<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the pointer Mandeep!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-07-10 19:00 GMT+02:00 Grang, Mandeep Singh via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Take a look at Alex's review comments for
<a class="m_3495980037324284025moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D45395" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.org/<wbr>D45395</a>. I had similar questions while
implementing tail call lowering for RISCV.</p>
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<div class="m_3495980037324284025moz-cite-prefix">On 7/10/2018 9:51 AM, Roger Ferrer
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<div>I'm looking at generating PIC code for RISC-V in the
context of Linux. Not sure if anyone is working on this
already, any inputs are very welcome.</div>
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<div>I'm now looking at function calls which in the RISCV
backend are represented via two pseudoinstructions RISCV::TAIL
and RISCV::CALL.<br>
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<div>Currently those pseudos are lowered in MCCodeEmitter. They
are expanded into AUIPC and JALR instructions and the first
one needs a relocation, which for a static reloc model is
R_RISCV_CALL but for PIC code should be R_RISCV_CALL_PLT.<br>
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<div>The problem I find is that at this point it is too late to
tell the exact relocation needed: as far as I can tell there
is no way to determine the relocation model. Perhaps this is
on purpose and the MCCodeEmitter should not have that
knowledge. Or maybe not and it is just a matter to "push" a
TargetMachine to it, but the way the class is constructed does
not look like this approach is workable.<br>
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<div>So I was considering lowering these pseudo-instructions in
AsmPrinter instead. There I can tell the exact kind of the
MCOperand I want thanks to the fact that the AsmPrinter is
constructed with a TargetMachine.</div>
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<div>That said perhaps there are extra constraints that require
doing the lowering in MCCodeEmitter, unfortunately I can't
tell exactly what is the advantage of lowering that late.<br>
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<div>These pseudos are marked as isCodegenOnly = 0 so if I lower
them in AsmPrinter my understanding is that now I have to
change them to isCodegenOnly = 1 and then teach AsmParser to
recognize them (I would need to use the reloc model there
too). Does this make sense?</div>
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<div>Alternatively I was considering adding two new pseudos like
RISCV::CALL_PLT and RISCV::TAIL_PLT and also lower them at
MCCodeEmitter. But this looks a bit too bulky to me and I
think I would still have the issue that the "call" and "tail"
pseudos in the assembler would need some extra magic (i.e.
when assembling a "call" pseudoinstruction with -fPIC) so they
don't end being parsed as the non-PIC counterparts. I might be
wrong here though.<br>
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<div>Is this reasonable or there are other downsides to consider
here?</div>
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<div>Thank you very much,<br>
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