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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/28/15 11:31 AM, devh8h wrote:<br>
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<div class="">I had thought to use the memset
intrinsic, unfortunately I did not succeed to cross compiling
compiler-rt on my Mac.</div>
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I don't think you need compiler-rt to use the memset intrinsic. I
think the code generator will generate efficient inline code for it
(though I'm not certain).<br>
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In any event, Joerg's suggestion of making one external weak sounds
a lot easier.<br>
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John Criswell<br>
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<div class="">Le 28 août 2015 à 17:22, John Criswell <<a
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<div class="">On 8/28/15 11:20 AM, devh8h wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">It is a very basic
"blink-led" program, on a Teensy 3.1. There is no
operating system. The BSS clear function is called at
boot. I would write a general BSS clear function, that
behaves correctly even if the BSS section is empty.<br
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I thought it was something like that.<br class="">
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Let me know if the memset intrinsic approach works.<br
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John Criswell<br class="">
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Thank,<br class="">
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Pierre Molinaro<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Le 28 août 2015 à 17:00,
John Criswell <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jtcriswel@gmail.com" class="">jtcriswel@gmail.com</a>>
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On 8/28/15 10:52 AM, devh8h via llvm-dev wrote:<br
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi,<br class="">
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I am writing a function that clears the BSS section on
an Cortex-M4 embedded system.<br class="">
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I assume that, for some reason, the operating system is
not demand-paging in zeroed memory. Is that correct?<br
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">The LLVM (version
3.7.0rc3) code I had wrote is :<br class="">
;------------<br class="">
target datalayout =
"e-m:e-p:32:32-i64:64-v128:64:128-a:0:32-n32-S64"<br
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target triple = "thumbv7em-none--eabi"<br class="">
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@__bss_start = external global i32<br class="">
@__bss_end = external global i32<br class="">
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define void @clearBSS () nounwind {<br class="">
entry:<br class="">
br label %bssLoopTest<br class="">
bssLoopTest:<br class="">
%p = phi i32* [@__bss_start, %entry], [%p.next,
%bssLoop]<br class="">
%completed = icmp eq i32* %p, @__bss_end<br class="">
br i1 %completed, label %clearCompleted, label
%bssLoop<br class="">
bssLoop:<br class="">
store i32 0, i32* %p, align 4<br class="">
%p.next = getelementptr inbounds i32, i32* %p, i32 1<br
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br label %bssLoopTest<br class="">
clearCompleted:<br class="">
ret void<br class="">
}<br class="">
;------------<br class="">
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This code runs. But when I optimize it with :<br
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>opt
-disable-simplify-libcalls -Os -S source.ll -o
optimized.ll<br class="">
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I get the following code for the @clearBSS function :<br
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;------------<br class="">
define void @clearBSS() nounwind {<br class="">
entry:<br class="">
br label %bssLoop<br class="">
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bssLoop: ;
preds = %entry, %bssLoop<br class="">
%p1 = phi i32* [ @__bss_start, %entry ], [ %p.next,
%bssLoop ]<br class="">
store i32 0, i32* %p1, align 4<br class="">
%p.next = getelementptr inbounds i32, i32* %p1, i32
1<br class="">
%completed = icmp eq i32* %p.next, @__bss_end<br
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br i1 %completed, label %clearCompleted, label
%bssLoop<br class="">
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clearCompleted: ;
preds = %bssLoop<br class="">
ret void<br class="">
}<br class="">
;------------<br class="">
The optimizer has transformed the while loop into a
repeat until.<br class="">
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I think it assumes the two variables @__bss_start and
@__bss_end are distinct. But they are solved at link
time, and they are the same if the BSS section is
empty : in this case, the optimized function fails.<br
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Is there a way to prevent the optimizer to assume the
two variables are distinct ? Or what is the proper way
to deal with link time values ?<br class="">
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Have you tried using the memset intrinsic? You could
case bss_start and bss_end to integers, subtract them to
find the length, and then use memset to zero the memory.
I would think memset should work if the length is zero.<br
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John Criswell<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks,<br class="">
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Pierre Molinaro<br class="">
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Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
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