Support "file" and "loc" directives. "file" takes a string (a file name)
assigns it a number, sets the current file to that number and records
the string for later. "loc" takes a single number and outputs location
information with a reference to the current file.
Crashing loads of uninitialized memory
proved to be a problem when implementing
unions using qbe. This patch introduces
a new UNDEF Ref to represent data that is
known to be uninitialized. Optimization
passes can make use of it to eliminate
some code. In the last compilation stages,
UNDEF is treated as the constant 0xdeaddead.
It is handy to express when
the end of a block cannot be
reached. If a hlt terminator
is executed, it traps the
program.
We don't go the llvm way and
specify execution semantics as
undefined behavior.
Symbols are a useful abstraction
that occurs in both Con and Alias.
In this patch they get their own
struct. This new struct packages
a symbol name and a type; the type
tells us where the symbol name
must be interpreted (currently, in
gobal memory or in thread-local
storage).
The refactor fixed a bug in
addcon(), proving the value of
packaging symbol names with their
type.
This pass limits stack usage when
many small aggregates are allocated
on the stack. A fast liveness
analysis figures out which slots
interfere and the pass then fuses
slots that do not interfere. The
pass also kills stack slots that
are only ever assigned.
On the hare stdlib test suite, this
fusion pass managed to reduce the
total eligible slot bytes count
by 84%.
The slots considered for fusion
must not escape and not exceed
64 bytes in size.
Stack slots may have padding
bytes, and if we want to have
precise liveness information
it's important that we are able
to tell them apart.
This patch extends fillalias()
to remember for every slot
what bytes were ever assigned.
In case the slot address does
not escape we know that only
these bytes matter.
To save space, we only store
this information if the slot
size is less than or equal to
NBit.
The Alias struct was reworked
a bit to save some space. I am
still not very satisfied with
its layout though.
The general idea is to give abis a
chance to talk before we've done all
the optimizations. Currently, all
targets eliminate {par,arg,ret}{sb,ub,...}
during this pass. The forthcoming
arm64_apple will, however, insert
proper extensions during abi0.
Moving forward abis can, for example,
lower small-aggregates passing there
so that memory optimizations can
interact better with function calls.
apple support is more than assembly syntax
in case of arm64 machines, and apple syntax
is currently useless in all cases but amd64;
rather than having a -G option that only
makes sense with amd64, we add a new target
amd64_apple
The risc-v abi needs to know if a
type is defined as a union or not.
We cannot use nunion to obtain this
information because the risc-v abi
made the unfortunate decision of
treating
union { int i; }
differently from
int i;
So, instead, I introduce a single
bit flag 'isunion'.
It is mostly complete, but still has a few ABI bugs when passing
floats in structs, or when structs are passed partly in register,
and partly on stack.
parseref() has code to reuse address constants, but this is not
done in other passes such as fold or isel. Introduce a new function
newcon() which takes a Con and returns a Ref for that constant, and
use this whenever creating address constants.
This is necessary to fix folding of address constants when one
operand is already folded. For example, in
%a =l add $x, 1
%b =l add %a, 2
%c =w loadw %b
%a and %b were folded to $x+1 and $x+3 respectively, but then the
second add is visited again since it uses %a. This gets folded to
$x+3 as well, but as a new distinct constant. This results in %b
getting labeled as bottom instead of either constant, disabling the
replacement of %b by a constant in subsequent instructions (such
as the loadw).
Some abis, like the riscv one, treat
arguments differently depending on
whether they are variadic or not.
To prepare for the upcomming riscv
target, we change the variadic call
syntax and give meaning to the
location of the '...' marker.
# new syntax
%ret =w call $f(w %regular, ..., w %variadic)
By nature of their abis, the change
is backwards compatible for existing
targets.
Reported by Alessandro Mantovani.
These addresses are likely bogus, but
they triggered an unwarranted assertion
failure. We now raise a civilized error.
Slots are stored as `int` in Fn, so use the same type in Tmp.
Rearrange the fields in Tmp slightly so that sizeof(Tmp) stays the same
(at least on 64-bit systems).
