[m-rev.] [m-dev.] gh72 test failures at higher optimization levels

[Zoltan Somogyi]

2021-01-25 17:25 GMT+11:00 "Peter Wang" <novalazy at gmail.com>:
>> I'm looking into it now.

Thanks for that.

> The daio pass doesn't change the types and argument modes of
> higher-order variables which would be bound to daio cloned procedures,
> and the discrepancy between the number of arguments in a higher-order
> type or inst, and the number of arguments in a call, confuses the
> float_regs pass. No other parts of the compiler seem to have a problem
> with this?

Given that on my laptop, a bootcheck passes with -O5 --intermodule-opt,
it seems not.

> Here's what I *think* needs to change.
> I've attached the output of this command:
> mmc -s asm_fast.gc -O0 -d111 --dump-hlds-options vlDnia gh72.m

I think you are right, but I have to ask: if it affects only (a) code with daio
args (b) on 32 bit systems, a combination of two rare circumstances,
is a fix it worth it? Or could we get by with just a sorry, not implemented
message if we find any daio args on 32 bit systems. Opinions?

Zoltan.