Add an empty_mask_is_expensive hook
This patch adds a hook to control whether we avoid executing masked
(predicated) stores when the mask is all false. We don't want to do
that by default for SVE.
2018-01-13 Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>
Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com>
David Sherwood <david.sherwood@arm.com>
gcc/
* target.def (empty_mask_is_expensive): New hook.
* doc/tm.texi.in (TARGET_VECTORIZE_EMPTY_MASK_IS_EXPENSIVE): New hook.
* doc/tm.texi: Regenerate.
* targhooks.h (default_empty_mask_is_expensive): Declare.
* targhooks.c (default_empty_mask_is_expensive): New function.
* tree-vectorizer.c (vectorize_loops): Only call optimize_mask_stores
if the target says that empty masks are expensive.
* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (aarch64_empty_mask_is_expensive):
New function.
(TARGET_VECTORIZE_EMPTY_MASK_IS_EXPENSIVE): Redefine.
Co-Authored-By: Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: David Sherwood <david.sherwood@arm.com>
From-SVN: r256631