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
Summary:
Libc++'s default allocator uses `__builtin_operator_new` and `__builtin_operator_delete` in order to allow the calls to new/delete to be ellided. However, libc++ now needs to support over-aligned types in the default allocator. In order to support this without disabling the existing optimization Clang needs to support calling the aligned new overloads from the builtins.
See llvm.org/PR22634 for more information about the libc++ bug.
This patch changes `__builtin_operator_new`/`__builtin_operator_delete` to call any usual `operator new`/`operator delete` function. It does this by performing overload resolution with the arguments passed to the builtin to determine which allocation function to call. If the selected function is not a usual allocation function a diagnostic is issued.
One open issue is if the `align_val_t` overloads should be considered "usual" when `LangOpts::AlignedAllocation` is disabled.
In order to allow libc++ to detect this new behavior the value for `__has_builtin(__builtin_operator_new)` has been updated to `201802`.
Reviewers: rsmith, majnemer, aaron.ballman, erik.pilkington, bogner, ahatanak
Reviewed By: rsmith
Subscribers: cfe-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43047
llvm-svn: 328134
Roman Lebedev