Introduce an Address type to bundle a pointer value with an
alignment. Introduce APIs on CGBuilderTy to work with Address
values. Change core APIs on CGF/CGM to traffic in Address where
appropriate. Require alignments to be non-zero. Update a ton
of code to compute and propagate alignment information.
As part of this, I've promoted CGBuiltin's EmitPointerWithAlignment
helper function to CGF and made use of it in a number of places in
the expression emitter.
The end result is that we should now be significantly more correct
when performing operations on objects that are locally known to
be under-aligned. Since alignment is not reliably tracked in the
type system, there are inherent limits to this, but at least we
are no longer confused by standard operations like derived-to-base
conversions and array-to-pointer decay. I've also fixed a large
number of bugs where we were applying the complete-object alignment
to a pointer instead of the non-virtual alignment, although most of
these were hidden by the very conservative approach we took with
member alignment.
Also, because IRGen now reliably asserts on zero alignments, we
should no longer be subject to an absurd but frustrating recurring
bug where an incomplete type would report a zero alignment and then
we'd naively do a alignmentAtOffset on it and emit code using an
alignment equal to the largest power-of-two factor of the offset.
We should also now be emitting much more aggressive alignment
attributes in the presence of over-alignment. In particular,
field access now uses alignmentAtOffset instead of min.
Several times in this patch, I had to change the existing
code-generation pattern in order to more effectively use
the Address APIs. For the most part, this seems to be a strict
improvement, like doing pointer arithmetic with GEPs instead of
ptrtoint. That said, I've tried very hard to not change semantics,
but it is likely that I've failed in a few places, for which I
apologize.
ABIArgInfo now always carries the assumed alignment of indirect and
indirect byval arguments. In order to cut down on what was already
a dauntingly large patch, I changed the code to never set align
attributes in the IR on non-byval indirect arguments. That is,
we still generate code which assumes that indirect arguments have
the given alignment, but we don't express this information to the
backend except where it's semantically required (i.e. on byvals).
This is likely a minor regression for those targets that did provide
this information, but it'll be trivial to add it back in a later
patch.
I partially punted on applying this work to CGBuiltin. Please
do not add more uses of the CreateDefaultAligned{Load,Store}
APIs; they will be going away eventually.
llvm-svn: 246985
This could actually be implemented with the LLVM IR va_arg instruction,
but it doesn't seem to offer any advantages over accessing the va_list
pointer directly.
Using the va_list pointer directly makes it possible to perform type
coercion directly from the argument array, and the va_list updates are
exposed to the optimizers.
llvm-svn: 183292
Type coercion for argument passing is equivalent to storing the source
type and loading the destination type from the same pointer. On
big-endian targets, this means that the high bits of integers are
preserved.
This patch fixes the CoerceIntOrPtrToIntOrPtr() function on big-endian
targets by inserting the required shift instructions to preserve the
high bits instead of the low bits.
This is used by SparcABIInfo when passing small structs in the high bits
of registers.
llvm-svn: 183291
The 'inreg' attribute can also be applied to function return values in
LLVM IR. The SPARC v9 backend is using the flag when returning structs
containing 32-bit floats.
llvm-svn: 183290
The coercion type serves two purposes:
1. Pad structs to a multiple of 64 bits, so they are passed
'left-aligned' in registers.
2. Expose aligned floating point elements as first-level elements, so
the code generator knows to pass them in floating point registers.
We also compute the InReg flag which indicates that the struct contains
aligned 32-bit floats. This flag is used by the code generator to pick
the right registers.
llvm-svn: 182753
- All integer arguments smaller than 64 bits are extended.
- Large structs are passed indirectly, not using 'byval'.
- Structs up to 32 bytes in size are returned in registers.
Some things are not implemented yet:
- EmitVAArg can be implemented in terms of the va_arg instruction.
- When structs are passed in registers, float members require special
handling because they are passed in the floating point registers.
- Structs are left-aligned when passed in registers. This may require
padding.
llvm-svn: 182745
John McCall