[llvm] [AArch64] Update LangRef to reference GHC calling convention (PR #72760)
Aiden Grossman via llvm-commits
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sat Nov 18 13:06:58 PST 2023
https://github.com/boomanaiden154 created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/72760
AArch64 has supported the GHC calling convention for quite a few years at this point (https://reviews.llvm.org/D6877), but the LangRef never got updated noting that this was implemented on AArch64.
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From: Aiden Grossman <agrossman154 at yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:58:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [AArch64] Update LangRef to reference GHC calling convention
AArch64 has supported the GHC calling convention for quite a few years
at this point, but the LangRef never got updated noting that this was
implemented on AArch64.
---
llvm/docs/LangRef.rst | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
index bc1eab1e0b7a07f..886e0c8e6edd7c8 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
@@ -317,13 +317,16 @@ added in the future:
not be used lightly but only for specific situations such as an
alternative to the *register pinning* performance technique often
used when implementing functional programming languages. At the
- moment only X86 supports this convention and it has the following
- limitations:
+ moment only X86 and AArch64 support this convention. The following
+ limitations exist:
- - On *X86-32* only supports up to 4 bit type parameters. No
+ - On *X86-32* only up to 4 bit type parameters are supported. No
floating-point types are supported.
- - On *X86-64* only supports up to 10 bit type parameters and 6
- floating-point parameters.
+ - On *X86-64* only up to 10 bit type parameters and 6
+ floating-point parameters are supported.
+ - On *AArch64* only up to 4 32-bit floating-point parameters,
+ 4 64-bit floating-point parameters, and 10 bit type parameters
+ are supported.
This calling convention supports `tail call
optimization <CodeGenerator.html#tail-call-optimization>`_ but requires
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