[LLVMdev] LowerINTRINSIC_W_CHAIN in X86

kewuzhang kewu.zhang at amd.com
Thu Jul 24 06:18:00 PDT 2014


Thanks Tim, 

Yeah!, you are right!

Also, looks we have to set up a pattern to use the intrinsic node too.


I did something like this:
> def  int_my_test : Intrinsic
> 	 <llvm_i32_ty], [llvm_i32_ty, llvm_i32_ty],
> 	[IntrReadWriteArgMem],
> 	>;

and used it directly with the test call  "call<float> @my.test( <float> %r0, <float> *%p1)."
It compiles fine. and “int_my_test" intrinsic is caught under INTRINSIC_WO_CHAIN.

Because anyway I have to handle this intrinsic by lowering, I did not think a pattern is necessary. 
Just left a [ ] there, looks we have to put something there even it is not really needed.

but then the argument is:  is it really necessary to put a pattern for it? 

For my case, because I need to access memory, I think a chain is necessary.  but what type of pattern is meaningful?

for example 
intrinsic “ float llvm.my.sincos( float src, *float res)”, 
sin result is returned, and cos result is write back to the second pointer argument.


tks


kevin



On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:

>> def int_x86_xtest : GCCBuiltin<"__builtin_ia32_xtest">,
>>              Intrinsic<[llvm_i32_ty], [], []>;
>> 
>> which  CALL makes the “Intrinsic::x86_xtest” is caught under
>> “INTRINSIC_W_CHAIN”? feel I missed something, but did not figure out.
> 
> It's this first definition that spawns the INTRINSIC_W_CHAIN. The rest
> are x86-specific SDNodes, defined in X86ISelLowering.h and only ever
> created from X86ISelLowering.cpp.
> 
> I assume (haven't checked) there's some special bit of
> X86ISelLowering.cpp that takes an ISD::INTRINSIC_W_CHAIN node
> referring to the int_x86_xtest intrinsic and turns it into an
> X86ISD::XTEST node.
> 
> Specifically, for the W_CHAIN/WO_CHAIN distinction you want to be
> looking at the "IntrNoMem" definition and uses in include/[1]. That
> should be what determines which path an intrinsic goes down.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Tim.
> 
> [1] If you're interested, the code most directly responsible for
> choosing between them is in visitTargetIntrinsic in
> lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp. It's helped by
> TableGen and other components, of course.

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