[llvm-dev] [GPUCC] how to remove _ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv() automatically?

[Yuanfeng Peng via llvm-dev]

Yeah, '.' is the direct reason for the ptxas failure here.  I'm curious,
however, about what the purpose of nvvm_reflect_anchorv() is here, and why
does the front-end always generate this function? Since the current PTX
emission doesn't mangle dots, it would be a reasonable workaround for me to
prevent the front-end from generating this function in the first place.
Is there any magic option available to do so?

Thanks!
yuanfeng

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:

> The actual problem here is that PTX appears to not allow '.' in symbol
> names. We should probably just change our PTX emission to mangle dots
> somehow.
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Yuanfeng Peng via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I needed to compile a cuda source file (say, a.cu) into IR (a.bc), and
>> then merge a.bc with another bitcode file (b.bc, compiled from b.cu).
>> So I used *llvm-link a.bc b.bc -o c.bc*
>>
>> However, I noticed that an internal function '* _ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv()
>> *' is defined in both a.bc & b.bc, and when merging these two files, one
>> of the two definitions was renamed to  '*_ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv.2()*',
>> and written into c.bc.
>>
>>  Then I did *llc c.bc -o c.s -march=nvptx ; ptxas c.s -o c.o*
>>
>> However, ptxas would give the following complaint:
>>
>> *ptxas c.s, line 171; error   : Duplicate definition of function
>> '_ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv'*
>>
>> *ptxas c.s, line 171; fatal   : Parsing error near '.2': syntax error*
>>
>> So I inspected c.s and found the issue above was caused by the following
>> line:
>>
>> .*func**  (.param .b32 func_retval0) _ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv.2() //
>> @_ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv.2*
>>
>> After I manually deleted the definition of this function in c.s, the
>> compilation works file.  I wonder how could I force llc to remove  *`*
>> _ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv.2*()`*? Or is that possible to prevent
>> _ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv*() *from being generated into a.bc & b.bc in
>> the first place?  Or is this possible to ask llvm-link to NOT rename
>> *_ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv() **into **ZL21__nvvm_reflect_anchorv**.2*
>> *()*?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> *Yuanfeng Peng *
>>
>>
>>
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