be deleted. This will be reapplied as soon as possible and before
the 3.6 branch date at any rate.
Approved by Jim Grosbach, Lang Hames, Rafael Espindola.
This reverts commits r215111, 215115, 215116, 215117, 215136.
llvm-svn: 215154
I am sure we will be finding bits and pieces of dead code for years to
come, but this is a good start.
Thanks to Lang Hames for making MCJIT a good replacement!
llvm-svn: 215111
to get the subtarget and that's accessible from the MachineFunction
now. This helps clear the way for smaller changes where we getting
a subtarget will require passing in a MachineFunction/Function as
well.
llvm-svn: 214988
Commits r213915 and r214718 fix recognition of shuffle masks for vmrg*
and vpku*um instructions for a little-endian target, by swapping the
input arguments. The vsldoi instruction requires similar treatment,
and also needs its shift count adjusted for little endian.
Reviewed by Ulrich Weigand.
This is a bug fix candidate for release 3.5 (and hopefully the last of
those for PowerPC).
llvm-svn: 214923
shorter/easier and have the DAG use that to do the same lookup. This
can be used in the future for TargetMachine based caching lookups from
the MachineFunction easily.
Update the MIPS subtarget switching machinery to update this pointer
at the same time it runs.
llvm-svn: 214838
My original LE implementation of the vsldoi instruction, with its
altivec.h interfaces vec_sld and vec_vsldoi, produces incorrect
shufflevector operations in the LLVM IR. Correct code is generated
because the back end handles the incorrect shufflevector in a
consistent manner.
This patch and a companion patch for Clang correct this problem by
removing the fixup from altivec.h and the corresponding fixup from the
PowerPC back end. Several test cases are also modified to reflect the
now-correct LLVM IR.
llvm-svn: 214800
In commit r213915, Bill fixed little-endian usage of vmrgh* and vmrgl*
by swapping the input arguments. As it turns out, the exact same fix
is also required for the vpkuhum/vpkuwum patterns.
This fixes another regression in llvmpipe when vector support is
enabled.
Reviewed by Bill Schmidt.
llvm-svn: 214718
I ran into some test failures where common code changed vector division
by constant into a multiply-high operation (MULHU). But these are not
implemented by the back-end, so we failed to recognize the insn.
Fixed by marking MULHU/MULHS as Expand for vector types.
llvm-svn: 214716
This patch refactors code generation of vector comparisons.
This fixes a wrong code-gen bug for ISD::SETGE for floating-point types,
and improves generated code for vector comparisons in general.
Specifically, the patch moves all logic deciding how to implement vector
comparisons into getVCmpInst, which gets two extra boolean outputs
indicating to its caller whether its needs to swap the input operands
and/or negate the result of the comparison. Apart from implementing
these two modifications as directed by getVCmpInst, there is no need
to ever implement vector comparisons in any other manner; in particular,
there is never a need to perform two separate comparisons (e.g. one for
equal and one for greater-than, as code used to do before this patch).
Reviewed by Bill Schmidt.
llvm-svn: 214714
when let can do the same thing. Keep the 64bit variants as codegen-only.
While they have a different register class, the encoding is the same for
32bit and 64bit mode. Having both present would otherwise confuse the
disassembler.
llvm-svn: 214636
so that we can use it to get the old-style JIT out of the subtarget.
This code should be removed when the old-style JIT is removed
(imminently).
llvm-svn: 214560
Found by inspection while looking at PR20280: code would mark slots
in the parameter save area where a byval parameter is passed as
"immutable". This is not correct since code is allowed to modify
byval parameters in place in the parameter save area.
llvm-svn: 214517
Altivec vector loads on PowerPC have an interesting property: They always load
from an aligned address (by rounding down the address actually provided if
necessary). In order to generate an actual unaligned load, you can generate two
load instructions, one with the original address, one offset by one vector
length, and use a special permutation to extract the bytes desired.
When this was originally implemented, I generated these two loads using regular
ISD::LOAD nodes, now marked as aligned. Unfortunately, there is a problem with
this:
The alignment of a load does not contribute to its identity, and SDNodes
are uniqued. So, imagine that we have some unaligned load, L1, that is not
aligned. The routine will create two loads, L1(aligned) and (L1+16)(aligned).
Further imagine that there had already existed a load (L1+16)(unaligned) with
the same chain operand as the load L1. When (L1+16)(aligned) is created as part
of the lowering of L1, this load *is* also the (L1+16)(unaligned) node, just
now marked as aligned (because the new alignment overwrites the old). But the
original users of (L1+16)(unaligned) now get the data intended for the
permutation yielding the data for L1, and (L1+16)(unaligned) no longer exists
to get its own permutation-based expansion. This was PR19991.
A second potential problem has to do with the MMOs on these loads, which can be
used by AA during instruction scheduling to break chain-based dependencies. If
the new "aligned" loads get the MMO from the original unaligned load, this does
not represent the fact that it will load data from below the original address.
Normally, this would not matter, but this load might be combined with another
load pair for a previous vector, and then the dependency on the otherwise-
ignored lower bytes can matter.
To fix both problems, instead of generating the necessary loads using regular
ISD::LOAD instructions, ppc_altivec_lvx intrinsics are used instead. These are
provided with MMOs with a conservative address range.
Unfortunately, I no longer have a failing test case (since PR19991 was
reported, other changes in CodeGen have forced this bug back into hiding it
again). Nevertheless, this should fix the underlying problem.
llvm-svn: 214481
When generating unaligned vector loads, we need to search for other loads or
stores nearby offset by one vector width. If we find one, then we know that we
can safely generate another aligned load at that address. Otherwise, we must
generate the next load using an offset of the vector width minus one byte (so
we don't read off the end of the allocation if the base unaligned address
happened to be aligned at runtime). We had previously done this using only
other vector loads and stores, but did not consider the PowerPC-specific vector
load/store intrinsics. Now we'll also consider vector intrinsics. By itself,
this change is a feature enhancement, but is a necessary step toward fixing the
underlying problem behind PR19991.
llvm-svn: 214469
Currently when DAGCombine converts loads feeding a switch into a switch of
addresses feeding a load the new load inherits the isInvariant flag of the left
side. This is incorrect since invariant loads can be reordered in cases where it
is illegal to reoarder normal loads.
