Bad codegen for comparison with postfix increment
Iain Buclaw
ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Thu May 9 18:24:12 UTC 2024
On Wednesday, 8 May 2024 at 14:26:25 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> When the following program is compiled with GDC 14.1, the
> assertion fails:
>
> void main() {
> int d = 42;
> bool o = d > d++;
> assert(o == false);
> }
>
> (Godbolt: https://d.godbolt.org/z/e63xbb9Td)
>
> The assertion passes when the program is compiled with DMD
> 2.108.0.
>
> The same bug was recently reported for LDC:
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4651
I want to say that rewriting `d > d++` to `d++ < d` is a valid
optimization.
See also `opCmp` rewriting `a < b` into `b.opCmp(a)`
https://dlang.org/spec/operatoroverloading.html#compare
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