Completely gut `DIExpression`, turning it into a simple wrapper around
`MDExpression *`. There are two bits of magic left:
- It's constructed from `const MDExpression*` but convertible to
`MDExpression*`.
- It's default-constructed to `nullptr`.
Otherwise, it should behave quite like a raw pointer. Once I've done
the same to the rest of the `DIDescriptor` subclasses, I'll come back to
delete them entirely (and update call sites as necessary to deal with
the missing magic).
llvm-svn: 234832
nullptr so that users get an earlier dereferencing error and
so that we can use it to conditionalize access to MachineFunction
specific data.
llvm-svn: 232820
Before this patch code wanting to create temporary labels for a given entity
(function, cu, exception range, etc) had to keep its own counter to have stable
symbol names.
createTempSymbol would still add a suffix to make sure a new symbol was always
returned, but it kept a single counter. Because of that, if we were to use
just createTempSymbol("cu_begin"), the label could change from cu_begin42 to
cu_begin43 because some other code started using temporary labels.
Simplify this by just keeping one counter per prefix and removing the various
specialized counters.
llvm-svn: 232535
are not at the file level.
Previously, the default subtarget created from the target triple was used to
emit inline asm instructions. Compilation would fail in cases where the feature
bits necessary to assemble an inline asm instruction in a function weren't set.
llvm-svn: 232392
Follow up from r231505.
Fix the non-determinism by using a MapVector and reintroduce the AArch64
testcase. Defer deleting the got candidates up to the end and remove
them in a bulk, avoiding linear time removal of each element.
Thanks to Renato Golin for trying it out on other platforms.
llvm-svn: 231830
Summary:
Now that the DataLayout is a mandatory part of the module, let's start
cleaning the codebase. This patch is a first attempt at doing that.
This patch is not exactly NFC as for instance some places were passing
a nullptr instead of the DataLayout, possibly just because there was a
default value on the DataLayout argument to many functions in the API.
Even though it is not purely NFC, there is no change in the
validation.
I turned as many pointer to DataLayout to references, this helped
figuring out all the places where a nullptr could come up.
I had initially a local version of this patch broken into over 30
independant, commits but some later commit were cleaning the API and
touching part of the code modified in the previous commits, so it
seemed cleaner without the intermediate state.
Test Plan:
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 231740
In the case where just tables are part of the function section, this produces
more readable assembly by avoiding switching to the eh section and back
to .text.
This would also break with non unique section names, as trying to switch to
a unique section actually creates a new one.
llvm-svn: 231677
Add MachO 32-bit (i.e. arm and x86) support for replacing global GOT equivalent
symbol accesses. Unlike 64-bit targets, there's no GOTPCREL relocation, and
access through a non_lazy_symbol_pointers section is used instead.
-- before
_extgotequiv:
.long _extfoo
_delta:
.long _extgotequiv-_delta
-- after
_delta:
.long L_extfoo$non_lazy_ptr-_delta
.section __IMPORT,__pointers,non_lazy_symbol_pointers
L_extfoo$non_lazy_ptr:
.indirect_symbol _extfoo
.long 0
llvm-svn: 231475
Follow up r230264 and add ARM64 support for replacing global GOT
equivalent symbol accesses by references to the GOT entry for the final
symbol instead, example:
-- before
.globl _foo
_foo:
.long 42
.globl _gotequivalent
_gotequivalent:
.quad _foo
.globl _delta
_delta:
.long _gotequivalent-_delta
-- after
.globl _foo
_foo:
.long 42
.globl _delta
Ltmp3:
.long _foo@GOT-Ltmp3
llvm-svn: 231474
This work is currently being rethought along different lines and
if this work is needed it can be resurrected out of svn. Remove it
for now as no current work in ongoing on it and it's unused. Verified
with the authors before removal.
llvm-svn: 230780
This removes a bit of duplicated code and more importantly, remembers the
labels so that they don't need to be looked up by name.
