CT_00_041 - Saturating Arithmetic (GCC)

Owned by Jeff Law
Last updated: Oct 09, 2024
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About

GCC does a fairly poor job at generating efficient code for various saturating arithmetic idioms.  Additionally almost no support for vectorized saturating arithmetic is in place.  This gap will show up in coremark pro and possibly spec2k6.  Followup items may include:

  1. Making sure generated code is amenable to zicond when possible
  2. Moving some of the target specific expansions into generic code

Stakeholders/Partners

RISE:

Intel: 1 Pan Li


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Dependencies


Status

Development

IN PROGRESS


Development Timeline2H2024
Upstreaming

IN PROGRESS


Upstream Version

gcc-15

Spring 2025




Contacts

Pan Li (Intel)


Dependencies

None



Updates

 

  • Pan Li continues to push improvements to the detection of saturating arithmetic idioms upstream
    • Scalar & Vector with extensive testsuites to verify codegen

  • Pan continues to upstream improvements in detection of scalar and vector saturating arithmetic 

  • New work item.  This work started in 1H2024.