linker that the following symbol is a finalization routine.

Macro: COLLECT_SHARED_INIT_FUNC (stream, func) ¶

  If defined, a C statement that will write a function that can be automatically called when a shared library is loaded. The function should call func, which takes no arguments. If not defined, and the object format requires an explicit initialization function, then a function called `_GLOBAL__DI` will be generated.

  This function and the following one are used by collect2 when linking a shared library that needs constructors or destructors, or has DWARF2 exception tables embedded in the code.

Macro: COLLECT_SHARED_FINI_FUNC (stream, func) ¶

  If defined, a C statement that will write a function that can be automatically called when a shared library is unloaded. The function should call func, which takes no arguments. If not defined, and the object format requires an explicit finalization function, then a function called `_GLOBAL__DD` will be generated.

Macro: INVOKE__main ¶

  If defined, `main` will call `__main` despite the presence of `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP`. This macro should be defined for systems where the init section is not actually run automatically, but is still useful for collecting the lists of constructors and destructors.

Macro: SUPPORTS_INIT_PRIORITY ¶

  If nonzero, the C++ `init_priority` attribute is supported and the compiler should emit instructions to control the order of initialization of objects. If zero, the compiler will issue an error message upon encountering an `init_priority` attribute.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_CTORS_DTORS ¶

  This value is true if the target supports some “native” method of collecting constructors and destructors to be run at startup and exit. It is false if we must use `collect2`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_DTORS_FROM_CXA_ATEXIT ¶

  This value is true if the target wants destructors to be queued to be run from __cxa_atexit. If this is the case then, for each priority level, a new constructor will be entered that registers the destructors for that level with __cxa_atexit (and there will be no destructors emitted). It is false the method implied by `have_ctors_dtors` is used.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_CONSTRUCTOR `(rtx symbol, int priority)` ¶

  If defined, a function that outputs assembler code to arrange to call the function referenced by symbol at initialization time.

  Assume that symbol is a `SYMBOL_REF` for a function taking no arguments and with no return value. If the target supports initialization priorities, priority is a value between 0 and `MAX_INIT_PRIORITY`; otherwise it must be `DEFAULT_INIT_PRIORITY`.

  If this macro is not defined by the target, a suitable default will be chosen if (1) the target supports arbitrary section names, (2) the target defines `CTORS_SECTION_ASM_OP`, or (3) `USE_COLLECT2` is not defined.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_DESTRUCTOR `(rtx symbol, int priority)` ¶

  This is like `TARGET_ASM_CONSTRUCTOR` but used for termination functions rather than initialization functions.

If `TARGET_HAVE_CTORS_DTORS` is true, the initialization routine generated for the generated object file will have static linkage.

If your system uses `collect2` as the means of processing constructors, then that program normally uses `nm` to scan an object file for constructor functions to be called.

On certain kinds of systems, you can define this macro to make `collect2` work faster (and, in some cases, make it work at all):

Macro: OBJECT_FORMAT_COFF ¶

  Define this macro if the system uses COFF (Common Object File Format) object files, so that `collect2` can assume this format and scan object files directly for dynamic constructor/destructor functions.

  This macro is effective only in a native compiler; `collect2` as part of a cross compiler always uses `nm` for the target machine.

Macro: REAL_NM_FILE_NAME ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant containing the file name to use to execute `nm`. The default is to search the path normally for `nm`.

Macro: NM_FLAGS ¶

  `collect2` calls `nm` to scan object files for static constructors and destructors and LTO info. By default, `-n` is passed. Define `NM_FLAGS` to a C string constant if other options are needed to get the same output format as GNU `nm -n` produces.

If your system supports shared libraries and has a program to list the dynamic dependencies of a given library or executable, you can define these macros to enable support for running initialization and termination functions in shared libraries:

Macro: LDD_SUFFIX ¶

  Define this macro to a C string constant containing the name of the program which lists dynamic dependencies, like `ldd` under SunOS 4.

Macro: PARSE_LDD_OUTPUT (ptr) ¶

  Define this macro to be C code that extracts filenames from the output of the program denoted by `LDD_SUFFIX`. ptr is a variable of type `char *` that points to the beginning of a line of output from `LDD_SUFFIX`. If the line lists a dynamic dependency, the code must advance ptr to the beginning of the filename on that line. Otherwise, it must set ptr to `NULL`.

Macro: SHLIB_SUFFIX ¶

  Define this macro to a C string constant containing the default shared library extension of the target (e.g., ‘`".so"`’). `collect2` strips version information after this suffix when generating global constructor and destructor names. This define is only needed on targets that use `collect2` to process constructors and destructors.

#### 18.20.7 Output of Assembler Instructions ¶

This describes assembler instruction output.

Macro: REGISTER_NAMES ¶

  A C initializer containing the assembler’s names for the machine registers, each one as a C string constant. This is what translates register numbers in the compiler into assembler language.

Macro: ADDITIONAL_REGISTER_NAMES ¶

  If defined, a C initializer for an array of structures containing a name and a register number. This macro defines additional names for hard registers, thus allowing the `asm` option in declarations to refer to registers using alternate names.

Macro: OVERLAPPING_REGISTER_NAMES ¶

  If defined, a C initializer for an array of structures containing a name, a register number and a count of the number of consecutive machine registers the name overlaps. This macro defines additional names for hard registers, thus allowing the `asm` option in declarations to refer to registers using alternate names. Unlike `ADDITIONAL_REGISTER_NAMES`, this macro should be used when the register name implies multiple underlying registers.

  This macro should be used when it is important that a clobber in an `asm` statement clobbers all the underlying values implied by the register name. For example, on ARM, clobbering the double-precision VFP register “d0” implies clobbering both single-precision registers “s0” and “s1”.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_OPCODE (stream, ptr) ¶

  Define this macro if you are using an unusual assembler that requires different names for the machine instructions.

  The definition is a C statement or statements which output an assembler instruction opcode to the stdio stream stream. The macro-operand ptr is a variable of type `char *` which points to the opcode name in its “internal” form—the form that is written in the machine description. The definition should output the opcode name to stream, performing any translation you desire, and increment the variable ptr to point at the end of the opcode so that it will not be output twice.

  In fact, your macro definition may process less than the entire opcode name, or more than the opcode name; but if you want to process text that includes ‘`%`’-sequences to substitute operands, you must take care of the substitution yourself. Just be sure to increment ptr over whatever text should not be output normally.

  If you need to look at the operand values, they can be found as the elements of `recog_data.operand`.

  If the macro definition does nothing, the instruction is output in the usual way.

Macro: FINAL_PRESCAN_INSN (insn, opvec, noperands) ¶

  If defined, a C statement to be executed just prior to the output of assembler code for insn, to modify the extracted operands so they will be output differently.

  Here the argument opvec is the vector containing the operands extracted from insn, and noperands is the number of elements of the vector which contain meaningful data for this insn. The contents of this vector are what will be used to convert the insn template into assembler code, so you can change the assembler output by changing the contents of the vector.

  This macro is useful when various assembler syntaxes share a single file of instruction patterns; by defining this macro differently, you can cause a large class of instructions to be output differently (such as with rearranged operands). Naturally, variations in assembler syntax affecting individual insn patterns ought to be handled by writing conditional output routines in those patterns.

  If this macro is not defined, it is equivalent to a null statement.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_FINAL_POSTSCAN_INSN `(FILE *file, rtx_insn *insn, rtx *opvec, int noperands)` ¶

  If defined, this target hook is a function which is executed just after the output of assembler code for insn, to change the mode of the assembler if necessary.

  Here the argument opvec is the vector containing the operands extracted from insn, and noperands is the number of elements of the vector which contain meaningful data for this insn. The contents of this vector are what was used to convert the insn template into assembler code, so you can change the assembler mode by checking the contents of the vector.

Macro: PRINT_OPERAND (stream, x, code) ¶

  A C compound statement to output to stdio stream stream the assembler syntax for an instruction operand x. x is an RTL expression.

  code is a value that can be used to specify one of several ways of printing the operand. It is used when identical operands must be printed differently depending on the context. code comes from the ‘`%`’ specification that was used to request printing of the operand. If the specification was just ‘`%digit`’ then code is 0; if the specification was ‘`%ltr digit`’ then code is the ASCII code for ltr.

  If x is a register, this macro should print the register’s name. The names can be found in an array `reg_names` whose type is `char *[]`. `reg_names` is initialized from `REGISTER_NAMES`.

  When the machine description has a specification ‘`%punct`’ (a ‘`%`’ followed by a punctuation character), this macro is called with a null pointer for x and the punctuation character for code.

Macro: PRINT_OPERAND_PUNCT_VALID_P (code) ¶

  A C expression which evaluates to true if code is a valid punctuation character for use in the `PRINT_OPERAND` macro. If `PRINT_OPERAND_PUNCT_VALID_P` is not defined, it means that no punctuation characters (except for the standard one, ‘`%`’) are used in this way.

Macro: PRINT_OPERAND_ADDRESS (stream, x) ¶

  A C compound statement to output to stdio stream stream the assembler syntax for an instruction operand that is a memory reference whose address is x. x is an RTL expression.

  On some machines, the syntax for a symbolic address depends on the section that the address refers to. On these machines, define the hook `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` to store the information into the `symbol_ref`, and then check for it here. See Defining the Output Assembler Language.

Macro: DBR_OUTPUT_SEQEND (file) ¶

  A C statement, to be executed after all slot-filler instructions have been output. If necessary, call `dbr_sequence_length` to determine the number of slots filled in a sequence (zero if not currently outputting a sequence), to decide how many no-ops to output, or whatever.

  Don’t define this macro if it has nothing to do, but it is helpful in reading assembly output if the extent of the delay sequence is made explicit (e.g. with white space).

Note that output routines for instructions with delay slots must be prepared to deal with not being output as part of a sequence (i.e. when the scheduling pass is not run, or when no slot fillers could be found.) The variable `final_sequence` is null when not processing a sequence, otherwise it contains the `sequence` rtx being output.

Macro: REGISTER_PREFIX ¶
Macro: LOCAL_LABEL_PREFIX ¶
Macro: USER_LABEL_PREFIX ¶
Macro: IMMEDIATE_PREFIX ¶

  If defined, C string expressions to be used for the ‘`%R`’, ‘`%L`’, ‘`%U`’, and ‘`%I`’ options of `asm_fprintf` (see `final.cc`). These are useful when a single `md` file must support multiple assembler formats. In that case, the various `tm.h` files can define these macros differently.

Macro: ASM_FPRINTF_EXTENSIONS (file, argptr, format) ¶

  If defined this macro should expand to a series of `case` statements which will be parsed inside the `switch` statement of the `asm_fprintf` function. This allows targets to define extra printf formats which may useful when generating their assembler statements. Note that uppercase letters are reserved for future generic extensions to asm_fprintf, and so are not available to target specific code. The output file is given by the parameter file. The varargs input pointer is argptr and the rest of the format string, starting the character after the one that is being switched upon, is pointed to by format.

Macro: ASSEMBLER_DIALECT ¶

  If your target supports multiple dialects of assembler language (such as different opcodes), define this macro as a C expression that gives the numeric index of the assembler language dialect to use, with zero as the first variant.

  If this macro is defined, you may use constructs of the form

      ‘{option0|option1|option2...}’

  in the output templates of patterns (see Output Templates and Operand Substitution) or in the first argument of `asm_fprintf`. This construct outputs ‘`option0`’, ‘`option1`’, ‘`option2`’, etc., if the value of `ASSEMBLER_DIALECT` is zero, one, two, etc. Any special characters within these strings retain their usual meaning. If there are fewer alternatives within the braces than the value of `ASSEMBLER_DIALECT`, the construct outputs nothing. If it’s needed to print curly braces or ‘`|`’ character in assembler output directly, ‘`%{`’, ‘`%}`’ and ‘`%|`’ can be used.

  If you do not define this macro, the characters ‘`{`’, ‘`|`’ and ‘`}`’ do not have any special meaning when used in templates or operands to `asm_fprintf`.

  Define the macros `REGISTER_PREFIX`, `LOCAL_LABEL_PREFIX`, `USER_LABEL_PREFIX` and `IMMEDIATE_PREFIX` if you can express the variations in assembler language syntax with that mechanism. Define `ASSEMBLER_DIALECT` and use the ‘`{option0|option1}`’ syntax if the syntax variant are larger and involve such things as different opcodes or operand order.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_REG_PUSH (stream, regno) ¶

  A C expression to output to stream some assembler code which will push hard register number regno onto the stack. The code need not be optimal, since this macro is used only when profiling.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_REG_POP (stream, regno) ¶

  A C expression to output to stream some assembler code which will pop hard register number regno off of the stack. The code need not be optimal, since this macro is used only when profiling.

#### 18.20.8 Output of Dispatch Tables ¶

This concerns dispatch tables.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ADDR_DIFF_ELT (stream, body, value, rel) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream an assembler pseudo-instruction to generate a difference between two labels. value and rel are the numbers of two internal labels. The definitions of these labels are output using `(*targetm.asm_out.internal_label)`, and they must be printed in the same way here. For example,

      fprintf (stream, "\t.word L%d-L%d\n",
               value, rel)

  You must provide this macro on machines where the addresses in a dispatch table are relative to the table’s own address. If defined, GCC will also use this macro on all machines when producing PIC. body is the body of the `ADDR_DIFF_VEC`; it is provided so that the mode and flags can be read.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ADDR_VEC_ELT (stream, value) ¶

  This macro should be provided on machines where the addresses in a dispatch table are absolute.

  The definition should be a C statement to output to the stdio stream stream an assembler pseudo-instruction to generate a reference to a label. value is the number of an internal label whose definition is output using `(*targetm.asm_out.internal_label)`. For example,

      fprintf (stream, "\t.word L%d\n", value)

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_CASE_LABEL (stream, prefix, num, table) ¶

  Define this if the label before a jump-table needs to be output specially. The first three arguments are the same as for `(*targetm.asm_out.internal_label)`; the fourth argument is the jump-table which follows (a `jump_table_data` containing an `addr_vec` or `addr_diff_vec`).

  This feature is used on system V to output a `swbeg` statement for the table.

  If this macro is not defined, these labels are output with `(*targetm.asm_out.internal_label)`.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_CASE_END (stream, num, table) ¶

  Define this if something special must be output at the end of a jump-table. The definition should be a C statement to be executed after the assembler code for the table is written. It should write the appropriate code to stdio stream stream. The argument table is the jump-table insn, and num is the label-number of the preceding label.

  If this macro is not defined, nothing special is output at the end of the jump-table.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_POST_CFI_STARTPROC `(FILE *, tree)` ¶

  This target hook is used to emit assembly strings required by the target after the .cfi_startproc directive. The first argument is the file stream to write the strings to and the second argument is the function’s declaration. The expected use is to add more .cfi_* directives.

  The default is to not output any assembly strings.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_EMIT_UNWIND_LABEL `(FILE *stream, tree decl, int for_eh, int empty)` ¶

  This target hook emits a label at the beginning of each FDE. It should be defined on targets where FDEs need special labels, and it should write the appropriate label, for the FDE associated with the function declaration decl, to the stdio stream stream. The third argument, for_eh, is a boolean: true if this is for an exception table. The fourth argument, empty, is a boolean: true if this is a placeholder label for an omitted FDE.

  The default is that FDEs are not given nonlocal labels.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_EMIT_EXCEPT_TABLE_LABEL `(FILE *stream)` ¶

  This target hook emits a label at the beginning of the exception table. It should be defined on targets where it is desirable for the table to be broken up according to function.

  The default is that no label is emitted.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_EMIT_EXCEPT_PERSONALITY `(rtx personality)` ¶

  If the target implements `TARGET_ASM_UNWIND_EMIT`, this hook may be used to emit a directive to install a personality hook into the unwind info. This hook should not be used if dwarf2 unwind info is used.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_UNWIND_EMIT `(FILE *stream, rtx_insn *insn)` ¶

  This target hook emits assembly directives required to unwind the given instruction. This is only used when `TARGET_EXCEPT_UNWIND_INFO` returns `UI_TARGET`.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_ASM_MAKE_EH_SYMBOL_INDIRECT `(rtx origsymbol, bool pubvis)` ¶

  If necessary, modify personality and LSDA references to handle indirection. The original symbol is in `origsymbol` and if `pubvis` is true the symbol is visible outside the TU.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_UNWIND_EMIT_BEFORE_INSN ¶

  True if the `TARGET_ASM_UNWIND_EMIT` hook should be called before the assembly for insn has been emitted, false if the hook should be called afterward.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_SHOULD_RESTORE_CFA_STATE `(void)` ¶

  For DWARF-based unwind frames, two CFI instructions provide for save and restore of register state. GCC maintains the current frame address (CFA) separately from the register bank but the unwinder in libgcc preserves this state along with the registers (and this is expected by the code that writes the unwind frames). This hook allows the target to specify that the CFA data is not saved/restored along with the registers by the target unwinder so that suitable additional instructions should be emitted to restore it.

#### 18.20.9 Assembler Commands for Exception Regions ¶

This describes commands marking the start and the end of an exception region.

Macro: EH_FRAME_SECTION_NAME ¶

  If defined, a C string constant for the name of the section containing exception handling frame unwind information. If not defined, GCC will provide a default definition if the target supports named sections. `crtstuff.c` uses this macro to switch to the appropriate section.

  You should define this symbol if your target supports DWARF 2 frame unwind information and the default definition does not work.

Macro: EH_FRAME_THROUGH_COLLECT2 ¶

  If defined, DWARF 2 frame unwind information will identified by specially named labels. The collect2 process will locate these labels and generate code to register the frames.

  This might be necessary, for instance, if the system linker will not place the eh_frames in-between the sentinals from `crtstuff.c`, or if the system linker does garbage collection and sections cannot be marked as not to be collected.

Macro: EH_TABLES_CAN_BE_READ_ONLY ¶

  Define this macro to 1 if your target is such that no frame unwind information encoding used with non-PIC code will ever require a runtime relocation, but the linker may not support merging read-only and read-write sections into a single read-write section.

Macro: MASK_RETURN_ADDR ¶

  An rtx used to mask the return address found via `RETURN_ADDR_RTX`, so that it does not contain any extraneous set bits in it.

Macro: DWARF2_UNWIND_INFO ¶

  Define this macro to 0 if your target supports DWARF 2 frame unwind information, but it does not yet work with exception handling. Otherwise, if your target supports this information (if it defines `INCOMING_RETURN_ADDR_RTX` and `OBJECT_FORMAT_ELF`), GCC will provide a default definition of 1.

Common Target Hook: `enum unwind_info_type` TARGET_EXCEPT_UNWIND_INFO `(struct gcc_options *opts)` ¶

  This hook defines the mechanism that will be used for exception handling by the target. If the target has ABI specified unwind tables, the hook should return `UI_TARGET`. If the target is to use the `setjmp`/`longjmp`-based exception handling scheme, the hook should return `UI_SJLJ`. If the target supports DWARF 2 frame unwind information, the hook should return `UI_DWARF2`.

  A target may, if exceptions are disabled, choose to return `UI_NONE`. This may end up simplifying other parts of target-specific code. The default implementation of this hook never returns `UI_NONE`.

  Note that the value returned by this hook should be constant. It should not depend on anything except the command-line switches described by opts. In particular, the setting `UI_SJLJ` must be fixed at compiler start-up as C pre-processor macros and builtin functions related to exception handling are set up depending on this setting.

  The default implementation of the hook first honors the `--enable-sjlj-exceptions` configure option, then `DWARF2_UNWIND_INFO`, and finally defaults to `UI_SJLJ`. If `DWARF2_UNWIND_INFO` depends on command-line options, the target must define this hook so that opts is used correctly.

Common Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_UNWIND_TABLES_DEFAULT ¶

  This variable should be set to `true` if the target ABI requires unwinding tables even when exceptions are not used. It must not be modified by command-line option processing.

Macro: DONT_USE_BUILTIN_SETJMP ¶

  Define this macro to 1 if the `setjmp`/`longjmp`-based scheme should use the `setjmp`/`longjmp` functions from the C library instead of the `__builtin_setjmp`/`__builtin_longjmp` machinery.

Macro: JMP_BUF_SIZE ¶

  This macro has no effect unless `DONT_USE_BUILTIN_SETJMP` is also defined. Define this macro if the default size of `jmp_buf` buffer for the `setjmp`/`longjmp`-based exception handling mechanism is not large enough, or if it is much too large. The default size is `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER * sizeof(void *)`.

Macro: DWARF_CIE_DATA_ALIGNMENT ¶

  This macro need only be defined if the target might save registers in the function prologue at an offset to the stack pointer that is not aligned to `UNITS_PER_WORD`. The definition should be the negative minimum alignment if `STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD` is true, and the positive minimum alignment otherwise. See Macros for DWARF Output. Only applicable if the target supports DWARF 2 frame unwind information.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_TERMINATE_DW2_EH_FRAME_INFO ¶

  Contains the value true if the target should add a zero word onto the end of a Dwarf-2 frame info section when used for exception handling. Default value is false if `EH_FRAME_SECTION_NAME` is defined, and true otherwise.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_DWARF_REGISTER_SPAN `(rtx reg)` ¶

  Given a register, this hook should return a parallel of registers to represent where to find the register pieces. Define this hook if the register and its mode are represented in Dwarf in non-contiguous locations, or if the register should be represented in more than one register in Dwarf. Otherwise, this hook should return `NULL_RTX`. If not defined, the default is to return `NULL_RTX`.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_DWARF_FRAME_REG_MODE `(int regno)` ¶

  Given a register, this hook should return the mode which the corresponding Dwarf frame register should have. This is normally used to return a smaller mode than the raw mode to prevent call clobbered parts of a register altering the frame register size

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_INIT_DWARF_REG_SIZES_EXTRA `(tree address)` ¶

  If some registers are represented in Dwarf-2 unwind information in multiple pieces, define this hook to fill in information about the sizes of those pieces in the table used by the unwinder at runtime. It will be called by `expand_builtin_init_dwarf_reg_sizes` after filling in a single size corresponding to each hard register; address is the address of the table.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ASM_TTYPE `(rtx sym)` ¶

  This hook is used to output a reference from a frame unwinding table to the type_info object identified by sym. It should return `true` if the reference was output. Returning `false` will cause the reference to be output using the normal Dwarf2 routines.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ARM_EABI_UNWINDER ¶

  This flag should be set to `true` on targets that use an ARM EABI based unwinding library, and `false` on other targets. This effects the format of unwinding tables, and how the unwinder in entered after running a cleanup. The default is `false`.

#### 18.20.10 Assembler Commands for Alignment ¶

This describes commands for alignment.

Macro: JUMP_ALIGN (label) ¶

  The alignment (log base 2) to put in front of label, which is a common destination of jumps and has no fallthru incoming edge.

  This macro need not be defined if you don’t want any special alignment to be done at such a time. Most machine descriptions do not currently define the macro.

  Unless it’s necessary to inspect the label parameter, it is better to set the variable align_jumps in the target’s `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE`. Otherwise, you should try to honor the user’s selection in align_jumps in a `JUMP_ALIGN` implementation.

Macro: LABEL_ALIGN_AFTER_BARRIER (label) ¶

  The alignment (log base 2) to put in front of label, which follows a `BARRIER`.

  This macro need not be defined if you don’t want any special alignment to be done at such a time. Most machine descriptions do not currently define the macro.

Macro: LOOP_ALIGN (label) ¶

  The alignment (log base 2) to put in front of label that heads a frequently executed basic block (usually the header of a loop).

  This macro need not be defined if you don’t want any special alignment to be done at such a time. Most machine descriptions do not currently define the macro.

  Unless it’s necessary to inspect the label parameter, it is better to set the variable `align_loops` in the target’s `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE`. Otherwise, you should try to honor the user’s selection in `align_loops` in a `LOOP_ALIGN` implementation.

Macro: LABEL_ALIGN (label) ¶

  The alignment (log base 2) to put in front of label. If `LABEL_ALIGN_AFTER_BARRIER` / `LOOP_ALIGN` specify a different alignment, the maximum of the specified values is used.

  Unless it’s necessary to inspect the label parameter, it is better to set the variable `align_labels` in the target’s `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE`. Otherwise, you should try to honor the user’s selection in `align_labels` in a `LABEL_ALIGN` implementation.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_SKIP (stream, nbytes) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream an assembler instruction to advance the location counter by nbytes bytes. Those bytes should be zero when loaded. nbytes will be a C expression of type `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT`.

Macro: ASM_NO_SKIP_IN_TEXT ¶

  Define this macro if `ASM_OUTPUT_SKIP` should not be used in the text section because it fails to put zeros in the bytes that are skipped. This is true on many Unix systems, where the pseudo–op to skip bytes produces no-op instructions rather than zeros when used in the text section.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (stream, power) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream an assembler command to advance the location counter to a multiple of 2 to the power bytes. power will be a C expression of type `int`.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN_WITH_NOP (stream, power) ¶

  Like `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN`, except that the “nop” instruction is used for padding, if necessary.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_MAX_SKIP_ALIGN (stream, power, max_skip) ¶

  A C statement to output to the stdio stream stream an assembler command to advance the location counter to a multiple of 2 to the power bytes, but only if max_skip or fewer bytes are needed to satisfy the alignment request. power and max_skip will be a C expression of type `int`.

### 18.21 Controlling Debugging Information Format ¶

This describes how to specify debugging information.

#### 18.21.1 Macros Affecting All Debugging Formats ¶

These macros affect all debugging formats.

Macro: DEBUGGER_REGNO (regno) ¶

  A C expression that returns the debugger register number for the compiler register number regno. In the default macro provided, the value of this expression will be regno itself. But sometimes there are some registers that the compiler knows about and debugger does not, or vice versa. In such cases, some register may need to have one number in the compiler and another for debugger.

  If two registers have consecutive numbers inside GCC, and they can be used as a pair to hold a multiword value, then they must have consecutive numbers after renumbering with `DEBUGGER_REGNO`. Otherwise, debuggers will be unable to access such a pair, because they expect register pairs to be consecutive in their own numbering scheme.

  If you find yourself defining `DEBUGGER_REGNO` in way that does not preserve register pairs, then what you must do instead is redefine the actual register numbering scheme.

Macro: DEBUGGER_AUTO_OFFSET (x) ¶

  A C expression that returns the integer offset value for an automatic variable having address x (an RTL expression). The default computation assumes that x is based on the frame-pointer and gives the offset from the frame-pointer. This is required for targets that produce debugging output for debugger and allow the frame-pointer to be eliminated when the `-g` option is used.

Macro: DEBUGGER_ARG_OFFSET (offset, x) ¶

  A C expression that returns the integer offset value for an argument having address x (an RTL expression). The nominal offset is offset.

Macro: PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE ¶

  A C expression that returns the type of debugging output GCC should produce when the user specifies just `-g`. Define this if you have arranged for GCC to support more than one format of debugging output. Currently, the allowable values are `DWARF2_DEBUG`, `VMS_DEBUG`, and `VMS_AND_DWARF2_DEBUG`.

  When the user specifies `-ggdb`, GCC normally also uses the value of this macro to select the debugging output format, but with two exceptions. If `DWARF2_DEBUGGING_INFO` is defined, GCC uses the value `DWARF2_DEBUG`.

  The value of this macro only affects the default debugging output; the user can always get a specific type of output by using `-gdwarf-2`, or `-gvms`.

Macro: DEFAULT_GDB_EXTENSIONS ¶

  Define this macro to control whether GCC should by default generate GDB’s extended version of debugging information. If you don’t define the macro, the default is 1: always generate the extended information if there is any occasion to.

#### 18.21.2 Macros for DWARF Output ¶

Here are macros for DWARF output.

Macro: DWARF2_DEBUGGING_INFO ¶

  Define this macro if GCC should produce dwarf version 2 format debugging output in response to the `-g` option.

  To support optional call frame debugging information, you must also define `INCOMING_RETURN_ADDR_RTX` and either set `RTX_FRAME_RELATED_P` on the prologue insns if you use RTL for the prologue, or call `dwarf2out_def_cfa` and `dwarf2out_reg_save` as appropriate from `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE` if you don’t.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_DWARF_CALLING_CONVENTION `(const_tree function)` ¶

  Define this to enable the dwarf attribute `DW_AT_calling_convention` to be emitted for each function. Instead of an integer return the enum value for the `DW_CC_` tag.

Macro: DWARF2_FRAME_INFO ¶

  Define this macro to a nonzero value if GCC should always output Dwarf 2 frame information. If `TARGET_EXCEPT_UNWIND_INFO` (see Assembler Commands for Exception Regions) returns `UI_DWARF2`, and exceptions are enabled, GCC will output this information not matter how you define `DWARF2_FRAME_INFO`.

Target Hook: `enum unwind_info_type` TARGET_DEBUG_UNWIND_INFO `(void)` ¶

  This hook defines the mechanism that will be used for describing frame unwind information to the debugger. Normally the hook will return `UI_DWARF2` if DWARF 2 debug information is enabled, and return `UI_NONE` otherwise.

  A target may return `UI_DWARF2` even when DWARF 2 debug information is disabled in order to always output DWARF 2 frame information.

  A target may return `UI_TARGET` if it has ABI specified unwind tables. This will suppress generation of the normal debug frame unwind information.

Macro: DWARF2_ASM_LINE_DEBUG_INFO ¶

  Define this macro to be a nonzero value if the assembler can generate Dwarf 2 line debug info sections. This will result in much more compact line number tables, and hence is desirable if it works.

Macro: DWARF2_ASM_VIEW_DEBUG_INFO ¶

  Define this macro to be a nonzero value if the assembler supports view assignment and verification in `.loc`. If it does not, but the user enables location views, the compiler may have to fallback to internal line number tables.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_RESET_LOCATION_VIEW `(rtx_insn *)` ¶

  This hook, if defined, enables -ginternal-reset-location-views, and uses its result to override cases in which the estimated min insn length might be nonzero even when a PC advance (i.e., a view reset) cannot be taken for granted.

  If the hook is defined, it must return a positive value to indicate the insn definitely advances the PC, and so the view number can be safely assumed to be reset; a negative value to mean the insn definitely does not advance the PC, and os the view number must not be reset; or zero to decide based on the estimated insn length.

  If insn length is to be regarded as reliable, set the hook to `hook_int_rtx_insn_0`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_WANT_DEBUG_PUB_SECTIONS ¶

  True if the `.debug_pubtypes` and `.debug_pubnames` sections should be emitted. These sections are not used on most platforms, and in particular GDB does not use them.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_DELAY_SCHED2 ¶

  True if sched2 is not to be run at its normal place. This usually means it will be run as part of machine-specific reorg.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_DELAY_VARTRACK ¶

  True if vartrack is not to be run at its normal place. This usually means it will be run as part of machine-specific reorg.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_NO_REGISTER_ALLOCATION ¶

  True if register allocation and the passes following it should not be run. Usually true only for virtual assembler targets.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_DELTA (stream, size, label1, label2) ¶

  A C statement to issue assembly directives that create a difference lab1 minus lab2, using an integer of the given size.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_VMS_DELTA (stream, size, label1, label2) ¶

  A C statement to issue assembly directives that create a difference between the two given labels in system defined units, e.g. instruction slots on IA64 VMS, using an integer of the given size.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_OFFSET (stream, size, label, offset, section) ¶

  A C statement to issue assembly directives that create a section-relative reference to the given label plus offset, using an integer of the given size. The label is known to be defined in the given section.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_PCREL (stream, size, label) ¶

  A C statement to issue assembly directives that create a self-relative reference to the given label, using an integer of the given size.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_DATAREL (stream, size, label) ¶

  A C statement to issue assembly directives that create a reference to the given label relative to the dbase, using an integer of the given size.

Macro: ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_TABLE_REF (label) ¶

  A C statement to issue assembly directives that create a reference to the DWARF table identifier label from the current section. This is used on some systems to avoid garbage collecting a DWARF table which is referenced by a function.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_DTPREL `(FILE *file, int size, rtx x)` ¶

  If defined, this target hook is a function which outputs a DTP-relative reference to the given TLS symbol of the specified size.

#### 18.21.3 Macros for VMS Debug Format ¶

Here are macros for VMS debug format.

Macro: VMS_DEBUGGING_INFO ¶

  Define this macro if GCC should produce debugging output for VMS in response to the `-g` option. The default behavior for VMS is to generate minimal debug info for a traceback in the absence of `-g` unless explicitly overridden with `-g0`. This behavior is controlled by `TARGET_OPTION_OPTIMIZATION` and `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE`.

#### 18.21.4 Macros for CTF Debug Format ¶

Here are macros for CTF debug format.

Macro: CTF_DEBUGGING_INFO ¶

  Define this macro if GCC should produce debugging output in CTF debug format in response to the `-gctf` option.

#### 18.21.5 Macros for BTF Debug Format ¶

Here are macros for BTF debug format.

Macro: BTF_DEBUGGING_INFO ¶

  Define this macro if GCC should produce debugging output in BTF debug format in response to the `-gbtf` option.

### 18.22 Cross Compilation and Floating Point ¶

While all modern machines use twos-complement representation for integers, there are a variety of representations for floating point numbers. This means that in a cross-compiler the representation of floating point numbers in the compiled program may be different from that used in the machine doing the compilation.

Because different representation systems may offer different amounts of range and precision, all floating point constants must be represented in the target machine’s format. Therefore, the cross compiler cannot safely use the host machine’s floating point arithmetic; it must emulate the target’s arithmetic. To ensure consistency, GCC always uses emulation to work with floating point values, even when the host and target floating point formats are identical.

The following macros are provided by `real.h` for the compiler to use. All parts of the compiler which generate or optimize floating-point calculations must use these macros. They may evaluate their operands more than once, so operands must not have side effects.

Macro: REAL_VALUE_TYPE ¶

  The C data type to be used to hold a floating point value in the target machine’s format. Typically this is a `struct` containing an array of `HOST_WIDE_INT`, but all code should treat it as an opaque quantity.

Macro: `HOST_WIDE_INT` REAL_VALUE_FIX `(REAL_VALUE_TYPE x)` ¶

  Truncates x to a signed integer, rounding toward zero.

Macro: `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT` REAL_VALUE_UNSIGNED_FIX `(REAL_VALUE_TYPE x)` ¶

  Truncates x to an unsigned integer, rounding toward zero. If x is negative, returns zero.

Macro: `REAL_VALUE_TYPE` REAL_VALUE_ATOF `(const char *string, machine_mode mode)` ¶

  Converts string into a floating point number in the target machine’s representation for mode mode. This routine can handle both decimal and hexadecimal floating point constants, using the syntax defined by the C language for both.

Macro: `int` REAL_VALUE_NEGATIVE `(REAL_VALUE_TYPE x)` ¶

  Returns 1 if x is negative (including negative zero), 0 otherwise.

Macro: `int` REAL_VALUE_ISINF `(REAL_VALUE_TYPE x)` ¶

  Determines whether x represents infinity (positive or negative).

Macro: `int` REAL_VALUE_ISNAN `(REAL_VALUE_TYPE x)` ¶

  Determines whether x represents a “NaN” (not-a-number).

Macro: `REAL_VALUE_TYPE` REAL_VALUE_NEGATE `(REAL_VALUE_TYPE x)` ¶

  Returns the negative of the floating point value x.

Macro: `REAL_VALUE_TYPE` REAL_VALUE_ABS `(REAL_VALUE_TYPE x)` ¶

  Returns the absolute value of x.

### 18.23 Mode Switching Instructions ¶

The following macros control mode switching optimizations:

Macro: OPTIMIZE_MODE_SWITCHING (entity) ¶

  Define this macro if the port needs extra instructions inserted for mode switching.

  For an example, the SH4 can perform both single and double precision floating point operations, but to perform a single precision operation, the FPSCR PR bit has to be cleared, while for a double precision operation, this bit has to be set. Changing the PR bit requires a general purpose register as a scratch register, hence these FPSCR sets have to be inserted before reload, i.e. you cannot put this into instruction emitting or `TARGET_MACHINE_DEPENDENT_REORG`.

  You can have multiple entities that are mode-switched, some of which might only be needed conditionally. The entities are identified by their index into the `NUM_MODES_FOR_MODE_SWITCHING` initializer, with the length of the initializer determining the number of entities.

  `OPTIMIZE_MODE_SWITCHING` should return nonzero for any entity that needs mode-switching.

  If you define this macro, you also have to define `NUM_MODES_FOR_MODE_SWITCHING`, `TARGET_MODE_NEEDED`, `TARGET_MODE_PRIORITY` and `TARGET_MODE_EMIT`. The other macros in this section are optional.

Macro: NUM_MODES_FOR_MODE_SWITCHING ¶

  If you define `OPTIMIZE_MODE_SWITCHING`, you have to define this as initializer for an array of integers. Each initializer element N refers to an entity that needs mode switching, and specifies the number of different modes that are defined for that entity. The position of the element in the initializer—starting counting at zero—determines the integer that is used to refer to the mode-switched entity in question. Modes are represented as numbers 0 … N − 1. In mode arguments and return values, N either represents an unknown mode or “no mode”, depending on context.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_MODE_EMIT `(int entity, int mode, int prev_mode, HARD_REG_SET regs_live)` ¶

  Generate one or more insns to set entity to mode. hard_reg_live is the set of hard registers live at the point where the insn(s) are to be inserted. prev_moxde indicates the mode to switch from, or is the number of modes if the previous mode is not known. Sets of a lower numbered entity will be emitted before sets of a higher numbered entity to a mode of the same or lower priority.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_NEEDED `(int entity, rtx_insn *insn, HARD_REG_SET regs_live)` ¶

  entity is an integer specifying a mode-switched entity. If `OPTIMIZE_MODE_SWITCHING` is defined, you must define this hook to return the mode that entity must be switched into prior to the execution of insn, or the number of modes if insn has no such requirement. regs_live contains the set of hard registers that are live before insn.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_AFTER `(int entity, int mode, rtx_insn *insn, HARD_REG_SET regs_live)` ¶

  entity is an integer specifying a mode-switched entity. If this hook is defined, it is evaluated for every insn during mode switching. It returns the mode that entity is in after insn has been executed. mode is the mode that entity was in before insn was executed, taking account of TARGET_MODE_NEEDED. regs_live is the set of hard registers that are live after insn has been executed.

  mode is equal to the number of modes defined for entity if the mode before insn is unknown. The hook should likewise return the number of modes if it does not know what mode entity has after insn.

  Not defining the hook is equivalent to returning mode.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_CONFLUENCE `(int entity, int mode1, int mode2)` ¶

  By default, the mode-switching pass assumes that a given entity’s modes are mutually exclusive. This means that the pass can only tell `TARGET_MODE_EMIT` about an entity’s previous mode if all incoming paths of execution leave the entity in the same state.

  However, some entities might have overlapping, non-exclusive modes, so that it is sometimes possible to represent “mode mode1 or mode mode2” with something more specific than “mode not known”. If this is true for at least one entity, you should define this hook and make it return a mode that includes mode1 and mode2 as possibilities. (The mode can include other possibilities too.) The hook should return the number of modes if no suitable mode exists for the given arguments.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_BACKPROP `(int entity, int mode1, int mode2)` ¶

  If defined, the mode-switching pass uses this hook to back-propagate mode requirements through blocks that have no mode requirements of their own. Specifically, mode1 is the mode that entity has on exit from a block B1 (say) and mode2 is the mode that the next block requires entity to have. B1 does not have any mode requirements of its own.

  The hook should return the mode that it prefers or requires entity to have in B1, or the number of modes if there is no such requirement. If the hook returns a required mode for more than one of B1’s outgoing edges, those modes are combined as for `TARGET_MODE_CONFLUENCE`.

  For example, suppose there is a “one-shot” entity that, for a given execution of a function, either stays off or makes exactly one transition from off to on. It is safe to make the transition at any time, but it is better not to do so unnecessarily. This hook allows the function to manage such an entity without having to track its state at runtime. Specifically. the entity would have two modes, 0 for off and 1 for on, with 2 representing “don’t know”. The system is forbidden from transitioning from 2 to 1, since 2 represents the possibility that the entity is already on (and the aim is to avoid having to emit code to check for that case). This hook would therefore return 1 when mode1 is 2 and mode2 is 1, which would force the entity to be on in the source block. Applying this inductively would remove all transitions in which the previous state is unknown.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_ENTRY `(int entity)` ¶

  If this hook is defined, it is evaluated for every entity that needs mode switching. It should return the mode that entity is guaranteed to be in on entry to the function, or the number of modes if there is no such guarantee. If `TARGET_MODE_ENTRY` is defined then `TARGET_MODE_EXIT` must be defined.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_EXIT `(int entity)` ¶

  If this hook is defined, it is evaluated for every entity that needs mode switching. It should return the mode that entity must be in on return from the function, or the number of modes if there is no such requirement. If `TARGET_MODE_EXIT` is defined then `TARGET_MODE_ENTRY` must be defined.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_EH_HANDLER `(int entity)` ¶

  If this hook is defined, it should return the mode that entity is guaranteed to be in on entry to an exception handler, or the number of modes if there is no such guarantee.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_PRIORITY `(int entity, int n)` ¶

  This hook specifies the order in which modes for entity are processed. 0 is the highest priority, `NUM_MODES_FOR_MODE_SWITCHING[entity] - 1` the lowest. The hook returns an integer designating a mode for entity. For any fixed entity, `mode_priority` (entity, n) shall be a bijection in 0 … `num_modes_for_mode_switching[entity] - 1`.

### 18.24 Defining target-specific uses of `__attribute__` ¶

Target-specific attributes may be defined for functions, data and types. These are described using the following target hooks; they also need to be documented in `extend.texi`.

Target Hook: `array_slice<const struct scoped_attribute_specs *const>` TARGET_ATTRIBUTE_TABLE ¶

  If defined, this target hook provides an array of ‘`scoped_attribute_spec`’s (defined in `attribs.h`) that specify the machine-specific attributes for this target. The information includes some of the restrictions on the entities to which these attributes are applied and the arguments that the attributes take.

  In C and C++, these attributes are associated with two syntaxes: the traditional GNU `__attribute__` syntax and the standard ‘`[[]]`’ syntax. Attributes that support the GNU syntax must be placed in the `gnu` namespace. Such attributes can then also be written ‘`[[gnu::…]]`’. Attributes that use only the standard syntax should be placed in whichever namespace the attribute specification requires. For example, a target might choose to support vendor-specific ‘`[[]]`’ attributes that the vendor places in their own namespace.

  Targets that only define attributes in the `gnu` namespace can uase the following shorthand to define the table:

      TARGET_GNU_ATTRIBUTES (cpu_attribute_table, {
        { "attribute1", ... },
        { "attribute2", ... },
        ...,
        { "attributen", ... },
      });

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ATTRIBUTE_TAKES_IDENTIFIER_P `(const_tree name)` ¶

  If defined, this target hook is a function which returns true if the machine-specific attribute named name expects an identifier given as its first argument to be passed on as a plain identifier, not subjected to name lookup. If this is not defined, the default is false for all machine-specific attributes.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_COMP_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES `(const_tree type1, const_tree type2)` ¶

  If defined, this target hook is a function which returns zero if the attributes on type1 and type2 are incompatible, one if they are compatible, and two if they are nearly compatible (which causes a warning to be generated). If this is not defined, machine-specific attributes are supposed always to be compatible.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SET_DEFAULT_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES `(tree type)` ¶

  If defined, this target hook is a function which assigns default attributes to the newly defined type.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_MERGE_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES `(tree type1, tree type2)` ¶

  Define this target hook if the merging of type attributes needs special handling. If defined, the result is a list of the combined `TYPE_ATTRIBUTES` of type1 and type2. It is assumed that `comptypes` has already been called and returned 1. This function may call `merge_attributes` to handle machine-independent merging.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_MERGE_DECL_ATTRIBUTES `(tree olddecl, tree newdecl)` ¶

  Define this target hook if the merging of decl attributes needs special handling. If defined, the result is a list of the combined `DECL_ATTRIBUTES` of olddecl and newdecl. newdecl is a duplicate declaration of olddecl. Examples of when this is needed are when one attribute overrides another, or when an attribute is nullified by a subsequent definition. This function may call `merge_attributes` to handle machine-independent merging.

  If the only target-specific handling you require is ‘`dllimport`’ for Microsoft Windows targets, you should define the macro `TARGET_DLLIMPORT_DECL_ATTRIBUTES` to `1`. The compiler will then define a function called `merge_dllimport_decl_attributes` which can then be defined as the expansion of `TARGET_MERGE_DECL_ATTRIBUTES`. You can also add `handle_dll_attribute` in the attribute table for your port to perform initial processing of the ‘`dllimport`’ and ‘`dllexport`’ attributes. This is done in `i386/cygwin.h` and `i386/i386.cc`, for example.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VALID_DLLIMPORT_ATTRIBUTE_P `(const_tree decl)` ¶

  decl is a variable or function with `__attribute__((dllimport))` specified. Use this hook if the target needs to add extra validation checks to `handle_dll_attribute`.

Macro: TARGET_DECLSPEC ¶

  Define this macro to a nonzero value if you want to treat `__declspec(X)` as equivalent to `__attribute((X))`. By default, this behavior is enabled only for targets that define `TARGET_DLLIMPORT_DECL_ATTRIBUTES`. The current implementation of `__declspec` is via a built-in macro, but you should not rely on this implementation detail.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_INSERT_ATTRIBUTES `(tree node, tree *attr_ptr)` ¶

  Define this target hook if you want to be able to add attributes to a decl when it is being created. This is normally useful for back ends which wish to implement a pragma by using the attributes which correspond to the pragma’s effect. The node argument is the decl which is being created. The attr_ptr argument is a pointer to the attribute list for this decl. The list itself should not be modified, since it may be shared with other decls, but attributes may be chained on the head of the list and `*attr_ptr` modified to point to the new attributes, or a copy of the list may be made if further changes are needed.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_HANDLE_GENERIC_ATTRIBUTE `(tree *node, tree name, tree args, int flags, bool *no_add_attrs)` ¶

  Define this target hook if you want to be able to perform additional target-specific processing of an attribute which is handled generically by a front end. The arguments are the same as those which are passed to attribute handlers. So far this only affects the noinit and section attribute.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_FUNCTION_ATTRIBUTE_INLINABLE_P `(const_tree fndecl)` ¶

  This target hook returns `true` if it is OK to inline fndecl into the current function, despite its having target-specific attributes, `false` otherwise. By default, if a function has a target specific attribute attached to it, it will not be inlined.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_OPTION_VALID_ATTRIBUTE_P `(tree fndecl, tree name, tree args, int flags)` ¶

  This hook is called to parse `attribute(target("..."))`, which allows setting target-specific options on individual functions. These function-specific options may differ from the options specified on the command line. The hook should return `true` if the options are valid.

  The hook should set the `DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_TARGET` field in the function declaration to hold a pointer to a target-specific `struct cl_target_option` structure.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_OPTION_VALID_VERSION_ATTRIBUTE_P `(tree fndecl, tree name, tree args, int flags)` ¶

  This hook is called to parse `attribute(target_version("..."))`, which allows setting target-specific options on individual function versions. These function-specific options may differ from the options specified on the command line. The hook should return `true` if the options are valid.

  The hook should set the `DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_TARGET` field in the function declaration to hold a pointer to a target-specific `struct cl_target_option` structure.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OPTION_SAVE `(struct cl_target_option *ptr, struct gcc_options *opts, struct gcc_options *opts_set)` ¶

  This hook is called to save any additional target-specific information in the `struct cl_target_option` structure for function-specific options from the `struct gcc_options` structure. See Option file format.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OPTION_RESTORE `(struct gcc_options *opts, struct gcc_options *opts_set, struct cl_target_option *ptr)` ¶

  This hook is called to restore any additional target-specific information in the `struct cl_target_option` structure for function-specific options to the `struct gcc_options` structure.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OPTION_POST_STREAM_IN `(struct cl_target_option *ptr)` ¶

  This hook is called to update target-specific information in the `struct cl_target_option` structure after it is streamed in from LTO bytecode.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OPTION_PRINT `(FILE *file, int indent, struct cl_target_option *ptr)` ¶

  This hook is called to print any additional target-specific information in the `struct cl_target_option` structure for function-specific options.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_OPTION_PRAGMA_PARSE `(tree args, tree pop_target)` ¶

  This target hook parses the options for `#pragma GCC target`, which sets the target-specific options for functions that occur later in the input stream. The options accepted should be the same as those handled by the `TARGET_OPTION_VALID_ATTRIBUTE_P` hook.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE `(void)` ¶

  Sometimes certain combinations of command options do not make sense on a particular target machine. You can override the hook `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE` to take account of this. This hooks is called once just after all the command options have been parsed.

  Don’t use this hook to turn on various extra optimizations for `-O`. That is what `TARGET_OPTION_OPTIMIZATION` is for.

  If you need to do something whenever the optimization level is changed via the optimize attribute or pragma, see `TARGET_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS_AFTER_CHANGE`

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_OPTION_FUNCTION_VERSIONS `(tree decl1, tree decl2)` ¶

  This target hook returns `true` if DECL1 and DECL2 are versions of the same function. DECL1 and DECL2 are function versions if and only if they have the same function signature and different target specific attributes, that is, they are compiled for different target machines.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CAN_INLINE_P `(tree caller, tree callee)` ¶

  This target hook returns `false` if the caller function cannot inline callee, based on target specific information. By default, inlining is not allowed if the callee function has function specific target options and the caller does not use the same options.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_UPDATE_IPA_FN_TARGET_INFO `(unsigned int& info, const gimple* stmt)` ¶

  Allow target to analyze all gimple statements for the given function to record and update some target specific information for inlining. A typical example is that a caller with one isa feature disabled is normally not allowed to inline a callee with that same isa feature enabled even which is attributed by always_inline, but with the conservative analysis on all statements of the callee if we are able to guarantee the callee does not exploit any instructions from the mismatch isa feature, it would be safe to allow the caller to inline the callee. info is one `unsigned int` value to record information in which one set bit indicates one corresponding feature is detected in the analysis, stmt is the statement being analyzed. Return true if target still need to analyze the subsequent statements, otherwise return false to stop subsequent analysis. The default version of this hook returns false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_NEED_IPA_FN_TARGET_INFO `(const_tree decl, unsigned int& info)` ¶

  Allow target to check early whether it is necessary to analyze all gimple statements in the given function to update target specific information for inlining. See hook `update_ipa_fn_target_info` for usage example of target specific information. This hook is expected to be invoked ahead of the iterating with hook `update_ipa_fn_target_info`. decl is the function being analyzed, info is the same as what in hook `update_ipa_fn_target_info`, target can do one time update into info without iterating for some case. Return true if target decides to analyze all gimple statements to collect information, otherwise return false. The default version of this hook returns false.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_RELAYOUT_FUNCTION `(tree fndecl)` ¶

  This target hook fixes function fndecl after attributes are processed. Default does nothing. On ARM, the default function’s alignment is updated with the attribute target.

### 18.25 Emulating TLS ¶

For targets whose psABI does not provide Thread Local Storage via specific relocations and instruction sequences, an emulation layer is used. A set of target hooks allows this emulation layer to be configured for the requirements of a particular target. For instance the psABI may in fact specify TLS support in terms of an emulation layer.

The emulation layer works by creating a control object for every TLS object. To access the TLS object, a lookup function is provided which, when given the address of the control object, will return the address of the current thread’s instance of the TLS object.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_EMUTLS_GET_ADDRESS ¶

  Contains the name of the helper function that uses a TLS control object to locate a TLS instance. The default causes libgcc’s emulated TLS helper function to be used.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_EMUTLS_REGISTER_COMMON ¶

  Contains the name of the helper function that should be used at program startup to register TLS objects that are implicitly initialized to zero. If this is `NULL`, all TLS objects will have explicit initializers. The default causes libgcc’s emulated TLS registration function to be used.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_SECTION ¶

  Contains the name of the section in which TLS control variables should be placed. The default of `NULL` allows these to be placed in any section.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_EMUTLS_TMPL_SECTION ¶

  Contains the name of the section in which TLS initializers should be placed. The default of `NULL` allows these to be placed in any section.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_PREFIX ¶

  Contains the prefix to be prepended to TLS control variable names. The default of `NULL` uses a target-specific prefix.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_EMUTLS_TMPL_PREFIX ¶

  Contains the prefix to be prepended to TLS initializer objects. The default of `NULL` uses a target-specific prefix.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_FIELDS `(tree type, tree *name)` ¶

  Specifies a function that generates the FIELD_DECLs for a TLS control object type. type is the RECORD_TYPE the fields are for and name should be filled with the structure tag, if the default of `__emutls_object` is unsuitable. The default creates a type suitable for libgcc’s emulated TLS function.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_INIT `(tree var, tree decl, tree tmpl_addr)` ¶

  Specifies a function that generates the CONSTRUCTOR to initialize a TLS control object. var is the TLS control object, decl is the TLS object and tmpl_addr is the address of the initializer. The default initializes libgcc’s emulated TLS control object.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_ALIGN_FIXED ¶

  Specifies whether the alignment of TLS control variable objects is fixed and should not be increased as some backends may do to optimize single objects. The default is false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_EMUTLS_DEBUG_FORM_TLS_ADDRESS ¶

  Specifies whether a DWARF `DW_OP_form_tls_address` location descriptor may be used to describe emulated TLS control objects.

