[PATCH][MC/SPARC] Add support for EH to SPARC backend

Venkatraman Govindaraju venkatra at cs.wisc.edu
Wed Sep 25 12:55:42 PDT 2013


Ping.


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Venkatraman Govindaraju <
venkatra at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Ping.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Venkatraman Govindaraju <
> venkatra at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rafael,
>>
>>   Thank you for the reviews.
>>    Now. I split the patch into three patches.
>>   First patch implements parsing and emitting .cfi_window_save and checks
>> the binary output also. Second patch teaches AsmPrinter how to emit
>> .cfi_register, which is required for implemening exceptionhandling for
>> SPARC. The final patch implements ExceptionHandling support in sparc
>> backend.
>>
>>   Originally I named EmitCFIGNUWIndowSave because the corresponding enum
>> in llvm/Support/dwarf.h is DW_CFA_GNU_window_save. Now, I renamed the
>> functions as CFIWindowSave to be consistent with the .cfi_window_save as
>> suggested.
>>
>>   The EmitCFIWindowSave() and ParseCFIWindowSave() functions still start
>> with uppercase letter to be consistent with other methods in the
>> AsmStreamer and AsmParser class.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Venkatraman
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Rafael EspĂ­ndola <
>> rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why the EmitCFIGNUWindowSave name? The other methods are named almost
>>> 1:1 with the instruction. Also, please start new methods with a
>>> lowercase letter.
>>>
>>> +  case MCCFIInstruction::OpRegister:
>>> +    OutStreamer.EmitCFIRegister(Inst.getRegister(),
>>> Inst.getRegister2());
>>> +    break;
>>>
>>> Is this related?
>>>
>>> +  ExceptionsType = ExceptionHandling::DwarfCFI;
>>>
>>> Can you split this and lib/Target/Sparc/SparcFrameLowering.cpp  to a
>>> followup patch? In fact, please make the first patch be just about
>>> parsing and emitting .cfi_window_save. The testcase should check the
>>> binary output too.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1 September 2013 13:37, Venkatraman Govindaraju <venkatra at cs.wisc.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Thank you for the comment. I updated the patch with support for the
>>> new CFI
>>> > directive in MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp.
>>> >
>>> > Please let me know if it is okay to commit.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Venkatraman
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Bill Wendling <wendling at apple.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Venkatraman,
>>> >>
>>> >> One comment, you should also add parsing support for the new CFI
>>> directive
>>> >> in lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp.
>>> >>
>>> >> -bw
>>> >>
>>> >> On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Venkatraman Govindaraju
>>> >> <venkatra at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> > Ping.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Venkatraman Govindaraju
>>> >> > <venkatra at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>> >> > Please review the attached patch.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > This patch enables exception handling (using DwarfCFI) for SPARC.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > This patch also modifies MC layer so that the SPARC backend can emit
>>> >> > ".cfi_window_save" and ".cfi_register" directives, which are
>>> required for EH
>>> >> > to work correctly in SPARC.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks,
>>> >> > Venkatraman
>>> >> >
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