The ACLE (ARM C Language Extensions) 2.0 allows the __fp16 type to be
used as a functon argument or return type (ACLE 1.1 did not).
The current public release of the AAPCS (2.09) states that __fp16 values
should be converted to single-precision before being passed or returned,
but AAPCS 2.10 (to be released shortly) changes this, so that they are
passed in the least-significant 16 bits of either a GPR (for base AAPCS)
or a single-precision register (for AAPCS-VFP). This does not change how
arguments are passed if they get passed on the stack.
This patch brings clang up to compliance with the latest versions of
both of these specs.
We can now set the __ARM_FP16_ARGS ACLE predefine, and we have always
been able to set the __ARM_FP16_FORMAT_IEEE predefine (we do not support
the alternative format).
llvm-svn: 246764
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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