This patch adds an isInvariant parameter to getExtLoad() and updates all call
sites to pass in the data if they have it or false if they don't. It also
changes the DAGCombine to use that data to make the right decision when
creating the new load.
llvm-svn: 214449
While LLVM now supports both ELFv1 and ELFv2 ABIs, their use is currently
hard-coded via the target triple: powerpc64-linux is always ELFv1, while
powerpc64le-linux is always ELFv2.
These are of course the most common scenarios, but in principle it is
possible to support the ELFv2 ABI on big-endian or the ELFv1 ABI on
little-endian systems (and GCC does support that), and there are some
special use cases for that (e.g. certain Linux kernel versions could
only be built using ELFv1 on LE).
This patch implements the LLVM side of supporting this. As precedent
on other platforms suggests, ABI options are passed to the back-end as
features. Thus, this patch implements two features "elfv1" and "elfv2"
that select the desired ABI if present. (If not, the LLVM uses the
same default rules as now.)
llvm-svn: 214072
Rename to allowsMisalignedMemoryAccess.
On R600, 8 and 16 byte accesses are mostly OK with 4-byte alignment,
and don't need to be split into multiple accesses. Vector loads with
an alignment of the element type are not uncommon in OpenCL code.
llvm-svn: 214055
Because the PowerPC vmrgh* and vmrgl* instructions have a built-in
big-endian bias, it is necessary to swap their inputs in little-endian
mode when using them to implement a vector shuffle. This was
previously missed in the vector LE implementation.
There was already logic to distinguish between unary and "normal"
vmrg* vector shuffles, so this patch extends that logic to use a third
option: "swapped" vmrg* vector shuffles that are used for little
endian in place of the "normal" ones.
I've updated the vec-shuffle-le.ll test to check for the expected
register ordering on the generated instructions.
This bug was discovered when testing the LE and ELFv2 patches for
safety if they were backported to 3.4. A different vectorization
decision was made in 3.4 than on mainline trunk, and that exposed the
problem. I've verified this fix takes care of that issue.
llvm-svn: 213915
This patch adds infrastructure support for passing array types
directly. These can be used by the front-end to pass aggregate
types (coerced to an appropriate array type). The details of the
array type being used inform the back-end about ABI-relevant
properties. Specifically, the array element type encodes:
- whether the parameter should be passed in FPRs, VRs, or just
GPRs/stack slots (for float / vector / integer element types,
respectively)
- what the alignment requirements of the parameter are when passed in
GPRs/stack slots (8 for float / 16 for vector / the element type
size for integer element types) -- this corresponds to the
"byval align" field
Using the infrastructure provided by this patch, a companion patch
to clang will enable two features:
- In the ELFv2 ABI, pass (and return) "homogeneous" floating-point
or vector aggregates in FPRs and VRs (this is similar to the ARM
homogeneous aggregate ABI)
- As an optimization for both ELFv1 and ELFv2 ABIs, pass aggregates
that fit fully in registers without using the "byval" mechanism
The patch uses the functionArgumentNeedsConsecutiveRegisters callback
to encode that special treatment is required for all directly-passed
array types. The isInConsecutiveRegs / isInConsecutiveRegsLast bits set
as a results are then used to implement the required size and alignment
rules in CalculateStackSlotSize / CalculateStackSlotAlignment etc.
As a related change, the ABI routines have to be modified to support
passing floating-point types in GPRs. This is necessary because with
homogeneous aggregates of 4-byte float type we can now run out of FPRs
*before* we run out of the 64-byte argument save area that is shadowed
by GPRs. Any extra floating-point arguments that no longer fit in FPRs
must now be passed in GPRs until we run out of those too.
Note that there was already code to pass floating-point arguments in
GPRs used with vararg parameters, which was done by writing the argument
out to the argument save area first and then reloading into GPRs. The
patch re-implements this, however, in favor of code packing float arguments
directly via extension/truncation, BITCAST, and BUILD_PAIR operations.
This is required to support the ELFv2 ABI, since we cannot unconditionally
write to the argument save area (which the caller might not have allocated).
The change does, however, affect ELFv1 varags routines too; but even here
the overall effect should be advantageous: Instead of loading the argument
into the FPR, then storing the argument to the stack slot, and finally
reloading the argument from the stack slot into a GPR, the new code now
just loads the argument into the FPR, and subsequently loads the argument
into the GPR (via BITCAST). That BITCAST might imply a save/reload from
a stack temporary (in which case we're no worse than before); but it
might be implemented more efficiently in some cases.
The final part of the patch enables up to 8 FPRs and VRs for argument
return in PPCCallingConv.td; this is required to support returning
ELFv2 homogeneous aggregates. (Note that this doesn't affect other ABIs
since LLVM wil only look for which register to use if the parameter is
marked as "direct" return anyway.)
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 213493
This is a minor improvement in the ELFv2 ABI. In ELFv1, DWARF CFI
would represent a saved CR word (holding CR fields CR2, CR3, and CR4)
using just a single CFI record refering to CR2. In ELFv2 instead,
each of the CR fields is represented by its own CFI record. The
advantage is that the compiler can now chose to save just a single
(or two) CR fields instead of all of them, if those are the only ones
that actually need saving. That can lead to more efficient code using
mf(o)crf instead of the (slow) mfcr instruction.
Note that this patch does not (yet) implement this more efficient
code generation, but it does implement the part that is required to
be ABI compliant: creating multiple CFI records if multiple CR fields
are saved.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 213492
The ELFv2 ABI reduces the amount of stack required to implement an
ABI-compliant function call in two ways:
* the "linkage area" is reduced from 48 bytes to 32 bytes by
eliminating two unused doublewords
* the 64-byte "parameter save area" is now optional and need not be
present in certain cases (it remains mandatory in functions with
variable arguments, and functions that have any parameter that is
passed on the stack)
The following patch implements this required changes:
- reducing the linkage area, and associated relocation of the TOC save
slot, in getLinkageSize / getTOCSaveOffset (this requires updating all
callers of these routines to pass in the isELFv2ABI flag).
- (partially) handling the case where the parameter save are is optional
This latter part requires some extra explanation: Currently, we still
always allocate the parameter save area when *calling* a function.
That is certainly always compliant with the ABI, but may cause code to
allocate stack unnecessarily. This can be addressed by a follow-on
optimization patch.
