[irange] Return FALSE if updated bitmask is unchanged [PR110753]
The mask/value pair we track in the irange is a bit fickle in that it
can sometimes contradict the bitmask inherent in the range. This can
happen when a series of calculations yield a combination such as:
[3, 1000] MASK 0xfffffffe VALUE 0x0
The mask/value above implies that the lowest bit is a known 0, which
would exclude the 3 in the range. At one time we tried keeping mask
and ranges 100% consistent, but the performance penalty was too high
(5% in VRP). Also, it's unclear whether the intersection of two
incompatible known bits should make the whole range undefined, or
just the contradicting bits. This is all documented in
irange::get_bitmask(). We could revisit both of these assumptions
in the future.
In this testcase IPA ends up with a range where the lower 2 bits are
expected to be 0, but the range is [1,1].
[irange] long int [1, 1] MASK 0xfffffffffffffffc VALUE 0x0
This causes irange::union_bitmask() to think an update occurred, when
no semantic change happened, thus triggering an assert in IPA-cp. We
could get rid of the assert, but it's cleaner to make
irange::{union,intersect}_bitmask always tell the truth. Beside, the
ranger's cache also depends on union being truthful.
PR ipa/110753
gcc/ChangeLog:
* value-range.cc (irange::union_bitmask): Return FALSE if updated
bitmask is semantically equivalent to the original mask.
(irange::intersect_bitmask): Same.
(irange::get_bitmask): Add comment.