When the spiller needs to make a register available for a conditional
branch instruction, it can be necessary to spill some of the EBB
arguments on the branch instruction. This is ok because EBB argument
values belong to the same virtual register as the corresponding EBB
parameter and we spill the whole virtreg to the same slot.
Also make sure free_regs() can handle values that are killed by the
current instruction *and* spilled.
Fixes#56.
We now have complete support for value location annotations in the
textual IL format. Values defined by instructions as well as EBB
arguments are covered.
A CallConv enum on every function signature makes it possible to
generate calls to functions with different calling conventions within
the same ISA / within a single function.
The calling conventions also serve as a way of customizing Cretonne's
behavior when embedded inside a VM. As an example, the SpiderWASM
calling convention is used to compile WebAssembly functions that run
inside the SpiderMonkey virtual machine.
All function signatures must have a calling convention at the end, so
this changes the textual IL syntax.
Before:
sig1 = signature(i32, f64) -> f64
After
sig1 = (i32, f64) -> f64 native
sig2 = (i32) spiderwasm
When printing functions, the signature goes after the return types:
function %r1() -> i32, f32 spiderwasm {
ebb1:
...
}
In the parser, this calling convention is optional and defaults to
"native". This is mostly to avoid updating all the existing test cases
under filetests/. When printing a function, the calling convention is
always included, including for "native" functions.
The following constraints may need to be resolved during spilling
because the resolution increases register pressure:
- A tied operand whose value is live through the instruction.
- A fixed register constraint for a value used more than once.
- A register use of a spilled value needs to account for the reload
register.
Function arguments that don't fit in registers are passed on the stack.
Create "incoming_arg" stack slots representing the stack arguments, and
assign them to the value arguments during spilling.
As soon as a value is spilled, also assign it to a spill slot.
For now, create a new spill slot for each spilled value. In the future,
values will be sharing spill slots of they are phi-related.
An instruction may have fixed operand constraints that make it
impossibly to use a single register value to satisfy two at a time.
Detect when the same value is used for multiple fixed register operands
and insert copies during the spilling pass.
Add a spilling pass which lowers register pressure by assigning SSA
values to the stack. Important missing features:
- Resolve conflicts where an instruction uses the same value more than
once in incompatible ways.
- Deal with EBB arguments.
Fix bugs in the reload pass exposed by the first test case:
- Create live ranges for temporary registers.
- Set encodings on created spill and fill instructions.
