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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2011-01-01 22:52:11 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2011-01-01 22:52:11 +0000
commit9c8fb9e8208d527fcb333792e0c634c816036b4b (patch)
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various updates.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@122675 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
-rw-r--r--lib/Target/README.txt60
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Target/README.txt b/lib/Target/README.txt
index ec5c412..be0e6bb 100644
--- a/lib/Target/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/README.txt
@@ -383,7 +383,8 @@ unsigned int popcount(unsigned int input) {
}
This is a form of idiom recognition for loops, the same thing that could be
-useful for recognizing memset/memcpy.
+useful for recognizing memset/memcpy. This sort of thing should be added to the
+loop idiom pass.
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
@@ -701,38 +702,31 @@ int test() {
foo(input);
}
-We currently compile this into a memcpy from a global array since the
-initializer is fairly large and not memset'able. This is good, but the memcpy
-gets lowered to load/stores in the code generator. This is also ok, except
-that the codegen lowering for memcpy doesn't handle the case when the source
-is a constant global. This gives us atrocious code like this:
+Clang compiles this into:
- call "L1$pb"
-"L1$pb":
- popl %eax
- movl _C.0.1444-"L1$pb"+32(%eax), %ecx
- movl %ecx, 40(%esp)
- movl _C.0.1444-"L1$pb"+20(%eax), %ecx
- movl %ecx, 28(%esp)
- movl _C.0.1444-"L1$pb"+36(%eax), %ecx
- movl %ecx, 44(%esp)
- movl _C.0.1444-"L1$pb"+44(%eax), %ecx
- movl %ecx, 52(%esp)
- movl _C.0.1444-"L1$pb"+40(%eax), %ecx
- movl %ecx, 48(%esp)
- movl _C.0.1444-"L1$pb"+12(%eax), %ecx
- movl %ecx, 20(%esp)
- movl _C.0.1444-"L1$pb"+4(%eax), %ecx
-...
+ call void @llvm.memset.p0i8.i64(i8* %tmp, i8 0, i64 64, i32 16, i1 false)
+ %0 = getelementptr [8 x i64]* %input, i64 0, i64 0
+ store i64 1, i64* %0, align 16
+ %1 = getelementptr [8 x i64]* %input, i64 0, i64 2
+ store i64 1, i64* %1, align 16
+ %2 = getelementptr [8 x i64]* %input, i64 0, i64 4
+ store i64 1, i64* %2, align 16
+ %3 = getelementptr [8 x i64]* %input, i64 0, i64 6
+ store i64 1, i64* %3, align 16
-instead of:
- movl $1, 16(%esp)
- movl $0, 20(%esp)
- movl $1, 24(%esp)
- movl $0, 28(%esp)
- movl $1, 32(%esp)
- movl $0, 36(%esp)
- ...
+Which gets codegen'd into:
+
+ pxor %xmm0, %xmm0
+ movaps %xmm0, -16(%rbp)
+ movaps %xmm0, -32(%rbp)
+ movaps %xmm0, -48(%rbp)
+ movaps %xmm0, -64(%rbp)
+ movq $1, -64(%rbp)
+ movq $1, -48(%rbp)
+ movq $1, -32(%rbp)
+ movq $1, -16(%rbp)
+
+It would be better to have 4 movq's of 0 instead of the movaps's.
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
@@ -1718,6 +1712,10 @@ int foo() {
return **p;
}
+This can be seen at:
+$ clang t.c -S -o - -mkernel -O0 -emit-llvm | opt -functionattrs -S
+
+
//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
Missed instcombine transformation: