This adds support for the align_value attribute. This attribute is supported by
Intel's compiler (versions 14.0+), and several of my HPC users have requested
support in Clang. It specifies an alignment assumption on the values to which a
pointer points, and is used by numerical libraries to encourage efficient
generation of vector code.
Of course, we already have an aligned attribute that can specify enhanced
alignment for a type, so why is this additional attribute important? The
problem is that if you want to specify that an input array of T is, say,
64-byte aligned, you could try this:
typedef double aligned_double attribute((aligned(64)));
void foo(aligned_double *P) {
double x = P[0]; // This is fine.
double y = P[1]; // What alignment did those doubles have again?
}
the access here to P[1] causes problems. P was specified as a pointer to type
aligned_double, and any object of type aligned_double must be 64-byte aligned.
But if P[0] is 64-byte aligned, then P[1] cannot be, and this access causes
undefined behavior. Getting round this problem requires a lot of awkward
casting and hand-unrolling of loops, all of which is bad.
With the align_value attribute, we can accomplish what we'd like in a well
defined way:
typedef double *aligned_double_ptr attribute((align_value(64)));
void foo(aligned_double_ptr P) {
double x = P[0]; // This is fine.
double y = P[1]; // This is fine too.
}
This attribute does not create a new type (and so it not part of the type
system), and so will only "propagate" through templates, auto, etc. by
optimizer deduction after inlining. This seems consistent with Intel's
implementation (thanks to Alexey for confirming the various Intel-compiler
behaviors).
As a final note, I would have chosen to call this aligned_value, not
align_value, for better naming consistency with the aligned attribute, but I
think it would be more useful to users to adopt Intel's name.
llvm-svn: 218910
In addition to __builtin_assume_aligned, GCC also supports an assume_aligned
attribute which specifies the alignment (and optional offset) of a function's
return value. Here we implement support for the assume_aligned attribute by making
use of the @llvm.assume intrinsic.
llvm-svn: 218500
This makes use of the recently-added @llvm.assume intrinsic to implement a
__builtin_assume(bool) intrinsic (to provide additional information to the
optimizer). This hooks up __assume in MS-compatibility mode to mirror
__builtin_assume (the semantics have been intentionally kept compatible), and
implements GCC's __builtin_assume_aligned as assume((p - o) & mask == 0). LLVM
now contains special logic to deal with assumptions of this form.
llvm-svn: 217349
the no-arguments case. Don't expand this to an __attribute__((nonnull(A, B,
C))) attribute, since that does the wrong thing for function templates and
varargs functions.
In passing, fix a grammar error in the diagnostic, a crash if
__attribute__((nonnull(N))) is applied to a varargs function,
a bug where the same null argument could be diagnosed multiple
times if there were multiple nonnull attributes referring to it,
and a bug where nonnull attributes would not be accumulated correctly
across redeclarations.
llvm-svn: 216520
Updating the diagnostics in the launch_bounds test since they have been improved in that case. Adding a test for nonnull since it has little test coverage, but has truly variadic arguments.
llvm-svn: 214407
to be applied to class or protocols. This will direct IRGen
for Objective-C metadata to use the new name in various places
where class and protocol names are needed.
rdar:// 17631257
llvm-svn: 213167
It's true the MSVC doesn't warn about dllimport when applied to e.g. a typedef,
but that applies to dllexport too. I'd like us to be consistent, and I think
the right thing to do is to warn.
The original test that came with implementing the old behaviour doesn't provide
a good motivation, and it said it was checking that we're not repoting an *error*,
which is still true since this is just a warning.
There are plenty of tests e.g. in Sema/dllimport.c to check that we do warn
about dllimport on non functions or variables.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3832
llvm-svn: 209546
This is a GNU attribute that causes calls within the attributed function
to be inlined where possible. It is implemented by giving such calls the
alwaysinline attribute.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3816
llvm-svn: 209217
This is a GNU attribute that allows split stacks to be turned off on a
per-function basis.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3817
llvm-svn: 209167
Note that for backwards compatibility, an unnamed capability will default to being a "mutex." This allows the deprecated lockable attribute to continue to function.
llvm-svn: 203012
The __forceinline keyword's semantics are now recast as AlwaysInline and
the kw___forceinline token has its language mode set for KEYMS.
This preserves the semantics of the previous implementation but with
less duplication of code.
llvm-svn: 202131
Aaron Ballman