This in turn allows for any name to be used and avoids a crash if the name
we wanted was already taken.
llvm-svn: 230772
Front-ends could use global unnamed_addr to hold pointers to other
symbols, like @gotequivalent below:
@foo = global i32 42
@gotequivalent = private unnamed_addr constant i32* @foo
@delta = global i32 trunc (i64 sub (i64 ptrtoint (i32** @gotequivalent to i64),
i64 ptrtoint (i32* @delta to i64))
to i32)
The global @delta holds a data "PC"-relative offset to @gotequivalent,
an unnamed pointer to @foo. The darwin/x86-64 assembly output for this follows:
.globl _foo
_foo:
.long 42
.globl _gotequivalent
_gotequivalent:
.quad _foo
.globl _delta
_delta:
.long _gotequivalent-_delta
Since unnamed_addr indicates that the address is not significant, only
the content, we can optimize the case above by replacing pc-relative
accesses to "GOT equivalent" globals, by a PC relative access to the GOT
entry of the final symbol instead. Therefore, "delta" can contain a pc
relative relocation to foo's GOT entry and we avoid the emission of
"gotequivalent", yielding the assembly code below:
.globl _foo
_foo:
.long 42
.globl _delta
_delta:
.long _foo@GOTPCREL+4
There are a couple of advantages of doing this: (1) Front-ends that need
to emit a great deal of data to store pointers to external symbols could
save space by not emitting such "got equivalent" globals and (2) IR
constructs combined with this opt opens a way to represent GOT pcrel
relocations by using the LLVM IR, which is something we previously had
no way to express.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6922
rdar://problem/18534217
llvm-svn: 230264
AsmPrinter.
getSubtargetInfo now asserts that the MachineFunction exists.
Debug printing of register naming now uses the register info
from MCAsmInfo as that's unchanging.
llvm-svn: 229978
The problem in the original patch was not switching back to .text after printing
an eh table.
Original message:
On ELF, put PIC jump tables in a non executable section.
Fixes PR22558.
llvm-svn: 229586
intermediate representation. This
- increases consistency by using the same granularity everywhere
- allows for pieces < 1 byte
- DW_OP_piece didn't actually allow storing an offset.
Part of PR22495.
llvm-svn: 228631
derived classes.
Since global data alignment, layout, and mangling is often based on the
DataLayout, move it to the TargetMachine. This ensures that global
data is going to be layed out and mangled consistently if the subtarget
changes on a per function basis. Prior to this all targets(*) have
had subtarget dependent code moved out and onto the TargetMachine.
*One target hasn't been migrated as part of this change: R600. The
R600 port has, as a subtarget feature, the size of pointers and
this affects global data layout. I've currently hacked in a FIXME
to enable progress, but the port needs to be updated to either pass
the 64-bitness to the TargetMachine, or fix the DataLayout to
avoid subtarget dependent features.
llvm-svn: 227113
This mostly reverts commit r222062 and replaces it with a new enum. At
some point this enum will grow at least for other MSVC EH personalities.
Also beefs up the way we were sniffing the personality function.
Previously we would emit the Itanium LSDA despite using
__C_specific_handler.
Reviewers: majnemer
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6987
llvm-svn: 226920
These intrinsics allow multiple functions to share a single stack
allocation from one function's call frame. The function with the
allocation may only perform one allocation, and it must be in the entry
block.
Functions accessing the allocation call llvm.recoverframeallocation with
the function whose frame they are accessing and a frame pointer from an
active call frame of that function.
These intrinsics are very difficult to inline correctly, so the
intention is that they be introduced rarely, or at least very late
during EH preparation.
Reviewers: echristo, andrew.w.kaylor
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6493
llvm-svn: 225746
This change includes the most basic possible GCStrategy for a GC which is using the statepoint lowering code. At the moment, this GCStrategy doesn't really do much - aside from actually generate correct stackmaps that is - but I went ahead and added a few extra correctness checks as proof of concept. It's mostly here to provide documentation on how to do one, and to provide a point for various optimization legality hooks I'd like to add going forward. (For context, see the TODOs in InstCombine around gc.relocate.)
Most of the validation logic added here as proof of concept will soon move in to the Verifier. That move is dependent on http://reviews.llvm.org/D6811
There was discussion in the review thread about addrspace(1) being reserved for something. I'm going to follow up on a seperate llvmdev thread. If needed, I'll update all the code at once.
Note that I am deliberately not making a GCStrategy required to use gc.statepoints with this change. I want to give folks out of tree - including myself - a chance to migrate. In a week or two, I'll make having a GCStrategy be required for gc.statepoints. To this end, I added the gc tag to one of the test cases but not others.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6808
llvm-svn: 225365
Under the large code model, we cannot assume that __morestack lives within
2^31 bytes of the call site, so we cannot use pc-relative addressing. We
cannot perform the call via a temporary register, as the rax register may
be used to store the static chain, and all other suitable registers may be
either callee-save or used for parameter passing. We cannot use the stack
at this point either because __morestack manipulates the stack directly.
