[llvm-dev] Restrict global constructors to base ISA

[Jeffrey Walton via llvm-dev]

I'm testing on older OS X 10.8 with older SSE4 hardware from about
2010. I've got updated gear from MacPorts and it includes GCC and
Clang. GCC is the compiler, and Clang is the assembler.

We perform a compile/link on a test file to ensure an ISA is supported
by the toolchain. If an ISA is available then we compile a source file
to the ISA as needed. Then, we guard the higher ISAs at runtime to
avoid SIGILLs. It worked well until we added AVX2.

For AVX2 we see this as expected:

    $ CXX=/opt/local/bin/clang++-mp-5.0 make
    /opt/local/bin/clang++-mp-5.0 ... -c chacha.cpp
    /opt/local/bin/clang++-mp-5.0 ... -mavx2 -c chacha_avx.cpp
    /opt/local/bin/clang++-mp-5.0 ... -msse2 -c chacha_simd.cpp
    ...

At runtime we catch a SIGILL due to chacha_avx.cpp as shown below. It
looks like global constructors are using instructions from AVX
(vxorps), which is beyond what the machine supports.

How do we tell Clang to use the base ISA for global constructors?

Thanks in advance.

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Here's the full command line used for a typical file:

/opt/local/bin/clang++-mp-5.0 -DNDEBUG -g2 -O3 -fPIC -pthread -pipe -c
cryptlib.cpp

Here's the source file. I don't believe it has global data provided by
us: https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/blob/master/chacha_avx.cpp

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(lldb) r v
...
* thread #1: tid = 0x19f83aa, 0x000000010016ec49
cryptest.exe`_GLOBAL__sub_I_chacha_avx.cpp at string:1322, queue =
'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION
(code=EXC_I386_INVOP, subcode=0x0)
    frame #0: 0x000000010016ec49
cryptest.exe`_GLOBAL__sub_I_chacha_avx.cpp at string:1322
   1319         {
   1320             size_type (&__a)[__n_words] = __r_.first().__r.__words;
   1321             for (unsigned __i = 0; __i < __n_words; ++__i)
-> 1322                 __a[__i] = 0;
   1323         }
   1324
   1325     template <size_type __a> static

And:

(lldb) disass
cryptest.exe`_GLOBAL__sub_I_chacha_avx.cpp at chacha_avx.cpp:
   0x10016ec30:  pushq  %rbp
   0x10016ec31:  movq   %rsp, %rbp
   0x10016ec34:  pushq  %r14
   0x10016ec36:  pushq  %rbx
   0x10016ec37:  movq   0x24cf8a(%rip), %rax      ; (void
*)0x00000001003e69f0: vtable for CryptoPP::NullNameValuePairs
   0x10016ec3e:  addq   $0x10, %rax
   0x10016ec42:  movq   %rax, 0x2dfb6f(%rip)      ;
CryptoPP::s_nullNameValuePairs
-> 0x10016ec49:  vxorps %xmm0, %xmm0, %xmm0
   0x10016ec4d:  vmovups %xmm0, 0x2dfb6b(%rip)     ; CryptoPP::DEFAULT_CHANNEL
   0x10016ec55:  movq   $0x0, 0x2dfb70(%rip)      ;
CryptoPP::DEFAULT_CHANNEL + 12
   0x10016ec60:  leaq   0x2dfb59(%rip), %rsi      ; CryptoPP::DEFAULT_CHANNEL
   0x10016ec67:  movq   0x24ba52(%rip), %rbx      ; (void
*)0x00007fff8f09321e: std::__1::basic_string<char,
std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char>
>::~basic_string()
   0x10016ec6e:  leaq   -0x16ec75(%rip), %r14     ; _mh_execute_header
   ...