These linkages were introduced some time ago, but it was never very
clear what exactly their semantics were or what they should be used
for. Some investigation found these uses:
* utf-16 strings in clang.
* non-unnamed_addr strings produced by the sanitizers.
It turns out they were just working around a more fundamental problem.
For some sections a MachO linker needs a symbol in order to split the
section into atoms, and llvm had no idea that was the case. I fixed
that in r201700 and it is now safe to use the private linkage. When
the object ends up in a section that requires symbols, llvm will use a
'l' prefix instead of a 'L' prefix and things just work.
With that, these linkages were already dead, but there was a potential
future user in the objc metadata information. I am still looking at
CGObjcMac.cpp, but at this point I am convinced that linker_private
and linker_private_weak are not what they need.
The objc uses are currently split in
* Regular symbols (no '\01' prefix). LLVM already directly provides
whatever semantics they need.
* Uses of a private name (start with "\01L" or "\01l") and private
linkage. We can drop the "\01L" and "\01l" prefixes as soon as llvm
agrees with clang on L being ok or not for a given section. I have two
patches in code review for this.
* Uses of private name and weak linkage.
The last case is the one that one could think would fit one of these
linkages. That is not the case. The semantics are
* the linker will merge these symbol by *name*.
* the linker will hide them in the final DSO.
Given that the merging is done by name, any of the private (or
internal) linkages would be a bad match. They allow llvm to rename the
symbols, and that is really not what we want. From the llvm point of
view, these objects should really be (linkonce|weak)(_odr)?.
For now, just keeping the "\01l" prefix is probably the best for these
symbols. If we one day want to have a more direct support in llvm,
IMHO what we should add is not a linkage, it is just a hidden_symbol
attribute. It would be applicable to multiple linkages. For example,
on weak it would produce the current behavior we have for objc
metadata. On internal, it would be equivalent to private (and we
should then remove private).
llvm-svn: 203866
The syntax for "cmpxchg" should now look something like:
cmpxchg i32* %addr, i32 42, i32 3 acquire monotonic
where the second ordering argument gives the required semantics in the case
that no exchange takes place. It should be no stronger than the first ordering
constraint and cannot be either "release" or "acq_rel" (since no store will
have taken place).
rdar://problem/15996804
llvm-svn: 203559
Summary:
AsmPrinter::EmitInlineAsm() will no longer use the EmitRawText() call for
targets with mature MC support. Such targets will always parse the inline
assembly (even when emitting assembly). Targets without mature MC support
continue to use EmitRawText() for assembly output.
The hasRawTextSupport() check in AsmPrinter::EmitInlineAsm() has been replaced
with MCAsmInfo::UseIntegratedAs which when true, causes the integrated assembler
to parse inline assembly (even when emitting assembly output). UseIntegratedAs
is set to true for targets that consider any failure to parse valid assembly
to be a bug. Target specific subclasses generally enable the integrated
assembler in their constructor. The default value can be overridden with
-no-integrated-as.
All tests that rely on inline assembly supporting invalid assembly (for example,
those that use mnemonics such as 'foo' or 'hello world') have been updated to
disable the integrated assembler.
Changes since review (and last commit attempt):
- Fixed test failures that were missed due to configuration of local build.
(fixes crash.ll and a couple others).
- Fixed tests that happened to pass because the local build was on X86
(should fix 2007-12-17-InvokeAsm.ll)
- mature-mc-support.ll's should no longer require all targets to be compiled.
(should fix ARM and PPC buildbots)
- Object output (-filetype=obj and similar) now forces the integrated assembler
to be enabled regardless of default setting or -no-integrated-as.
(should fix SystemZ buildbots)
Reviewers: rafael
Reviewed By: rafael
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2686
llvm-svn: 201333
The SWAP instruction only exists in a 32-bit variant, but the 64-bit
atomic swap can be implemented in terms of CASX, like the other atomic
rmw primitives.
llvm-svn: 200453
Otherwise, assembler (gas) fails to assemble them with error message "operation
combines symbols in different segments". This is because MC computes
pc_rel entries with subtract expression between labels from different sections.
llvm-svn: 200373
When creating a virtual register for a def, the value type should be
used to pick the register class. If we only use the register class
constraint on the instruction, we might pick a too large register class.
Some registers can store values of different sizes. For example, the x86
xmm registers can hold f32, f64, and 128-bit vectors. The three
different value sizes are represented by register classes with identical
register sets: FR32, FR64, and VR128. These register classes have
different spill slot sizes, so it is important to use the right one.
The register class constraint on an instruction doesn't necessarily care
about the size of the value its defining. The value type determines
that.
This fixes a problem where InstrEmitter was picking 32-bit register
classes for 64-bit values on SPARC.
llvm-svn: 199187
Targets like SPARC and MIPS have delay slots and normally bundle the
delay slot instruction with the corresponding terminator.
Teach isBlockOnlyReachableByFallthrough to find any MBB operands on
bundled terminators so SPARC doesn't need to specialize this function.
llvm-svn: 199061
This is different from the argument passing convention which puts the
first float argument in %f1.
With this patch, all returned floats are treated as if the 'inreg' flag
were set. This means multiple float return values get packed in %f0,
%f1, %f2, ...
Note that when returning a struct in registers, clang will set the
'inreg' flag on the return value, so that behavior is unchanged. This
also happens when returning a float _Complex.
llvm-svn: 199028
