[llvm-commits] representing the alignment of a function argument

[Dan Gohman]

> To handle calls to functions with byval arguments, the code generator
> must create copies of those arguments. To do that efficiently, it
> needs to know the alignment.
> 
> On x86-64, all stack arguments are 8 byte aligned. I am trying to find
> out how to represent that on LLVM.
> 
> The GCC way would be to add another method to the subtarget that given
> a type returns the assured stack alignment of arguments.
> 
> Another way would be to make the FE handle the stack and issue
> llvm.memcpy with the correct alignment :-)

Where do you need the representation? Loads and stores in the LLVM IR and
the target-independent load and store nodes in the SelectionDAG IR have an
alignment attribute; are either of those sufficient?

Dan

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Dan Gohman, Cray Inc.