[LLVMdev] r98938 broke argument passing on MSP430?

[Ben Ransford]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Ben Ransford <ransford at cs.umass.edu> wrote:
> Yesterday I noticed that MSP430 argument passing is broken in trunk;
> see http://llvm.org/PR6573 for details and testcases.  The problem is
> that calls aren't being preceded by instructions that put the
> arguments into registers.  I backtracked my working copy and then
> stepped forward until it broke between r98937 and r98938.  Refining
> further, I found that rolling back the single-statement change to
> utils/TableGen/DAGISelMatcherGen.cpp -- something about variadic
> instructions that was probably OK for x86, but MSP430 doesn't have
> variadic instructions -- restored the correct behavior.  Seems like
> r98938 either introduced a bug in DAGISelMatcherGen.cpp or exposed a
> bug in MSP430InstrInfo.td (or similar).  That's Chris's commit; could
> he or someone else who's comfortable with LLVM internals (I'm not)
> help me root out the problem?

Anton graciously helped me out of band.  I'm attaching his patch
(recomputed against ToT), which fixes a bug in MSP430InstrInfo.td.
I'm afraid I don't know how to write a testcase for this bug.

(Key insight from Anton: attaching "SDNPVariadic" to "MSP430call"
indicates that the *instruction selector pattern*, not the call
instruction, is variadic.)

-ben
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