### 18.26 Defining coprocessor specifics for MIPS targets. ¶

The MIPS specification allows MIPS implementations to have as many as 4 coprocessors, each with as many as 32 private registers. GCC supports accessing these registers and transferring values between the registers and memory using asm-ized variables. For example:

      register unsigned int cp0count asm ("c0r1");
      unsigned int d;

      d = cp0count + 3;

(“c0r1” is the default name of register 1 in coprocessor 0; alternate names may be added as described below, or the default names may be overridden entirely in `SUBTARGET_CONDITIONAL_REGISTER_USAGE`.)

Coprocessor registers are assumed to be epilogue-used; sets to them will be preserved even if it does not appear that the register is used again later in the function.

Another note: according to the MIPS spec, coprocessor 1 (if present) is the FPU. One accesses COP1 registers through standard mips floating-point support; they are not included in this mechanism.

### 18.27 Parameters for Precompiled Header Validity Checking ¶

Target Hook: `void *` TARGET_GET_PCH_VALIDITY `(size_t *sz)` ¶

  This hook returns a pointer to the data needed by `TARGET_PCH_VALID_P` and sets ‘`*sz`’ to the size of the data in bytes.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_PCH_VALID_P `(const void *data, size_t sz)` ¶

  This hook checks whether the options used to create a PCH file are compatible with the current settings. It returns `NULL` if so and a suitable error message if not. Error messages will be presented to the user and must be localized using ‘`_(msg)`’.

  data is the data that was returned by `TARGET_GET_PCH_VALIDITY` when the PCH file was created and sz is the size of that data in bytes. It’s safe to assume that the data was created by the same version of the compiler, so no format checking is needed.

  The default definition of `default_pch_valid_p` should be suitable for most targets.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_CHECK_PCH_TARGET_FLAGS `(int pch_flags)` ¶

  If this hook is nonnull, the default implementation of `TARGET_PCH_VALID_P` will use it to check for compatible values of `target_flags`. pch_flags specifies the value that `target_flags` had when the PCH file was created. The return value is the same as for `TARGET_PCH_VALID_P`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_PREPARE_PCH_SAVE `(void)` ¶

  Called before writing out a PCH file. If the target has some garbage-collected data that needs to be in a particular state on PCH loads, it can use this hook to enforce that state. Very few targets need to do anything here.

### 18.28 C++ ABI parameters ¶

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_CXX_GUARD_TYPE `(void)` ¶

  Define this hook to override the integer type used for guard variables. These are used to implement one-time construction of static objects. The default is long_long_integer_type_node.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_GUARD_MASK_BIT `(void)` ¶

  This hook determines how guard variables are used. It should return `false` (the default) if the first byte should be used. A return value of `true` indicates that only the least significant bit should be used.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_CXX_GET_COOKIE_SIZE `(tree type)` ¶

  This hook returns the size of the cookie to use when allocating an array whose elements have the indicated type. Assumes that it is already known that a cookie is needed. The default is `max(sizeof (size_t), alignof(type))`, as defined in section 2.7 of the IA64/Generic C++ ABI.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_COOKIE_HAS_SIZE `(void)` ¶

  This hook should return `true` if the element size should be stored in array cookies. The default is to return `false`.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_CXX_IMPORT_EXPORT_CLASS `(tree type, int import_export)` ¶

  If defined by a backend this hook allows the decision made to export class type to be overruled. Upon entry import_export will contain 1 if the class is going to be exported, −1 if it is going to be imported and 0 otherwise. This function should return the modified value and perform any other actions necessary to support the backend’s targeted operating system.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_CDTOR_RETURNS_THIS `(void)` ¶

  This hook should return `true` if constructors and destructors return the address of the object created/destroyed. The default is to return `false`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_KEY_METHOD_MAY_BE_INLINE `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns true if the key method for a class (i.e., the method which, if defined in the current translation unit, causes the virtual table to be emitted) may be an inline function. Under the standard Itanium C++ ABI the key method may be an inline function so long as the function is not declared inline in the class definition. Under some variants of the ABI, an inline function can never be the key method. The default is to return `true`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_CXX_DETERMINE_CLASS_DATA_VISIBILITY `(tree decl)` ¶

  decl is a virtual table, virtual table table, typeinfo object, or other similar implicit class data object that will be emitted with external linkage in this translation unit. No ELF visibility has been explicitly specified. If the target needs to specify a visibility other than that of the containing class, use this hook to set `DECL_VISIBILITY` and `DECL_VISIBILITY_SPECIFIED`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_CLASS_DATA_ALWAYS_COMDAT `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns true (the default) if virtual tables and other similar implicit class data objects are always COMDAT if they have external linkage. If this hook returns false, then class data for classes whose virtual table will be emitted in only one translation unit will not be COMDAT.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_LIBRARY_RTTI_COMDAT `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns true (the default) if the RTTI information for the basic types which is defined in the C++ runtime should always be COMDAT, false if it should not be COMDAT.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_USE_AEABI_ATEXIT `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns true if `__aeabi_atexit` (as defined by the ARM EABI) should be used to register static destructors when `-fuse-cxa-atexit` is in effect. The default is to return false to use `__cxa_atexit`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_USE_ATEXIT_FOR_CXA_ATEXIT `(void)` ¶

  This hook returns true if the target `atexit` function can be used in the same manner as `__cxa_atexit` to register C++ static destructors. This requires that `atexit`-registered functions in shared libraries are run in the correct order when the libraries are unloaded. The default is to return false.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_CXX_ADJUST_CDTOR_CALLABI_FNTYPE `(tree fntype)` ¶

  This hook returns a possibly modified `FUNCTION_TYPE` for arguments to `__cxa_atexit`, `__cxa_thread_atexit` or `__cxa_throw` function pointers. ABIs like mingw32 require special attributes to be added to function types pointed to by arguments of these functions. The default is to return the passed argument unmodified.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_CXX_ADJUST_CLASS_AT_DEFINITION `(tree type)` ¶

  type is a C++ class (i.e., RECORD_TYPE or UNION_TYPE) that has just been defined. Use this hook to make adjustments to the class (eg, tweak visibility or perform any other required target modifications).

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_CXX_DECL_MANGLING_CONTEXT `(const_tree decl)` ¶

  Return target-specific mangling context of decl or `NULL_TREE`.

### 18.29 D ABI parameters ¶

D Target Hook: `void` TARGET_D_CPU_VERSIONS `(void)` ¶

  Declare all environmental version identifiers relating to the target CPU using the function `builtin_version`, which takes a string representing the name of the version. Version identifiers predefined by this hook apply to all modules that are being compiled and imported.

D Target Hook: `void` TARGET_D_OS_VERSIONS `(void)` ¶

  Similarly to `TARGET_D_CPU_VERSIONS`, but is used for versions relating to the target operating system.

D Target Hook: `void` TARGET_D_REGISTER_CPU_TARGET_INFO `(void)` ¶

  Register all target information keys relating to the target CPU using the function `d_add_target_info_handlers`, which takes a ‘`struct d_target_info_spec`’ (defined in `d/d-target.h`). The keys added by this hook are made available at compile time by the `__traits(getTargetInfo)` extension, the result is an expression describing the requested target information.

D Target Hook: `void` TARGET_D_REGISTER_OS_TARGET_INFO `(void)` ¶

  Same as `TARGET_D_CPU_TARGET_INFO`, but is used for keys relating to the target operating system.

D Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION ¶

  Contains the name of the section in which module info references should be placed. By default, the compiler puts all module info symbols in the `"minfo"` section. Define this macro to override the string if a different section name should be used. This section is expected to be bracketed by two symbols `TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION_START` and `TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION_END` to indicate the start and end address of the section, so that the runtime library can collect all modules for each loaded shared library and executable. Setting the value to `NULL` disables the use of sections for storing module info altogether.

D Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION_START ¶

  If `TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION` is defined, then this must also be defined as the name of the symbol indicating the start address of the module info section

D Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION_END ¶

  If `TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION` is defined, then this must also be defined as the name of the symbol indicating the end address of the module info section

D Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_D_HAS_STDCALL_CONVENTION `(unsigned int *link_system, unsigned int *link_windows)` ¶

  Returns `true` if the target supports the stdcall calling convention. The hook should also set link_system to `1` if the `stdcall` attribute should be applied to functions with `extern(System)` linkage, and link_windows to `1` to apply `stdcall` to functions with `extern(Windows)` linkage.

D Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_D_TEMPLATES_ALWAYS_COMDAT ¶

  This flag is true if instantiated functions and variables are always COMDAT if they have external linkage. If this flag is false, then instantiated decls will be emitted as weak symbols. The default is `false`.

### 18.30 Rust ABI parameters ¶

Rust Target Hook: `void` TARGET_RUST_CPU_INFO `(void)` ¶

  Declare all environmental CPU info and features relating to the target CPU using the function `rust_add_target_info`, which takes a string representing the feature key and a string representing the feature value. Configuration pairs predefined by this hook apply to all files that are being compiled.

Rust Target Hook: `void` TARGET_RUST_OS_INFO `(void)` ¶

  Similar to `TARGET_RUST_CPU_INFO`, but is used for configuration info relating to the target operating system.

### 18.31 Adding support for named address spaces ¶

The draft technical report of the ISO/IEC JTC1 S22 WG14 N1275 standards committee, Programming Languages - C - Extensions to support embedded processors, specifies a syntax for embedded processors to specify alternate address spaces. You can configure a GCC port to support section 5.1 of the draft report to add support for address spaces other than the default address space. These address spaces are new keywords that are similar to the `volatile` and `const` type attributes.

Pointers to named address spaces can have a different size than pointers to the generic address space.

For example, the SPU port uses the `__ea` address space to refer to memory in the host processor, rather than memory local to the SPU processor. Access to memory in the `__ea` address space involves issuing DMA operations to move data between the host processor and the local processor memory address space. Pointers in the `__ea` address space are either 32 bits or 64 bits based on the `-mea32` or `-mea64` switches (native SPU pointers are always 32 bits).

Internally, address spaces are represented as a small integer in the range 0 to 15 with address space 0 being reserved for the generic address space.

To register a named address space qualifier keyword with the C front end, the target may call the `c_register_addr_space` routine. For example, the SPU port uses the following to declare `__ea` as the keyword for named address space #1:

    #define ADDR_SPACE_EA 1
    c_register_addr_space ("__ea", ADDR_SPACE_EA);

Target Hook: `scalar_int_mode` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_POINTER_MODE `(addr_space_t address_space)` ¶

  Define this to return the machine mode to use for pointers to address_space if the target supports named address spaces. The default version of this hook returns `ptr_mode`.

Target Hook: `scalar_int_mode` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_ADDRESS_MODE `(addr_space_t address_space)` ¶

  Define this to return the machine mode to use for addresses in address_space if the target supports named address spaces. The default version of this hook returns `Pmode`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_VALID_POINTER_MODE `(scalar_int_mode mode, addr_space_t as)` ¶

  Define this to return nonzero if the port can handle pointers with machine mode mode to address space as. This target hook is the same as the `TARGET_VALID_POINTER_MODE` target hook, except that it includes explicit named address space support. The default version of this hook returns true for the modes returned by either the `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_POINTER_MODE` or `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_ADDRESS_MODE` target hooks for the given address space.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P `(machine_mode mode, rtx exp, bool strict, addr_space_t as, code_helper ch)` ¶

  Define this to return true if exp is a valid address for mode mode in the named address space as with the use context ch. The strict parameter says whether strict addressing is in effect after reload has finished. The ch indicates what context exp will be used for. This target hook is the same as the `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P` target hook, except that it includes explicit named address space support.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS `(rtx x, rtx oldx, machine_mode mode, addr_space_t as)` ¶

  Define this to modify an invalid address x to be a valid address with mode mode in the named address space as. This target hook is the same as the `TARGET_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS` target hook, except that it includes explicit named address space support.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_SUBSET_P `(addr_space_t subset, addr_space_t superset)` ¶

  Define this to return whether the subset named address space is contained within the superset named address space. Pointers to a named address space that is a subset of another named address space will be converted automatically without a cast if used together in arithmetic operations. Pointers to a superset address space can be converted to pointers to a subset address space via explicit casts.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_ZERO_ADDRESS_VALID `(addr_space_t as)` ¶

  Define this to modify the default handling of address 0 for the address space. Return true if 0 should be considered a valid address.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_CONVERT `(rtx op, tree from_type, tree to_type)` ¶

  Define this to convert the pointer expression represented by the RTL op with type from_type that points to a named address space to a new pointer expression with type to_type that points to a different named address space. When this hook it called, it is guaranteed that one of the two address spaces is a subset of the other, as determined by the `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_SUBSET_P` target hook.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_DEBUG `(addr_space_t as)` ¶

  Define this to define how the address space is encoded in dwarf. The result is the value to be used with `DW_AT_address_class`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_DIAGNOSE_USAGE `(addr_space_t as, location_t loc)` ¶

  Define this hook if the availability of an address space depends on command line options and some diagnostics should be printed when the address space is used. This hook is called during parsing and allows to emit a better diagnostic compared to the case where the address space was not registered with `c_register_addr_space`. as is the address space as registered with `c_register_addr_space`. loc is the location of the address space qualifier token. The default implementation does nothing.

### 18.32 Miscellaneous Parameters ¶

Here are several miscellaneous parameters.

Macro: HAS_LONG_COND_BRANCH ¶

  Define this boolean macro to indicate whether or not your architecture has conditional branches that can span all of memory. It is used in conjunction with an optimization that partitions hot and cold basic blocks into separate sections of the executable. If this macro is set to false, gcc will convert any conditional branches that attempt to cross between sections into unconditional branches or indirect jumps.

Macro: HAS_LONG_UNCOND_BRANCH ¶

  Define this boolean macro to indicate whether or not your architecture has unconditional branches that can span all of memory. It is used in conjunction with an optimization that partitions hot and cold basic blocks into separate sections of the executable. If this macro is set to false, gcc will convert any unconditional branches that attempt to cross between sections into indirect jumps.

Macro: CASE_VECTOR_MODE ¶

  An alias for a machine mode name. This is the machine mode that elements of a jump-table should have.

Macro: CASE_VECTOR_SHORTEN_MODE (min_offset, max_offset, body) ¶

  Optional: return the preferred mode for an `addr_diff_vec` when the minimum and maximum offset are known. If you define this, it enables extra code in branch shortening to deal with `addr_diff_vec`. To make this work, you also have to define `INSN_ALIGN` and make the alignment for `addr_diff_vec` explicit. The body argument is provided so that the offset_unsigned and scale flags can be updated.

Macro: CASE_VECTOR_PC_RELATIVE ¶

  Define this macro to be a C expression to indicate when jump-tables should contain relative addresses. You need not define this macro if jump-tables never contain relative addresses, or jump-tables should contain relative addresses only when `-fPIC` or `-fPIC` is in effect.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_CASE_VALUES_THRESHOLD `(void)` ¶

  This function return the smallest number of different values for which it is best to use a jump-table instead of a tree of conditional branches. The default is four for machines with a `casesi` instruction and five otherwise. This is best for most machines.

Macro: WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS ¶

  Define this macro to 1 if operations between registers with integral mode smaller than a word are always performed on the entire register. To be more explicit, if you start with a pair of `word_mode` registers with known values and you do a subword, for example `QImode`, addition on the low part of the registers, then the compiler may consider that the result has a known value in `word_mode` too if the macro is defined to 1. Most RISC machines have this property and most CISC machines do not.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_MIN_ARITHMETIC_PRECISION `(void)` ¶

  On some RISC architectures with 64-bit registers, the processor also maintains 32-bit condition codes that make it possible to do real 32-bit arithmetic, although the operations are performed on the full registers.

  On such architectures, defining this hook to 32 tells the compiler to try using 32-bit arithmetical operations setting the condition codes instead of doing full 64-bit arithmetic.

  More generally, define this hook on RISC architectures if you want the compiler to try using arithmetical operations setting the condition codes with a precision lower than the word precision.

  You need not define this hook if `WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS` is not defined to 1.

Macro: LOAD_EXTEND_OP (mem_mode) ¶

  Define this macro to be a C expression indicating when insns that read memory in mem_mode, an integral mode narrower than a word, set the bits outside of mem_mode to be either the sign-extension or the zero-extension of the data read. Return `SIGN_EXTEND` for values of mem_mode for which the insn sign-extends, `ZERO_EXTEND` for which it zero-extends, and `UNKNOWN` for other modes.

  This macro is not called with mem_mode non-integral or with a width greater than or equal to `BITS_PER_WORD`, so you may return any value in this case. Do not define this macro if it would always return `UNKNOWN`. On machines where this macro is defined, you will normally define it as the constant `SIGN_EXTEND` or `ZERO_EXTEND`.

  You may return a non-`UNKNOWN` value even if for some hard registers the sign extension is not performed, if for the `REGNO_REG_CLASS` of these hard registers `TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS` returns false when the from mode is mem_mode and the to mode is any integral mode larger than this but not larger than `word_mode`.

  You must return `UNKNOWN` if for some hard registers that allow this mode, `TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS` says that they cannot change to `word_mode`, but that they can change to another integral mode that is larger then mem_mode but still smaller than `word_mode`.

Macro: SHORT_IMMEDIATES_SIGN_EXTEND ¶

  Define this macro to 1 if loading short immediate values into registers sign extends.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_MIN_DIVISIONS_FOR_RECIP_MUL `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  When `-ffast-math` is in effect, GCC tries to optimize divisions by the same divisor, by turning them into multiplications by the reciprocal. This target hook specifies the minimum number of divisions that should be there for GCC to perform the optimization for a variable of mode mode. The default implementation returns 3 if the machine has an instruction for the division, and 2 if it does not.

Macro: MOVE_MAX ¶

  The maximum number of bytes that a single instruction can move quickly between memory and registers or between two memory locations.

Macro: MAX_MOVE_MAX ¶

  The maximum number of bytes that a single instruction can move quickly between memory and registers or between two memory locations. If this is undefined, the default is `MOVE_MAX`. Otherwise, it is the constant value that is the largest value that `MOVE_MAX` can have at run-time.

Macro: SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED ¶

  A C expression that is nonzero if on this machine the number of bits actually used for the count of a shift operation is equal to the number of bits needed to represent the size of the object being shifted. When this macro is nonzero, the compiler will assume that it is safe to omit a sign-extend, zero-extend, and certain bitwise ‘and’ instructions that truncates the count of a shift operation. On machines that have instructions that act on bit-fields at variable positions, which may include ‘bit test’ instructions, a nonzero `SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED` also enables deletion of truncations of the values that serve as arguments to bit-field instructions.

  If both types of instructions truncate the count (for shifts) and position (for bit-field operations), or if no variable-position bit-field instructions exist, you should define this macro.

  However, on some machines, such as the 80386 and the 680x0, truncation only applies to shift operations and not the (real or pretended) bit-field operations. Define `SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED` to be zero on such machines. Instead, add patterns to the `md` file that include the implied truncation of the shift instructions.

  You need not define this macro if it would always have the value of zero.

Target Hook: `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_SHIFT_TRUNCATION_MASK `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This function describes how the standard shift patterns for mode deal with shifts by negative amounts or by more than the width of the mode. See shift patterns.

  On many machines, the shift patterns will apply a mask m to the shift count, meaning that a fixed-width shift of x by y is equivalent to an arbitrary-width shift of x by y & m. If this is true for mode mode, the function should return m, otherwise it should return 0. A return value of 0 indicates that no particular behavior is guaranteed.

  Note that, unlike `SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED`, this function does not apply to general shift rtxes; it applies only to instructions that are generated by the named shift patterns.

  The default implementation of this function returns `GET_MODE_BITSIZE (mode) - 1` if `SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED` and 0 otherwise. This definition is always safe, but if `SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED` is false, and some shift patterns nevertheless truncate the shift count, you may get better code by overriding it.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_TRULY_NOOP_TRUNCATION `(poly_uint64 outprec, poly_uint64 inprec)` ¶

  This hook returns true if it is safe to “convert” a value of inprec bits to one of outprec bits (where outprec is smaller than inprec) by merely operating on it as if it had only outprec bits. The default returns true unconditionally, which is correct for most machines. When `TARGET_TRULY_NOOP_TRUNCATION` returns false, the machine description should provide a `trunc` optab to specify the RTL that performs the required truncation.

  If `TARGET_MODES_TIEABLE_P` returns false for a pair of modes, suboptimal code can result if this hook returns true for the corresponding mode sizes. Making this hook return false in such cases may improve things.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_MODE_REP_EXTENDED `(scalar_int_mode mode, scalar_int_mode rep_mode)` ¶

  The representation of an integral mode can be such that the values are always extended to a wider integral mode. Return `SIGN_EXTEND` if values of mode are represented in sign-extended form to rep_mode. Return `UNKNOWN` otherwise. (Currently, none of the targets use zero-extended representation this way so unlike `LOAD_EXTEND_OP`, `TARGET_MODE_REP_EXTENDED` is expected to return either `SIGN_EXTEND` or `UNKNOWN`. Also no target extends mode to rep_mode so that rep_mode is not the next widest integral mode and currently we take advantage of this fact.)

  Similarly to `LOAD_EXTEND_OP` you may return a non-`UNKNOWN` value even if the extension is not performed on certain hard registers as long as for the `REGNO_REG_CLASS` of these hard registers `TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS` returns false.

  Note that `TARGET_MODE_REP_EXTENDED` and `LOAD_EXTEND_OP` describe two related properties. If you define `TARGET_MODE_REP_EXTENDED (mode, word_mode)` you probably also want to define `LOAD_EXTEND_OP (mode)` to return the same type of extension.

  In order to enforce the representation of `mode`, `TARGET_TRULY_NOOP_TRUNCATION` should return false when truncating to `mode`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_SETJMP_PRESERVES_NONVOLATILE_REGS_P `(void)` ¶

  On some targets, it is assumed that the compiler will spill all pseudos that are live across a call to `setjmp`, while other targets treat `setjmp` calls as normal function calls.

  This hook returns false if `setjmp` calls do not preserve all non-volatile registers so that gcc that must spill all pseudos that are live across `setjmp` calls. Define this to return true if the target does not need to spill all pseudos live across `setjmp` calls. The default implementation conservatively assumes all pseudos must be spilled across `setjmp` calls.

Macro: STORE_FLAG_VALUE ¶

  A C expression describing the value returned by a comparison operator with an integral mode and stored by a store-flag instruction (‘`cstoremode4`’) when the condition is true. This description must apply to all the ‘`cstoremode4`’ patterns and all the comparison operators whose results have a `MODE_INT` mode.

  A value of 1 or −1 means that the instruction implementing the comparison operator returns exactly 1 or −1 when the comparison is true and 0 when the comparison is false. Otherwise, the value indicates which bits of the result are guaranteed to be 1 when the comparison is true. This value is interpreted in the mode of the comparison operation, which is given by the mode of the first operand in the ‘`cstoremode4`’ pattern. Either the low bit or the sign bit of `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` be on. Presently, only those bits are used by the compiler.

  If `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` is neither 1 or −1, the compiler will generate code that depends only on the specified bits. It can also replace comparison operators with equivalent operations if they cause the required bits to be set, even if the remaining bits are undefined. For example, on a machine whose comparison operators return an `SImode` value and where `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` is defined as ‘`0x80000000`’, saying that just the sign bit is relevant, the expression

      (ne:SI (and:SI x (const_int power-of-2)) (const_int 0))

  can be converted to

      (ashift:SI x (const_int n))

  where n is the appropriate shift count to move the bit being tested into the sign bit.

  There is no way to describe a machine that always sets the low-order bit for a true value, but does not guarantee the value of any other bits, but we do not know of any machine that has such an instruction. If you are trying to port GCC to such a machine, include an instruction to perform a logical-and of the result with 1 in the pattern for the comparison operators and let us know at gcc@gcc.gnu.org.

  Often, a machine will have multiple instructions that obtain a value from a comparison (or the condition codes). Here are rules to guide the choice of value for `STORE_FLAG_VALUE`, and hence the instructions to be used:

  - Use the shortest sequence that yields a valid definition for `STORE_FLAG_VALUE`. It is more efficient for the compiler to “normalize” the value (convert it to, e.g., 1 or 0) than for the comparison operators to do so because there may be opportunities to combine the normalization with other operations.
  - For equal-length sequences, use a value of 1 or −1, with −1 being slightly preferred on machines with expensive jumps and 1 preferred on other machines.
  - As a second choice, choose a value of ‘`0x80000001`’ if instructions exist that set both the sign and low-order bits but do not define the others.
  - Otherwise, use a value of ‘`0x80000000`’.

  Many machines can produce both the value chosen for `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` and its negation in the same number of instructions. On those machines, you should also define a pattern for those cases, e.g., one matching

      (set A (neg:m (ne:m B C)))

  Some machines can also perform `and` or `plus` operations on condition code values with less instructions than the corresponding ‘`cstoremode4`’ insn followed by `and` or `plus`. On those machines, define the appropriate patterns. Use the names `incscc` and `decscc`, respectively, for the patterns which perform `plus` or `minus` operations on condition code values. See `rs6000.md` for some examples. The GNU Superoptimizer can be used to find such instruction sequences on other machines.

  If this macro is not defined, the default value, 1, is used. You need not define `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` if the machine has no store-flag instructions, or if the value generated by these instructions is 1.

Macro: FLOAT_STORE_FLAG_VALUE (mode) ¶

  A C expression that gives a nonzero `REAL_VALUE_TYPE` value that is returned when comparison operators with floating-point results are true. Define this macro on machines that have comparison operations that return floating-point values. If there are no such operations, do not define this macro.

Macro: VECTOR_STORE_FLAG_VALUE (mode) ¶

  A C expression that gives an rtx representing the nonzero true element for vector comparisons. The returned rtx should be valid for the inner mode of mode which is guaranteed to be a vector mode. Define this macro on machines that have vector comparison operations that return a vector result. If there are no such operations, do not define this macro. Typically, this macro is defined as `const1_rtx` or `constm1_rtx`. This macro may return `NULL_RTX` to prevent the compiler optimizing such vector comparison operations for the given mode.

Macro: CLZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO (mode, value) ¶
Macro: CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO (mode, value) ¶

  A C expression that indicates whether the architecture defines a value for `clz` or `ctz` with a zero operand. A result of `0` indicates the value is undefined. If the value is defined for only the RTL expression, the macro should evaluate to `1`; if the value applies also to the corresponding optab entry (which is normally the case if it expands directly into the corresponding RTL), then the macro should evaluate to `2`. In the cases where the value is defined, value should be set to this value.

  If this macro is not defined, the value of `clz` or `ctz` at zero is assumed to be undefined.

  This macro must be defined if the target’s expansion for `ffs` relies on a particular value to get correct results. Otherwise it is not necessary, though it may be used to optimize some corner cases, and to provide a default expansion for the `ffs` optab.

  Note that regardless of this macro the “definedness” of `clz` and `ctz` at zero do not extend to the builtin functions visible to the user. Thus one may be free to adjust the value at will to match the target expansion of these operations without fear of breaking the API.

Macro: Pmode ¶

  An alias for the machine mode for pointers. On most machines, define this to be the integer mode corresponding to the width of a hardware pointer; `SImode` on 32-bit machine or `DImode` on 64-bit machines. On some machines you must define this to be one of the partial integer modes, such as `PSImode`.

  The width of `Pmode` must be at least as large as the value of `POINTER_SIZE`. If it is not equal, you must define the macro `POINTERS_EXTEND_UNSIGNED` to specify how pointers are extended to `Pmode`.

Macro: FUNCTION_MODE ¶

  An alias for the machine mode used for memory references to functions being called, in `call` RTL expressions. On most CISC machines, where an instruction can begin at any byte address, this should be `QImode`. On most RISC machines, where all instructions have fixed size and alignment, this should be a mode with the same size and alignment as the machine instruction words - typically `SImode` or `HImode`.

Macro: STDC_0_IN_SYSTEM_HEADERS ¶

  In normal operation, the preprocessor expands `__STDC__` to the constant 1, to signify that GCC conforms to ISO Standard C. On some hosts, like Solaris, the system compiler uses a different convention, where `__STDC__` is normally 0, but is 1 if the user specifies strict conformance to the C Standard.

  Defining `STDC_0_IN_SYSTEM_HEADERS` makes GNU CPP follows the host convention when processing system header files, but when processing user files `__STDC__` will always expand to 1.

C Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_C_PREINCLUDE `(void)` ¶

  Define this hook to return the name of a header file to be included at the start of all compilations, as if it had been included with `#include <file>`. If this hook returns `NULL`, or is not defined, or the header is not found, or if the user specifies `-ffreestanding` or `-nostdinc`, no header is included.

  This hook can be used together with a header provided by the system C library to implement ISO C requirements for certain macros to be predefined that describe properties of the whole implementation rather than just the compiler.

C Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CXX_IMPLICIT_EXTERN_C `(const char*)` ¶

  Define this hook to add target-specific C++ implicit extern C functions. If this function returns true for the name of a file-scope function, that function implicitly gets extern "C" linkage rather than whatever language linkage the declaration would normally have. An example of such function is WinMain on Win32 targets.

Macro: SYSTEM_IMPLICIT_EXTERN_C ¶

  Define this macro if the system header files do not support C++. This macro handles system header files by pretending that system header files are enclosed in ‘`extern "C" {…}`’.

Macro: REGISTER_TARGET_PRAGMAS () ¶

  Define this macro if you want to implement any target-specific pragmas. If defined, it is a C expression which makes a series of calls to `c_register_pragma` or `c_register_pragma_with_expansion` for each pragma. The macro may also do any setup required for the pragmas.

  The primary reason to define this macro is to provide compatibility with other compilers for the same target. In general, we discourage definition of target-specific pragmas for GCC.

  If the pragma can be implemented by attributes then you should consider defining the target hook ‘`TARGET_INSERT_ATTRIBUTES`’ as well.

  Preprocessor macros that appear on pragma lines are not expanded. All ‘`#pragma`’ directives that do not match any registered pragma are silently ignored, unless the user specifies `-Wunknown-pragmas`.

Function: `void` c_register_pragma `(const char *space, const char *name, void (*callback) (struct cpp_reader *))` ¶
Function: `void` c_register_pragma_with_expansion `(const char *space, const char *name, void (*callback) (struct cpp_reader *))` ¶

  Each call to `c_register_pragma` or `c_register_pragma_with_expansion` establishes one pragma. The callback routine will be called when the preprocessor encounters a pragma of the form

      #pragma [space] name ...

  space is the case-sensitive namespace of the pragma, or `NULL` to put the pragma in the global namespace. The callback routine receives pfile as its first argument, which can be passed on to cpplib’s functions if necessary. You can lex tokens after the name by calling `pragma_lex`. Tokens that are not read by the callback will be silently ignored. The end of the line is indicated by a token of type `CPP_EOF`. Macro expansion occurs on the arguments of pragmas registered with `c_register_pragma_with_expansion` but not on the arguments of pragmas registered with `c_register_pragma`.

  Note that the use of `pragma_lex` is specific to the C and C++ compilers. It will not work in the Java or Fortran compilers, or any other language compilers for that matter. Thus if `pragma_lex` is going to be called from target-specific code, it must only be done so when building the C and C++ compilers. This can be done by defining the variables `c_target_objs` and `cxx_target_objs` in the target entry in the `config.gcc` file. These variables should name the target-specific, language-specific object file which contains the code that uses `pragma_lex`. Note it will also be necessary to add a rule to the makefile fragment pointed to by `tmake_file` that shows how to build this object file.

Macro: HANDLE_PRAGMA_PACK_WITH_EXPANSION ¶

  Define this macro if macros should be expanded in the arguments of ‘`#pragma pack`’.

Macro: TARGET_DEFAULT_PACK_STRUCT ¶

  If your target requires a structure packing default other than 0 (meaning the machine default), define this macro to the necessary value (in bytes). This must be a value that would also be valid to use with ‘`#pragma pack()`’ (that is, a small power of two).

Macro: DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS ¶

  Define this macro to control use of the character ‘`$`’ in identifier names for the C family of languages. 0 means ‘`$`’ is not allowed by default; 1 means it is allowed. 1 is the default; there is no need to define this macro in that case.

Macro: INSN_SETS_ARE_DELAYED (insn) ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression that is nonzero if it is safe for the delay slot scheduler to place instructions in the delay slot of insn, even if they appear to use a resource set or clobbered in insn. insn is always a `jump_insn` or an `insn`; GCC knows that every `call_insn` has this behavior. On machines where some `insn` or `jump_insn` is really a function call and hence has this behavior, you should define this macro.

  You need not define this macro if it would always return zero.

Macro: INSN_REFERENCES_ARE_DELAYED (insn) ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression that is nonzero if it is safe for the delay slot scheduler to place instructions in the delay slot of insn, even if they appear to set or clobber a resource referenced in insn. insn is always a `jump_insn` or an `insn`. On machines where some `insn` or `jump_insn` is really a function call and its operands are registers whose use is actually in the subroutine it calls, you should define this macro. Doing so allows the delay slot scheduler to move instructions which copy arguments into the argument registers into the delay slot of insn.

  You need not define this macro if it would always return zero.

Macro: MULTIPLE_SYMBOL_SPACES ¶

  Define this macro as a C expression that is nonzero if, in some cases, global symbols from one translation unit may not be bound to undefined symbols in another translation unit without user intervention. For instance, under Microsoft Windows symbols must be explicitly imported from shared libraries (DLLs).

  You need not define this macro if it would always evaluate to zero.

Target Hook: `rtx_insn *` TARGET_MD_ASM_ADJUST `(vec<rtx>& outputs, vec<rtx>& inputs, vec<machine_mode>& input_modes, vec<const char *>& constraints, vec<rtx>& usess, vec<rtx>& clobbers, HARD_REG_SET& clobbered_regs, location_t loc)` ¶

  This target hook may add clobbers to clobbers and clobbered_regs for any hard regs the port wishes to automatically clobber for an asm. It can also add hard registers that are used by the asm to uses. The outputs and inputs may be inspected to avoid clobbering a register that is already used by the asm. loc is the source location of the asm.

  It may modify the outputs, inputs, input_modes, and constraints as necessary for other pre-processing. In this case the return value is a sequence of insns to emit after the asm. Note that changes to inputs must be accompanied by the corresponding changes to input_modes.

Macro: MATH_LIBRARY ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant for the linker argument to link in the system math library, minus the initial ‘`"-l"`’, or ‘`""`’ if the target does not have a separate math library.

  You need only define this macro if the default of ‘`"m"`’ is wrong.

Macro: LIBRARY_PATH_ENV ¶

  Define this macro as a C string constant for the environment variable that specifies where the linker should look for libraries.

  You need only define this macro if the default of ‘`"LIBRARY_PATH"`’ is wrong.

Macro: TARGET_POSIX_IO ¶

  Define this macro if the target supports the following POSIX file functions, access, mkdir and file locking with fcntl / F_SETLKW. Defining `TARGET_POSIX_IO` will enable the test coverage code to use file locking when exiting a program, which avoids race conditions if the program has forked. It will also create directories at run-time for cross-profiling.

Macro: MAX_CONDITIONAL_EXECUTE ¶

  A C expression for the maximum number of instructions to execute via conditional execution instructions instead of a branch. A value of `BRANCH_COST`+1 is the default.

Macro: IFCVT_MODIFY_TESTS (ce_info, true_expr, false_expr) ¶

  Used if the target needs to perform machine-dependent modifications on the conditionals used for turning basic blocks into conditionally executed code. ce_info points to a data structure, `struct ce_if_block`, which contains information about the currently processed blocks. true_expr and false_expr are the tests that are used for converting the then-block and the else-block, respectively. Set either true_expr or false_expr to a null pointer if the tests cannot be converted.

Macro: IFCVT_MODIFY_MULTIPLE_TESTS (ce_info, bb, true_expr, false_expr) ¶

  Like `IFCVT_MODIFY_TESTS`, but used when converting more complicated if-statements into conditions combined by `and` and `or` operations. bb contains the basic block that contains the test that is currently being processed and about to be turned into a condition.

Macro: IFCVT_MODIFY_INSN (ce_info, pattern, insn) ¶

  A C expression to modify the PATTERN of an INSN that is to be converted to conditional execution format. ce_info points to a data structure, `struct ce_if_block`, which contains information about the currently processed blocks.

Macro: IFCVT_MODIFY_FINAL (ce_info) ¶

  A C expression to perform any final machine dependent modifications in converting code to conditional execution. The involved basic blocks can be found in the `struct ce_if_block` structure that is pointed to by ce_info.

Macro: IFCVT_MODIFY_CANCEL (ce_info) ¶

  A C expression to cancel any machine dependent modifications in converting code to conditional execution. The involved basic blocks can be found in the `struct ce_if_block` structure that is pointed to by ce_info.

Macro: IFCVT_MACHDEP_INIT (ce_info) ¶

  A C expression to initialize any machine specific data for if-conversion of the if-block in the `struct ce_if_block` structure that is pointed to by ce_info.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_USE_LATE_PROLOGUE_EPILOGUE `()` ¶

  Return true if the current function’s prologue and epilogue should be emitted late in the pass pipeline, instead of at the usual point.

  Normally, the prologue and epilogue sequences are introduced soon after register allocation is complete. The advantage of this approach is that it allows the prologue and epilogue instructions to be optimized and scheduled with other code in the function. However, some targets require the prologue and epilogue to be the first and last sequences executed by the function, with no variation allowed. This hook should return true on such targets.

  The default implementation returns false, which is correct for most targets. The hook should only return true if there is a specific target limitation that cannot be described in RTL. For example, the hook might return true if the prologue and epilogue need to switch between instruction sets.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_EMIT_EPILOGUE_FOR_SIBCALL `(rtx_call_insn *call)` ¶

  If defined, this hook emits an epilogue sequence for sibling (tail) call instruction call. Another way of providing epilogues for sibling calls is to define the `sibcall_epilogue` instruction pattern; the main advantage of this hook over the pattern is that it has access to the call instruction.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_MACHINE_DEPENDENT_REORG `(void)` ¶

  If non-null, this hook performs a target-specific pass over the instruction stream. The compiler will run it at all optimization levels, just before the point at which it normally does delayed-branch scheduling.

  The exact purpose of the hook varies from target to target. Some use it to do transformations that are necessary for correctness, such as laying out in-function constant pools or avoiding hardware hazards. Others use it as an opportunity to do some machine-dependent optimizations.

  You need not implement the hook if it has nothing to do. The default definition is null.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_INIT_BUILTINS `(void)` ¶

  Define this hook if you have any machine-specific built-in functions that need to be defined. It should be a function that performs the necessary setup.

  Machine specific built-in functions can be useful to expand special machine instructions that would otherwise not normally be generated because they have no equivalent in the source language (for example, SIMD vector instructions or prefetch instructions).

  To create a built-in function, call the function `lang_hooks.builtin_function` which is defined by the language front end. You can use any type nodes set up by `build_common_tree_nodes`; only language front ends that use those two functions will call ‘`TARGET_INIT_BUILTINS`’.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_BUILTIN_DECL `(unsigned code, bool initialize_p)` ¶

  Define this hook if you have any machine-specific built-in functions that need to be defined. It should be a function that returns the builtin function declaration for the builtin function code code. If there is no such builtin and it cannot be initialized at this time if initialize_p is true the function should return `NULL_TREE`. If code is out of range the function should return `error_mark_node`.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_EXPAND_BUILTIN `(tree exp, rtx target, rtx subtarget, machine_mode mode, int ignore)` ¶

  Expand a call to a machine specific built-in function that was set up by ‘`TARGET_INIT_BUILTINS`’. exp is the expression for the function call; the result should go to target if that is convenient, and have mode mode if that is convenient. subtarget may be used as the target for computing one of exp’s operands. ignore is nonzero if the value is to be ignored. This function should return the result of the call to the built-in function.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_RESOLVE_OVERLOADED_BUILTIN `(unsigned int loc, tree fndecl, void *arglist)` ¶

  Select a replacement for a machine specific built-in function that was set up by ‘`TARGET_INIT_BUILTINS`’. This is done before regular type checking, and so allows the target to implement a crude form of function overloading. fndecl is the declaration of the built-in function. arglist is the list of arguments passed to the built-in function. The result is a complete expression that implements the operation, usually another `CALL_EXPR`. arglist really has type ‘`VEC(tree,gc)*`’

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CHECK_BUILTIN_CALL `(location_t loc, vec<location_t> arg_loc, tree fndecl, tree orig_fndecl, unsigned int nargs, tree *args)` ¶

  Perform semantic checking on a call to a machine-specific built-in function after its arguments have been constrained to the function signature. Return true if the call is valid, otherwise report an error and return false.

  This hook is called after `TARGET_RESOLVE_OVERLOADED_BUILTIN`. The call was originally to built-in function orig_fndecl, but after the optional `TARGET_RESOLVE_OVERLOADED_BUILTIN` step is now to built-in function fndecl. loc is the location of the call and args is an array of function arguments, of which there are nargs. arg_loc specifies the location of each argument.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_FOLD_BUILTIN `(tree fndecl, int n_args, tree *argp, bool ignore)` ¶

  Fold a call to a machine specific built-in function that was set up by ‘`TARGET_INIT_BUILTINS`’. fndecl is the declaration of the built-in function. n_args is the number of arguments passed to the function; the arguments themselves are pointed to by argp. The result is another tree, valid for both GIMPLE and GENERIC, containing a simplified expression for the call’s result. If ignore is true the value will be ignored.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_GIMPLE_FOLD_BUILTIN `(gimple_stmt_iterator *gsi)` ¶

  Fold a call to a machine specific built-in function that was set up by ‘`TARGET_INIT_BUILTINS`’. gsi points to the gimple statement holding the function call. Returns true if any change was made to the GIMPLE stream.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_COMPARE_VERSION_PRIORITY `(tree decl1, tree decl2)` ¶

  This hook is used to compare the target attributes in two functions to determine which function’s features get higher priority. This is used during function multi-versioning to figure out the order in which two versions must be dispatched. A function version with a higher priority is checked for dispatching earlier. decl1 and decl2 are the two function decls that will be compared.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_GET_FUNCTION_VERSIONS_DISPATCHER `(void *decl)` ¶

  This hook is used to get the dispatcher function for a set of function versions. The dispatcher function is called to invoke the right function version at run-time. decl is one version from a set of semantically identical versions.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_GENERATE_VERSION_DISPATCHER_BODY `(void *arg)` ¶

  This hook is used to generate the dispatcher logic to invoke the right function version at run-time for a given set of function versions. arg points to the callgraph node of the dispatcher function whose body must be generated.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_PREDICT_DOLOOP_P `(class loop *loop)` ¶

  Return true if we can predict it is possible to use a low-overhead loop for a particular loop. The parameter loop is a pointer to the loop. This target hook is required only when the target supports low-overhead loops, and will help ivopts to make some decisions. The default version of this hook returns false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_COUNT_REG_DECR_P ¶

  Return true if the target supports hardware count register for decrement and branch. The default value is false.

Target Hook: `int64_t` TARGET_DOLOOP_COST_FOR_GENERIC ¶

  One IV candidate dedicated for doloop is introduced in IVOPTs, we can calculate the computation cost of adopting it to any generic IV use by function get_computation_cost as before. But for targets which have hardware count register support for decrement and branch, it may have to move IV value from hardware count register to general purpose register while doloop IV candidate is used for generic IV uses. It probably takes expensive penalty. This hook allows target owners to define the cost for this especially for generic IV uses. The default value is zero.

Target Hook: `int64_t` TARGET_DOLOOP_COST_FOR_ADDRESS ¶

  One IV candidate dedicated for doloop is introduced in IVOPTs, we can calculate the computation cost of adopting it to any address IV use by function get_computation_cost as before. But for targets which have hardware count register support for decrement and branch, it may have to move IV value from hardware count register to general purpose register while doloop IV candidate is used for address IV uses. It probably takes expensive penalty. This hook allows target owners to define the cost for this escpecially for address IV uses. The default value is zero.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CAN_USE_DOLOOP_P `(const widest_int &iterations, const widest_int &iterations_max, unsigned int loop_depth, bool entered_at_top)` ¶

  Return true if it is possible to use low-overhead loops (`doloop_end` and `doloop_begin`) for a particular loop. iterations gives the exact number of iterations, or 0 if not known. iterations_max gives the maximum number of iterations, or 0 if not known. loop_depth is the nesting depth of the loop, with 1 for innermost loops, 2 for loops that contain innermost loops, and so on. entered_at_top is true if the loop is only entered from the top.

  This hook is only used if `doloop_end` is available. The default implementation returns true. You can use `can_use_doloop_if_innermost` if the loop must be the innermost, and if there are no other restrictions.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_INVALID_WITHIN_DOLOOP `(const rtx_insn *insn)` ¶

  Take an instruction in insn and return NULL if it is valid within a low-overhead loop, otherwise return a string explaining why doloop could not be applied.

  Many targets use special registers for low-overhead looping. For any instruction that clobbers these this function should return a string indicating the reason why the doloop could not be applied. By default, the RTL loop optimizer does not use a present doloop pattern for loops containing function calls or branch on table instructions.

Target Hook: `machine_mode` TARGET_PREFERRED_DOLOOP_MODE `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  This hook takes a mode for a doloop IV, where `mode` is the original mode for the operation. If the target prefers an alternate `mode` for the operation, then this hook should return that mode; otherwise the original `mode` should be returned. For example, on a 64-bit target, `DImode` might be preferred over `SImode`. Both the original and the returned modes should be `MODE_INT`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_LEGITIMATE_COMBINED_INSN `(rtx_insn *insn)` ¶

  Take an instruction in insn and return `false` if the instruction is not appropriate as a combination of two or more instructions. The default is to accept all instructions.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CAN_FOLLOW_JUMP `(const rtx_insn *follower, const rtx_insn *followee)` ¶

  FOLLOWER and FOLLOWEE are JUMP_INSN instructions; return true if FOLLOWER may be modified to follow FOLLOWEE; false, if it can’t. For example, on some targets, certain kinds of branches can’t be made to follow through a hot/cold partitioning.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_COMMUTATIVE_P `(const_rtx x, int outer_code)` ¶

  This target hook returns `true` if x is considered to be commutative. Usually, this is just COMMUTATIVE_P (x), but the HP PA doesn’t consider PLUS to be commutative inside a MEM. outer_code is the rtx code of the enclosing rtl, if known, otherwise it is UNKNOWN.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_ALLOCATE_INITIAL_VALUE `(rtx hard_reg)` ¶

  When the initial value of a hard register has been copied in a pseudo register, it is often not necessary to actually allocate another register to this pseudo register, because the original hard register or a stack slot it has been saved into can be used. `TARGET_ALLOCATE_INITIAL_VALUE` is called at the start of register allocation once for each hard register that had its initial value copied by using `get_func_hard_reg_initial_val` or `get_hard_reg_initial_val`. Possible values are `NULL_RTX`, if you don’t want to do any special allocation, a `REG` rtx—that would typically be the hard register itself, if it is known not to be clobbered—or a `MEM`. If you are returning a `MEM`, this is only a hint for the allocator; it might decide to use another register anyways. You may use `current_function_is_leaf` or `REG_N_SETS` in the hook to determine if the hard register in question will not be clobbered. The default value of this hook is `NULL`, which disables any special allocation.

Target Hook: `int` TARGET_UNSPEC_MAY_TRAP_P `(const_rtx x, unsigned flags)` ¶

  This target hook returns nonzero if x, an `unspec` or `unspec_volatile` operation, might cause a trap. Targets can use this hook to enhance precision of analysis for `unspec` and `unspec_volatile` operations. You may call `may_trap_p_1` to analyze inner elements of x in which case flags should be passed along.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_SET_CURRENT_FUNCTION `(tree decl)` ¶

  The compiler invokes this hook whenever it changes its current function context (`cfun`). You can define this function if the back end needs to perform any initialization or reset actions on a per-function basis. For example, it may be used to implement function attributes that affect register usage or code generation patterns. The argument decl is the declaration for the new function context, and may be null to indicate that the compiler has left a function context and is returning to processing at the top level. The default hook function does nothing.

  GCC sets `cfun` to a dummy function context during initialization of some parts of the back end. The hook function is not invoked in this situation; you need not worry about the hook being invoked recursively, or when the back end is in a partially-initialized state. `cfun` might be `NULL` to indicate processing at top level, outside of any function scope.

Macro: TARGET_OBJECT_SUFFIX ¶

  Define this macro to be a C string representing the suffix for object files on your target machine. If you do not define this macro, GCC will use ‘`.o`’ as the suffix for object files.

Macro: TARGET_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX ¶

  Define this macro to be a C string representing the suffix to be automatically added to executable files on your target machine. If you do not define this macro, GCC will use the null string as the suffix for executable files.

Macro: COLLECT_EXPORT_LIST ¶

  If defined, `collect2` will scan the individual object files specified on its command line and create an export list for the linker. Define this macro for systems like AIX, where the linker discards object files that are not referenced from `main` and uses export lists.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_CANNOT_MODIFY_JUMPS_P `(void)` ¶

  This target hook returns `true` past the point in which new jump instructions could be created. On machines that require a register for every jump such as the SHmedia ISA of SH5, this point would typically be reload, so this target hook should be defined to a function such as:

      static bool
      cannot_modify_jumps_past_reload_p ()
      {
        return (reload_completed || reload_in_progress);
      }

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_CONDITIONAL_EXECUTION `(void)` ¶

  This target hook returns true if the target supports conditional execution. This target hook is required only when the target has several different modes and they have different conditional execution capability, such as ARM.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_GEN_CCMP_FIRST `(rtx_insn **prep_seq, rtx_insn **gen_seq, rtx_code code, tree op0, tree op1)` ¶

  This function prepares to emit a comparison insn for the first compare in a sequence of conditional comparisions. It returns an appropriate comparison with `CC` for passing to `gen_ccmp_next` or `cbranch_optab`. The insns to prepare the compare are saved in prep_seq and the compare insns are saved in gen_seq. They will be emitted when all the compares in the conditional comparision are generated without error. code is the `rtx_code` of the compare for op0 and op1.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_GEN_CCMP_NEXT `(rtx_insn **prep_seq, rtx_insn **gen_seq, rtx prev, rtx_code cmp_code, tree op0, tree op1, rtx_code bit_code)` ¶

  This function prepares to emit a conditional comparison within a sequence of conditional comparisons. It returns an appropriate comparison with `CC` for passing to `gen_ccmp_next` or `cbranch_optab`. The insns to prepare the compare are saved in prep_seq and the compare insns are saved in gen_seq. They will be emitted when all the compares in the conditional comparision are generated without error. The prev expression is the result of a prior call to `gen_ccmp_first` or `gen_ccmp_next`. It may return `NULL` if the combination of prev and this comparison is not supported, otherwise the result must be appropriate for passing to `gen_ccmp_next` or `cbranch_optab`. code is the `rtx_code` of the compare for op0 and op1. bit_code is `AND` or `IOR`, which is the op on the compares.

Target Hook: `unsigned` TARGET_LOOP_UNROLL_ADJUST `(unsigned nunroll, class loop *loop)` ¶

  This target hook returns a new value for the number of times loop should be unrolled. The parameter nunroll is the number of times the loop is to be unrolled. The parameter loop is a pointer to the loop, which is going to be checked for unrolling. This target hook is required only when the target has special constraints like maximum number of memory accesses.

Macro: POWI_MAX_MULTS ¶

  If defined, this macro is interpreted as a signed integer C expression that specifies the maximum number of floating point multiplications that should be emitted when expanding exponentiation by an integer constant inline. When this value is defined, exponentiation requiring more than this number of multiplications is implemented by calling the system library’s `pow`, `powf` or `powl` routines. The default value places no upper bound on the multiplication count.

Macro: `void` TARGET_EXTRA_INCLUDES `(const char *sysroot, const char *iprefix, int stdinc)` ¶

  This target hook should register any extra include files for the target. The parameter stdinc indicates if normal include files are present. The parameter sysroot is the system root directory. The parameter iprefix is the prefix for the gcc directory.

