1 /* params.def
- Run
-time parameters.
2 Copyright (C
) 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation
, Inc.
3 Written by Mark Mitchell
<mark@codesourcery.com
>.
5 This file is part of GCC.
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24 /* This file contains definitions for language
-independent
25 parameters. The DEFPARAM macro takes
6 arguments
:
27 - The enumeral corresponding to this parameter.
29 - The name that can be used to set this parameter using the
30 command
-line option `
--param
<name
>=<value
>'.
32 - A help string explaining how the parameter is used.
34 - A default value for the parameter.
36 - The minimum acceptable value for the parameter.
38 - The maximum acceptable value for the parameter (if greater than
41 Be sure to add an entry to invoke.texi summarizing the parameter. */
43 /* The maximum number of fields in a variable with only implicit uses
44 for which structure aliasing will consider trying to track each
45 field. The default is 5. */
46 DEFPARAM (PARAM_SALIAS_MAX_IMPLICIT_FIELDS,
47 "salias-max-implicit-fields",
48 "The maximum number of fields in a structure variable without direct structure accesses that GCC will attempt to track separately",
51 /* The maximum structure size at which the scalar replacement of
52 aggregates (SRA) pass will perform block copies. The default
53 value, 0, implies that GCC will select the most appropriate size
55 DEFPARAM (PARAM_SRA_MAX_STRUCTURE_SIZE,
56 "sra-max-structure-size",
57 "The maximum structure size (in bytes) for which GCC will "
58 "use by-element copies",
61 /* The maximum number of structure fields which the SRA pass will
62 instantiate to avoid block copies. The default value, 0, implies
63 that GCC will select the appropriate value itself. */
64 DEFPARAM (PARAM_SRA_MAX_STRUCTURE_COUNT,
65 "sra-max-structure-count",
66 "The maximum number of structure fields for which GCC will "
67 "use by-element copies",
70 /* The ratio between instantiated fields and the complete structure
71 size. We say that if the ratio of the number of bytes in
72 instantiated fields to the number of bytes in the complete
73 structure exceeds this parameter, or if the number of instantiated
74 fields to the total number of fields exceeds this parameter, then
75 block copies are not used. The default is 75%. */
76 DEFPARAM (PARAM_SRA_FIELD_STRUCTURE_RATIO,
77 "sra-field-structure-ratio",
78 "The threshold ratio between instantiated fields and the total structure size",
81 /* The single function inlining limit. This is the maximum size
82 of a function counted in internal gcc instructions (not in
83 real machine instructions) that is eligible for inlining
85 The default value is 450.
86 Only functions marked inline (or methods defined in the class
87 definition for C++) are affected by this.
88 There are more restrictions to inlining: If inlined functions
89 call other functions, the already inlined instructions are
90 counted and once the recursive inline limit (see
91 "max-inline-insns" parameter) is exceeded, the acceptable size
93 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_INLINE_INSNS_SINGLE,
94 "max-inline-insns-single",
95 "The maximum number of instructions in a single function eligible for inlining",
98 /* The single function inlining limit for functions that are
99 inlined by virtue of -finline-functions (-O3).
