On Sun, 2022-01-23 at 08:37 +0000, Vishal Subramanyam via Gcc-help
wrote:
> When compiling the following C++ snippet with -O0, I'm getting a
> Floating Point Exception on my Ubuntu 21.10, g++ 11.2.0, x86-64.
>
> #include <iostream>
>
> int func(int n, int r)
> {
> return n % r;
> }
> int main()
> {
> const int n = 15, r = 0;
> if (r == 0 || func(n, r))
> std::cout << "YES" << std::endl;
> else
> std::cout << "NO" << std::endl;
> if (func(n, r) || r == 0)
> std::cout << "YES" << std::endl;
> else
> std::cout << "NO" << std::endl;
> return 0;
> }
>
> With -O0, I'm getting a Floating Point error in the second if
> condition since it involves executing the "func" function where
> division by zero occurs.
>
> YES
> Floating point exception (core dumped)
>
> Now, with -O1 optimization, this is the output.
>
> YES
> YES
>
> The "func" call has been optimized away. I checked the assembly code
> output with -S and verified the same. Now, I would like to know what
> was the optimization (the optimization option) that led to this
> happening. When I tried compiling the same code with -O0 but with an
> additional "-fipa-pure-const", I'm getting the same output as the O1
> program with two YESes.
I can reproduce this behavior, but I have some doubt on this: I remember
someone told me that -f* options had no effect with -O0.
> But when I try compiling with both the -O1 and -fno-ipa-pure-const, I
> am not getting the Floating Point Exception. If -fipa-pure-const is
> responsible for the optimization that removes the function call,
> shouldn't the function call occur with -fno-ipa-pure-const. I have
> tried various combinations of options related to dead code elimination
> and branch probabilities, but can't figure out what's happening?
You need -fno-inline. If the function call is inlined completely, then
the compiler can find and remove dead code without any inter-procedural
analysis.
> g++ t.cc -O1 -fno-inline -fno-ipa-pure-const && ./a.out
> YES
> [1] 4151 floating point exception (core dumped) ./a.out
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School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
