Summary:
Half-precision floating point arguments and returns are currently
promoted to either float or int32 in clang's CodeGen and there's
no existing support for the lowering of `half` arguments and returns
from IR in AArch32's backend.
Such frontend coercions, implemented as coercion through memory
in clang, can cause a series of issues in argument lowering, as causing
arguments to be stored on the wrong bits on big-endian architectures
and incurring in missing overflow detections in the return of certain
functions.
This patch introduces the handling of half-precision arguments and returns in
the backend using the actual "half" type on the IR. Using the "half"
type the backend is able to properly enforce the AAPCS' directions for
those arguments, making sure they are stored on the proper bits of the
registers and performing the necessary floating point convertions.
Reviewers: rjmccall, olista01, asl, efriedma, ostannard, SjoerdMeijer
Reviewed By: ostannard
Subscribers: stuij, hiraditya, dmgreen, llvm-commits, chill, dnsampaio, danielkiss, kristof.beyls, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75169
On some Arm cores there is a performance penalty when forwarding from an
S register to a D register. Calculating VMAX in a D register creates
false forwarding hazards, so don't do that unless we're on a core which
specifically asks for it.
Patch by James Greenhalgh
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75248
This adds code generation support for the FP16 vmaxnm/vminnm scalar
instructions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44675
llvm-svn: 330034
Lucas Prates