r174838 - Use -mno-implicit-float by default for kernel/kext code. <rdar://13177960>

Bob Wilson bob.wilson at apple.com
Sun Feb 10 08:01:41 PST 2013


Author: bwilson
Date: Sun Feb 10 10:01:41 2013
New Revision: 174838

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=174838&view=rev
Log:
Use -mno-implicit-float by default for kernel/kext code. <rdar://13177960>

Apple's kernel engineers have been expecting this behavior even though
we've never implemented it before, as far as I can tell. In recent months,
clang has gotten better at using vector instructions to optimize memcpy-like
operations, and that has exposed problems when vector/floating-point
instructions are used in kexts that don't support that. This behavior also
matches what Apple's GCC did for PowerPC targets.

Modified:
    cfe/trunk/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp
    cfe/trunk/test/Driver/flags.c

Modified: cfe/trunk/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp?rev=174838&r1=174837&r2=174838&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp Sun Feb 10 10:01:41 2013
@@ -1200,10 +1200,18 @@ void Clang::AddX86TargetArgs(const ArgLi
       Args.hasArg(options::OPT_fapple_kext))
     CmdArgs.push_back("-disable-red-zone");
 
-  if (Args.hasFlag(options::OPT_msoft_float,
-                   options::OPT_mno_soft_float,
-                   false) ||
-      Args.hasArg(options::OPT_mno_implicit_float))
+  // Default to avoid implicit floating-point for kernel/kext code, but allow
+  // that to be overridden with -mno-soft-float.
+  bool NoImplicitFloat = (Args.hasArg(options::OPT_mkernel) ||
+                          Args.hasArg(options::OPT_fapple_kext));
+  if (Arg *A = Args.getLastArg(options::OPT_msoft_float,
+                               options::OPT_mno_soft_float,
+                               options::OPT_mno_implicit_float)) {
+    const Option &O = A->getOption();
+    NoImplicitFloat = (O.matches(options::OPT_mno_implicit_float) ||
+                       O.matches(options::OPT_msoft_float));
+  }
+  if (NoImplicitFloat)
     CmdArgs.push_back("-no-implicit-float");
 
   if (const char *CPUName = getX86TargetCPU(Args, getToolChain().getTriple())) {

Modified: cfe/trunk/test/Driver/flags.c
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/test/Driver/flags.c?rev=174838&r1=174837&r2=174838&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/test/Driver/flags.c (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/test/Driver/flags.c Sun Feb 10 10:01:41 2013
@@ -10,5 +10,11 @@
 // RUN: %clang -target i386-apple-darwin9 -### -S -mno-implicit-float %s 2> %t.log
 // RUN: grep '"-no-implicit-float"' %t.log
 
+// RUN: %clang -target i386-apple-darwin9 -### -S -mkernel %s 2> %t.log
+// RUN: grep '"-no-implicit-float"' %t.log
+
+// RUN: %clang -target i386-apple-darwin9 -### -S -mkernel -mno-soft-float %s 2> %t.log
+// RUN: grep '"-no-implicit-float"' %t.log | count 0
+
 // RUN: %clang -target armv7-apple-darwin10 -### -S -mno-implicit-float %s 2> %t.log
 // RUN: grep '"-no-implicit-float"' %t.log





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