This is a breaking change, conforming to new DMD semantics.
The previous semantics were inconsistent, as -{enable,disable}-asserts
and -boundscheck (as well as new -{enable,disable}-switch-errors)
weren't overridden.
... to -link-defaultlib-debug (with alias for backwards compatibility).
-link-defaultlib-shared is to be used for switching between static and
shared default libs to be linked with.
It defaults to true when generating shared libraries (if shared
druntime/Phobos are supported for the target, i.e., not for Windows).
This is a benign breaking change!
I.e., llvm/CodeGen/CommandFlags.h which in turn includes
llvm/MC/MCTargetOptionsCommandFlags.h.
This gets rid of a few duplicates on our side and includes about 35
(depending on LLVM version) new command-line options. LLVM provides a
helper function to set up the TargetOptions according to (most of) these
options.
Newer LLVM versions may add new options and we'll automatically inherit
them, including setting up the TargetOptions accordingly.
I did my best (TM) to remove a few unused/undesirable options and hide all
remaining new ones except for `-fp-contract`. The lists will need to be
tweaked from time to time.
The part needing most attention was ddmd.root.ctfloat, ddmd.target (incl.
gen/target.cpp) and ddmd.builtin. The front-end is now prepared for
elaborate compile-time floating-point types to allow for proper cross-
compilation.
This version still uses the host's `real` type for compile-time reals,
except for MSVC hosts, which still use 64-bit doubles (when compiled with
DMD host compiler too).
Some other changes:
* semantic*() of Statements extracted from statement.d to statementsem.d
* mangle() -> mangleToBuffer()
* Identifier::string -> toChars()
* Token::float80value => floatvalue
* Dsymbol::isAggregateMember() => isMember()
* BoolExp is no more
* ddmd.root.ctfloat: LDC-specific CTFE builtins
Add the commandline options -fprofile-instr-generate[=filename] and -profile-instr-use=filename
-fprofile-instr-generate
-- Add instrumentation on branches, switches, and function entry; uses LLVM's InstrProf pass.
-- Link to profile runtime that writes instrumentation counters to a file.
-fprofile-instr-use
-- Read profile data from a file and apply branch weights to branches and switches, and annotate functions with entrycount in LLVM IR.
-- Functions with low or high entrycount are marked with 'cold' or 'inlinehint'.
The only statement type without PGO yet is "try-finally".
A new pragma, `pragma(LDC_profile_instr, [ true | false ])`, is added to selectively disable/enable instrumentation of functions (granularity = whole functions).
The runtime library ldc-profile-rt is a copy of LLVM compiler-rt lib/profile. It has to be exactly in-sync with the LLVM version, and thus we need a copy for each PGO-supported LLVM (>=3.7).
import ldc.profile for a D interface to ldc-profile-rt (for example to reset execution counts after a program startup phase).
The instrumentation data is mainly passed on to LLVM: function-entry counts and branch counts/probabilities. LDC marks functions as hot when "execution count is 30% of the maximum function execution count", and marks functions as cold if their count is 1% of maximum function execution count.
The source of LLVM's llvm-profdata tool is hereby included in LDCs repository (different source for each LLVM version), and the binary is included in the install bin folder.
The executable is named "ldc-profdata" to avoid clashing with llvm-profdata on the same machine. This is needed because profdata executable has to be in-sync with the LLVM version used to build LDC.
Maintenance burden: for trunk LLVM, we have to keep ldc-profile-rt and llvm-profdata in sync. There is no diff with upstream; but because of active development there are the occasional API changes.
There is a LLVM 3.7 command line option named color. This option is
only available if ldc is linked against shared LLVM libraries.
Because the LDC color option uses a FlagParser simple renaming does
not work. The solution is now:
- Rename LLVM option `color` to `llvm-color` and hide this option
- Dynamically create the LDC option `color`
This finally enables building with shared LLVM libraries.
