[llvm-dev] IPRA, interprocedural register allocation, question

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

Just to clarify, because I don't know your exact build flow, LLVM has the internalize pass that can turn all (controlled with a whitelist optionally) symbols static without having to change the source.

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Mehdi

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> On Jul 14, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Lawrence, Peter <c_plawre at qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
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> Mehdi,
>                Bravo, Well done Mr Amini !
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> Ordinarily I would find adding “static” to all functions objectionable,
> We’re doing whole-program compilation and optimization, and don’t
> use a linker, so “static” currently doesn’t appear anywhere in our sources.
> And I view “static” as not really part of the language, rather more
> of a linker directive.   But we really only have a small handful of real-time
> performance critical functions, it will be trivial to declare them static.
>  
>  
> --Peter Lawrence.
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> From: mehdi.amini at apple.com [mailto:mehdi.amini at apple.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:42 PM
> To: Lawrence, Peter <c_plawre at qca.qualcomm.com>
> Cc: vivek pandya <vivekvpandya at gmail.com>; llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>; llvm-dev-request at lists.llvm.org; Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] IPRA, interprocedural register allocation, question
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> On Jul 13, 2016, at 12:40 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 13, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Lawrence, Peter <c_plawre at qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
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> Vivek,
>              I apologize if you took my original email as a request for implementation,
> I meant to be asking what is already available, I think the answer to that
> is the ‘preserves_most’ and ‘preserves_all’ attributes, but I will also
> Use ‘regmask’ if those prove to be too sub-optimal.
>  
> I am still interested in figuring out the necessary and sufficient conditions
> For LLC to do optimal IPRA when given a “whole program”
> (as per my previous definition of “whole program”),
> As opposed to how to accomplish this with LTO,
>  
> Easy: mark *all* of your function “static” (or “internal” in LLVM denomination).  
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