[clang] [llvm] [clang][RISCV] Support the Swift calling convention (PR #213448)

John McCall via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Aug 11 15:47:32 PDT 2026


rjmccall wrote:

> @rjmccall I am going to add commits to this branch that implement the following:
> 
> 1. Integer args — kept the C convention's 8 registers (a0–a7); no change needed.
> 2. Returns — swiftcall now returns directly in up to 4 registers (a0–a3 / fa0–fa3) instead of 2, in CC_RISCV_Impl (RISCVCallingConv.cpp). Four matches clang's SwiftABIInfo::shouldPassIndirectly limit exactly, so frontend and backend agree; larger returns demote to sret as before.
> 3. FP registers — swiftcall follows the selected floating-point ABI: hard-float ABIs use fa0–fa7 for args / fa0–fa3 for returns; -mabi=lp64 is the explicit soft-float opt-out.
> 4. Context register — swiftself goes in x20 (s4), mirroring AArch64; already callee-saved, so preservation falls out of normal spilling. x21/x22 are informally reserved for future swifterror/swiftasync.

All of this sounds great, thank you.

> At this moment I would not yet implement lowering for swifterror/swiftasync. Would that be acceptable?

Yeah, these are totally fine to leave for later work as long as we can accept instability, which I think we can.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/213448


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