To avoid these issues, perform an indirect call via a read-only memory
location containing the address.
This solution is not perfect, as it assumes that the .rodata section
is laid out within 2^31 bytes of each function body, but this seems to
be sufficient for JIT.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6787
llvm-svn: 225003
It is intended to be used for a family of personality functions that
have similar IR preparation requirements. Typically when interoperating
with MSVC personality functions, bits of functionality need to be
outlined from the main function into helper functions. There is also
usually more than one landing pad per invoke, which does not match the
LLVM IR landingpad representation.
None of this is implemented yet. This change just adds a new enum that
is active for *-windows-msvc and delegates to the EH removal preparation
pass. No functionality change for other targets.
llvm-svn: 224625
Add in definedness checks for shift operators, null checks when
pointers are assumed by the code to be non-null, and explicit
unreachables.
llvm-svn: 224255
This change moves the ownership and access of GCFunctionInfo (the object which describes the safepoints associated with a safepoint under GCRoot) to GCModuleInfo. Previously, this was owned by GCStrategy which was in turned owned by GCModuleInfo. This made GCStrategy module specific which is 'surprising' given it's name and other purposes.
There's a few more changes needed, but we're getting towards the point we can reuse GCStrategy for gc.statepoint as well.
p.s. The style of this code ends up being a mess. I was trying to move code around without otherwise changing much. Once I get the ownership structure rearranged, I will go through and fixup spacing, naming, comments etc.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6587
llvm-svn: 223994
In the current implementation, GCStrategy is a part of the ownership structure for the gc metadata which describes a Module. It also contains a reference to the module in question. As a result, GCStrategy instances are essentially Module specific.
I plan to transition away from this design. Instead, a GCStrategy will be owned by the LLVMContext. It will be a lightweight policy object which contains no information about the Modules or Functions involved, but can be easily reached given a Function.
The first step in this transition is to remove the direct Module reference from GCStrategy. This also requires removing the single user of this reference, the GCMetadataPrinter hierarchy. In theory, this will allow the lifetime of the printers to be scoped to the LLVMContext as well, but in practice, I'm not actually changing that. (Yet?)
An alternate design would have been to move the direct Module reference into the GCMetadataPrinter and change the keying of the owning maps to explicitly key off both GCStrategy and Module. I'm open to doing it that way instead, but didn't see much value in preserving the per Module association for GCMetadataPrinters.
The next change in this sequence will be to start unwinding the intertwined ownership between GCStrategy, GCModuleInfo, and GCFunctionInfo.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6566
llvm-svn: 223859
Patch by Ben Gamari!
This redefines the `prefix` attribute introduced previously and
introduces a `prologue` attribute. There are a two primary usecases
that these attributes aim to serve,
1. Function prologue sigils
2. Function hot-patching: Enable the user to insert `nop` operations
at the beginning of the function which can later be safely replaced
with a call to some instrumentation facility
3. Runtime metadata: Allow a compiler to insert data for use by the
runtime during execution. GHC is one example of a compiler that
needs this functionality for its tables-next-to-code functionality.
Previously `prefix` served cases (1) and (2) quite well by allowing the user
to introduce arbitrary data at the entrypoint but before the function
body. Case (3), however, was poorly handled by this approach as it
required that prefix data was valid executable code.
Here we redefine the notion of prefix data to instead be data which
occurs immediately before the function entrypoint (i.e. the symbol
address). Since prefix data now occurs before the function entrypoint,
there is no need for the data to be valid code.
The previous notion of prefix data now goes under the name "prologue
data" to emphasize its duality with the function epilogue.
The intention here is to handle cases (1) and (2) with prologue data and
case (3) with prefix data.
References
----------
This idea arose out of discussions[1] with Reid Kleckner in response to a
proposal to introduce the notion of symbol offsets to enable handling of
case (3).
[1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-May/073235.html
Test Plan: testsuite
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6454
llvm-svn: 223189
This is to be consistent with StringSet and ultimately with the standard
library's associative container insert function.
This lead to updating SmallSet::insert to return pair<iterator, bool>,
and then to update SmallPtrSet::insert to return pair<iterator, bool>,
and then to update all the existing users of those functions...
llvm-svn: 222334
Summary:
The current "WinEH" exception handling type is more about Itanium-style
LSDA tables layered on top of the Windows native unwind info format
instead of .eh_frame tables or EHABI unwind info. Use the name
"ItaniumWinEH" to better reflect the hybrid nature of the design.
