When an object is allocated in a non-default address space we do not
need to check for a constructor if it is not initialized and has a
trivial constructor (which we won't call then).
Reviewed By: JonChesterfield
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100929
For a default visibility external linkage definition, dso_local is set for ELF
-fno-pic/-fpie and COFF and Mach-O. Since default clang -cc1 for ELF is similar
to -fpic ("PIC Level" is not set), this nuance causes unneeded binary format differences.
To make emitted IR similar, ELF -cc1 -fpic will default to -fno-semantic-interposition,
which sets dso_local for default visibility external linkage definitions.
To make this flip smooth and enable future (dso_local as definition default),
this patch replaces (function) `define ` with `define{{.*}} `,
(variable/constant/alias) `= ` with `={{.*}} `, or inserts appropriate `{{.*}} `.
Summary:
[Clang] Attribute to allow defining undef global variables
Initializing global variables is very cheap on hosted implementations. The
C semantics of zero initializing globals work very well there. It is not
necessarily cheap on freestanding implementations. Where there is no loader
available, code must be emitted near the start point to write the appropriate
values into memory.
At present, external variables can be declared in C++ and definitions provided
in assembly (or IR) to achive this effect. This patch provides an attribute in
order to remove this reason for writing assembly for performance sensitive
freestanding implementations.
A close analogue in tree is LDS memory for amdgcn, where the kernel is
responsible for initializing the memory after it starts executing on the gpu.
Uninitalized variables in LDS are observably cheaper than zero initialized.
Patch is loosely based on the cuda __shared__ and opencl __local variable
implementation which also produces undef global variables.
Reviewers: kcc, rjmccall, rsmith, glider, vitalybuka, pcc, eugenis, vlad.tsyrklevich, jdoerfert, gregrodgers, jfb, aaron.ballman
Reviewed By: rjmccall, aaron.ballman
Subscribers: Anastasia, aaron.ballman, davidb, Quuxplusone, dexonsmith, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74361
Johannes Doerfert