[PATCH] D86310: [X86] Align i128 to 16 bytes in x86-64 datalayout

Harald van Dijk via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Jan 6 14:41:55 PST 2022


hvdijk added a comment.

In D86310#3226142 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D86310#3226142>, @rnk wrote:

> In D86310#2736983 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D86310#2736983>, @hvdijk wrote:
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>> There is a risk of bitcode incompatibilities with this change, but we already have that the code we generate now is incompatible with GCC and results in crashes that way too, I don't think there's a perfect fix, I'd like it if we could merge this. I came up with roughly the same patch today, based on current sources, to fix bug #50198 before finding this one.
>
> Who exactly generates GCC-incompatible code, clang, LLVM, or some other frontend? My understanding is that Clang handles most struct layout and alignment concerns in the frontend.

It's usually handled by clang, but when operations get lowered by LLVM to libcalls, it's coming from LLVM, and that's happening in the bug I referenced in that comment.


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