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authorHans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>2001-09-04 13:47:28 +0000
committerHans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>2001-09-04 13:47:28 +0000
commit2f394156dadd001089022d670c6072b81f2281be (patch)
treefd3832aa84607835d03786526f04180c6963801b
parenta4c43803d096a28ffae8a11ebd006be58c13190d (diff)
* doc/rtl.texi: Mention that besides as a CODE_LABEL, a label can
sometimes be represented as a NOTE of type NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL. (Insns): Document NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL. git-svn-id: https://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@45378 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
-rw-r--r--gcc/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--gcc/doc/rtl.texi25
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 0c88b6c8dd5..d4b156383d0 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2001-09-04 Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
+
+ * doc/rtl.texi: Mention that besides as a CODE_LABEL, a label can
+ sometimes be represented as a NOTE of type
+ NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL.
+ (Insns): Document NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL.
+
2001-09-04 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
* c-common.h (tree_dump_index): Add more comments.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/rtl.texi b/gcc/doc/rtl.texi
index c6beaaab84d..75cec63fa18 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/rtl.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/rtl.texi
@@ -659,7 +659,9 @@ outside the innermost loop containing the insn in which the @code{label_ref}
was found.
In @code{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.
+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 @code{note} of type
+@code{NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL}.
In an RTL dump, this flag is represented as @samp{/s}.
@@ -1080,9 +1082,9 @@ Usually that is the only mode for which a symbol is directly valid.
@findex label_ref
@item (label_ref @var{label})
Represents the value of an assembler label for code. It contains one
-operand, an expression, which must be a @code{code_label} that appears
-in the instruction sequence to identify the place where the label
-should go.
+operand, an expression, which must be a @code{code_label} or a @code{note}
+of type @code{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.
@@ -2625,6 +2627,9 @@ When a @code{code_label} appears in an RTL expression, it normally
appears within a @code{label_ref} which represents the address of
the label, as a number.
+Besides as a @code{code_label}, a label can also be represented as a
+@code{note} of type @code{NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL}.
+
@findex LABEL_NUSES
The field @code{LABEL_NUSES} is only defined once the jump optimization
phase is completed and contains the number of times this label is
@@ -2667,6 +2672,12 @@ must contain a null pointer):
Such a note is completely ignorable. Some passes of the compiler
delete insns by altering them into notes of this kind.
+@findex NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL
+@item NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL
+This marks what used to be a @code{code_label}, but was not used for other
+purposes than taking its address and was transformed to mark that no
+code jumps to it.
+
@findex NOTE_INSN_BLOCK_BEG
@findex NOTE_INSN_BLOCK_END
@item NOTE_INSN_BLOCK_BEG
@@ -2681,7 +2692,8 @@ of debugging information.
@itemx 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. @code{NOTE_BLOCK_NUMBER}
-identifies which @code{CODE_LABEL} is associated with the given region.
+identifies which @code{CODE_LABEL} or @code{note} of type
+@code{NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL} is associated with the given region.
@findex NOTE_INSN_LOOP_BEG
@findex NOTE_INSN_LOOP_END
@@ -2876,7 +2888,8 @@ last insns, respectively.
@findex REG_LABEL
@item REG_LABEL
-This insn uses @var{op}, a @code{code_label}, but is not a
+This insn uses @var{op}, a @code{code_label} or a @code{note} of type
+@code{NOTE_INSN_DELETED_LABEL}, but is not a
@code{jump_insn}, or it is a @code{jump_insn} that required the label to
be held in a register. The presence of this note allows jump
optimization to be aware that @var{op} is, in fact, being used, and flow