A couple of attributes had explicit checks for incompatibility
with pointer types. However, this is already handled generically
by the typeIncompatible() check. We can drop these after adding
SwiftError to typeIncompatible().
However, the previous implementation of the check prints out all
attributes that are incompatible with a given type, even though
those attributes aren't actually used. This has the annoying
result that the error message changes every time a new attribute
is added to the list. Improve this by explicitly finding which
attribute isn't compatible and printing just that.
Verifying opaque pointer as function parameter when using with `byval`, `byref`,
`inalloca`, `preallocated`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104309
I think byval/sret and the others are close to being able to rip out
the code to support the missing type case. A lot of this code is
shared with inalloca, so catch this up to the others so that can
happen.
This makes things a lot easier, because we can now talk about the
"argument allocation", which allocates all the memory for the call in
one shot.
The only functional change is to the verifier for a feature that hasn't
shipped yet.
llvm-svn: 199434
The inalloca attribute is designed to support passing C++ objects by
value in the Microsoft C++ ABI. It behaves the same as byval, except
that it always implies that the argument is in memory and that the bytes
are never copied. This attribute allows the caller to take the address
of an outgoing argument's memory and execute arbitrary code to store
into it.
This patch adds basic IR support, docs, and verification. It does not
attempt to implement any lowering or fix any possibly broken transforms.
When this patch lands, a complete description of this feature should
appear at http://llvm.org/docs/InAlloca.html .
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2173
llvm-svn: 197645
Nikita Popov