Macro: `void` TARGET_EXTRA_PRE_INCLUDES `(const char *sysroot, const char *iprefix, int stdinc)` ¶

  This target hook should register any extra include files for the target before any standard headers. The parameter stdinc indicates if normal include files are present. The parameter sysroot is the system root directory. The parameter iprefix is the prefix for the gcc directory.

Macro: `void` TARGET_OPTF `(char *path)` ¶

  This target hook should register special include paths for the target. The parameter path is the include to register. On Darwin systems, this is used for Framework includes, which have semantics that are different from `-I`.

Macro: bool TARGET_USE_LOCAL_THUNK_ALIAS_P (tree fndecl) ¶

  This target macro returns `true` if it is safe to use a local alias for a virtual function fndecl when constructing thunks, `false` otherwise. By default, the macro returns `true` for all functions, if a target supports aliases (i.e. defines `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF`), `false` otherwise,

Macro: TARGET_FORMAT_TYPES ¶

  If defined, this macro is the name of a global variable containing target-specific format checking information for the `-Wformat` option. The default is to have no target-specific format checks.

Macro: TARGET_N_FORMAT_TYPES ¶

  If defined, this macro is the number of entries in `TARGET_FORMAT_TYPES`.

Macro: TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES ¶

  If defined, this macro is the name of a global variable containing target-specific format overrides for the `-Wformat` option. The default is to have no target-specific format overrides. If defined, `TARGET_FORMAT_TYPES` and `TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES_COUNT` must be defined, too.

Macro: TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES_COUNT ¶

  If defined, this macro specifies the number of entries in `TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES`.

Macro: TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_INIT ¶

  If defined, this macro specifies the optional initialization routine for target specific customizations of the system printf and scanf formatter settings.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_INVALID_ARG_FOR_UNPROTOTYPED_FN `(const_tree typelist, const_tree funcdecl, const_tree val)` ¶

  If defined, this macro returns the diagnostic message when it is illegal to pass argument val to function funcdecl with prototype typelist.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_INVALID_CONVERSION `(const_tree fromtype, const_tree totype)` ¶

  If defined, this macro returns the diagnostic message when it is invalid to convert from fromtype to totype, or `NULL` if validity should be determined by the front end.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_INVALID_UNARY_OP `(int op, const_tree type)` ¶

  If defined, this macro returns the diagnostic message when it is invalid to apply operation op (where unary plus is denoted by `CONVERT_EXPR`) to an operand of type type, or `NULL` if validity should be determined by the front end.

Target Hook: `const char *` TARGET_INVALID_BINARY_OP `(int op, const_tree type1, const_tree type2)` ¶

  If defined, this macro returns the diagnostic message when it is invalid to apply operation op to operands of types type1 and type2, or `NULL` if validity should be determined by the front end.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_PROMOTED_TYPE `(const_tree type)` ¶

  If defined, this target hook returns the type to which values of type should be promoted when they appear in expressions, analogous to the integer promotions, or `NULL_TREE` to use the front end’s normal promotion rules. This hook is useful when there are target-specific types with special promotion rules. This is currently used only by the C and C++ front ends.

Target Hook: `tree` TARGET_CONVERT_TO_TYPE `(tree type, tree expr)` ¶

  If defined, this hook returns the result of converting expr to type. It should return the converted expression, or `NULL_TREE` to apply the front end’s normal conversion rules. This hook is useful when there are target-specific types with special conversion rules. This is currently used only by the C and C++ front ends.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_VERIFY_TYPE_CONTEXT `(location_t loc, type_context_kind context, const_tree type, bool silent_p)` ¶

  If defined, this hook returns false if there is a target-specific reason why type type cannot be used in the source language context described by context. When silent_p is false, the hook also reports an error against loc for invalid uses of type.

  Calls to this hook should be made through the global function `verify_type_context`, which makes the silent_p parameter default to false and also handles `error_mark_node`.

  The default implementation always returns true.

Macro: OBJC_JBLEN ¶

  This macro determines the size of the objective C jump buffer for the NeXT runtime. By default, OBJC_JBLEN is defined to an innocuous value.

Macro: LIBGCC2_UNWIND_ATTRIBUTE ¶

  Define this macro if any target-specific attributes need to be attached to the functions in `libgcc` that provide low-level support for call stack unwinding. It is used in declarations in `unwind-generic.h` and the associated definitions of those functions.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_UPDATE_STACK_BOUNDARY `(void)` ¶

  Define this macro to update the current function stack boundary if necessary.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_GET_DRAP_RTX `(void)` ¶

  This hook should return an rtx for Dynamic Realign Argument Pointer (DRAP) if a different argument pointer register is needed to access the function’s argument list due to stack realignment. Return `NULL` if no DRAP is needed.

Target Hook: `HARD_REG_SET` TARGET_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS `(HARD_REG_SET selected_regs)` ¶

  This target hook emits instructions to zero the subset of selected_regs that could conceivably contain values that are useful to an attacker. Return the set of registers that were actually cleared.

  For most targets, the returned set of registers is a subset of selected_regs, however, for some of the targets (for example MIPS), clearing some registers that are in the selected_regs requires clearing other call used registers that are not in the selected_regs, under such situation, the returned set of registers must be a subset of all call used registers.

  The default implementation uses normal move instructions to zero all the registers in selected_regs. Define this hook if the target has more efficient ways of zeroing certain registers, or if you believe that certain registers would never contain values that are useful to an attacker.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_ALLOCATE_STACK_SLOTS_FOR_ARGS `(void)` ¶

  When optimization is disabled, this hook indicates whether or not arguments should be allocated to stack slots. Normally, GCC allocates stacks slots for arguments when not optimizing in order to make debugging easier. However, when a function is declared with `__attribute__((naked))`, there is no stack frame, and the compiler cannot safely move arguments from the registers in which they are passed to the stack. Therefore, this hook should return true in general, but false for naked functions. The default implementation always returns true.

Target Hook: `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_CONST_ANCHOR ¶

  On some architectures it can take multiple instructions to synthesize a constant. If there is another constant already in a register that is close enough in value then it is preferable that the new constant is computed from this register using immediate addition or subtraction. We accomplish this through CSE. Besides the value of the constant we also add a lower and an upper constant anchor to the available expressions. These are then queried when encountering new constants. The anchors are computed by rounding the constant up and down to a multiple of the value of `TARGET_CONST_ANCHOR`. `TARGET_CONST_ANCHOR` should be the maximum positive value accepted by immediate-add plus one. We currently assume that the value of `TARGET_CONST_ANCHOR` is a power of 2. For example, on MIPS, where add-immediate takes a 16-bit signed value, `TARGET_CONST_ANCHOR` is set to ‘`0x8000`’. The default value is zero, which disables this optimization.

Target Hook: `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_ASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET `(void)` ¶

  Return the offset bitwise ored into shifted address to get corresponding Address Sanitizer shadow memory address. NULL if Address Sanitizer is not supported by the target. May return 0 if Address Sanitizer is not supported by a subtarget.

Target Hook: `unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT` TARGET_MEMMODEL_CHECK `(unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT val)` ¶

  Validate target specific memory model mask bits. When NULL no target specific memory model bits are allowed.

Target Hook: `unsigned char` TARGET_ATOMIC_TEST_AND_SET_TRUEVAL ¶

  This value should be set if the result written by `atomic_test_and_set` is not exactly 1, i.e. the `bool` `true`.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAS_IFUNC_P `(void)` ¶

  It returns true if the target supports GNU indirect functions. The support includes the assembler, linker and dynamic linker. The default value of this hook is based on target’s libc.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_IFUNC_REF_LOCAL_OK `(void)` ¶

  Return true if it is OK to reference indirect function resolvers locally. The default is to return false.

Target Hook: `unsigned int` TARGET_ATOMIC_ALIGN_FOR_MODE `(machine_mode mode)` ¶

  If defined, this function returns an appropriate alignment in bits for an atomic object of machine_mode mode. If 0 is returned then the default alignment for the specified mode is used.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV `(tree *hold, tree *clear, tree *update)` ¶

  ISO C11 requires atomic compound assignments that may raise floating-point exceptions to raise exceptions corresponding to the arithmetic operation whose result was successfully stored in a compare-and-exchange sequence. This requires code equivalent to calls to `feholdexcept`, `feclearexcept` and `feupdateenv` to be generated at appropriate points in the compare-and-exchange sequence. This hook should set `*hold` to an expression equivalent to the call to `feholdexcept`, `*clear` to an expression equivalent to the call to `feclearexcept` and `*update` to an expression equivalent to the call to `feupdateenv`. The three expressions are `NULL_TREE` on entry to the hook and may be left as `NULL_TREE` if no code is required in a particular place. The default implementation leaves all three expressions as `NULL_TREE`. The `__atomic_feraiseexcept` function from `libatomic` may be of use as part of the code generated in `*update`.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_RECORD_OFFLOAD_SYMBOL `(tree)` ¶

  Used when offloaded functions are seen in the compilation unit and no named sections are available. It is called once for each symbol that must be recorded in the offload function and variable table.

Target Hook: `char *` TARGET_OFFLOAD_OPTIONS `(void)` ¶

  Used when writing out the list of options into an LTO file. It should translate any relevant target-specific options (such as the ABI in use) into one of the `-foffload` options that exist as a common interface to express such options. It should return a string containing these options, separated by spaces, which the caller will free.

Macro: TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT ¶

  On older ports, large integers are stored in `CONST_DOUBLE` rtl objects. Newer ports define `TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT` to be nonzero to indicate that large integers are stored in `CONST_WIDE_INT` rtl objects. The `CONST_WIDE_INT` allows very large integer constants to be represented. `CONST_DOUBLE` is limited to twice the size of the host’s `HOST_WIDE_INT` representation.

  Converting a port mostly requires looking for the places where `CONST_DOUBLE`s are used with `VOIDmode` and replacing that code with code that accesses `CONST_WIDE_INT`s. ‘`"grep -i const_double"`’ at the port level gets you to 95% of the changes that need to be made. There are a few places that require a deeper look.

  - There is no equivalent to `hval` and `lval` for `CONST_WIDE_INT`s. This would be difficult to express in the md language since there are a variable number of elements.

    Most ports only check that `hval` is either 0 or -1 to see if the value is small. As mentioned above, this will no longer be necessary since small constants are always `CONST_INT`. Of course there are still a few exceptions, the alpha’s constraint used by the zap instruction certainly requires careful examination by C code. However, all the current code does is pass the hval and lval to C code, so evolving the c code to look at the `CONST_WIDE_INT` is not really a large change.

  - Because there is no standard template that ports use to materialize constants, there is likely to be some futzing that is unique to each port in this code.
  - The rtx costs may have to be adjusted to properly account for larger constants that are represented as `CONST_WIDE_INT`.

  All and all it does not take long to convert ports that the maintainer is familiar with.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_SPECULATION_SAFE_VALUE `(bool active)` ¶

  This hook is used to determine the level of target support for `__builtin_speculation_safe_value`. If called with an argument of false, it returns true if the target has been modified to support this builtin. If called with an argument of true, it returns true if the target requires active mitigation execution might be speculative.

  The default implementation returns false if the target does not define a pattern named `speculation_barrier`. Else it returns true for the first case and whether the pattern is enabled for the current compilation for the second case.

  For targets that have no processors that can execute instructions speculatively an alternative implemenation of this hook is available: simply redefine this hook to `speculation_safe_value_not_needed` along with your other target hooks.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_SPECULATION_SAFE_VALUE `(machine_mode mode, rtx result, rtx val, rtx failval)` ¶

  This target hook can be used to generate a target-specific code sequence that implements the `__builtin_speculation_safe_value` built-in function. The function must always return val in result in mode mode when the cpu is not executing speculatively, but must never return that when speculating until it is known that the speculation will not be unwound. The hook supports two primary mechanisms for implementing the requirements. The first is to emit a speculation barrier which forces the processor to wait until all prior speculative operations have been resolved; the second is to use a target-specific mechanism that can track the speculation state and to return failval if it can determine that speculation must be unwound at a later time.

  The default implementation simply copies val to result and emits a `speculation_barrier` instruction if that is defined.

Target Hook: `void` TARGET_RUN_TARGET_SELFTESTS `(void)` ¶

  If selftests are enabled, run any selftests for this target.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_MEMTAG_CAN_TAG_ADDRESSES `()` ¶

  True if the backend architecture naturally supports ignoring some region of pointers. This feature means that `-fsanitize=hwaddress` can work.

  At preset, this feature does not support address spaces. It also requires `Pmode` to be the same as `ptr_mode`.

Target Hook: `uint8_t` TARGET_MEMTAG_TAG_SIZE `()` ¶

  Return the size of a tag (in bits) for this platform.

  The default returns 8.

Target Hook: `uint8_t` TARGET_MEMTAG_GRANULE_SIZE `()` ¶

  Return the size in real memory that each byte in shadow memory refers to. I.e. if a variable is X bytes long in memory, then this hook should return the value Y such that the tag in shadow memory spans X/Y bytes.

  Most variables will need to be aligned to this amount since two variables that are neighbors in memory and share a tag granule would need to share the same tag.

  The default returns 16.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_MEMTAG_INSERT_RANDOM_TAG `(rtx untagged, rtx target)` ¶

  Return an RTX representing the value of untagged but with a (possibly) random tag in it. Put that value into target if it is convenient to do so. This function is used to generate a tagged base for the current stack frame.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_MEMTAG_ADD_TAG `(rtx base, poly_int64 addr_offset, uint8_t tag_offset)` ¶

  Return an RTX that represents the result of adding addr_offset to the address in pointer base and tag_offset to the tag in pointer base. The resulting RTX must either be a valid memory address or be able to get put into an operand with `force_operand`.

  Unlike other memtag hooks, this must return an expression and not emit any RTL.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_MEMTAG_SET_TAG `(rtx untagged_base, rtx tag, rtx target)` ¶

  Return an RTX representing untagged_base but with the tag tag. Try and store this in target if convenient. untagged_base is required to have a zero tag when this hook is called. The default of this hook is to set the top byte of untagged_base to tag.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_MEMTAG_EXTRACT_TAG `(rtx tagged_pointer, rtx target)` ¶

  Return an RTX representing the tag stored in tagged_pointer. Store the result in target if it is convenient. The default represents the top byte of the original pointer.

Target Hook: `rtx` TARGET_MEMTAG_UNTAGGED_POINTER `(rtx tagged_pointer, rtx target)` ¶

  Return an RTX representing tagged_pointer with its tag set to zero. Store the result in target if convenient. The default clears the top byte of the original pointer.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK ¶

  This value is true if the target platform supports `-fsanitize=shadow-call-stack`. The default value is false.

Target Hook: `bool` TARGET_HAVE_LIBATOMIC ¶

  This value is true if the target platform supports libatomic. The default value is false.

## 19 Host Configuration ¶

Most details about the machine and system on which the compiler is actually running are detected by the `configure` script. Some things are impossible for `configure` to detect; these are described in two ways, either by macros defined in a file named `xm-machine.h` or by hook functions in the file specified by the out_host_hook_obj variable in `config.gcc`. (The intention is that very few hosts will need a header file but nearly every fully supported host will need to override some hooks.)

If you need to define only a few macros, and they have simple definitions, consider using the `xm_defines` variable in your `config.gcc` entry instead of creating a host configuration header. See The `config.build`; `config.host`; and `config.gcc` Files.

### 19.1 Host Common ¶

Some things are just not portable, even between similar operating systems, and are too difficult for autoconf to detect. They get implemented using hook functions in the file specified by the host_hook_obj variable in `config.gcc`.

Host Hook: `void` HOST_HOOKS_EXTRA_SIGNALS `(void)` ¶

  This host hook is used to set up handling for extra signals. The most common thing to do in this hook is to detect stack overflow.

Host Hook: `void *` HOST_HOOKS_GT_PCH_GET_ADDRESS `(size_t size, int fd)` ¶

  This host hook returns the address of some space that is likely to be free in some subsequent invocation of the compiler. We intend to load the PCH data at this address such that the data need not be relocated. The area should be able to hold size bytes. If the host uses `mmap`, fd is an open file descriptor that can be used for probing.

Host Hook: `int` HOST_HOOKS_GT_PCH_USE_ADDRESS `(void * address, size_t size, int fd, size_t offset)` ¶

  This host hook is called when a PCH file is about to be loaded. We want to load size bytes from fd at offset into memory at address. The given address will be the result of a previous invocation of `HOST_HOOKS_GT_PCH_GET_ADDRESS`. Return −1 if we couldn’t allocate size bytes at address. Return 0 if the memory is allocated but the data is not loaded. Return 1 if the hook has performed everything.

  If the implementation uses reserved address space, free any reserved space beyond size, regardless of the return value. If no PCH will be loaded, this hook may be called with size zero, in which case all reserved address space should be freed.

  Do not try to handle values of address that could not have been returned by this executable; just return −1. Such values usually indicate an out-of-date PCH file (built by some other GCC executable), and such a PCH file won’t work.

Host Hook: `size_t` HOST_HOOKS_GT_PCH_ALLOC_GRANULARITY `(void);` ¶

  This host hook returns the alignment required for allocating virtual memory. Usually this is the same as getpagesize, but on some hosts the alignment for reserving memory differs from the pagesize for committing memory.

### 19.2 Host Filesystem ¶

GCC needs to know a number of things about the semantics of the host machine’s filesystem. Filesystems with Unix and MS-DOS semantics are automatically detected. For other systems, you can define the following macros in `xm-machine.h`.

`HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM` ¶

  This macro is automatically defined by `system.h` if the host file system obeys the semantics defined by MS-DOS instead of Unix. DOS file systems are case insensitive, file specifications may begin with a drive letter, and both forward slash and backslash (‘`/`’ and ‘`\`’) are directory separators.

`DIR_SEPARATOR` ¶
`DIR_SEPARATOR_2` ¶

  If defined, these macros expand to character constants specifying separators for directory names within a file specification. `system.h` will automatically give them appropriate values on Unix and MS-DOS file systems. If your file system is neither of these, define one or both appropriately in `xm-machine.h`.

  However, operating systems like VMS, where constructing a pathname is more complicated than just stringing together directory names separated by a special character, should not define either of these macros.

`PATH_SEPARATOR` ¶

  If defined, this macro should expand to a character constant specifying the separator for elements of search paths. The default value is a colon (‘`:`’). DOS-based systems usually, but not always, use semicolon (‘`;`’).

`VMS` ¶

  Define this macro if the host system is VMS.

`HOST_OBJECT_SUFFIX` ¶

  Define this macro to be a C string representing the suffix for object files on your host machine. If you do not define this macro, GCC will use ‘`.o`’ as the suffix for object files.

`HOST_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX` ¶

  Define this macro to be a C string representing the suffix for executable files on your host machine. If you do not define this macro, GCC will use the null string as the suffix for executable files.

`HOST_BIT_BUCKET` ¶

  A pathname defined by the host operating system, which can be opened as a file and written to, but all the information written is discarded. This is commonly known as a bit bucket or null device. If you do not define this macro, GCC will use ‘`/dev/null`’ as the bit bucket. If the host does not support a bit bucket, define this macro to an invalid filename.

`UPDATE_PATH_HOST_CANONICALIZE (path)` ¶

  If defined, a C statement (sans semicolon) that performs host-dependent canonicalization when a path used in a compilation driver or preprocessor is canonicalized. path is a malloc-ed path to be canonicalized. If the C statement does canonicalize path into a different buffer, the old path should be freed and the new buffer should have been allocated with malloc.

`DUMPFILE_FORMAT` ¶

  Define this macro to be a C string representing the format to use for constructing the index part of debugging dump file names. The resultant string must fit in fifteen bytes. The full filename will be the concatenation of: the prefix of the assembler file name, the string resulting from applying this format to an index number, and a string unique to each dump file kind, e.g. ‘`rtl`’.

  If you do not define this macro, GCC will use ‘`.%02d.`’. You should define this macro if using the default will create an invalid file name.

`DELETE_IF_ORDINARY` ¶

  Define this macro to be a C statement (sans semicolon) that performs host-dependent removal of ordinary temp files in the compilation driver.

  If you do not define this macro, GCC will use the default version. You should define this macro if the default version does not reliably remove the temp file as, for example, on VMS which allows multiple versions of a file.

`HOST_LACKS_INODE_NUMBERS` ¶

  Define this macro if the host filesystem does not report meaningful inode numbers in struct stat.

### 19.3 Host Misc ¶

`FATAL_EXIT_CODE` ¶

  A C expression for the status code to be returned when the compiler exits after serious errors. The default is the system-provided macro ‘`EXIT_FAILURE`’, or ‘`1`’ if the system doesn’t define that macro. Define this macro only if these defaults are incorrect.

`SUCCESS_EXIT_CODE` ¶

  A C expression for the status code to be returned when the compiler exits without serious errors. (Warnings are not serious errors.) The default is the system-provided macro ‘`EXIT_SUCCESS`’, or ‘`0`’ if the system doesn’t define that macro. Define this macro only if these defaults are incorrect.

`USE_C_ALLOCA` ¶

  Define this macro if GCC should use the C implementation of `alloca` provided by `libiberty.a`. This only affects how some parts of the compiler itself allocate memory. It does not change code generation.

  When GCC is built with a compiler other than itself, the C `alloca` is always used. This is because most other implementations have serious bugs. You should define this macro only on a system where no stack-based `alloca` can possibly work. For instance, if a system has a small limit on the size of the stack, GCC’s builtin `alloca` will not work reliably.

`COLLECT2_HOST_INITIALIZATION` ¶

  If defined, a C statement (sans semicolon) that performs host-dependent initialization when `collect2` is being initialized.

`GCC_DRIVER_HOST_INITIALIZATION` ¶

  If defined, a C statement (sans semicolon) that performs host-dependent initialization when a compilation driver is being initialized.

`HOST_LONG_LONG_FORMAT` ¶

  If defined, the string used to indicate an argument of type `long long` to functions like `printf`. The default value is `"ll"`.

`HOST_LONG_FORMAT` ¶

  If defined, the string used to indicate an argument of type `long` to functions like `printf`. The default value is `"l"`.

`HOST_PTR_PRINTF` ¶

  If defined, the string used to indicate an argument of type `void *` to functions like `printf`. The default value is `"%p"`.

In addition, if `configure` generates an incorrect definition of any of the macros in `auto-host.h`, you can override that definition in a host configuration header. If you need to do this, first see if it is possible to fix `configure`.

## 20 Makefile Fragments ¶

When you configure GCC using the `configure` script, it will construct the file `Makefile` from the template file `Makefile.in`. When it does this, it can incorporate makefile fragments from the `config` directory. These are used to set Makefile parameters that are not amenable to being calculated by autoconf. The list of fragments to incorporate is set by `config.gcc` (and occasionally `config.build` and `config.host`); See The `config.build`; `config.host`; and `config.gcc` Files.

Fragments are named either `t-target` or `x-host`, depending on whether they are relevant to configuring GCC to produce code for a particular target, or to configuring GCC to run on a particular host. Here target and host are mnemonics which usually have some relationship to the canonical system name, but no formal connection.

If these files do not exist, it means nothing needs to be added for a given target or host. Most targets need a few `t-target` fragments, but needing `x-host` fragments is rare.

### 20.1 Target Makefile Fragments ¶

Target makefile fragments can set these Makefile variables.

`LIBGCC2_CFLAGS` ¶

  Compiler flags to use when compiling `libgcc2.c`.

`LIB2FUNCS_EXTRA` ¶

  A list of source file names to be compiled or assembled and inserted into `libgcc.a`.

`CRTSTUFF_T_CFLAGS` ¶

  Special flags used when compiling `crtstuff.c`. See How Initialization Functions Are Handled.

`CRTSTUFF_T_CFLAGS_S` ¶

  Special flags used when compiling `crtstuff.c` for shared linking. Used if you use `crtbeginS.o` and `crtendS.o` in `EXTRA-PARTS`. See How Initialization Functions Are Handled.

`MULTILIB_OPTIONS` ¶

  For some targets, invoking GCC in different ways produces objects that cannot be linked together. For example, for some targets GCC produces both big and little endian code. For these targets, you must arrange for multiple versions of `libgcc.a` to be compiled, one for each set of incompatible options. When GCC invokes the linker, it arranges to link in the right version of `libgcc.a`, based on the command line options used.

  The `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` macro lists the set of options for which special versions of `libgcc.a` must be built. Write options that are mutually incompatible side by side, separated by a slash. Write options that may be used together separated by a space. The build procedure will build all combinations of compatible options.

  For example, if you set `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` to ‘`m68000/m68020 msoft-float`’, `Makefile` will build special versions of `libgcc.a` using the following sets of options: `-m68000`, `-m68020`, `-msoft-float`, ‘`-m68000 -msoft-float`’, and ‘`-m68020 -msoft-float`’.

`MULTILIB_DIRNAMES` ¶

  If `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` is used, this variable specifies the directory names that should be used to hold the various libraries. Write one element in `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES` for each element in `MULTILIB_OPTIONS`. If `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES` is not used, the default value will be `MULTILIB_OPTIONS`, with all slashes treated as spaces.

  `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES` describes the multilib directories using GCC conventions and is applied to directories that are part of the GCC installation. When multilib-enabled, the compiler will add a subdirectory of the form prefix/multilib before each directory in the search path for libraries and crt files.

  For example, if `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` is set to ‘`m68000/m68020 msoft-float`’, then the default value of `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES` is ‘`m68000 m68020 msoft-float`’. You may specify a different value if you desire a different set of directory names.

`MULTILIB_MATCHES` ¶

  Sometimes the same option may be written in two different ways. If an option is listed in `MULTILIB_OPTIONS`, GCC needs to know about any synonyms. In that case, set `MULTILIB_MATCHES` to a list of items of the form ‘`option=option`’ to describe all relevant synonyms. For example, ‘`m68000=mc68000 m68020=mc68020`’.

`MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS` ¶

  Sometimes when there are multiple sets of `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` being specified, there are combinations that should not be built. In that case, set `MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS` to be all of the switch exceptions in shell case syntax that should not be built.

  For example the ARM processor cannot execute both hardware floating point instructions and the reduced size THUMB instructions at the same time, so there is no need to build libraries with both of these options enabled. Therefore `MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS` is set to:

      *mthumb/*mhard-float*

`MULTILIB_REQUIRED` ¶

  Sometimes when there are only a few combinations are required, it would be a big effort to come up with a `MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS` list to cover all undesired ones. In such a case, just listing all the required combinations in `MULTILIB_REQUIRED` would be more straightforward.

  The way to specify the entries in `MULTILIB_REQUIRED` is same with the way used for `MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS`, only this time what are required will be specified. Suppose there are multiple sets of `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` and only two combinations are required, one for ARMv7-M and one for ARMv7-R with hard floating-point ABI and FPU, the `MULTILIB_REQUIRED` can be set to:

      MULTILIB_REQUIRED =  mthumb/march=armv7-m
      MULTILIB_REQUIRED += march=armv7-r/mfloat-abi=hard/mfpu=vfpv3-d16

  The `MULTILIB_REQUIRED` can be used together with `MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS`. The option combinations generated from `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` will be filtered by `MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS` and then by `MULTILIB_REQUIRED`.

`MULTILIB_REUSE` ¶

  Sometimes it is desirable to reuse one existing multilib for different sets of options. Such kind of reuse can minimize the number of multilib variants. And for some targets it is better to reuse an existing multilib than to fall back to default multilib when there is no corresponding multilib. This can be done by adding reuse rules to `MULTILIB_REUSE`.

  A reuse rule is comprised of two parts connected by equality sign. The left part is the option set used to build multilib and the right part is the option set that will reuse this multilib. Both parts should only use options specified in `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` and the equality signs found in options name should be replaced with periods. An explicit period in the rule can be escaped by preceding it with a backslash. The order of options in the left part matters and should be same with those specified in `MULTILIB_REQUIRED` or aligned with the order in `MULTILIB_OPTIONS`. There is no such limitation for options in the right part as we don’t build multilib from them.

  `MULTILIB_REUSE` is different from `MULTILIB_MATCHES` in that it sets up relations between two option sets rather than two options. Here is an example to demo how we reuse libraries built in Thumb mode for applications built in ARM mode:

      MULTILIB_REUSE = mthumb/march.armv7-r=marm/march.armv7-r

  Before the advent of `MULTILIB_REUSE`, GCC select multilib by comparing command line options with options used to build multilib. The `MULTILIB_REUSE` is complementary to that way. Only when the original comparison matches nothing it will work to see if it is OK to reuse some existing multilib.

`MULTILIB_EXTRA_OPTS` ¶

  Sometimes it is desirable that when building multiple versions of `libgcc.a` certain options should always be passed on to the compiler. In that case, set `MULTILIB_EXTRA_OPTS` to be the list of options to be used for all builds. If you set this, you should probably set `CRTSTUFF_T_CFLAGS` to a dash followed by it.

`MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES` ¶

  If `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` is used, this variable specifies a list of subdirectory names, that are used to modify the search path depending on the chosen multilib. Unlike `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES`, `MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES` describes the multilib directories using operating systems conventions, and is applied to the directories such as `lib` or those in the `LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable. The format is either the same as of `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES`, or a set of mappings. When it is the same as `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES`, it describes the multilib directories using operating system conventions, rather than GCC conventions. When it is a set of mappings of the form gccdir=osdir, the left side gives the GCC convention and the right gives the equivalent OS defined location. If the osdir part begins with a ‘`!`’, GCC will not search in the non-multilib directory and use exclusively the multilib directory. Otherwise, the compiler will examine the search path for libraries and crt files twice; the first time it will add multilib to each directory in the search path, the second it will not.

  For configurations that support both multilib and multiarch, `MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES` also encodes the multiarch name, thus subsuming `MULTIARCH_DIRNAME`. The multiarch name is appended to each directory name, separated by a colon (e.g. ‘`../lib32:i386-linux-gnu`’).

  Each multiarch subdirectory will be searched before the corresponding OS multilib directory, for example ‘`/lib/i386-linux-gnu`’ before ‘`/lib/../lib32`’. The multiarch name will also be used to modify the system header search path, as explained for `MULTIARCH_DIRNAME`.

`MULTIARCH_DIRNAME` ¶

  This variable specifies the multiarch name for configurations that are multiarch-enabled but not multilibbed configurations.

  The multiarch name is used to augment the search path for libraries, crt files and system header files with additional locations. The compiler will add a multiarch subdirectory of the form prefix/multiarch before each directory in the library and crt search path. It will also add two directories `LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR`/multiarch and `NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR`/multiarch) to the system header search path, respectively before `LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR` and `NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR`.

  `MULTIARCH_DIRNAME` is not used for configurations that support both multilib and multiarch. In that case, multiarch names are encoded in `MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES` instead.

  More documentation about multiarch can be found at https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch.

`SPECS` ¶

  Unfortunately, setting `MULTILIB_EXTRA_OPTS` is not enough, since it does not affect the build of target libraries, at least not the build of the default multilib. One possible work-around is to use `DRIVER_SELF_SPECS` to bring options from the `specs` file as if they had been passed in the compiler driver command line. However, you don’t want to be adding these options after the toolchain is installed, so you can instead tweak the `specs` file that will be used during the toolchain build, while you still install the original, built-in `specs`. The trick is to set `SPECS` to some other filename (say `specs.install`), that will then be created out of the built-in specs, and introduce a `Makefile` rule to generate the `specs` file that’s going to be used at build time out of your `specs.install`.

`T_CFLAGS`

  These are extra flags to pass to the C compiler. They are used both when building GCC, and when compiling things with the just-built GCC. This variable is deprecated and should not be used.

### 20.2 Host Makefile Fragments ¶

The use of `x-host` fragments is discouraged. You should only use it for makefile dependencies.

## 21 `collect2` ¶

GCC uses a utility called `collect2` on nearly all systems to arrange to call various initialization functions at start time.

The program `collect2` works by linking the program once and looking through the linker output file for symbols with particular names indicating they are constructor functions. If it finds any, it creates a new temporary ‘`.c`’ file containing a table of them, compiles it, and links the program a second time including that file.

The actual calls to the constructors are carried out by a subroutine called `__main`, which is called (automatically) at the beginning of the body of `main` (provided `main` was compiled with GNU CC). Calling `__main` is necessary, even when compiling C code, to allow linking C and C++ object code together. (If you use `-nostdlib`, you get an unresolved reference to `__main`, since it’s defined in the standard GCC library. Include `-lgcc` at the end of your compiler command line to resolve this reference.)

The program `collect2` is installed as `ld` in the directory where the passes of the compiler are installed. When `collect2` needs to find the real `ld`, it tries the following file names:

- a hard coded linker file name, if GCC was configured with the `--with-ld` option.
- `real-ld` in the directories listed in the compiler’s search directories.
- `real-ld` in the directories listed in the environment variable `PATH`.
- The file specified in the `REAL_LD_FILE_NAME` configuration macro, if specified.
- `ld` in the compiler’s search directories, except that `collect2` will not execute itself recursively.
- `ld` in `PATH`.

“The compiler’s search directories” means all the directories where `gcc` searches for passes of the compiler. This includes directories that you specify with `-B`.

Cross-compilers search a little differently:

- `real-ld` in the compiler’s search directories.
- `target-real-ld` in `PATH`.
- The file specified in the `REAL_LD_FILE_NAME` configuration macro, if specified.
- `ld` in the compiler’s search directories.
- `target-ld` in `PATH`.

`collect2` explicitly avoids running `ld` using the file name under which `collect2` itself was invoked. In fact, it remembers up a list of such names—in case one copy of `collect2` finds another copy (or version) of `collect2` installed as `ld` in a second place in the search path.

`collect2` searches for the utilities `nm` and `strip` using the same algorithm as above for `ld`.

## 22 Standard Header File Directories ¶

`GCC_INCLUDE_DIR` means the same thing for native and cross. It is where GCC stores its private include files, and also where GCC stores the fixed include files. A cross compiled GCC runs `fixincludes` on the header files in `$(tooldir)/include`. (If the cross compilation header files need to be fixed, they must be installed before GCC is built. If the cross compilation header files are already suitable for GCC, nothing special need be done).

`GPLUSPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR` means the same thing for native and cross. It is where `g++` looks first for header files. The C++ library installs only target independent header files in that directory.

`LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR` is used only by native compilers. GCC doesn’t install anything there. It is normally `/usr/local/include`. This is where local additions to a packaged system should place header files.

`CROSS_INCLUDE_DIR` is used only by cross compilers. GCC doesn’t install anything there.

`TOOL_INCLUDE_DIR` is used for both native and cross compilers. It is the place for other packages to install header files that GCC will use. For a cross-compiler, this is the equivalent of `/usr/include`. When you build a cross-compiler, `fixincludes` processes any header files in this directory.

## 23 Memory Management and Type Information ¶

GCC uses some fairly sophisticated memory management techniques, which involve determining information about GCC’s data structures from GCC’s source code and using this information to perform garbage collection and implement precompiled headers.

A full C++ parser would be too complicated for this task, so a limited subset of C++ is interpreted and special markers are used to determine what parts of the source to look at. All `struct`, `union` and `template` structure declarations that define data structures that are allocated under control of the garbage collector must be marked. All global variables that hold pointers to garbage-collected memory must also be marked. Finally, all global variables that need to be saved and restored by a precompiled header must be marked. (The precompiled header mechanism can only save static variables if they’re scalar. Complex data structures must be allocated in garbage-collected memory to be saved in a precompiled header.)

The full format of a marker is

    GTY (([option] [(param)], [option] [(param)] ...))

but in most cases no options are needed. The outer double parentheses are still necessary, though: `GTY(())`. Markers can appear:

- In a structure definition, before the open brace;
- In a global variable declaration, after the keyword `static` or `extern`; and
- In a structure field definition, before the name of the field.

Here are some examples of marking simple data structures and globals.

    struct GTY(()) tag
    {
      fields...
    };

    typedef struct GTY(()) tag
    {
      fields...
    } *typename;

    static GTY(()) struct tag *list;   /* points to GC memory */
    static GTY(()) int counter;        /* save counter in a PCH */

The parser understands simple typedefs such as `typedef struct tag *name;` and `typedef int name;`. These don’t need to be marked.

However, in combination with GTY, avoid using typedefs such as `typedef int_hash<…> name;` for these generate infinite-recursion code. See PR103157. Instead, you may use `struct name : int_hash<…> {};`, for example.

Since `gengtype`’s understanding of C++ is limited, there are several constructs and declarations that are not supported inside classes/structures marked for automatic GC code generation. The following C++ constructs produce a `gengtype` error on structures/classes marked for automatic GC code generation:

- Type definitions inside classes/structures are not supported.
- Enumerations inside classes/structures are not supported.

If you have a class or structure using any of the above constructs, you need to mark that class as `GTY ((user))` and provide your own marking routines (see section Support for user-provided GC marking routines for details).

It is always valid to include function definitions inside classes. Those are always ignored by `gengtype`, as it only cares about data members.

### 23.1 The Inside of a `GTY(())` ¶

Sometimes the C code is not enough to fully describe the type structure. Extra information can be provided with `GTY` options and additional markers. Some options take a parameter, which may be either a string or a type name, depending on the parameter. If an option takes no parameter, it is acceptable either to omit the parameter entirely, or to provide an empty string as a parameter. For example, `GTY ((skip))` and `GTY ((skip ("")))` are equivalent.

When the parameter is a string, often it is a fragment of C code. Four special escapes may be used in these strings, to refer to pieces of the data structure being marked:

`%h`

  The current structure.

`%1`

  The structure that immediately contains the current structure.

`%0`

  The outermost structure that contains the current structure.

`%a`

  A partial expression of the form `[i1][i2]…` that indexes the array item currently being marked.

For instance, suppose that you have a structure of the form

    struct A {
      ...
    };
    struct B {
      struct A foo[12];
    };

and `b` is a variable of type `struct B`. When marking ‘`b.foo[11]`’, `%h` would expand to ‘`b.foo[11]`’, `%0` and `%1` would both expand to ‘`b`’, and `%a` would expand to ‘`[11]`’.

As in ordinary C, adjacent strings will be concatenated; this is helpful when you have a complicated expression.

    GTY ((chain_next ("TREE_CODE (&%h.generic) == INTEGER_TYPE"
                      " ? TYPE_NEXT_VARIANT (&%h.generic)"
                      " : TREE_CHAIN (&%h.generic)")))

The available options are:

`length ("expression")` ¶

  There are two places the type machinery will need to be explicitly told the length of an array of non-atomic objects. The first case is when a structure ends in a variable-length array, like this:

      struct GTY(()) rtvec_def {
        int num_elem;         /* number of elements */
        rtx GTY ((length ("%h.num_elem"))) elem[1];
      };

  In this case, the `length` option is used to override the specified array length (which should usually be `1`). The parameter of the option is a fragment of C code that calculates the length.

  The second case is when a structure or a global variable contains a pointer to an array, like this:

      struct gimple_omp_for_iter * GTY((length ("%h.collapse"))) iter;

  In this case, `iter` has been allocated by writing something like

        x->iter = ggc_alloc_cleared_vec_gimple_omp_for_iter (collapse);

  and the `collapse` provides the length of the field.

  This second use of `length` also works on global variables, like:

      static GTY((length("reg_known_value_size"))) rtx *reg_known_value;

  Note that the `length` option is only meant for use with arrays of non-atomic objects, that is, objects that contain pointers pointing to other GTY-managed objects. For other GC-allocated arrays and strings you should use `atomic` or `string_length`.

`string_length ("expression")` ¶

  In order to simplify production of PCH, a structure member that is a plain array of bytes (an optionally `const` and/or `unsigned` `char *`) is treated specially by the infrastructure. Even if such an array has not been allocated in GC-controlled memory, it will still be written properly into a PCH. The machinery responsible for this needs to know the length of the data; by default, the length is determined by calling `strlen` on the pointer. The `string_length` option specifies an alternate way to determine the length, such as by inspecting another struct member:

      struct GTY(()) non_terminated_string {
        size_t sz;
        const char * GTY((string_length ("%h.sz"))) data;
      };

  Similarly, this is useful for (regular NUL-terminated) strings with NUL characters embedded (that the default `strlen` use would run afoul of):

      struct GTY(()) multi_string {
        const char * GTY((string_length ("%h.len + 1"))) str;
        size_t len;
      };

  The `string_length` option currently is not supported for (fields in) global variables.

`skip` ¶

  If `skip` is applied to a field, the type machinery will ignore it. This is somewhat dangerous; the only safe use is in a union when one field really isn’t ever used.

`callback` ¶

  `callback` should be applied to fields with pointer to function type and causes the field to be ignored similarly to `skip`, except when writing PCH and the field is non-NULL it will remember the field’s address for relocation purposes if the process writing PCH has different load base from a process reading PCH.

`for_user` ¶

  Use this to mark types that need to be marked by user gc routines, but are not refered to in a template argument. So if you have some user gc type T1 and a non user gc type T2 you can give T2 the for_user option so that the marking functions for T1 can call non mangled functions to mark T2.

`desc ("expression")` ¶
`tag ("constant")`
`default`

  The type machinery needs to be told which field of a `union` is currently active. This is done by giving each field a constant `tag` value, and then specifying a discriminator using `desc`. The value of the expression given by `desc` is compared against each `tag` value, each of which should be different. If no `tag` is matched, the field marked with `default` is used if there is one, otherwise no field in the union will be marked.

  In the `desc` option, the “current structure” is the union that it discriminates. Use `%1` to mean the structure containing it. There are no escapes available to the `tag` option, since it is a constant.

  For example,

      struct GTY(()) tree_binding
      {
        struct tree_common common;
        union tree_binding_u {
          tree GTY ((tag ("0"))) scope;
          struct cp_binding_level * GTY ((tag ("1"))) level;
        } GTY ((desc ("BINDING_HAS_LEVEL_P ((tree)&%0)"))) xscope;
        tree value;
      };

  In this example, the value of BINDING_HAS_LEVEL_P when applied to a `struct tree_binding *` is presumed to be 0 or 1. If 1, the type mechanism will treat the field `level` as being present and if 0, will treat the field `scope` as being present.

  The `desc` and `tag` options can also be used for inheritance to denote which subclass an instance is. See Support for inheritance for more information.

`cache` ¶

  When the `cache` option is applied to a global variable gt_cleare_cache is called on that variable between the mark and sweep phases of garbage collection. The gt_clear_cache function is free to mark blocks as used, or to clear pointers in the variable.

  In a hash table, the ‘`gt_cleare_cache`’ function discards entries if the key is not marked, or marks the value if the key is marked.

  Note that caches should generally use `deletable` instead; `cache` is only preferable if the value is impractical to recompute from the key when needed.

`deletable` ¶

  `deletable`, when applied to a global variable, indicates that when garbage collection runs, there’s no need to mark anything pointed to by this variable, it can just be set to `NULL` instead. This is used to keep a list of free structures around for re-use.

`maybe_undef` ¶

  When applied to a field, `maybe_undef` indicates that it’s OK if the structure that this fields points to is never defined, so long as this field is always `NULL`. This is used to avoid requiring backends to define certain optional structures. It doesn’t work with language frontends.

`nested_ptr (type, "to expression", "from expression")` ¶

  The type machinery expects all pointers to point to the start of an object. Sometimes for abstraction purposes it’s convenient to have a pointer which points inside an object. So long as it’s possible to convert the original object to and from the pointer, such pointers can still be used. type is the type of the original object, the to expression returns the pointer given the original object, and the from expression returns the original object given the pointer. The pointer will be available using the `%h` escape.

`chain_next ("expression")` ¶
`chain_prev ("expression")`
`chain_circular ("expression")`

  It’s helpful for the type machinery to know if objects are often chained together in long lists; this lets it generate code that uses less stack space by iterating along the list instead of recursing down it. `chain_next` is an expression for the next item in the list, `chain_prev` is an expression for the previous item. For singly linked lists, use only `chain_next`; for doubly linked lists, use both. The machinery requires that taking the next item of the previous item gives the original item. `chain_circular` is similar to `chain_next`, but can be used for circular single linked lists.

`reorder ("function name")` ¶

  Some data structures depend on the relative ordering of pointers. If the precompiled header machinery needs to change that ordering, it will call the function referenced by the `reorder` option, before changing the pointers in the object that’s pointed to by the field the option applies to. The function must take four arguments, with the signature ‘`void *, void *, gt_pointer_operator, void *`’. The first parameter is a pointer to the structure that contains the object being updated, or the object itself if there is no containing structure. The second parameter is a cookie that should be ignored. The third parameter is a routine that, given a pointer, will update it to its correct new value. The fourth parameter is a cookie that must be passed to the second parameter.

  PCH cannot handle data structures that depend on the absolute values of pointers. `reorder` functions can be expensive. When possible, it is better to depend on properties of the data, like an ID number or the hash of a string instead.

`atomic` ¶

  The `atomic` option can only be used with pointers. It informs the GC machinery that the memory that the pointer points to does not contain any pointers, and hence it should be treated by the GC and PCH machinery as an “atomic” block of memory that does not need to be examined when scanning memory for pointers. In particular, the machinery will not scan that memory for pointers to mark them as reachable (when marking pointers for GC) or to relocate them (when writing a PCH file).

  The `atomic` option differs from the `skip` option. `atomic` keeps the memory under Garbage Collection, but makes the GC ignore the contents of the memory. `skip` is more drastic in that it causes the pointer and the memory to be completely ignored by the Garbage Collector. So, memory marked as `atomic` is automatically freed when no longer reachable, while memory marked as `skip` is not.

  The `atomic` option must be used with great care, because all sorts of problem can occur if used incorrectly, that is, if the memory the pointer points to does actually contain a pointer.

  Here is an example of how to use it:

      struct GTY(()) my_struct {
        int number_of_elements;
        unsigned int * GTY ((atomic)) elements;
      };

  In this case, `elements` is a pointer under GC, and the memory it points to needs to be allocated using the Garbage Collector, and will be freed automatically by the Garbage Collector when it is no longer referenced. But the memory that the pointer points to is an array of `unsigned int` elements, and the GC must not try to scan it to find pointers to mark or relocate, which is why it is marked with the `atomic` option.

  Note that, currently, global variables cannot be marked with `atomic`; only fields of a struct can. This is a known limitation. It would be useful to be able to mark global pointers with `atomic` to make the PCH machinery aware of them so that they are saved and restored correctly to PCH files.

`special ("name")` ¶

  The `special` option is used to mark types that have to be dealt with by special case machinery. The parameter is the name of the special case. See `gengtype.cc` for further details. Avoid adding new special cases unless there is no other alternative.

`user` ¶

  The `user` option indicates that the code to mark structure fields is completely handled by user-provided routines. See section Support for user-provided GC marking routines for details on what functions need to be provided.

### 23.2 Support for inheritance ¶

gengtype has some support for simple class hierarchies. You can use this to have gengtype autogenerate marking routines, provided:

- There must be a concrete base class, with a discriminator expression that can be used to identify which subclass an instance is.
- Only single inheritance is used.
- None of the classes within the hierarchy are templates.

If your class hierarchy does not fit in this pattern, you must use Support for user-provided GC marking routines instead.

The base class and its discriminator must be identified using the “desc” option. Each concrete subclass must use the “tag” option to identify which value of the discriminator it corresponds to.

Every class in the hierarchy must have a `GTY(())` marker, as gengtype will only attempt to parse classes that have such a marker 8.

    class GTY((desc("%h.kind"), tag("0"))) example_base
    {
    public:
        int kind;
        tree a;
    };

    class GTY((tag("1"))) some_subclass : public example_base
    {
    public:
        tree b;
    };

    class GTY((tag("2"))) some_other_subclass : public example_base
    {
    public:
        tree c;
    };

The generated marking routines for the above will contain a “switch” on “kind”, visiting all appropriate fields. For example, if kind is 2, it will cast to “some_other_subclass” and visit fields a, b, and c.

### 23.3 Support for user-provided GC marking routines ¶

The garbage collector supports types for which no automatic marking code is generated. For these types, the user is required to provide three functions: one to act as a marker for garbage collection, and two functions to act as marker and pointer walker for pre-compiled headers.

Given a structure `struct GTY((user)) my_struct`, the following functions should be defined to mark `my_struct`:

    void gt_ggc_mx (my_struct *p)
    {
      /* This marks field 'fld'.  */
      gt_ggc_mx (p->fld);
    }

    void gt_pch_nx (my_struct *p)
    {
      /* This marks field 'fld'.  */
      gt_pch_nx (tp->fld);
    }

    void gt_pch_nx (my_struct *p, gt_pointer_operator op, void *cookie)
    {
      /* For every field 'fld', call the given pointer operator.  */
      op (&(tp->fld), NULL, cookie);
    }

In general, each marker `M` should call `M` for every pointer field in the structure. Fields that are not allocated in GC or are not pointers must be ignored.

For embedded lists (e.g., structures with a `next` or `prev` pointer), the marker must follow the chain and mark every element in it.

Note that the rules for the pointer walker `gt_pch_nx (my_struct *, gt_pointer_operator, void *)` are slightly different. In this case, the operation `op` must be applied to the address of every pointer field.

#### 23.3.1 User-provided marking routines for template types ¶

When a template type `TP` is marked with `GTY`, all instances of that type are considered user-provided types. This means that the individual instances of `TP` do not need to be marked with `GTY`. The user needs to provide template functions to mark all the fields of the type.

The following code snippets represent all the functions that need to be provided. Note that type `TP` may reference to more than one type. In these snippets, there is only one type `T`, but there could be more.

    template<typename T>
    void gt_ggc_mx (TP<T> *tp)
    {
      extern void gt_ggc_mx (T&);

      /* This marks field 'fld' of type 'T'.  */
      gt_ggc_mx (tp->fld);
    }

    template<typename T>
    void gt_pch_nx (TP<T> *tp)
    {
      extern void gt_pch_nx (T&);

      /* This marks field 'fld' of type 'T'.  */
      gt_pch_nx (tp->fld);
    }

    template<typename T>
    void gt_pch_nx (TP<T *> *tp, gt_pointer_operator op, void *cookie)
    {
      /* For every field 'fld' of 'tp' with type 'T *', call the given
         pointer operator.  */
      op (&(tp->fld), NULL, cookie);
    }

    template<typename T>
    void gt_pch_nx (TP<T> *tp, gt_pointer_operator, void *cookie)
    {
      extern void gt_pch_nx (T *, gt_pointer_operator, void *);

      /* For every field 'fld' of 'tp' with type 'T', call the pointer
         walker for all the fields of T.  */
      gt_pch_nx (&(tp->fld), op, cookie);
    }

Support for user-defined types is currently limited. The following restrictions apply:

1. Type `TP` and all the argument types `T` must be marked with `GTY`.
2. Type `TP` can only have type names in its argument list.
3. The pointer walker functions are different for `TP<T>` and `TP<T *>`. In the case of `TP<T>`, references to `T` must be handled by calling `gt_pch_nx` (which will, in turn, walk all the pointers inside fields of `T`). In the case of `TP<T *>`, references to `T *` must be handled by calling the `op` function on the address of the pointer (see the code snippets above).

### 23.4 Marking Roots for the Garbage Collector ¶

In addition to keeping track of types, the type machinery also locates the global variables (roots) that the garbage collector starts at. Roots must be declared using one of the following syntaxes:

- `extern GTY(([options])) type name;`
- `static GTY(([options])) type name;`

The syntax

- `GTY(([options])) type name;`

is not accepted. There should be an `extern` declaration of such a variable in a header somewhere—mark that, not the definition. Or, if the variable is only used in one file, make it `static`.

### 23.5 Source Files Containing Type Information ¶

Whenever you add `GTY` markers to a source file that previously had none, or create a new source file containing `GTY` markers, there are three things you need to do:

1. You need to add the file to the list of source files the type machinery scans. There are four cases:
   1. For a back-end file, this is usually done automatically; if not, you should add it to `target_gtfiles` in the appropriate port’s entries in `config.gcc`.
   2. For files shared by all front ends, add the filename to the `GTFILES` variable in `Makefile.in`.
   3. For files that are part of one front end, add the filename to the `gtfiles` variable defined in the appropriate `config-lang.in`. Headers should appear before non-headers in this list.
   4. For files that are part of some but not all front ends, add the filename to the `gtfiles` variable of all the front ends that use it.
2. If the file was a header file, you’ll need to check that it’s included in the right place to be visible to the generated files. For a back-end header file, this should be done automatically. For a front-end header file, it needs to be included by the same file that includes `gtype-lang.h`. For other header files, it needs to be included in `gtype-desc.cc`, which is a generated file, so add it to `ifiles` in `open_base_file` in `gengtype.cc`.

   For source files that aren’t header files, the machinery will generate a header file that should be included in the source file you just changed. The file will be called `gt-path.h` where path is the pathname relative to the `gcc` directory with slashes replaced by `-`, so for example the header file to be included in `cp/parser.cc` is called `gt-cp-parser.h`. The generated header file should be included after everything else in the source file.

