Work around a bug in GNU ld (and gold) linker versions up to 2.25
that may mis-optimize code generated by this version of clang/LLVM
to access general-dynamic or local-dynamic TLS variables.
Bug is fixed here:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-01/msg00318.html
llvm-svn: 227480
The PPC backend will now assume that PPC64 ELFv1 function descriptors are
invariant. This must be true for well-defined C/C++ code, but I'm providing an
option to disable this assumption in case someone's JIT-engine needs it.
llvm-svn: 226209
The current VSX feature for PowerPC specifies availability of the VSX
instructions added with the 2.06 architecture version. With 2.07, the
architecture adds new instructions to both the Category:Vector and
Category:VSX instruction sets. Additionally, unaligned vector storage
operations have improved performance.
This patch adds a feature to provide access to the new instructions
and performance capabilities of Power8. For compatibility with GCC,
the feature is controlled via a new -mpower8-vector switch, and the
feature causes the __POWER8_VECTOR__ builtin define to be generated by
the preprocessor.
There is a companion patch for llvm being committed at the same time.
llvm-svn: 219502
This patch provides basic support for powerpc64le as an LLVM target.
However, use of this target will not actually generate little-endian
code. Instead, use of the target will cause the correct little-endian
built-in defines to be generated, so that code that tests for
__LITTLE_ENDIAN__, for example, will be correctly parsed for
syntax-only testing. Code generation will otherwise be the same as
powerpc64 (big-endian), for now.
The patch leaves open the possibility of creating a little-endian
PowerPC64 back end, but there is no immediate intent to create such a
thing.
The new test case variant ensures that correct built-in defines for
little-endian code are generated.
llvm-svn: 187180
gcc provides -mmfcrf and -mno-mfcrf for controlling what we call
the mfocrf target feature. Also, PPC is now making use of the
static function AddTargetFeature used by the Mips Driver code.
llvm-svn: 178227
Ulrich Weigand