llvm dev - Oct 2021 - RFC: Checking TargetLibraryInfo against actual libraries

+1

On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 18:57 Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev, <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 16:40, via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've written a small program that sets up TargetLibraryInfo for a
> > specified triple, and compares its opinion of which libcalls are
> > "available" against the functions actually provided by some
set
> > of library files.
> >
> > This has been helpful in tidying up TLI's opinion about which
> > calls are available where, and I've committed a couple of patches
> > (6185ad0, 56e681a) to do some general fixup; I'm working on a
> > patch to get the PS4 set completely correct.  I was originally
> > intending to use this tool in our downstream testsuite, but...
> >
> > It occurred to me that the tool might be useful to people who are
> > interested in tidying up TLI for other targets (which I'm not,
> > really, it's just that part of my effort happens to help others).
> > Right now the tool can only handle ELF files, but it should be
> > straightforward to extend to COFF/MachO if people interested in
> > those targets think it would be useful.
> >
> > Is there interest in a tool like this?
>
> The tool sounds useful to me, thinking from the RISC-V backend's
> perspective. Just ELF is fine for that use case.
>
> If it's not a huge amount of additional work to make it fit for public
> consumption I think it would be worth sharing.
>
> Best,
>
> Alex
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Thanks Alex and Renato!
> If it's not a huge amount of additional work to make it fit for public
> consumption I think it would be worth sharing.
Needs some proper tests and a bit of documentation, that's all.
Hope to have something posted by the end of the week.
--paulr