<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Renato Golin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renato.golin@linaro.org" target="_blank">renato.golin@linaro.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 21 April 2015 at 17:06, Reid Kleckner <<a href="mailto:rnk@google.com">rnk@google.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Is "ABI alignment" just the alignment of an i64 as specified in DataLayout,<br>
> or is it something else? Maybe we are computing that alignment incorrectly,<br>
> and the alignment of an i40 should be 4.<br>
<br>
</span>Alignment of bitfields in ARM depends on the alignment of the declared<br>
type. In this case, int, or 4 bytes. What happened in this example is<br>
that there are more bits than 32, but the ABI states that you must use<br>
containers aligned to the declared type, so even if you use more than<br>
32 bits, you still need to align to 4 bytes. This essentially means<br>
that you just keep using 4-byte integer containers until all bits fit<br>
inside.<br>
<br>
Since i40 doesn't exist in any target, LLVM does the obvious thing and<br>
promotes it to i64, but again, on ARM, long long (which is what i64<br>
means) aligns to 8 bytes, then you have the conflict. I cannot imagine<br>
a pass in LLVM that would see an i40 and split it into i32+i8 and<br>
convert to { i32, i32 } just because it used to be a bitfield. Too<br>
many things can go wrong, including alignment.<br>
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<br>
> Alternatively, we could have Clang slap 'align 4' on the global and call it<br>
> fixed.<br>
<br>
</span>Would LLVM understand that correctly?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why wouldn't it? It looks like the problem is shallow: we happen to emit a global in such a way that LLVM thinks it should be 8 byte aligned and Clang wanted it to be 4 byte aligned. If the alignment inferred from the type isn't the one we wanted, emitting an explicit alignment is exactly the right thing to do.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Would the ARM backend interpret<br>
that correctly and "realise" it's supposed to extend only the extra i8<br>
to an i32? Would that work on other backends? Or would it be better to</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
let Clang, which knows about the ARM ABI, to emit { i32, i32 }?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The type we use for a global variable, beyond the size and implied alignment, is not supposed to matter. If some backend is using the type of a global variable for something ABI-relevant, we have a problem (we assume that we can change the type on a whim, for instance to make it match the type of a constant initializer).</div></div></div></div>