[llvm-dev] RFC: Checking TargetLibraryInfo against actual libraries

[Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 16:40, via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> I've written a small program that sets up TargetLibraryInfo for a
> specified triple, and compares its opinion of which libcalls are
> "available" against the functions actually provided by some set
> of library files.
>
> This has been helpful in tidying up TLI's opinion about which
> calls are available where, and I've committed a couple of patches
> (6185ad0, 56e681a) to do some general fixup; I'm working on a
> patch to get the PS4 set completely correct.  I was originally
> intending to use this tool in our downstream testsuite, but...
>
> It occurred to me that the tool might be useful to people who are
> interested in tidying up TLI for other targets (which I'm not,
> really, it's just that part of my effort happens to help others).
> Right now the tool can only handle ELF files, but it should be
> straightforward to extend to COFF/MachO if people interested in
> those targets think it would be useful.
>
> Is there interest in a tool like this?

The tool sounds useful to me, thinking from the RISC-V backend's
perspective. Just ELF is fine for that use case.

If it's not a huge amount of additional work to make it fit for public
consumption I think it would be worth sharing.

Best,

Alex