These linkages were introduced some time ago, but it was never very
clear what exactly their semantics were or what they should be used
for. Some investigation found these uses:
* utf-16 strings in clang.
* non-unnamed_addr strings produced by the sanitizers.
It turns out they were just working around a more fundamental problem.
For some sections a MachO linker needs a symbol in order to split the
section into atoms, and llvm had no idea that was the case. I fixed
that in r201700 and it is now safe to use the private linkage. When
the object ends up in a section that requires symbols, llvm will use a
'l' prefix instead of a 'L' prefix and things just work.
With that, these linkages were already dead, but there was a potential
future user in the objc metadata information. I am still looking at
CGObjcMac.cpp, but at this point I am convinced that linker_private
and linker_private_weak are not what they need.
The objc uses are currently split in
* Regular symbols (no '\01' prefix). LLVM already directly provides
whatever semantics they need.
* Uses of a private name (start with "\01L" or "\01l") and private
linkage. We can drop the "\01L" and "\01l" prefixes as soon as llvm
agrees with clang on L being ok or not for a given section. I have two
patches in code review for this.
* Uses of private name and weak linkage.
The last case is the one that one could think would fit one of these
linkages. That is not the case. The semantics are
* the linker will merge these symbol by *name*.
* the linker will hide them in the final DSO.
Given that the merging is done by name, any of the private (or
internal) linkages would be a bad match. They allow llvm to rename the
symbols, and that is really not what we want. From the llvm point of
view, these objects should really be (linkonce|weak)(_odr)?.
For now, just keeping the "\01l" prefix is probably the best for these
symbols. If we one day want to have a more direct support in llvm,
IMHO what we should add is not a linkage, it is just a hidden_symbol
attribute. It would be applicable to multiple linkages. For example,
on weak it would produce the current behavior we have for objc
metadata. On internal, it would be equivalent to private (and we
should then remove private).
llvm-svn: 203866
On ELF and COFF an alias is just another name for a position in the file.
There is no way to refer to a position in another file, so an alias to
undefined is meaningless.
MachO currently doesn't support aliases. The spec has a N_INDR, which when
implemented will have a different set of restrictions. Adding support for
it shouldn't be harder than any other IR extension.
For now, having the IR represent what is actually possible with current
tools makes it easier to fix the design of GlobalAlias.
llvm-svn: 203705
are operations that do not access memory but may be sensitive
to floating-point environment changes. LLVM does not attempt
to model FP environment changes, so this was unnecessarily conservative
and was getting on the way of some optimizations, in particular
SLP vectorization.
llvm-svn: 203037
Ideally only those transform passes that run at -O0 remain enabled,
in reality we get as close as we reasonably can.
Passes are responsible for disabling themselves, it's not the job of
the pass manager to do it for them.
llvm-svn: 200892
We are going to drop debug info without a version number or with a different
version number, to make sure we don't crash when we see bitcode files with
different debug info metadata format.
Make tests more robust by removing hard-coded metadata numbers in CHECK lines.
llvm-svn: 195535
(except functions marked always_inline).
Functions with 'optnone' must also have 'noinline' so they don't get
inlined into any other function.
Based on work by Andrea Di Biagio.
llvm-svn: 195046
This function attribute indicates that the function is not optimized
by any optimization or code generator passes with the
exception of interprocedural optimization passes.
llvm-svn: 189101
- Instead of setting the suffixes in a bunch of places, just set one master
list in the top-level config. We now only modify the suffix list in a few
suites that have one particular unique suffix (.ml, .mc, .yaml, .td, .py).
- Aside from removing the need for a bunch of lit.local.cfg files, this enables
4 tests that were inadvertently being skipped (one in
Transforms/BranchFolding, a .s file each in DebugInfo/AArch64 and
CodeGen/PowerPC, and one in CodeGen/SI which is now failing and has been
XFAILED).
- This commit also fixes a bunch of config files to use config.root instead of
older copy-pasted code.
llvm-svn: 188513
Also remove checking of llvm.dbg.sp since it is not used in generating dwarf.
Current state of Finder:
DebugInfoFinder tries to list all debug info MDNodes used in a module. To
list debug info MDNodes used by an instruction, DebugInfoFinder provides
processDeclare, processValue and processLocation to handle DbgDeclareInst,
DbgValueInst and DbgLoc attached to instructions. processModule will go
through all DICompileUnits in llvm.dbg.cu and list debug info MDNodes
used by the CUs.
TODO:
1> Finder has a list of CUs, SPs, Types, Scopes and global variables. We
need to add a list of variables that are used by DbgDeclareInst and
DbgValueInst.
2> MDString fields should be null or isa<MDString> and MDNode fields should be
null or isa<MDNode>. We currently use empty string or int 0 to represent null.
3> Go though Verify functions and make sure that they check field types.
4> Clean up existing testing cases to remove llvm.dbg.sp and make sure each
testing case has a llvm.dbg.cu.
Re-apply r187609 with fix to pass ocaml binding. vmcore.ml generates a debug
location with scope being metadata !{}, in verifier we treat this as a null
scope.
llvm-svn: 187812
Also remove checking of llvm.dbg.sp since it is not used in generating dwarf.
Current state of Finder:
DebugInfoFinder tries to list all debug info MDNodes used in a module. To
list debug info MDNodes used by an instruction, DebugInfoFinder provides
processDeclare, processValue and processLocation to handle DbgDeclareInst,
DbgValueInst and DbgLoc attached to instructions. processModule will go
through all DICompileUnits in llvm.dbg.cu and list debug info MDNodes
used by the CUs.
