On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Chandler Carruth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chandlerc@google.com" target="_blank">chandlerc@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Richard Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@metafoo.co.uk" target="_blank">richard@metafoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<div><br></div><div>LLVM classifies _Znwm as a builtin by default. After some discussion, the C++ core working group have decreed that that is not correct: calls to "operator new" *can* be optimized, but only if they come from new-expressions, and not if they come from explicit calls to ::operator new. We cannot work around this in the frontend by marking the call as 'nobuiltin' for two reasons:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1) The 'nobuiltin' attribute doesn't actually prevent the optimization (see recent patch on llvmcommits)</div><div>2) We can't block the optimization if the call happens through a function pointer, unless we also annotate all calls through function pointers as 'nobuiltin'</div>
<div><br></div><div>How feasible would it be to make the 'builtin-ness' of _Znwm etc be opt-in rather than opt-out? Is there some other option we could pursue?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>I think we should just fix this when we build the system which allows optimizing new expressions. Specifically, when we introduce a way to mark new expressions for LLVM to optimize, that's the time to make the builtin-ness of _Znwm opt-in instead of opt-out.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This 'builtin' attribute would *be* building the system which allows optimizing new-expressions.</div><div><br></div><div>Suggested transition plan:</div><div>1) add 'builtin' attribute</div>
<div>2) make Clang use it</div><div>3) make _Znwm and friends not be implicitly builtin </div></div>