I don't think this is the right thing to do.
This just means that at some point between 2013 when -fsimd-cost-model has
been introduced and now -fsimd-cost-model= option at least partially stopped
working properly.
As documented, -fsimd-cost-model= overrides the -fvect-cost-model= setting
for OpenMP simd loops (loop->force_vectorize is true) if specified differently
from default.
In tree-vectorizer.h we have:
static inline bool
unlimited_cost_model (loop_p loop)
{
if (loop != NULL && loop->force_vectorize
&& flag_simd_cost_model != VECT_COST_MODEL_DEFAULT)
return flag_simd_cost_model == VECT_COST_MODEL_UNLIMITED;
return (flag_vect_cost_model == VECT_COST_MODEL_UNLIMITED);
}
and use it in various places, but we also just use flag_vect_cost_model
in lots of places (and in one spot use flag_simd_cost_model, not sure if
we are sure it is a force_vectorize loop or what).
So, IMHO we should change the above inline function to
loop_cost_model and let it return the cost model and then just
reimplement unlimited_cost_model as
return loop_cost_model (loop) == VECT_COST_MODEL_UNLIMITED;
and then adjust the direct uses of the flag and revert these changes.