100 This limit should be chosen to be below or equal to the limit
101 that is applied to functions marked inlined (or defined in the
102 class declaration in C++) given by the "max-inline-insns-single"
104 The default value is 90. */
105 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_INLINE_INSNS_AUTO,
106 "max-inline-insns-auto",
107 "The maximum number of instructions when automatically inlining",
110 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_INLINE_INSNS_RECURSIVE,
111 "max-inline-insns-recursive",
112 "The maximum number of instructions inline function can grow to via recursive inlining",
115 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_INLINE_INSNS_RECURSIVE_AUTO,
116 "max-inline-insns-recursive-auto",
117 "The maximum number of instructions non-inline function can grow to via recursive inlining",
120 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_INLINE_RECURSIVE_DEPTH,
121 "max-inline-recursive-depth",
122 "The maximum depth of recursive inlining for inline functions",
125 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_INLINE_RECURSIVE_DEPTH_AUTO,
126 "max-inline-recursive-depth-auto",
127 "The maximum depth of recursive inlining for non-inline functions",
130 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MIN_INLINE_RECURSIVE_PROBABILITY,
131 "min-inline-recursive-probability",
132 "Inline recursively only when the probability of call being executed exceeds the parameter",
135 /* Limit the number of expansions created by the variable expansion
136 optimization to avoid register pressure. */
137 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_VARIABLE_EXPANSIONS,
138 "max-variable-expansions-in-unroller",
139 "If -fvariable-expansion-in-unroller is used, the maximum number of \
140 times that an individual variable will be expanded \
141 during loop unrolling",
144 /* The maximum number of instructions to consider when looking for an
145 instruction to fill a delay slot. If more than this arbitrary
146 number of instructions is searched, the time savings from filling
147 the delay slot will be minimal so stop searching. Increasing
148 values mean more aggressive optimization, making the compile time
149 increase with probably small improvement in executable run time. */
150 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MAX_DELAY_SLOT_INSN_SEARCH,
151 "max-delay-slot-insn-search",
152 "The maximum number of instructions to consider to fill a delay slot",
155 /* When trying to fill delay slots, the maximum number of instructions
156 to consider when searching for a block with valid live register
157 information. Increasing this arbitrarily chosen value means more
158 aggressive optimization, increasing the compile time. This
159 parameter should be removed when the delay slot code is rewritten
160 to maintain the control-flow graph. */
161 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_DELAY_SLOT_LIVE_SEARCH,
162 "max-delay-slot-live-search",
163 "The maximum number of instructions to consider to find accurate live register information",
166 /* This parameter limits the number of branch elements that the
167 scheduler will track anti-dependencies through without resetting
168 the tracking mechanism. Large functions with few calls or barriers
169 can generate lists containing many 1000's of dependencies. Generally
170 the compiler either uses all available memory
, or runs for far too long.
*/
171 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_PENDING_LIST_LENGTH
,
172 "max-pending-list-length",
173 "The maximum length of scheduling's pending operations list",
176 DEFPARAM(PARAM_LARGE_FUNCTION_INSNS
,
177 "large-function-insns",
178 "The size of function body to be considered large",
180 DEFPARAM(PARAM_LARGE_FUNCTION_GROWTH
,
181 "large-function-growth",
182 "Maximal growth due to inlining of large function (in percent)",
184 DEFPARAM(PARAM_INLINE_UNIT_GROWTH
,
185 "inline-unit-growth",
186 "how much can given compilation unit grow because of the inlining (in percent)",
188 DEFPARAM(PARAM_INLINE_CALL_COST
,
190 "expense of call operation relative to ordinary arithmetic operations",
193 /* The GCSE optimization will be disabled if it would require
194 significantly more memory than this value.
*/
195 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_GCSE_MEMORY
,
197 "The maximum amount of memory to be allocated by GCSE",
198 50 * 1024 * 1024, 0, 0)
199 /* The number of repetitions of copy
/const prop and PRE to run.
*/
200 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_GCSE_PASSES
,
202 "The maximum number of passes to make when doing GCSE",
204 /* This is the threshold ratio when to perform partial redundancy
205 elimination after reload. We perform partial redundancy elimination
206 when the following holds
:
207 (Redundant load execution count
)
208 ------------------------------- >= GCSE_AFTER_RELOAD_PARTIAL_FRACTION
209 (Added loads execution count
) */
210 DEFPARAM(PARAM_GCSE_AFTER_RELOAD_PARTIAL_FRACTION
,
211 "gcse-after-reload-partial-fraction",
212 "The threshold ratio for performing partial redundancy elimination after reload",
214 /* This is the threshold ratio of the critical edges execution count compared to
215 the redundant loads execution count that permits performing the load
216 redundancy elimination in gcse after reload.
