This is a recommit of b822efc740,
reverted in dc34d8df4c. The commit caused
fails because the test ast-print-fp-pragmas.c did not specify particular
target, and it failed on targets which do not support constrained
intrinsics. The original commit message is below.
AST does not have special nodes for pragmas. Instead a pragma modifies
some state variables of Sema, which in turn results in modified
attributes of AST nodes. This technique applies to floating point
operations as well. Every AST node that can depend on FP options keeps
current set of them.
This technique works well for options like exception behavior or fast
math options. They represent instructions to the compiler how to modify
code generation for the affected nodes. However treatment of FP control
modes has problems with this technique. Modifying FP control mode
(like rounding direction) usually requires operations on hardware, like
writing to control registers. It must be done prior to the first
operation that depends on the control mode. In particular, such
operations are required for implementation of `pragma STDC FENV_ROUND`,
compiler should set up necessary rounding direction at the beginning of
compound statement where the pragma occurs. As there is no representation
for pragmas in AST, the code generation becomes a complicated task in
this case.
To solve this issue FP options are kept inside CompoundStmt. Unlike to FP
options in expressions, these does not affect any operation on FP values,
but only inform the codegen about the FP options that act in the body of
the statement. As all pragmas that modify FP environment may occurs only
at the start of compound statement or at global level, such solution
works for all relevant pragmas. The options are kept as a difference
from the options in the enclosing compound statement or default options,
it helps codegen to set only changed control modes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123952
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.
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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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