On the *callee* side, in LowerFormalArguments, we *must* track
correctly whether the ABI guarantees that the caller has allocated
the parameter save area for our use, and the patch does so. However,
there is one complication: the code that handles incoming "byval"
arguments will currently *always* write to the parameter save area,
because it has to force incoming register arguments to the stack since
it must return an *address* to implement the byval semantics.
To fix this, the patch changes the LowerFormalArguments code to write
arguments to a freshly allocated stack slot on the function's own stack
frame instead of the argument save area in those cases where that area
is not present.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 213490
This patch builds upon the two preceding MC changes to implement the
basic ELFv2 function call convention. In the ELFv1 ABI, a "function
descriptor" was associated with every function, pointing to both the
entry address and the related TOC base (and a static chain pointer
for nested functions). Function pointers would actually refer to that
descriptor, and the indirect call sequence needed to load up both entry
address and TOC base.
In the ELFv2 ABI, there are no more function descriptors, and function
pointers simply refer to the (global) entry point of the function code.
Indirect function calls simply branch to that address, after loading it
up into r12 (as required by the ABI rules for a global entry point).
Direct function calls continue to just do a "bl" to the target symbol;
this will be resolved by the linker to the local entry point of the
target function if it is local, and to a PLT stub if it is global.
That PLT stub would then load the (global) entry point address of the
final target into r12 and branch to it. Note that when performing a
local function call, r2 must be set up to point to the current TOC
base: if the target ends up local, the ABI requires that its local
entry point is called with r2 set up; if the target ends up global,
the PLT stub requires that r2 is set up.
This patch implements all LLVM changes to implement that scheme:
- No longer create a function descriptor when emitting a function
definition (in EmitFunctionEntryLabel)
- Emit two entry points *if* the function needs the TOC base (r2)
anywhere (this is done EmitFunctionBodyStart; note that this cannot
be done in EmitFunctionBodyStart because the global entry point
prologue code must be *part* of the function as covered by debug info).
- In order to make use tracking of r2 (as needed above) work correctly,
mark direct function calls as implicitly using r2.
- Implement the ELFv2 indirect function call sequence (no function
descriptors; load target address into r12).
- When creating an ELFv2 object file, emit the .abiversion 2 directive
to tell the linker to create the appropriate version of PLT stubs.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 213489
As discussed in a previous checking to support the .localentry
directive on PowerPC, we need to inspect the actual target symbol
in needsRelocateWithSymbol to make the appropriate decision based
on that symbol's st_other bits.
Currently, needsRelocateWithSymbol does not get the target symbol.
However, it is directly available to its sole caller. This patch
therefore simply extends the needsRelocateWithSymbol by a new
parameter "const MCSymbolData &SD", passes in the target symbol,
and updates all derived implementations.
In particular, in the PowerPC implementation, this patch removes
the FIXME added by the previous checkin.
llvm-svn: 213487
A second binutils feature needed to support ELFv2 is the .localentry
directive. In the ELFv2 ABI, functions may have two entry points:
one for calling the routine locally via "bl", and one for calling the
function via function pointer (either at the source level, or implicitly
via a PLT stub for global calls). The two entry points share a single
ELF symbol, where the ELF symbol address identifies the global entry
point address, while the local entry point is found by adding a delta
offset to the symbol address. That offset is encoded into three
platform-specific bits of the ELF symbol st_other field.
The .localentry directive instructs the assembler to set those fields
to encode a particular offset. This is typically used by a function
prologue sequence like this:
func:
addis r2, r12, (.TOC.-func)@ha
addi r2, r2, (.TOC.-func)@l
.localentry func, .-func
Note that according to the ABI, when calling the global entry point,
r12 must be set to point the global entry point address itself; while
when calling the local entry point, r2 must be set to point to the TOC
base. The two instructions between the global and local entry point in
the above example translate the first requirement into the second.
This patch implements support in the PowerPC MC streamers to emit the
.localentry directive (both into assembler and ELF object output), as
well as support in the assembler parser to parse that directive.
In addition, there is another change required in MC fixup/relocation
handling to properly deal with relocations targeting function symbols
with two entry points: When the target function is known local, the MC
layer would immediately handle the fixup by inserting the target
address -- this is wrong, since the call may need to go to the local
entry point instead. The GNU assembler handles this case by *not*
directly resolving fixups targeting functions with two entry points,
but always emits the relocation and relies on the linker to handle
this case correctly. This patch changes LLVM MC to do the same (this
is done via the processFixupValue routine).
Similarly, there are cases where the assembler would normally emit a
relocation, but "simplify" it to a relocation targeting a *section*
instead of the actual symbol. For the same reason as above, this
may be wrong when the target symbol has two entry points. The GNU
assembler again handles this case by not performing this simplification
in that case, but leaving the relocation targeting the full symbol,
which is then resolved by the linker. This patch changes LLVM MC
to do the same (via the needsRelocateWithSymbol routine).
NOTE: The method used in this patch is overly pessimistic, since the
needsRelocateWithSymbol routine currently does not have access to the
actual target symbol, and thus must always assume that it might have
two entry points. This will be improved upon by a follow-on patch
that modifies common code to pass the target symbol when calling
needsRelocateWithSymbol.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 213485
ELFv2 binaries are marked by a bit in the ELF header e_flags field.
A new assembler directive .abiversion can be used to set that flag.
This patch implements support in the PowerPC MC streamers to emit the
.abiversion directive (both into assembler and ELF binary output),
as well as support in the assembler parser to parse the .abiversion
directive.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 213484
When handling an incoming byval argument, we need to possibly write
incoming registers to the stack in order to create an on-stack image
of the parameter, so we can return its address to common code.
This currently uses CreateFixedObject to access the parts of the
parameter save area where the argument is (or needs to be) stored.
However, sometimes we need to access multiple parts of that area,
e.g. to write multiple registers. The code currently uses a new
CreateFixedObject call for each of these accesses, resulting in
a patchwork of overlapping (fixed) stack objects.
This doesn't really matter in the case of fixed objects, since
any access to those turns into a fixed stackpointer + offset
address anyway. However, with the upcoming ELFv2 patches, we
may actually need to place an incoming argument into our *own*
stack frame instead of the caller's. This means we need to use
CreateStackObject instead, and we cannot have multiple overlapping
instances of those.
To make the rest of the argument handling code work equally in
both situations, this patch refactors it to always use just a
single call to CreateFixedObject, and access parts of that object
as required using address arithmetic. This way, we can in a future
patch substitute CreateStackObject without further changes.