Also rename isExceptionHandlingDWARF to usesItaniumLSDAForExceptions,
since the LSDA is part of the Itanium C++ ABI document, and not the
DWARF standard.
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: llvm-commits, compnerd
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6279
llvm-svn: 222062
Instead, we're going to separate metadata from the Value hierarchy. See
PR21532.
This reverts commit r221375.
This reverts commit r221373.
This reverts commit r221359.
This reverts commit r221167.
This reverts commit r221027.
This reverts commit r221024.
This reverts commit r221023.
This reverts commit r220995.
This reverts commit r220994.
llvm-svn: 221711
This commit adds a new pass that can inject checks before indirect calls to
make sure that these calls target known locations. It supports three types of
checks and, at compile time, it can take the name of a custom function to call
when an indirect call check fails. The default failure function ignores the
error and continues.
This pass incidentally moves the function JumpInstrTables::transformType from
private to public and makes it static (with a new argument that specifies the
table type to use); this is so that the CFI code can transform function types
at call sites to determine which jump-instruction table to use for the check at
that site.
Also, this removes support for jumptables in ARM, pending further performance
analysis and discussion.
Review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4167
llvm-svn: 221708
On 32 bit windows we use label differences and .set does not suppress
rolocations, a combination that was not used before r220256.
This fixes PR21497.
llvm-svn: 221456
Change `NamedMDNode::getOperator()` from returning `MDNode *` to
returning `Value *`. To reduce boilerplate at some call sites, add a
`getOperatorAsMDNode()` for named metadata that's expected to only
return `MDNode` -- for now, that's everything, but debug node named
metadata (such as llvm.dbg.cu and llvm.dbg.sp) will soon change. This
is part of PR21433.
Note that there's a follow-up patch to clang for the API change.
llvm-svn: 221375
This is experimental, just barely enough to get things to not
immediately combust.
A note for those who are curious:
Only lld can successfully link the object files, other linkers truncate
the section names making the debug sections illegible to debuggers.
Even with this in mind, we believe we are having trouble with SECREL
relocations.
llvm-svn: 221245
Every target we support has support for assembly that looks like
a = b - c
.long a
What is special about MachO is that the above combination suppresses the
production of a relocation.
With this change we avoid producing the intermediary labels when they don't
add any value.
llvm-svn: 220256
argument of the llvm.dbg.declare/llvm.dbg.value intrinsics.
Previously, DIVariable was a variable-length field that has an optional
reference to a Metadata array consisting of a variable number of
complex address expressions. In the case of OpPiece expressions this is
wasting a lot of storage in IR, because when an aggregate type is, e.g.,
SROA'd into all of its n individual members, the IR will contain n copies
of the DIVariable, all alike, only differing in the complex address
reference at the end.
By making the complex address into an extra argument of the
dbg.value/dbg.declare intrinsics, all of the pieces can reference the
same variable and the complex address expressions can be uniqued across
the CU, too.
Down the road, this will allow us to move other flags, such as
"indirection" out of the DIVariable, too.
The new intrinsics look like this:
declare void @llvm.dbg.declare(metadata %storage, metadata %var, metadata %expr)
declare void @llvm.dbg.value(metadata %storage, i64 %offset, metadata %var, metadata %expr)
This patch adds a new LLVM-local tag to DIExpressions, so we can detect
and pretty-print DIExpression metadata nodes.
What this patch doesn't do:
This patch does not touch the "Indirect" field in DIVariable; but moving
that into the expression would be a natural next step.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D4919
rdar://problem/17994491
Thanks to dblaikie and dexonsmith for reviewing this patch!
Note: I accidentally committed a bogus older version of this patch previously.
llvm-svn: 218787
argument of the llvm.dbg.declare/llvm.dbg.value intrinsics.
Previously, DIVariable was a variable-length field that has an optional
reference to a Metadata array consisting of a variable number of
complex address expressions. In the case of OpPiece expressions this is
wasting a lot of storage in IR, because when an aggregate type is, e.g.,
SROA'd into all of its n individual members, the IR will contain n copies
of the DIVariable, all alike, only differing in the complex address
reference at the end.
By making the complex address into an extra argument of the
dbg.value/dbg.declare intrinsics, all of the pieces can reference the
same variable and the complex address expressions can be uniqued across
the CU, too.
Down the road, this will allow us to move other flags, such as
"indirection" out of the DIVariable, too.
