This commit goes through the lowerings for the CLIF `splat` instruction
and improves the support for each operator. Many of these lowerings are
mirrored from v8/SpiderMonkey and there are a number of improvements:
* AVX2 `v{p,}broadcast*` instructions are added and used when available.
* Float-based splats are much simpler and always a single-instruction
* Integer-based splats don't insert into an uninit xmm value and instead
start out with a `movd` to move into an `xmm` register. This
thoeretically breaks dependencies with prior instructions since `movd`
creates a fresh new value in the destination register.
* Loads are now sunk into all of the instructions. A new extractor,
`sinkable_load_exact`, was added to sink the i8/i16 loads.
filetests
Filetests is a crate that contains multiple test suites for testing
various parts of cranelift. Each folder under cranelift/filetests/filetests is a different
test suite that tests different parts.
Adding a runtest
One of the available testsuites is the "runtest" testsuite. Its goal is to compile some piece of clif code, run it and ensure that what comes out is what we expect.
To build a run test you can add the following to a file:
test interpret
test run
target x86_64
target aarch64
target s390x
function %band_f32(f32, f32) -> f32 {
block0(v0: f32, v1: f32):
v2 = band v0, v1
return v2
}
; run: %band_f32(0x0.5, 0x1.0) == 0x1.5
Since this is a run test for band we can put it in: runtests/band.clif.
Once we have the file in the test suite we can run it by invoking: cargo run -- test filetests/filetests/runtests/band.clif from the cranelift directory.
The first lines tell clif-util what kind of tests we want to run on this file.
test interpret invokes the interpreter and checks if the conditions in the ; run comments pass. test run does the same, but compiles the file and runs it as a native binary.
For more information about testing see testing.md.