*/
217 DEFPARAM(PARAM_GCSE_AFTER_RELOAD_CRITICAL_FRACTION
,
218 "gcse-after-reload-critical-fraction",
219 "The threshold ratio of critical edges execution count that permit performing redundancy elimination after reload",
221 /* This parameter limits the number of insns in a loop that will be unrolled
,
222 and by how much the loop is unrolled.
224 This limit should be at most half of the peeling limits
: loop unroller
225 decides to not unroll loops that iterate fewer than
2*number of allowed
226 unrollings and thus we would have loops that are neither peeled or unrolled
228 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_UNROLLED_INSNS
,
229 "max-unrolled-insns",
230 "The maximum number of instructions to consider to unroll in a loop",
232 /* This parameter limits how many times the loop is unrolled depending
233 on number of insns really executed in each iteration.
*/
234 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_AVERAGE_UNROLLED_INSNS
,
235 "max-average-unrolled-insns",
236 "The maximum number of instructions to consider to unroll in a loop on average",
238 /* The maximum number of unrollings of a single loop.
*/
239 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_UNROLL_TIMES
,
241 "The maximum number of unrollings of a single loop",
243 /* The maximum number of insns of a peeled loop.
*/
244 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_PEELED_INSNS
,
246 "The maximum number of insns of a peeled loop",
248 /* The maximum number of peelings of a single loop.
*/
249 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_PEEL_TIMES
,
251 "The maximum number of peelings of a single loop",
253 /* The maximum number of insns of a peeled loop.
*/
254 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_COMPLETELY_PEELED_INSNS
,
255 "max-completely-peeled-insns",
256 "The maximum number of insns of a completely peeled loop",
258 /* The maximum number of peelings of a single loop that is peeled completely.
*/
259 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_COMPLETELY_PEEL_TIMES
,
260 "max-completely-peel-times",
261 "The maximum number of peelings of a single loop that is peeled completely",
263 /* The maximum number of insns of a peeled loop that rolls only once.
*/
264 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_ONCE_PEELED_INSNS
,
265 "max-once-peeled-insns",
266 "The maximum number of insns of a peeled loop that rolls only once",
269 /* The maximum number of insns of an unswitched loop.
*/
270 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_UNSWITCH_INSNS
,
271 "max-unswitch-insns",
272 "The maximum number of insns of an unswitched loop",
274 /* The maximum level of recursion in unswitch_single_loop.
*/
275 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_UNSWITCH_LEVEL
,
276 "max-unswitch-level",
277 "The maximum number of unswitchings in a single loop",
280 /* The maximum number of iterations of a loop the brute force algorithm
281 for analysis of # of iterations of the loop tries to evaluate.
*/
282 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_ITERATIONS_TO_TRACK
,
283 "max-iterations-to-track",
284 "Bound on the number of iterations the brute force # of iterations analysis algorithm evaluates",
287 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_SMS_LOOP_NUMBER
,
288 "max-sms-loop-number",
289 "Maximum number of loops to perform swing modulo scheduling on (mainly for debugging)",
292 /* This parameter is used to tune SMS
MAX II calculations.
