We are supporting quadword lock free atomics on AIX. For the situation that users on AIX are using a libatomic that is lock-based for quadword types, we can't enable quadword lock free atomics by default on AIX in case user's new code and existing code accessing the same shared atomic quadword variable, we can't guarentee atomicity. So we need an option to enable quadword lock free atomics on AIX, thus we can build a quadword lock-free libatomic(also for advanced users considering atomic performance critical) for users to make the transition smooth.
Reviewed By: shchenz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127189
Summary:
Change the default ABI to be compatible with GCC. For 32-bit ELF
targets other than Linux, Clang now returns small structs in registers
r3/r4. This affects FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. There is no change for
32-bit Linux, where Clang continues to return all structs in memory.
Add clang options -maix-struct-return (to return structs in memory) and
-msvr4-struct-return (to return structs in registers) to be compatible
with gcc. These options are only for PPC32; reject them on PPC64 and
other targets. The options are like -fpcc-struct-return and
-freg-struct-return for X86_32, and use similar code.
To actually return a struct in registers, coerce it to an integer of the
same size. LLVM may optimize the code to remove unnecessary accesses to
memory, and will return i32 in r3 or i64 in r3:r4.
Fixes PR#40736
Patch by George Koehler!
Reviewed By: jhibbits, nemanjai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73290
Kai Luo