I see the problem. <div>Let me try to come up with a solution that does not involve constructors but also does not sacrifice type safety. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Lattner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com">clattner@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Kostya,<br>
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One unexpected piece of fallout in your recent attributes change (r148553) was that it introduced a bunch of static constructors into .o files that #include Attributes.h, due to stuff like this:<br>
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const Attributes None (0); ///< No attributes have been set<br>
const Attributes ZExt (1<<0); ///< Zero extended before/after call<br>
const Attributes SExt (1<<1); ///< Sign extended before/after call<br>
const Attributes NoReturn (1<<2); ///< Mark the function as not returning<br>
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We really don't like static ctors in LLVM, because it is often used as a library, and they cause startup-time performance hits and other bad news. I'm surprised we don't have an explicit section about it in the CodingStandards, but we do have:<br>
<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#ll_iostream" target="_blank">http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#ll_iostream</a><br>
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... which talks about the same thing.<br>
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Anyway, as it turns out, LLVM can optimize those static ctors away in some cases, but not all (e.g. -O0). This was found because LLDB builds with -Wstatic-constructor and this header change is causing a flood of warnings.<br>
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I can think of two ways to fix this. One is to replace all of these with "get" functions, which would be really really ugly. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>grrrr </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
A better change would be to replace these with enums, eliminating the whole problem. Are 64-bit enums portable enough to be used here?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We had a problem with 64-bit enums on the windows side, so I guess the answer is "not portable"</div>
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If not, we could split this into two enums (one for attributes 0-31 and one for attributes 32+), and define the appropriate constructors in Attribute that take them, and define the appropriate operator| implementations that merge them (returning an Attribute).<br>
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Can you take a look at this? It's a pretty big problem for LLDB and other clients that use -Wstatic-constructor.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>--kcc </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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-Chris<br>
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