*/
293 DEFPARAM(PARAM_SMS_MAX_II_FACTOR
,
295 "A factor for tuning the upper bound that swing modulo scheduler uses for scheduling a loop",
297 DEFPARAM(PARAM_SMS_DFA_HISTORY
,
299 "The number of cycles the swing modulo scheduler considers when \
300 checking conflicts using DFA",
302 DEFPARAM(PARAM_SMS_LOOP_AVERAGE_COUNT_THRESHOLD
,
303 "sms-loop-average-count-threshold",
304 "A threshold on the average loop count considered by the swing modulo scheduler",
307 DEFPARAM(HOT_BB_COUNT_FRACTION
,
308 "hot-bb-count-fraction",
309 "Select fraction of the maximal count of repetitions of basic block in program given basic block needs to have to be considered hot",
311 DEFPARAM(HOT_BB_FREQUENCY_FRACTION
,
312 "hot-bb-frequency-fraction",
313 "Select fraction of the maximal frequency of executions of basic block in function given basic block needs to have to be considered hot",
315 DEFPARAM(TRACER_DYNAMIC_COVERAGE_FEEDBACK
,
316 "tracer-dynamic-coverage-feedback",
317 "The percentage of function, weighted by execution frequency, that must be covered by trace formation. Used when profile feedback is available",
319 DEFPARAM(TRACER_DYNAMIC_COVERAGE
,
320 "tracer-dynamic-coverage",
321 "The percentage of function, weighted by execution frequency, that must be covered by trace formation. Used when profile feedback is not available",
323 DEFPARAM(TRACER_MAX_CODE_GROWTH
,
324 "tracer-max-code-growth",
325 "Maximal code growth caused by tail duplication (in percent)",
327 DEFPARAM(TRACER_MIN_BRANCH_RATIO
,
328 "tracer-min-branch-ratio",
329 "Stop reverse growth if the reverse probability of best edge is less than this threshold (in percent)",
331 DEFPARAM(TRACER_MIN_BRANCH_PROBABILITY_FEEDBACK
,
332 "tracer-min-branch-probability-feedback",
333 "Stop forward growth if the probability of best edge is less than this threshold (in percent). Used when profile feedback is available",
335 DEFPARAM(TRACER_MIN_BRANCH_PROBABILITY
,
336 "tracer-min-branch-probability",
337 "Stop forward growth if the probability of best edge is less than this threshold (in percent). Used when profile feedback is not available",
340 /* The maximum number of incoming edges to consider for crossjumping.
*/
341 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_CROSSJUMP_EDGES
,
342 "max-crossjump-edges",
343 "The maximum number of incoming edges to consider for crossjumping",
346 /* The minimum number of matching instructions to consider for crossjumping.
*/
347 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MIN_CROSSJUMP_INSNS
,
348 "min-crossjump-insns",
349 "The minimum number of matching instructions to consider for crossjumping",
352 /* The maximum number of insns to duplicate when unfactoring computed gotos.
*/
353 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_GOTO_DUPLICATION_INSNS
,
354 "max-goto-duplication-insns",
355 "The maximum number of insns to duplicate when unfactoring computed gotos",
358 /* The maximum length of path considered in cse.
*/
359 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_CSE_PATH_LENGTH
,
360 "max-cse-path-length",
361 "The maximum length of path considered in cse",
364 /* The cost of expression in loop invariant motion that is considered
366 DEFPARAM(PARAM_LIM_EXPENSIVE
,
368 "The minimum cost of an expensive expression in the loop invariant motion",
371 /* Bound on number of candidates for induction variables below that
372 all candidates are considered for each use in induction variable
375 DEFPARAM(PARAM_IV_CONSIDER_ALL_CANDIDATES_BOUND
,
376 "iv-consider-all-candidates-bound",
377 "Bound on number of candidates below that all candidates are considered in iv optimizations",
380 /* The induction variable optimizations give up on loops that contain more
381 induction variable uses.
*/
383 DEFPARAM(PARAM_IV_MAX_CONSIDERED_USES
,
384 "iv-max-considered-uses",
385 "Bound on number of iv uses in loop optimized in iv optimizations",
388 /* If there are at most this number of ivs in the set
, try removing unnecessary
389 ivs from the set always.
*/
391 DEFPARAM(PARAM_IV_ALWAYS_PRUNE_CAND_SET_BOUND
,
392 "iv-always-prune-cand-set-bound",
393 "If number of candidates in the set is smaller, we always try to remove unused ivs during its optimization",
396 DEFPARAM(PARAM_SCEV_MAX_EXPR_SIZE
,
397 "scev-max-expr-size",
398 "Bound on size of expressions used in the scalar evolutions analyzer",
401 /* The product of the next two is used to decide whether or not to
402 use .GLOBAL_VAR. See tree
-dfa.c.
