[LLVMdev] DataLayout

[Eric Christopher]

Agreed. I'll reply to the rest of it soon, but if we have a required one in
the module then that's what we should use.

-eric

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:05 AM Rafael Espíndola <
rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Long term I think we should keep only the one in the module.
>
>
> On 24 June 2015 at 14:42, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have multiple DataLayout object in flight during a compilation: at
> least the one owned by the Module and the one owned by the TargetMachine.
> > There are two issues:
> > 1) What if they differ? I guess we could assert at the beginning of
> CodeGen.
> > 2) The DataLayout has internal mutable state (a cache of StructLayout).
> >
> > The latter is my current concern: the cache in DataLayout is based on
> Type pointer which means that is has to be Context specific.
> > This is fine with the DataLayout attached to the Module but not with the
> TargetMachine.
> > The cache could live in the Context, but it is also DataLayout specific
> so it wouldn’t be a good fit either.
> >
> > I considered modifying the cache in the DataLayout to invalidate itself
> when queried with a new Context, however it wouldn’t work in a
> multi-threaded environment (or the query would have to be behind a Mutex).
> >
> > Another option is to remove the DataLayout from the TargetMachine, I
> tried it and it seems possible but awkward as well in some places where the
> DataLayout has to be supplied externally because TargetLoweringXX would not
> have it.
> >
> > Finally the TargetMachine could be deemed to be "context-specific”, i.e.
> the CodeGen infrastructure would need to be reinitialized for each new
> Context. That would be a strong limitation though.
> >
> > There may be other options?
> >
> > —
> > Mehdi
> >
> >
> >
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