[PATCH] D65377: [FunctionAttrs] Annotate intrinsics with nosync

Johannes Doerfert via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Aug 2 14:48:50 PDT 2019


jdoerfert added a comment.

In D65377#1612906 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D65377#1612906>, @arsenm wrote:

> In D65377#1610798 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D65377#1610798>, @jdoerfert wrote:
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> > In D65377#1610775 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D65377#1610775>, @arsenm wrote:
> >
> > > I almost think intrinsics should be assumed nosync by default. I'm not thrilled at the prospect of another attribute that nearly every intrinsic needs to be annotated with
> >
> >
> > Mh, I'm not opposing that idea but also not convinced. Doing it for all makes it easier to introduce errors I guess. Do we have precedence?
> >
> > If we want to do this, maybe we should make a list of attributes that need to be explicitly removed for intrinsics.
> >  I expect not only `nosync` to be on it but also others like `willreturn`, `nofree`, `nounwind`, etc.
>
>
> It probably should be explicit, but I feel like I'm in a perpetual state of adding attributes to intrinsic definitions and it's never complete


I would propose the following:

1. Let's go ahead with this
2. We ask on the list how people feel about "opt-out" attributes for intrinsics and go from there


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