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      1 //===---- TargetInfo.h - Encapsulate target details -------------*- C++ -*-===//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 //
     10 // These classes wrap the information about a call or function
     11 // definition used to handle ABI compliancy.
     12 //
     13 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     14 
     15 #ifndef CLANG_CODEGEN_TARGETINFO_H
     16 #define CLANG_CODEGEN_TARGETINFO_H
     17 
     18 #include "clang/Basic/LLVM.h"
     19 #include "clang/AST/Type.h"
     20 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
     21 
     22 namespace llvm {
     23   class GlobalValue;
     24   class Type;
     25   class Value;
     26 }
     27 
     28 namespace clang {
     29   class ABIInfo;
     30   class Decl;
     31 
     32   namespace CodeGen {
     33     class CodeGenModule;
     34     class CodeGenFunction;
     35   }
     36 
     37   /// TargetCodeGenInfo - This class organizes various target-specific
     38   /// codegeneration issues, like target-specific attributes, builtins and so
     39   /// on.
     40   class TargetCodeGenInfo {
     41     ABIInfo *Info;
     42   public:
     43     // WARNING: Acquires the ownership of ABIInfo.
     44     TargetCodeGenInfo(ABIInfo *info = 0):Info(info) { }
     45     virtual ~TargetCodeGenInfo();
     46 
     47     /// getABIInfo() - Returns ABI info helper for the target.
     48     const ABIInfo& getABIInfo() const { return *Info; }
     49 
     50     /// SetTargetAttributes - Provides a convenient hook to handle extra
     51     /// target-specific attributes for the given global.
     52     virtual void SetTargetAttributes(const Decl *D, llvm::GlobalValue *GV,
     53                                      CodeGen::CodeGenModule &M) const { }
     54 
     55     /// Determines the size of struct _Unwind_Exception on this platform,
     56     /// in 8-bit units.  The Itanium ABI defines this as:
     57     ///   struct _Unwind_Exception {
     58     ///     uint64 exception_class;
     59     ///     _Unwind_Exception_Cleanup_Fn exception_cleanup;
     60     ///     uint64 private_1;
     61     ///     uint64 private_2;
     62     ///   };
     63     virtual unsigned getSizeOfUnwindException() const;
     64 
     65     /// Controls whether __builtin_extend_pointer should sign-extend
     66     /// pointers to uint64_t or zero-extend them (the default).  Has
     67     /// no effect for targets:
     68     ///   - that have 64-bit pointers, or
     69     ///   - that cannot address through registers larger than pointers, or
     70     ///   - that implicitly ignore/truncate the top bits when addressing
     71     ///     through such registers.
     72     virtual bool extendPointerWithSExt() const { return false; }
     73 
     74     /// Determines the DWARF register number for the stack pointer, for
     75     /// exception-handling purposes.  Implements __builtin_dwarf_sp_column.
     76     ///
     77     /// Returns -1 if the operation is unsupported by this target.
     78     virtual int getDwarfEHStackPointer(CodeGen::CodeGenModule &M) const {
     79       return -1;
     80     }
     81 
     82     /// Initializes the given DWARF EH register-size table, a char*.
     83     /// Implements __builtin_init_dwarf_reg_size_table.
     84     ///
     85     /// Returns true if the operation is unsupported by this target.
     86     virtual bool initDwarfEHRegSizeTable(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
     87                                          llvm::Value *Address) const {
     88       return true;
     89     }
     90 
     91     /// Performs the code-generation required to convert a return
     92     /// address as stored by the system into the actual address of the
     93     /// next instruction that will be executed.
     94     ///
     95     /// Used by __builtin_extract_return_addr().
     96     virtual llvm::Value *decodeReturnAddress(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
     97                                              llvm::Value *Address) const {
     98       return Address;
     99     }
    100 
    101     /// Performs the code-generation required to convert the address
    102     /// of an instruction into a return address suitable for storage
    103     /// by the system in a return slot.
    104     ///
    105     /// Used by __builtin_frob_return_addr().
    106     virtual llvm::Value *encodeReturnAddress(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
    107                                              llvm::Value *Address) const {
    108       return Address;
    109     }
    110 
    111     virtual llvm::Type* adjustInlineAsmType(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
    112                                             StringRef Constraint,
    113                                             llvm::Type* Ty) const {
    114       return Ty;
    115     }
    116 
    117     /// Retrieve the address of a function to call immediately before
    118     /// calling objc_retainAutoreleasedReturnValue.  The
    119     /// implementation of objc_autoreleaseReturnValue sniffs the
    120     /// instruction stream following its return address to decide
    121     /// whether it's a call to objc_retainAutoreleasedReturnValue.
    122     /// This can be prohibitively expensive, depending on the
    123     /// relocation model, and so on some targets it instead sniffs for
    124     /// a particular instruction sequence.  This functions returns
    125     /// that instruction sequence in inline assembly, which will be
    126     /// empty if none is required.
    127     virtual StringRef getARCRetainAutoreleasedReturnValueMarker() const {
    128       return "";
    129     }
    130 
    131     /// Determine whether a call to an unprototyped functions under
    132     /// the given calling convention should use the variadic
    133     /// convention or the non-variadic convention.
    134     ///
    135     /// There's a good reason to make a platform's variadic calling
    136     /// convention be different from its non-variadic calling
    137     /// convention: the non-variadic arguments can be passed in
    138     /// registers (better for performance), and the variadic arguments
    139     /// can be passed on the stack (also better for performance).  If
    140     /// this is done, however, unprototyped functions *must* use the
    141     /// non-variadic convention, because C99 states that a call
    142     /// through an unprototyped function type must succeed if the
    143     /// function was defined with a non-variadic prototype with
    144     /// compatible parameters.  Therefore, splitting the conventions
    145     /// makes it impossible to call a variadic function through an
    146     /// unprototyped type.  Since function prototypes came out in the
    147     /// late 1970s, this is probably an acceptable trade-off.
    148     /// Nonetheless, not all platforms are willing to make it, and in
    149     /// particularly x86-64 bends over backwards to make the
    150     /// conventions compatible.
    151     ///
    152     /// The default is false.  This is correct whenever:
    153     ///   - the conventions are exactly the same, because it does not
    154     ///     matter and the resulting IR will be somewhat prettier in
    155     ///     certain cases; or
    156     ///   - the conventions are substantively different in how they pass
    157     ///     arguments, because in this case using the variadic convention
    158     ///     will lead to C99 violations.
    159     /// It is not necessarily correct when arguments are passed in the
    160     /// same way and some out-of-band information is passed for the
    161     /// benefit of variadic callees, as is the case for x86-64.
    162     /// In this case the ABI should be consulted.
    163     virtual bool isNoProtoCallVariadic(CallingConv CC) const;
    164   };
    165 }
    166 
    167 #endif // CLANG_CODEGEN_TARGETINFO_H
    168