[PowerPC] Support the ELFv2 ABI
This patch implements clang support for the PowerPC ELFv2 ABI. Together with a series of companion patches in LLVM, this makes clang/LLVM fully usable on powerpc64le-linux. Most of the ELFv2 ABI changes are fully implemented on the LLVM side. On the clang side, we only need to implement some changes in how aggregate types are passed by value. Specifically, we need to: - pass (and return) "homogeneous" floating-point or vector aggregates in FPRs and VRs (this is similar to the ARM homogeneous aggregate ABI) - return aggregates of up to 16 bytes in one or two GPRs The second piece is trivial to implement in any case. To implement the first piece, this patch makes use of infrastructure recently enabled in the LLVM PowerPC back-end to support passing array types directly, where the array element type encodes properties needed to handle homogeneous aggregates correctly. Specifically, the array element type encodes: - whether the parameter should be passed in FPRs, VRs, or just GPRs/stack slots (for float / vector / integer element types, respectively) - what the alignment requirements of the parameter are when passed in GPRs/stack slots (8 for float / 16 for vector / the element type size for integer element types) -- this corresponds to the "byval align" field With this support in place, the clang part simply needs to *detect* whether an aggregate type implements a float / vector homogeneous aggregate as defined by the ELFv2 ABI, and if so, pass/return it as array type using the appropriate float / vector element type. llvm-svn: 213494
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