[LLVMdev] i1* function argument on x86-64

[Jonathan Roelofs]

On 7/27/15 11:44 AM, Frank Winter wrote:
> I am running into a problem with 'i1*' as a function's argument which
> seems to have appeared since I switched to LLVM 3.6 (but can have other
> source, of course). If I look at the assembler that the MCJIT generates
> for an x86-64 target I see that the array 'i1*' is taken as a sequence
> of 1 bit wide elements. (I guess that's correct).

Yes, that is correct.

> However, I used to
> call the function from C passing in a 'bool*' which has 1 byte
> wideelements, I guess.

This is the bug, as the caller and callee need to agree on how data for 
arguments is laid out. 'bool' is i8 in clang when stored to memory (for 
most targets... IIRC, one of the ppc darwin targets has 32bit bools?).

> (not sure if that's a compiler's choice) Now,

Width of 'bool' is a frontend choice, yes. In C, the minimum addressable 
thing has to have the same size as char, and the assumption that char is 
8 bits is very baked into llvm.

> since I haven't changed my code on these parts but only made the
> transition from LLVM 3.4/5 -> 3.6 I wonder if the element width has
> changed when i1* is used as a function's argument..!?

I'm not sure of the history here. Perhaps it could have been a bugfix?


Cheers,

Jon

>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
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