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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/AST/Type.h"
     19 #include "clang/Basic/LLVM.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 CallArgList;
     34     class CodeGenModule;
     35     class CodeGenFunction;
     36     class CGFunctionInfo;
     37   }
     38 
     39   /// TargetCodeGenInfo - This class organizes various target-specific
     40   /// codegeneration issues, like target-specific attributes, builtins and so
     41   /// on.
     42   class TargetCodeGenInfo {
     43     ABIInfo *Info;
     44   public:
     45     // WARNING: Acquires the ownership of ABIInfo.
     46     TargetCodeGenInfo(ABIInfo *info = 0):Info(info) { }
     47     virtual ~TargetCodeGenInfo();
     48 
     49     /// getABIInfo() - Returns ABI info helper for the target.
     50     const ABIInfo& getABIInfo() const { return *Info; }
     51 
     52     /// SetTargetAttributes - Provides a convenient hook to handle extra
     53     /// target-specific attributes for the given global.
     54     virtual void SetTargetAttributes(const Decl *D, llvm::GlobalValue *GV,
     55                                      CodeGen::CodeGenModule &M) const { }
     56 
     57     /// Determines the size of struct _Unwind_Exception on this platform,
     58     /// in 8-bit units.  The Itanium ABI defines this as:
     59     ///   struct _Unwind_Exception {
     60     ///     uint64 exception_class;
     61     ///     _Unwind_Exception_Cleanup_Fn exception_cleanup;
     62     ///     uint64 private_1;
     63     ///     uint64 private_2;
     64     ///   };
     65     virtual unsigned getSizeOfUnwindException() const;
     66 
     67     /// Controls whether __builtin_extend_pointer should sign-extend
     68     /// pointers to uint64_t or zero-extend them (the default).  Has
     69     /// no effect for targets:
     70     ///   - that have 64-bit pointers, or
     71     ///   - that cannot address through registers larger than pointers, or
     72     ///   - that implicitly ignore/truncate the top bits when addressing
     73     ///     through such registers.
     74     virtual bool extendPointerWithSExt() const { return false; }
     75 
     76     /// Determines the DWARF register number for the stack pointer, for
     77     /// exception-handling purposes.  Implements __builtin_dwarf_sp_column.
     78     ///
     79     /// Returns -1 if the operation is unsupported by this target.
     80     virtual int getDwarfEHStackPointer(CodeGen::CodeGenModule &M) const {
     81       return -1;
     82     }
     83 
     84     /// Initializes the given DWARF EH register-size table, a char*.
     85     /// Implements __builtin_init_dwarf_reg_size_table.
     86     ///
     87     /// Returns true if the operation is unsupported by this target.
     88     virtual bool initDwarfEHRegSizeTable(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
     89                                          llvm::Value *Address) const {
     90       return true;
     91     }
     92 
     93     /// Performs the code-generation required to convert a return
     94     /// address as stored by the system into the actual address of the
     95     /// next instruction that will be executed.
     96     ///
     97     /// Used by __builtin_extract_return_addr().
     98     virtual llvm::Value *decodeReturnAddress(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
     99                                              llvm::Value *Address) const {
    100       return Address;
    101     }
    102 
    103     /// Performs the code-generation required to convert the address
    104     /// of an instruction into a return address suitable for storage
    105     /// by the system in a return slot.
    106     ///
    107     /// Used by __builtin_frob_return_addr().
    108     virtual llvm::Value *encodeReturnAddress(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
    109                                              llvm::Value *Address) const {
    110       return Address;
    111     }
    112 
    113     virtual llvm::Type* adjustInlineAsmType(CodeGen::CodeGenFunction &CGF,
    114                                             StringRef Constraint,
    115                                             llvm::Type* Ty) const {
    116       return Ty;
    117     }
    118 
    119     /// Retrieve the address of a function to call immediately before
    120     /// calling objc_retainAutoreleasedReturnValue.  The
    121     /// implementation of objc_autoreleaseReturnValue sniffs the
    122     /// instruction stream following its return address to decide
    123     /// whether it's a call to objc_retainAutoreleasedReturnValue.
    124     /// This can be prohibitively expensive, depending on the
    125     /// relocation model, and so on some targets it instead sniffs for
    126     /// a particular instruction sequence.  This functions returns
    127     /// that instruction sequence in inline assembly, which will be
    128     /// empty if none is required.
    129     virtual StringRef getARCRetainAutoreleasedReturnValueMarker() const {
    130       return "";
    131     }
    132 
    133     /// Determine whether a call to an unprototyped functions under
    134     /// the given calling convention should use the variadic
    135     /// convention or the non-variadic convention.
    136     ///
    137     /// There's a good reason to make a platform's variadic calling
    138     /// convention be different from its non-variadic calling
    139     /// convention: the non-variadic arguments can be passed in
    140     /// registers (better for performance), and the variadic arguments
    141     /// can be passed on the stack (also better for performance).  If
    142     /// this is done, however, unprototyped functions *must* use the
    143     /// non-variadic convention, because C99 states that a call
    144     /// through an unprototyped function type must succeed if the
    145     /// function was defined with a non-variadic prototype with
    146     /// compatible parameters.  Therefore, splitting the conventions
    147     /// makes it impossible to call a variadic function through an
    148     /// unprototyped type.  Since function prototypes came out in the
    149     /// late 1970s, this is probably an acceptable trade-off.
    150     /// Nonetheless, not all platforms are willing to make it, and in
    151     /// particularly x86-64 bends over backwards to make the
    152     /// conventions compatible.
    153     ///
    154     /// The default is false.  This is correct whenever:
    155     ///   - the conventions are exactly the same, because it does not
    156     ///     matter and the resulting IR will be somewhat prettier in
    157     ///     certain cases; or
    158     ///   - the conventions are substantively different in how they pass
    159     ///     arguments, because in this case using the variadic convention
    160     ///     will lead to C99 violations.
    161     ///
    162     /// However, some platforms make the conventions identical except
    163     /// for passing additional out-of-band information to a variadic
    164     /// function: for example, x86-64 passes the number of SSE
    165     /// arguments in %al.  On these platforms, it is desireable to
    166     /// call unprototyped functions using the variadic convention so
    167     /// that unprototyped calls to varargs functions still succeed.
    168     virtual bool isNoProtoCallVariadic(const CodeGen::CallArgList &args,
    169                                        const FunctionNoProtoType *fnType) const;
    170   };
    171 }
    172 
    173 #endif // CLANG_CODEGEN_TARGETINFO_H
    174