Summary:
Right now we annotate C++'s `operator new` with `noalias` attribute,
which very much is healthy for optimizations.
However as per [[ http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.stc.dynamic.allocation | `[basic.stc.dynamic.allocation]` ]],
there are more promises on global `operator new`, namely:
* non-`std::nothrow_t` `operator new` *never* returns `nullptr`
* If `std::align_val_t align` parameter is taken, the pointer will also be `align`-aligned
* ~~global `operator new`-returned pointer is `__STDCPP_DEFAULT_NEW_ALIGNMENT__`-aligned ~~ It's more caveated than that.
Supplying this information may not cause immediate landslide effects
on any specific benchmarks, but it for sure will be healthy for optimizer
in the sense that the IR will better reflect the guarantees provided in the source code.
The caveat is `-fno-assume-sane-operator-new`, which currently prevents emitting `noalias`
attribute, and is automatically passed by Sanitizers ([[ https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16386 | PR16386 ]]) - should it also cover these attributes?
The problem is that the flag is back-end-specific, as seen in `test/Modules/explicit-build-flags.cpp`.
But while it is okay to add `noalias` metadata in backend, we really should be adding at least
the alignment metadata to the AST, since that allows us to perform sema checks on it.
Reviewers: erichkeane, rjmccall, jdoerfert, eugenis, rsmith
Reviewed By: rsmith
Subscribers: xbolva00, jrtc27, atanasyan, nlopes, cfe-commits
Tags: #llvm, #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73380
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
r355317 changed builtins/allocation functions to use the default calling
convention in order to support platforms that use non-cdecl calling
conventions by default.
However the default calling convention is overridable on Windows 32 bit
implementations with some of the /G options. The intent is to permit the
user to set the calling convention of normal functions, however it
should NOT apply to builtins and C++ allocation functions.
This patch ensures that the builtin/allocation functions always use the
Target specific Calling Convention, ignoring the user overridden version
of said default.
llvm-svn: 361507
On SPIR targets, the default calling convention is SpirFunction.
However, operator new/delete and builtins were being created with CC_C.
The result is indirect references to new/delete (or builtins that are permitted
to be called indirectly have a mismatched type, as well as questionable codegen
in some cases.
This patch sets both to the default calling convention, so that it
properly matches the calling convention of the target.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58844
Change-Id: I52065bb00bc2655945caea8f29c409ba1e0ac24a
llvm-svn: 355317
Roman Lebedev