For language frontends, there is another file that needs to be included somewhere. It will be called `gtype-lang.h`, where lang is the name of the subdirectory the language is contained in.

Plugins can add additional root tables. Run the `gengtype` utility in plugin mode as `gengtype -P pluginout.h source-dir file-list plugin*.c` with your plugin files plugin*.c using `GTY` to generate the pluginout.h file. The GCC build tree is needed to be present in that mode.

### 23.6 How to invoke the garbage collector ¶

The GCC garbage collector GGC is only invoked explicitly. In contrast with many other garbage collectors, it is not implicitly invoked by allocation routines when a lot of memory has been consumed. So the only way to have GGC reclaim storage is to call the `ggc_collect` function explicitly. With mode `GGC_COLLECT_FORCE` or otherwise (default `GGC_COLLECT_HEURISTIC`) when the internal heuristic decides to collect, this call is potentially an expensive operation, as it may have to scan the entire heap. Beware that local variables (on the GCC call stack) are not followed by such an invocation (as many other garbage collectors do): you should reference all your data from static or external `GTY`-ed variables, and it is advised to call `ggc_collect` with a shallow call stack. The GGC is an exact mark and sweep garbage collector (so it does not scan the call stack for pointers). In practice GCC passes don’t often call `ggc_collect` themselves, because it is called by the pass manager between passes.

At the time of the `ggc_collect` call all pointers in the GC-marked structures must be valid or `NULL`. In practice this means that there should not be uninitialized pointer fields in the structures even if your code never reads or writes those fields at a particular instance. One way to ensure this is to use cleared versions of allocators unless all the fields are initialized manually immediately after allocation.

### 23.7 Troubleshooting the garbage collector ¶

With the current garbage collector implementation, most issues should show up as GCC compilation errors. Some of the most commonly encountered issues are described below.

- Gengtype does not produce allocators for a `GTY`-marked type. Gengtype checks if there is at least one possible path from GC roots to at least one instance of each type before outputting allocators. If there is no such path, the `GTY` markers will be ignored and no allocators will be output. Solve this by making sure that there exists at least one such path. If creating it is unfeasible or raises a “code smell”, consider if you really must use GC for allocating such type.
- Link-time errors about undefined `gt_ggc_r_foo_bar` and similarly-named symbols. Check if your `foo_bar` source file has `#include "gt-foo_bar.h"` as its very last line.

## 24 Plugins ¶

GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the compiler. Like GCC itself they can be distributed in source and binary forms.

GCC plugins provide developers with a rich subset of the GCC API to allow them to extend GCC as they see fit. Whether it is writing an additional optimization pass, transforming code, or analyzing information, plugins can be quite useful.

### 24.1 Loading Plugins ¶

Plugins are supported on platforms that support `-ldl -rdynamic` as well as Windows/MinGW. They are loaded by the compiler using `dlopen` or equivalent and invoked at pre-determined locations in the compilation process.

Plugins are loaded with

`-fplugin=/path/to/name.ext` `-fplugin-arg-name-key1[=value1]`

Where name is the plugin name and ext is the platform-specific dynamic library extension. It should be `dll` on Windows/MinGW, `dylib` on Darwin/macOS, and `so` on all other platforms. The plugin arguments are parsed by GCC and passed to respective plugins as key-value pairs. Multiple plugins can be invoked by specifying multiple `-fplugin` arguments.

A plugin can be simply given by its short name (no dots or slashes). When simply passing `-fplugin=name`, the plugin is loaded from the `plugin` directory, so `-fplugin=name` is the same as `-fplugin=`gcc -print-file-name=plugin`/name.ext`, using backquote shell syntax to query the `plugin` directory.

### 24.2 Plugin API ¶

Plugins are activated by the compiler at specific events as defined in `gcc-plugin.h`. For each event of interest, the plugin should call `register_callback` specifying the name of the event and address of the callback function that will handle that event.

The header `gcc-plugin.h` must be the first gcc header to be included.

#### 24.2.1 Plugin license check ¶

Every plugin should define the global symbol `plugin_is_GPL_compatible` to assert that it has been licensed under a GPL-compatible license. If this symbol does not exist, the compiler will emit a fatal error and exit with the error message:

    fatal error: plugin name is not licensed under a GPL-compatible license
    name: undefined symbol: plugin_is_GPL_compatible
    compilation terminated

The declared type of the symbol should be int, to match a forward declaration in `gcc-plugin.h` that suppresses C++ mangling. It does not need to be in any allocated section, though. The compiler merely asserts that the symbol exists in the global scope. Something like this is enough:

    int plugin_is_GPL_compatible;

#### 24.2.2 Plugin initialization ¶

Every plugin should export a function called `plugin_init` that is called right after the plugin is loaded. This function is responsible for registering all the callbacks required by the plugin and do any other required initialization.

This function is called from `compile_file` right before invoking the parser. The arguments to `plugin_init` are:

- `plugin_info`: Plugin invocation information.
- `version`: GCC version.

The `plugin_info` struct is defined as follows:

    struct plugin_name_args
    {
      char *base_name;              /* Short name of the plugin
                                       (filename without .so suffix). */
      const char *full_name;        /* Path to the plugin as specified with
                                       -fplugin=. */
      int argc;                     /* Number of arguments specified with
                                       -fplugin-arg-.... */
      struct plugin_argument *argv; /* Array of ARGC key-value pairs. */
      const char *version;          /* Version string provided by plugin. */
      const char *help;             /* Help string provided by plugin. */
    }

If initialization fails, `plugin_init` must return a non-zero value. Otherwise, it should return 0.

The version of the GCC compiler loading the plugin is described by the following structure:

    struct plugin_gcc_version
    {
      const char *basever;
      const char *datestamp;
      const char *devphase;
      const char *revision;
      const char *configuration_arguments;
    };

The function `plugin_default_version_check` takes two pointers to such structure and compare them field by field. It can be used by the plugin’s `plugin_init` function.

The version of GCC used to compile the plugin can be found in the symbol `gcc_version` defined in the header `plugin-version.h`. The recommended version check to perform looks like

    #include "plugin-version.h"
    ...

    int
    plugin_init (struct plugin_name_args *plugin_info,
                 struct plugin_gcc_version *version)
    {
      if (!plugin_default_version_check (version, &gcc_version))
        return 1;

    }

but you can also check the individual fields if you want a less strict check.

#### 24.2.3 Plugin callbacks ¶

Callback functions have the following prototype:

    /* The prototype for a plugin callback function.
         gcc_data  - event-specific data provided by GCC
         user_data - plugin-specific data provided by the plug-in.  */
    typedef void (*plugin_callback_func)(void *gcc_data, void *user_data);

Callbacks can be invoked at the following pre-determined events:

    enum plugin_event
    {
      PLUGIN_START_PARSE_FUNCTION,  /* Called before parsing the body of a function. */
      PLUGIN_FINISH_PARSE_FUNCTION, /* After finishing parsing a function. */
      PLUGIN_PASS_MANAGER_SETUP,    /* To hook into pass manager.  */
      PLUGIN_FINISH_TYPE,           /* After finishing parsing a type.  */
      PLUGIN_FINISH_DECL,           /* After finishing parsing a declaration. */
      PLUGIN_FINISH_UNIT,           /* Useful for summary processing.  */
      PLUGIN_PRE_GENERICIZE,        /* Allows to see low level AST in C and C++ frontends.  */
      PLUGIN_FINISH,                /* Called before GCC exits.  */
      PLUGIN_INFO,                  /* Information about the plugin. */
      PLUGIN_GGC_START,             /* Called at start of GCC Garbage Collection. */
      PLUGIN_GGC_MARKING,           /* Extend the GGC marking. */
      PLUGIN_GGC_END,               /* Called at end of GGC. */
      PLUGIN_REGISTER_GGC_ROOTS,    /* Register an extra GGC root table. */
      PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTES,            /* Called during attribute registration */
      PLUGIN_START_UNIT,            /* Called before processing a translation unit.  */
      PLUGIN_PRAGMAS,               /* Called during pragma registration. */
      /* Called before first pass from all_passes.  */
      PLUGIN_ALL_PASSES_START,
      /* Called after last pass from all_passes.  */
      PLUGIN_ALL_PASSES_END,
      /* Called before first ipa pass.  */
      PLUGIN_ALL_IPA_PASSES_START,
      /* Called after last ipa pass.  */
      PLUGIN_ALL_IPA_PASSES_END,
      /* Allows to override pass gate decision for current_pass.  */
      PLUGIN_OVERRIDE_GATE,
      /* Called before executing a pass.  */
      PLUGIN_PASS_EXECUTION,
      /* Called before executing subpasses of a GIMPLE_PASS in
         execute_ipa_pass_list.  */
      PLUGIN_EARLY_GIMPLE_PASSES_START,
      /* Called after executing subpasses of a GIMPLE_PASS in
         execute_ipa_pass_list.  */
      PLUGIN_EARLY_GIMPLE_PASSES_END,
      /* Called when a pass is first instantiated.  */
      PLUGIN_NEW_PASS,
    /* Called when a file is #include-d or given via the #line directive.
       This could happen many times.  The event data is the included file path,
       as a const char* pointer.  */
      PLUGIN_INCLUDE_FILE,

      /* Called when -fanalyzer starts. The event data is an
         ana::plugin_analyzer_init_iface *.  */
      PLUGIN_ANALYZER_INIT,

      PLUGIN_EVENT_FIRST_DYNAMIC    /* Dummy event used for indexing callback
                                       array.  */
    };

In addition, plugins can also look up the enumerator of a named event, and / or generate new events dynamically, by calling the function `get_named_event_id`.

To register a callback, the plugin calls `register_callback` with the arguments:

- `char *name`: Plugin name.
- `int event`: The event code.
- `plugin_callback_func callback`: The function that handles `event`.
- `void *user_data`: Pointer to plugin-specific data.

For the PLUGIN_PASS_MANAGER_SETUP, PLUGIN_INFO, and PLUGIN_REGISTER_GGC_ROOTS pseudo-events the `callback` should be null, and the `user_data` is specific.

When the PLUGIN_PRAGMAS event is triggered (with a null pointer as data from GCC), plugins may register their own pragmas. Notice that pragmas are not available from `lto1`, so plugins used with `-flto` option to GCC during link-time optimization cannot use pragmas and do not even see functions like `c_register_pragma` or `pragma_lex`.

The PLUGIN_INCLUDE_FILE event, with a `const char*` file path as GCC data, is triggered for processing of `#include` or `#line` directives.

The PLUGIN_FINISH event is the last time that plugins can call GCC functions, notably emit diagnostics with `warning`, `error` etc.

### 24.3 Interacting with the pass manager ¶

There needs to be a way to add/reorder/remove passes dynamically. This is useful for both analysis plugins (plugging in after a certain pass such as CFG or an IPA pass) and optimization plugins.

Basic support for inserting new passes or replacing existing passes is provided. A plugin registers a new pass with GCC by calling `register_callback` with the `PLUGIN_PASS_MANAGER_SETUP` event and a pointer to a `struct register_pass_info` object defined as follows

    enum pass_positioning_ops
    {
      PASS_POS_INSERT_AFTER,  // Insert after the reference pass.
      PASS_POS_INSERT_BEFORE, // Insert before the reference pass.
      PASS_POS_REPLACE        // Replace the reference pass.
    };

    struct register_pass_info
    {
      struct opt_pass *pass;            /* New pass provided by the plugin.  */
      const char *reference_pass_name;  /* Name of the reference pass for hooking
                                           up the new pass.  */
      int ref_pass_instance_number;     /* Insert the pass at the specified
                                           instance number of the reference pass.  */
                                        /* Do it for every instance if it is 0.  */
      enum pass_positioning_ops pos_op; /* how to insert the new pass.  */
    };

    /* Sample plugin code that registers a new pass.  */
    int
    plugin_init (struct plugin_name_args *plugin_info,
                 struct plugin_gcc_version *version)
    {
      struct register_pass_info pass_info;

      ...

      /* Code to fill in the pass_info object with new pass information.  */

      ...

      /* Register the new pass.  */
      register_callback (plugin_info->base_name, PLUGIN_PASS_MANAGER_SETUP, NULL, &pass_info);

      ...
    }

### 24.4 Interacting with the GCC Garbage Collector ¶

Some plugins may want to be informed when GGC (the GCC Garbage Collector) is running. They can register callbacks for the `PLUGIN_GGC_START` and `PLUGIN_GGC_END` events (for which the callback is called with a null `gcc_data`) to be notified of the start or end of the GCC garbage collection.

Some plugins may need to have GGC mark additional data. This can be done by registering a callback (called with a null `gcc_data`) for the `PLUGIN_GGC_MARKING` event. Such callbacks can call the `ggc_set_mark` routine, preferably through the `ggc_mark` macro (and conversely, these routines should usually not be used in plugins outside of the `PLUGIN_GGC_MARKING` event). Plugins that wish to hold weak references to gc data may also use this event to drop weak references when the object is about to be collected. The `ggc_marked_p` function can be used to tell if an object is marked, or is about to be collected. The `gt_clear_cache` overloads which some types define may also be of use in managing weak references.

Some plugins may need to add extra GGC root tables, e.g. to handle their own `GTY`-ed data. This can be done with the `PLUGIN_REGISTER_GGC_ROOTS` pseudo-event with a null callback and the extra root table (of type `struct ggc_root_tab*`) as `user_data`. Running the `gengtype -p source-dir file-list plugin*.c ...` utility generates these extra root tables.

You should understand the details of memory management inside GCC before using `PLUGIN_GGC_MARKING` or `PLUGIN_REGISTER_GGC_ROOTS`.

### 24.5 Giving information about a plugin ¶

A plugin should give some information to the user about itself. This uses the following structure:

    struct plugin_info
    {
      const char *version;
      const char *help;
    };

Such a structure is passed as the `user_data` by the plugin’s init routine using `register_callback` with the `PLUGIN_INFO` pseudo-event and a null callback.

### 24.6 Registering custom attributes or pragmas ¶

For analysis (or other) purposes it is useful to be able to add custom attributes or pragmas.

The `PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTES` callback is called during attribute registration. Use the `register_attribute` function to register custom attributes.

    /* Attribute handler callback */
    static tree
    handle_user_attribute (tree *node, tree name, tree args,
                           int flags, bool *no_add_attrs)
    {
      return NULL_TREE;
    }

    /* Attribute definition */
    static struct attribute_spec user_attr =
      { "user", 1, 1, false,  false, false, false, handle_user_attribute, NULL };

    /* Plugin callback called during attribute registration.
    Registered with register_callback (plugin_name, PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTES, register_attributes, NULL)
    */
    static void
    register_attributes (void *event_data, void *data)
    {
      warning (0, G_("Callback to register attributes"));
      register_attribute (&user_attr);
    }

The PLUGIN_PRAGMAS callback is called once during pragmas registration. Use the `c_register_pragma`, `c_register_pragma_with_data`, `c_register_pragma_with_expansion`, `c_register_pragma_with_expansion_and_data` functions to register custom pragmas and their handlers (which often want to call `pragma_lex`) from `c-family/c-pragma.h`.

    /* Plugin callback called during pragmas registration. Registered with
         register_callback (plugin_name, PLUGIN_PRAGMAS,
                            register_my_pragma, NULL);
    */
    static void
    register_my_pragma (void *event_data, void *data)
    {
      warning (0, G_("Callback to register pragmas"));
      c_register_pragma ("GCCPLUGIN", "sayhello", handle_pragma_sayhello);
    }

It is suggested to pass `"GCCPLUGIN"` (or a short name identifying your plugin) as the “space” argument of your pragma.

Pragmas registered with `c_register_pragma_with_expansion` or `c_register_pragma_with_expansion_and_data` support preprocessor expansions. For example:

    #define NUMBER 10
    #pragma GCCPLUGIN foothreshold (NUMBER)

### 24.7 Recording information about pass execution ¶

The event PLUGIN_PASS_EXECUTION passes the pointer to the executed pass (the same as current_pass) as `gcc_data` to the callback. You can also inspect cfun to find out about which function this pass is executed for. Note that this event will only be invoked if the gate check (if applicable, modified by PLUGIN_OVERRIDE_GATE) succeeds. You can use other hooks, like `PLUGIN_ALL_PASSES_START`, `PLUGIN_ALL_PASSES_END`, `PLUGIN_ALL_IPA_PASSES_START`, `PLUGIN_ALL_IPA_PASSES_END`, `PLUGIN_EARLY_GIMPLE_PASSES_START`, and/or `PLUGIN_EARLY_GIMPLE_PASSES_END` to manipulate global state in your plugin(s) in order to get context for the pass execution.

### 24.8 Controlling which passes are being run ¶

After the original gate function for a pass is called, its result - the gate status - is stored as an integer. Then the event `PLUGIN_OVERRIDE_GATE` is invoked, with a pointer to the gate status in the `gcc_data` parameter to the callback function. A nonzero value of the gate status means that the pass is to be executed. You can both read and write the gate status via the passed pointer.

### 24.9 Keeping track of available passes ¶

When your plugin is loaded, you can inspect the various pass lists to determine what passes are available. However, other plugins might add new passes. Also, future changes to GCC might cause generic passes to be added after plugin loading. When a pass is first added to one of the pass lists, the event `PLUGIN_NEW_PASS` is invoked, with the callback parameter `gcc_data` pointing to the new pass.

### 24.10 Building GCC plugins ¶

If plugins are enabled, GCC installs the headers needed to build a plugin (somewhere in the installation tree, e.g. under `/usr/local`). In particular a `plugin/include` directory is installed, containing all the header files needed to build plugins.

On most systems, you can query this `plugin` directory by invoking `gcc -print-file-name=plugin` (replace if needed `gcc` with the appropriate program path).

Inside plugins, this `plugin` directory name can be queried by calling `default_plugin_dir_name ()`.

Plugins may know, when they are compiled, the GCC version for which `plugin-version.h` is provided. The constant macros `GCCPLUGIN_VERSION_MAJOR`, `GCCPLUGIN_VERSION_MINOR`, `GCCPLUGIN_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL`, `GCCPLUGIN_VERSION` are integer numbers, so a plugin could ensure it is built for GCC 4.7 with

    #if GCCPLUGIN_VERSION != 4007
    #error this GCC plugin is for GCC 4.7
    #endif

The following GNU Makefile excerpt shows how to build a simple plugin:

    HOST_GCC=g++
    TARGET_GCC=gcc
    PLUGIN_SOURCE_FILES= plugin1.c plugin2.cc
    GCCPLUGINS_DIR:= $(shell $(TARGET_GCC) -print-file-name=plugin)
    CXXFLAGS+= -I$(GCCPLUGINS_DIR)/include -fPIC -fno-rtti -O2

    plugin.so: $(PLUGIN_SOURCE_FILES)
       $(HOST_GCC) -shared $(CXXFLAGS) $^ -o $@

A single source file plugin may be built with `g++ -I`gcc -print-file-name=plugin`/include -fPIC -shared -fno-rtti -O2 plugin.cc -o plugin.so`, using backquote shell syntax to query the `plugin` directory.

Plugin support on Windows/MinGW has a number of limitations and additional requirements. When building a plugin on Windows we have to link an import library for the corresponding backend executable, for example, `cc1.exe`, `cc1plus.exe`, etc., in order to gain access to the symbols provided by GCC. This means that on Windows a plugin is language-specific, for example, for C, C++, etc. If you wish to use your plugin with multiple languages, then you will need to build multiple plugin libraries and either instruct your users on how to load the correct version or provide a compiler wrapper that does this automatically.

Additionally, on Windows the plugin library has to export the `plugin_is_GPL_compatible` and `plugin_init` symbols. If you do not wish to modify the source code of your plugin, then you can use the `-Wl,--export-all-symbols` option or provide a suitable DEF file. Alternatively, you can export just these two symbols by decorating them with `__declspec(dllexport)`, for example:

    #ifdef _WIN32
    __declspec(dllexport)
    #endif
    int plugin_is_GPL_compatible;

    #ifdef _WIN32
    __declspec(dllexport)
    #endif
    int plugin_init (plugin_name_args *, plugin_gcc_version *)

The import libraries are installed into the `plugin` directory and their names are derived by appending the `.a` extension to the backend executable names, for example, `cc1.exe.a`, `cc1plus.exe.a`, etc. The following command line shows how to build the single source file plugin on Windows to be used with the C++ compiler:

    g++ -I`gcc -print-file-name=plugin`/include -shared -Wl,--export-all-symbols \
    -o plugin.dll plugin.cc `gcc -print-file-name=plugin`/cc1plus.exe.a

When a plugin needs to use `gengtype`, be sure that both `gengtype` and `gtype.state` have the same version as the GCC for which the plugin is built.

## 25 Link Time Optimization ¶

Link Time Optimization (LTO) gives GCC the capability of dumping its internal representation (GIMPLE) to disk, so that all the different compilation units that make up a single executable can be optimized as a single module. This expands the scope of inter-procedural optimizations to encompass the whole program (or, rather, everything that is visible at link time).

### 25.1 Design Overview ¶

Link time optimization is implemented as a GCC front end for a bytecode representation of GIMPLE that is emitted in special sections of `.o` files. Currently, LTO support is enabled in most ELF-based systems, as well as darwin, cygwin and mingw systems.

By default, object files generated with LTO support contain only GIMPLE bytecode. Such objects are called “slim”, and they require that tools like `ar` and `nm` understand symbol tables of LTO sections. For most targets these tools have been extended to use the plugin infrastructure, so GCC can support “slim” objects consisting of the intermediate code alone.

GIMPLE bytecode could also be saved alongside final object code if the `-ffat-lto-objects` option is passed, or if no plugin support is detected for `ar` and `nm` when GCC is configured. It makes the object files generated with LTO support larger than regular object files. This “fat” object format allows to ship one set of fat objects which could be used both for development and the production of optimized builds. A, perhaps surprising, side effect of this feature is that any mistake in the toolchain leads to LTO information not being used (e.g. an older `libtool` calling `ld` directly). This is both an advantage, as the system is more robust, and a disadvantage, as the user is not informed that the optimization has been disabled.

At the highest level, LTO splits the compiler in two. The first half (the “writer”) produces a streaming representation of all the internal data structures needed to optimize and generate code. This includes declarations, types, the callgraph and the GIMPLE representation of function bodies.

When `-flto` is given during compilation of a source file, the pass manager executes all the passes in `all_lto_gen_passes`. Currently, this phase is composed of two IPA passes:

- `pass_ipa_lto_gimple_out` This pass executes the function `lto_output` in `lto-streamer-out.cc`, which traverses the call graph encoding every reachable declaration, type and function. This generates a memory representation of all the file sections described below.
- `pass_ipa_lto_finish_out` This pass executes the function `produce_asm_for_decls` in `lto-streamer-out.cc`, which takes the memory image built in the previous pass and encodes it in the corresponding ELF file sections.

The second half of LTO support is the “reader”. This is implemented as the GCC front end `lto1` in `lto/lto.cc`. When `collect2` detects a link set of `.o`/`.a` files with LTO information and the `-flto` is enabled, it invokes `lto1` which reads the set of files and aggregates them into a single translation unit for optimization. The main entry point for the reader is `lto/lto.cc`:`lto_main`.

#### 25.1.1 LTO modes of operation ¶

One of the main goals of the GCC link-time infrastructure was to allow effective compilation of large programs. For this reason GCC implements two link-time compilation modes.

1. LTO mode, in which the whole program is read into the compiler at link-time and optimized in a similar way as if it were a single source-level compilation unit.
2. WHOPR or partitioned mode, designed to utilize multiple CPUs and/or a distributed compilation environment to quickly link large applications. WHOPR stands for WHOle Program optimizeR (not to be confused with the semantics of `-fwhole-program`). It partitions the aggregated callgraph from many different `.o` files and distributes the compilation of the sub-graphs to different CPUs.

   Note that distributed compilation is not implemented yet, but since the parallelism is facilitated via generating a `Makefile`, it would be easy to implement.

WHOPR splits LTO into three main stages:

1. Local generation (LGEN) This stage executes in parallel. Every file in the program is compiled into the intermediate language and packaged together with the local call-graph and summary information. This stage is the same for both the LTO and WHOPR compilation mode.
2. Whole Program Analysis (WPA) WPA is performed sequentially. The global call-graph is generated, and a global analysis procedure makes transformation decisions. The global call-graph is partitioned to facilitate parallel optimization during phase 3. The results of the WPA stage are stored into new object files which contain the partitions of program expressed in the intermediate language and the optimization decisions.
3. Local transformations (LTRANS) This stage executes in parallel. All the decisions made during phase 2 are implemented locally in each partitioned object file, and the final object code is generated. Optimizations which cannot be decided efficiently during the phase 2 may be performed on the local call-graph partitions.

WHOPR can be seen as an extension of the usual LTO mode of compilation. In LTO, WPA and LTRANS are executed within a single execution of the compiler, after the whole program has been read into memory.

When compiling in WHOPR mode, the callgraph is partitioned during the WPA stage. The whole program is split into a given number of partitions of roughly the same size. The compiler tries to minimize the number of references which cross partition boundaries. The main advantage of WHOPR is to allow the parallel execution of LTRANS stages, which are the most time-consuming part of the compilation process. Additionally, it avoids the need to load the whole program into memory.

### 25.2 LTO file sections ¶

LTO information is stored in several ELF sections inside object files. Data structures and enum codes for sections are defined in `lto-streamer.h`.

These sections are emitted from `lto-streamer-out.cc` and mapped in all at once from `lto/lto.cc`:`lto_file_read`. The individual functions dealing with the reading/writing of each section are described below.

- Command line options (`.gnu.lto_.opts`)

  This section contains the command line options used to generate the object files. This is used at link time to determine the optimization level and other settings when they are not explicitly specified at the linker command line.

  Most options are recorded at a per function level and their setting restored when processing the functions at link time. Global options are composed from options specified at compile time and link time. How exactly they are combined or mismatches diagnosed is implemented in `lto-wrapper.cc`:`find_and_merge_options`.

- Symbol table (`.gnu.lto_.symtab`)

  This table replaces the ELF symbol table for functions and variables represented in the LTO IL. Symbols used and exported by the optimized assembly code of “fat” objects might not match the ones used and exported by the intermediate code. This table is necessary because the intermediate code is less optimized and thus requires a separate symbol table.

  Additionally, the binary code in the “fat” object will lack a call to a function, since the call was optimized out at compilation time after the intermediate language was streamed out. In some special cases, the same optimization may not happen during link-time optimization. This would lead to an undefined symbol if only one symbol table was used.

  The symbol table is emitted in `lto-streamer-out.cc`:`produce_symtab`.

- Global declarations and types (`.gnu.lto_.decls`)

  This section contains an intermediate language dump of all declarations and types required to represent the callgraph, static variables and top-level debug info.

  The contents of this section are emitted in `lto-streamer-out.cc`:`produce_asm_for_decls`. Types and symbols are emitted in a topological order that preserves the sharing of pointers when the file is read back in (`lto.cc`:`read_cgraph_and_symbols`).

- The callgraph (`.gnu.lto_.cgraph`)

  This section contains the basic data structure used by the GCC inter-procedural optimization infrastructure. This section stores an annotated multi-graph which represents the functions and call sites as well as the variables, aliases and top-level `asm` statements.

  This section is emitted in `lto-streamer-out.cc`:`output_cgraph` and read in `lto-cgraph.cc`:`input_cgraph`.

- IPA references (`.gnu.lto_.refs`)

  This section contains references between function and static variables. It is emitted by `lto-cgraph.cc`:`output_refs` and read by `lto-cgraph.cc`:`input_refs`.

- Function bodies (`.gnu.lto_.function_body.<name>`)

  This section contains function bodies in the intermediate language representation. Every function body is in a separate section to allow copying of the section independently to different object files or reading the function on demand.

  Functions are emitted in `lto-streamer-out.cc`:`output_function` and read in `lto-streamer-in.cc`:`input_function`.

- Static variable initializers (`.gnu.lto_.vars`)

  This section contains all the symbols in the global variable pool. It is emitted by `lto-cgraph.cc`:`output_varpool` and read in `lto-cgraph.cc`:`input_cgraph`.

- Summaries and optimization summaries used by IPA passes (`.gnu.lto_.<xxx>`, where `<xxx>` is one of `jmpfuncs`, `pureconst` or `reference`)

  These sections are used by IPA passes that need to emit summary information during LTO generation to be read and aggregated at link time. Each pass is responsible for implementing two pass manager hooks: one for writing the summary and another for reading it in. The format of these sections is entirely up to each individual pass. The only requirement is that the writer and reader hooks agree on the format.

### 25.3 Using summary information in IPA passes ¶

Programs are represented internally as a callgraph (a multi-graph where nodes are functions and edges are call sites) and a varpool (a list of static and external variables in the program).

The inter-procedural optimization is organized as a sequence of individual passes, which operate on the callgraph and the varpool. To make the implementation of WHOPR possible, every inter-procedural optimization pass is split into several stages that are executed at different times during WHOPR compilation:

- LGEN time
  1. Generate summary (`generate_summary` in `struct ipa_opt_pass_d`). This stage analyzes every function body and variable initializer is examined and stores relevant information into a pass-specific data structure.
  2. Write summary (`write_summary` in `struct ipa_opt_pass_d`). This stage writes all the pass-specific information generated by `generate_summary`. Summaries go into their own `LTO_section_*` sections that have to be declared in `lto-streamer.h`:`enum lto_section_type`. A new section is created by calling `create_output_block` and data can be written using the `lto_output_*` routines.
- WPA time
  1. Read summary (`read_summary` in `struct ipa_opt_pass_d`). This stage reads all the pass-specific information in exactly the same order that it was written by `write_summary`.
  2. Execute (`execute` in `struct opt_pass`). This performs inter-procedural propagation. This must be done without actual access to the individual function bodies or variable initializers. Typically, this results in a transitive closure operation over the summary information of all the nodes in the callgraph.
  3. Write optimization summary (`write_optimization_summary` in `struct ipa_opt_pass_d`). This writes the result of the inter-procedural propagation into the object file. This can use the same data structures and helper routines used in `write_summary`.
- LTRANS time
  1. Read optimization summary (`read_optimization_summary` in `struct ipa_opt_pass_d`). The counterpart to `write_optimization_summary`. This reads the interprocedural optimization decisions in exactly the same format emitted by `write_optimization_summary`.
  2. Transform (`function_transform` and `variable_transform` in `struct ipa_opt_pass_d`). The actual function bodies and variable initializers are updated based on the information passed down from the Execute stage.

The implementation of the inter-procedural passes are shared between LTO, WHOPR and classic non-LTO compilation.

- During the traditional file-by-file mode every pass executes its own Generate summary, Execute, and Transform stages within the single execution context of the compiler.
- In LTO compilation mode, every pass uses Generate summary and Write summary stages at compilation time, while the Read summary, Execute, and Transform stages are executed at link time.
- In WHOPR mode all stages are used.

To simplify development, the GCC pass manager differentiates between normal inter-procedural passes (see Regular IPA passes), small inter-procedural passes (see Small IPA passes) and late inter-procedural passes (see Late IPA passes). A small or late IPA pass (`SIMPLE_IPA_PASS`) does everything at once and thus cannot be executed during WPA in WHOPR mode. It defines only the Execute stage and during this stage it accesses and modifies the function bodies. Such passes are useful for optimization at LGEN or LTRANS time and are used, for example, to implement early optimization before writing object files. The simple inter-procedural passes can also be used for easier prototyping and development of a new inter-procedural pass.

#### 25.3.1 Virtual clones ¶

One of the main challenges of introducing the WHOPR compilation mode was addressing the interactions between optimization passes. In LTO compilation mode, the passes are executed in a sequence, each of which consists of analysis (or Generate summary), propagation (or Execute) and Transform stages. Once the work of one pass is finished, the next pass sees the updated program representation and can execute. This makes the individual passes dependent on each other.

In WHOPR mode all passes first execute their Generate summary stage. Then summary writing marks the end of the LGEN stage. At WPA time, the summaries are read back into memory and all passes run the Execute stage. Optimization summaries are streamed and sent to LTRANS, where all the passes execute the Transform stage.

Most optimization passes split naturally into analysis, propagation and transformation stages. But some do not. The main problem arises when one pass performs changes and the following pass gets confused by seeing different callgraphs between the Transform stage and the Generate summary or Execute stage. This means that the passes are required to communicate their decisions with each other.

To facilitate this communication, the GCC callgraph infrastructure implements virtual clones, a method of representing the changes performed by the optimization passes in the callgraph without needing to update function bodies.

A virtual clone in the callgraph is a function that has no associated body, just a description of how to create its body based on a different function (which itself may be a virtual clone).

The description of function modifications includes adjustments to the function’s signature (which allows, for example, removing or adding function arguments), substitutions to perform on the function body, and, for inlined functions, a pointer to the function that it will be inlined into.

It is also possible to redirect any edge of the callgraph from a function to its virtual clone. This implies updating of the call site to adjust for the new function signature.

Most of the transformations performed by inter-procedural optimizations can be represented via virtual clones. For instance, a constant propagation pass can produce a virtual clone of the function which replaces one of its arguments by a constant. The inliner can represent its decisions by producing a clone of a function whose body will be later integrated into a given function.

Using virtual clones, the program can be easily updated during the Execute stage, solving most of pass interactions problems that would otherwise occur during Transform.

Virtual clones are later materialized in the LTRANS stage and turned into real functions. Passes executed after the virtual clone were introduced also perform their Transform stage on new functions, so for a pass there is no significant difference between operating on a real function or a virtual clone introduced before its Execute stage.

Optimization passes then work on virtual clones introduced before their Execute stage as if they were real functions. The only difference is that clones are not visible during the Generate Summary stage.

To keep function summaries updated, the callgraph interface allows an optimizer to register a callback that is called every time a new clone is introduced as well as when the actual function or variable is generated or when a function or variable is removed. These hooks are registered in the Generate summary stage and allow the pass to keep its information intact until the Execute stage. The same hooks can also be registered during the Execute stage to keep the optimization summaries updated for the Transform stage.

#### 25.3.2 IPA references ¶

GCC represents IPA references in the callgraph. For a function or variable `A`, the IPA reference is a list of all locations where the address of `A` is taken and, when `A` is a variable, a list of all direct stores and reads to/from `A`. References represent an oriented multi-graph on the union of nodes of the callgraph and the varpool. See `ipa-reference.cc`:`ipa_reference_write_optimization_summary` and `ipa-reference.cc`:`ipa_reference_read_optimization_summary` for details.

#### 25.3.3 Jump functions ¶

Suppose that an optimization pass sees a function `A` and it knows the values of (some of) its arguments. The jump function describes the value of a parameter of a given function call in function `A` based on this knowledge.

Jump functions are used by several optimizations, such as the inter-procedural constant propagation pass and the devirtualization pass. The inliner also uses jump functions to perform inlining of callbacks.

### 25.4 Whole program assumptions, linker plugin and symbol visibilities ¶

Link-time optimization gives relatively minor benefits when used alone. The problem is that propagation of inter-procedural information does not work well across functions and variables that are called or referenced by other compilation units (such as from a dynamically linked library). We say that such functions and variables are externally visible.

To make the situation even more difficult, many applications organize themselves as a set of shared libraries, and the default ELF visibility rules allow one to overwrite any externally visible symbol with a different symbol at runtime. This basically disables any optimizations across such functions and variables, because the compiler cannot be sure that the function body it is seeing is the same function body that will be used at runtime. Any function or variable not declared `static` in the sources degrades the quality of inter-procedural optimization.

To avoid this problem the compiler must assume that it sees the whole program when doing link-time optimization. Strictly speaking, the whole program is rarely visible even at link-time. Standard system libraries are usually linked dynamically or not provided with the link-time information. In GCC, the whole program option (`-fwhole-program`) asserts that every function and variable defined in the current compilation unit is static, except for function `main` (note: at link time, the current unit is the union of all objects compiled with LTO). Since some functions and variables need to be referenced externally, for example by another DSO or from an assembler file, GCC also provides the function and variable attribute `externally_visible` which can be used to disable the effect of `-fwhole-program` on a specific symbol.

The whole program mode assumptions are slightly more complex in C++, where inline functions in headers are put into COMDAT sections. COMDAT function and variables can be defined by multiple object files and their bodies are unified at link-time and dynamic link-time. COMDAT functions are changed to local only when their address is not taken and thus un-sharing them with a library is not harmful. COMDAT variables always remain externally visible, however for readonly variables it is assumed that their initializers cannot be overwritten by a different value.

GCC provides the function and variable attribute `visibility` that can be used to specify the visibility of externally visible symbols (or alternatively an `-fdefault-visibility` command line option). ELF defines the `default`, `protected`, `hidden` and `internal` visibilities.

The most commonly used is visibility is `hidden`. It specifies that the symbol cannot be referenced from outside of the current shared library. Unfortunately, this information cannot be used directly by the link-time optimization in the compiler since the whole shared library also might contain non-LTO objects and those are not visible to the compiler.

GCC solves this problem using linker plugins. A linker plugin is an interface to the linker that allows an external program to claim the ownership of a given object file. The linker then performs the linking procedure by querying the plugin about the symbol table of the claimed objects and once the linking decisions are complete, the plugin is allowed to provide the final object file before the actual linking is made. The linker plugin obtains the symbol resolution information which specifies which symbols provided by the claimed objects are bound from the rest of a binary being linked.

GCC is designed to be independent of the rest of the toolchain and aims to support linkers without plugin support. For this reason it does not use the linker plugin by default. Instead, the object files are examined by `collect2` before being passed to the linker and objects found to have LTO sections are passed to `lto1` first. This mode does not work for library archives. The decision on what object files from the archive are needed depends on the actual linking and thus GCC would have to implement the linker itself. The resolution information is missing too and thus GCC needs to make an educated guess based on `-fwhole-program`. Without the linker plugin GCC also assumes that symbols are declared `hidden` and not referred by non-LTO code by default.

### 25.5 Internal flags controlling `lto1` ¶

The following flags are passed into `lto1` and are not meant to be used directly from the command line.

- -fwpa This option runs the serial part of the link-time optimizer performing the inter-procedural propagation (WPA mode). The compiler reads in summary information from all inputs and performs an analysis based on summary information only. It generates object files for subsequent runs of the link-time optimizer where individual object files are optimized using both summary information from the WPA mode and the actual function bodies. It then drives the LTRANS phase.
- -fltrans This option runs the link-time optimizer in the local-transformation (LTRANS) mode, which reads in output from a previous run of the LTO in WPA mode. In the LTRANS mode, LTO optimizes an object and produces the final assembly.
- -fltrans-output-list=file This option specifies a file to which the names of LTRANS output files are written. This option is only meaningful in conjunction with `-fwpa`.
- -fresolution=file This option specifies the linker resolution file. This option is only meaningful in conjunction with `-fwpa` and as option to pass through to the LTO linker plugin.

## 26 Match and Simplify ¶

The GIMPLE and GENERIC pattern matching project match-and-simplify tries to address several issues.

1. unify expression simplifications currently spread and duplicated over separate files like fold-const.cc, gimple-fold.cc and builtins.cc
2. allow for a cheap way to implement building and simplifying non-trivial GIMPLE expressions, avoiding the need to go through building and simplifying GENERIC via fold_buildN and then gimplifying via force_gimple_operand

To address these the project introduces a simple domain-specific language to write expression simplifications from which code targeting GIMPLE and GENERIC is auto-generated. The GENERIC variant follows the fold_buildN API while for the GIMPLE variant and to address 2) new APIs are introduced.

### 26.1 GIMPLE API ¶

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_simplify `(enum tree_code, tree, tree, gimple_seq *, tree (*)(tree))` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_simplify `(enum tree_code, tree, tree, tree, gimple_seq *, tree (*)(tree))` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_simplify `(enum tree_code, tree, tree, tree, tree, gimple_seq *, tree (*)(tree))` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_simplify `(enum built_in_function, tree, tree, gimple_seq *, tree (*)(tree))` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_simplify `(enum built_in_function, tree, tree, tree, gimple_seq *, tree (*)(tree))` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_simplify `(enum built_in_function, tree, tree, tree, tree, gimple_seq *, tree (*)(tree))` ¶

  The main GIMPLE API entry to the expression simplifications mimicking that of the GENERIC fold_{unary,binary,ternary} functions.

thus providing n-ary overloads for operation or function. The additional arguments are a gimple_seq where built statements are inserted on (if `NULL` then simplifications requiring new statements are not performed) and a valueization hook that can be used to tie simplifications to a SSA lattice.

In addition to those APIs `fold_stmt` is overloaded with a valueization hook:

bool: `fold_stmt` (gimple_stmt_iterator `*, tree (*)(tree));` ¶

On top of these a `fold_buildN`-like API for GIMPLE is introduced:

GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_build `(gimple_seq *, location_t, enum tree_code, tree, tree, tree (*valueize) (tree) = NULL);` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_build `(gimple_seq *, location_t, enum tree_code, tree, tree, tree, tree (*valueize) (tree) = NULL);` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_build `(gimple_seq *, location_t, enum tree_code, tree, tree, tree, tree, tree (*valueize) (tree) = NULL);` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_build `(gimple_seq *, location_t, enum built_in_function, tree, tree, tree (*valueize) (tree) = NULL);` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_build `(gimple_seq *, location_t, enum built_in_function, tree, tree, tree, tree (*valueize) (tree) = NULL);` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_build `(gimple_seq *, location_t, enum built_in_function, tree, tree, tree, tree, tree (*valueize) (tree) = NULL);` ¶
GIMPLE function: `tree` gimple_convert `(gimple_seq *, location_t, tree, tree);` ¶

which is supposed to replace `force_gimple_operand (fold_buildN (...), ...)` and calls to `fold_convert`. Overloads without the `location_t` argument exist. Built statements are inserted on the provided sequence and simplification is performed using the optional valueization hook.

### 26.2 The Language ¶

The language in which to write expression simplifications resembles other domain-specific languages GCC uses. Thus it is lispy. Let’s start with an example from the match.pd file:

    (simplify
      (bit_and @0 integer_all_onesp)
      @0)

This example contains all required parts of an expression simplification. A simplification is wrapped inside a `(simplify ...)` expression. That contains at least two operands - an expression that is matched with the GIMPLE or GENERIC IL and a replacement expression that is returned if the match was successful.

Expressions have an operator ID, `bit_and` in this case. Expressions can be lower-case tree codes with `_expr` stripped off or builtin function code names in all-caps, like `BUILT_IN_SQRT`.

`@n` denotes a so-called capture. It captures the operand and lets you refer to it in other places of the match-and-simplify. In the above example it is referred to in the replacement expression. Captures are `@` followed by a number or an identifier.

    (simplify
      (bit_xor @0 @0)
      { build_zero_cst (type); })

In this example `@0` is mentioned twice which constrains the matched expression to have two equal operands. Usually matches are constrained to equal types. If operands may be constants and conversions are involved, matching by value might be preferred in which case use `@@0` to denote a by-value match and the specific operand you want to refer to in the result part. This example also introduces operands written in C code. These can be used in the expression replacements and are supposed to evaluate to a tree node which has to be a valid GIMPLE operand (so you cannot generate expressions in C code).

    (simplify
      (trunc_mod integer_zerop@0 @1)
      (if (!integer_zerop (@1))
       @0))

Here `@0` captures the first operand of the trunc_mod expression which is also predicated with `integer_zerop`. Expression operands may be either expressions, predicates or captures. Captures can be unconstrained or capture expressions or predicates.

This example introduces an optional operand of simplify, the if-expression. This condition is evaluated after the expression matched in the IL and is required to evaluate to true to enable the replacement expression in the second operand position. The expression operand of the `if` is a standard C expression which may contain references to captures. The `if` has an optional third operand which may contain the replacement expression that is enabled when the condition evaluates to false.

A `if` expression can be used to specify a common condition for multiple simplify patterns, avoiding the need to repeat that multiple times:

    (if (!TYPE_SATURATING (type)
         && !FLOAT_TYPE_P (type) && !FIXED_POINT_TYPE_P (type))
      (simplify
        (minus (plus @0 @1) @0)
        @1)
      (simplify
        (minus (minus @0 @1) @0)
        (negate @1)))

Note that `if`s in outer position do not have the optional else clause but instead have multiple then clauses.

Ifs can be nested.

There exists a `switch` expression which can be used to chain conditions avoiding nesting `if`s too much:

    (simplify
     (simple_comparison @0 REAL_CST@1)
     (switch
      /* a CMP (-0) -> a CMP 0  */
      (if (REAL_VALUE_MINUS_ZERO (TREE_REAL_CST (@1)))
       (cmp @0 { build_real (TREE_TYPE (@1), dconst0); }))
      /* x != NaN is always true, other ops are always false.  */
      (if (REAL_VALUE_ISNAN (TREE_REAL_CST (@1))
           && ! HONOR_SNANS (@1))
       { constant_boolean_node (cmp == NE_EXPR, type); })))

Is equal to

    (simplify
     (simple_comparison @0 REAL_CST@1)
     (switch
      /* a CMP (-0) -> a CMP 0  */
      (if (REAL_VALUE_MINUS_ZERO (TREE_REAL_CST (@1)))
       (cmp @0 { build_real (TREE_TYPE (@1), dconst0); })
       /* x != NaN is always true, other ops are always false.  */
       (if (REAL_VALUE_ISNAN (TREE_REAL_CST (@1))
            && ! HONOR_SNANS (@1))
        { constant_boolean_node (cmp == NE_EXPR, type); }))))

which has the second `if` in the else operand of the first. The `switch` expression takes `if` expressions as operands (which may not have else clauses) and as a last operand a replacement expression which should be enabled by default if no other condition evaluated to true.

Captures can also be used for capturing results of sub-expressions.

    #if GIMPLE
    (simplify
      (pointer_plus (addr@2 @0) INTEGER_CST_P@1)
      (if (is_gimple_min_invariant (@2)))
      {
        poly_int64 off;
        tree base = get_addr_base_and_unit_offset (@0, &off);
        off += tree_to_uhwi (@1);
        /* Now with that we should be able to simply write
           (addr (mem_ref (addr @base) (plus @off @1)))  */
        build1 (ADDR_EXPR, type,
                build2 (MEM_REF, TREE_TYPE (TREE_TYPE (@2)),
                        build_fold_addr_expr (base),
                        build_int_cst (ptr_type_node, off)));
      })
    #endif

In the above example, `@2` captures the result of the expression `(addr @0)`. For the outermost expression only its type can be captured, and the keyword `type` is reserved for this purpose. The above example also gives a way to conditionalize patterns to only apply to `GIMPLE` or `GENERIC` by means of using the pre-defined preprocessor macros `GIMPLE` and `GENERIC` and using preprocessor directives.

    (simplify
      (bit_and:c integral_op_p@0 (bit_ior:c (bit_not @0) @1))
      (bit_and @1 @0))

Here we introduce flags on match expressions. The flag used above, `c`, denotes that the expression should be also matched commutated. Thus the above match expression is really the following four match expressions:

      (bit_and integral_op_p@0 (bit_ior (bit_not @0) @1))
      (bit_and (bit_ior (bit_not @0) @1) integral_op_p@0)
      (bit_and integral_op_p@0 (bit_ior @1 (bit_not @0)))
      (bit_and (bit_ior @1 (bit_not @0)) integral_op_p@0)

Usual canonicalizations you know from GENERIC expressions are applied before matching, so for example constant operands always come second in commutative expressions.

The second supported flag is `s` which tells the code generator to fail the pattern if the expression marked with `s` does have more than one use and the simplification results in an expression with more than one operator. For example in

    (simplify
      (pointer_plus (pointer_plus:s @0 @1) @3)
      (pointer_plus @0 (plus @1 @3)))

this avoids the association if `(pointer_plus @0 @1)` is used outside of the matched expression and thus it would stay live and not trivially removed by dead code elimination. Now consider `((x + 3) + -3)` with the temporary holding `(x + 3)` used elsewhere. This simplifies down to `x` which is desirable and thus flagging with `s` does not prevent the transform. Now consider `((x + 3) + 1)` which simplifies to `(x + 4)`. Despite being flagged with `s` the simplification will be performed. The simplification of `((x + a) + 1)` to `(x + (a + 1))` will not performed in this case though.

More features exist to avoid too much repetition.

    (for op (plus pointer_plus minus bit_ior bit_xor)
      (simplify
        (op @0 integer_zerop)
        @0))

A `for` expression can be used to repeat a pattern for each operator specified, substituting `op`. `for` can be nested and a `for` can have multiple operators to iterate.

    (for opa (plus minus)
         opb (minus plus)
      (for opc (plus minus)
        (simplify...

In this example the pattern will be repeated four times with `opa, opb, opc` being `plus, minus, plus`; `plus, minus, minus`; `minus, plus, plus`; `minus, plus, minus`.

To avoid repeating operator lists in `for` you can name them via

    (define_operator_list pmm plus minus mult)

and use them in `for` operator lists where they get expanded.

    (for opa (pmm trunc_div)
     (simplify...

So this example iterates over `plus`, `minus`, `mult` and `trunc_div`.

Using operator lists can also remove the need to explicitly write a `for`. All operator list uses that appear in a `simplify` or `match` pattern in operator positions will implicitly be added to a new `for`. For example

    (define_operator_list SQRT BUILT_IN_SQRTF BUILT_IN_SQRT BUILT_IN_SQRTL)
    (define_operator_list POW BUILT_IN_POWF BUILT_IN_POW BUILT_IN_POWL)
    (simplify
     (SQRT (POW @0 @1))
     (POW (abs @0) (mult @1 { built_real (TREE_TYPE (@1), dconsthalf); })))

is the same as

    (for SQRT (BUILT_IN_SQRTF BUILT_IN_SQRT BUILT_IN_SQRTL)
         POW (BUILT_IN_POWF BUILT_IN_POW BUILT_IN_POWL)
     (simplify
      (SQRT (POW @0 @1))
      (POW (abs @0) (mult @1 { built_real (TREE_TYPE (@1), dconsthalf); }))))

`for`s and operator lists can include the special identifier `null` that matches nothing and can never be generated. This can be used to pad an operator list so that it has a standard form, even if there isn’t a suitable operator for every form.

Another building block are `with` expressions in the result expression which nest the generated code in a new C block followed by its argument:

    (simplify
     (convert (mult @0 @1))
     (with { tree utype = unsigned_type_for (type); }
      (convert (mult (convert:utype @0) (convert:utype @1)))))

This allows code nested in the `with` to refer to the declared variables. In the above case we use the feature to specify the type of a generated expression with the `:type` syntax where `type` needs to be an identifier that refers to the desired type. Usually the types of the generated result expressions are determined from the context, but sometimes like in the above case it is required that you specify them explicitly.

Another modifier for generated expressions is `!` which tells the machinery to only consider the simplification in case the marked expression simplified to a simple operand. Consider for example

    (simplify
      (plus (vec_cond:s @0 @1 @2) @3)
      (vec_cond @0 (plus! @1 @3) (plus! @2 @3)))

which moves the outer `plus` operation to the inner arms of the `vec_cond` expression but only if the actual plus operations both simplify. Note that on `GENERIC` a simple operand means that the result satisfies `!EXPR_P` which can be limiting if the operation itself simplifies but the remaining operand is an (unrelated) expression.

As intermediate conversions are often optional there is a way to avoid the need to repeat patterns both with and without such conversions. Namely you can mark a conversion as being optional with a `?`:

    (simplify
     (eq (convert@0 @1) (convert? @2))
     (eq @1 (convert @2)))

which will match both `(eq (convert @1) (convert @2))` and `(eq (convert @1) @2)`. The optional converts are supposed to be all either present or not, thus `(eq (convert? @1) (convert? @2))` will result in two patterns only. If you want to match all four combinations you have access to two additional conditional converts as in `(eq (convert1? @1) (convert2? @2))`.

The support for `?` marking extends to all unary operations including predicates you declare yourself with `match`.

Predicates available from the GCC middle-end need to be made available explicitly via `define_predicates`:

    (define_predicates
     integer_onep integer_zerop integer_all_onesp)

You can also define predicates using the pattern matching language and the `match` form:

    (match negate_expr_p
     INTEGER_CST
     (if (TYPE_OVERFLOW_WRAPS (type)
          || may_negate_without_overflow_p (t))))
    (match negate_expr_p
     (negate @0))

This shows that for `match` expressions there is `t` available which captures the outermost expression (something not possible in the `simplify` context). As you can see `match` has an identifier as first operand which is how you refer to the predicate in patterns. Multiple `match` for the same identifier add additional cases where the predicate matches.