No change to generated code intended.
llvm-svn: 213483
The PPCTargetLowering::SelectAddressRegImm routine needs to handle
FrameIndex nodes in a special manner, by tranlating them into a
TargetFrameIndex node. This was done in most cases, but seems to
have been neglected in one path: when the input tree has an OR of
the FrameIndex with an immediate. This can happen if the FrameIndex
can be proven to be sufficiently aligned that an OR of that immediate
is equivalent to an ADD.
The missing handling of FrameIndex in that case caused the SelectionDAG
instruction selection to miss opportunities to merge the OR back into
the FrameIndex node, leading to superfluous addi/ori instructions in
the final assembler output.
llvm-svn: 213482
This adds initial support for PPC32 ELF PIC (Position Independent Code; the
-fPIC variety), thus rectifying a long-standing deficiency in the PowerPC
backend.
Patch by Justin Hibbits!
llvm-svn: 213427
Refactoring; no functional changes intended
Removed PostRAScheduler bits from subtargets (X86, ARM).
Added PostRAScheduler bit to MCSchedModel class.
This bit is set by a CPU's scheduling model (if it exists).
Removed enablePostRAScheduler() function from TargetSubtargetInfo and subclasses.
Fixed the existing enablePostMachineScheduler() method to use the MCSchedModel (was just returning false!).
Added methods to TargetSubtargetInfo to allow overrides for AntiDepBreakMode, CriticalPathRCs, and OptLevel for PostRAScheduling.
Added enablePostRAScheduler() function to PostRAScheduler class which queries the subtarget for the above values.
Preserved existing scheduler behavior for ARM, MIPS, PPC, and X86:
a. ARM overrides the CPU's postRA settings by enabling postRA for any non-Thumb or Thumb2 subtarget.
b. MIPS overrides the CPU's postRA settings by enabling postRA for everything.
c. PPC overrides the CPU's postRA settings by enabling postRA for everything.
d. X86 is the only target that actually has postRA specified via sched model info.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4217
llvm-svn: 213101
This commit fixes a bug in PPCRegisterInfo::isFrameOffsetLegal that
could result in the LocalStackAlloc pass creating an MI instruction
out-of-range displacement:
%vreg17<def> = LD 33184, %vreg31; mem:LD8[%g](align=32)
%G8RC:%vreg17 G8RC_and_G8RC_NOX0:%vreg31
(In final assembler output the top bits are stripped off, resulting
in a negative offset loading from below the stack pointer.)
Common code expects the isFrameOffsetLegal routine to verify whether
adding a given offset to the offset already present in the instruction
results in a valid displacement. However, on PowerPC the routine
did not take the already present instruction offset into account.
This commit fixes isFrameOffsetLegal to add the instruction offset,
and updates a local caller (needsFrameBaseReg) to no longer add the
instruction offset itself before calling isFrameOffsetLegal.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 212832
This changes the implementation of atomic NAND operations
from "a & ~b" (compatible with GCC < 4.4) to actual "~(a & b)"
(compatible with GCC >= 4.4).
This is in line with the common-code and ARM back-end change
implemented in r212433.
llvm-svn: 212547
Arguments passed as "byval align" should get the specified alignment
in the parameter save area. There was some code in PPCISelLowering.cpp
that attempted to implement this, but this didn't work correctly:
while code did update the ArgOffset value, it neglected to update
the PtrOff value (which was already computed from the old ArgOffset),
and it also neglected to update GPR_idx -- fields skipped due to
alignment in the save area must likewise be skipped in GPRs.
This patch fixes and simplifies this logic by:
- handling argument offset alignment right at the beginning
of argument processing, using a new helper routine
CalculateStackSlotAlignment (this avoids having to update
PtrOff and other derived values later on)
- not tracking GPR_idx separately, but always computing the
correct GPR_idx for each argument *from* its ArgOffset
- removing some redundant computation in LowerFormalArguments:
MinReservedArea must equal ArgOffset after argument processing,
so there's no use in computing it twice.
[This doesn't change the behavior of the current clang front-end,
since that never creates "byval align" arguments at the moment.
This will change with a follow-on patch, however.]
llvm-svn: 212476
The argument list vector is never used after it has been passed to the
CallLoweringInfo and moving it to the CallLoweringInfo is cleaner and
pretty much as cheap as keeping a pointer to it.
llvm-svn: 212135
I've run into a bug where current LLVM at -O0 (with fast-isel)
generated invalid code like:
ld 0, 20936(1) # 8-byte Folded Reload
stw 12, 10348(0)
stw 12, 10344(0)
The underlying vreg had been introduced as base register by the
Local Stack Slot Allocation pass. That register was constrained
to G8RC by PPCRegisterInfo::materializeFrameBaseRegister to match
the ADDI instruction used to set it, but it was *not* constrained
to G8RC_NOX0 to fit the *use* of the register in an address.
That should have happened in PPCRegisterInfo::resolveFrameIndex.
This patch adds an appropriate constrainRegClass call.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 211897
includes handling DIR_PWR8 where appropriate
The P7Model Itinerary is currently tied in for use under the P8Model, and will be updated later.
llvm-svn: 211779
PR20071 identifies a problem in PowerPC's fast-isel implementation for
floating-point conversion to integer. The fctiduz instruction was added in
Power ISA 2.06 (i.e., Power7 and later). However, this instruction is being
generated regardless of which 64-bit PowerPC target is selected.
The intent is for fast-isel to punt to DAG selection when this instruction is
not available. This patch implements that change. For testing purposes, the
existing fast-isel-conversion.ll test adds a RUN line for -mcpu=970 and tests
for the expected code generation. Additionally, the existing test
fast-isel-conversion-p5.ll was found to be incorrectly expecting the
unavailable instruction to be generated. I've removed these test variants
since we have adequate coverage in fast-isel-conversion.ll.
llvm-svn: 211627
As of r211495, the only remaining users of getMinCallFrameSize are in
core ABI code (LowerFormalParameter / LowerCall). This is actually a
good thing, since the details of the parameter save area are ABI specific.
With the new ELFv2 ABI in particular, the rules defining the size of the
save area will become significantly more complex, so it wouldn't make
sense to implement those outside ABI code that has all required
information.
In preparation, this patch eliminates the getMinCallFrameSize (and
associated getMinCallArgumentsSize) routines, and inlines them into all
callers. Note that since nearly all call arguments are constant, this
allows simplifying the inlined copies to a single line everywhere.
