[LLVMdev] making emitInlineAsm protected

[Eric Christopher]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:12 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2014 04:53 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
>>
>> Which part of lowering requires this?
>>
>> -eric
>
> If I see that certain externals are referenced, then I know I need to
> generate a stub
> for them.
>
> Most of this I take care of in an IR pass but some I can't know about
> because they
> are just standard libc type functions. There are only a few that create this
> problem for mips16 hard float
> when it is linked as c++.

How do you know about it later then?

-eric


> I intend though to move all the earlier actual machine code generation from
> the IR pass to this
> same place that I am using to solve the problem at hand.
>
>
>
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:42 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/29/2014 04:25 PM, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> How would this pass get added to the chain?
>>>>>
>>>>> It has to create more functions and then those in turn need to be
>>>>> compiled.
>>>>
>>>> I am sure it can be done. MergeFunctions for example creates new
>>>> functions.
>>>>
>>>> Now, it does seem this request/code review is a bit upside down. You
>>>> have been told that your original proposal is not acceptable.
>>>> Reviewers may offer to help, but in the end it is the author that has
>>>> to go figure out how something has to be done. You seem to expect that
>>>> Eric and I are now the ones responsible for it.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Rafael
>>>
>>> You may have missed this in the discussion, but this cannot be done in an
>>> IR
>>> pass.
>>>
>>> I find out that I need the stub during ISEL lowering.
>>>
>>> Reed
>>>
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