Predicates can also match an expression in which case you need to provide a template specifying the identifier and where to get its operands from:

    (match (logical_inverted_value @0)
     (eq @0 integer_zerop))
    (match (logical_inverted_value @0)
     (bit_not truth_valued_p@0))

You can use the above predicate like

    (simplify
     (bit_and @0 (logical_inverted_value @0))
     { build_zero_cst (type); })

Which will match a bitwise and of an operand with its logical inverted value.

## 27 Static Analyzer ¶

### 27.1 Analyzer Internals ¶

#### 27.1.1 Overview ¶

At a high-level, we’re doing coverage-guided symbolic execution of the user’s code.

The analyzer implementation works on the gimple-SSA representation. (I chose this in the hopes of making it easy to work with LTO to do whole-program analysis).

The implementation is read-only: it doesn’t attempt to change anything, just emit warnings.

The gimple representation can be seen using `-fdump-ipa-analyzer`.

> Tip: If the analyzer ICEs before this is written out, one workaround is to use `--param=analyzer-bb-explosion-factor=0` to force the analyzer to bail out after analyzing the first basic block.

First, we build a `supergraph` which combines the callgraph and all of the CFGs into a single directed graph, with both interprocedural and intraprocedural edges. The nodes and edges in the supergraph are called “supernodes” and “superedges”, and often referred to in code as `snodes` and `sedges`. Basic blocks in the CFGs are split at interprocedural calls, so there can be more than one supernode per basic block. Most statements will be in just one supernode, but a call statement can appear in two supernodes: at the end of one for the call, and again at the start of another for the return.

The supergraph can be seen using `-fdump-analyzer-supergraph`.

We then build an `analysis_plan` which walks the callgraph to determine which calls might be suitable for being summarized (rather than fully explored) and thus in what order to explore the functions.

Next is the heart of the analyzer: we use a worklist to explore state within the supergraph, building an "exploded graph". Nodes in the exploded graph correspond to <point, state> pairs, as in "Precise Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis via Graph Reachability" (Thomas Reps, Susan Horwitz and Mooly Sagiv) - but note that we’re not using the algorithm described in that paper, just the “exploded graph” terminology.

We reuse nodes for <point, state> pairs we’ve already seen, and avoid tracking state too closely, so that (hopefully) we rapidly converge on a final exploded graph, and terminate the analysis. We also bail out if the number of exploded <end-of-basic-block, state> nodes gets larger than a particular multiple of the total number of basic blocks (to ensure termination in the face of pathological state-explosion cases, or bugs). We also stop exploring a point once we hit a limit of states for that point.

We can identify problems directly when processing a <point, state> instance. For example, if we’re finding the successors of

       <point: before-stmt: "free (ptr);",
        state: {"ptr": freed}>

then we can detect a double-free of "ptr". We can then emit a path to reach the problem by finding the simplest route through the graph.

Program points in the analysis are much more fine-grained than in the CFG and supergraph, with points (and thus potentially exploded nodes) for various events, including before individual statements. By default the exploded graph merges multiple consecutive statements in a supernode into one exploded edge to minimize the size of the exploded graph. This can be suppressed via `-fanalyzer-fine-grained`. The fine-grained approach seems to make things simpler and more debuggable that other approaches I tried, in that each point is responsible for one thing.

Program points in the analysis also have a "call string" identifying the stack of callsites below them, so that paths in the exploded graph correspond to interprocedurally valid paths: we always return to the correct call site, propagating state information accordingly. We avoid infinite recursion by stopping the analysis if a callsite appears more than `analyzer-max-recursion-depth` in a callstring (defaulting to 2).

#### 27.1.2 Graphs ¶

Nodes and edges in the exploded graph are called “exploded nodes” and “exploded edges” and often referred to in the code as `enodes` and `eedges` (especially when distinguishing them from the `snodes` and `sedges` in the supergraph).

Each graph numbers its nodes, giving unique identifiers - supernodes are referred to throughout dumps in the form ‘`SN': index`’ and exploded nodes in the form ‘`EN: index`’ (e.g. ‘`SN: 2`’ and ‘`EN:29`’).

The supergraph can be seen using `-fdump-analyzer-supergraph-graph`.

The exploded graph can be seen using `-fdump-analyzer-exploded-graph` and other dump options. Exploded nodes are color-coded in the .dot output based on state-machine states to make it easier to see state changes at a glance.

#### 27.1.3 State Tracking ¶

There’s a tension between:

- precision of analysis in the straight-line case, vs
- exponential blow-up in the face of control flow.

For example, in general, given this CFG:

          A
         / \
        B   C
         \ /
          D
         / \
        E   F
         \ /
          G

we want to avoid differences in state-tracking in B and C from leading to blow-up. If we don’t prevent state blowup, we end up with exponential growth of the exploded graph like this:

               1:A
              /   \
             /     \
            /       \
          2:B       3:C
           |         |
          4:D       5:D        (2 exploded nodes for D)
         /   \     /   \
       6:E   7:F 8:E   9:F
        |     |   |     |
       10:G 11:G 12:G  13:G    (4 exploded nodes for G)

Similar issues arise with loops.

To prevent this, we follow various approaches:

1. state pruning: which tries to discard state that won’t be relevant later on withing the function. This can be disabled via `-fno-analyzer-state-purge`.
2. state merging. We can try to find the commonality between two program_state instances to make a third, simpler program_state. We have two strategies here:
   1. the worklist keeps new nodes for the same program_point together, and tries to merge them before processing, and thus before they have successors. Hence, in the above, the two nodes for D (4 and 5) reach the front of the worklist together, and we create a node for D with the merger of the incoming states.
   2. try merging with the state of existing enodes for the program_point (which may have already been explored). There will be duplication, but only one set of duplication; subsequent duplicates are more likely to hit the cache. In particular, (hopefully) all merger chains are finite, and so we guarantee termination. This is intended to help with loops: we ought to explore the first iteration, and then have a "subsequent iterations" exploration, which uses a state merged from that of the first, to be more abstract.

   We avoid merging pairs of states that have state-machine differences, as these are the kinds of differences that are likely to be most interesting. So, for example, given:

             if (condition)
               ptr = malloc (size);
             else
               ptr = local_buf;

             .... do things with 'ptr'

             if (condition)
               free (ptr);

             ...etc

   then we end up with an exploded graph that looks like this:

                          if (condition)
                            / T      \ F
                   ---------          ----------
                  /                             \
             ptr = malloc (size)             ptr = local_buf
                 |                               |
             copy of                         copy of
               "do things with 'ptr'"          "do things with 'ptr'"
             with ptr: heap-allocated        with ptr: stack-allocated
                 |                               |
             if (condition)                  if (condition)
                 | known to be T                 | known to be F
             free (ptr);                         |
                  \                             /
                   -----------------------------
                                | ('ptr' is pruned, so states can be merged)
                               etc

   where some duplication has occurred, but only for the places where the the different paths are worth exploringly separately.

   Merging can be disabled via `-fno-analyzer-state-merge`.

#### 27.1.4 Region Model ¶

Part of the state stored at a `exploded_node` is a `region_model`. This is an implementation of the region-based ternary model described in "A Memory Model for Static Analysis of C Programs" (Zhongxing Xu, Ted Kremenek, and Jian Zhang).

A `region_model` encapsulates a representation of the state of memory, with a `store` recording a binding between `region` instances, to `svalue` instances. The bindings are organized into clusters, where regions accessible via well-defined pointer arithmetic are in the same cluster. The representation is graph-like because values can be pointers to regions. It also stores a constraint_manager, capturing relationships between the values.

Because each node in the `exploded_graph` has a `region_model`, and each of the latter is graph-like, the `exploded_graph` is in some ways a graph of graphs.

Here’s an example of printing a `program_state`, showing the `region_model` within it, along with state for the `malloc` state machine.

    (gdb) call debug (*this)
    rmodel:
    stack depth: 1
      frame (index 0): frame: ‘test’@1
    clusters within frame: ‘test’@1
      cluster for: ptr_3: &HEAP_ALLOCATED_REGION(12)
    m_called_unknown_fn: FALSE
    constraint_manager:
      equiv classes:
      constraints:
    malloc:
      0x2e89590: &HEAP_ALLOCATED_REGION(12): unchecked ('ptr_3')

This is the state at the point of returning from `calls_malloc` back to `test` in the following:

    void *
    calls_malloc (void)
    {
      void *result = malloc (1024);
      return result;
    }

    void test (void)
    {
      void *ptr = calls_malloc ();
      /* etc.  */
    }

Within the store, there is the cluster for `ptr_3` within the frame for `test`, where the whole cluster is bound to a pointer value, pointing at `HEAP_ALLOCATED_REGION(12)`. Additionally, this pointer has the `unchecked` state for the `malloc` state machine indicating it hasn’t yet been checked against NULL since the allocation call.

#### 27.1.5 Analyzer Paths ¶

We need to explain to the user what the problem is, and to persuade them that there really is a problem. Hence having a `diagnostic_path` isn’t just an incidental detail of the analyzer; it’s required.

Paths ought to be:

- interprocedurally-valid
- feasible

Without state-merging, all paths in the exploded graph are feasible (in terms of constraints being satisfied). With state-merging, paths in the exploded graph can be infeasible.

We collate warnings and only emit them for the simplest path e.g. for a bug in a utility function, with lots of routes to calling it, we only emit the simplest path (which could be intraprocedural, if it can be reproduced without a caller).

We thus want to find the shortest feasible path through the exploded graph from the origin to the exploded node at which the diagnostic was saved. Unfortunately, if we simply find the shortest such path and check if it’s feasible we might falsely reject the diagnostic, as there might be a longer path that is feasible. Examples include the cases where the diagnostic requires us to go at least once around a loop for a later condition to be satisfied, or where for a later condition to be satisfied we need to enter a suite of code that the simpler path skips.

We attempt to find the shortest feasible path to each diagnostic by first constructing a “trimmed graph” from the exploded graph, containing only those nodes and edges from which there are paths to the target node, and using Dijkstra’s algorithm to order the trimmed nodes by minimal distance to the target.

We then use a worklist to iteratively build a “feasible graph” (actually a tree), capturing the pertinent state along each path, in which every path to a “feasible node” is feasible by construction, restricting ourselves to the trimmed graph to ensure we stay on target, and ordering the worklist so that the first feasible path we find to the target node is the shortest possible path. Hence we start by trying the shortest possible path, but if that fails, we explore progressively longer paths, eventually trying iterations through loops. The exploration is captured in the feasible_graph, which can be dumped as a .dot file via `-fdump-analyzer-feasibility` to visualize the exploration. The indices of the feasible nodes show the order in which they were created. We effectively explore the tree of feasible paths in order of shortest path until we either find a feasible path to the target node, or hit a limit and give up.

This is something of a brute-force approach, but the trimmed graph hopefully keeps the complexity manageable.

This algorithm can be disabled (for debugging purposes) via `-fno-analyzer-feasibility`, which simply uses the shortest path, and notes if it is infeasible.

The above gives us a shortest feasible `exploded_path` through the `exploded_graph` (a list of `exploded_edge *`). We use this `exploded_path` to build a `diagnostic_path` (a list of events for the diagnostic subsystem) - specifically a `checker_path`.

Having built the `checker_path`, we prune it to try to eliminate events that aren’t relevant, to minimize how much the user has to read.

After pruning, we notify each event in the path of its ID and record the IDs of interesting events, allowing for events to refer to other events in their descriptions. The `pending_diagnostic` class has various vfuncs to support emitting more precise descriptions, so that e.g.

- a deref-of-unchecked-malloc diagnostic might use:

        returning possibly-NULL pointer to 'make_obj' from 'allocator'

  for a `return_event` to make it clearer how the unchecked value moves from callee back to caller

- a double-free diagnostic might use:

        second 'free' here; first 'free' was at (3)

  and a use-after-free might use

        use after 'free' here; memory was freed at (2)

At this point we can emit the diagnostic.

#### 27.1.6 Limitations ¶

- Only for C so far
- The implementation of call summaries is currently very simplistic.
- Lack of function pointer analysis
- The constraint-handling code assumes reflexivity in some places (that values are equal to themselves), which is not the case for NaN. As a simple workaround, constraints on floating-point values are currently ignored.
- There are various other limitations in the region model (grep for TODO/xfail in the testsuite).
- The constraint_manager’s implementation of transitivity is currently too expensive to enable by default and so must be manually enabled via `-fanalyzer-transitivity`).
- The checkers are currently hardcoded and don’t allow for user extensibility (e.g. adding allocate/release pairs).
- Although the analyzer’s test suite has a proof-of-concept test case for LTO, LTO support hasn’t had extensive testing. There are various lang-specific things in the analyzer that assume C rather than LTO. For example, SSA names are printed to the user in “raw” form, rather than printing the underlying variable name.

### 27.2 Debugging the Analyzer ¶

When debugging the analyzer I normally use all of these options together:

    ./xgcc -B. \
      -S \
      -fanalyzer \
      OTHER_GCC_ARGS \
      -wrapper gdb,--args \
      -fdump-analyzer-stderr \
      -fanalyzer-fine-grained \
      -fdump-ipa-analyzer=stderr

where:

- `./xgcc -B.` is the usual way to invoke a self-built GCC from within the `BUILDDIR/gcc` subdirectory.
- `-S` so that the driver (`./xgcc`) invokes `cc1`, but doesn’t bother running the assembler or linker (since the analyzer runs inside `cc1`).
- `-fanalyzer` enables the analyzer, obviously.
- `-wrapper gdb,--args` invokes `cc1` under the debugger so that I can debug `cc1` and set breakpoints and step through things.
- `-fdump-analyzer-stderr` so that the logging interface is enabled and goes to stderr, which often gives valuable context into what’s happening when stepping through the analyzer
- `-fanalyzer-fine-grained` which splits the effect of every statement into its own exploded_node, rather than the default (which tries to combine successive stmts to reduce the size of the exploded_graph). This makes it easier to see exactly where a particular change happens.
- `-fdump-ipa-analyzer=stderr` which dumps the GIMPLE IR seen by the analyzer pass to stderr

Other useful options:

- `-fdump-analyzer-exploded-graph` which dumps a `SRC.eg.dot` GraphViz file that I can look at (with python-xdot)
- `-fdump-analyzer-exploded-nodes-2` which dumps a `SRC.eg.txt` file containing the full `exploded_graph`.

Assuming that you have the python support scripts for gdb installed (which you should do, it makes debugging GCC much easier), you can use:

    (gdb) break-on-saved-diagnostic

to put a breakpoint at the place where a diagnostic is saved during `exploded_graph` exploration, to see where a particular diagnostic is being saved, and:

    (gdb) break-on-diagnostic

to put a breakpoint at the place where diagnostics are actually emitted.

#### 27.2.1 Special Functions for Debugging the Analyzer ¶

The analyzer recognizes various special functions by name, for use in debugging the analyzer, and for use in DejaGnu tests.

The declarations of these functions can be seen in the testsuite in `analyzer-decls.h`. None of these functions are actually implemented in terms of code, merely as `known_function` subclasses (in `gcc/analyzer/kf-analyzer.cc`).

`__analyzer_break`

  Add:

        __analyzer_break ();

  to the source being analyzed to trigger a breakpoint in the analyzer when that source is reached. By putting a series of these in the source, it’s much easier to effectively step through the program state as it’s analyzed.

`__analyzer_describe`

  The analyzer handles:

      __analyzer_describe (0, expr);

  by emitting a warning describing the 2nd argument (which can be of any type), at a verbosity level given by the 1st argument. This is for use when debugging, and may be of use in DejaGnu tests.

`__analyzer_dump`

      __analyzer_dump ();

  will dump the copious information about the analyzer’s state each time it reaches the call in its traversal of the source.

`__analyzer_dump_capacity`

      extern void __analyzer_dump_capacity (const void *ptr);

  will emit a warning describing the capacity of the base region of the region pointed to by the 1st argument.

`__analyzer_dump_escaped`

      extern void __analyzer_dump_escaped (void);

  will emit a warning giving the number of decls that have escaped on this analysis path, followed by a comma-separated list of their names, in alphabetical order.

`__analyzer_dump_path`

      __analyzer_dump_path ();

  will emit a placeholder “note” diagnostic with a path to that call site, if the analyzer finds a feasible path to it. This can be useful for writing DejaGnu tests for constraint-tracking and feasibility checking.

`__analyzer_dump_exploded_nodes`

  For every callsite to `__analyzer_dump_exploded_nodes` the analyzer will emit a warning after it finished the analysis containing information on all of the exploded nodes at that program point.

        __analyzer_dump_exploded_nodes (0);

  will output the number of “processed” nodes, and the IDs of both “processed” and “merger” nodes, such as:

      warning: 2 processed enodes: [EN: 56, EN: 58] merger(s): [EN: 54-55, EN: 57, EN: 59]

  With a non-zero argument

        __analyzer_dump_exploded_nodes (1);

  it will also dump all of the states within the “processed” nodes.

`__analyzer_dump_named_constant`

  When the analyzer sees a call to `__analyzer_dump_named_constant` it will emit a warning describing what is known about the value of a given named constant, for parts of the analyzer that interact with target headers.

  For example:

      __analyzer_dump_named_constant ("O_RDONLY");

  might lead to the analyzer emitting the warning:

      warning: named constant 'O_RDONLY' has value '1'

`__analyzer_dump_region_model`

         __analyzer_dump_region_model ();

  will dump the region_model’s state to stderr.

`__analyzer_dump_state`

      __analyzer_dump_state ("malloc", ptr);

  will emit a warning describing the state of the 2nd argument (which can be of any type) with respect to the state machine with a name matching the 1st argument (which must be a string literal). This is for use when debugging, and may be of use in DejaGnu tests.

`__analyzer_eval`

      __analyzer_eval (expr);

  will emit a warning with text "TRUE", FALSE" or "UNKNOWN" based on the truthfulness of the argument. This is useful for writing DejaGnu tests.

`__analyzer_get_unknown_ptr`

      __analyzer_get_unknown_ptr ();

  will obtain an unknown `void *`.

`__analyzer_get_strlen`

      __analyzer_get_strlen (buf);

  will emit a warning if PTR doesn’t point to a null-terminated string. TODO: eventually get the strlen of the buffer (without the optimizer touching it).

#### 27.2.2 Other Debugging Techniques ¶

To compare two different exploded graphs, try `-fdump-analyzer-exploded-nodes-2 -fdump-noaddr -fanalyzer-fine-grained`. This will dump a `SRC.eg.txt` file containing the full `exploded_graph`. I use `diff -u50 -p` to compare two different such files (e.g. before and after a patch) to find the first place where the two graphs diverge. The option `-fdump-noaddr` will suppress printing pointers withihn the dumps (which would otherwise hide the real differences with irrelevent churn).

The option `-fdump-analyzer-json` will dump both the supergraph and the exploded graph in compressed JSON form.

One approach when tracking down where a particular bogus state is introduced into the `exploded_graph` is to add custom code to `program_state::validate`.

The debug function `region::is_named_decl_p` can be used when debugging, such as for assertions and conditional breakpoints. For example, when tracking down a bug in handling a decl called `yy_buffer_stack`, I temporarily added a:

      gcc_assert (!m_base_region->is_named_decl_p ("yy_buffer_stack"));

to `binding_cluster::mark_as_escaped` to trap a point where `yy_buffer_stack` was mistakenly being treated as having escaped.

## 28 User Experience Guidelines ¶

To borrow a slogan from Elm,

> Compilers should be assistants, not adversaries. A compiler should not just detect bugs, it should then help you understand why there is a bug. It should not berate you in a robot voice, it should give you specific hints that help you write better code. Ultimately, a compiler should make programming faster and more fun!

— Evan Czaplicki

This chapter provides guidelines on how to implement diagnostics and command-line options in ways that we hope achieve the above ideal.

### 28.1 Guidelines for Diagnostics ¶

#### 28.1.1 Talk in terms of the user’s code ¶

Diagnostics should be worded in terms of the user’s source code, and the source language, rather than GCC’s own implementation details.

#### 28.1.2 Diagnostics are actionable ¶

A good diagnostic is actionable: it should assist the user in taking action.

Consider what an end user will want to do when encountering a diagnostic.

Given an error, an end user will think: “How do I fix this?”

Given a warning, an end user will think:

- “Is this a real problem?”
- “Do I care?”
- if they decide it’s genuine: “How do I fix this?”

A good diagnostic provides pertinent information to allow the user to easily answer the above questions.

#### 28.1.3 The user’s attention is important ¶

A perfect compiler would issue a warning on every aspect of the user’s source code that ought to be fixed, and issue no other warnings. Naturally, this ideal is impossible to achieve.

Warnings should have a good signal-to-noise ratio: we should have few false positives (falsely issuing a warning when no warning is warranted) and few false negatives (failing to issue a warning when one is justified).

Note that a false positive can mean, in practice, a warning that the user doesn’t agree with. Ideally a diagnostic should contain enough information to allow the user to make an informed choice about whether they should care (and how to fix it), but a balance must be drawn against overloading the user with irrelevant data.

#### 28.1.4 Sometimes the user didn’t write the code ¶

GCC is typically used in two different ways:

- Semi-interactive usage: GCC is used as a development tool when the user is writing code, as the “compile” part of the “edit-compile-debug” cycle. The user is actively hacking on the code themself (perhaps a project they wrote, or someone else’s), where they just made a change to the code and want to see what happens, and to be warned about mistakes.
- Batch rebuilds: where the user is recompiling one or more existing packages, and GCC is a detail that’s being invoked by various build scripts. Examples include a user trying to bring up an operating system consisting of hundreds of packages on a new CPU architecture, where the packages were written by many different people, or simply rebuilding packages after a dependency changed, where the user is hoping “nothing breaks”, since they are unfamiliar with the code.

Keep both of these styles of usage in mind when implementing diagnostics.

#### 28.1.5 Precision of Wording ¶

Provide the user with details that allow them to identify what the problem is. For example, the vaguely-worded message:

    demo.c:1:1: warning: 'noinline' attribute ignored [-Wattributes]
        1 | int foo __attribute__((noinline));
          | ^~~

doesn’t tell the user why the attribute was ignored, or what kind of entity the compiler thought the attribute was being applied to (the source location for the diagnostic is also poor; see discussion of `input_location`). A better message would be:

    demo.c:1:24: warning: attribute 'noinline' on variable 'foo' was
       ignored [-Wattributes]
        1 | int foo __attribute__((noinline));
          |     ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
    demo.c:1:24: note: attribute 'noinline' is only applicable to functions

which spells out the missing information (and fixes the location information, as discussed below).

The above example uses a note to avoid a combinatorial explosion of possible messages.

#### 28.1.6 Try the diagnostic on real-world code ¶

It’s worth testing a new warning on many instances of real-world code, written by different people, and seeing what it complains about, and what it doesn’t complain about.

This may suggest heuristics that silence common false positives.

It may also suggest ways to improve the precision of the message.

#### 28.1.7 Make mismatches clear ¶

Many diagnostics relate to a mismatch between two different places in the user’s source code. Examples include:

- a type mismatch, where the type at a usage site does not match the type at a declaration
- the argument count at a call site does not match the parameter count at the declaration
- something is erroneously duplicated (e.g. an error, due to breaking a uniqueness requirement, or a warning, if it’s suggestive of a bug)
- an “opened” syntactic construct (such as an open-parenthesis) is not closed

In each case, the diagnostic should indicate both pertinent locations (so that the user can easily see the problem and how to fix it).

The standard way to do this is with a note (via `inform`). For example:

      auto_diagnostic_group d;
      if (warning_at (loc, OPT_Wduplicated_cond,
                      "duplicated %<if%> condition"))
        inform (EXPR_LOCATION (t), "previously used here");

which leads to:

    demo.c: In function 'test':
    demo.c:5:17: warning: duplicated 'if' condition [-Wduplicated-cond]
        5 |   else if (flag > 3)
          |            ~~~~~^~~
    demo.c:3:12: note: previously used here
        3 |   if (flag > 3)
          |       ~~~~~^~~

The `inform` call should be guarded by the return value from the `warning_at` call so that the note isn’t emitted when the warning is suppressed.

For cases involving punctuation where the locations might be near each other, they can be conditionally consolidated via `gcc_rich_location::add_location_if_nearby`:

        auto_diagnostic_group d;
        gcc_rich_location richloc (primary_loc);
        bool added secondary = richloc.add_location_if_nearby (secondary_loc);
        error_at (&richloc, "main message");
        if (!added secondary)
          inform (secondary_loc, "message for secondary");

This will emit either one diagnostic with two locations:

      demo.c:42:10: error: main message
        (foo)
        ~   ^

or two diagnostics:

      demo.c:42:4: error: main message
        foo)
           ^
      demo.c:40:2: note: message for secondary
        (
        ^

#### 28.1.8 Location Information ¶

GCC’s `location_t` type can support both ordinary locations, and locations relating to a macro expansion.

As of GCC 6, ordinary locations changed from supporting just a point in the user’s source code to supporting three points: the caret location, plus a start and a finish:

          a = foo && bar;
              ~~~~^~~~~~
              |   |    |
              |   |    finish
              |   caret
              start

Tokens coming out of libcpp have locations of the form `caret == start`, such as for `foo` here:

          a = foo && bar;
              ^~~
              | |
              | finish
              caret == start

Compound expressions should be reported using the location of the expression as a whole, rather than just of one token within it.

For example, in `-Wformat`, rather than underlining just the first token of a bad argument:

       printf("hello %i %s", (long)0, "world");
                     ~^      ~
                     %li

the whole of the expression should be underlined, so that the user can easily identify what is being referred to:

       printf("hello %i %s", (long)0, "world");
                     ~^      ~~~~~~~
                     %li

Avoid using the `input_location` global, and the diagnostic functions that implicitly use it—use `error_at` and `warning_at` rather than `error` and `warning`, and provide the most appropriate `location_t` value available at that phase of the compilation. It’s possible to supply secondary `location_t` values via `rich_location`.

For example, in the example of imprecise wording above, generating the diagnostic using `warning`:

      // BAD: implicitly uses input_location
      warning (OPT_Wattributes, "%qE attribute ignored", name);

leads to:

    // BAD: uses input_location
    demo.c:1:1: warning: 'noinline' attribute ignored [-Wattributes]
        1 | int foo __attribute__((noinline));
          | ^~~

which thus happened to use the location of the `int` token, rather than that of the attribute. Using `warning_at` with the location of the attribute, providing the location of the declaration in question as a secondary location, and adding a note:

      auto_diagnostic_group d;
      gcc_rich_location richloc (attrib_loc);
      richloc.add_range (decl_loc);
      if (warning_at (OPT_Wattributes, &richloc,
                      "attribute %qE on variable %qE was ignored", name))
        inform (attrib_loc, "attribute %qE is only applicable to functions");

would lead to:

    // OK: use location of attribute, with a secondary location
    demo.c:1:24: warning: attribute 'noinline' on variable 'foo' was
       ignored [-Wattributes]
        1 | int foo __attribute__((noinline));
          |     ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
    demo.c:1:24: note: attribute 'noinline' is only applicable to functions

#### 28.1.9 Coding Conventions ¶

See the diagnostics section of the GCC coding conventions.

In the C++ front end, when comparing two types in a message, use ‘`%H`’ and ‘`%I`’ rather than ‘`%T`’, as this allows the diagnostics subsystem to highlight differences between template-based types. For example, rather than using ‘`%qT`’:

      // BAD: a pair of %qT used in C++ front end for type comparison
      error_at (loc, "could not convert %qE from %qT to %qT", expr,
                TREE_TYPE (expr), type);

which could lead to:

    error: could not convert 'map<int, double>()' from 'map<int,double>'
       to 'map<int,int>'

using ‘`%H`’ and ‘`%I`’ (via ‘`%qH`’ and ‘`%qI`’):

      // OK: compare types in C++ front end via %qH and %qI
      error_at (loc, "could not convert %qE from %qH to %qI", expr,
                TREE_TYPE (expr), type);

allows the above output to be simplified to:

    error: could not convert 'map<int, double>()' from 'map<[...],double>'
       to 'map<[...],int>'

where the `double` and `int` are colorized to highlight them.

#### 28.1.10 Group logically-related diagnostics ¶

Use `auto_diagnostic_group` when issuing multiple related diagnostics (seen in various examples on this page). This informs the diagnostic subsystem that all diagnostics issued within the lifetime of the `auto_diagnostic_group` are related. For example, `-fdiagnostics-format=json` will treat the first diagnostic emitted within the group as a top-level diagnostic, and all subsequent diagnostics within the group as its children.

#### 28.1.11 Quoting ¶

Text should be quoted by either using the ‘`q`’ modifier in a directive such as ‘`%qE`’, or by enclosing the quoted text in a pair of ‘`%<`’ and ‘`%>`’ directives, and never by using explicit quote characters. The directives handle the appropriate quote characters for each language and apply the correct color or highlighting.

The following elements should be quoted in GCC diagnostics:

- Language keywords.
- Tokens.
- Boolean, numerical, character, and string constants that appear in the source code.
- Identifiers, including function, macro, type, and variable names.

Other elements such as numbers that do not refer to numeric constants that appear in the source code should not be quoted. For example, in the message:

    argument %d of %qE must be a pointer type

since the argument number does not refer to a numerical constant in the source code it should not be quoted.

#### 28.1.12 Spelling and Terminology ¶

See the terminology and markup section of the GCC coding conventions.

#### 28.1.13 Fix-it hints ¶

GCC’s diagnostic subsystem can emit fix-it hints: small suggested edits to the user’s source code.

They are printed by default underneath the code in question. They can also be viewed via `-fdiagnostics-generate-patch` and `-fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits`. With the latter, an IDE ought to be able to offer to automatically apply the suggested fix.

Fix-it hints contain code fragments, and thus they should not be marked for translation.

Fix-it hints can be added to a diagnostic by using a `rich_location` rather than a `location_t` - the fix-it hints are added to the `rich_location` using one of the various `add_fixit` member functions of `rich_location`. They are documented with `rich_location` in `libcpp/line-map.h`. It’s easiest to use the `gcc_rich_location` subclass of `rich_location` found in `gcc-rich-location.h`, as this implicitly supplies the `line_table` variable.

For example:

       if (const char *suggestion = hint.suggestion ())
         {
           gcc_rich_location richloc (location);
           richloc.add_fixit_replace (suggestion);
           error_at (&richloc,
                     "%qE does not name a type; did you mean %qs?",
                     id, suggestion);
         }

which can lead to:

    spellcheck-typenames.C:73:1: error: 'singed' does not name a type; did
       you mean 'signed'?
       73 | singed char ch;
          | ^~~~~~
          | signed

Non-trivial edits can be built up by adding multiple fix-it hints to one `rich_location`. It’s best to express the edits in terms of the locations of individual tokens. Various handy functions for adding fix-it hints for idiomatic C and C++ can be seen in `gcc-rich-location.h`.

#### 28.1.13.1 Fix-it hints should work ¶

When implementing a fix-it hint, please verify that the suggested edit leads to fixed, compilable code. (Unfortunately, this currently must be done by hand using `-fdiagnostics-generate-patch`. It would be good to have an automated way of verifying that fix-it hints actually fix the code).

For example, a “gotcha” here is to forget to add a space when adding a missing reserved word. Consider a C++ fix-it hint that adds `typename` in front of a template declaration. A naive way to implement this might be:

    gcc_rich_location richloc (loc);
    // BAD: insertion is missing a trailing space
    richloc.add_fixit_insert_before ("typename");
    error_at (&richloc, "need %<typename%> before %<%T::%E%> because "
                         "%qT is a dependent scope",
                         parser->scope, id, parser->scope);

When applied to the code, this might lead to:

    T::type x;

being “corrected” to:

    typenameT::type x;

In this case, the correct thing to do is to add a trailing space after `typename`:

    gcc_rich_location richloc (loc);
    // OK: note that here we have a trailing space
    richloc.add_fixit_insert_before ("typename ");
    error_at (&richloc, "need %<typename%> before %<%T::%E%> because "
                         "%qT is a dependent scope",
                         parser->scope, id, parser->scope);

leading to this corrected code:

    typename T::type x;

#### 28.1.13.2 Express deletion in terms of deletion, not replacement ¶

It’s best to express deletion suggestions in terms of deletion fix-it hints, rather than replacement fix-it hints. For example, consider this:

        auto_diagnostic_group d;
        gcc_rich_location richloc (location_of (retval));
        tree name = DECL_NAME (arg);
        richloc.add_fixit_replace (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (name));
        warning_at (&richloc, OPT_Wredundant_move,
                    "redundant move in return statement");

which is intended to e.g. replace a `std::move` with the underlying value:

       return std::move (retval);
              ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
              retval

where the change has been expressed as replacement, replacing with the name of the declaration. This works for simple cases, but consider this case:

    #ifdef SOME_CONFIG_FLAG
    # define CONFIGURY_GLOBAL global_a
    #else
    # define CONFIGURY_GLOBAL global_b
    #endif

    int fn ()
    {
      return std::move (CONFIGURY_GLOBAL /* some comment */);
    }

The above implementation erroneously strips out the macro and the comment in the fix-it hint:

       return std::move (CONFIGURY_GLOBAL /* some comment */);
              ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
              global_a

and thus this resulting code:

       return global_a;

It’s better to do deletions in terms of deletions; deleting the `std::move (` and the trailing close-paren, leading to this:

       return std::move (CONFIGURY_GLOBAL /* some comment */);
              ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
              CONFIGURY_GLOBAL /* some comment */

and thus this result:

       return CONFIGURY_GLOBAL /* some comment */;

Unfortunately, the pertinent `location_t` values are not always available.

#### 28.1.13.3 Multiple suggestions ¶

In the rare cases where you need to suggest more than one mutually exclusive solution to a problem, this can be done by emitting multiple notes and calling `rich_location::fixits_cannot_be_auto_applied` on each note’s `rich_location`. If this is called, then the fix-it hints in the `rich_location` will be printed, but will not be added to generated patches.

### 28.2 Guidelines for Options ¶

## Funding Free Software ¶

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## GNU Free Documentation License ¶

Version 1.3, 3 November 2008

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0. PREAMBLE

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### ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents ¶

To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page:

      Copyright (C)  year  your name.
      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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      or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
      with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
      Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
      Free Documentation License''.

If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, replace the “with...Texts.” line with this:

        with the Invariant Sections being list their titles, with
        the Front-Cover Texts being list, and with the Back-Cover Texts
        being list.

If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the situation.

If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit their use in free software.

## Contributors to GCC ¶

The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact jlaw@ventanamicro.com or gerald@pfeifer.com if you have been left out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in alphabetical order.

- Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types and iterators.
- John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
- James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of the Intel 80387 register stack.
- Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series port.
- Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
- Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
- Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new ColdFire cores.
- Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
- Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
- Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
- Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
- Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32.
- Daniel Berlin for better DWARF 2 support, faster/better optimizations, improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
- Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
- David Binderman tests weekly snapshots of GCC trunk against Fedora Rawhide for several architectures.
- Laurynas Biveinis for memory management work and DJGPP port fixes.
- Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
- Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the specifications.
- Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
- Hans-J. Boehm for his garbage collector, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
- Segher Boessenkool for helping maintain the PowerPC port and the instruction combiner plus various contributions to the middle end.
- Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other miscellaneous clean-ups.
- Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
- Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
- Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill front end implementation. Initial implementations of cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++) maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
- Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
- Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
- James Bowman for the FT32 port.
- Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
- Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
- Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
- Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
- Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
- Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
- Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee from its creation to 2013.
- Iain Buclaw for the D frontend.
- Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
- Tobias Burnus for contributions to GNU Fortran.
- Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
- Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
- John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements, previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
- Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
- Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
- Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
- John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
- Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port for an 8-bit architecture.
- Kito Cheng for his work on the RISC-V port, including bringing up the test suite and maintenance.
- Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
- Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
- Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
- The GNU Classpath project for all of their merged runtime code.
- Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, msp430 rx work, `--help`, and other random hacking.
- Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
- R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
- Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
- François-Xavier Coudert for contributions to GNU Fortran.
- Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind the scenes hacking.
- Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
- Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
- Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the m68k backend.
- Palmer Dabbelt for his work maintaining the RISC-V port.
- Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs that print a copy of their source.
- Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
- Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
- Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
- Jerry DeLisle for contributions to GNU Fortran.
- DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, MSP430, and RL78 ports.
- Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
- Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3, including `valarray<>`, `complex<>`, maintaining the numerics library (including that pesky `<limits>` :-) and keeping up-to-date anything to do with numbers.
- Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and maintaining `complex<>`, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
- François Dumont for his work on libstdc++-v3, especially maintaining and improving `debug-mode` and associative and unordered containers.
- Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
- Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port.
- Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM.
- David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX.
- Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in libstdc++.
- Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery, documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
- Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC.
- Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++ configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
- Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
- Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
- Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
- Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
- Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
- Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r, and SPARC work.
- Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
- Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
- Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
- Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
- Kaveh R. Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing work to make ‘`-W -Wall -W* -Werror`’ useful, and testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to the CAIP Center at Rutgers University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free Software from the late 1980s to 2010.
- John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
- Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
- Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite, multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction via the steering committee.
- Jonny Grant for improvements to `collect2's` `--help` documentation.
- Anthony Green for his `-Os` contributions, the moxie port, and Java front end work.
- Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
- Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
- Richard Biener for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes and for release management.
- Ron Guilmette implemented the `protoize` and `unprotoize` tools, the support for DWARF 1 symbolic debugging information, and much of the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the Intel 386 and 860 support.
- Sumanth Gundapaneni for contributing the CR16 port.
- Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE.
- Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new warnings and assorted bug fixes.
- Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
- Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
- Michael Hayes for various thankless work he’s done trying to get the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and fixes.
- Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
- Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
- Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we’ve ignored for years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing tons of patches.
- Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and various fixes.
- Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
- Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
- Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
- Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
- Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
- Mat Hostetter for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
- Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
- Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
- Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
- Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
- Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
- Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
- Balaji V. Iyer for Cilk+ development and merging.
- Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
- Martin Jambor for his work on inter-procedural optimizations, the switch conversion pass, and scalar replacement of aggregates.
- Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build system.
- Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
- Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
- Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard Kenner’s “toy” language.
- Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
- Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
- Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
- David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS.
- Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
- Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux and his automatic regression tester.
- Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work in just about every part of libstdc++.
- Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the MIL-STD-1750A.
- Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC processors including changes to common subexpression elimination, strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the head maintainer of GCC for several years.
- Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++ porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
- Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
- Mark Klein for PA improvements.
- Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
- Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
- Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
- Maxim Kuvyrkov for contributions to the instruction scheduler, the Android and m68k/Coldfire ports, and optimizations.
- Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions 68020 system.
- Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
- Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases, handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
- Walter Lee for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
- Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
- Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
- Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
- Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
- Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random work on the Java front end.
- Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
- Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and patches.
- Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
- Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for maintaining the S+core port.
- Martin Liska for his work on identical code folding, the sanitizers, HSA, general bug fixing and for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
- Manuel López-Ibáñez for improving `-Wconversion` and many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
- Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and runtime libraries.
- Martin von Löwis for internal consistency checking infrastructure, various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
- H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
- Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
- Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system, various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
- Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and direction in the area of instruction scheduling, design and implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler and design and implementation of the integrated and local register allocators.
- David Malcolm for his work on improving GCC diagnostics, JIT, self-tests and unit testing.
- Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
- Jose E. Marchesi for contributing the eBPF backend and his ongoing work maintaining it.
- John Marino for contributing the DragonFly BSD port.
- Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
- Michael Matz for his work on dominance tree discovery, the x86-64 port, link-time optimization framework and general optimization improvements.
- All of the Mauve project contributors for Java test code.
- Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
- Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ.
- Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS, powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
- Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading the G++ effort.
- Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the entire Debian archive.
- David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of SPARC work, improvements in jump.cc and interfacing with the Linux kernel developers.
- Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
- Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
- Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements, ISO C `restrict` support, and serving as release manager from 2000 to 2011.
- Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
- Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
- Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine—mail, web services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and the backs of envelopes would have been… difficult.
- Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux kernels.
- Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
- David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial IA-64 port.
- Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
- Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
- Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
- Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
- Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on MT-safe string and shadow headers.
- Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
- Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
- NeXT, Inc. donated the front end that supports the Objective-C language.
- Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
- Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
- Vegard Nossum for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
- David O’Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM, FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure improvements.
- Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
- Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
- Melissa O’Neill for various NeXT fixes.
- Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC’s o32 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu’s MIPS support, Java configuration clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and Tru64 UNIX ports.
- Patrick Palka for contributions to the C++ library and front end.
- Steven Pemberton for his contribution of `enquire` which allowed GCC to determine various properties of the floating point unit and generate `float.h` in older versions of GCC.
- Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
- Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
- Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and continued Java maintainership.
- Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
- Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
- Marek Polacek for his work on the C front end, the sanitizers and general bug fixing.
- Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen, maintenance of the Objective-C runtime libraries, and many scalar optimizations.
- Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime libraries.
- Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O.
- Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various cleanups in the compiler.
- Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
- David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC port.
- John Regehr for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Volker Reichelt for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs and for keeping up with the problem reports.
- Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.
- Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems, as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
- Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
- Ola Rönnerup for work on mt_alloc.
- Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
- David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a translation of the old `g77-0.5.16/f/DOC` file.
- Ken Rose for fixes to GCC’s delay slot filling code.
- Ira Rosen for her contributions to the auto-vectorizer.
- Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
- Pétur Runólfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and large file support in C++ filebuf.
- Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits, Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and “long long” support.
- Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
- Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
- Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC’s RTL optimizers as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
- Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
- Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
- William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
- Tobias Schlüter for work on GNU Fortran.
- Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.
- Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++—especially application testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release criteria—and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
- Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
- Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
- Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
- Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.
- Tim Shen for major work on `<regex>`.
- Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS contributions and RTEMS testing.
- Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
- Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
- Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO).
- Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable for GNU/Linux.
- Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
- Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
- Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
- Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports. Retired from GCC maintainership August 2010, having mentored two new maintainers into the role.
- Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
- Ed Smith-Rowland for his continuous work on libstdc++-v3, special functions, `<random>`, and various improvements to C++11 features.
- Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++ testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add rudimentary support for `INTEGER*1`, `INTEGER*2`, and `LOGICAL*1`.
- Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Arseny Solokha for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port.
- Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
- Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
- Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
- Gerhard Steinmetz for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
- Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
- Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
- John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
- Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more recently his vxworks contributions
- Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
- Zhendong Su for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Chengnian Sun for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
- Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.
- Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
- Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
- Paul Thomas for contributions to GNU Fortran.
- Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
- Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
- Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
- Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler, initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
- Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
- Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
- Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
- Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and maintain the picoChip port.
- Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java contributions and libgcj maintainership.
- Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor types.
- Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
- Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran front end.
- Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their associated configure steps.
- Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
- Andrew Waterman for contributing the RISC-V port, as well as maintaining it.
- Jonathan Wakely for contributing to and maintaining libstdc++.
- Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo in time for GCC 3.0.
- Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
- Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
- Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time header tree. Also, for starting and driving the `<regex>` effort.
- John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator, related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation, value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
- Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
- Janus Weil for contributions to GNU Fortran.
- Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
- Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
- Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
- Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with Classpath.
- Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
- Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc. for the Xtensa port.
- Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength reduction and other loop optimizations.
- Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
- Carlo Wood for various fixes.
- Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
- Chung-Ju Wu for his work on the Andes NDS32 port.
- Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
- Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
- Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
- Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
- Qirun Zhang for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.
- Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
- Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.

The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT, the Ada front end of GCC:

- Bernard Banner
- Romain Berrendonner
- Geert Bosch
- Emmanuel Briot
- Joel Brobecker
- Ben Brosgol
- Vincent Celier
- Arnaud Charlet
- Chien Chieng
- Cyrille Comar
- Cyrille Crozes
- Robert Dewar
- Gary Dismukes
- Robert Duff
- Ed Falis
- Ramon Fernandez
- Sam Figueroa
- Vasiliy Fofanov
- Michael Friess
- Franco Gasperoni
- Ted Giering
- Matthew Gingell
- Laurent Guerby
- Jerome Guitton
- Olivier Hainque
- Jerome Hugues
- Hristian Kirtchev
- Jerome Lambourg
- Bruno Leclerc
- Albert Lee
- Sean McNeil
- Javier Miranda
- Laurent Nana
- Pascal Obry
- Dong-Ik Oh
- Laurent Pautet
- Brett Porter
- Thomas Quinot
- Nicolas Roche
- Pat Rogers
- Jose Ruiz
- Douglas Rupp
- Sergey Rybin
- Gail Schenker
- Ed Schonberg
- Nicolas Setton
- Samuel Tardieu

The following people are recognized for their contributions of new features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for GCC version 4.1:

- Lillian Angel for `JTree` implementation and lots Free Swing additions and bug fixes.
- Wolfgang Baer for `GapContent` bug fixes.
- Anthony Balkissoon for `JList`, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event fixes, lots of Free Swing work including `JTable` editing.
- Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
- Goffredo Baroncelli for `HTTPURLConnection` fixes.
- Gary Benson for `MessageFormat` fixes.
- Daniel Bonniot for `Serialization` fixes.
- Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, `StAX` and `DOM xml:id` support.
- Ka-Hing Cheung for `TreePath` and `TreeSelection` fixes.
- Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates, `URLClassLoader` updates.
- Kelley Cook for build fixes.
- Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better `SocketTimeoutException`.
- David Daney for `BitSet` bug fixes, `HttpURLConnection` rewrite and improvements.
- Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
- Jeroen Frijters for `ClassLoader` and nio cleanups, serialization fixes, better `Proxy` support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
- Santiago Gala for `AccessControlContext` fixes.
- Nicolas Geoffray for `VMClassLoader` and `AccessController` improvements.
- David Gilbert for `basic` and `metal` icon and plaf support and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme additions. `MetalIconFactory` implementation.
- Anthony Green for `MIDI` framework, `ALSA` and `DSSI` providers.
- Andrew Haley for `Serialization` and `URLClassLoader` fixes, gcj build speedups.
- Kim Ho for `JFileChooser` implementation.
- Andrew John Hughes for `Locale` and net fixes, URI RFC2986 updates, `Serialization` fixes, `Properties` XML support and generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
- Bastiaan Huisman for `TimeZone` bug fixing.
- Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
- Paul Jenner for better `-Werror` support.
- Ito Kazumitsu for `NetworkInterface` implementation and updates.
- Roman Kennke for `BoxLayout`, `GrayFilter` and `SplitPane`, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work including styled text.
- Simon Kitching for `String` cleanups and optimization suggestions.
- Michael Koch for configuration fixes, `Locale` updates, bug and build fixes.
- Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe integration. JCL native `Pointer` updates. Logger bug fixes.
- David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference cleanups.
- Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
- Ziga Mahkovec for `Graphics2D` upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex features.
- Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and `TextLayout` fixes. `GtkImage` rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and implementing the Qt4 peers.
- Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, `FileChannel` lock, `SystemLogger` and `FileHandler` rotate implementations, NIO `FileChannel.map` support, security and policy updates.
- Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
- Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus testing and documenting.
- Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
- Rainer Orth for build fixes.
- Andrew Overholt for `File` locking fixes.
- Ingo Proetel for `Image`, `Logger` and `URLClassLoader` updates.
- Olga Rodimina for `MenuSelectionManager` implementation.
- Jan Roehrich for `BasicTreeUI` and `JTree` fixes.
- Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
- Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
- Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes, `TreeNode` enumerations and `ActionCommand` and various fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
- Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
- Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM interface fixes and `CACAO` integration, `fdlibm` updates.
- Gael Thomas for `VMClassLoader` boot packages support suggestions.
- Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, `Qt4` support for Darwin / macOS, `Graphics2D` support, `gtk+` updates.
- Dalibor Topic for better `DEBUG` support, build cleanups and Kaffe integration. `Qt4` build infrastructure, `SHA1PRNG` and `GdkPixbugDecoder` updates.
- Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
- Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management, `Clipboard` implementation, system call interrupts and network timeouts and `GdkPixpufDecoder` fixes.

In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions to testing:

- Michael Abd-El-Malek
- Thomas Arend
- Bonzo Armstrong
- Steven Ashe
- Chris Baldwin
- David Billinghurst
- Jim Blandy
- Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Horst von Brand
- Frank Braun
- Rodney Brown
- Sidney Cadot
- Bradford Castalia
- Robert Clark
- Jonathan Corbet
- Ralph Doncaster
- Richard Emberson
- Levente Farkas
- Graham Fawcett
- Mark Fernyhough
- Robert A. French
- Jörgen Freyh
- Mark K. Gardner
- Charles-Antoine Gauthier
- Yung Shing Gene
- David Gilbert
- Simon Gornall
- Fred Gray
- John Griffin
- Patrik Hagglund
- Phil Hargett
- Amancio Hasty
- Takafumi Hayashi
- Bryan W. Headley
- Kevin B. Hendricks
- Joep Jansen
- Christian Joensson
- Michel Kern
- David Kidd
- Tobias Kuipers
- Anand Krishnaswamy
- A. O. V. Le Blanc
- llewelly
- Damon Love
- Brad Lucier
- Matthias Klose
- Martin Knoblauch
- Rick Lutowski
- Jesse Macnish
- Stefan Morrell
- Anon A. Mous
- Matthias Mueller
- Pekka Nikander
- Rick Niles
- Jon Olson
- Magnus Persson
- Chris Pollard
- Richard Polton
- Derk Reefman
- David Rees
- Paul Reilly
- Tom Reilly
- Torsten Rueger
- Danny Sadinoff
- Marc Schifer
- Erik Schnetter
- Wayne K. Schroll
- David Schuler
- Vin Shelton
- Tim Souder
- Adam Sulmicki
- Bill Thorson
- George Talbot
- Pedro A. M. Vazquez
- Gregory Warnes
- Ian Watson
- David E. Young
- And many others

And finally we’d like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides feedback and generally reminds us why we’re doing this work in the first place.

## Option Index ¶

GCC’s command line options are indexed here without any initial ‘`-`’ or ‘`--`’. Where an option has both positive and negative forms (such as `-foption` and `-fno-option`), relevant entries in the manual are indexed under the most appropriate form; it may sometimes be useful to look up both forms.