No change in generate code expected.
llvm-svn: 211497
The PPCFrameLowering::determineFrameLayout routine currently ensures
that every function that allocates a stack frame provides space for the
parameter save area (via PPCFrameLowering::getMinCallFrameSize).
This is actually not necessary. There may be functions that never call
another routine but still allocate a frame; those do not require the
parameter save area. In the future, with the ELFv2 ABI, even some
routines that do call other functions do not need to allocate the
parameter save area.
While it is not a bug to allocate the parameter area when it is not
needed, it is better to avoid it to save stack space.
Note that when any particular function call requires the parameter save
area, this space will already have been included by ABI code in the size
the CALLSEQ_START insn is annotated with, and therefore included in the
size returned by MFI->getMaxCallFrameSize().
This means that determineFrameLayout simply does not need to care about
the parameter save area. (It still needs to ensure that every frame
provides the linkage area.) This is implemented by this patch.
Note that this exposed a bug in the new fast-isel code where the parameter
area was *not* included in the CALLSEQ_START size; this is also fixed.
A couple of test cases needed to be adapted for the new (smaller) stack
frame size those tests now see.
llvm-svn: 211495
As remarked in the commit message to r211493, in several places
throughout the 64-bit SVR4 ABI code there are calls to
PPCFrameLowering::getLinkageSize and getMinCallFrameSize
using an incorrect IsDarwin argument of "true".
(Some of those were made explicit by the above refactoring patch, others
have been there all along.)
This patch fixes those places to pass "false" for IsDarwin.
No change in generated code expected.
llvm-svn: 211494
The PPCISelLowering.cpp routines PPCTargetLowering::setMinReservedArea and
CalculateParameterAndLinkageAreaSize are currently used as subroutines
from both 64-bit SVR4 and Darwin ABI code.
However, the two ABIs are already quite different w.r.t. AltiVec
conventions, and they will become more different when the ELFv2 ABI is
supported. Also, in general it seems better to disentangle ABI support
routines for different ABIs to avoid accidentally affecting one ABI when
intending to change only the other.
(Actually, the current code strictly speaking already contains a bug:
these routines call PPCFrameLowering::getMinCallFrameSize and
PPCFrameLowering::getLinkageSize with the IsDarwin parameter set to
"true" even on 64-bit SVR4. This bug currently has no adverse effect
since those routines always return the same for 64-bit SVR4 and 64-bit
Darwin, but it still seems wrong ... I'll fix this in a follow-up
commit shortly.)
To remove this code sharing, I'm simply inlining both routines into all
call sites (there are just two each, one for 64-bit SVR4 and one for
Darwin), and simplifying due to constant parameters where possible.
A small piece of code that *does* make sense to share is refactored into
the new routine EnsureStackAlignment, now also called from 32-bit SVR4
ABI code.
No change in generated code is expected.
llvm-svn: 211493
Current 64-bit SVR4 code seems to have some remnants of Darwin code
in AltiVec argument handing. This had the effect that AltiVec arguments
(or subsequent arguments) were not correctly placed in the parameter area
in some cases.
The correct behaviour with the 64-bit SVR4 ABI is:
- All AltiVec arguments take up space in the parameter area, just like
any other arguments, whether vararg or not.
- They are always 16-byte aligned, skipping a parameter area doubleword
(and the associated GPR, if any), if necessary.
This patch implements the correct behaviour and adds a test case.
(Verified against GCC behaviour via the ABI compat test suite.)
llvm-svn: 211492
When small arguments (structures < 8 bytes or "float") are passed in a
stack slot in the ppc64 SVR4 ABI, they must reside in the least
significant part of that slot. On BE, this means that an offset needs
to be added to the stack address of the parameter, but on LE, the least
significant part of the slot has the same address as the slot itself.
This changes the PowerPC back-end ABI code to only add the small
argument stack slot offset for BE. It also adds test cases to verify
the correct behavior on both BE and LE.
llvm-svn: 211368
When looking at the 64-bit SVR4 indirect call sequence, I noticed
an unnecessary load of r12. And indeed the code says:
// R12 must contain the address of an indirect callee.
But this is not correct; in the 64-bit SVR4 (ELFv1) ABI, there is
no need to load r12 at this point. It seems this code and comment
is a remnant of code originally shared with the Darwin ABI ...
This patch simply removes the unnecessary load.
llvm-svn: 211203
During an indirect function call sequence on the 64-bit SVR4 ABI,
generate code must load and then restore the TOC register.
This does not use a regular LOAD instruction since the TOC
register r2 is marked as reserved. Instead, the are two
special instruction patterns:
let RST = 2, DS = 2 in
def LDinto_toc: DSForm_1a<58, 0, (outs), (ins g8rc:$reg),
"ld 2, 8($reg)", IIC_LdStLD,
[(PPCload_toc i64:$reg)]>, isPPC64;
let RST = 2, DS = 10, RA = 1 in
def LDtoc_restore : DSForm_1a<58, 0, (outs), (ins),
"ld 2, 40(1)", IIC_LdStLD,
[(PPCtoc_restore)]>, isPPC64;
Note that these not only restrict the destination of the
load to r2, but they also restrict the *source* of the
load to particular address combinations. The latter is
a problem when we want to support the ELFv2 ABI, since
there the TOC save slot is no longer at 40(1).
This patch replaces those two instructions with a single
instruction pattern that only hard-codes r2 as destination,
but supports generic addresses as source. This will allow
supporting the ELFv2 ABI, and also helps generate more
efficient code for calls to absolute addresses (allowing
simplification of the ppc64-calls.ll test case).
llvm-svn: 211193
The PowerPC back-end uses BLA to implement calls to functions at
known-constant addresses, which is apparently used for certain
system routines on Darwin.
However, with the 64-bit SVR4 ABI, this is actually incorrect.
An immediate function pointer value on this platform is not
directly usable as a target address for BLA:
- in the ELFv1 ABI, the function pointer value refers to the
*function descriptor*, not the code address
- in the ELFv2 ABI, the function pointer value refers to the
global entry point, but BL(A) would only be correct when
calling the *local* entry point
This bug didn't show up since using immediate function pointer
values is not usually done in the 64-bit SVR4 ABI in the first
place. However, I ran into this issue with a certain use case
of LLVM as JIT, where immediate function pointer values were
uses to implement callbacks from JITted code to helpers in
statically compiled code.