The new intrinsics look like this:
declare void @llvm.dbg.declare(metadata %storage, metadata %var, metadata %expr)
declare void @llvm.dbg.value(metadata %storage, i64 %offset, metadata %var, metadata %expr)
This patch adds a new LLVM-local tag to DIExpressions, so we can detect
and pretty-print DIExpression metadata nodes.
What this patch doesn't do:
This patch does not touch the "Indirect" field in DIVariable; but moving
that into the expression would be a natural next step.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D4919
rdar://problem/17994491
Thanks to dblaikie and dexonsmith for reviewing this patch!
llvm-svn: 218778
On MachO, and MachO only, we cannot have a truly empty function since that
breaks the linker logic for atomizing the section.
When we are emitting a frame pointer, the presence of an unreachable will
create a cfi instruction pointing past the last instruction. This is perfectly
fine. The FDE information encodes the pc range it applies to. If some tool
cannot handle this, we should explicitly say which bug we are working around
and only work around it when it is actually relevant (not for ELF for example).
Given the unreachable we could omit the .cfi_def_cfa_register, but then
again, we could also omit the entire function prologue if we wanted to.
llvm-svn: 217801
The structures for Windows unwinding are shared across multiple platforms.
Indicate the encoding to be used for the particular target. Use this to switch
the unwind emitter instantiated by the AsmPrinter.
llvm-svn: 216895
shorter/easier and have the DAG use that to do the same lookup. This
can be used in the future for TargetMachine based caching lookups from
the MachineFunction easily.
Update the MIPS subtarget switching machinery to update this pointer
at the same time it runs.
llvm-svn: 214838
variables (for example, by-value struct arguments passed in registers, or
large integer values split across several smaller registers).
On the IR level, this adds a new type of complex address operation OpPiece
to DIVariable that describes size and offset of a variable fragment.
On the DWARF emitter level, all pieces describing the same variable are
collected, sorted and emitted as DWARF expressions using the DW_OP_piece
and DW_OP_bit_piece operators.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D3373
rdar://problem/15928306
What this patch doesn't do / Future work:
- This patch only adds the backend machinery to make this work, patches
that change SROA and SelectionDAG's type legalizer to actually create
such debug info will follow. (http://reviews.llvm.org/D2680)
- Making the DIVariable complex expressions into an argument of dbg.value
will reduce the memory footprint of the debug metadata.
- The sorting/uniquing of pieces should be moved into DebugLocEntry,
to facilitate the merging of multi-piece entries.
llvm-svn: 214576
This patch minimizes the number of nops that must be emitted on X86 to satisfy
stackmap shadow constraints.
To minimize the number of nops inserted, the X86AsmPrinter now records the
size of the most recent stackmap's shadow in the StackMapShadowTracker class,
and tracks the number of instruction bytes emitted since the that stackmap
instruction was encountered. Padding is emitted (if it is required at all)
immediately before the next stackmap/patchpoint instruction, or at the end of
the basic block.
This optimization should reduce code-size and improve performance for people
using the llvm stackmap intrinsic on X86.
<rdar://problem/14959522>
llvm-svn: 213892
COFF lacks a feature that other object file formats support: mergeable
sections.
To work around this, MSVC sticks constant pool entries in special COMDAT
sections so that each constant is in it's own section. This permits
unused constants to be dropped and it also allows duplicate constants in
different translation units to get merged together.
This fixes PR20262.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4482
llvm-svn: 213006
The PowerPC 128-bit long double data type (ppcf128 in LLVM) is in fact a
pair of two doubles, where one is considered the "high" or
more-significant part, and the other is considered the "low" or
less-significant part. When a ppcf128 value is stored in memory or a
register pair, the high part always comes first, i.e. at the lower
memory address or in the lower-numbered register, and the low part
always comes second. This is true both on big-endian and little-endian
PowerPC systems. (Similar to how with a complex number, the real part
always comes first and the imaginary part second, no matter the byte
order of the system.)
This was implemented incorrectly for little-endian systems in LLVM.
This commit fixes three related issues:
- When printing an immediate ppcf128 constant to assembler output
in emitGlobalConstantFP, emit the high part first on both big-
and little-endian systems.
- When lowering a ppcf128 type to a pair of f64 types in SelectionDAG
(which is used e.g. when generating code to load an argument into a
register pair), use correct low/high part ordering on little-endian
systems.
