Without this change, names start with 'L' will get created as
temporary symbol in MCContext::createSymbol.
Some other potential prefix considered:
.L, does not work for AIX, as a function start with L will end
up with .L as prefix for its function entry point.
..L could work, but it does not play well with the convention
on AIX that anything start with '.' are considered as entry point.
L. could work, but not sure if it's safe enough, as it's possible
to have suffixes like .something append to a plain L, giving L.something
which is not necessarily a temporary.
That's why we picked L.. for now.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80831
Summary:
The standard data emission directives (e.g. .short, .long) in the AIX assembler
have the unintended consequence of aligning their output to the natural byte
boundary. This cause problems because we aren't expecting behavior from the
Data*bitsDirectives, so the final alignment of data isn't correct in some cases
on AIX.
This patch updated the Data*bitsDirectives to use .vbyte pseudo-ops instead to emit the
data, since we will emit the .align directives as needed. We update the existing
testcases and add a test for emission of struct data.
Reviewers: hubert.reinterpretcast, Xiangling_L, jasonliu
Reviewed By: hubert.reinterpretcast, jasonliu
Subscribers: wuzish, nemanjai, hiraditya, kbarton, arphaman, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80934
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