[llvm-dev] LLVM issuse:AArch64 TargetParser

[James Molloy via llvm-dev]

Hi,

A64 versus A32/T32 code generation is controlled by the -target option which I don’t believe is under discussion here.

James
On 18 May 2016, at 13:17, Bruce Hoult <bruce at hoult.org<mailto:bruce at hoult.org>> wrote:

Note that armv8a modifies the A32 and T32 instruction sets, and is therefore an important -march option for 32 bit code. Therefore armv8a can not be used to imply aarch64.

For example:

- IT predication instruction with more than a single controlled 16 bit instruction, or an instruction that modifies PC is deprecated. All old uses of IT work by default, but a control bit enables the OS to cause a trap on use of a deprecated use.

- new A32 and T32 Load Acquire/Store Release instructions

- new A32 and T32 scalar FP instructions including conditional select, min, max, new rounding modes for FP to int conversion, conversion between half precision and double precision

- new A32 and T32 vector forms of the above FP operations

- new A32 and T32 cryptographic instructions

- changes to barrier instructions

Users can reasonably expect -march=armv8a for 32 bit code to potentially generate the new FP instructions and restrict the use of the IT instruction.


On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Jojo Ma via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm a member engineer of linaro's llvm team,coming from Spreadtrum.I am a new person on LLVM.Now I'm writing a Target Parser for AArch64,so options parsing of AArch64 about cpu & arch & fpu can be summary to one place.

In the TargetParser,we assume "aarch64" and "arm64" are synonyms of armv8a(as they are only for armv8a,people usually do this). So after using AArch64TargetParser in options parsing in Clang,using "-march=aarch64" and "-march=arm64" are both valid.

I saw Kevin has a different view on this in his submission:r213353.

+// RUN: %clang -target aarch64 -march=arm64 -### -c %s 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK-ARCH-NOT-ACCEPT %s
+// RUN: %clang -target aarch64 -march=aarch64 -### -c %s 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK-ARCH-NOT-ACCEPT %s
+// CHECK-ARCH-NOT-ACCEPT: error: the clang compiler does not support

So I failed on the regression testing.So I think we should reach a consensus on this issue.
Would you mind letting me know what you think of this issuse?

Thank you very much!Looking forward to your reply!
I enclose the attachments for your reference.

Best Regards,
Jojo.ma<http://Jojo.ma>

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