The stdilb code just calls the signed int{32,64} functions,
which gives the right result for the unsigned case anyway.
The various targets didn't consistently define the unsigned
variants in any case.
This ensures that they have static linkage, which in turn lets one
have multiple object files compiled to multiple targets without having
those cause link errors.
Issue #355.
Flag 32-bit vector types as only requiring 32-bit alignment (preemptive
bug fix for 32xi1 vectors).
Force module datalayouts to be the same before linking them to silence
an LLVM warning.
Finishes issue #309.
We now use InternalLinkage for the 'programIndex' symbol (and similar)
if we're not compiling with debugging symbols. This prevents those
symbol names/definitions from polluting the global namespace for
the common case.
Basically addresses Issue #274.
It's now possible to successfully print out the value of programIndex,
programCount, etc., in the debugger. The issue was that they were
defined as having InternalLinkage, which meant that DCE removed them
at the end of compilation. Now they're declared to have WeakODRLinkage,
which ensures that one copy survives (but there aren't multiply-defined
symbols when compiling multiple files.)
Previously, we uniqued AtomicTypes, so that they could be compared
by pointer equality, but with forthcoming SOA variability changes,
this would become too unwieldy (lacking a more general / ubiquitous
type uniquing implementation.)
(i.e., stop just reusing the ones for AVX1).
For now the only difference is that the int/uint min/max
functions call the new intrinsic for that. Once gather is
available from LLVM, that will go here as well.
When used, these targets end up with calls to undefined functions for all
of the various special vector stuff ispc needs to compile ispc programs
(masked store, gather, min/max, sqrt, etc.).
These targets are not yet useful for anything, but are a step toward
having an option to C++ code with calls out to intrinsics.
Reorganized the directory structure a bit and put the LLVM bitcode used
to define target-specific stuff (as well as some generic built-ins stuff)
into a builtins/ directory.
Note that for building on Windows, it's now necessary to set a LLVM_VERSION
environment variable (with values like LLVM_2_9, LLVM_3_0, LLVM_3_1svn, etc.)
Fixes issue #131; because they weren't being marked as internal before, when
compiling to multiple targets these would lead to multiply-defined symbols.
For now this target just uses the same builtins-*.ll files as the
regular AVX1 target. Once the gather intrinsic is available from
LLVM, we'll want to have custom target files that call out to that
for gathers. (The integer min/max intrinsics should be wired up to
the __{min,max}_varying_{int,uint}*() builtins at that point as
well.)
Pointers can be either uniform or varying, and behave correspondingly.
e.g.: "uniform float * varying" is a varying pointer to uniform float
data in memory, and "float * uniform" is a uniform pointer to varying
data in memory. Like other types, pointers are varying by default.
Pointer-based expressions, & and *, sizeof, ->, pointer arithmetic,
and the array/pointer duality all bahave as in C. Array arguments
to functions are converted to pointers, also like C.
There is a built-in NULL for a null pointer value; conversion from
compile-time constant 0 values to NULL still needs to be implemented.
Other changes:
- Syntax for references has been updated to be C++ style; a useful
warning is now issued if the "reference" keyword is used.
- It is now illegal to pass a varying lvalue as a reference parameter
to a function; references are essentially uniform pointers.
This case had previously been handled via special case call by value
return code. That path has been removed, now that varying pointers
are available to handle this use case (and much more).
- Some stdlib routines have been updated to take pointers as
arguments where appropriate (e.g. prefetch and the atomics).
A number of others still need attention.
- All of the examples have been updated
- Many new tests
TODO: documentation
Substantial improvements and generalizations to the parsing and
declaration handling code to properly parse declarations involving
pointers. (No change to user-visible functionality, but this
lays groundwork for supporting a more general pointer model.)
Now, the Linker::LinkModules() call doesn't link in any functions
marked as 'internal', which is problematic, since we'd like to have
just about all of the builtins marked as internal so that they are
eliminated after they've been inlined when they are in fact used.
This change removes all of the internal qualifiers in the builtins
and adds a lSetInternalFunctions() routine to builtins.cpp that
sets this property on the functions that need it after they've
been linked in by LinkModules().
If a flag along the lines of "--target=sse4,avx-x2" is provided on the command-line,
then the program will be compiled for each of the given targets, with a separate
output file generated for each one. Further, an output file with dispatch functions
that check the current system's CPU and then chooses the best available variant
is also created.
Issue #11.
Set the Module's target appropriately when it's first created.
Compile separate 32 and 64 bit versions of the builtins-c bitcocde
and load the appropriate one based on the target we're compiling
for.
