For a default visibility external linkage definition, dso_local is set for ELF
-fno-pic/-fpie and COFF and Mach-O. Since default clang -cc1 for ELF is similar
to -fpic ("PIC Level" is not set), this nuance causes unneeded binary format differences.
To make emitted IR similar, ELF -cc1 -fpic will default to -fno-semantic-interposition,
which sets dso_local for default visibility external linkage definitions.
To make this flip smooth and enable future (dso_local as definition default),
this patch replaces (function) `define ` with `define{{.*}} `,
(variable/constant/alias) `= ` with `={{.*}} `, or inserts appropriate `{{.*}} `.
rL131311 added `asm()` support for builtin functions, but `asm()` for builtins with
specialized emitting (e.g. memcpy, various math functions) still do not work.
This patch makes these functions work for `asm()` and `#pragma redefine_extname`.
glibc uses `asm()` to redirect internal libc function calls to hidden aliases.
Limitation: such a function is a builtin in clang, but will not be recognized as
a libcall in optimization passes because Clang does not annotate the renamed
function as a libcall. In GCC -O1 or above, `abs` can be optimized out but we can't.
Additionally, we cannot redirect `__builtin_sin` to `real_sin` in the following example:
double sin(double x) asm("real_sin");
double f(double d) { return __builtin_sin(d); }
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According to @rsmith, the following three statements cannot be simultaneously true:
(1) The frontend function foo has known, builtin semantics X.
(2) The symbol foo has known, builtin semantics X.
(3) It's not correct to lower a call to the frontend function foo to the symbol foo.
People do want (1) (if it is profitable to expand a memcpy, do it).
This also means that people do not want to add -fno-builtin-memcpy.
People do want (3): that is why they use asm("__GI_memcpy") in the first place.
So unfortunately we make a compromise by not refuting (2) (see the limitation above).
For most libcalls, there is a small loss because compilers don't synthesize them.
For the few glibc cares about, it uses `asm("memcpy = __GI_memcpy");` to make
the assembly level redirection.
(Changing function names (e.g. `__memcpy`) is a hit to ergonomics which is not acceptable).
Reviewed By: rsmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88712
Summary:
Clang -fpic defaults to -fno-semantic-interposition (GCC -fpic defaults
to -fsemantic-interposition).
Users need to specify -fsemantic-interposition to get semantic
interposition behavior.
Semantic interposition is currently a best-effort feature. There may
still be some cases where it is not handled well.
Reviewers: peter.smith, rnk, serge-sans-paille, sfertile, jfb, jdoerfert
Subscribers: dschuff, jyknight, dylanmckay, nemanjai, jvesely, kbarton, fedor.sergeev, asb, rbar, johnrusso, simoncook, sabuasal, niosHD, jrtc27, zzheng, edward-jones, atanasyan, rogfer01, MartinMosbeck, brucehoult, the_o, arphaman, PkmX, jocewei, jsji, Jim, lenary, s.egerton, pzheng, sameer.abuasal, apazos, luismarques, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73865
Fangrui Song