But really only for memset and memmove because they need to use an int
alias of the variable and it may be only that alias that sets a much
larger variable.
This removes all the special cases and thus it should be more robust. It
did show up some out-by-one (or a factor of two!) errors elsewhere in
the group mask calculations.
I'm uncertain about the names, but this makes it much easier to get at
specific subtypes (eg, PGA.tvec as a type) rather than having to know
the group mask.
This makes working with the plethora of types a little easier still. The
check for an algebra expression in field_expr needed to be moved up
because the struct code thought the algebra type was a normal vector.
And vis-versa.
I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I've decided that not being able
to cast the pseudo-scalar from float to double (for printf etc) was a
bug.
The merge_blocks function wasn't reporting whether it had done anything
so the thread/merge/dead blocks loop was bailing early. With this,
simple functions (ie, no control flow) are fully visible to the CSE
optimizer and it can get quite aggressive (removed 3 assignments and a
cross product from my barycenter test code).
Failing to promote ints to the algebra type results in a segfault in
assignment of a multi-vector due to the symbol pointer walking off the
end of the list of symbols.
And convert addition to subtraction when extend expressions are not
involved. This has taken my little test down to 56 instructions total
(21 for `l p ~l`), down from 74 (39).
This takes care of chained sums of extend expressions. Now `l p ~l` has
only four extend instructions which is expected for the code not
detecting the cross product that always produces 0.
This goes a ways towards minimizing extend expressions, even finding
zeros and thus eliminating whole branches of expressions, but shows the
need for better handling of chained sums of extends.
Any geometric algebra product of two negatives cancels out the negative,
and if the result is negative (because only one operand was negative),
the negation is migrated to above the operation. This resulted in
removing 2 instructions from one if my mini-tests (went from 74 to 78
with the addition/subtraction change, but this takes it back to 76
instructions).
Summed extend expressions are used for merging a sub-vector with a
scalar. Putting the vector first in the sum will simplify checks later
on (it really doesn't matter which is first so long as it's consistent).
Subtraction is implemented as adding a negative (with the plan of
optimizing it later). The idea is to give tree inspection and
manipulation a more consistent view without having to worry about
addition vs subtraction.
Negation is moved as high as possible in the expression, but is always
below an extend expression. The plane here is that the manipulation code
can bypass an alias-add-extend combo and see the negation.
This doesn't affect the generated code (aliases are free), but does
simplify the dag significantly, thus optimizing the compiler somewhat,
but also makes reading dags much easier and therefore optimizing the
debugging process.
Because the aliases were treated as live, every alias of a temp resulted
in an assignment, which proved to be quite significant (4-5 assignments
in some simple GA expressions). By using an alias node in the dag, the
unaliased temp can be marked live while the alias is treated as an
operation rather than an operand. Now my GA expressions have no
superfluous assignments (generally no assignments at all).
Simple k-vectors don't use structs for their layout since they're just
an array of scalars, but having the structs for group sets or full
multi-vectors makes the system alignment agnostic.
And geometric algebra vectors. This does break things a little in GA,
but it does bring qfcc's C closer to standard C in that sizeof respects
the alignment of the type (very important for arrays).
