Allow multiversioning declarations to match when the actual formal
linkage matches, not just when the storage class is identical.
Additionally, change the ambiguous 'linkage' mismatch to be more
specific and say 'language linkage'.
ICC permits this, and after some extensive testing it looks like we can
support this with very little trouble. We intentionally don't choose to
do this with attribute-target (despite it likely working as well!)
because GCC does not support that, and introducing said
incompatibility doesn't seem worth it.
As documented here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/682969 and
https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/523346. cpu_dispatch multiversioning
is an ICC feature that provides for function multiversioning.
This feature is implemented with two attributes: First, cpu_specific,
which specifies the individual function versions. Second, cpu_dispatch,
which specifies the location of the resolver function and the list of
resolvable functions.
This is valuable since it provides a mechanism where the resolver's TU
can be specified in one location, and the individual implementions
each in their own translation units.
The goal of this patch is to be source-compatible with ICC, so this
implementation diverges from the ICC implementation in a few ways:
1- Linux x86/64 only: This implementation uses ifuncs in order to
properly dispatch functions. This is is a valuable performance benefit
over the ICC implementation. A future patch will be provided to enable
this feature on Windows, but it will obviously more closely fit ICC's
implementation.
2- CPU Identification functions: ICC uses a set of custom functions to identify
the feature list of the host processor. This patch uses the cpu_supports
functionality in order to better align with 'target' multiversioning.
1- cpu_dispatch function def/decl: ICC's cpu_dispatch requires that the function
marked cpu_dispatch be an empty definition. This patch supports that as well,
however declarations are also permitted, since the linker will solve the
issue of multiple emissions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47474
llvm-svn: 337552
Erich Keane