Jump to: | F M

| Index Entry | Section
F
| `fltrans` | Internal flags
| `fltrans-output-list` | Internal flags
| `fresolution` | Internal flags
| `fwpa` | Internal flags
M
| `msoft-float` | Soft float library routines

## Concept Index ¶

Jump to: | _ - ! ? " ( @ * / \ & # % ^ + < = > $ 0 A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z

| Index Entry | Section
_
| `__absvdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__absvsi2` | Integer library routines
| `__addda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__adddf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__adddq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addsf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__addsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addtf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__adduda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addudq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__adduha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__adduhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__adduqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__adduta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__addvdi3` | Integer library routines
| `__addvsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__addxf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__ashlda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashldi3` | Integer library routines
| `__ashldq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__ashlsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlti3` | Integer library routines
| `__ashluda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashludq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashluha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashluhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashluqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashlusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashluta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrdi3` | Integer library routines
| `__ashrdq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__ashrsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ashrti3` | Integer library routines
| `__bid_adddd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_addsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_addtd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_divdd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_divsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_divtd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_eqdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_eqsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_eqtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendddtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendddtf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendddxf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extenddfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extenddftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsddd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsddf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsdtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsdtf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsdxf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendsftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendtftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_extendxftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixddbitint` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixdddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixddsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixsdbitint` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixsddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixsdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixtdbitint` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixtddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixtdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixunsdddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixunsddsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixunssddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixunssdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixunstddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_fixunstdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatbitintdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatbitintsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatbitinttd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatdidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatdisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatditd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatsidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatsisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatsitd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatunsdidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatunsdisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatunsditd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatunssidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatunssisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_floatunssitd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_gedd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_gesd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_getd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_gtdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_gtsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_gttd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_ledd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_lesd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_letd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_ltdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_ltsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_lttd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_muldd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_mulsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_multd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_nedd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_negdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_negsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_negtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_nesd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_netd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_subdd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_subsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_subtd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_truncdddf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_truncddsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_truncddsf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_truncdfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_truncsdsf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctddd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctddf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctdsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctdsf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctdtf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctdxf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_trunctfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_truncxfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_truncxfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_unorddd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_unordsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bid_unordtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__bswapdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__bswapsi2` | Integer library routines
| `__builtin_classify_type` | Varargs
| `__builtin_next_arg` | Varargs
| `__builtin_saveregs` | Varargs
| `__clear_cache` | Miscellaneous routines
| `__clzdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__clzsi2` | Integer library routines
| `__clzti2` | Integer library routines
| `__cmpda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__cmpdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__cmpdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmphq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpsa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__cmpsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmptf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__cmpti2` | Integer library routines
| `__cmpuda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpuha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpuhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpuqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpusa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmpusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__cmputa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__CTOR_LIST__` | Initialization
| `__ctzdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__ctzsi2` | Integer library routines
| `__ctzti2` | Integer library routines
| `__divda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divdc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__divdf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__divdi3` | Integer library routines
| `__divdq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divmodbitint4` | Integer library routines
| `__divqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divsc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__divsf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__divsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__divsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__divtc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__divtf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__divti3` | Integer library routines
| `__divxc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__divxf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__dpd_adddd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_addsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_addtd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_divdd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_divsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_divtd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_eqdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_eqsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_eqtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendddtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendddtf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendddxf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extenddfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extenddftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsddd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsddf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsdtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsdtf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsdxf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendsftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendtftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_extendxftd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixdddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixddsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixsddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixsdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixtddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixtdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixunsdddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixunsddsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixunssddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixunssdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixunstddi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_fixunstdsi` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatdidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatdisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatditd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatsidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatsisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatsitd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatunsdidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatunsdisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatunsditd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatunssidd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatunssisd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_floatunssitd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_gedd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_gesd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_getd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_gtdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_gtsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_gttd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_ledd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_lesd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_letd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_ltdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_ltsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_lttd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_muldd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_mulsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_multd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_nedd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_negdd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_negsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_negtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_nesd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_netd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_subdd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_subsd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_subtd3` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_truncdddf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_truncddsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_truncddsf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_truncdfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_truncsdsf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctddd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctddf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctdsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctdsf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctdtf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctdxf` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_trunctfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_truncxfdd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_truncxfsd` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_unorddd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_unordsd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__dpd_unordtd2` | Decimal float library routines
| `__DTOR_LIST__` | Initialization
| `__eqdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__eqsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__eqtf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__extenddftf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__extenddfxf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__extendsfdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__extendsftf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__extendsfxf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__ffsdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__ffsti2` | Integer library routines
| `__fixdfbitint` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixdfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixdfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixdfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixsfbitint` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixsfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixsfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixsfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixtfbitint` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixtfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixtfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixtfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunsdfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunsdfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunsdfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunssfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunssfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunssfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunstfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunstfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunstfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunsxfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunsxfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixunsxfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixxfbitint` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixxfdi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixxfsi` | Soft float library routines
| `__fixxfti` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatbitintbf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatbitintdf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatbitinthf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatbitintsf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatbitinttf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatbitintxf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatdidf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatdisf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatditf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatdixf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatsidf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatsisf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatsitf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatsixf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floattidf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floattisf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floattitf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floattixf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatundidf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatundisf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatunditf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatundixf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatunsidf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatunsisf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatunsitf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatunsixf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatuntidf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatuntisf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatuntitf` | Soft float library routines
| `__floatuntixf` | Soft float library routines
| `__fractdadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdaha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdasa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdata2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdfuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractdquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthada2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthasa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthata2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracthquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractqquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsada2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsaha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsata2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsfuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractsquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttada2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttaha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttasa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fracttiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudauha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudausa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudauta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudquhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudquqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudqusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractudquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhauda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhausa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhauta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhquqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhqusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuhquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsdqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunshqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsqqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunssqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunstiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsudqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuhqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuqqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuqqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuqqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuqqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsuqqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsusqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsutadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsutahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsutaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsutasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractunsutati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqquhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqqusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractuqquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusauda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusauha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusauta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqdf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqdi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqhi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqsf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqsi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqti` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusquhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusquqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractusquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutadf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutadi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutahi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutaqi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutasf` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutasi` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutati` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutauda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutauha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutausa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__fractutausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__gedf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__gesf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__getf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__gtdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__gtsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__gttf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__ledf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__lesf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__letf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__lshrdi3` | Integer library routines
| `__lshrsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__lshrti3` | Integer library routines
| `__lshruda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__lshrudq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__lshruha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__lshruhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__lshruqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__lshrusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__lshrusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__lshruta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ltdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__ltsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__lttf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__main` | Collect2
| `__moddi3` | Integer library routines
| `__modsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__modti3` | Integer library routines
| `__morestack_current_segment` | Miscellaneous routines
| `__morestack_initial_sp` | Miscellaneous routines
| `__morestack_segments` | Miscellaneous routines
| `__mulbitint3` | Integer library routines
| `__mulda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__muldc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__muldf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__muldi3` | Integer library routines
| `__muldq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulsc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__mulsf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__mulsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__mulsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__multa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__multc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__multf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__multi3` | Integer library routines
| `__muluda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__muludq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__muluha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__muluhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__muluqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__muluta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__mulvdi3` | Integer library routines
| `__mulvsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__mulxc3` | Soft float library routines
| `__mulxf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__nedf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__negda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__negdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__negdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__neghq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negsa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__negsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negtf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__negti2` | Integer library routines
| `__neguda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__neguha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__neguhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__neguqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negusa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__neguta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__negvdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__negvsi2` | Integer library routines
| `__negxf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__nesf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__netf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__paritydi2` | Integer library routines
| `__paritysi2` | Integer library routines
| `__parityti2` | Integer library routines
| `__popcountdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__popcountsi2` | Integer library routines
| `__popcountti2` | Integer library routines
| `__powidf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__powisf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__powitf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__powixf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__satfractdadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdaha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdasa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdata2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdfuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractdquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthada2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthasa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthata2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracthquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractqquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsada2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsaha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsata2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsfuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsquhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsquqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsqusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractsquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttada2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttaha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttasa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttauda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttauha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttausa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttauta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfracttiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudauha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudausa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudauta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudquhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudquqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudqusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractudquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhauda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhausa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhauta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhquqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhqusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuhquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsdiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunshiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunsqiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunssiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstida` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstidq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstihq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstisa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstisq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstita` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiuda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiuha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiuhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiuqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiusq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractunstiuta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqquhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqqusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractuqquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusauda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusauha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusauta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqdq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqsa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqsq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusquda` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusquha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusquhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusquqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusqusa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractusquta` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutada` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutadq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutaha` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutahq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutaqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutasa` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutasq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutata` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutauda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutaudq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutauha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutauhq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutauqq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutausa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__satfractutausq` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__splitstack_find` | Miscellaneous routines
| `__ssaddda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssadddq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssaddha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssaddhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssaddqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssaddsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssaddsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssaddta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssashlda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssashldq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssashlha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssashlhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssashlsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssashlsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssashlta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivdq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssdivta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmulda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmuldq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmulha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmulhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmulqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmulsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmulsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssmulta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssnegda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssnegdq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssnegha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssneghq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssnegqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssnegsa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssnegsq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ssnegta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubdq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__sssubta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subdf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__subdq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subsa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subsf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__subsq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subtf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__subuda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subudq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subuha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subuhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subuqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subuta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__subvdi3` | Integer library routines
| `__subvsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__subxf3` | Soft float library routines
| `__truncdfsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__trunctfdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__trunctfsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__truncxfdf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__truncxfsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__ucmpdi2` | Integer library routines
| `__ucmpti2` | Integer library routines
| `__udivdi3` | Integer library routines
| `__udivmoddi4` | Integer library routines
| `__udivmodti4` | Integer library routines
| `__udivsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__udivti3` | Integer library routines
| `__udivuda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__udivudq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__udivuha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__udivuhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__udivuqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__udivusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__udivusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__udivuta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__umoddi3` | Integer library routines
| `__umodsi3` | Integer library routines
| `__umodti3` | Integer library routines
| `__unorddf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__unordsf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__unordtf2` | Soft float library routines
| `__usadduda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usaddudq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usadduha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usadduhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usadduqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usaddusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usaddusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usadduta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashluda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashludq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashluha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashluhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashluqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashlusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashlusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usashluta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivuda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivudq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivuha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivuhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivuqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usdivuta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmuluda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmuludq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmuluha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmuluhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmuluqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmulusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmulusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usmuluta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usneguda2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usnegudq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usneguha2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usneguhq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usneguqq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usnegusa2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usnegusq2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__usneguta2` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubuda3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubudq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubuha3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubuhq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubuqq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubusa3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubusq3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `__ussubuta3` | Fixed-point fractional library routines
-
| `-fsection-anchors` | Special Accessors
| `-fsection-anchors` | Anchored Addresses
!
| ‘`!`’ in constraint | Multi-Alternative
?
| ‘`?`’ in constraint | Multi-Alternative
"
| “real” instructions, RTL SSA | RTL SSA Basic Blocks
(
| `(gimple_stmt_iterator` | GIMPLE API
| (nil) | RTL Objects
@
| ‘`@`’ in instruction pattern names | Parameterized Names
*
| ‘`*`’ in constraint | Modifiers
| `*` in template | Output Statement
| `*gimple_build_asm_vec` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `*gimple_build_assign` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `*gimple_build_assign` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `*gimple_build_assign` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `*gimple_build_assign` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `*gimple_build_bind` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `*gimple_build_call` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `*gimple_build_call_from_tree` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `*gimple_build_call_vec` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `*gimple_build_catch` | `GIMPLE_CATCH`
| `*gimple_build_cond` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `*gimple_build_cond_from_tree` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `*gimple_build_debug_bind` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `*gimple_build_eh_filter` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `*gimple_build_goto` | `GIMPLE_GOTO`
| `*gimple_build_label` | `GIMPLE_LABEL`
| `*gimple_build_omp_atomic_load` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD`
| `*gimple_build_omp_atomic_store` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE`
| `*gimple_build_omp_continue` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `*gimple_build_omp_critical` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL`
| `*gimple_build_omp_for` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `*gimple_build_omp_parallel` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `*gimple_build_omp_sections` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `*gimple_build_omp_single` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE`
| `*gimple_build_resx` | `GIMPLE_RESX`
| `*gimple_build_return` | `GIMPLE_RETURN`
| `*gimple_build_switch` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `*gimple_build_try` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
/
| ‘`/c`’ in RTL dump | Flags
| ‘`/f`’ in RTL dump | Flags
| ‘`/i`’ in RTL dump | Flags
| ‘`/j`’ in RTL dump | Flags
| ‘`/s`’ in RTL dump | Flags
| ‘`/u`’ in RTL dump | Flags
| ‘`/v`’ in RTL dump | Flags
\
| \ | Output Template
&
| ‘`&`’ in constraint | Modifiers
#
| ‘`#`’ in constraint | Modifiers
| `#` in template | Output Template
| `#pragma` | Misc
%
| ‘`%`’ in constraint | Modifiers
| % in GTY option | GTY Options
| ‘`%`’ in template | Output Template
^
| ‘`^`’ in constraint | Multi-Alternative
+
| ‘`+`’ in constraint | Modifiers
<
| ‘`<`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
=
| ‘`=`’ in constraint | Modifiers
>
| ‘`>`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
$
| ‘`$`’ in constraint | Multi-Alternative
0
| ‘`0`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
A
| `abort` | Portability
| `abs` | Arithmetic
| `abs` and attributes | Expressions
| `ABS_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `absence_set` | Processor pipeline description
| `absm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| absolute value | Arithmetic
| `ABSU_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| access to operands | Accessors
| access to special operands | Special Accessors
| accessors | Accessors
| `ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS` | Stack Arguments
| `ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS` and stack frames | Function Entry
| `acosm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ADA_LONG_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| Adding a new GIMPLE statement code | Adding a new GIMPLE statement code
| `ADDITIONAL_REGISTER_NAMES` | Instruction Output
| `addm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `addmodecc` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `addptrm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `addr_diff_vec` | Side Effects
| `addr_diff_vec`, length of | Insn Lengths
| `ADDR_EXPR` | Storage References
| `addr_vec` | Side Effects
| `addr_vec`, length of | Insn Lengths
| address constraints | Simple Constraints
| `address_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `address_operand` | Simple Constraints
| addressing modes | Addressing Modes
| `addvm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ADJUST_FIELD_ALIGN` | Storage Layout
| `ADJUST_INSN_LENGTH` | Insn Lengths
| `ADJUST_REG_ALLOC_ORDER` | Allocation Order
| aggregates as return values | Aggregate Return
| alias | Alias analysis
| `ALL_REGS` | Register Classes
| `allocate_stack` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| alternate entry points | Insns
| analyzer | Static Analyzer
| analyzer, debugging | Debugging the Analyzer
| analyzer, internals | Analyzer Internals
| anchored addresses | Anchored Addresses
| `and` | Arithmetic
| `and` and attributes | Expressions
| `and`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `andm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ANNOTATE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| annotations | Annotations
| `APPLY_RESULT_SIZE` | Scalar Return
| `ARG_POINTER_CFA_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `ARG_POINTER_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `ARG_POINTER_REGNUM` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `arg_pointer_rtx` | Frame Registers
| `ARGS_GROW_DOWNWARD` | Frame Layout
| argument passing | Interface
| arguments in registers | Register Arguments
| arguments on stack | Stack Arguments
| arithmetic library | Soft float library routines
| arithmetic shift | Arithmetic
| arithmetic shift with signed saturation | Arithmetic
| arithmetic shift with unsigned saturation | Arithmetic
| `ARITHMETIC_TYPE_P` | Types for C++
| arithmetic, in RTL | Arithmetic
| array | Types
| `ARRAY_RANGE_REF` | Storage References
| `ARRAY_REF` | Storage References
| `ARRAY_TYPE` | Types
| `AS_NEEDS_DASH_FOR_PIPED_INPUT` | Driver
| `ashift` | Arithmetic
| `ashift` and attributes | Expressions
| `ashiftrt` | Arithmetic
| `ashiftrt` and attributes | Expressions
| `ashlm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ashrm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `asinm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ASM_APP_OFF` | File Framework
| `ASM_APP_ON` | File Framework
| `ASM_COMMENT_START` | File Framework
| `ASM_DECLARE_COLD_FUNCTION_NAME` | Label Output
| `ASM_DECLARE_COLD_FUNCTION_SIZE` | Label Output
| `ASM_DECLARE_FUNCTION_NAME` | Label Output
| `ASM_DECLARE_FUNCTION_SIZE` | Label Output
| `ASM_DECLARE_OBJECT_NAME` | Label Output
| `ASM_DECLARE_REGISTER_GLOBAL` | Label Output
| `ASM_FINAL_SPEC` | Driver
| `ASM_FINISH_DECLARE_OBJECT` | Label Output
| `ASM_FORMAT_PRIVATE_NAME` | Label Output
| `asm_fprintf` | Instruction Output
| `ASM_FPRINTF_EXTENSIONS` | Instruction Output
| `ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL` | Label Output
| `asm_input` | Side Effects
| `asm_input` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `ASM_MAYBE_OUTPUT_ENCODED_ADDR_RTX` | Exception Handling
| `ASM_NO_SKIP_IN_TEXT` | Alignment Output
| `asm_noperands` | Insns
| `asm_operands` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `asm_operands`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `asm_operands`, usage | Assembler
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ADDR_DIFF_ELT` | Dispatch Tables
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ADDR_VEC_ELT` | Dispatch Tables
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN` | Alignment Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN_WITH_NOP` | Alignment Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_BSS` | Uninitialized Data
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_COMMON` | Uninitialized Data
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_DECL_COMMON` | Uninitialized Data
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_DECL_LOCAL` | Uninitialized Data
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL` | Uninitialized Data
| `ASM_OUTPUT_ASCII` | Data Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_CASE_END` | Dispatch Tables
| `ASM_OUTPUT_CASE_LABEL` | Dispatch Tables
| `ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON` | Uninitialized Data
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DEBUG_LABEL` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF_FROM_DECLS` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_DATAREL` | DWARF
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_DELTA` | DWARF
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_OFFSET` | DWARF
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_PCREL` | DWARF
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_TABLE_REF` | DWARF
| `ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_VMS_DELTA` | DWARF
| `ASM_OUTPUT_EXTERNAL` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_FDESC` | Data Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_FUNCTION_LABEL` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_INTERNAL_LABEL` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL_REF` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_LOCAL` | Uninitialized Data
| `ASM_OUTPUT_MAX_SKIP_ALIGN` | Alignment Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_OPCODE` | Instruction Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_POOL_EPILOGUE` | Data Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_POOL_PROLOGUE` | Data Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_REG_POP` | Instruction Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_REG_PUSH` | Instruction Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_SIZE_DIRECTIVE` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_SKIP` | Alignment Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_SOURCE_FILENAME` | File Framework
| `ASM_OUTPUT_SPECIAL_POOL_ENTRY` | Data Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_SYMBOL_REF` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_TYPE_DIRECTIVE` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_WEAK_ALIAS` | Label Output
| `ASM_OUTPUT_WEAKREF` | Label Output
| `ASM_PREFERRED_EH_DATA_FORMAT` | Exception Handling
| `ASM_SPEC` | Driver
| `ASM_WEAKEN_DECL` | Label Output
| `ASM_WEAKEN_LABEL` | Label Output
| `assemble_name` | Label Output
| `assemble_name_raw` | Label Output
| assembler format | File Framework
| assembler instructions in RTL | Assembler
| `ASSEMBLER_DIALECT` | Instruction Output
| assigning attribute values to insns | Tagging Insns
| `ASSUME_EXTENDED_UNWIND_CONTEXT` | Frame Registers
| asterisk in template | Output Statement
| `atan2m3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atanm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic` | GTY Options
| `atomic_add_fetch_cmp_0mode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_add_fetchmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_addmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_and_fetch_cmp_0mode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_and_fetchmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_andmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_bit_test_and_complementmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_bit_test_and_resetmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_bit_test_and_setmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_compare_and_swapmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_exchangemode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_fetch_addmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_fetch_andmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_fetch_nandmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_fetch_ormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_fetch_submode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_fetch_xormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_loadmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_nand_fetchmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_nandmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_or_fetch_cmp_0mode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_or_fetchmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_ormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_storemode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_sub_fetch_cmp_0mode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_sub_fetchmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_submode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_test_and_set` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_xor_fetch_cmp_0mode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_xor_fetchmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `atomic_xormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `attr` | Expressions
| `attr` | Tagging Insns
| `attr_flag` | Expressions
| attribute expressions | Expressions
| attribute specifications | Attr Example
| attribute specifications example | Attr Example
| `ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED_VALUE` | Storage Layout
| attributes | Attributes
| attributes, defining | Defining Attributes
| attributes, target-specific | Target Attributes
| autoincrement addressing, availability | Portability
| autoincrement/decrement addressing | Simple Constraints
| `automata_option` | Processor pipeline description
| automaton based pipeline description | Processor pipeline description
| automaton based pipeline description | Processor pipeline description
| automaton based scheduler | Processor pipeline description
| `avgm3_ceil` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `avgm3_floor` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `AVOID_CCMODE_COPIES` | Values in Registers
B
| backslash | Output Template
| `barrier` | Insns
| `barrier` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `barrier` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `BASE_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| basic block | Basic Blocks
| basic blocks, RTL SSA | RTL SSA Basic Blocks
| Basic Statements | Basic Statements
| `basic_block` | RTL SSA Basic Blocks
| `basic_block` | Basic Blocks
| `BASIC_BLOCK` | Basic Blocks
| `basic-block.h` | Control Flow
| `BB_HEAD, BB_END` | Maintaining the CFG
| `bb_seq` | GIMPLE sequences
| `BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `BIGGEST_FIELD_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `BImode` | Machine Modes
| `BIND_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `BINFO_TYPE` | Classes
| `BIT_AND_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `BIT_IOR_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `BIT_NOT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `BIT_XOR_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| bit-fields | Bit-Fields
| `BITFIELD_NBYTES_LIMITED` | Storage Layout
| `BITINT_TYPE` | Types
| `bitreverse` | Arithmetic
| `BITS_BIG_ENDIAN` | Storage Layout
| `BITS_BIG_ENDIAN`, effect on `sign_extract` | Bit-Fields
| `BITS_PER_UNIT` | Machine Modes
| `BITS_PER_WORD` | Storage Layout
| bitwise complement | Arithmetic
| bitwise exclusive-or | Arithmetic
| bitwise inclusive-or | Arithmetic
| bitwise logical-and | Arithmetic
| `BLKmode` | Machine Modes
| `BLKmode`, and function return values | Calls
| `BLOCK_FOR_INSN, gimple_bb` | Maintaining the CFG
| `BLOCK_REG_PADDING` | Register Arguments
| `blockage` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| Blocks | Blocks
| `BND32mode` | Machine Modes
| `BND64mode` | Machine Modes
| `bool` | Misc
| `BOOL_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `BOOLEAN_TYPE` | Types
| branch prediction | Profile information
| `BRANCH_COST` | Costs
| `break_out_memory_refs` | Addressing Modes
| `BREAK_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `BSS_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `bswap` | Arithmetic
| `bswapm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `BTF_DEBUGGING_INFO` | BTF Debug
| `btruncm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `build0` | Macros and Functions
| `build1` | Macros and Functions
| `build2` | Macros and Functions
| `build3` | Macros and Functions
| `build4` | Macros and Functions
| `build5` | Macros and Functions
| `build6` | Macros and Functions
| `builtin_longjmp` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `builtin_setjmp_receiver` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `builtin_setjmp_setup` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `byte_mode` | Machine Modes
| `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN` | Storage Layout
| `BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN`, effect on `subreg` | Regs and Memory
C
| C statements for assembler output | Output Statement
| `C_COMMON_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS` | Run-time Target
| `c_register_pragma` | Misc
| `c_register_pragma_with_expansion` | Misc
| `cache` | GTY Options
| `cadd270m3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cadd90m3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `call` | Flags
| `call` | Side Effects
| `call` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `call` usage | Calls
| `CALL_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `call_insn` | Insns
| `call_insn` and ‘`/c`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/i`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/j`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/u`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/u`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/u`’ or ‘`/i`’ | Flags
| `call_insn` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `CALL_INSN_FUNCTION_USAGE` | Insns
| `call_pop` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CALL_POPS_ARGS` | Stack Arguments
| `CALL_REALLY_USED_REGISTERS` | Register Basics
| `CALL_USED_REGISTERS` | Register Basics
| `call_used_regs` | Register Basics
| `call_value` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `call_value_pop` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| call-clobbered register | Register Basics
| call-clobbered register | Register Basics
| call-clobbered register | Register Basics
| call-clobbered register | Register Basics
| call-saved register | Register Basics
| call-saved register | Register Basics
| call-saved register | Register Basics
| call-saved register | Register Basics
| call-used register | Register Basics
| call-used register | Register Basics
| call-used register | Register Basics
| call-used register | Register Basics
| `call`, in `call_insn` | Flags
| `call`, in `mem` | Flags
| `callback` | GTY Options
| calling conventions | Stack and Calling
| calling functions in RTL | Calls
| `can_create_pseudo_p` | Standard Names
| `can_fallthru` | Basic Blocks
| canadian | Configure Terms
| canonicalization of instructions | Insn Canonicalizations
| `canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| caret | Multi-Alternative
| caret | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| `CASE_VECTOR_MODE` | Misc
| `CASE_VECTOR_PC_RELATIVE` | Misc
| `CASE_VECTOR_SHORTEN_MODE` | Misc
| `casesi` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cbranchmode4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CC1_SPEC` | Driver
| `CC1PLUS_SPEC` | Driver
| `CCmode` | Machine Modes
| `CCmode` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `CDImode` | Machine Modes
| `CEIL_DIV_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `CEIL_MOD_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `ceilm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CFA_FRAME_BASE_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| CFG verification | Maintaining the CFG
| CFG, Control Flow Graph | Control Flow
| `cfghooks.h` | Maintaining the CFG
| `cgraph_finalize_function` | Parsing pass
| `chain_circular` | GTY Options
| `chain_next` | GTY Options
| `chain_prev` | GTY Options
| `change_address` | Standard Names
| `CHAR_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `check_raw_ptrsm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `check_stack` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `check_war_ptrsm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CHImode` | Machine Modes
| class definitions, register | Register Classes
| class preference constraints | Class Preferences
| `CLASS_MAX_NREGS` | Register Classes
| `CLASS_TYPE_P` | Types for C++
| class, scope | Classes
| classes of RTX codes | RTL Classes
| `CLASSTYPE_DECLARED_CLASS` | Classes
| `CLASSTYPE_HAS_MUTABLE` | Classes
| `CLASSTYPE_NON_POD_P` | Classes
| `CLEANUP_DECL` | Statements for C and C++
| `CLEANUP_EXPR` | Statements for C and C++
| `CLEANUP_POINT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `CLEANUP_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| Cleanups | Cleanups
| `clear_cache` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CLEAR_INSN_CACHE` | Trampolines
| `CLEAR_RATIO` | Costs
| `clobber` | Side Effects
| `clrsb` | Arithmetic
| `clrsbm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `clz` | Arithmetic
| `CLZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO` | Misc
| `clzm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmla_conjm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmlam4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmls_conjm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmlsm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmpmemm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmpstrm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmpstrnm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmul_conjm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cmulm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| code generation RTL sequences | Expander Definitions
| code iterators in `.md` files | Code Iterators
| `code_label` | Insns
| `CODE_LABEL` | Basic Blocks
| `code_label` and ‘`/i`’ | Flags
| `code_label` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `CODE_LABEL_NUMBER` | Insns
| codes, RTL expression | RTL Objects
| `COImode` | Machine Modes
| `COLLECT_EXPORT_LIST` | Misc
| `COLLECT_SHARED_FINI_FUNC` | Macros for Initialization
| `COLLECT_SHARED_INIT_FUNC` | Macros for Initialization
| `COLLECT2_HOST_INITIALIZATION` | Host Misc
| command-line options, guidelines for | Guidelines for Options
| `commit_edge_insertions` | Maintaining the CFG
| compact syntax | Compact Syntax
| `compare` | Arithmetic
| `COMPARE_MAX_PIECES` | Costs
| `compare`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `comparison_operator` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| compiler passes and files | Passes
| complement, bitwise | Arithmetic
| `COMPLEX_CST` | Constant expressions
| `COMPLEX_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `complex_mode` | Machine Modes
| `COMPLEX_TYPE` | Types
| `COMPONENT_REF` | Storage References
| Compound Expressions | Compound Expressions
| Compound Lvalues | Compound Lvalues
| `COMPOUND_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR_DECL` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR_DECL_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| computed jump | Edges
| computing the length of an insn | Insn Lengths
| `concat` | Regs and Memory
| `concatn` | Regs and Memory
| `cond` | Comparisons
| `cond` and attributes | Expressions
| `cond_addmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_andmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_ashlmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_ashrmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_copysignmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_divmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_exec` | Side Effects
| `COND_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `cond_fmamode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_fmaxmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_fminmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_fmsmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_fnmamode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_fnmsmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_iormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_addmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_andmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_ashlmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_ashrmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_copysignmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_divmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_fmamode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_fmaxmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_fminmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_fmsmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_fnmamode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_fnmsmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_iormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_lshrmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_modmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_mulmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_negmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_one_cmplmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_smaxmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_sminmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_submode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_udivmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_umaxmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_uminmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_umodmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_len_xormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_lshrmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_modmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_mulmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_negmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_one_cmplmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_smaxmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_sminmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_submode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_udivmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_umaxmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_uminmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_umodmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cond_xormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| condition code status | Condition Code
| condition codes | Comparisons
| conditional execution | Conditional Execution
| Conditional Expressions | Conditional Expressions
| conditions, in patterns | Patterns
| configuration file | Filesystem
| configuration file | Host Misc
| configure terms | Configure Terms
| `CONJ_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `const` | Constants
| `CONST_DECL` | Declarations
| `const_double` | Constants
| `CONST_DOUBLE_LOW` | Constants
| `const_double_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `const_double_zero` | Constants
| `const_double`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `const_fixed` | Constants
| `const_int` | Constants
| `const_int` and attribute tests | Expressions
| `const_int` and attributes | Expressions
| `const_int_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `const_int`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `const_poly_int` | Constants
| `const_poly_int`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `const_string` | Constants
| `const_string` and attributes | Expressions
| `const_true_rtx` | Constants
| `const_vector` | Constants
| `const_vector`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `CONST_WIDE_INT` | Constants
| `CONST_WIDE_INT_ELT` | Constants
| `CONST_WIDE_INT_NUNITS` | Constants
| `CONST_WIDE_INT_VEC` | Constants
| `const0_rtx` | Constants
| `CONST0_RTX` | Constants
| `const1_rtx` | Constants
| `CONST1_RTX` | Constants
| `const2_rtx` | Constants
| `CONST2_RTX` | Constants
| constant attributes | Constant Attributes
| constant definitions | Constant Definitions
| `CONSTANT_ADDRESS_P` | Addressing Modes
| `CONSTANT_P` | Addressing Modes
| `CONSTANT_POOL_ADDRESS_P` | Flags
| `CONSTANT_POOL_BEFORE_FUNCTION` | Data Output
| constants in constraints | Simple Constraints
| `constm1_rtx` | Constants
| constraint modifier characters | Modifiers
| `constraint_num` | C Constraint Interface
| `constraint_satisfied_p` | C Constraint Interface
| constraint, matching | Simple Constraints
| constraints | Constraints
| constraints, defining | Define Constraints
| constraints, machine specific | Machine Constraints
| constraints, testing | C Constraint Interface
| `CONSTRUCTOR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| constructors, automatic calls | Collect2
| constructors, output of | Initialization
| container | Containers
| `CONTINUE_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| contributors | Contributors
| controlling register usage | Register Basics
| controlling the compilation driver | Driver
| conventions, run-time | Interface
| conversions | Conversions
| `CONVERT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `copy_rtx` | Addressing Modes
| `copy_rtx_if_shared` | Sharing
| `copysign` | Arithmetic
| `copysignm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `cosm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| costs of instructions | Costs
| `CP_INTEGRAL_TYPE` | Types for C++
| `cp_namespace_decls` | Namespaces
| `CP_TYPE_CONST_NON_VOLATILE_P` | Types for C++
| `CP_TYPE_CONST_P` | Types for C++
| `cp_type_quals` | Types for C++
| `cp_type_quals` | Types for C++
| `CP_TYPE_RESTRICT_P` | Types for C++
| `CP_TYPE_VOLATILE_P` | Types for C++
| `CPLUSPLUS_CPP_SPEC` | Driver
| `CPP_SPEC` | Driver
| `CPSImode` | Machine Modes
| `cpymemm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CQImode` | Machine Modes
| cross compilation and floating point | Floating Point
| `CROSSING_JUMP_P` | Flags
| `CRT_CALL_STATIC_FUNCTION` | Sections
| `crtl->args.pops_args` | Function Entry
| `crtl->args.pretend_args_size` | Function Entry
| `crtl->outgoing_args_size` | Stack Arguments
| `CRTSTUFF_T_CFLAGS` | Target Fragment
| `CRTSTUFF_T_CFLAGS_S` | Target Fragment
| `CSImode` | Machine Modes
| `cstoremode4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CTF_DEBUGGING_INFO` | CTF Debug
| `CTImode` | Machine Modes
| `ctrapMM4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ctz` | Arithmetic
| `CTZ_DEFINED_VALUE_AT_ZERO` | Misc
| `ctzm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `CUMULATIVE_ARGS` | Register Arguments
| `current_function_is_leaf` | Leaf Functions
| `current_function_uses_only_leaf_regs` | Leaf Functions
| `current_insn_predicate` | Conditional Execution
D
| `DAmode` | Machine Modes
| data bypass | Processor pipeline description
| data bypass | Processor pipeline description
| data dependence delays | Processor pipeline description
| Data Dependency Analysis | Dependency analysis
| data structures | Per-Function Data
| `DATA_ABI_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `DATA_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `DBR_OUTPUT_SEQEND` | Instruction Output
| `dbr_sequence_length` | Instruction Output
| `DCmode` | Machine Modes
| `DDmode` | Machine Modes
| De Morgan’s law | Insn Canonicalizations
| `dead_or_set_p` | define_peephole
| `debug_expr` | Debug Information
| `DEBUG_EXPR_DECL` | Declarations
| `debug_implicit_ptr` | Debug Information
| `debug_insn` | Insns
| `debug_marker` | Debug Information
| `debug_parameter_ref` | Debug Information
| `DEBUGGER_ARG_OFFSET` | All Debuggers
| `DEBUGGER_AUTO_OFFSET` | All Debuggers
| `DEBUGGER_REGNO` | All Debuggers
| decimal float library | Decimal float library routines
| `DECL_ALIGN` | Declarations
| `DECL_ANTICIPATED` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_ARGUMENTS` | Function Basics
| `DECL_ARRAY_DELETE_OPERATOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_ARTIFICIAL` | Working with declarations
| `DECL_ARTIFICIAL` | Function Basics
| `DECL_ARTIFICIAL` | Function Properties
| `DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` | Function Basics
| `DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` | Function Basics
| `DECL_ATTRIBUTES` | Attributes
| `DECL_BASE_CONSTRUCTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_COMPLETE_CONSTRUCTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_COMPLETE_DESTRUCTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_CONST_MEMFUNC_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_CONSTRUCTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_CONTEXT` | Namespaces
| `DECL_CONV_FN_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_COPY_CONSTRUCTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_DESTRUCTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_EXTERN_C_FUNCTION_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_EXTERNAL` | Declarations
| `DECL_EXTERNAL` | Function Properties
| `DECL_FUNCTION_MEMBER_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_OPTIMIZATION` | Function Basics
| `DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_OPTIMIZATION` | Function Properties
| `DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_TARGET` | Function Basics
| `DECL_FUNCTION_SPECIFIC_TARGET` | Function Properties
| `DECL_GLOBAL_CTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_GLOBAL_DTOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_INITIAL` | Declarations
| `DECL_INITIAL` | Function Basics
| `DECL_LINKONCE_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_LOCAL_FUNCTION_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_MAIN_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_NAME` | Working with declarations
| `DECL_NAME` | Function Basics
| `DECL_NAME` | Function Basics
| `DECL_NAME` | Namespaces
| `DECL_NAMESPACE_ALIAS` | Namespaces
| `DECL_NAMESPACE_STD_P` | Namespaces
| `DECL_NON_THUNK_FUNCTION_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_NONCONVERTING_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_NONSTATIC_MEMBER_FUNCTION_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_PURE_P` | Function Properties
| `DECL_RESULT` | Function Basics
| `DECL_SAVED_TREE` | Function Basics
| `DECL_SIZE` | Declarations
| `DECL_STATIC_FUNCTION_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `DECL_STMT_DECL` | Statements for C and C++
| `DECL_THUNK_P` | Functions for C++
| `DECL_VIRTUAL_P` | Function Properties
| `DECL_VOLATILE_MEMFUNC_P` | Functions for C++
| declaration | Declarations
| declarations, RTL | RTL Declarations
| `DECLARE_LIBRARY_RENAMES` | Library Calls
| `default` | GTY Options
| `default_file_start` | File Framework
| `DEFAULT_GDB_EXTENSIONS` | All Debuggers
| `DEFAULT_INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN` | Aggregate Return
| `DEFAULT_SIGNED_CHAR` | Type Layout
| `define_address_constraint` | Define Constraints
| `define_asm_attributes` | Tagging Insns
| `define_attr` | Defining Attributes
| `define_automaton` | Processor pipeline description
| `define_bypass` | Processor pipeline description
| `define_c_enum` | Constant Definitions
| `define_code_attr` | Code Iterators
| `define_code_iterator` | Code Iterators
| `define_cond_exec` | Conditional Execution
| `define_constants` | Constant Definitions
| `define_constraint` | Define Constraints
| `define_cpu_unit` | Processor pipeline description
| `define_delay` | Delay Slots
| `define_enum` | Constant Definitions
| `define_enum_attr` | Defining Attributes
| `define_enum_attr` | Constant Definitions
| `define_expand` | Expander Definitions
| `define_insn` | Patterns
| `define_insn` example | Example
| `define_insn_and_rewrite` | Insn Splitting
| `define_insn_and_split` | Insn Splitting
| `define_insn_reservation` | Processor pipeline description
| `define_int_attr` | Int Iterators
| `define_int_iterator` | Int Iterators
| `define_memory_constraint` | Define Constraints
| `define_mode_attr` | Substitutions
| `define_mode_iterator` | Defining Mode Iterators
| `define_peephole` | define_peephole
| `define_peephole2` | define_peephole2
| `define_predicate` | Defining Predicates
| `define_query_cpu_unit` | Processor pipeline description
| `define_register_constraint` | Define Constraints
| `define_relaxed_memory_constraint` | Define Constraints
| `define_reservation` | Processor pipeline description
| `define_special_memory_constraint` | Define Constraints
| `define_special_predicate` | Defining Predicates
| `define_split` | Insn Splitting
| define_subst | Define Subst
| define_subst | Define Subst Example
| define_subst | Define Subst Pattern Matching
| define_subst | Define Subst Output Template
| `define_subst` | Define Subst
| `define_subst` | Subst Iterators
| `define_subst_attr` | Subst Iterators
| `define_subst_attr` | Subst Iterators
| defining attributes and their values | Defining Attributes
| defining constraints | Define Constraints
| defining jump instruction patterns | Jump Patterns
