[LLVMdev] llvm-gcc cannot emit @llvm.pow.* ?
Duncan Sands
baldrick at free.fr
Thu Nov 22 01:48:25 PST 2007
Hi,
> Sure. But now the question is the llvm-gcc will not emit llvm.pow.* anytime.
indeed there seems to be no code in llvm-gcc to do so, though there is code for
raising to an integer power (in llvm-convert). Please feel free to investigate
and add some. Presumably it should turn gcc's BUILT_IN_POW into llvm.pow.*.
That said, as far as I can see the C front-end doesn't generate BUILT_IN_POW
at all, though the fortran and java front-ends do. It is true that the gcc
constant folder can fold x*x to pow(x, 2.0) but this has been turned off in
llvm-gcc (PR1631); in any case this is not what you are looking for. So it
seems to me that the first question to answer is: why doesn't gcc itself use
the gcc pow builtin for C?
> Also, don't forget that the llvm intrinsics
> > don't set errno, so using them is only valid on systems/for languages
> > for which errno is ignored. That said, llvm.pow.* is for raising
> > to an integer power, and here you raise to a double power.
>
>
> I don't understand. why we can't use llvm.pow.f64 for double power?
Sorry, I was confusing with powi.
Ciao,
Duncan.
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