[LLVMdev] [3.7.0] Two late issues with cross compilation to mips

Matthias Braun
Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:14:22 -0000

To reduce memory consumption clobbered registers are handled with RegisterMask
machine operands which contain a bitset of all registers clobbered.

- Matthias

> On Jul 29, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Daniel Sanders <daniel.sanders at
imgtec.com> wrote:
>
> I believe I've identified the problem with almabench but I haven't
found the root cause in the compiler yet.
>
> The problem is that a caller saved register ($f14) is being moved across a
call and this call sometimes clobbers the value. As a result, the value of the
TWOPI constant used in the fmod() calls isn't always 2*PI.
>
> According to -print-after-all, the pass that moves the instruction is
Simple Register Coalescing. The bit I'm stuck on at the moment is that
I'm not sure what information is supposed to prevent this move from
happening. I thought there was supposed to be an ImplicitDefine on the call
instruction for each clobbered register but this doesn't seem to be the
case. Am I missing something obvious?
> ________________________________________
> From: Daniel Sanders
> Sent: 29 July 2015 11:08
> To: Hans Wennborg (hans at chromium.org <mailto:hans at
chromium.org>)
> Cc: Simon Atanasyan (simon at atanasyan.com <mailto:simon at
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> Subject: [3.7.0] Two late issues with cross compilation to mips
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the late report but I've only just found these issues.
Llvm.org isn't working for me at the moment but I'll file tickets once
it is.
>
> The issues are:
>
> 1.       Almabench has some significant numerical differences and fails the
reference check for some configs. I'm investigating this one at the moment
but early indications are that it's a similar (but different) problem to the
one we had in LLVM 3.6.2.
>
> 2.       Read-only exception tables have broken compatibility with the ~2
year old gcc toolchains I was using for release testing cross compilation. This
isn't a problem for most test-suite runs since we can just update the
assembler but is causing trouble for microMIPS. More recent toolchains lack the
microMIPS multilib I was using and migrating to the new one is causing link
failures. These failures are related to ELF header bits specifying the SNaN/QNaN
encodings to be IEEE754-1985 or IEEE754-2008 compliant. I suspect the –mnan=2008
isn't reaching the assembler.
>
> 3.       Clang is incompatible with changes to the mips-mti-linux-gnu
sysroot from Imagination's mips-mti-linux-gnu toolchain. Libaries are still
multilib'd (albeit with a reduced set) but some of the include paths
aren't anymore. It's also no longer correct to include sysroot/include
(this path is added by common code) since this skips some function definitions.
Instead, we must only include sysroot/usr/include like GCC does. There may be
more details but so far the fix doesn't look simple. As far as I can tell,
clang's multilib expects includes and libraries to have the same layout
(osSuffix() seems to control both). The good news is that it's not a
regression since we can use toolchains from before this layout change.
>
> Daniel Sanders
> Leading Software Design Engineer, MIPS Processor IP
> Imagination Technologies Limited
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