Fixed by simply not using BLA with the 64-bit SVR4 ABI.
llvm-svn: 211174
My patch r204634 to emit instructions in little-endian format failed to
handle those special cases where we emit a pair of instructions from a
single LLVM MC instructions (like the bl; nop pairs used to implement
the call sequence).
In those cases, we still need to emit the "first" instruction (the one
in the more significant word) first, on both big and little endian,
and not swap them.
llvm-svn: 211171
Rafael opened http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=19893 to track non-optimal
code generation for forming a function address that is local to the compile
unit. The existing code was treating both local and non-local functions
identically.
This patch fixes the problem by properly identifying local functions and
generating the proper addis/addi code. I also noticed that Rafael's earlier
changes to correct the surrounding code in PPCISelLowering.cpp were also
needed for fast instruction selection in PPCFastISel.cpp, so this patch
fixes that code as well.
The existing test/CodeGen/PowerPC/func-addr.ll is modified to test the new
code generation. I've added a -O0 run line to test the fast-isel code as
well.
Tested on powerpc64[le]-unknown-linux-gnu with no regressions.
llvm-svn: 211056
the initializeSubtargetDependencies code to obtain an initialized
subtarget and migrate a couple of subtarget using functions to the
.cpp file to avoid circular includes.
llvm-svn: 210822
Various masks on shufflevector instructions are recognizable as
specific PowerPC instructions (vector pack, vector merge, etc.).
There is existing code in PPCISelLowering.cpp to recognize the correct
patterns for big endian code. The masks for these instructions are
different for little endian code due to the big-endian numbering
employed by these instructions. This patch adds the recognition code
for little endian.
I've added a new test case test/CodeGen/PowerPC/vec_shuffle_le.ll for
this. The existing recognizer test (vec_shuffle.ll) is unnecessarily
verbose and difficult to read, so I felt it was better to add a new
test rather than modify the old one.
llvm-svn: 210536
The code in PPCTargetLowering::PerformDAGCombine() that handles
unaligned Altivec vector loads generates a lvsl followed by a vperm.
As we've seen in numerous other places, the vperm instruction has a
big-endian bias, and this is fixed for little endian by complementing
the permute control vector and swapping the input operands. In this
case the lvsl is providing the permute control vector. Rather than
generating an lvsl and a complement operation, it is sufficient to
generate an lvsr instruction instead. Thus for LE code generation we
will generate an lvsr rather than an lvsl, and swap the other input
arguments on the vperm.
The existing test/CodeGen/PowerPC/vec_misalign.ll is updated to test
the code generation for PPC64 and PPC64LE, in addition to the existing
PPC32/G5 testing.
llvm-svn: 210493
The existing code in PPCTargetLowering::LowerMUL() for multiplying two
v16i8 values assumes that vector elements are numbered in big-endian
order. For little-endian targets, the vector element numbering is
reversed, but the vmuleub, vmuloub, and vperm instructions still
assume big-endian numbering. To account for this, we must adjust the
permute control vector and reverse the order of the input registers on
the vperm instruction.
The existing test/CodeGen/PowerPC/vec_mul.ll is updated to be executed
on powerpc64 and powerpc64le targets as well as the original powerpc
(32-bit) target.
llvm-svn: 210474
I saw at least a memory leak or two from inspection (on probably
untested error paths) and r206991, which was the original inspiration
for this change.
I ran this idea by Jim Grosbach a few weeks ago & he was OK with it.
Since it's a basically mechanical patch that seemed sufficient - usual
post-commit review, revert, etc, as needed.
llvm-svn: 210427
This patch fixes a couple of lowering issues for little endian
PowerPC. The code for lowering BUILD_VECTOR contains a number of
optimizations that are only valid for big endian. For now, we disable
those optimizations for correctness. In the future, we will add
analogous optimizations that are correct for little endian.
When lowering a SHUFFLE_VECTOR to a VPERM operation, we again need to
make the now-familiar transformation of swapping the input operands
and complementing the permute control vector. Correctness of this
transformation is tested by the accompanying test case.
llvm-svn: 210336
This is a preliminary patch for the PowerPC64LE support. In stage 1
of the vector support, we will support the VMX (Altivec) instruction
set, but will not yet support the VSX instructions. This is merely a
staging issue to provide functional vector support as soon as
possible.
llvm-svn: 210271
This seems to match what gcc does for ppc and what every other llvm
backend does.
This is a fixed version of r209638. The difference is to avoid any change
in behavior for functions. The logic for using constant pools for function
addresseses is spread over a few places and we have to keep them in sync.
llvm-svn: 209821
This matches gcc's behavior. It also seems natural given that aliases
contain other properties that govern how it is accessed (linkage,
visibility, dll storage).
Clang still has to be updated to expose this feature to C.
llvm-svn: 209759
This reverts commit r209638 because it broke self-hosting on ppc64/Linux. (the
Clang-compiled TableGen would segfault because it jumped to an invalid address
from within _ZNK4llvm17ManagedStaticBase21RegisterManagedStaticEPFPvvEPFvS1_E
(which is within the command-line parameter registration process)).
llvm-svn: 209745
In PPCISelLowering.cpp: PPCTargetLowering::LowerBUILD_VECTOR(), there
is an optimization for certain patterns to generate one or two vector
splats followed by a vector add or subtract. This operation is
represented by a VADD_SPLAT in the selection DAG. Prior to this
patch, it was possible for the VADD_SPLAT to be assigned the wrong
data type, causing incorrect code generation. This patch corrects the
problem.
Specifically, the code previously assigned the value type of the
BUILD_VECTOR node to the newly generated VADD_SPLAT node. This is
correct much of the time, but not always. The problem is that the
call to isConstantSplat() may return a SplatBitSize that is not the
same as the number of bits in the original element vector type. The
correct type to assign is a vector type with the same element bit size
as SplatBitSize.
The included test case shows an example of this, where the
BUILD_VECTOR node has a type of v16i8. The vector to be built is {0,
16, 0, 16, 0, 16, 0, 16, 0, 16, 0, 16, 0, 16, 0, 16}. isConstantSplat
detects that we can generate a splat of 16 for type v8i16, which is
the type we must assign to the VADD_SPLAT node. If we do not, we
generate a vspltisb of 8 and a vaddubm, which generates the incorrect
result {16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16,
16}. The correct code generation is a vspltish of 8 and a vadduhm.