*/
403 DEFPARAM(PARAM_GLOBAL_VAR_THRESHOLD
,
404 "global-var-threshold",
405 "Given N calls and V call-clobbered vars in a function. Use .GLOBAL_VAR if NxV is larger than this limit",
408 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_CSELIB_MEMORY_LOCATIONS
,
409 "max-cselib-memory-locations",
410 "The maximum memory locations recorded by cselib",
413 #ifdef ENABLE_GC_ALWAYS_COLLECT
414 # define GGC_MIN_EXPAND_DEFAULT
0
415 # define GGC_MIN_HEAPSIZE_DEFAULT
0
417 # define GGC_MIN_EXPAND_DEFAULT
30
418 # define GGC_MIN_HEAPSIZE_DEFAULT
4096
421 DEFPARAM(GGC_MIN_EXPAND
,
423 "Minimum heap expansion to trigger garbage collection, as a percentage of the total size of the heap",
424 GGC_MIN_EXPAND_DEFAULT
, 0, 0)
426 DEFPARAM(GGC_MIN_HEAPSIZE
,
428 "Minimum heap size before we start collecting garbage, in kilobytes",
429 GGC_MIN_HEAPSIZE_DEFAULT
, 0, 0)
431 #undef GGC_MIN_EXPAND_DEFAULT
432 #undef GGC_MIN_HEAPSIZE_DEFAULT
434 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_RELOAD_SEARCH_INSNS
,
435 "max-reload-search-insns",
436 "The maximum number of instructions to search backward when looking for equivalent reload",
439 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_ALIASED_VOPS
,
441 "The maximum number of virtual operands allowed to represent aliases before triggering alias grouping",
444 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_SCHED_REGION_BLOCKS
,
445 "max-sched-region-blocks",
446 "The maximum number of blocks in a region to be considered for interblock scheduling",
449 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_SCHED_REGION_INSNS
,
450 "max-sched-region-insns",
451 "The maximum number of insns in a region to be considered for interblock scheduling",
454 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MIN_SPEC_PROB
,
456 "The minimum probability of reaching a source block for interblock speculative scheduling",
459 DEFPARAM(PARAM_MAX_LAST_VALUE_RTL
,
460 "max-last-value-rtl",
461 "The maximum number of RTL nodes that can be recorded as combiner's last value",
464 /* INTEGER_CST nodes are shared for values
[{-1,0} .. N
) for
465 {signed
,unsigned
} integral types. This determines N.
466 Experimentation shows
256 to be a good value.
*/
467 DEFPARAM (PARAM_INTEGER_SHARE_LIMIT
,
468 "integer-share-limit",
469 "The upper bound for sharing integer constants",
472 /* Incremental SSA updates for virtual operands may be very slow if
473 there is a large number of mappings to process. In those cases
, it
474 is faster to rewrite the virtual symbols from scratch as if they
475 had been recently introduced. This heuristic cannot be applied to
476 SSA mappings for real SSA names
, only symbols kept in FUD chains.
478 PARAM_MIN_VIRTUAL_MAPPINGS specifies the minimum number of virtual
479 mappings that should be registered to trigger the heuristic.
481 PARAM_VIRTUAL_MAPPINGS_TO_SYMS_RATIO specifies the ratio between
482 mappings and symbols. If the number of virtual mappings is
483 PARAM_VIRTUAL_MAPPINGS_TO_SYMS_RATIO bigger than the number of
484 virtual symbols to be updated
, then the updater switches to a full
485 update for those symbols.
*/
486 DEFPARAM (PARAM_MIN_VIRTUAL_MAPPINGS
,
487 "min-virtual-mappings",
488 "Minimum number of virtual mappings to consider switching to full virtual renames",
491 DEFPARAM (PARAM_VIRTUAL_MAPPINGS_TO_SYMS_RATIO
,
492 "virtual-mappings-ratio",
493 "Ratio between virtual mappings and virtual symbols to do full virtual renames",
496 DEFPARAM (PARAM_SSP_BUFFER_SIZE
,
498 "The lower bound for a buffer to be considered for stack smashing protection",