TODO:
1> Finder has a list of CUs, SPs, Types, Scopes and global variables. We
need to add a list of variables that are used by DbgDeclareInst and
DbgValueInst.
2> MDString fields should be null or isa<MDString> and MDNode fields should be
null or isa<MDNode>. We currently use empty string or int 0 to represent null.
3> Go though Verify functions and make sure that they check field types.
4> Clean up existing testing cases to remove llvm.dbg.sp and make sure each
testing case has a llvm.dbg.cu.
llvm-svn: 187609
This is another case where internalize hides a symbol that is needed by
a loadable module. I am currently investigating a proper fix but this patch
will get our buildbot to pass in the meantime. <rdar://problem/14578094>
llvm-svn: 187601
Other than recognizing the attribute, the patch does little else.
It changes the branch probability analyzer so that edges into
blocks postdominated by a cold function are given low weight.
Added analysis and code generation tests. Added documentation for the
new attribute.
llvm-svn: 182638
bogus comparison operands to default to eq/oeq. Fix that, fix a couple of
tests that accidentally passed and test for bogus comparison opeartors
explicitly.
llvm-svn: 171733
make it more consistent with its intended semantics.
The `linker_private_weak_def_auto' linkage type was meant to automatically hide
globals which never had their addresses taken. It has nothing to do with the
`linker_private' linkage type, which outputs the symbols with a `l' (ell) prefix
among other things.
The intended semantic is more like the `linkonce_odr' linkage type.
Change the name of the linkage type to `linkonce_odr_auto_hide'. And therefore
changing the semantics so that it produces the correct output for the linker.
Note: The old linkage name `linker_private_weak_def_auto' will still parse but
is not a synonym for `linkonce_odr_auto_hide'. This should be removed in 4.0.
<rdar://problem/11754934>
llvm-svn: 162114
versions of Bash. In addition, I can back out the change to the lit
built-in shell test runner to support this.
This should fix the majority of fallout on Darwin, but I suspect there
will be a few straggling issues.
llvm-svn: 159544
This was done through the aid of a terrible Perl creation. I will not
paste any of the horrors here. Suffice to say, it require multiple
staged rounds of replacements, state carried between, and a few
nested-construct-parsing hacks that I'm not proud of. It happens, by
luck, to be able to deal with all the TCL-quoting patterns in evidence
in the LLVM test suite.
If anyone is maintaining large out-of-tree test trees, feel free to poke
me and I'll send you the steps I used to convert things, as well as
answer any painful questions etc. IRC works best for this type of thing
I find.
Once converted, switch the LLVM lit config to use ShTests the same as
Clang. In addition to being able to delete large amounts of Python code
from 'lit', this will also simplify the entire test suite and some of
lit's architecture.
Finally, the test suite runs 33% faster on Linux now. ;]
For my 16-hardware-thread (2x 4-core xeon e5520): 36s -> 24s
llvm-svn: 159525
I followed three heuristics for deciding whether to set 'true' or
'false':
- Everything target independent got 'true' as that is the expected
common output of the GCC builtins.
- If the target arch only has one way of implementing this operation,
set the flag in the way that exercises the most of codegen. For most
architectures this is also the likely path from a GCC builtin, with
'true' being set. It will (eventually) require lowering away that
difference, and then lowering to the architecture's operation.
- Otherwise, set the flag differently dependending on which target
operation should be tested.
Let me know if anyone has any issue with this pattern or would like
specific tests of another form. This should allow the x86 codegen to
just iteratively improve as I teach the backend how to differentiate
between the two forms, and everything else should remain exactly the
same.
llvm-svn: 146370
patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM. One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)
Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing. Other advantages
include:
1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
uniques them. This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead
"const Type *" everywhere.
Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.
There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.
llvm-svn: 134829
optimizations when emitting calls to the function; instead those calls may
use faster relocations which require the function to be immediately resolved
upon loading the dynamic object featuring the call. This is useful when it
is known that the function will be called frequently and pervasively and
therefore there is no merit in delaying binding of the function.
Currently only implemented for x86-64, where it turns into a call through
the global offset table.
Patch by Dan Gohman, who assures me that he's going to add LangRef documentation
for this once it's committed.
llvm-svn: 133080
--- Reverse-merging r129235 into '.':
D test/Feature/bb_attrs.ll
U include/llvm/BasicBlock.h
U include/llvm/Bitcode/LLVMBitCodes.h
U lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp
U lib/VMCore/BasicBlock.cpp
U lib/AsmParser/LLParser.cpp
U lib/AsmParser/LLLexer.cpp
U lib/AsmParser/LLToken.h
U lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
U lib/Bitcode/Writer/BitcodeWriter.cpp
llvm-svn: 129259
* Add a "landing pad" attribute to the BasicBlock.
* Modify the bitcode reader and writer to handle said attribute.
Later: The verifier will ensure that the landing pad attribute is used in the
appropriate manner. I.e., not applied to the entry block, and applied only to
basic blocks that are branched to via a `dispatch' instruction.
(This is a work-in-progress.)
llvm-svn: 129235
It's similar to "linker_private_weak", but it's known that the address of the
object is not taken. For instance, functions that had an inline definition, but
the compiler decided not to inline it. Note, unlike linker_private and
linker_private_weak, linker_private_weak_def_auto may have only default
visibility. The symbols are removed by the linker from the final linked image
(executable or dynamic library).
llvm-svn: 111684
Rafael Espindola