This patch also corrected code generation for
CodeGen/PowerPC/2008-07-10-SplatMiscompile.ll, which had been marked
as an XFAIL, so we can remove the XFAIL from the test case.
llvm-svn: 209662
The SplitIndexingFromLoad changes exposed a latent isel bug in the PowerPC64
backend. We matched an immediate offset with STWX8 even though it only
supports register offset.
The culprit is the complex-pattern predicate, SelectAddrIdx, which decides
that if the offset is not ISD::Constant it must be a register.
Many thanks to Bill Schmidt for testing this.
llvm-svn: 209219
- On ARM/ARM64 we get a vrev because the shuffle matching code is really smart. We still unroll anything that's not v4i32 though.
- On X86 we get a pshufb with SSSE3. Required more cleverness in isShuffleMaskLegal.
- On PPC we get a vperm for v8i16 and v4i32. v2i64 is unrolled.
llvm-svn: 209123
This is mostly a mechanical change changing all the call sites to the newer
chained-function construction pattern. This removes the horrible 15-parameter
constructor for the CallLoweringInfo in favour of setting properties of the call
via chained functions. No functional change beyond the removal of the old
constructors are intended.
llvm-svn: 209082
member variable and sink the initialization of crbits into the
subtarget feature reset code.
No functional change, but this refactor will be used in a future
commit.
llvm-svn: 208726
Support for the intrinsics that read from and write to global named registers
is added for r1, r2 and r13 (depending on the subtarget).
llvm-svn: 208509
The counter-loops formation pass needs to know what operations might be
function calls (because they can't appear in counter-based loops). On PPC32,
128-bit shifts might be runtime calls (even though you can't use __int128 on
PPC32, it seems that SROA might form them).
Fixes PR19709.
llvm-svn: 208501
The fix itself is fairly simple: move getAccessVariant to MCValue so that we
replace the old weak expression evaluation with the far more general
EvaluateAsRelocatable.
This then requires that EvaluateAsRelocatable stop when it finds a non
trivial reference kind. And that in turn requires the ELF writer to look
harder for weak references.
Last but not least, this found a case where we were being bug by bug
compatible with gas and accepting an invalid input. I reported pr19647
to track it.
llvm-svn: 207920
This is similar to the 'tail' marker, except that it guarantees that
tail call optimization will occur. It also comes with convervative IR
verification rules that ensure that tail call optimization is possible.
Reviewers: nicholas
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3240
llvm-svn: 207143
I discovered this const-hole while attempting to coalesnce the Symbol
and SymbolMap data structures. There's some pending issues with that,
but I figured this change was easy to flush early.
llvm-svn: 207124
For now it contains a single flag, SanitizeAddress, which enables
AddressSanitizer instrumentation of inline assembly.
Patch by Yuri Gorshenin.
llvm-svn: 206971
system headers above the includes of generated '.inc' files that
actually contain code. In a few targets this was already done pretty
consistently, but it wasn't done *really* consistently anywhere. It is
strictly cleaner IMO and necessary in a bunch of places where the
DEBUG_TYPE is referenced from the generated code. Consistency with the
necessary places trumps. Hopefully the build bots are OK with the
movement of intrin.h...
llvm-svn: 206838
behavior based on other files defining DEBUG_TYPE, which means it cannot
define DEBUG_TYPE at all. This is actually better IMO as it forces folks
to define relevant DEBUG_TYPEs for their files. However, it requires all
files that currently use DEBUG(...) to define a DEBUG_TYPE if they don't
already. I've updated all such files in LLVM and will do the same for
other upstream projects.
This still leaves one important change in how LLVM uses the DEBUG_TYPE
macro going forward: we need to only define the macro *after* header
files have been #include-ed. Previously, this wasn't possible because
Debug.h required the macro to be pre-defined. This commit removes that.
By defining DEBUG_TYPE after the includes two things are fixed:
- Header files that need to provide a DEBUG_TYPE for some inline code
can do so by defining the macro before their inline code and undef-ing
it afterward so the macro does not escape.
- We no longer have rampant ODR violations due to including headers with
different DEBUG_TYPE definitions. This may be mostly an academic
violation today, but with modules these types of violations are easy
to check for and potentially very relevant.
Where necessary to suppor headers with DEBUG_TYPE, I have moved the
definitions below the includes in this commit. I plan to move the rest
of the DEBUG_TYPE macros in LLVM in subsequent commits; this one is big
enough.
The comments in Debug.h, which were hilariously out of date already,
have been updated to reflect the recommended practice going forward.
llvm-svn: 206822
This patch re-introduces the MCContext member that was removed from
MCDisassembler in r206063, and requires that an MCContext be passed in at
MCDisassembler construction time. (Previously the MCContext member had been
initialized in an ad-hoc fashion after construction). The MCCContext member
can be used by MCDisassembler sub-classes to construct constant or
target-specific MCExprs.
This patch updates disassemblers for in-tree targets, and provides the
MCRegisterInfo instance that some disassemblers were using through the
MCContext (previously those backends were constructing their own
MCRegisterInfo instances).
llvm-svn: 206241
Implements the various TTI functions to enable constant hoisting on PPC. The
only significant test-suite change is this:
MultiSource/Benchmarks/VersaBench/bmm/bmm - 20% speedup
(which essentially reverses the slowdown from r206120).
llvm-svn: 206141
We had been using the known-zero values of the operand of the or to construct
the mask for an rlwimi; this is not quite correct, but fine when the mask is
constant. When the mask is constant, then the known zeros of the operand must
be a superset of the zeros in the mask. However, when the mask is not a
constant, then there might be bits in the operand that are not known to be zero
that, at runtime, might be zero in the mask. Therefore, we check that any bits
not known to be zero *are* known to be one in the mask. Otherwise, we can't
fold the mask with the or and shift.
This was revealed as a miscompile of
MultiSource/Benchmarks/BitBench/drop3/drop3 when I started experimenting with
constant hoisting.
llvm-svn: 206136
PPC::isVSLDOIShuffleMask should return -1, not false, when the shuffle
predicate should be false.
Noticed by inspection; no test case (yet).
llvm-svn: 205787
This provides more realistic costs for the insert/extractelement instructions
(which are load/store pairs), accounts for the cheap unaligned Altivec load
sequence, and for unaligned VSX load/stores.
