[flang-commits] [PATCH] D114104: [FIR] Convert fir.allocmem and fir.freemem operations to calls to malloc and free, respectively

[Kiran Chandramohan via Phabricator via flang-commits]

kiranchandramohan added inline comments.


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Comment at: flang/lib/Optimizer/CodeGen/CodeGen.cpp:812
+      if (recTy.getNumLenParams() != 0)
+        TODO(loc, "fir.allocmem of derived type with length parameters");
+    mlir::Value size = genTypeSizeInBytes(loc, ity, rewriter, ty);
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mehdi_amini wrote:
> kiranchandramohan wrote:
> > schweitz wrote:
> > > kiranchandramohan wrote:
> > > > Nit: We have been using notifyMatch failure instead of TODOs in upstream.
> > > That's rather unfortunate since the point of the TODO macro was to make them easy to grep for.
> > I have been kind of serially requesting this change after the discussion in https://reviews.llvm.org/D113014#inline-1078096 which pointed out that conversion patterns should not directly emit errors.
> > 
> > On the other hand, there are also concerns (@awarzynski  @clementval) that we are not able to capture the diagnostic generated by the notifyMatchFailure in invalid verify tests.
> TODO and notifyMatch are very different: the first one is intentionally crashing the compiler at this point for something unimplemented. The notifyMatch is a graceful "failed to apply this pattern".
> 
> If you look at the revision link: I didn't comment on a TODO but on something that was emitting a diagnostic and gracefully failing to apply the pattern. This is problematic from an API contract point of view since failing to apply a pattern is intended to be a recoverable thing, so it isn't a good point for general diagnostics in principle.
OK. Thanks for the clarification.

I will create a patch to re-insert the TODOs.


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