[PATCH] D92073: [CodeGen] Add text section prefix for COFF object file

[TaoPan via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

TaoPan added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/text-section-prefix.ll:9
+;; CHECK hot section name
+; SECTION-HOT-ELF:  .section        .text.hot
+; SECTION-HOT-COFF: .section        .text$hot
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rnk wrote:
> rnk wrote:
> > TaoPan wrote:
> > > pengfei wrote:
> > > > TaoPan wrote:
> > > > > pengfei wrote:
> > > > > > You don't need to distinguish `HOT` and `UNLIKLY` since they are in different functions. You just need `SECTION-ELF` and `SECTION-COFF`.
> > > > > > You may also need to add
> > > > > > ```
> > > > > > ; RUN: llc -mtriple x86_64-linux-gnu -unique-section-names=0 %s -o - | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=ELF-NOUNIQ
> > > > > > ; RUN: llc -mtriple x86_64-windows-mingw64 %s -o - | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=MINGW
> > > > > > ```
> > > > > > as Reid suggested.
> > > > > Thanks for your review comments! I removed HOT and UNLIKELY, and added ELF-NOUNIQ and MINGW, could you please have a look?
> > > > Nit: It seems no difference between `MSVC` and `MINGW`, you can use `COFF` for both to reduce the duplicated check.
> > > Thanks! It's good idea, I combined MSVC and MINGW into COFF.
> > They will differ if you use a linkonce_odr comdat function. These are very common in C++, it is worth testing this case. Try:
> > 
> > ```
> > $foocomdat = comdat any
> > define linkonce_odr dso_local i32 @foocomdat(i32 %0, i32 %1) comdat {
> >   %3 = add nsw i32 %1, %0
> >   ret i32 %3
> > }
> > ```
> > The sections for foocomdat will have a suffix on mingw.
> Perhaps use weak_odr linkage instead, so that it is non-discardable and is not dropped by DCE.
Thanks for your review comment!
I tried you suggested case, and replaced linkonce_odr with weak_odr, I didn't find difference between x86_64-windows-msvc and x86_64-windows-mingw64.
Is the difference related to text section name? I think this patch doesn't change anything except text section name.


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