According to i386 System V ABI 2.1: Structures and unions assume the
alignment of their most strictly aligned component. But current
implementation always takes them as 4-byte aligned which will result
in incorrect code, e.g:
1 #include <immintrin.h>
2 typedef union {
3 int d[4];
4 __m128 m;
5 } M128;
6 extern void foo(int, ...);
7 void test(void)
8 {
9 M128 a;
10 foo(1, a);
11 foo(1, a.m);
12 }
The first call (line 10) takes the second arg as 4-byte aligned while
the second call (line 11) takes the second arg as 16-byte aligned.
There is oxymoron for the alignment of the 2 calls because they should
be the same.
This patch fixes the bug by following i386 System V ABI and apply it to
Linux only since other System V OS (e.g Darwin, PS4 and FreeBSD) don't
want to spend any effort dealing with the ramifications of ABI breaks
at present.
Patch by Wei Xiao (wxiao3)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60748
llvm-svn: 361934
IRgen optimization opportunities.
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The common pattern of
--
short x; // or char, etc
(x == 10)
--
generates an zext/sext of x which can easily be avoided.
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
Bitfields accesses can be shifted to simplify masking and sign
extension. For example, if the bitfield width is 8 and it is
appropriately aligned then is is a lot shorter to just load the char
directly.
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
It may be worth avoiding creation of alloca's for formal arguments
for the common situation where the argument is never written to or has
its address taken. The idea would be to begin generating code by using
the argument directly and if its address is taken or it is stored to
then generate the alloca and patch up the existing code.
In theory, the same optimization could be a win for block local
variables as long as the declaration dominates all statements in the
block.
NOTE: The main case we care about this for is for -O0 -g compile time
performance, and in that scenario we will need to emit the alloca
anyway currently to emit proper debug info. So this is blocked by
being able to emit debug information which refers to an LLVM
temporary, not an alloca.
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
We should try and avoid generating basic blocks which only contain
jumps. At -O0, this penalizes us all the way from IRgen (malloc &
instruction overhead), all the way down through code generation and
assembly time.
On 176.gcc:expr.ll, it looks like over 12% of basic blocks are just
direct branches!
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