For a default visibility external linkage definition, dso_local is set for ELF
-fno-pic/-fpie and COFF and Mach-O. Since default clang -cc1 for ELF is similar
to -fpic ("PIC Level" is not set), this nuance causes unneeded binary format differences.
To make emitted IR similar, ELF -cc1 -fpic will default to -fno-semantic-interposition,
which sets dso_local for default visibility external linkage definitions.
To make this flip smooth and enable future (dso_local as definition default),
this patch replaces (function) `define ` with `define{{.*}} `,
(variable/constant/alias) `= ` with `={{.*}} `, or inserts appropriate `{{.*}} `.
This reverts commit 55c4ff91bd.
Issues were introduced as discussed in https://reviews.llvm.org/D88241
where this change made previous bugs in the linker and BitCodeWriter
visible.
Make the corresponding change that was made for byval in
b7141207a4. Like byval, this requires a
bulk update of the test IR tests to include the type before this can
be mandatory.
After the recent discussion on cfe-dev 'Can indirect class parameters be
noalias?' [1], it seems like using using noalias is problematic for
current C++, but should be allowed for C-only code.
This patch introduces a new option to let the user indicate that it is
safe to mark indirect class parameters as noalias. Note that this also
applies to external callers, e.g. it might not be safe to use this flag
for C functions that are called by C++ functions.
In targets that allocate indirect arguments in the called function, this
enables more agressive optimizations with respect to memory operations
and brings a ~1% - 2% codesize reduction for some programs.
[1] : http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-July/066353.html
Reviewed By: rjmccall
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85473
Fangrui Song