| defining looping instruction patterns | Looping Patterns
| defining peephole optimizers | Peephole Definitions
| defining predicates | Defining Predicates
| defining RTL sequences for code generation | Expander Definitions
| degenerate phi node, RTL SSA | RTL SSA Access Lists
| delay slots, defining | Delay Slots
| `deletable` | GTY Options
| `DELETE_IF_ORDINARY` | Filesystem
| Dependent Patterns | Dependent Patterns
| `desc` | GTY Options
| descriptors for nested functions | Trampolines
| destructors, output of | Initialization
| deterministic finite state automaton | Processor pipeline description
| deterministic finite state automaton | Processor pipeline description
| `DFmode` | Machine Modes
| diagnostics guidelines, fix-it hints | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| diagnostics, actionable | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| diagnostics, false positive | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| diagnostics, guidelines for | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| diagnostics, locations | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| diagnostics, true positive | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| digits in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `DImode` | Machine Modes
| `DIR_SEPARATOR` | Filesystem
| `DIR_SEPARATOR_2` | Filesystem
| directory options .md | Including Patterns
| disabling certain registers | Register Basics
| dispatch table | Dispatch Tables
| `div` | Arithmetic
| `div` and attributes | Expressions
| division | Arithmetic
| division | Arithmetic
| division | Arithmetic
| `divm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `divmodm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `DO_BODY` | Statements for C and C++
| `DO_COND` | Statements for C and C++
| `DO_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| dollar sign | Multi-Alternative
| `DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS` | Misc
| `doloop_begin` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `doloop_end` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `DONE` | Expander Definitions
| `DONE` | Insn Splitting
| `DONE` | define_peephole2
| `DONT_USE_BUILTIN_SETJMP` | Exception Region Output
| `DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `DQmode` | Machine Modes
| driver | Driver
| `DRIVER_SELF_SPECS` | Driver
| dump examples | Dump examples
| dump setup | Dump setup
| dump types | Dump types
| dump verbosity | Dump output verbosity
| `dump_basic_block` | Dump types
| `dump_generic_expr` | Dump types
| `dump_gimple_stmt` | Dump types
| `dump_printf` | Dump types
| `DUMPFILE_FORMAT` | Filesystem
| `DWARF_ALT_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN` | Frame Layout
| `DWARF_CIE_DATA_ALIGNMENT` | Exception Region Output
| `DWARF_FRAME_REGISTERS` | Frame Registers
| `DWARF_FRAME_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `DWARF_LAZY_REGISTER_VALUE` | Frame Registers
| `DWARF_REG_TO_UNWIND_COLUMN` | Frame Registers
| `DWARF_VERSION_DEFAULT` | Frame Layout
| `DWARF_ZERO_REG` | Frame Layout
| `DWARF2_ASM_LINE_DEBUG_INFO` | DWARF
| `DWARF2_ASM_VIEW_DEBUG_INFO` | DWARF
| `DWARF2_DEBUGGING_INFO` | DWARF
| `DWARF2_FRAME_INFO` | DWARF
| `DWARF2_FRAME_REG_OUT` | Frame Registers
| `DWARF2_UNWIND_INFO` | Exception Region Output
| `DYNAMIC_CHAIN_ADDRESS` | Frame Layout
E
| ‘`E`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| earlyclobber operand | Modifiers
| `edge` | Edges
| edge in the flow graph | Edges
| edge iterators | Edges
| edge splitting | Maintaining the CFG
| `EDGE_ABNORMAL` | Edges
| `EDGE_ABNORMAL, EDGE_ABNORMAL_CALL` | Edges
| `EDGE_ABNORMAL, EDGE_EH` | Edges
| `EDGE_ABNORMAL, EDGE_SIBCALL` | Edges
| `EDGE_FALLTHRU, force_nonfallthru` | Edges
| `EDOM`, implicit usage | Library Calls
| `EH_FRAME_SECTION_NAME` | Exception Region Output
| `EH_FRAME_THROUGH_COLLECT2` | Exception Region Output
| `eh_return` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `EH_RETURN_DATA_REGNO` | Exception Handling
| `EH_RETURN_HANDLER_RTX` | Exception Handling
| `EH_RETURN_STACKADJ_RTX` | Exception Handling
| `EH_RETURN_TAKEN_RTX` | Exception Handling
| `EH_TABLES_CAN_BE_READ_ONLY` | Exception Region Output
| `EH_USES` | Function Entry
| `ei_edge` | Edges
| `ei_end_p` | Edges
| `ei_last` | Edges
| `ei_next` | Edges
| `ei_one_before_end_p` | Edges
| `ei_prev` | Edges
| `ei_safe_edge` | Edges
| `ei_start` | Edges
| `ELIMINABLE_REGS` | Elimination
| `ELSE_CLAUSE` | Statements for C and C++
| Embedded C | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| Empty Statements | Empty Statements
| `EMPTY_CLASS_EXPR` | Statements for C and C++
| `EMPTY_FIELD_BOUNDARY` | Storage Layout
| Emulated TLS | Emulated TLS
| enabled | Disable Insn Alternatives
| `ENDFILE_SPEC` | Driver
| endianness | Portability
| `ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR, EXIT_BLOCK_PTR` | Basic Blocks
| `entry_value` | Debug Information
| `enum reg_class` | Register Classes
| `ENUMERAL_TYPE` | Types
| enumerations | Constant Definitions
| epilogue | Function Entry
| `epilogue` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `EPILOGUE_USES` | Function Entry
| `eq` | Comparisons
| `eq` and attributes | Expressions
| `eq_attr` | Expressions
| `EQ_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| equal | Comparisons
| `errno`, implicit usage | Library Calls
| `EXACT_DIV_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| examining SSA_NAMEs | SSA
| exception handling | Edges
| exception handling | Exception Handling
| `exception_receiver` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| exclamation point | Multi-Alternative
| `exclusion_set` | Processor pipeline description
| exclusive-or, bitwise | Arithmetic
| `EXIT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `EXIT_IGNORE_STACK` | Function Entry
| `exp10m2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `exp2m2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| expander definitions | Expander Definitions
| `expm1m2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `expm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `EXPR_FILENAME` | Working with declarations
| `EXPR_LINENO` | Working with declarations
| `expr_list` | Insns
| `EXPR_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `EXPR_STMT_EXPR` | Statements for C and C++
| expression | Expression trees
| expression codes | RTL Objects
| extended basic blocks, RTL SSA | RTL SSA Basic Blocks
| `extendmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| extensible constraints | Simple Constraints
| `EXTRA_SPECS` | Driver
| `extract_last_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `extv` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `extvm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `extvmisalignm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `extzv` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `extzvm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `extzvmisalignm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
F
| ‘`F`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `FAIL` | Expander Definitions
| `FAIL` | Insn Splitting
| `FAIL` | define_peephole2
| `fall-thru` | Edges
| false positive | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| `FATAL_EXIT_CODE` | Host Misc
| FDL, GNU Free Documentation License | GNU Free Documentation License
| features, optional, in system conventions | Run-time Target
| `feclearexceptm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fegetroundm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `feraiseexceptm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ffs` | Arithmetic
| `ffsm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `FIELD_DECL` | Declarations
| `file_end_indicate_exec_stack` | File Framework
| files and passes of the compiler | Passes
| files, generated | Files
| `final_absence_set` | Processor pipeline description
| `FINAL_PRESCAN_INSN` | Instruction Output
| `final_presence_set` | Processor pipeline description
| `final_sequence` | Instruction Output
| `FIND_BASE_TERM` | Addressing Modes
| `FINI_ARRAY_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `FINI_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| finite state automaton minimization | Processor pipeline description
| `FIRST_PARM_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `FIRST_PARM_OFFSET` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER` | Register Basics
| `FIRST_STACK_REG` | Stack Registers
| `FIRST_VIRTUAL_REGISTER` | Regs and Memory
| `fix` | Conversions
| `FIX_TRUNC_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `fix_truncmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| fix-it hints | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| fixed register | Register Basics
| `FIXED_CONVERT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `FIXED_CST` | Constant expressions
| `FIXED_POINT_TYPE` | Types
| `FIXED_REGISTERS` | Register Basics
| `fixed_regs` | Register Basics
| `fixed_size_mode` | Machine Modes
| fixed-point fractional library | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `fixmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fixuns_truncmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fixunsmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| flags in RTL expression | Flags
| `float` | Conversions
| `FLOAT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `float_extend` | Conversions
| `FLOAT_LIB_COMPARE_RETURNS_BOOL` | Library Calls
| `FLOAT_STORE_FLAG_VALUE` | Misc
| `float_truncate` | Conversions
| `FLOAT_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` | Storage Layout
| `FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN`, (lack of) effect on `subreg` | Regs and Memory
| floating point and cross compilation | Floating Point
| `floatmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `floatunsmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `FLOOR_DIV_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `FLOOR_MOD_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `floorm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| flow-insensitive alias analysis | Alias analysis
| flow-sensitive alias analysis | Alias analysis
| `fma` | Arithmetic
| `fmam4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fmaxm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fminm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fmodm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fmsm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fnmam4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fnmsm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fold_extract_last_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fold_left_plus_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `FOR_BODY` | Statements for C and C++
| `FOR_COND` | Statements for C and C++
| `FOR_EXPR` | Statements for C and C++
| `FOR_INIT_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `FOR_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `for_user` | GTY Options
| `FORCE_CODE_SECTION_ALIGN` | Sections
| `force_reg` | Standard Names
| `fract_convert` | Conversions
| `FRACT_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| fractional types | Fixed-point fractional library routines
| `fractmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `fractunsmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| frame layout | Frame Layout
| `FRAME_ADDR_RTX` | Frame Layout
| `FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD` | Frame Layout
| `FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `FRAME_POINTER_CFA_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `frame_pointer_needed` | Function Entry
| `FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `frame_pointer_rtx` | Frame Registers
| `frame_related` | Flags
| `frame_related`, in `insn`, `call_insn`, `jump_insn`, `barrier`, and `set` | Flags
| `frame_related`, in `mem` | Flags
| `frame_related`, in `reg` | Flags
| `frame_related`, in `symbol_ref` | Flags
| `frequency, count, BB_FREQ_BASE` | Profile information
| `ftruncm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| function | Functions
| function | Functions for C++
| function call conventions | Interface
| function entry and exit | Function Entry
| function entry point, alternate function entry point | Edges
| function properties | Function Properties
| `FUNCTION_ARG_REGNO_P` | Register Arguments
| `FUNCTION_BOUNDARY` | Storage Layout
| `FUNCTION_DECL` | Functions
| `FUNCTION_DECL` | Functions for C++
| `FUNCTION_MODE` | Misc
| `FUNCTION_PROFILER` | Profiling
| `FUNCTION_TYPE` | Types
| `FUNCTION_VALUE` | Scalar Return
| `FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P` | Scalar Return
| function-call insns | Calls
| functions, leaf | Leaf Functions
| fundamental type | Types
| fused multiply-add | Arithmetic
G
| ‘`G`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| ‘`g`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| garbage collector, invocation | Invoking the garbage collector
| garbage collector, troubleshooting | Troubleshooting
| `gather_loadmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| GCC and portability | Portability
| `GCC_DRIVER_HOST_INITIALIZATION` | Host Misc
| `gcov_type` | Profile information
| `ge` | Comparisons
| `ge` and attributes | Expressions
| `GE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `GEN_ERRNO_RTX` | Library Calls
| `gencodes` | RTL passes
| `general_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `GENERAL_REGS` | Register Classes
| generated files | Files
| generating assembler output | Output Statement
| generating insns | RTL Template
| GENERIC | Parsing pass
| GENERIC | GENERIC
| generic predicates | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `genflags` | RTL passes
| `get_attr` | Expressions
| `get_attr_length` | Insn Lengths
| `GET_CLASS_NARROWEST_MODE` | Machine Modes
| `GET_CODE` | RTL Objects
| `get_insns` | Insns
| `get_last_insn` | Insns
| `GET_MODE` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_ALIGNMENT` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_BITSIZE` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_CLASS` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_FBIT` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_IBIT` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_MASK` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_NAME` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_NUNITS` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_SIZE` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_UNIT_SIZE` | Machine Modes
| `GET_MODE_WIDER_MODE` | Machine Modes
| `GET_RTX_CLASS` | RTL Classes
| `GET_RTX_FORMAT` | RTL Classes
| `GET_RTX_LENGTH` | RTL Classes
| `get_thread_pointermode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `geu` | Comparisons
| `geu` and attributes | Expressions
| GGC | Type Information
| `ggc_collect` | Invoking the garbage collector
| GIMPLE | Parsing pass
| GIMPLE | Gimplification pass
| GIMPLE | GIMPLE
| gimple | Tuple representation
| GIMPLE API | GIMPLE API
| GIMPLE class hierarchy | Class hierarchy of GIMPLE statements
| GIMPLE Exception Handling | GIMPLE Exception Handling
| GIMPLE instruction set | GIMPLE instruction set
| GIMPLE sequences | GIMPLE sequences
| GIMPLE statement iterators | Basic Blocks
| GIMPLE statement iterators | Maintaining the CFG
| `gimple_addresses_taken` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_ASM` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_clobber_op` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_input_op` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_nclobbers` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_ninputs` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_noutputs` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_output_op` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_set_clobber_op` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_set_input_op` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_set_output_op` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_set_volatile` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_string` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `gimple_asm_volatile_p` | `GIMPLE_ASM`
| `GIMPLE_ASSIGN` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_cast_p` | Logical Operators
| `gimple_assign_cast_p` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_lhs` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_lhs_ptr` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs_class` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs_code` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs1` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs1_ptr` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs2` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs2_ptr` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs3` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_rhs3_ptr` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_set_lhs` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_set_rhs1` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_set_rhs2` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_assign_set_rhs3` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimple_bb` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_BIND` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_add_seq` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_add_stmt` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_append_vars` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_block` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_body` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_set_block` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_set_body` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_set_vars` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_bind_vars` | `GIMPLE_BIND`
| `gimple_block` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_build` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_build` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_build` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_build` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_build` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_build` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_build_debug_begin_stmt` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_build_debug_inline_entry` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_build_nop` | `GIMPLE_NOP`
| `gimple_build_omp_master` | `GIMPLE_OMP_MASTER`
| `gimple_build_omp_ordered` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ORDERED`
| `gimple_build_omp_return` | `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN`
| `gimple_build_omp_section` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION`
| `gimple_build_omp_sections_switch` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_build_omp_structured_block` | `GIMPLE_OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK`
| `gimple_build_wce` | `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR`
| `GIMPLE_CALL` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_arg` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_arg_ptr` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_chain` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_copy_skip_args` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_fn` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_fndecl` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_lhs` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_lhs_ptr` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_noreturn_p` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_num_args` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_return_type` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_set_arg` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_set_chain` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_set_fn` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_set_fndecl` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_set_lhs` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_set_tail` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `gimple_call_tail_p` | `GIMPLE_CALL`
| `GIMPLE_CATCH` | `GIMPLE_CATCH`
| `gimple_catch_handler` | `GIMPLE_CATCH`
| `gimple_catch_set_handler` | `GIMPLE_CATCH`
| `gimple_catch_set_types` | `GIMPLE_CATCH`
| `gimple_catch_types` | `GIMPLE_CATCH`
| `gimple_catch_types_ptr` | `GIMPLE_CATCH`
| `gimple_code` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_COND` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_code` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_false_label` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_lhs` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_make_false` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_make_true` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_rhs` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_set_code` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_set_false_label` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_set_lhs` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_set_rhs` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_set_true_label` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_cond_true_label` | `GIMPLE_COND`
| `gimple_convert` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_copy` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_DEBUG` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `GIMPLE_DEBUG_BEGIN_STMT` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_begin_stmt_p` | Logical Operators
| `GIMPLE_DEBUG_BIND` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_bind_get_value` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_bind_get_value_ptr` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_bind_get_var` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_bind_has_value_p` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_bind_p` | Logical Operators
| `gimple_debug_bind_reset_value` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_bind_set_value` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_bind_set_var` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `GIMPLE_DEBUG_INLINE_ENTRY` | `GIMPLE_DEBUG`
| `gimple_debug_inline_entry_p` | Logical Operators
| `gimple_debug_nonbind_marker_p` | Logical Operators
| `gimple_def_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_eh_filter_failure` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_eh_filter_set_failure` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_eh_filter_set_types` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_eh_filter_types` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_eh_filter_types_ptr` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_eh_must_not_throw_fndecl` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_eh_must_not_throw_set_fndecl` | `GIMPLE_EH_FILTER`
| `gimple_expr_code` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_GOTO` | `GIMPLE_GOTO`
| `gimple_goto_dest` | `GIMPLE_GOTO`
| `gimple_goto_set_dest` | `GIMPLE_GOTO`
| `gimple_has_mem_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_has_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_has_volatile_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_LABEL` | `GIMPLE_LABEL`
| `gimple_label_label` | `GIMPLE_LABEL`
| `gimple_label_set_label` | `GIMPLE_LABEL`
| `gimple_loaded_syms` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_locus` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_locus_empty_p` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_modified_p` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_no_warning_p` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_NOP` | `GIMPLE_NOP`
| `gimple_nop_p` | `GIMPLE_NOP`
| `gimple_num_ops` | Logical Operators
| `gimple_num_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD`
| `gimple_omp_atomic_load_lhs` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD`
| `gimple_omp_atomic_load_rhs` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD`
| `gimple_omp_atomic_load_set_lhs` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD`
| `gimple_omp_atomic_load_set_rhs` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_LOAD`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE`
| `gimple_omp_atomic_store_set_val` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE`
| `gimple_omp_atomic_store_val` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ATOMIC_STORE`
| `gimple_omp_body` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `gimple_omp_continue_control_def` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `gimple_omp_continue_control_def_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `gimple_omp_continue_control_use` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `gimple_omp_continue_control_use_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `gimple_omp_continue_set_control_def` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `gimple_omp_continue_set_control_use` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CONTINUE`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL`
| `gimple_omp_critical_name` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL`
| `gimple_omp_critical_name_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL`
| `gimple_omp_critical_set_name` | `GIMPLE_OMP_CRITICAL`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_clauses_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_cond` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_final` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_final_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_incr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_incr_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_index` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_index_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_initial` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_initial_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_pre_body` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_set_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_set_cond` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_set_final` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_set_incr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_set_index` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_set_initial` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `gimple_omp_for_set_pre_body` | `GIMPLE_OMP_FOR`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_MASTER` | `GIMPLE_OMP_MASTER`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_ORDERED` | `GIMPLE_OMP_ORDERED`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_child_fn` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_child_fn_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_clauses_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_combined_p` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_data_arg` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_data_arg_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_set_child_fn` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_set_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_set_combined_p` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `gimple_omp_parallel_set_data_arg` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN` | `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN`
| `gimple_omp_return_nowait_p` | `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN`
| `gimple_omp_return_set_nowait` | `GIMPLE_OMP_RETURN`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION`
| `gimple_omp_section_last_p` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION`
| `gimple_omp_section_set_last` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTION`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_omp_sections_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_omp_sections_clauses_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_omp_sections_control` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_omp_sections_control_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_omp_sections_set_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_omp_sections_set_control` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SECTIONS`
| `gimple_omp_set_body` | `GIMPLE_OMP_PARALLEL`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE`
| `gimple_omp_single_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE`
| `gimple_omp_single_clauses_ptr` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE`
| `gimple_omp_single_set_clauses` | `GIMPLE_OMP_SINGLE`
| `GIMPLE_OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK` | `GIMPLE_OMP_STRUCTURED_BLOCK`
| `gimple_op` | Logical Operators
| `gimple_op` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_op_ptr` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_ops` | Logical Operators
| `gimple_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_PHI` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_phi_arg` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_phi_arg` | SSA
| `gimple_phi_arg_def` | SSA
| `gimple_phi_arg_edge` | SSA
| `gimple_phi_capacity` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_phi_num_args` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_phi_num_args` | SSA
| `gimple_phi_result` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_phi_result` | SSA
| `gimple_phi_result_ptr` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_phi_set_arg` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_phi_set_result` | `GIMPLE_PHI`
| `gimple_plf` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_RESX` | `GIMPLE_RESX`
| `gimple_resx_region` | `GIMPLE_RESX`
| `gimple_resx_set_region` | `GIMPLE_RESX`
| `GIMPLE_RETURN` | `GIMPLE_RETURN`
| `gimple_return_retval` | `GIMPLE_RETURN`
| `gimple_return_set_retval` | `GIMPLE_RETURN`
| `gimple_seq_add_seq` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_add_stmt` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_alloc` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_copy` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_deep_copy` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_empty_p` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_first` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_init` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_last` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_reverse` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_set_first` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_set_last` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_seq_singleton_p` | GIMPLE sequences
| `gimple_set_block` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_def_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_has_volatile_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_locus` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_op` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_plf` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_use_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_vdef_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_visited` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_set_vuse_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_simplify` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_simplify` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_simplify` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_simplify` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_simplify` | GIMPLE API
| `gimple_simplify` | GIMPLE API
| gimple_statement_with_ops | Tuple representation
| `gimple_stored_syms` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `GIMPLE_SWITCH` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_default_label` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_index` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_label` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_num_labels` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_set_default_label` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_set_index` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_set_label` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `gimple_switch_set_num_labels` | `GIMPLE_SWITCH`
| `GIMPLE_TRY` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_try_catch_is_cleanup` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_try_cleanup` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_try_eval` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_try_kind` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_try_set_catch_is_cleanup` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_try_set_cleanup` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_try_set_eval` | `GIMPLE_TRY`
| `gimple_use_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_vdef_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_visited_p` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_vuse_ops` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `gimple_wce_cleanup` | `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR`
| `gimple_wce_cleanup_eh_only` | `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR`
| `gimple_wce_set_cleanup` | `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR`
| `gimple_wce_set_cleanup_eh_only` | `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR`
| `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR` | `GIMPLE_WITH_CLEANUP_EXPR`
| gimplification | Parsing pass
| gimplification | Gimplification pass
| gimplifier | Parsing pass
| `gimplify_assign` | `GIMPLE_ASSIGN`
| `gimplify_expr` | Gimplification pass
| `gimplify_function_tree` | Gimplification pass
| `GLOBAL_INIT_PRIORITY` | Functions for C++
| `global_regs` | Register Basics
| `GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS` | Addressing Modes
| greater than | Comparisons
| greater than | Comparisons
| greater than | Comparisons
| `gsi_after_labels` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_bb` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_commit_edge_inserts` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_commit_edge_inserts` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_commit_one_edge_insert` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_end_p` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_end_p` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_for_stmt` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_insert_after` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_insert_after` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_insert_before` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_insert_before` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_insert_on_edge` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_insert_on_edge` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_insert_on_edge_immediate` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_insert_seq_after` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_insert_seq_before` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_insert_seq_on_edge` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_last` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_last` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_last_bb` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_link_after` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_link_before` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_link_seq_after` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_link_seq_before` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_move_after` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_move_before` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_move_to_bb_end` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_next` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_next` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_one_before_end_p` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_prev` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_prev` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_remove` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_remove` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_replace` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_seq` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_split_seq_after` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_split_seq_before` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_start` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_start` | Maintaining the CFG
| `gsi_start_bb` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_stmt` | Sequence iterators
| `gsi_stmt_ptr` | Sequence iterators
| `gt` | Comparisons
| `gt` and attributes | Expressions
| `GT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `gtu` | Comparisons
| `gtu` and attributes | Expressions
| `GTY` | Type Information
| guidelines for diagnostics | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| guidelines for options | Guidelines for Options
| guidelines, user experience | User Experience Guidelines
H
| ‘`H`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `HAmode` | Machine Modes
| `HANDLE_PRAGMA_PACK_WITH_EXPANSION` | Misc
| `HANDLER` | Statements for C and C++
| `HANDLER_BODY` | Statements for C and C++
| `HANDLER_PARMS` | Statements for C and C++
| hard registers | Regs and Memory
| `HARD_FRAME_POINTER_IS_ARG_POINTER` | Frame Registers
| `HARD_FRAME_POINTER_IS_FRAME_POINTER` | Frame Registers
| `HARD_FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `HARD_REGNO_CALLER_SAVE_MODE` | Caller Saves
| `HARD_REGNO_NREGS_HAS_PADDING` | Values in Registers
| `HARD_REGNO_NREGS_WITH_PADDING` | Values in Registers
| `HARD_REGNO_RENAME_OK` | Values in Registers
| `HAS_INIT_SECTION` | Macros for Initialization
| `HAS_LONG_COND_BRANCH` | Misc
| `HAS_LONG_UNCOND_BRANCH` | Misc
| `HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM` | Filesystem
| `HAVE_POST_DECREMENT` | Addressing Modes
| `HAVE_POST_INCREMENT` | Addressing Modes
| `HAVE_POST_MODIFY_DISP` | Addressing Modes
| `HAVE_POST_MODIFY_REG` | Addressing Modes
| `HAVE_PRE_DECREMENT` | Addressing Modes
| `HAVE_PRE_INCREMENT` | Addressing Modes
| `HAVE_PRE_MODIFY_DISP` | Addressing Modes
| `HAVE_PRE_MODIFY_REG` | Addressing Modes
| `HCmode` | Machine Modes
| `HFmode` | Machine Modes
| `high` | Constants
| high-part multiplication | Arithmetic
| `HImode` | Machine Modes
| `HImode`, in `insn` | Insns
| `HONOR_REG_ALLOC_ORDER` | Allocation Order
| host configuration | Host Config
| host functions | Host Common
| host hooks | Host Common
| host makefile fragment | Host Fragment
| `HOST_BIT_BUCKET` | Filesystem
| `HOST_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX` | Filesystem
| `HOST_HOOKS_EXTRA_SIGNALS` | Host Common
| `HOST_HOOKS_GT_PCH_ALLOC_GRANULARITY` | Host Common
| `HOST_HOOKS_GT_PCH_GET_ADDRESS` | Host Common
| `HOST_HOOKS_GT_PCH_USE_ADDRESS` | Host Common
| `HOST_LACKS_INODE_NUMBERS` | Filesystem
| `HOST_LONG_FORMAT` | Host Misc
| `HOST_LONG_LONG_FORMAT` | Host Misc
| `HOST_OBJECT_SUFFIX` | Filesystem
| `HOST_PTR_PRINTF` | Host Misc
| `HOT_TEXT_SECTION_NAME` | Sections
| `HQmode` | Machine Modes
I
| ‘`i`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| ‘`I`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| identifier | Identifiers
| `IDENTIFIER_LENGTH` | Identifiers
| `IDENTIFIER_NODE` | Identifiers
| `IDENTIFIER_OPNAME_P` | Identifiers
| `IDENTIFIER_POINTER` | Identifiers
| `IDENTIFIER_TYPENAME_P` | Identifiers
| IEEE 754-2008 | Decimal float library routines
| `IF_COND` | Statements for C and C++
| `IF_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `if_then_else` | Comparisons
| `if_then_else` and attributes | Expressions
| `if_then_else` usage | Side Effects
| `IFCVT_MACHDEP_INIT` | Misc
| `IFCVT_MODIFY_CANCEL` | Misc
| `IFCVT_MODIFY_FINAL` | Misc
| `IFCVT_MODIFY_INSN` | Misc
| `IFCVT_MODIFY_MULTIPLE_TESTS` | Misc
| `IFCVT_MODIFY_TESTS` | Misc
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_EVEN` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_HI` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_LO` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_MINUS_ODD` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_EVEN` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_HI` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_LO` | Vectors
| `IFN_VEC_WIDEN_PLUS_ODD` | Vectors
| `IMAGPART_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| Immediate Uses | SSA Operands
| `immediate_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `IMMEDIATE_PREFIX` | Instruction Output
| `in_struct` | Flags
| `in_struct`, in `code_label` and `note` | Flags
| `in_struct`, in `insn` and `jump_insn` and `call_insn` | Flags
| `in_struct`, in `insn`, `call_insn`, `jump_insn` and `jump_table_data` | Flags
| `in_struct`, in `subreg` | Flags
| `include` | Including Patterns
| `INCLUDE_DEFAULTS` | Driver
| inclusive-or, bitwise | Arithmetic
| `INCOMING_FRAME_SP_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `INCOMING_REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` | Stack Arguments
| `INCOMING_REGNO` | Register Basics
| `INCOMING_RETURN_ADDR_RTX` | Frame Layout
| `INCOMING_STACK_BOUNDARY` | Storage Layout
| `INDEX_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `indirect_jump` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `indirect_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `INDIRECT_REF` | Storage References
| `INIT_ARRAY_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `INIT_CUMULATIVE_ARGS` | Register Arguments
| `INIT_CUMULATIVE_INCOMING_ARGS` | Register Arguments
| `INIT_CUMULATIVE_LIBCALL_ARGS` | Register Arguments
| `INIT_ENVIRONMENT` | Driver
| `INIT_EXPANDERS` | Per-Function Data
| `INIT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `init_machine_status` | Per-Function Data
| `init_one_libfunc` | Library Calls
| `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Macros for Initialization
| `INITIAL_ELIMINATION_OFFSET` | Elimination
| `INITIAL_FRAME_ADDRESS_RTX` | Frame Layout
| initialization routines | Initialization
| inlining | Target Attributes
| `insert_insn_on_edge` | Maintaining the CFG
| `insn` | Insns
| `insn` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `insn` and ‘`/j`’ | Flags
| `insn` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `insn` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `insn` and ‘`/u`’ | Flags
| `insn` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| insn attributes | Insn Attributes
| insn canonicalization | Insn Canonicalizations
| insn includes | Including Patterns
| insn lengths, computing | Insn Lengths
| insn notes, notes | Basic Blocks
| insn splitting | Insn Splitting
| `INSN_ANNULLED_BRANCH_P` | Flags
| `INSN_BASE_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `INSN_CODE` | Insns
| `INSN_DELETED_P` | Flags
| `INSN_FROM_TARGET_P` | Flags
| `INSN_INDEX_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `insn_list` | Insns
| `INSN_REFERENCES_ARE_DELAYED` | Misc
| `INSN_SETS_ARE_DELAYED` | Misc
| `INSN_UID` | Insns
| `INSN_VAR_LOCATION` | Insns
| `insn-attr.h` | Defining Attributes
| insns | Insns
| insns, generating | RTL Template
| insns, recognizing | RTL Template
| instruction attributes | Insn Attributes
| instruction latency time | Processor pipeline description
| instruction latency time | Processor pipeline description
| instruction latency time | Processor pipeline description
| instruction patterns | Patterns
| instruction splitting | Insn Splitting
| instructions, RTL SSA | RTL SSA Instructions
| `insv` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `insvm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `insvmisalignm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| int iterators in `.md` files | Int Iterators
| `INT_FAST16_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_FAST32_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_FAST64_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_FAST8_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_LEAST16_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_LEAST32_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_LEAST64_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_LEAST8_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `INT16_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT32_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT64_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INT8_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INTEGER_CST` | Constant expressions
| `INTEGER_TYPE` | Types
| inter-procedural optimization passes | IPA passes
| Interdependence of Patterns | Dependent Patterns
| interfacing to GCC output | Interface
| interlock delays | Processor pipeline description
| intermediate representation lowering | Parsing pass
| `INTMAX_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `INTPTR_TYPE` | Type Layout
| introduction | Top
| `INVOKE__main` | Macros for Initialization
| `ior` | Arithmetic
| `ior` and attributes | Expressions
| `ior`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `iorm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| IPA passes | IPA passes
| `IRA_HARD_REGNO_ADD_COST_MULTIPLIER` | Allocation Order
| `is_a` | Machine Modes
| `IS_ASM_LOGICAL_LINE_SEPARATOR` | Data Output
| `is_gimple_addressable` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_asm_val` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_assign` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_call` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_call_addr` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_constant` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_debug` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_ip_invariant` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_ip_invariant_address` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_mem_ref_addr` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_min_invariant` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_omp` | Logical Operators
| `is_gimple_val` | Logical Operators
| `issignalingm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| iterators in `.md` files | Iterators
| IV analysis on GIMPLE | Scalar evolutions
| IV analysis on RTL | loop-iv
J
| `JMP_BUF_SIZE` | Exception Region Output
| `jump` | Flags
| `jump` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| jump instruction patterns | Jump Patterns
| jump instructions and `set` | Side Effects
| `JUMP_ALIGN` | Alignment Output
| `jump_insn` | Insns
| `jump_insn` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `jump_insn` and ‘`/j`’ | Flags
| `jump_insn` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `jump_insn` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `jump_insn` and ‘`/u`’ | Flags
| `jump_insn` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `JUMP_LABEL` | Insns
| `jump_table_data` | Insns
| `jump_table_data` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `jump_table_data` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `JUMP_TABLES_IN_TEXT_SECTION` | Sections
| `jump`, in `call_insn` | Flags
| `jump`, in `insn` | Flags
| `jump`, in `mem` | Flags
| Jumps | Jumps
L
| `LABEL_ALIGN` | Alignment Output
| `LABEL_ALIGN_AFTER_BARRIER` | Alignment Output
| `LABEL_ALT_ENTRY_P` | Insns
| `LABEL_ALTERNATE_NAME` | Edges
| `LABEL_DECL` | Declarations
| `LABEL_KIND` | Insns
| `LABEL_NUSES` | Insns
| `LABEL_PRESERVE_P` | Flags
| `label_ref` | Constants
| `label_ref` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `LABEL_REF_NONLOCAL_P` | Flags
| `label_ref`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `lang_hooks.gimplify_expr` | Gimplification pass
| `lang_hooks.parse_file` | Parsing pass
| language-dependent trees | Language-dependent trees
| language-independent intermediate representation | Parsing pass
| large return values | Aggregate Return
| `LAST_STACK_REG` | Stack Registers
| `LAST_VIRTUAL_REGISTER` | Regs and Memory
| late IPA passes | Late IPA passes
| `lceilmn2` | Standard Names
| LCSSA | LCSSA
| `LD_FINI_SWITCH` | Macros for Initialization
| `LD_INIT_SWITCH` | Macros for Initialization
| `LDD_SUFFIX` | Macros for Initialization
| `ldexpm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `le` | Comparisons
| `le` and attributes | Expressions
| `LE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| leaf functions | Leaf Functions
| `leaf_function_p` | Standard Names
| `LEAF_REG_REMAP` | Leaf Functions
| `LEAF_REGISTERS` | Leaf Functions
| left rotate | Arithmetic
| left shift | Arithmetic
| `LEGITIMATE_PIC_OPERAND_P` | PIC
| `LEGITIMIZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS` | Addressing Modes
| `len_fold_extract_last_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `len_load_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `len_store_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `length` | GTY Options
| less than | Comparisons
| less than or equal | Comparisons
| `leu` | Comparisons
| `leu` and attributes | Expressions
| `lfloormn2` | Standard Names
| `LIB_SPEC` | Driver
| `LIB2FUNCS_EXTRA` | Target Fragment
| `LIBCALL_VALUE` | Scalar Return
| `LIBGCC_SPEC` | Driver
| `libgcc.a` | Library Calls
| `LIBGCC2_CFLAGS` | Target Fragment
| `LIBGCC2_GNU_PREFIX` | Type Layout
| `LIBGCC2_UNWIND_ATTRIBUTE` | Misc
| library subroutine names | Library Calls
| `LIBRARY_PATH_ENV` | Misc
| `LIMIT_RELOAD_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `LINK_COMMAND_SPEC` | Driver
| `LINK_EH_SPEC` | Driver
| `LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC` | Driver
| `LINK_LIBGCC_SPECIAL_1` | Driver
| `LINK_SPEC` | Driver
| list | Containers
| Liveness representation | Liveness information
| `lo_sum` | Arithmetic
| load address instruction | Simple Constraints
| `LOAD_EXTEND_OP` | Misc
| `load_multiple` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| Local Register Allocator (LRA) | RTL passes
| `LOCAL_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `LOCAL_CLASS_P` | Classes
| `LOCAL_DECL_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR` | Driver
| `LOCAL_LABEL_PREFIX` | Instruction Output
| `LOCAL_REGNO` | Register Basics
| location information | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| `log10m2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `log1pm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `log2m2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `logbm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| Logical Operators | Logical Operators
| `LOGICAL_OP_NON_SHORT_CIRCUIT` | Costs
| logical-and, bitwise | Arithmetic
| `logm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `LONG_ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `LONG_FRACT_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `LONG_LONG_ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `LONG_LONG_FRACT_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `LONG_LONG_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `LONG_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `longjmp` and automatic variables | Interface
| Loop analysis | Loop representation
| Loop manipulation | Loop manipulation
| Loop querying | Loop querying
| Loop representation | Loop representation
| `LOOP_ALIGN` | Alignment Output
| `LOOP_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| Loop-closed SSA form | LCSSA
| looping instruction patterns | Looping Patterns
| lowering, language-dependent intermediate representation | Parsing pass
| `lrintmn2` | Standard Names
| `LROTATE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `lroundmn2` | Standard Names
| `LSHIFT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `lshiftrt` | Arithmetic
| `lshiftrt` and attributes | Expressions
| `lshrm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `lt` | Comparisons
| `lt` and attributes | Expressions
| `LT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `LTGT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| lto | LTO
| ltrans | LTO
| `ltu` | Comparisons
M
| ‘`m`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `MACH_DEP_SECTION_ASM_FLAG` | Sections
| machine attributes | Target Attributes
| machine description macros | Target Macros
| machine descriptions | Machine Desc
| machine mode conversions | Conversions
| machine mode wrapper classes | Machine Modes
| machine modes | Machine Modes
| machine specific constraints | Machine Constraints
| `machine_mode` | Machine Modes
| machine-independent predicates | Machine-Independent Predicates
| macros, target description | Target Macros
| `maddmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `MAKE_DECL_ONE_ONLY` | Label Output
| `make_safe_from` | Expander Definitions
| makefile fragment | Fragments
| makefile targets | Makefile
| `MALLOC_ABI_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| Manipulating GIMPLE statements | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| marking roots | GGC Roots
| `mask_fold_left_plus_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mask_gather_loadmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mask_len_fold_left_plus_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mask_len_gather_loadmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mask_len_loadmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mask_len_scatter_storemn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mask_len_storemn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `MASK_RETURN_ADDR` | Exception Region Output
| `mask_scatter_storemn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `maskloadmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `maskstoremn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| Match and Simplify | Match and Simplify
| `match_dup` | RTL Template
| `match_dup` | define_peephole2
| `match_dup` and attributes | Insn Lengths
| `match_op_dup` | RTL Template
| `match_operand` | RTL Template
| `match_operand` and attributes | Expressions
| `match_operator` | RTL Template
| `match_par_dup` | RTL Template
| `match_parallel` | RTL Template
| `match_scratch` | RTL Template
| `match_scratch` | define_peephole2
| `match_test` and attributes | Expressions
| matching constraint | Simple Constraints
| matching operands | Output Template
| math library | Soft float library routines
| `MATH_LIBRARY` | Misc
| math, in RTL | Arithmetic
| `matherr` | Library Calls
| `MAX_BITS_PER_WORD` | Storage Layout
| `MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_INT` | Machine Modes
| `MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_MODE` | Machine Modes
| `MAX_CONDITIONAL_EXECUTE` | Misc
| `MAX_FIXED_MODE_SIZE` | Storage Layout
| `MAX_MOVE_MAX` | Misc
| `MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `MAX_REGS_PER_ADDRESS` | Addressing Modes
| `MAX_STACK_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `maxm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `may_trap_p, tree_could_trap_p` | Edges
| `maybe_undef` | GTY Options
| `mcount` | Profiling
| `MD_EXEC_PREFIX` | Driver
| `MD_FALLBACK_FRAME_STATE_FOR` | Exception Handling
| `MD_HANDLE_UNWABI` | Exception Handling
| `MD_STARTFILE_PREFIX` | Driver
| `MD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_1` | Driver
| `mem` | Regs and Memory
| `mem` and ‘`/c`’ | Flags
| `mem` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `mem` and ‘`/j`’ | Flags
| `mem` and ‘`/u`’ | Flags
| `mem` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `MEM_ADDR_SPACE` | Special Accessors
| `MEM_ALIAS_SET` | Special Accessors
| `MEM_ALIGN` | Special Accessors
| `MEM_EXPR` | Special Accessors
| `MEM_KEEP_ALIAS_SET_P` | Flags
| `MEM_NOTRAP_P` | Flags
| `MEM_OFFSET` | Special Accessors
| `MEM_OFFSET_KNOWN_P` | Special Accessors
| `MEM_POINTER` | Flags
| `MEM_READONLY_P` | Flags
| `MEM_REF` | Storage References
| `MEM_SIZE` | Special Accessors
| `MEM_SIZE_KNOWN_P` | Special Accessors
| `mem_thread_fence` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `MEM_VOLATILE_P` | Flags
| `mem`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| memory model | Memory model
| memory reference, nonoffsettable | Simple Constraints
| memory references in constraints | Simple Constraints
| `memory_barrier` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `memory_blockage` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `MEMORY_MOVE_COST` | Costs
| `memory_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `METHOD_TYPE` | Types
| `MIN_UNITS_PER_WORD` | Storage Layout
| `MINIMUM_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `MINIMUM_ATOMIC_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `minm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `minus` | Arithmetic
| `minus` and attributes | Expressions
| `MINUS_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `minus`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| MIPS coprocessor-definition macros | MIPS Coprocessors
| miscellaneous register hooks | Miscellaneous Register Hooks
| mnemonic attribute | Mnemonic Attribute
| `mod` | Arithmetic
| `mod` and attributes | Expressions
| mode classes | Machine Modes
| mode iterators in `.md` files | Mode Iterators
| mode switching | Mode Switching
| `MODE_ACCUM` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_BASE_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `MODE_BASE_REG_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `MODE_CC` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_CC` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `MODE_CODE_BASE_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `MODE_COMPLEX_FLOAT` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_COMPLEX_INT` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_DECIMAL_FLOAT` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_FLOAT` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_FRACT` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_INT` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_OPAQUE` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_PARTIAL_INT` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_POINTER_BOUNDS` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_RANDOM` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_UACCUM` | Machine Modes
| `MODE_UFRACT` | Machine Modes
| modifiers in constraints | Modifiers
| `MODIFY_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `modm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| modulo scheduling | RTL passes
| `MOVE_MAX` | Misc
| `MOVE_MAX_PIECES` | Costs
| `MOVE_RATIO` | Costs
| `movm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `movmemm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `movmisalignm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `movmodecc` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `movstr` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `movstrictm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `msubmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mulhisi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mulm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mulqihi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mulsidi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `mult` | Arithmetic
| `mult` and attributes | Expressions
| `MULT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `MULT_HIGHPART_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `mult`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `mult`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `MULTIARCH_DIRNAME` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_DEFAULTS` | Driver
| `MULTILIB_DIRNAMES` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_EXCEPTIONS` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_EXTRA_OPTS` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_MATCHES` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_OPTIONS` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_REQUIRED` | Target Fragment
| `MULTILIB_REUSE` | Target Fragment
| multiple alternative constraints | Multi-Alternative
| `MULTIPLE_SYMBOL_SPACES` | Misc
| multiplication | Arithmetic
| multiplication high part | Arithmetic
| multiplication with signed saturation | Arithmetic
| multiplication with unsigned saturation | Arithmetic
| `mulvm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
N
| ‘`n`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `N_REG_CLASSES` | Register Classes
| name | Identifiers
| named address spaces | Named Address Spaces
| named patterns and conditions | Patterns
| names, pattern | Standard Names
| `NAMESPACE_DECL` | Declarations
| `NAMESPACE_DECL` | Namespaces
| namespace, scope | Namespaces
| `NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_COMPONENT` | Driver
| `ne` | Comparisons
| `ne` and attributes | Expressions
| `NE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `nearbyintm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `neg` | Arithmetic
| `neg` and attributes | Expressions
| `neg`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `NEGATE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| negation | Arithmetic
| negation with signed saturation | Arithmetic
| negation with unsigned saturation | Arithmetic
| `negm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `negmodecc` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `negvm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| nested functions, support for | Trampolines
| `nested_ptr` | GTY Options
| `next_bb, prev_bb, FOR_EACH_BB, FOR_ALL_BB` | Basic Blocks
| `NEXT_INSN` | Insns
| `NEXT_OBJC_RUNTIME` | Library Calls
| nil | RTL Objects
| `NM_FLAGS` | Macros for Initialization
| `NO_DOLLAR_IN_LABEL` | Label Output
| `NO_DOT_IN_LABEL` | Label Output
| `NO_FUNCTION_CSE` | Costs
| `NO_PROFILE_COUNTERS` | Profiling
| `NO_REGS` | Register Classes
| `NON_LVALUE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| nondeterministic finite state automaton | Processor pipeline description
| `nonimmediate_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| nonlocal goto handler | Edges
| `nonlocal_goto` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `nonlocal_goto_receiver` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `nonmemory_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| nonoffsettable memory reference | Simple Constraints
| `nop` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `NOP_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| normal predicates | Predicates
| `not` | Arithmetic
| `not` and attributes | Expressions
| not equal | Comparisons
| `not`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `note` | Insns
| `note` and ‘`/i`’ | Flags
| `note` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK` | Basic Blocks
| `NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK` | Basic Blocks
| `NOTE_INSN_BEGIN_STMT` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_BLOCK_BEG` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_BLOCK_END` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_DELETED` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_EH_REGION_BEG` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_EH_REGION_END` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_FUNCTION_BEG` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_INLINE_ENTRY` | Insns
| `NOTE_INSN_VAR_LOCATION` | Insns
| `NOTE_LINE_NUMBER` | Insns
| `NOTE_SOURCE_FILE` | Insns
| `NOTE_VAR_LOCATION` | Insns
| `notmodecc` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `NUM_MACHINE_MODES` | Machine Modes
| `NUM_MODES_FOR_MODE_SWITCHING` | Mode Switching
| `NUM_POLY_INT_COEFFS` | Overview of `poly_int`
| Number of iterations analysis | Number of iterations
O
| ‘`o`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `OACC_CACHE` | OpenACC
| `OACC_DATA` | OpenACC
| `OACC_DECLARE` | OpenACC
| `OACC_ENTER_DATA` | OpenACC
| `OACC_EXIT_DATA` | OpenACC
| `OACC_HOST_DATA` | OpenACC
| `OACC_KERNELS` | OpenACC
| `OACC_LOOP` | OpenACC
| `OACC_PARALLEL` | OpenACC
| `OACC_SERIAL` | OpenACC
| `OACC_UPDATE` | OpenACC
| `OBJC_GEN_METHOD_LABEL` | Label Output
| `OBJC_JBLEN` | Misc
| `OBJECT_FORMAT_COFF` | Macros for Initialization
| `OFFSET_TYPE` | Types
| offsettable address | Simple Constraints
| `OImode` | Machine Modes
| `OMP_ATOMIC` | OpenMP
| `OMP_CLAUSE` | OpenMP
| `OMP_CONTINUE` | OpenMP
| `OMP_CRITICAL` | OpenMP
| `OMP_DISTRIBUTE` | OpenMP
| `OMP_FOR` | OpenMP
| `OMP_LOOP` | OpenMP
| `OMP_MASTER` | OpenMP
| `OMP_ORDERED` | OpenMP
| `OMP_PARALLEL` | OpenMP
| `OMP_RETURN` | OpenMP
| `OMP_SECTION` | OpenMP
| `OMP_SECTIONS` | OpenMP
| `OMP_SIMD` | OpenMP
| `OMP_SINGLE` | OpenMP
| `OMP_TASKLOOP` | OpenMP
| `one_cmplm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `OPAQUE_TYPE` | Types
| operand access | Accessors
| Operand Access Routines | SSA Operands
| operand constraints | Constraints
| Operand Iterators | SSA Operands
| operand predicates | Predicates
| operand substitution | Output Template
| Operands | Operands
| operands | SSA Operands
| `operands` | Patterns
| operator predicates | Predicates
| `opt_mode` | Machine Modes
| ‘`optc-gen.awk`’ | Options
| `OPTGROUP_ALL` | Optimization groups
| `OPTGROUP_INLINE` | Optimization groups
| `OPTGROUP_IPA` | Optimization groups
| `OPTGROUP_LOOP` | Optimization groups
| `OPTGROUP_OMP` | Optimization groups
| `OPTGROUP_OTHER` | Optimization groups
| `OPTGROUP_VEC` | Optimization groups
| optimization dumps | Optimization info
| optimization groups | Optimization groups
| optimization info file names | Dump files and streams
| Optimization infrastructure for GIMPLE | Tree SSA
| `OPTIMIZE_MODE_SWITCHING` | Mode Switching
| option specification files | Options
| `OPTION_DEFAULT_SPECS` | Driver
| optional hardware or system features | Run-time Target
| options, directory search | Including Patterns
| options, guidelines for | Guidelines for Options
| order of register allocation | Allocation Order
| `ordered_comparison_operator` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `ORDERED_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| Ordering of Patterns | Pattern Ordering
| `ORIGINAL_REGNO` | Special Accessors
| other register constraints | Simple Constraints
| `outgoing_args_size` | Stack Arguments
| `OUTGOING_REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` | Stack Arguments
| `OUTGOING_REGNO` | Register Basics
| output of assembler code | File Framework
| output statements | Output Statement
| output templates | Output Template
| `output_asm_insn` | Output Statement
| `OUTPUT_QUOTED_STRING` | File Framework
| `OVERLAPPING_REGISTER_NAMES` | Instruction Output
| `OVERLOAD` | Functions for C++
| `OVERRIDE_ABI_FORMAT` | Register Arguments
| `OVL_CURRENT` | Functions for C++
| `OVL_NEXT` | Functions for C++
P
| ‘`p`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `PAD_VARARGS_DOWN` | Register Arguments
| `parallel` | Side Effects
| parameters, c++ abi | C++ ABI
| parameters, d abi | D Language and ABI
| parameters, miscellaneous | Misc
| parameters, precompiled headers | PCH Target
| parameters, rust abi | Rust Language and ABI
| `parity` | Arithmetic
| `paritym2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `PARM_BOUNDARY` | Storage Layout
| `PARM_DECL` | Declarations
| `PARSE_LDD_OUTPUT` | Macros for Initialization
| pass dumps | Passes
| `pass_duplicate_computed_gotos` | Edges
| passes and files of the compiler | Passes
| passing arguments | Interface
| `PATH_SEPARATOR` | Filesystem
| `PATTERN` | Insns
| pattern conditions | Patterns
| pattern names | Standard Names
| Pattern Ordering | Pattern Ordering
| patterns | Patterns
| `pc` | Regs and Memory
| `pc` and attributes | Insn Lengths
| `PC_REGNUM` | Register Basics
| `pc_rtx` | Regs and Memory
| `pc`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS` | Storage Layout
| `PCC_STATIC_STRUCT_RETURN` | Aggregate Return
| `PDImode` | Machine Modes
| peephole optimization, RTL representation | Side Effects
| peephole optimizer definitions | Peephole Definitions
| per-function data | Per-Function Data
| percent sign | Output Template
| PHI nodes | SSA
| phi nodes, RTL SSA | RTL SSA Phi Nodes
| PIC | PIC
| `PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REG_CALL_CLOBBERED` | PIC
| `PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM` | PIC
| pipeline hazard recognizer | Processor pipeline description
| pipeline hazard recognizer | Processor pipeline description
| Plugins | Plugins
| `plus` | Arithmetic
| `plus` and attributes | Expressions
| `PLUS_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `plus`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `Pmode` | Misc
| `pmode_register_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| pointer | Types
| `POINTER_DIFF_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `POINTER_PLUS_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `POINTER_SIZE` | Storage Layout
| `POINTER_TYPE` | Types
| `POINTERS_EXTEND_UNSIGNED` | Storage Layout
| `poly_int` | poly_int
| `POLY_INT_CST` | Constant expressions
| `poly_int`, invariant range | Overview of `poly_int`
| `poly_int`, main typedefs | Overview of `poly_int`
| `poly_int`, runtime value | Overview of `poly_int`
| `poly_int`, template parameters | Overview of `poly_int`
| `poly_int`, use in target-independent code | Consequences of using `poly_int`
| `poly_int`, use in target-specific code | Consequences of using `poly_int`
| polynomial integers | poly_int
| `pop_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `popcount` | Arithmetic
| `popcountm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `pops_args` | Function Entry
| portability | Portability
| position independent code | PIC
| `post_dec` | Incdec
| `post_inc` | Incdec
| `POST_LINK_SPEC` | Driver
| `post_modify` | Incdec
| `post_order_compute, inverted_post_order_compute, walk_dominator_tree` | Basic Blocks
| `POSTDECREMENT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `POSTINCREMENT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `POWI_MAX_MULTS` | Misc
| `powm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `pragma` | Misc
| `pre_dec` | Incdec
| `PRE_GCC3_DWARF_FRAME_REGISTERS` | Frame Registers
| `pre_inc` | Incdec
| `pre_modify` | Incdec
| `PREDECREMENT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| predefined macros | Run-time Target
| predicates | Predicates
| predicates and machine modes | Predicates
| predication | Conditional Execution
| `predict.def` | Profile information
| `PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE` | All Debuggers
| `PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY` | Storage Layout
| `prefetch` | Side Effects
| `prefetch` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `prefetch` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `PREFETCH_SCHEDULE_BARRIER_P` | Flags
| `PREINCREMENT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `presence_set` | Processor pipeline description
| preserving SSA form | SSA
| `pretend_args_size` | Function Entry
| `prev_active_insn` | define_peephole
| `PREV_INSN` | Insns
| `PRINT_OPERAND` | Instruction Output
| `PRINT_OPERAND_ADDRESS` | Instruction Output
| `PRINT_OPERAND_PUNCT_VALID_P` | Instruction Output
| `probe_stack` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `probe_stack_address` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| processor functional units | Processor pipeline description
| processor functional units | Processor pipeline description
| processor pipeline description | Processor pipeline description
| product | Arithmetic
| profile feedback | Profile information
| profile representation | Profile information
| `PROFILE_BEFORE_PROLOGUE` | Profiling
| `PROFILE_HOOK` | Profiling
| profiling, code generation | Profiling
| program counter | Regs and Memory
| prologue | Function Entry
| `prologue` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `PROMOTE_MODE` | Storage Layout
| pseudo registers | Regs and Memory
| `PSImode` | Machine Modes
| `PTRDIFF_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `purge_dead_edges` | Edges
| `purge_dead_edges` | Maintaining the CFG
| push address instruction | Simple Constraints
| `PUSH_ARGS_REVERSED` | Stack Arguments
| `push_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `push_reload` | Addressing Modes
| `PUSH_ROUNDING` | Stack Arguments
| `pushm1` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `PUT_CODE` | RTL Objects
| `PUT_MODE` | Machine Modes
| `PUT_REG_NOTE_KIND` | Insns
Q
| `QCmode` | Machine Modes
| `QFmode` | Machine Modes
| `QImode` | Machine Modes
| `QImode`, in `insn` | Insns
| `QQmode` | Machine Modes
| qualified type | Types
| qualified type | Types for C++
| querying function unit reservations | Processor pipeline description
| question mark | Multi-Alternative
| quotient | Arithmetic
R
| ‘`r`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `rawmemchrm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `RDIV_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| real operands | SSA Operands
| `REAL_CST` | Constant expressions
| `REAL_LIBGCC_SPEC` | Driver
| `REAL_NM_FILE_NAME` | Macros for Initialization
| `REAL_TYPE` | Types
| `REAL_VALUE_ABS` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_ATOF` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_FIX` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_ISINF` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_ISNAN` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_NEGATE` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_NEGATIVE` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DECIMAL128` | Data Output
| `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DECIMAL32` | Data Output
| `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DECIMAL64` | Data Output
| `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_DOUBLE` | Data Output
| `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_LONG_DOUBLE` | Data Output
| `REAL_VALUE_TO_TARGET_SINGLE` | Data Output
| `REAL_VALUE_TYPE` | Floating Point
| `REAL_VALUE_UNSIGNED_FIX` | Floating Point
| `REALPART_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `recog_data.operand` | Instruction Output
| recognizing insns | RTL Template
| `RECORD_TYPE` | Types
| `RECORD_TYPE` | Classes
| `redirect_edge_and_branch` | Profile information
| `redirect_edge_and_branch, redirect_jump` | Maintaining the CFG
| `reduc_and_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_fmax_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_fmin_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_ior_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_plus_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_smax_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_smin_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_umax_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_umin_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reduc_xor_scal_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| reference | Types
| `REFERENCE_TYPE` | Types
| `reg` | Regs and Memory
| `reg` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `reg` and ‘`/i`’ | Flags
| `reg` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `REG_ALLOC_ORDER` | Allocation Order
| `REG_BR_PRED` | Insns
| `REG_BR_PROB` | Insns
| `REG_BR_PROB_BASE, BB_FREQ_BASE, count` | Profile information
| `REG_BR_PROB_BASE, EDGE_FREQUENCY` | Profile information
| `REG_CALL_NOCF_CHECK` | Insns
| `reg_class_contents` | Register Basics
| `REG_CLASS_CONTENTS` | Register Classes
| `reg_class_for_constraint` | C Constraint Interface
| `REG_CLASS_NAMES` | Register Classes
| `REG_DEAD` | Insns
| `REG_DEAD, REG_UNUSED` | Liveness information
| `REG_DEP_ANTI` | Insns
| `REG_DEP_OUTPUT` | Insns
| `REG_DEP_TRUE` | Insns
| `REG_EH_REGION, EDGE_ABNORMAL_CALL` | Edges
| `REG_EQUAL` | Insns
| `REG_EQUIV` | Insns
| `REG_EXPR` | Special Accessors
| `REG_FRAME_RELATED_EXPR` | Insns
| `REG_FUNCTION_VALUE_P` | Flags
| `REG_INC` | Insns
| `reg_label` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `REG_LABEL_OPERAND` | Insns
| `REG_LABEL_TARGET` | Insns
| `reg_names` | Register Basics
| `reg_names` | Instruction Output
| `REG_NONNEG` | Insns
| `REG_NOTE_KIND` | Insns
| `REG_NOTES` | Insns
| `REG_OFFSET` | Special Accessors
| `REG_OK_STRICT` | Addressing Modes
| `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE` | Stack Arguments
| `REG_PARM_STACK_SPACE`, and `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` | Register Arguments
| `REG_POINTER` | Flags
| `REG_SETJMP` | Insns
| `REG_UNUSED` | Insns
| `REG_USERVAR_P` | Flags
| `REG_VALUE_IN_UNWIND_CONTEXT` | Frame Registers
| `REG_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` | Storage Layout
| `reg`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| register allocation order | Allocation Order
| register class definitions | Register Classes
| register class preference constraints | Class Preferences
| register pairs | Values in Registers
| Register Transfer Language (RTL) | RTL
| register usage | Registers
| `REGISTER_MOVE_COST` | Costs
| `REGISTER_NAMES` | Instruction Output
| `register_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `REGISTER_PREFIX` | Instruction Output
| `REGISTER_TARGET_PRAGMAS` | Misc
| registers arguments | Register Arguments
| registers in constraints | Simple Constraints
| `REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE` | Regs and Memory
| `REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE` | Regs and Memory
| `REGMODE_NATURAL_SIZE` | Values in Registers
| `REGNO_MODE_CODE_OK_FOR_BASE_P` | Register Classes
| `REGNO_MODE_OK_FOR_BASE_P` | Register Classes
