[LLVMdev] llc -march=ia64 support

[Eric van Riet Paap]

You are right, the machine I am on is a AMD Opteron. I could probably
generate working code for x86, but I am testing the implications of
using 64 bits integers. The four weeks is not really important, it's
just that it would be nice to have really fast code to showcase.

Something related to this: to test the effect of 64 bits integers I
replace all reference of int by long in my .ll file.
The work just fine except for some instruction (like malloc) that demand
an uint and not an ulong.

With the shift from the 32 to the 64 bit world, is this something that
will be enhanced in the future, or would that have to much impact on the
existing llvm codebase?

best regards
Eric


Duraid Madina wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>     The IA64 architecture, which had its 'official' name changed to
> the "Itanium Processor Architecture", *is* supported by llc. I am
> pretty sure you are talking about the x86-64 architecture, which has
> also had its share of unfortunate name changes and is also known as
> "AMD64", "EM64T" and all sorts of things in between. x86-64 is *not*
> currently supported by llc.
>
>     I am not aware of anyone working to add x86-64 support to llc, but
> such support will probably come one day. The author of LLVM's x86
> backend is enjoying some well-earned time off right now, so I think 4
> weeks is probably a bit too optimistic, sorry about that. :(
>
>     Having said that, is there no way you can use the assembly that
> results from passing "-march=x86" to llc? I think you should be able
> to create a 32-bit "playground" on your x86-64 system, and build and
> run LLVM and PyPy inside that. The idea here is to try and fool LLVM
> into thinking it's running on a plain old x86 system. I'm pretty sure
> this is possible, but it has been a long time since I last used an
> x86-64 system, so I can't tell you exactly what you need to do.
> Someone else on this list might be able to help you out, though.
> (Markus, are you reading this? ;)
>
>
>     Duraid
>
> Eric van Riet Paap wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the PyPy project ( http://codespeak.net/pypy ) I am working on the
>> x64-64 support.
>>
>> I would like to use llc -march=ia64 to generate the assembly but that is
>> not supported at the moment.
>> As a workaround I let llc generate C code that gets compiled, but this
>> unfortunately is not a good way
>> to show the power of llvm. A understood this ia64 support will be worked
>> on soon.
>>
>> First week of july there will be a pypy-sprint in Goteborg (Sweden)
>> where the focus will be on translating Python code to other languages
>> like LLVM,C,Lisp,Java,etc..
>>
>> Is there a change llc will support ia64 in about 4 weeks time or am I to
>> optimistic?
>>
>> best regards
>> Eric van Riet Paap
>>
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