r284060 - Implement MS _BitScan intrinsics

Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jun 12 13:54:31 PDT 2017


> On Jun 12, 2017, at 12:44, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd at compnerd.org> wrote:
>> I'm worried about changing this signature all the time.  I suspect that it will cause the following to be emitted for valid code:
>> 
>> warning: incompatible pointer types passing 'unsigned long *' to parameter of type 'unsigned int *' [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>> 
>> Switching the signature on LP64 sounds much better to me.
> 
> Right, we have to do this. It needs to be `long` on Windows.

SGTM.  We'll go that way.

> On Jun 8, 2017, at 12:21, Erik Schwiebert <eriksc at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> It’s probably also better to not try to infer our weird desired behavior. It should probably be controlled by a specific driver directive, like “-fms-extensions-lp64-intrinsics” or something like that. Using a new directive means that nobody can accidentally get this behavior if they for some reason do want LLP64 behavior with Windows intrinsics.

This seems overly complicated.  Is there a customer that:
- is on LP64,
- is using -fms-extensions,
- is using these intrinsics, and
- wants them to be 64-bit longs instead of 32-bit ints?
Put another way: who would use these intrinsics on LP64 and *not* want to mimic LLP64?

If everyone using the intrinsics on LP64 is going to have to specify -fms-extensions-lp64-intrinsics, then we should just imply it.


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