[clang] [llvm] [Clang] Correct __builtin_dynamic_object_size for subobject types (PR #83204)

[Richard Smith via llvm-commits]

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@@ -26996,18 +26996,38 @@ class, structure, array, or other object.
 Arguments:
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-The ``llvm.objectsize`` intrinsic takes four arguments. The first argument is a
-pointer to or into the ``object``. The second argument determines whether
-``llvm.objectsize`` returns 0 (if true) or -1 (if false) when the object size is
-unknown. The third argument controls how ``llvm.objectsize`` acts when ``null``
-in address space 0 is used as its pointer argument. If it's ``false``,
-``llvm.objectsize`` reports 0 bytes available when given ``null``. Otherwise, if
-the ``null`` is in a non-zero address space or if ``true`` is given for the
-third argument of ``llvm.objectsize``, we assume its size is unknown. The fourth
-argument to ``llvm.objectsize`` determines if the value should be evaluated at
-runtime.
+The ``llvm.objectsize`` intrinsic takes six arguments:
+
+- The first argument is a pointer to or into the ``object``.
+- The second argument controls which value to return when the size is unknown:
+
+  - If it's ``false``, ``llvm.objectsize`` returns ``-1``.
+  - If it's ``true``, ``llvm.objectsize`` returns ``0``.
+
+- The third argument controls how ``llvm.objectsize`` acts when ``null`` in
+  address space 0 is used as its pointer argument:
+
+  - If it's ``false``, ``llvm.objectsize`` reports 0 bytes available when given
+    ``null``.
+  - If it's ``true``, or the ``null`` pointer is in a non-zero address space,
+    the size is assumed to be unknown.
+
+- The fourth argument to ``llvm.objectsize`` determines if the value should be
+  evaluated at runtime.
+- The fifth argument controls which size ``llvm.objectsize`` returns:
+
+  - If it's ``false``, ``llvm.objectsize`` returns the size of the closest
+    surrounding subobject.
+  - If it's ``true``, ``llvm.objectsize`` returns the size of the whole object.
+
+- If non-zero, the sixth and seventh arguments encode the size and offset
+  information, respectively, of the original subobject's layout and is used
+  when the fifth argument is ``false``.
+- The seventh argument encodes the offset information of the original
+  subobject's layout and is used when the fifth argument is ``false``.
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zygoloid wrote:

I think the information you're passing in here isn't quite what we'd want. If I'm reading the code correctly, the offset you're passing in is the field offset relative to the immediately-enclosing record type, which doesn't give us any information about either where the pointer is within the subobject, or where the subobject is within the complete object, so this doesn't seem like it can be enough information to produce a correct result.

Rather than passing in the offset of the subobject (relative to an unknown anchor point), I think it would be more useful to pass in a pointer to the start of the subobject. Or to pass in the offset from the start of the subobject to the pointer argument, but that would likely be harder for the frontend to calculate (eg, you'd need to work out the offset produced by array indexing).

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/83204