[cfe-dev] naked attribute

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "reed kotler" <rkotler at mips.com>
> To: "Rafael Espíndola" <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>
> Cc: cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 11:32:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] naked attribute
> 
> On 05/03/2013 04:57 AM, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
> >> Gah! No, I see the warning now. Blasted black-and-white
> >> diagnostics.
> >> Sorry about all the confusion I've caused.
> > I did the same :-(
> >
> > Cool, of the support architectures on clang so far we have
> >
> > x86-64: warn (except for windows)
> > x86:     warn  (except for windows)
> > arm:     produce a function ending in unreachable (can someone
> > check
> > if that is the case for thumb too?)
> > arm64:  warn
> >
> Just when things seemed simple....

FWIW, I think that we should support naked functions on all targets, regardless of what gcc does. They are incredibly convenient for doing OS/embedded development. Is there a downside?

 -Hal

> 
> With gcc, the mips target does not support, as I understand it, this
> because the Mips maintainer does not like this attribute, in general,
> not specifically for Mips.
> 
> I would like to see this option available for Mips, even if it meant
> having a command line option, -allow-naked so that strict gcc
> compatibility is preserved. There could be benign "naked" attributes
> on
> some functions in a C programs being compiled for Mips  that are now
> being ignored and suddenly we allow it and that code breaks; maybe
> even
> in subtle cases because the program is not saving and restoring
> callee
> saved registers for example.
> 
> I have reopened this discussion on the gcc developers list and there
> is
> a lot of interest in it. Anyone from llvm/clang can follow it there.
> 
> There is another orthogonal discussion, with various opposing
> opinions,
> taking place in Mips/Imagination on this.
> 
> For the sake of the greater community of Mips target users, which is
> beyond whatever opinions gcc has or Mips has internally, I think this
> important option should be allowed in some form. Others in gcc land
> agree with me on this have good experience using it for the Arm
> platform.
> 
> It's not needed all the time but when you need, you can't easily do
> without it.
> 
> For one, you can include whatever little actual assembly code you
> need
> for your app in the C/C++ code. This is particularly important for
> embedded targets.
> 
> My immediate interest in this is that I'm generating stubs for
> various
> things in the Mips llvm/compiler and I wanted exactly the semantics
> of
> the naked attribute for those stubs; though I could invent my own
> attribute to use internally in the compiler.
> 
> Reed
> 
> >> Tim.
> > Cheers,
> > Rafael
> 
> 
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