The liveness verifier will check that the live ranges are consistent
with the function. It runs as part of the register allocation pipeline
when enable_verifier is set.
The initial implementation checks the live ranges, but not the
ISA-specific constraints and affinities.
The test drivers can stop calling comp_ctx.verify because legalize() and
regalloc() do it themselves now.
This also makes it possible for those two passes to return other
CtonError codes in the future, not just verifier errors.
These special-purpose arguments and return values are only relevant for
the function being compiled, so add a `current` flag to
legalize_signature().
- Add the necessary argument values to the entry block to represent
the special-purpose arguments.
- Propagate the link and sret arguments to return instructions if the
legalized signature asks for it.
Enumerate a set of special purposes for function arguments that general
purpose code needs to know about. Some of these argument purposes will
only appear in the signature of the current function, representing
things the prologue and epilogues need to know about like the link
register and callee-saved registers.
Get rid of the 'inreg' argument flag. Arguments can be pre-assigned to a
specific register instead.
When converting from ABI types to original program types, the final
conversion instruction can place its result into the original value, so
it doesn't need to be changed to an alias.
Now that we can detach and reuse all values, there is no longer a need
to create a lot of alias values during pattern expansion. Instead, reuse
the values from the source pattern when emitting instructions in the
destination pattern.
If a destination instruction produces the exact same values as a source
instruction, simply leave the values attached and replace the
instruction it. Otherwise, detach the source values, reuse them in the
expansion, and remove the source instruction afterwards.
All values are now references into the value table, so drop the
distinction between direct and table values. Direct values don't exist
any more.
Also remove the parser support for the 'vxNN' syntax. Only 'vNN' values
can be parsed now.
Soon, InstructionData won't have sufficient information to compute this.
Give TargetIsa::encode() an explicit ctrl_typevar argument. This
function does not require the instruction to be inserted in the DFG
tables.
We only ever create table values now.
Simplify legalizer::legalize_inst_results. Instead of calling
detach_secondary_results, just detach all the results and don't treat
the first result specially.
Any *.cton files in the docs directory are now included when running the
test-all.sh script. This is to ensure that the examples are in fact
correct IL.
Always print NaN and Inf floats with a sign. Print the positive ones as
+NaN and +Inf to make them easier to parse.
This affects the comparison instructions which now read "icmp ult a, b".
This mimics LLVM's style and makes it simpler to add instruction flags
in the future, such as "load v1" -> "load aligned v1".
These enumerated operands and flags feel like opcode modifiers rather
than value operands, so displaying them differently makes sense.
Value and numeric operands are still comma separated.
Compute exact EBB header offsets and check that branches are in range.
Not implemented yet: Relax branches that are not in range.
Invoke the relax_branches() pass from the 'test binemit' file tests so
they can verify the proper encoding of branch instructions too.
Not all br_icmp opcodes are present in the ISA. The missing ones can be
reached by commuting operands.
Don't attempt to encode EBB offsets yet. For now just emit an EBB
relocation for the branch instruction.
This instruction behaves like icmp fused with brnz, and it can be used
to represent fused compare+branch instruction on Intel when optimizing
for macro-op fusion.
RISC-V provides compare-and-branch instructions directly, and it is
needed there too.
The meaning of format.typevar_operand changes recently to be relative to
value operands only instead of all operands. The Sphinx cton domain
wasn't updated.
Compare a scalar integer to an immediate constant. Both Intel and RISC-V
ISAs have this operation.
This requires the addition of a new IntCompareImm instruction format.
Run the verify_contexti() function after invoking the legalize() and
regalloc() context functions. This will help catch bad code produced by
these passes.
The carry and borrow values are boolean, so we have to convert them to
an integer type with bint(c) before we can add them to the result.
Also tweak the default legalizer action for unsupported types: Only
attempt a narrowing pattern for lane types > 32 bits.
This was found by @angusholder's new type checks in the verifier.
If an instruction doesn't have an associated encoding, use the standard
TargetIsa hook to encode it.
The test still fails if an instruction can't be encoded. There is no
legalization step.
The EBB argument splitting may generate concat-split dependencies when
it repairs branch arguments in EBBs that have not yet been fully
legalized. Add a branch argument simplification step that can resolve
these dependency chains.
This means that all split and concatenation instructions will be dead
after legalization for types that have no legal instructions using them.
When the legalizer splits a value into halves, it would previously stop
if the value was an EBB argument. With this change, we also split EBB
arguments and iteratively split arguments on branches to the EBB.
The iterative splitting stops when we hit the entry block arguments or
an instruction that isn't one of the concatenation instructions.
Legalizing some instructions may require modifications to the control
flow graph, and some operations need to use the CFG analysis.
The CFG reference is threaded through all the legalization functions to
reach the generated expansion functions as well as the legalizer::split
module where it will be used first.
