Previously mips16 was sharing the pattern addr which is used for mips32
and mips64. This had a number of problems:
1) Storing and loading byte and halfword quantities for mips16 has particular
problems due to the primarily non mips16 nature of SP. When we must
load/store byte/halfword stack objects in a function, we must create a mips16
alias register for SP. This functionality is tested in stchar.ll.
2) We need to have an FP register under certain conditions (such as
dynamically sized alloca). We use mips16 register S0 for this purpose.
In this case, we also use this register when accessing frame objects so this
issue also affects the complex pattern addr16. This functionality is
tested in alloca16.ll.
The Mips16InstrInfo.td has been updated to use addr16 instead of addr.
The complex pattern C++ function for addr has been copied to addr16 and
updated to reflect the above issues.
llvm-svn: 166897
the ones that get or set the frame index for the $gp save slot.
Remove the piece of code in MipsFunctionInfo::getGlobalBaseReg() which returns
GP. This function should always return a virtual register.
llvm-svn: 156695
reserving a physical register ($gp or $28) for that purpose.
This will completely eliminate loads that restore the value of $gp after every
function call, if the register allocator assigns a callee-saved register, or
eliminate unnecessary loads if it assigns a temporary register.
example:
.cpload $25 // set $gp.
...
.cprestore 16 // store $gp to stack slot 16($sp).
...
jalr $25 // function call. clobbers $gp.
lw $gp, 16($sp) // not emitted if callee-saved reg is chosen.
...
lw $2, 4($gp)
...
jalr $25 // function call.
lw $gp, 16($sp) // not emitted if $gp is not live after this instruction.
...
llvm-svn: 151402
Reed Kotler