[clang] [clang] Lower _BitInt(129+) to a different type in LLVM IR (PR #91364)

Mariya Podchishchaeva via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Jun 12 07:11:49 PDT 2024


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@@ -1533,9 +1533,17 @@ void CodeGenFunction::EmitReturnStmt(const ReturnStmt &S) {
     Builder.CreateStore(Result.getScalarVal(), ReturnValue);
   } else {
     switch (getEvaluationKind(RV->getType())) {
-    case TEK_Scalar:
-      Builder.CreateStore(EmitScalarExpr(RV), ReturnValue);
-      break;
+    case TEK_Scalar: {
+      llvm::Value *Ret = EmitScalarExpr(RV);
+      // EmitStoreOfScalar could be used here, but it extends bool which for
+      // some targets is returned as i1 zeroext.
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Fznamznon wrote:

> So there's a trade-off here: we can unconditionally treat ReturnValue as having the for-memory type (at the cost of emitting some extra promotions/truncations), or we can track whether we were passed it vs. just allocated internally to this function (at the cost of compiler complexity around most uses of ReturnValue, which is a relatively small amount of code).

Isn't the latter happening now?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/91364


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