| `REGNO_MODE_OK_FOR_REG_BASE_P` | Register Classes
| `REGNO_OK_FOR_BASE_P` | Register Classes
| `REGNO_OK_FOR_INDEX_P` | Register Classes
| `REGNO_OK_FOR_INSN_BASE_P` | Register Classes
| `REGNO_REG_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `regs_ever_live` | Function Entry
| regular expressions | Processor pipeline description
| regular expressions | Processor pipeline description
| regular IPA passes | Regular IPA passes
| relative costs | Costs
| `RELATIVE_PREFIX_NOT_LINKDIR` | Driver
| `reload_completed` | Standard Names
| `reload_in` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reload_in_progress` | Standard Names
| `reload_out` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| reloading | RTL passes
| remainder | Arithmetic
| `remainderm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `reorder` | GTY Options
| representation of RTL | RTL
| reservation delays | Processor pipeline description
| `rest_of_decl_compilation` | Parsing pass
| `rest_of_type_compilation` | Parsing pass
| `restore_stack_block` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `restore_stack_function` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `restore_stack_nonlocal` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `RESULT_DECL` | Declarations
| `return` | Side Effects
| `return` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| return values in registers | Scalar Return
| `RETURN_ADDR_IN_PREVIOUS_FRAME` | Frame Layout
| `RETURN_ADDR_OFFSET` | Exception Handling
| `RETURN_ADDR_RTX` | Frame Layout
| `RETURN_ADDRESS_POINTER_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `RETURN_EXPR` | Statements for C and C++
| `RETURN_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `return_val` | Flags
| `return_val`, in `call_insn` | Flags
| `return_val`, in `reg` | Flags
| `return_val`, in `symbol_ref` | Flags
| returning aggregate values | Aggregate Return
| returning structures and unions | Interface
| reverse postorder | RTL SSA Instructions
| reverse probability | Profile information
| `REVERSE_CONDITION` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `REVERSIBLE_CC_MODE` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| right rotate | Arithmetic
| right shift | Arithmetic
| `rintm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| RISC | Processor pipeline description
| RISC | Processor pipeline description
| roots, marking | GGC Roots
| rotate | Arithmetic
| `rotate` | Arithmetic
| `rotatert` | Arithmetic
| `rotlm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `rotrm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ROUND_DIV_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `ROUND_MOD_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `ROUND_TYPE_ALIGN` | Storage Layout
| `roundm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| RPO | RTL SSA Instructions
| `RROTATE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `RSHIFT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `rsqrtm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| RTL addition | Arithmetic
| RTL addition with signed saturation | Arithmetic
| RTL addition with unsigned saturation | Arithmetic
| RTL classes | RTL Classes
| RTL comparison | Arithmetic
| RTL comparison operations | Comparisons
| RTL constant expression types | Constants
| RTL constants | Constants
| RTL declarations | RTL Declarations
| RTL difference | Arithmetic
| RTL expression | RTL Objects
| RTL expressions for arithmetic | Arithmetic
| RTL format | RTL Classes
| RTL format characters | RTL Classes
| RTL function-call insns | Calls
| RTL insn template | RTL Template
| RTL integers | RTL Objects
| RTL memory expressions | Regs and Memory
| RTL object types | RTL Objects
| RTL postdecrement | Incdec
| RTL postincrement | Incdec
| RTL predecrement | Incdec
| RTL preincrement | Incdec
| RTL register expressions | Regs and Memory
| RTL representation | RTL
| RTL side effect expressions | Side Effects
| RTL SSA | RTL SSA
| RTL strings | RTL Objects
| RTL structure sharing assumptions | Sharing
| RTL subtraction | Arithmetic
| RTL subtraction with signed saturation | Arithmetic
| RTL subtraction with unsigned saturation | Arithmetic
| RTL sum | Arithmetic
| RTL vectors | RTL Objects
| `RTL_CONST_CALL_P` | Flags
| `RTL_CONST_OR_PURE_CALL_P` | Flags
| `RTL_LOOPING_CONST_OR_PURE_CALL_P` | Flags
| `RTL_PURE_CALL_P` | Flags
| `rtl_ssa::access_info` | RTL SSA Accesses
| `rtl_ssa::bb_info` | RTL SSA Basic Blocks
| `rtl_ssa::clobber_info` | RTL SSA Accesses
| `rtl_ssa::def_info` | RTL SSA Accesses
| `rtl_ssa::ebb_info` | RTL SSA Basic Blocks
| `rtl_ssa::insn_change` | Changing RTL Instructions
| `rtl_ssa::insn_info` | RTL SSA Instructions
| `rtl_ssa::phi_info` | RTL SSA Accesses
| `rtl_ssa::phi_info` | RTL SSA Phi Nodes
| `rtl_ssa::set_info` | RTL SSA Accesses
| `rtl_ssa::use_info` | RTL SSA Accesses
| RTX (See RTL) | RTL Objects
| RTX codes, classes of | RTL Classes
| `RTX_FRAME_RELATED_P` | Flags
| run-time conventions | Interface
| run-time target specification | Run-time Target
S
| ‘`s`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `sabdm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SAD_EXPR` | Vectors
| `same_type_p` | Types
| `SAmode` | Machine Modes
| `sat_fract` | Conversions
| `satfractmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `satfractunsmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `satisfies_constraint_m` | C Constraint Interface
| `SAVE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `save_stack_block` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `save_stack_function` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `save_stack_nonlocal` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SBSS_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| Scalar evolutions | Scalar evolutions
| `scalar_float_mode` | Machine Modes
| `scalar_int_mode` | Machine Modes
| `scalar_mode` | Machine Modes
| scalars, returned as values | Scalar Return
| `scalbm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `scatter_storemn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SCHED_GROUP_P` | Flags
| `SCmode` | Machine Modes
| `scratch` | Regs and Memory
| scratch operands | Regs and Memory
| `scratch_operand` | Machine-Independent Predicates
| `scratch`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| `SDATA_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `sdiv_pow2m3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sdiv_pow2m3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SDmode` | Machine Modes
| `sdot_prodm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| search options | Including Patterns
| `SECONDARY_INPUT_RELOAD_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED_RTX` | Register Classes
| `SECONDARY_OUTPUT_RELOAD_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `SECONDARY_RELOAD_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `SELECT_CC_MODE` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `select_vlm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sequence` | Side Effects
| Sequence iterators | Sequence iterators
| `set` | Side Effects
| `set` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `SET_ASM_OP` | Label Output
| `SET_ASM_OP` | Label Output
| `set_attr` | Tagging Insns
| `set_attr_alternative` | Tagging Insns
| `set_bb_seq` | GIMPLE sequences
| `SET_DEST` | Side Effects
| `SET_IS_RETURN_P` | Flags
| `SET_LABEL_KIND` | Insns
| `set_optab_libfunc` | Library Calls
| `SET_RATIO` | Costs
| `SET_SRC` | Side Effects
| `set_thread_pointermode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SET_TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY` | Types
| `SET_TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY` | Types
| `setmemm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SETUP_FRAME_ADDRESSES` | Frame Layout
| `SFmode` | Machine Modes
| sharing of RTL components | Sharing
| shift | Arithmetic
| `SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED` | Misc
| `SHLIB_SUFFIX` | Macros for Initialization
| `SHORT_ACCUM_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `SHORT_FRACT_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `SHORT_IMMEDIATES_SIGN_EXTEND` | Misc
| `SHORT_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| shrink-wrapping separate components | Shrink-wrapping separate components
| `sibcall_epilogue` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| sibling call | Edges
| `SIBLING_CALL_P` | Flags
| `SIG_ATOMIC_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `sign_extend` | Conversions
| `sign_extract` | Bit-Fields
| `sign_extract`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| signal-to-noise ratio (metaphorical usage for diagnostics) | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| `signbitm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| signed division | Arithmetic
| signed division with signed saturation | Arithmetic
| signed maximum | Arithmetic
| signed minimum | Arithmetic
| `significandm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SImode` | Machine Modes
| simple constraints | Simple Constraints
| `simple_return` | Side Effects
| `simple_return` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sincosm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sinm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SIZE_ASM_OP` | Label Output
| `SIZE_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `SIZETYPE` | Type Layout
| `skip` | GTY Options
| `SLOW_BYTE_ACCESS` | Costs
| small IPA passes | Small IPA passes
| `smax` | Arithmetic
| `smin` | Arithmetic
| sms, swing, software pipelining | RTL passes
| `smul_highpart` | Arithmetic
| `smulhrsm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `smulhsm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `smulm3_highpart` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| soft float library | Soft float library routines
| source code, location information | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| `spaceshipm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `special` | GTY Options
| special predicates | Predicates
| `SPECS` | Target Fragment
| `speculation_barrier` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| speed of instructions | Costs
| `split_block` | Maintaining the CFG
| splitting instructions | Insn Splitting
| `SQmode` | Machine Modes
| `sqrt` | Arithmetic
| `sqrtm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| square root | Arithmetic
| `ss_abs` | Arithmetic
| `ss_ashift` | Arithmetic
| `ss_div` | Arithmetic
| `ss_minus` | Arithmetic
| `ss_mult` | Arithmetic
| `ss_neg` | Arithmetic
| `ss_plus` | Arithmetic
| `ss_truncate` | Conversions
| SSA | SSA
| `SSA_NAME_DEF_STMT` | SSA
| `SSA_NAME_VERSION` | SSA
| SSA, RTL form | RTL SSA
| `ssaddm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ssadm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ssashlm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ssdivm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ssmaddmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ssmsubmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ssmulm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `ssnegm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sssubm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| stack arguments | Stack Arguments
| stack frame layout | Frame Layout
| stack smashing protection | Stack Smashing Protection
| `STACK_ADDRESS_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `STACK_ALIGNMENT_NEEDED` | Frame Layout
| `STACK_BOUNDARY` | Storage Layout
| `STACK_CHECK_BUILTIN` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_CHECK_FIXED_FRAME_SIZE` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_CHECK_MAX_FRAME_SIZE` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_CHECK_MAX_VAR_SIZE` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_CHECK_MOVING_SP` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_CHECK_PROBE_INTERVAL_EXP` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_CHECK_PROTECT` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_CHECK_STATIC_BUILTIN` | Stack Checking
| `STACK_DYNAMIC_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `STACK_DYNAMIC_OFFSET` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD` | Frame Layout
| `STACK_PARMS_IN_REG_PARM_AREA` | Stack Arguments
| `STACK_POINTER_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `STACK_POINTER_OFFSET` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `STACK_POINTER_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `STACK_POINTER_REGNUM` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `stack_pointer_rtx` | Frame Registers
| `stack_protect_combined_set` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `stack_protect_combined_test` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `stack_protect_set` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `stack_protect_test` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `STACK_PUSH_CODE` | Frame Layout
| `STACK_REG_COVER_CLASS` | Stack Registers
| `STACK_REGS` | Stack Registers
| `STACK_SAVEAREA_MODE` | Storage Layout
| `STACK_SIZE_MODE` | Storage Layout
| `STACK_SLOT_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| standard pattern names | Standard Names
| `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX` | Driver
| `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_1` | Driver
| `STANDARD_STARTFILE_PREFIX_2` | Driver
| `STARTFILE_SPEC` | Driver
| Statement and operand traversals | Statement and operand traversals
| Statement Sequences | Statement Sequences
| Statements | Statements
| statements | Function Properties
| statements | Statements for C and C++
| static analysis | Static Analyzer
| static analyzer | Static Analyzer
| static analyzer, debugging | Debugging the Analyzer
| static analyzer, internals | Analyzer Internals
| Static profile estimation | Profile information
| static single assignment | SSA
| `STATIC_CHAIN_INCOMING_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `STATIC_CHAIN_REGNUM` | Frame Registers
| `stdarg.h` and register arguments | Register Arguments
| `STDC_0_IN_SYSTEM_HEADERS` | Misc
| `STMT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `STMT_IS_FULL_EXPR_P` | Statements for C and C++
| storage layout | Storage Layout
| `STORE_FLAG_VALUE` | Misc
| `STORE_MAX_PIECES` | Costs
| ‘`store_multiple`’ instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `strcpy` | Storage Layout
| `STRICT_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `strict_low_part` | RTL Declarations
| `strict_memory_address_p` | Addressing Modes
| `STRING_CST` | Constant expressions
| `string_length` | GTY Options
| `STRING_POOL_ADDRESS_P` | Flags
| `strlenm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| structure value address | Aggregate Return
| `STRUCTURE_SIZE_BOUNDARY` | Storage Layout
| structures, returning | Interface
| `subm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SUBOBJECT` | Statements for C and C++
| `SUBOBJECT_CLEANUP` | Statements for C and C++
| `subreg` | Regs and Memory
| `subreg` and ‘`/s`’ | Flags
| `subreg` and ‘`/u`’ | Flags
| `subreg` and ‘`/u`’ and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `SUBREG_BYTE` | Regs and Memory
| `SUBREG_PROMOTED_UNSIGNED_P` | Flags
| `SUBREG_PROMOTED_UNSIGNED_SET` | Flags
| `SUBREG_PROMOTED_VAR_P` | Flags
| `SUBREG_REG` | Regs and Memory
| `subreg`, in `strict_low_part` | RTL Declarations
| subst iterators in `.md` files | Subst Iterators
| `subvm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SUCCESS_EXIT_CODE` | Host Misc
| support for nested functions | Trampolines
| `SUPPORTS_INIT_PRIORITY` | Macros for Initialization
| `SUPPORTS_ONE_ONLY` | Label Output
| `SUPPORTS_WEAK` | Label Output
| `SWITCH_BODY` | Statements for C and C++
| `SWITCH_COND` | Statements for C and C++
| `SWITCH_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `SWITCHABLE_TARGET` | Run-time Target
| `SYMBOL_FLAG_ANCHOR` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_FLAG_EXTERNAL` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_FLAG_FUNCTION` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_FLAG_HAS_BLOCK_INFO` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_FLAG_LOCAL` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_FLAG_SMALL` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_FLAG_TLS_SHIFT` | Special Accessors
| `symbol_ref` | Constants
| `symbol_ref` and ‘`/f`’ | Flags
| `symbol_ref` and ‘`/i`’ | Flags
| `symbol_ref` and ‘`/u`’ | Flags
| `symbol_ref` and ‘`/v`’ | Flags
| `SYMBOL_REF_ANCHOR_P` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_BLOCK_OFFSET` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_CONSTANT` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_DATA` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_DECL` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_EXTERNAL_P` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_FLAG` | Flags
| `SYMBOL_REF_FLAG`, in `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` | Sections
| `SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_FUNCTION_P` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_HAS_BLOCK_INFO_P` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_LOCAL_P` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_SMALL_P` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_TLS_MODEL` | Special Accessors
| `SYMBOL_REF_USED` | Flags
| `SYMBOL_REF_WEAK` | Flags
| `symbol_ref`, RTL sharing | Sharing
| symbolic label | Sharing
| `sync_addmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_andmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_compare_and_swapmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_iormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_lock_releasemode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_lock_test_and_setmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_nandmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_new_addmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_new_andmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_new_iormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_new_nandmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_new_submode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_new_xormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_old_addmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_old_andmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_old_iormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_old_nandmode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_old_submode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_old_xormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_submode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `sync_xormode` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `SYSROOT_HEADERS_SUFFIX_SPEC` | Driver
| `SYSROOT_SUFFIX_SPEC` | Driver
| `SYSTEM_IMPLICIT_EXTERN_C` | Misc
T
| `t-target` | Target Fragment
| table jump | Basic Blocks
| `tablejump` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `tag` | GTY Options
| tagging insns | Tagging Insns
| tail calls | Tail Calls
| `TAmode` | Machine Modes
| `tanm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| target attributes | Target Attributes
| target description macros | Target Macros
| target functions | Target Structure
| target hooks | Target Structure
| target makefile fragment | Target Fragment
| target specifications | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_ABSOLUTE_BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_ADDITIONAL_ALLOCNO_CLASS_P` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_ADDRESS_MODE` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_CONVERT` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_DEBUG` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_DIAGNOSE_USAGE` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_POINTER_MODE` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_SUBSET_P` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_VALID_POINTER_MODE` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_ZERO_ADDRESS_VALID` | Named Address Spaces
| `TARGET_ADDRESS_COST` | Costs
| `TARGET_ALIGN_ANON_BITFIELD` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_ALLOCATE_INITIAL_VALUE` | Misc
| `TARGET_ALLOCATE_STACK_SLOTS_FOR_ARGS` | Misc
| `TARGET_ALWAYS_STRIP_DOTDOT` | Driver
| `TARGET_ARG_PARTIAL_BYTES` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_ARM_EABI_UNWINDER` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_ARRAY_MODE` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_ARRAY_MODE_SUPPORTED_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_ASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET` | Misc
| `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_DI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_HI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_PDI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_PSI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_PTI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_SI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ALIGNED_TI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ASSEMBLE_UNDEFINED_DECL` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_ASSEMBLE_VISIBILITY` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_BYTE_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_CAN_OUTPUT_MI_THUNK` | Function Entry
| `TARGET_ASM_CLOSE_PAREN` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_CODE_END` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_CONSTRUCTOR` | Macros for Initialization
| `TARGET_ASM_DECL_END` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_DECLARE_CONSTANT_NAME` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_DESTRUCTOR` | Macros for Initialization
| `TARGET_ASM_ELF_FLAGS_NUMERIC` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_EMIT_EXCEPT_PERSONALITY` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ASM_EMIT_EXCEPT_TABLE_LABEL` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ASM_EMIT_UNWIND_LABEL` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ASM_EXTERNAL_LIBCALL` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_FILE_END` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_FILE_START` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_FILE_START_APP_OFF` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_FILE_START_FILE_DIRECTIVE` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_FINAL_POSTSCAN_INSN` | Instruction Output
| `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_BEGIN_EPILOGUE` | Function Entry
| `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_END_PROLOGUE` | Function Entry
| `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_EPILOGUE` | Function Entry
| `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_PROLOGUE` | Function Entry
| `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_RODATA_SECTION` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_SECTION` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_SWITCHED_TEXT_SECTIONS` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_GENERATE_PIC_ADDR_DIFF_VEC` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_GLOBALIZE_DECL_NAME` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_GLOBALIZE_LABEL` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_INIT_SECTIONS` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_INTEGER` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_INTERNAL_LABEL` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_LTO_END` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_LTO_START` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_MAKE_EH_SYMBOL_INDIRECT` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ASM_MARK_DECL_PRESERVED` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ASM_MERGEABLE_RODATA_PREFIX` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_NAMED_SECTION` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_OPEN_PAREN` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_ADDR_CONST_EXTRA` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_ANCHOR` | Anchored Addresses
| `TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_DTPREL` | DWARF
| `TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_IDENT` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_MI_THUNK` | Function Entry
| `TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_SOURCE_FILENAME` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_POST_CFI_STARTPROC` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ASM_PRINT_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY` | Function Entry
| `TARGET_ASM_RECORD_GCC_SWITCHES` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_RECORD_GCC_SWITCHES_SECTION` | File Framework
| `TARGET_ASM_RELOC_RW_MASK` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_SELECT_RTX_SECTION` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_SHOULD_RESTORE_CFA_STATE` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ASM_TM_CLONE_TABLE_SECTION` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_TRAMPOLINE_TEMPLATE` | Trampolines
| `TARGET_ASM_TTYPE` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_DI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_HI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_PDI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_PSI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_PTI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_SI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNALIGNED_TI_OP` | Data Output
| `TARGET_ASM_UNIQUE_SECTION` | Sections
| `TARGET_ASM_UNWIND_EMIT` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ASM_UNWIND_EMIT_BEFORE_INSN` | Dispatch Tables
| `TARGET_ATOMIC_ALIGN_FOR_MODE` | Misc
| `TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV` | Misc
| `TARGET_ATOMIC_TEST_AND_SET_TRUEVAL` | Misc
| `TARGET_ATTRIBUTE_TABLE` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_ATTRIBUTE_TAKES_IDENTIFIER_P` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_BINDS_LOCAL_P` | Sections
| `TARGET_BUILD_BUILTIN_VA_LIST` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_BUILTIN_DECL` | Misc
| `TARGET_BUILTIN_RECIPROCAL` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_BUILTIN_SETJMP_FRAME_VALUE` | Frame Layout
| `TARGET_C_BITINT_TYPE_INFO` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_C_EXCESS_PRECISION` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_C_PREINCLUDE` | Misc
| `TARGET_CALL_ARGS` | Varargs
| `TARGET_CALL_FUSAGE_CONTAINS_NON_CALLEE_CLOBBERS` | Miscellaneous Register Hooks
| `TARGET_CALLEE_COPIES` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_CAN_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS` and subreg semantics | Regs and Memory
| `TARGET_CAN_ELIMINATE` | Elimination
| `TARGET_CAN_FOLLOW_JUMP` | Misc
| `TARGET_CAN_INLINE_P` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_CAN_USE_DOLOOP_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_CANNOT_FORCE_CONST_MEM` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_CANNOT_MODIFY_JUMPS_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_CANNOT_SUBSTITUTE_MEM_EQUIV_P` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_CANONICAL_VA_LIST_TYPE` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_CANONICALIZE_COMPARISON` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `TARGET_CASE_VALUES_THRESHOLD` | Misc
| `TARGET_CC_MODES_COMPATIBLE` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `TARGET_CHECK_BUILTIN_CALL` | Misc
| `TARGET_CHECK_PCH_TARGET_FLAGS` | PCH Target
| `TARGET_CHECK_STRING_OBJECT_FORMAT_ARG` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_CLASS_LIKELY_SPILLED_P` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_CLASS_MAX_NREGS` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_COMMUTATIVE_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_COMP_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_COMPARE_BY_PIECES_BRANCH_RATIO` | Costs
| `TARGET_COMPARE_VERSION_PRIORITY` | Misc
| `TARGET_COMPATIBLE_VECTOR_TYPES_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_COMPUTE_FRAME_LAYOUT` | Elimination
| `TARGET_COMPUTE_MULTILIB` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_COMPUTE_PRESSURE_CLASSES` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_CONDITIONAL_REGISTER_USAGE` | Register Basics
| `TARGET_CONST_ANCHOR` | Misc
| `TARGET_CONST_NOT_OK_FOR_DEBUG_P` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_CONSTANT_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_CONVERT_TO_TYPE` | Misc
| `TARGET_CPU_CPP_BUILTINS` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_CSTORE_MODE` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_CUSTOM_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS` | Trampolines
| `TARGET_CXX_ADJUST_CDTOR_CALLABI_FNTYPE` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_ADJUST_CLASS_AT_DEFINITION` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_CDTOR_RETURNS_THIS` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_CLASS_DATA_ALWAYS_COMDAT` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_COOKIE_HAS_SIZE` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_DECL_MANGLING_CONTEXT` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_DETERMINE_CLASS_DATA_VISIBILITY` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_GET_COOKIE_SIZE` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_GUARD_MASK_BIT` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_GUARD_TYPE` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_IMPLICIT_EXTERN_C` | Misc
| `TARGET_CXX_IMPORT_EXPORT_CLASS` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_KEY_METHOD_MAY_BE_INLINE` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_LIBRARY_RTTI_COMDAT` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_USE_AEABI_ATEXIT` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_CXX_USE_ATEXIT_FOR_CXA_ATEXIT` | C++ ABI
| `TARGET_D_CPU_VERSIONS` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_HAS_STDCALL_CONVENTION` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION_END` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_MINFO_SECTION_START` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_OS_VERSIONS` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_REGISTER_CPU_TARGET_INFO` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_REGISTER_OS_TARGET_INFO` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_D_TEMPLATES_ALWAYS_COMDAT` | D Language and ABI
| `TARGET_DEBUG_UNWIND_INFO` | DWARF
| `TARGET_DECIMAL_FLOAT_SUPPORTED_P` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_DECLSPEC` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_DEFAULT_PACK_STRUCT` | Misc
| `TARGET_DEFAULT_SHORT_ENUMS` | Type Layout
| `TARGET_DEFAULT_TARGET_FLAGS` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_DEFERRED_OUTPUT_DEFS` | Label Output
| `TARGET_DELAY_SCHED2` | DWARF
| `TARGET_DELAY_VARTRACK` | DWARF
| `TARGET_DELEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_DIFFERENT_ADDR_DISPLACEMENT_P` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_DLLIMPORT_DECL_ATTRIBUTES` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_DOLOOP_COST_FOR_ADDRESS` | Misc
| `TARGET_DOLOOP_COST_FOR_GENERIC` | Misc
| `TARGET_DTORS_FROM_CXA_ATEXIT` | Macros for Initialization
| `TARGET_DWARF_CALLING_CONVENTION` | DWARF
| `TARGET_DWARF_FRAME_REG_MODE` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_DWARF_HANDLE_FRAME_UNSPEC` | Frame Layout
| `TARGET_DWARF_POLY_INDETERMINATE_VALUE` | Frame Layout
| `TARGET_DWARF_REGISTER_SPAN` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_EDOM` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_EMIT_CALL_BUILTIN___CLEAR_CACHE` | Trampolines
| `TARGET_EMIT_EPILOGUE_FOR_SIBCALL` | Misc
| `TARGET_EMIT_SUPPORT_TINFOS` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_EMPTY_RECORD_P` | Aggregate Return
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_DEBUG_FORM_TLS_ADDRESS` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_GET_ADDRESS` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_REGISTER_COMMON` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_TMPL_PREFIX` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_TMPL_SECTION` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_ALIGN_FIXED` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_FIELDS` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_INIT` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_PREFIX` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_EMUTLS_VAR_SECTION` | Emulated TLS
| `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` | Sections
| `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` and address validation | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO` usage | Instruction Output
| `TARGET_END_CALL_ARGS` | Varargs
| `TARGET_ENUM_VA_LIST_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_ESTIMATED_POLY_VALUE` | Costs
| `TARGET_EXCEPT_UNWIND_INFO` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX` | Misc
| `TARGET_EXPAND_BUILTIN` | Misc
| `TARGET_EXPAND_BUILTIN_SAVEREGS` | Varargs
| `TARGET_EXPAND_DIVMOD_LIBFUNC` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_EXPAND_TO_RTL_HOOK` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TARGET_EXTRA_INCLUDES` | Misc
| `TARGET_EXTRA_LIVE_ON_ENTRY` | Tail Calls
| `TARGET_EXTRA_PRE_INCLUDES` | Misc
| `TARGET_FIXED_CONDITION_CODE_REGS` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `TARGET_FIXED_POINT_SUPPORTED_P` | Storage Layout
| `target_flags` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_FLAGS_REGNUM` | MODE_CC Condition Codes
| `TARGET_FLOAT_EXCEPTIONS_ROUNDING_SUPPORTED_P` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_FLOATN_BUILTIN_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FLOATN_MODE` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FN_ABI_VA_LIST` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FNTYPE_ABI` | Register Basics
| `TARGET_FOLD_BUILTIN` | Misc
| `TARGET_FORMAT_TYPES` | Misc
| `TARGET_FORTIFY_SOURCE_DEFAULT_LEVEL` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_FRAME_POINTER_REQUIRED` | Elimination
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_ADVANCE` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_BOUNDARY` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_OFFSET` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_PADDING` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG_ROUND_BOUNDARY` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_ATTRIBUTE_INLINABLE_P` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_INCOMING_ARG` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_OK_FOR_SIBCALL` | Tail Calls
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE` | Scalar Return
| `TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P` | Scalar Return
| `TARGET_GEN_CCMP_FIRST` | Misc
| `TARGET_GEN_CCMP_NEXT` | Misc
| `TARGET_GENERATE_VERSION_DISPATCHER_BODY` | Misc
| `TARGET_GET_DRAP_RTX` | Misc
| `TARGET_GET_FUNCTION_VERSIONS_DISPATCHER` | Misc
| `TARGET_GET_MULTILIB_ABI_NAME` | Register Basics
| `TARGET_GET_PCH_VALIDITY` | PCH Target
| `TARGET_GET_RAW_ARG_MODE` | Aggregate Return
| `TARGET_GET_RAW_RESULT_MODE` | Aggregate Return
| `TARGET_GET_VALID_OPTION_VALUES` | Stack Smashing Protection
| `TARGET_GIMPLE_FOLD_BUILTIN` | Misc
| `TARGET_GIMPLIFY_VA_ARG_EXPR` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_GOACC_ADJUST_PRIVATE_DECL` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_GOACC_CREATE_WORKER_BROADCAST_RECORD` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_GOACC_DIM_LIMIT` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_GOACC_EXPAND_VAR_DECL` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_GOACC_FORK_JOIN` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_GOACC_REDUCTION` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_GOACC_SHARED_MEM_LAYOUT` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_GOACC_VALIDATE_DIMS` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_HANDLE_C_OPTION` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_HANDLE_GENERIC_ATTRIBUTE` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_HANDLE_OPTION` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_CALL_PART_CLOBBERED` | Register Basics
| `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` | Values in Registers
| `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK` and constraints | Define Constraints
| `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_NREGS` | Values in Registers
| `TARGET_HARD_REGNO_SCRATCH_OK` | Values in Registers
| `TARGET_HAS_IFUNC_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_HAS_NO_HW_DIVIDE` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_HAVE_CONDITIONAL_EXECUTION` | Misc
| `TARGET_HAVE_COUNT_REG_DECR_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_HAVE_CTORS_DTORS` | Macros for Initialization
| `TARGET_HAVE_LIBATOMIC` | Misc
| `TARGET_HAVE_NAMED_SECTIONS` | File Framework
| `TARGET_HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK` | Misc
| `TARGET_HAVE_SPECULATION_SAFE_VALUE` | Misc
| `TARGET_HAVE_SRODATA_SECTION` | Sections
| `TARGET_HAVE_STRUB_SUPPORT_FOR` | Frame Layout
| `TARGET_HAVE_SWITCHABLE_BSS_SECTIONS` | File Framework
| `TARGET_HAVE_TLS` | Sections
| `TARGET_IFUNC_REF_LOCAL_OK` | Misc
| `TARGET_IN_SMALL_DATA_P` | Sections
| `TARGET_INIT_BUILTINS` | Misc
| `TARGET_INIT_DWARF_REG_SIZES_EXTRA` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_INIT_LIBFUNCS` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_INIT_PIC_REG` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_INSERT_ATTRIBUTES` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_INSN_CALLEE_ABI` | Register Basics
| `TARGET_INSN_COST` | Costs
| `TARGET_INSTANTIATE_DECLS` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_INVALID_ARG_FOR_UNPROTOTYPED_FN` | Misc
| `TARGET_INVALID_BINARY_OP` | Misc
| `TARGET_INVALID_CONVERSION` | Misc
| `TARGET_INVALID_UNARY_OP` | Misc
| `TARGET_INVALID_WITHIN_DOLOOP` | Misc
| `TARGET_IRA_CHANGE_PSEUDO_ALLOCNO_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_KEEP_LEAF_WHEN_PROFILED` | Profiling
| `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_COMBINED_INSN` | Misc
| `TARGET_LEGITIMATE_CONSTANT_P` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS_DISPLACEMENT` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_LIB_INT_CMP_BIASED` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_LIBC_HAS_FAST_FUNCTION` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_LIBC_HAS_FUNCTION` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_LIBCALL_VALUE` | Scalar Return
| `TARGET_LIBFUNC_GNU_PREFIX` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_LIBGCC_CMP_RETURN_MODE` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_LIBGCC_FLOATING_MODE_SUPPORTED_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_LIBGCC_SDATA_SECTION` | Sections
| `TARGET_LIBGCC_SHIFT_COUNT_MODE` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_LIBM_FUNCTION_MAX_ERROR` | Library Calls
| `TARGET_LOOP_UNROLL_ADJUST` | Misc
| `TARGET_LOWER_LOCAL_DECL_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_LRA_P` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_MACHINE_DEPENDENT_REORG` | Misc
| `TARGET_MANGLE_ASSEMBLER_NAME` | Label Output
| `TARGET_MANGLE_DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME` | Sections
| `TARGET_MANGLE_TYPE` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_MAX_ANCHOR_OFFSET` | Anchored Addresses
| `TARGET_MAX_NOCE_IFCVT_SEQ_COST` | Costs
| `TARGET_MD_ASM_ADJUST` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEM_CONSTRAINT` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_MEM_REF` | Storage References
| `TARGET_MEMBER_TYPE_FORCES_BLK` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_MEMMODEL_CHECK` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMORY_MOVE_COST` | Costs
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_ADD_TAG` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_CAN_TAG_ADDRESSES` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_EXTRACT_TAG` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_GRANULE_SIZE` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_INSERT_RANDOM_TAG` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_SET_TAG` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_TAG_SIZE` | Misc
| `TARGET_MEMTAG_UNTAGGED_POINTER` | Misc
| `TARGET_MERGE_DECL_ATTRIBUTES` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_MERGE_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_MIN_ANCHOR_OFFSET` | Anchored Addresses
| `TARGET_MIN_ARITHMETIC_PRECISION` | Misc
| `TARGET_MIN_DIVISIONS_FOR_RECIP_MUL` | Misc
| `TARGET_MODE_AFTER` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_BACKPROP` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_CONFLUENCE` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_DEPENDENT_ADDRESS_P` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_MODE_EH_HANDLER` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_EMIT` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_ENTRY` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_EXIT` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_NEEDED` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_PRIORITY` | Mode Switching
| `TARGET_MODE_REP_EXTENDED` | Misc
| `TARGET_MODES_TIEABLE_P` | Values in Registers
| `TARGET_MS_BITFIELD_LAYOUT_P` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_MUST_PASS_IN_STACK` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_MUST_PASS_IN_STACK`, and `TARGET_FUNCTION_ARG` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_N_FORMAT_TYPES` | Misc
| `TARGET_NARROW_VOLATILE_BITFIELD` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_NEED_IPA_FN_TARGET_INFO` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_NEW_ADDRESS_PROFITABLE_P` | Costs
| `TARGET_NO_REGISTER_ALLOCATION` | DWARF
| `TARGET_NO_SPECULATION_IN_DELAY_SLOTS_P` | Costs
| `TARGET_NOCE_CONVERSION_PROFITABLE_P` | Costs
| `TARGET_OBJC_CONSTRUCT_STRING_OBJECT` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OBJC_DECLARE_CLASS_DEFINITION` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OBJC_DECLARE_UNRESOLVED_CLASS_REFERENCE` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OBJECT_SUFFIX` | Misc
| `TARGET_OBJFMT_CPP_BUILTINS` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OFFLOAD_OPTIONS` | Misc
| `TARGET_OMIT_STRUCT_RETURN_REG` | Scalar Return
| `TARGET_OMP_DEVICE_KIND_ARCH_ISA` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_OPTAB_SUPPORTED_P` | Costs
| `TARGET_OPTF` | Misc
| `TARGET_OPTION_FUNCTION_VERSIONS` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_INIT_STRUCT` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OPTION_OPTIMIZATION_TABLE` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OPTION_OVERRIDE` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_POST_STREAM_IN` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_PRAGMA_PARSE` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_PRINT` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_RESTORE` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_SAVE` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_VALID_ATTRIBUTE_P` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OPTION_VALID_VERSION_ATTRIBUTE_P` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_OS_CPP_BUILTINS` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OVERLAP_OP_BY_PIECES_P` | Costs
| `TARGET_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS_AFTER_CHANGE` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES` | Misc
| `TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES_COUNT` | Misc
| `TARGET_OVERRIDES_FORMAT_INIT` | Misc
| `TARGET_PASS_BY_REFERENCE` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_PCH_VALID_P` | PCH Target
| `TARGET_POSIX_IO` | Misc
| `TARGET_PRECOMPUTE_TLS_P` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_PREDICT_DOLOOP_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_PREFERRED_DOLOOP_MODE` | Misc
| `TARGET_PREFERRED_ELSE_VALUE` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_PREFERRED_OUTPUT_RELOAD_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_PREFERRED_RENAME_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_PREPARE_PCH_SAVE` | PCH Target
| `TARGET_PRETEND_OUTGOING_VARARGS_NAMED` | Varargs
| `TARGET_PROFILE_BEFORE_PROLOGUE` | Sections
| `TARGET_PROMOTE_FUNCTION_MODE` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_PROMOTE_PROTOTYPES` | Stack Arguments
| `TARGET_PROMOTED_TYPE` | Misc
| `TARGET_PTRMEMFUNC_VBIT_LOCATION` | Type Layout
| `TARGET_PUSH_ARGUMENT` | Stack Arguments
| `TARGET_RECORD_OFFLOAD_SYMBOL` | Misc
| `TARGET_REF_MAY_ALIAS_ERRNO` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_REGISTER_MOVE_COST` | Costs
| `TARGET_REGISTER_PRIORITY` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_REGISTER_USAGE_LEVELING_P` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_RELAYOUT_FUNCTION` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_RESET_LOCATION_VIEW` | DWARF
| `TARGET_RESOLVE_OVERLOADED_BUILTIN` | Misc
| `TARGET_RETURN_IN_MEMORY` | Aggregate Return
| `TARGET_RETURN_IN_MSB` | Scalar Return
| `TARGET_RETURN_POPS_ARGS` | Stack Arguments
| `TARGET_RTX_COSTS` | Costs
| `TARGET_RUN_TARGET_SELFTESTS` | Misc
| `TARGET_RUST_CPU_INFO` | Rust Language and ABI
| `TARGET_RUST_OS_INFO` | Rust Language and ABI
| `TARGET_SCALAR_MODE_SUPPORTED_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_COST` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_PRIORITY` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_ALLOC_SCHED_CONTEXT` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_CAN_SPECULATE_INSN` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_CLEAR_SCHED_CONTEXT` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DEPENDENCIES_EVALUATION_HOOK` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DFA_NEW_CYCLE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DFA_POST_ADVANCE_CYCLE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DFA_POST_CYCLE_INSN` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DFA_PRE_ADVANCE_CYCLE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DFA_PRE_CYCLE_INSN` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DISPATCH` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_DISPATCH_DO` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_EXPOSED_PIPELINE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FINISH` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FINISH_GLOBAL` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_BACKTRACK` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_BEGIN` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_DFA_LOOKAHEAD` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_DFA_LOOKAHEAD_GUARD` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_END` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_FINI` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_INIT` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FIRST_CYCLE_MULTIPASS_ISSUE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FREE_SCHED_CONTEXT` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_FUSION_PRIORITY` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_GEN_SPEC_CHECK` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_H_I_D_EXTENDED` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_INIT` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_INIT_DFA_POST_CYCLE_INSN` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_INIT_DFA_PRE_CYCLE_INSN` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_INIT_GLOBAL` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_INIT_SCHED_CONTEXT` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_IS_COSTLY_DEPENDENCE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_ISSUE_RATE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_MACRO_FUSION_P` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_MACRO_FUSION_PAIR_P` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_NEEDS_BLOCK_P` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_REASSOCIATION_WIDTH` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_REORDER` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_REORDER2` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_SET_SCHED_CONTEXT` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_SET_SCHED_FLAGS` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_SMS_RES_MII` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_SPECULATE_INSN` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SCHED_VARIABLE_ISSUE` | Scheduling
| `TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_SECONDARY_MEMORY_NEEDED_MODE` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_SECONDARY_RELOAD` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_SECTION_TYPE_FLAGS` | File Framework
| `TARGET_SELECT_EARLY_REMAT_MODES` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_SET_CURRENT_FUNCTION` | Misc
| `TARGET_SET_DEFAULT_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_SET_UP_BY_PROLOGUE` | Tail Calls
| `TARGET_SETJMP_PRESERVES_NONVOLATILE_REGS_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_SETUP_INCOMING_VARARGS` | Varargs
| `TARGET_SHIFT_TRUNCATION_MASK` | Misc
| `TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_COMPONENTS_FOR_BB` | Shrink-wrapping separate components
| `TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_DISQUALIFY_COMPONENTS` | Shrink-wrapping separate components
| `TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_EMIT_EPILOGUE_COMPONENTS` | Shrink-wrapping separate components
| `TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_EMIT_PROLOGUE_COMPONENTS` | Shrink-wrapping separate components
| `TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_GET_SEPARATE_COMPONENTS` | Shrink-wrapping separate components
| `TARGET_SHRINK_WRAP_SET_HANDLED_COMPONENTS` | Shrink-wrapping separate components
| `TARGET_SIMD_CLONE_ADJUST` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_SIMD_CLONE_COMPUTE_VECSIZE_AND_SIMDLEN` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_SIMD_CLONE_USABLE` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_SIMT_VF` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_SLOW_UNALIGNED_ACCESS` | Costs
| `TARGET_SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES_FOR_MODE_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_SPECULATION_SAFE_VALUE` | Misc
| `TARGET_SPILL_CLASS` | Register Classes
| `TARGET_SPLIT_COMPLEX_ARG` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_STACK_CLASH_PROTECTION_ALLOCA_PROBE_RANGE` | Stack Checking
| `TARGET_STACK_PROTECT_FAIL` | Stack Smashing Protection
| `TARGET_STACK_PROTECT_GUARD` | Stack Smashing Protection
| `TARGET_STACK_PROTECT_RUNTIME_ENABLED_P` | Stack Smashing Protection
| `TARGET_START_CALL_ARGS` | Varargs
| `TARGET_STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET` | Frame Layout
| `TARGET_STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET` and virtual registers | Regs and Memory
| `TARGET_STATIC_CHAIN` | Frame Registers
| `TARGET_STATIC_RTX_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_STRICT_ARGUMENT_NAMING` | Varargs
| `TARGET_STRING_OBJECT_REF_TYPE_P` | Run-time Target
| `TARGET_STRIP_NAME_ENCODING` | Sections
| `TARGET_STRUB_MAY_USE_MEMSET` | Frame Layout
| `TARGET_STRUB_USE_DYNAMIC_ARRAY` | Frame Layout
| `TARGET_STRUCT_VALUE_RTX` | Aggregate Return
| `TARGET_SUPPORTS_SPLIT_STACK` | Stack Smashing Protection
| `TARGET_SUPPORTS_WEAK` | Label Output
| `TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT` | Misc
| `TARGET_TERMINATE_DW2_EH_FRAME_INFO` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_TRAMPOLINE_ADJUST_ADDRESS` | Trampolines
| `TARGET_TRAMPOLINE_INIT` | Trampolines
| `TARGET_TRANSLATE_MODE_ATTRIBUTE` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_TRULY_NOOP_TRUNCATION` | Misc
| `TARGET_UNSPEC_MAY_TRAP_P` | Misc
| `TARGET_UNWIND_TABLES_DEFAULT` | Exception Region Output
| `TARGET_UNWIND_WORD_MODE` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_UPDATE_IPA_FN_TARGET_INFO` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_UPDATE_STACK_BOUNDARY` | Misc
| `TARGET_USE_ANCHORS_FOR_SYMBOL_P` | Anchored Addresses
| `TARGET_USE_BLOCKS_FOR_CONSTANT_P` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_USE_BLOCKS_FOR_DECL_P` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_USE_BY_PIECES_INFRASTRUCTURE_P` | Costs
| `TARGET_USE_LATE_PROLOGUE_EPILOGUE` | Misc
| `TARGET_USE_PSEUDO_PIC_REG` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_USES_WEAK_UNWIND_INFO` | Exception Handling
| `TARGET_VALID_DLLIMPORT_ATTRIBUTE_P` | Target Attributes
| `TARGET_VALID_POINTER_MODE` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_VECTOR_ALIGNMENT` | Storage Layout
| `TARGET_VECTOR_MODE_SUPPORTED_ANY_TARGET_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_VECTOR_MODE_SUPPORTED_P` | Register Arguments
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_AUTOVECTORIZE_VECTOR_MODES` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_GATHER` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_MASK_FOR_LOAD` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_MD_VECTORIZED_FUNCTION` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_SCATTER` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_VECTORIZATION_COST` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_BUILTIN_VECTORIZED_FUNCTION` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_CREATE_COSTS` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_EMPTY_MASK_IS_EXPENSIVE` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_GET_MASK_MODE` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_DIV_AS_SHIFTS_OVER_MULT` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_SIMD_MODE` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_ALIGNMENT` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_RELATED_MODE` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_SPLIT_REDUCTION` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_SUPPORT_VECTOR_MISALIGNMENT` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_VEC_PERM_CONST` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VECTORIZE_VECTOR_ALIGNMENT_REACHABLE` | Addressing Modes
| `TARGET_VERIFY_TYPE_CONTEXT` | Misc
| `TARGET_VTABLE_DATA_ENTRY_DISTANCE` | Type Layout
| `TARGET_VTABLE_ENTRY_ALIGN` | Type Layout
| `TARGET_VTABLE_USES_DESCRIPTORS` | Type Layout
| `TARGET_WANT_DEBUG_PUB_SECTIONS` | DWARF
| `TARGET_WARN_FUNC_RETURN` | Tail Calls
| `TARGET_WARN_PARAMETER_PASSING_ABI` | Aggregate Return
| `TARGET_WEAK_NOT_IN_ARCHIVE_TOC` | Label Output
| `TARGET_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS` | Misc
| `targetm` | Target Structure
| targets, makefile | Makefile
| `tbranch_opmode3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `TCmode` | Machine Modes
| `TDmode` | Machine Modes
| `TEMPLATE_DECL` | Declarations
| Temporaries | Temporaries
| termination routines | Initialization
| testing constraints | C Constraint Interface
| `TEXT_SECTION_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `TFmode` | Machine Modes
| The Language | The Language
| `THEN_CLAUSE` | Statements for C and C++
| `THREAD_MODEL_SPEC` | Driver
| `THROW_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `THUNK_DECL` | Declarations
| `THUNK_DELTA` | Declarations
| `TImode` | Machine Modes
| `TImode`, in `insn` | Insns
| `TLS_COMMON_ASM_OP` | Sections
| `TLS_SECTION_ASM_FLAG` | Sections
| `tm.h` macros | Target Macros
| `TQFmode` | Machine Modes
| `TQmode` | Machine Modes
| `TRAMPOLINE_ALIGNMENT` | Trampolines
| `TRAMPOLINE_SECTION` | Trampolines
| `TRAMPOLINE_SIZE` | Trampolines
| trampolines for nested functions | Trampolines
| `TRANSFER_FROM_TRAMPOLINE` | Trampolines
| `trap` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| tree | Tree overview
| tree | Macros and Functions
| Tree SSA | Tree SSA
| `TREE_CHAIN` | Macros and Functions
| `TREE_CODE` | Tree overview
| `tree_fits_shwi_p` | Constant expressions
| `tree_fits_uhwi_p` | Constant expressions
| `TREE_INT_CST_ELT` | Constant expressions
| `tree_int_cst_equal` | Constant expressions
| `TREE_INT_CST_LOW` | Constant expressions
| `tree_int_cst_lt` | Constant expressions
| `TREE_INT_CST_NUNITS` | Constant expressions
| `TREE_LIST` | Containers
| `TREE_OPERAND` | Expression trees
| `TREE_PUBLIC` | Function Basics
| `TREE_PUBLIC` | Function Properties
| `TREE_PURPOSE` | Containers
| `TREE_READONLY` | Function Properties
| `tree_size` | Macros and Functions
| `TREE_STATIC` | Function Properties
| `TREE_STRING_LENGTH` | Constant expressions
| `TREE_STRING_POINTER` | Constant expressions
| `TREE_THIS_VOLATILE` | Function Properties
| `tree_to_shwi` | Constant expressions
| `tree_to_uhwi` | Constant expressions
| `TREE_TYPE` | Macros and Functions
| `TREE_TYPE` | Types
| `TREE_TYPE` | Working with declarations
| `TREE_TYPE` | Expression trees
| `TREE_TYPE` | Expression trees
| `TREE_TYPE` | Function Basics
| `TREE_TYPE` | Types for C++
| `TREE_VALUE` | Containers
| `TREE_VEC` | Containers
| `TREE_VEC_ELT` | Containers
| `TREE_VEC_LENGTH` | Containers
| true positive | Guidelines for Diagnostics
| `TRUNC_DIV_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TRUNC_MOD_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `truncate` | Conversions
| `truncmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `TRUTH_AND_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TRUTH_ANDIF_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TRUTH_NOT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TRUTH_OR_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TRUTH_ORIF_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TRUTH_XOR_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `TRY_BLOCK` | Statements for C and C++
| `TRY_HANDLERS` | Statements for C and C++
| `TRY_STMTS` | Statements for C and C++
| Tuple specific accessors | Tuple specific accessors
| tuples | Tuple representation
| type | Types
| type declaration | Declarations
| `TYPE_ALIGN` | Types
| `TYPE_ALIGN` | Types
| `TYPE_ALIGN` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_ALIGN` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_ARG_TYPES` | Types
| `TYPE_ARG_TYPES` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_ASM_OP` | Label Output
| `TYPE_ATTRIBUTES` | Attributes
| `TYPE_BINFO` | Classes
| `TYPE_BUILT_IN` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_CANONICAL` | Types
| `TYPE_CANONICAL` | Types
| `TYPE_CONTEXT` | Types
| `TYPE_CONTEXT` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_DECL` | Declarations
| `TYPE_FIELDS` | Types
| `TYPE_FIELDS` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_FIELDS` | Classes
| `TYPE_HAS_ARRAY_NEW_OPERATOR` | Classes
| `TYPE_HAS_DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTOR` | Classes
| `TYPE_HAS_MUTABLE_P` | Classes
| `TYPE_HAS_NEW_OPERATOR` | Classes
| `TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT` | Types
| `TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT` | Types
| `TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_MAX_VALUE` | Types
| `TYPE_METHOD_BASETYPE` | Types
| `TYPE_METHOD_BASETYPE` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_MIN_VALUE` | Types
| `TYPE_NAME` | Types
| `TYPE_NAME` | Types
| `TYPE_NAME` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_NAME` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_NOTHROW_P` | Functions for C++
| `TYPE_OFFSET_BASETYPE` | Types
| `TYPE_OFFSET_BASETYPE` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_OPERAND_FMT` | Label Output
| `TYPE_OVERLOADS_ARRAY_REF` | Classes
| `TYPE_OVERLOADS_ARROW` | Classes
| `TYPE_OVERLOADS_CALL_EXPR` | Classes
| `TYPE_POLYMORPHIC_P` | Classes
| `TYPE_PRECISION` | Types
| `TYPE_PRECISION` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_PTR_P` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_PTRDATAMEM_P` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_PTRDATAMEM_P` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_PTRFN_P` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_PTROB_P` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_PTROBV_P` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_QUAL_CONST` | Types
| `TYPE_QUAL_CONST` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_QUAL_RESTRICT` | Types
| `TYPE_QUAL_RESTRICT` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_QUAL_VOLATILE` | Types
| `TYPE_QUAL_VOLATILE` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_RAISES_EXCEPTIONS` | Functions for C++
| `TYPE_SIZE` | Types
| `TYPE_SIZE` | Types
| `TYPE_SIZE` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_SIZE` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY_P` | Types
| `TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY_P` | Types
| `TYPE_UNQUALIFIED` | Types
| `TYPE_UNQUALIFIED` | Types for C++
| `TYPE_VFIELD` | Classes
| `TYPENAME_TYPE` | Types for C++
| `TYPENAME_TYPE_FULLNAME` | Types
| `TYPENAME_TYPE_FULLNAME` | Types for C++
| `TYPEOF_TYPE` | Types for C++
U
| `uabdm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `uaddcm5` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `uaddvm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `uavgm3_ceil` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `uavgm3_floor` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `UDAmode` | Machine Modes
| `udiv` | Arithmetic
| `udivm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `udivmodm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `udot_prodm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `UDQmode` | Machine Modes
| `UHAmode` | Machine Modes
| `UHQmode` | Machine Modes
| `UINT_FAST16_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT_FAST32_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT_FAST64_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT_FAST8_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT_LEAST16_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT_LEAST32_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT_LEAST64_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT_LEAST8_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT16_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT32_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT64_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINT8_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINTMAX_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `UINTPTR_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `umaddmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umax` | Arithmetic
| `umaxm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umin` | Arithmetic
| `uminm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umod` | Arithmetic
| `umodm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umsubmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umul_highpart` | Arithmetic
| `umulhisi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umulhrsm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umulhsm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umulm3_highpart` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umulqihi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umulsidi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `umulvm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `unchanging` | Flags
| `unchanging`, in `call_insn` | Flags
| `unchanging`, in `jump_insn`, `call_insn` and `insn` | Flags
| `unchanging`, in `mem` | Flags
| `unchanging`, in `subreg` | Flags
| `unchanging`, in `subreg` | Flags
| `unchanging`, in `symbol_ref` | Flags
| `UNEQ_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `UNGE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `UNGT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `UNION_TYPE` | Types
| `UNION_TYPE` | Classes
| unions, returning | Interface
| `UNITS_PER_WORD` | Storage Layout
| `UNKNOWN_TYPE` | Types
| `UNKNOWN_TYPE` | Types for C++
| `UNLE_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `UNLIKELY_EXECUTED_TEXT_SECTION_NAME` | Sections
| `UNLT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `UNORDERED_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `unshare_all_rtl` | Sharing
| unsigned division | Arithmetic
| unsigned division with unsigned saturation | Arithmetic
| unsigned greater than | Comparisons
| unsigned greater than | Comparisons
| unsigned less than | Comparisons
| unsigned less than | Comparisons
| unsigned minimum and maximum | Arithmetic
| `unsigned_fix` | Conversions
| `unsigned_float` | Conversions
| `unsigned_fract_convert` | Conversions
| `unsigned_sat_fract` | Conversions
| `unspec` | Side Effects
| `unspec` | Constant Definitions
| `unspec_volatile` | Side Effects
| `unspec_volatile` | Constant Definitions
| `untyped_call` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `untyped_return` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `UPDATE_PATH_HOST_CANONICALIZE (path)` | Filesystem
| `update_ssa` | SSA
| `update_stmt` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `update_stmt` | SSA Operands
| `update_stmt_if_modified` | Manipulating GIMPLE statements
| `UQQmode` | Machine Modes
| `us_ashift` | Arithmetic
| `us_minus` | Arithmetic
| `us_mult` | Arithmetic
| `us_neg` | Arithmetic
| `us_plus` | Arithmetic
| `us_truncate` | Conversions
| `usaddm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usadm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `USAmode` | Machine Modes
| `usashlm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usdivm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usdot_prodm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `use` | Side Effects
| `USE_C_ALLOCA` | Host Misc
| `USE_LD_AS_NEEDED` | Driver
| `USE_LOAD_POST_DECREMENT` | Costs
| `USE_LOAD_POST_INCREMENT` | Costs
| `USE_LOAD_PRE_DECREMENT` | Costs
| `USE_LOAD_PRE_INCREMENT` | Costs
| `USE_SELECT_SECTION_FOR_FUNCTIONS` | Sections
| `USE_STORE_POST_DECREMENT` | Costs
| `USE_STORE_POST_INCREMENT` | Costs
| `USE_STORE_PRE_DECREMENT` | Costs
| `USE_STORE_PRE_INCREMENT` | Costs
| `used` | Flags
| `used`, in `symbol_ref` | Flags
| `user` | GTY Options
| user experience guidelines | User Experience Guidelines
| user gc | User GC
| `USER_LABEL_PREFIX` | Instruction Output
| `USING_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `usmaddmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usmsubmn4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usmulhisi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usmulm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usmulqihi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usmulsidi3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usnegm2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `USQmode` | Machine Modes
| `ussubm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usubcm5` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `usubvm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `UTAmode` | Machine Modes
| `UTQmode` | Machine Modes
V
| ‘`V`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `VA_ARG_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| values, returned by functions | Scalar Return
| `VAR_DECL` | Declarations
| `var_location` | Debug Information
| varargs implementation | Varargs
| variable | Declarations
| Variable Location Debug Information in RTL | Debug Information
| `vashlm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vashrm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vcond_mask_len_mn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vcond_mask_mn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vcondeqmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vcondmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vcondumn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_addsubm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_cmpeqmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_cmpmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_cmpumn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_concat` | Vector Operations
| `VEC_COND_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_duplicate` | Vector Operations
| `VEC_DUPLICATE_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_duplicatem` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_extractmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_fmaddsubm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_fmsubaddm4` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_initmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_load_lanesmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `VEC_LSHIFT_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_mask_len_load_lanesmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_mask_len_store_lanesmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_mask_load_lanesmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_mask_store_lanesmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_merge` | Vector Operations
| `vec_merge`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `VEC_PACK_FIX_TRUNC_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_PACK_FLOAT_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_PACK_SAT_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_pack_sbool_trunc_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_pack_sfix_trunc_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_pack_ssat_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `VEC_PACK_TRUNC_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_pack_trunc_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_pack_ufix_trunc_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_pack_usat_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_packs_float_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_packu_float_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_permm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_permm` instruction pattern | Addressing Modes
| `VEC_RSHIFT_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_select` | Vector Operations
| `vec_series` | Vector Operations
| `VEC_SERIES_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_seriesm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_setm` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_shl_insert_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_shl_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_shr_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_store_lanesmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `VEC_UNPACK_FIX_TRUNC_HI_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_UNPACK_FIX_TRUNC_LO_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_UNPACK_FLOAT_HI_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_UNPACK_FLOAT_LO_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_UNPACK_HI_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_UNPACK_LO_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_unpack_sfix_trunc_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpack_sfix_trunc_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpack_ufix_trunc_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpack_ufix_trunc_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacks_float_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacks_float_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacks_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacks_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacks_sbool_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacks_sbool_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacku_float_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacku_float_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacku_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_unpacku_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `VEC_WIDEN_MULT_HI_EXPR` | Vectors
| `VEC_WIDEN_MULT_LO_EXPR` | Vectors
| `vec_widen_sabd_even_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_sabd_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_sabd_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_sabd_odd_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_saddl_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_saddl_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_smult_even_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_smult_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_smult_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_smult_odd_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_sshiftl_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_sshiftl_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_ssubl_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_ssubl_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_uabd_even_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_uabd_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_uabd_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_uabd_odd_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_uaddl_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_uaddl_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_umult_even_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_umult_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_umult_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_umult_odd_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_ushiftl_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_ushiftl_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_usubl_hi_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vec_widen_usubl_lo_m` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| vector | Containers
| vector operations | Vector Operations
| `VECTOR_CST` | Constant expressions
| `VECTOR_STORE_FLAG_VALUE` | Misc
| `verify_flow_info` | Maintaining the CFG
| virtual operands | SSA Operands
| `VIRTUAL_INCOMING_ARGS_REGNUM` | Regs and Memory
| `VIRTUAL_OUTGOING_ARGS_REGNUM` | Regs and Memory
| `VIRTUAL_STACK_DYNAMIC_REGNUM` | Regs and Memory
| `VIRTUAL_STACK_VARS_REGNUM` | Regs and Memory
| VLIW | Processor pipeline description
| VLIW | Processor pipeline description
| `vlshrm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `VMS` | Filesystem
| `VMS_DEBUGGING_INFO` | VMS Debug
| `VOID_TYPE` | Types
| `VOIDmode` | Machine Modes
| `volatil` | Flags
| `volatil`, in `insn`, `call_insn`, `jump_insn`, `code_label`, `jump_table_data`, `barrier`, and `note` | Flags
| `volatil`, in `label_ref` and `reg_label` | Flags
| `volatil`, in `mem`, `asm_operands`, and `asm_input` | Flags
| `volatil`, in `reg` | Flags
| `volatil`, in `subreg` | Flags
| `volatil`, in `subreg` | Flags
| `volatil`, in `symbol_ref` | Flags
| volatile memory references | Flags
| `volatile`, in `prefetch` | Flags
| voting between constraint alternatives | Class Preferences
| `vrotlm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `vrotrm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
W
| `walk_dominator_tree` | SSA
| `walk_gimple_op` | Statement and operand traversals
| `walk_gimple_seq` | Statement and operand traversals
| `walk_gimple_stmt` | Statement and operand traversals
| `WCHAR_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `which_alternative` | Output Statement
| `WHILE_BODY` | Statements for C and C++
| `WHILE_COND` | Statements for C and C++
| `WHILE_STMT` | Statements for C and C++
| `while_ultmn` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| whopr | LTO
| `WIDEN_MULT_EXPR` | Unary and Binary Expressions
| `widen_ssumm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `widen_usumm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `WIDEST_HARDWARE_FP_SIZE` | Type Layout
| `window_save` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `WINT_TYPE` | Type Layout
| `word_mode` | Machine Modes
| `WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS` | Misc
| `WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN` | Storage Layout
| `WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN`, effect on `subreg` | Regs and Memory
| wpa | LTO
X
| ‘`X`’ in constraint | Simple Constraints
| `x-host` | Host Fragment
| `XCmode` | Machine Modes
| `XEXP` | Accessors
| `XFmode` | Machine Modes
| `XImode` | Machine Modes
| `XINT` | Accessors
| `xm-machine.h` | Filesystem
| `xm-machine.h` | Host Misc
| `xor` | Arithmetic
| `xor`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations
| `xorm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `xorsignm3` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `XSTR` | Accessors
| `XVEC` | Accessors
| `XVECEXP` | Accessors
| `XVECLEN` | Accessors
| `XWINT` | Accessors
Z
| `zero_extend` | Conversions
| `zero_extendmn2` instruction pattern | Standard Names
| `zero_extract` | Bit-Fields
| `zero_extract`, canonicalization of | Insn Canonicalizations

#### Footnotes

##### (1)

Except if the compiler was buggy and miscompiled some of the files that were not modified. In this case, it’s best to use `make restrap`.

##### (2)

Customarily, the system compiler is also termed the `stage0` GCC.

##### (3)

These restrictions are derived from those in Morgan 4.8.

##### (4)

Note that this order is different from the order of the underlying RTL instructions, which follow machine code order instead.

##### (5)

Note that this excludes non-instruction things like `note`s and `barrier`s that also appear in the chain of RTL instructions.

##### (6)

The exceptions are call clobbers, which are generally represented separately. See the comment above `rtl_ssa::insn_info` for details.

##### (7)

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.

##### (8)

Classes lacking such a marker will not be identified as being part of the hierarchy, and so the marking routines will not handle them, leading to a assertion failure within the marking routines due to an unknown tag value (assuming that assertions are enabled).