Bad news:
MultiSource/Applications/sgefa/sgefa - 35% slowdown (this will require more investigation)
SingleSource/Benchmarks/McGill/queens - 20% slowdown (we no longer vectorize this, but it was a constant store that was scalarized)
MultiSource/Benchmarks/FreeBench/pcompress2/pcompress2 - 2% slowdown
Good news:
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Shootout/ary3 - 54% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Shootout-C++/ary - 40% speedup
MultiSource/Benchmarks/Ptrdist/ks/ks - 35% speedup
MultiSource/Benchmarks/FreeBench/neural/neural - 30% speedup
MultiSource/Benchmarks/TSVC/Symbolics-flt/Symbolics-flt - 20% speedup
Unfortunately, estimating the costs of the stack-based scalarization sequences
is hard, and adjusting these costs is like a game of whac-a-mole :( I'll
revisit this again after we have better codegen for vector extloads and
truncstores and unaligned load/stores.
llvm-svn: 205658
gcc inline asm supports specifying "cc" as a clobber of all condition
registers. Add just enough modeling of the full register to make this work.
Fixed PR19326.
llvm-svn: 205630
PPCTTI::getMemoryOpCost will now make use of BasicTTI::getMemoryOpCost to
calculate the base cost of the memory access, and then adjust on top of that.
There is no functionality change from this modification, but it will become
important so that PPCTTI can take advantage of scalarization information for which
BasicTTI::getMemoryOpCost will account in the near future.
llvm-svn: 205476
Just pass a MachineInstr reference rather than an MBB iterator.
Creating a MachineInstr& is the first thing every implementation did
anyway.
llvm-svn: 205453
If we have two unique values for a v2i64 build vector, this will always result
in two vector loads if we expand using shuffles. Only one is necessary.
llvm-svn: 205231
sitofp from v2i32 to v2f64 ends up generating a SIGN_EXTEND_INREG v2i64 node
(and similarly for v2i16 and v2i8). Even though there are no sign-extension (or
algebraic shifts) for v2i64 types, we can handle v2i32 sign extensions by
converting two and from v2i64. The small trick necessary here is to shift the
i32 elements into the right lanes before the i32 -> f64 step. This is because
of the big Endian nature of the system, we need the i32 portion in the high
word of the i64 elements.
For v2i16 and v2i8 we can do the same, but we first use the default Altivec
shift-based expansion from v2i16 or v2i8 to v2i32 (by casting to v4i32) and
then apply the above procedure.
llvm-svn: 205146
v2i64 is a legal type under VSX, however we don't have native vector
comparisons. We can handle eq/ne by casting it to an Altivec type, but
everything else must be expanded.
llvm-svn: 205106
The vector divide and sqrt instructions have high latencies, and the scalar
comparisons are like all of the others. On the P7, permutations take an extra
cycle over purely-simple vector ops.
llvm-svn: 205096
I started trying to fix a small issue, but this code has seen a small fix too
many.
The old code was fairly convoluted. Some of the issues it had:
* It failed to check if a symbol difference was in the some section when
converting a relocation to pcrel.
* It failed to check if the relocation was already pcrel.
* The pcrel value computation was wrong in some cases (relocation-pc.s)
* It was missing quiet a few cases where it should not convert symbol
relocations to section relocations, leaving the backends to patch it up.
* It would not propagate the fact that it had changed a relocation to pcrel,
requiring a quiet nasty work around in ARM.
* It was missing comments.
llvm-svn: 205076
We had stored both f64 values and v2f64, etc. values in the VSX registers. This
worked, but was suboptimal because we would always spill 16-byte values even
through we almost always had scalar 8-byte values. This resulted in an
increase in stack-size use, extra memory bandwidth, etc. To fix this, I've
added 64-bit subregisters of the Altivec registers, and combined those with the
existing scalar floating-point registers to form a class of VSX scalar
floating-point registers. The ABI code has also been enhanced to use this
register class and some other necessary improvements have been made.
llvm-svn: 205075
v2[fi]64 values need to be explicitly passed in VSX registers. This is because
the code in TRI that finds the minimal register class given a register and a
value type will assert if given an Altivec register and a non-Altivec type.
llvm-svn: 205041
As explained in r204976, because of how the allocation of VSX registers
interacts with the call-lowering code, we sometimes end up generating self VSX
copies. Specifically, things like this:
%VSL2<def> = COPY %F2, %VSL2<imp-use,kill>
(where %F2 is really a sub-register of %VSL2, and so this copy is a nop)
This adds a small cleanup pass to remove these prior to post-RA scheduling.
llvm-svn: 204980
Because of how the allocation of VSX registers interacts with the call-lowering
code, we sometimes end up generating self VSX copies. Specifically, things like
this:
%VSL2<def> = COPY %F2, %VSL2<imp-use,kill>
(where %F2 is really a sub-register of %VSL2, and so this copy is a nop)
The problem is that ExpandPostRAPseudos always assumes that *some* instruction
has been inserted, and adds implicit defs to it. This is a problem if no copy
was inserted because it can cause subtle problems during post-RA scheduling.
These self copies will have to be removed some other way.
llvm-svn: 204976
First, v2f64 vector extract had not been declared legal (and so the existing
patterns were not being used). Second, the patterns for that, and for
scalar_to_vector, should really be a regclass copy, not a subregister
operation, because the VSX registers directly hold both the vector and scalar data.
llvm-svn: 204971
These operations need to be expanded during legalization so that isel does not
crash. In theory, we might be able to custom lower some of these. That,
however, would need to be follow-up work.
llvm-svn: 204963
This adds back r204781.
Original message:
Aliases are just another name for a position in a file. As such, the
regular symbol resolutions are not applied. For example, given
define void @my_func() {
ret void
}
@my_alias = alias weak void ()* @my_func
@my_alias2 = alias void ()* @my_alias
We produce without this patch:
.weak my_alias
my_alias = my_func
.globl my_alias2
my_alias2 = my_alias
That is, in the resulting ELF file my_alias, my_func and my_alias are
just 3 names pointing to offset 0 of .text. That is *not* the
semantics of IR linking. For example, linking in a
@my_alias = alias void ()* @other_func
would require the strong my_alias to override the weak one and
my_alias2 would end up pointing to other_func.
There is no way to represent that with aliases being just another
name, so the best solution seems to be to just disallow it, converting
a miscompile into an error.
llvm-svn: 204934
Joerg Sonnenberger