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  1. May 22, 2009
    • Duncan Sands's avatar
      Add a new codegen pass that normalizes dwarf exception handling · d6fb6501
      Duncan Sands authored
      code in preparation for code generation.  The main thing it does
      is handle the case when eh.exception calls (and, in a future
      patch, eh.selector calls) are far away from landing pads.  Right
      now in practice you only find eh.exception calls close to landing
      pads: either in a landing pad (the common case) or in a landing
      pad successor, due to loop passes shifting them about.  However
      future exception handling improvements will result in calls far
      from landing pads:
      (1) Inlining of rewinds.  Consider the following case:
      In function @f:
      ...
        invoke @g to label %normal unwind label %unwinds
      ...
      unwinds:
        %ex = call i8* @llvm.eh.exception()
      ...
      
      In function @g:
      ...
        invoke @something to label %continue unwind label %handler
      ...
      handler:
        %ex = call i8* @llvm.eh.exception()
      ... perform cleanups ...
        "rethrow exception"
      
      Now inline @g into @f.  Currently this is turned into:
      In function @f:
      ...
        invoke @something to label %continue unwind label %handler
      ...
      handler:
        %ex = call i8* @llvm.eh.exception()
      ... perform cleanups ...
        invoke "rethrow exception" to label %normal unwind label %unwinds
      unwinds:
        %ex = call i8* @llvm.eh.exception()
      ...
      
      However we would like to simplify invoke of "rethrow exception" into
      a branch to the %unwinds label.  Then %unwinds is no longer a landing
      pad, and the eh.exception call there is then far away from any landing
      pads.
      
      (2) Using the unwind instruction for cleanups.
      It would be nice to have codegen handle the following case:
        invoke @something to label %continue unwind label %run_cleanups
      ...
      handler:
      ... perform cleanups ...
        unwind
      
      This requires turning "unwind" into a library call, which
      necessarily takes a pointer to the exception as an argument
      (this patch also does this unwind lowering).  But that means
      you are using eh.exception again far from a landing pad.
      
      (3) Bugpoint simplifications.  When bugpoint is simplifying
      exception handling code it often generates eh.exception calls
      far from a landing pad, which then causes codegen to assert.
      Bugpoint then latches on to this assertion and loses sight
      of the original problem.
      
      Note that it is currently rare for this pass to actually do
      anything.  And in fact it normally shouldn't do anything at
      all given the code coming out of llvm-gcc!  But it does fire
      a few times in the testsuite.  As far as I can see this is
      almost always due to the LoopStrengthReduce codegen pass
      introducing pointless loop preheader blocks which are landing
      pads and only contain a branch to another block.  This other
      block contains an eh.exception call.  So probably by tweaking
      LoopStrengthReduce a bit this can be avoided.
      
      llvm-svn: 72276
      d6fb6501
  2. May 19, 2009
  3. May 16, 2009
    • Jakob Stoklund Olesen's avatar
      Pass to verify generated machine code. · 36c027ab
      Jakob Stoklund Olesen authored
      The following is checked:
      
      * Operand counts: All explicit operands must be present.
      
      * Register classes: All physical and virtual register operands must be
        compatible with the register class required by the instruction descriptor.
      
      * Register live intervals: Registers must be defined only once, and must be
        defined before use.
      
      The machine code verifier is enabled with the command-line option
      '-verify-machineinstrs', or by defining the environment variable
      LLVM_VERIFY_MACHINEINSTRS to the name of a file that will receive all the
      verifier errors.
      
      llvm-svn: 71918
      36c027ab
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    • Dan Gohman's avatar
      Experimental post-pass scheduling support. Post-pass scheduling · 60cb69e6
      Dan Gohman authored
      is currently off by default, and can be enabled with
      -disable-post-RA-scheduler=false.
      
      This doesn't have a significant impact on most code yet because it doesn't
      yet do anything to address anti-dependencies and it doesn't attempt to
      disambiguate memory references. Also, several popular targets
      don't have pipeline descriptions yet.
      
      The majority of the changes here are splitting the SelectionDAG-specific
      code out of ScheduleDAG, so that ScheduleDAG can be moved to
      libLLVMCodeGen.a. The interface between ScheduleDAG-using code and
      the rest of the scheduling code is somewhat rough and will evolve.
      
      llvm-svn: 59676
      60cb69e6
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