The opaque pointer type is essentially just a normal pointer type with a
null pointee type.
This also adds support for the opaque pointer type to the bitcode
reader/writer, as well as to textual IR.
To avoid confusion with existing pointer types, we disallow creating a
pointer to an opaque pointer.
Opaque pointer types should not be widely used at this point since many
parts of LLVM still do not support them. The next steps are to add some
very simple use cases of opaque pointers to make sure they work, then
start pretending that all pointers are opaque pointers and see what
breaks.
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-May/150359.html
Reviewed By: dblaikie, dexonsmith, pcc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101704
LLVM's build system contains support for configuring a distribution, but
it can often be useful to be able to configure multiple distributions
(e.g. if you want separate distributions for the tools and the
libraries). Add this support to the build system, along with
documentation and usage examples.
Reviewed By: phosek
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89177
This patch adds JSON output style to llvm-symbolizer to better support CLI automation by providing a machine readable output.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96883
The option --use-symbol-table is now a noop and does not appear in the
help text, however it still appears in the command guide. This change
removes it from the command guide and updates the description of
--output-style .
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102078
The internal `cl::opt` option --x86-asm-syntax sets the AsmParser and AsmWriter
dialect. The option is used by llc and llvm-mc tests to set the AsmWriter dialect.
This patch adds -M {att,intel} as GNU objdump compatible aliases (PR43413).
Note: the dialect is initialized when the MCAsmInfo is constructed.
`MCInstPrinter::applyTargetSpecificCLOption` is called too late and its MCAsmInfo
reference is const, so changing the `cl::opt` in
`MCInstPrinter::applyTargetSpecificCLOption` is not an option, at least without
large amount of refactoring.
Reviewed By: hoy, jhenderson, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101695
The llvm-objdump command guide has the option --cfg which was removed
from the tool by 888320e9fa in 2014. This
change updates the command guide to reflect this.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101648
Add a flag to change dsymutil's behavior and force a static variable to
keep its enclosing function. The test shows a situation where that could
be useful. I'm not convinced this behavior makes sense as a default,
which is why it's behind a flag.
rdar://74918374
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101337
The Linux kernel objtool diagnostic `call without frame pointer save/setup`
arise in multiple instrumentation passes (asan/tsan/gcov). With the mechanism
introduced in D100251, it's trivial to respect the command line
-m[no-]omit-leaf-frame-pointer/-f[no-]omit-frame-pointer, so let's do it.
Fix: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1236 (tsan)
Fix: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1238 (asan)
Also document the function attribute "frame-pointer" which is long overdue.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101016
Don't phrase the semantics in terms of the optimizer. Instead have a
more straightforward execution based semantic.
Reviewed By: ebrevnov
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63439
This implements an LLVM tool that's flag- and output-compatible
with macOS's `otool` -- except for bugs, but from testing with both
`otool` and `xcrun otool-classic`, llvm-otool matches vanilla
otool's behavior very well already. It's not 100% perfect, but
it's a very solid start.
This uses the same approach as llvm-objcopy: llvm-objdump uses
a different OptTable when it's invoked as llvm-otool. This
is possible thanks to D100433.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100583
Beginners might not aware of this variable and wanted to try a new experimental target.
Although this variable mention in Writing a Backend Documentation. But it becomes easy to search when listed in cmake.rst doc where most variables are listed.
Reviewed By: myhsu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100729
This patch clarifies the semantics of the nofree function attribute to make clear that it provides an "as if" semantic. That is, a nofree function is guaranteed not to free memory which existed before the call, but might allocate and then deallocate that same memory within the lifetime of the callee.
This is the result of the discussion on llvm-dev under the thread "Ambiguity in the nofree function attribute".
The most important part of this change is the LangRef wording. The rest is minor comment changes to emphasize the new semantics where code was accidentally consistent, and fix one place which wasn't consistent. That one place is currently narrowly used as it is primarily part of the ongoing (and not yet enabled) deref-at-point semantics work.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100141
Pooja Yadav