This patch adds basic support for BFloat in the Arm backend.
For now the code generation relies on fullfp16 being present.
Briefly:
* adds the bfloat scalar and vector types in the necessary register classes,
* adjusts the calling convention to cope with bfloat argument passing and return,
* adds codegen patterns for moves, loads and stores.
It's tested mostly by the intrinsic patches that depend on it (load/store, convert/copy).
The following people contributed to this patch:
* Alexandros Lamprineas
* Ties Stuij
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81373
Summary:
Half-precision floating point arguments and returns are currently
promoted to either float or int32 in clang's CodeGen and there's
no existing support for the lowering of `half` arguments and returns
from IR in AArch32's backend.
Such frontend coercions, implemented as coercion through memory
in clang, can cause a series of issues in argument lowering, as causing
arguments to be stored on the wrong bits on big-endian architectures
and incurring in missing overflow detections in the return of certain
functions.
This patch introduces the handling of half-precision arguments and returns in
the backend using the actual "half" type on the IR. Using the "half"
type the backend is able to properly enforce the AAPCS' directions for
those arguments, making sure they are stored on the proper bits of the
registers and performing the necessary floating point convertions.
Reviewers: rjmccall, olista01, asl, efriedma, ostannard, SjoerdMeijer
Reviewed By: ostannard
Subscribers: stuij, hiraditya, dmgreen, llvm-commits, chill, dnsampaio, danielkiss, kristof.beyls, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75169
Guillaume Chatelet