Summary:
The MicrosoftCXXABI uses a separate mechanism for emitting vtable
type metadata, and thus didn't pick up the change from D71907
to emit the vcall_visibility metadata under -fwhole-program-vtables.
I believe this is the cause of a Windows bot failure when I committed
follow on change D71913 that required a revert. The failure occurred
in a CFI test that was expecting to not abort because it expected a
devirtualization to occur, and without the necessary vcall_visibility
metadata we would not get devirtualization.
Note in the equivalent code in CodeGenModule::EmitVTableTypeMetadata
(used by the ItaniumCXXABI), we also emit the vcall_visibility metadata
when Virtual Function Elimination is enabled. Since I am not as familiar
with the details of that optimization, I have marked that as a TODO and
am only inserting under -fwhole-program-vtables.
Reviewers: evgeny777
Subscribers: Prazek, ostannard, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73418
IRgen optimization opportunities.
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The common pattern of
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short x; // or char, etc
(x == 10)
--
generates an zext/sext of x which can easily be avoided.
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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.
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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.
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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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