- In a related issue, because lowering ppcf128 into a pair of f64 must
operate differently from lowering an int128 into a pair of i64,
bitcasts between ppcf128 and int128 must not be optimized away by the
DAG combiner on little-endian systems, but must effect a word-swap.
Reviewed by Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 212274
This exception format is not specific to Windows x64. A similar approach is
taken on nearly all architectures. Generalise the name to reflect reality.
This will eventually be used for Windows on ARM data emission as well.
Switch the enum and namespace into an enum class.
llvm-svn: 212000
string_ostream is a safe and efficient string builder that combines opaque
stack storage with a built-in ostream interface.
small_string_ostream<bytes> additionally permits an explicit stack storage size
other than the default 128 bytes to be provided. Beyond that, storage is
transferred to the heap.
This convenient class can be used in most places an
std::string+raw_string_ostream pair or SmallString<>+raw_svector_ostream pair
would previously have been used, in order to guarantee consistent access
without byte truncation.
The patch also converts much of LLVM to use the new facility. These changes
include several probable bug fixes for truncated output, a programming error
that's no longer possible with the new interface.
llvm-svn: 211749
DwarfException served as a base class for exception handling directive emission.
However, this is also used by other exception models (e.g. Win64EH). Rename
this class to EHStreamer and split it out of DwarfException.h. NFC.
Use the opportunity to fix up some of the documentation comments to match
current LLVM style. Also rename some functions to conform better with current
LLVM coding style.
llvm-svn: 210622
never be true in a well-defined context. The checking for null pointers
has been moved into the caller logic so it does not rely on undefined behavior.
llvm-svn: 210497
* Section association cannot use just the section name as many
sections can have the same name. With this patch, the comdat symbol in
an assoc section is interpreted to mean a symbol in the associated
section and the mapping is discovered from it.
* Comdat symbols were not being set correctly. Instead we were getting
whatever was output first for that section.
A consequence is that associative sections now must use .section to
set the association. Using .linkonce would not work since it is not
possible to change a sections comdat symbol (it is used to decide if
we should create a new section or reuse an existing one).
This includes r210298, which was reverted because it was asserting
on an associated section having the same comdat as the associated
section.
llvm-svn: 210367
It includes a pass that rewrites all indirect calls to jumptable functions to pass through these tables.
This also adds backend support for generating the jump-instruction tables on ARM and X86.
Note that since the jumptable attribute creates a second function pointer for a
function, any function marked with jumptable must also be marked with unnamed_addr.
llvm-svn: 210280
We would previously assert here when trying to figure out the section
for the global.
This makes us handle the situation more gracefully since the IR isn't
malformed.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4022
llvm-svn: 210215
This patch changes GlobalAlias to point to an arbitrary ConstantExpr and it is
up to MC (or the system assembler) to decide if that expression is valid or not.
This reduces our ability to diagnose invalid uses and how early we can spot
them, but it also lets us do things like
@test5 = alias inttoptr(i32 sub (i32 ptrtoint (i32* @test2 to i32),
i32 ptrtoint (i32* @bar to i32)) to i32*)
An important implication of this patch is that the notion of aliased global
doesn't exist any more. The alias has to encode the information needed to
access it in its metadata (linkage, visibility, type, etc).
Another consequence to notice is that getSection has to return a "const char *".
It could return a NullTerminatedStringRef if there was such a thing, but when
that was proposed the decision was to just uses "const char*" for that.
llvm-svn: 210062
This allows us to put dynamic initializers for weak data into the same
comdat group as the data being initialized. This is necessary for MSVC
ABI compatibility. Once we have comdats for guard variables, we can use
the combination to help GlobalOpt fire more often for weak data with
guarded initialization on other platforms.
Reviewers: nlewycky
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3499
llvm-svn: 209015
This reverts commit r208934.
The patch depends on aliases to GEPs with non zero offsets. That is not
supported and fairly broken.
The good news is that GlobalAlias is being redesigned and will have support
for offsets, so this patch should be a nice match for it.
llvm-svn: 208978
This commit implements two command line switches -global-merge-on-external
and -global-merge-aligned, and both of them are false by default, so this
optimization is disabled by default for all targets.
For ARM64, some back-end behaviors need to be tuned to get this optimization
further enabled.
llvm-svn: 208934
This allows code to statically accept a Function or a GlobalVariable, but
not an alias. This is already a cleanup by itself IMHO, but the main
reason for it is that it gives a lot more confidence that the refactoring to fix
the design of GlobalAlias is correct. That will be a followup patch.
llvm-svn: 208716
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith