[llvm-dev] Suggestion / Help regarding new calling convention

[John Criswell via llvm-dev]

On 6/20/16 11:29 PM, Mehdi Amini wrote:
>
>> On Jun 20, 2016, at 11:12 AM, John Criswell via llvm-dev 
>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/20/16 9:39 AM, vivek pandya via llvm-dev wrote:
>>> Dear Community,
>>>
>>> To improve current interprocedural register allocation (IPRA) , we 
>>> have planned to set callee saved registers to none for local 
>>> functions, currently I am doing it in following way:
>>>
>>> if (F->hasLocalLinkage() && !F->hasAddressTaken()) {
>>
>> As an aside, you might want to analyze how many functions have both 
>> local linkage and are not address taken.  I recall that many 
>> functions returned false for hasAddressTaken() because some direct 
>> calls casted the function to a different function type before calling 
>> it. Such functions are still not address taken, but the simple 
>> hasAddressTaken() method can't determine it.
>
> Looks like hasAddressTaken could be updated to handle these simple 
> case maybe?

That might make sense if it has not been fixed already.  Another 
approach (if in-tree LLVM passes are frequently checking for indirect 
calls) would be to write a simple analysis pass that lazily computes the 
information on demand.  That way, if multiple passes are checking the 
same function repeatedly, it gets cached in the analysis pass instead of 
being recomputed (so long as the analysis pass is not invalidated by a 
transform).

Regards,

John Criswell


-- 
John Criswell
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/criswell

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