On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Chris Lattner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com" target="_blank">clattner@apple.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 style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><div><div>On May 15, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Richard Smith <<a href="mailto:richard@metafoo.co.uk" target="_blank">richard@metafoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Richard Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@metafoo.co.uk" target="_blank">richard@metafoo.co.uk</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>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><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>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 class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><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></div></div></blockquote>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wow, this was spectacularly unclear, sorry about that. To avoid confusion, I'm suggesting that we add a 'builtin' attribute, and do not treat a call to _Znwm as a builtin call unless it has the attribute.</div>
<div> </div></div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>It's not clear to me that "builtin" is the right way to model this, but it definitely sounds like this should be an attribute on a call site (as opposed to on the function itself). What specific kinds of optimizations are we interested in doing to _Znwm calls?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Initially, I'm just concerned about keeping the optimizations we already perform, such as globalopt lowering a new/delete pair into a global, while disabling the non-conforming variations of those optimizations. But we're also permitted to merge multiple allocations into one if they have sufficiently similar lifetimes.</div>
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