llvm-6502/lib/Support
Chandler Carruth 73c35d86b9 Add time getters to the process interface for requesting the elapsed
wall time, user time, and system time since a process started.

For walltime, we currently use TimeValue's interface and a global
initializer to compute a close approximation of total process runtime.

For user time, this adds support for an somewhat more precise timing
mechanism -- clock_gettime with the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID clock
selected.

For system time, we have to do a full getrusage call to extract the
system time from the OS. This is expensive but unavoidable.

In passing, clean up the implementation of the old APIs and fix some
latent bugs in the Windows code. This might have manifested on Windows
ARM systems or other systems with strange 64-bit integer behavior.

The old API for this both user time and system time simultaneously from
a single getrusage call. While this results in fewer system calls, it
also results in a lower precision user time and if only user time is
desired, it introduces a higher overhead. It may be worthwhile to switch
some of the pass timers to not track system time and directly track user
and wall time. The old API also tracked walltime in a confusing way --
it just set it to the current walltime rather than providing any measure
of wall time since the process started the way buth user and system time
are tracked. The new API is more consistent here.

The plan is to eventually implement these methods for a *child* process
by using the wait3(2) system call to populate an rusage struct
representing the whole subprocess execution. That way, after waiting on
a child process its stats will become accurate and cheap to query.

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Unix Add time getters to the process interface for requesting the elapsed 2013-01-04 23:19:55 +00:00
Windows Add time getters to the process interface for requesting the elapsed 2013-01-04 23:19:55 +00:00
Allocator.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
APFloat.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
APInt.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
APSInt.cpp
Atomic.cpp XLC supports the same atomic functions as GCC, use them. 2012-11-02 20:54:45 +00:00
BlockFrequency.cpp
BranchProbability.cpp
circular_raw_ostream.cpp
CMakeLists.txt Initial implementation of a utility for converting native data 2012-12-12 20:46:15 +00:00
CommandLine.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
ConstantRange.cpp Move all of the header files which are involved in modelling the LLVM IR 2013-01-02 11:36:10 +00:00
COPYRIGHT.regex
CrashRecoveryContext.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
DAGDeltaAlgorithm.cpp
DataExtractor.cpp
DataStream.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Debug.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
DeltaAlgorithm.cpp
Disassembler.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Dwarf.cpp Rename the 'Attributes' class to 'Attribute'. It's going to represent a single attribute in the future. 2012-12-19 07:18:57 +00:00
DynamicLibrary.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Errno.cpp [Support] Fix StrError on Windows to actually return the error string... 2012-11-01 00:34:09 +00:00
ErrorHandling.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
FileOutputBuffer.cpp [Support] Make FileOutputBuffer work on Windows. 2012-12-03 22:09:52 +00:00
FileUtilities.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
FoldingSet.cpp Fix whitespace. No functionality change. 2012-12-25 06:13:25 +00:00
FormattedStream.cpp
GraphWriter.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Hashing.cpp
Host.cpp Define getHostCPUFeatures for ARM Linux platform 2012-12-13 02:40:20 +00:00
IncludeFile.cpp
IntEqClasses.cpp
IntervalMap.cpp
IntrusiveRefCntPtr.cpp
IsInf.cpp
IsNAN.cpp
LLVMBuild.txt
Locale.cpp
LocaleGeneric.inc
LocaleWindows.inc Switch LLVM_USE_RVALUE_REFERENCES to LLVM_HAS_RVALUE_REFERENCES. 2012-11-30 11:45:22 +00:00
LocaleXlocale.inc Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
LockFileManager.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Makefile Don't explicitly require RTTI and EH. 2012-10-26 12:15:29 +00:00
ManagedStatic.cpp
Memory.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
MemoryBuffer.cpp Go ahead and get rid of the old page size interface and convert all the 2012-12-31 23:31:56 +00:00
MemoryObject.cpp
Mutex.cpp
Path.cpp Remove duplicate includes. 2012-12-21 17:06:44 +00:00
PathV2.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
PluginLoader.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
PrettyStackTrace.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Process.cpp Add time getters to the process interface for requesting the elapsed 2013-01-04 23:19:55 +00:00
Program.cpp
raw_os_ostream.cpp
raw_ostream.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
README.txt.system
regcclass.h
regcname.h
regcomp.c Add backreference matching capabilities to Support/Regex, with 2012-11-28 19:00:02 +00:00
regengine.inc
regerror.c
regex2.h
regex_impl.h
Regex.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
regexec.c
regfree.c
regstrlcpy.c
regutils.h
RWMutex.cpp
SearchForAddressOfSpecialSymbol.cpp
Signals.cpp
SmallPtrSet.cpp
SmallVector.cpp
SourceMgr.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Statistic.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
StreamableMemoryObject.cpp
StringExtras.cpp
StringMap.cpp
StringPool.cpp
StringRef.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
system_error.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
SystemUtils.cpp
TargetRegistry.cpp
Threading.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
ThreadLocal.cpp Fix ThreadLocalImpl::getInstance for --disable-threads. 2012-06-26 17:13:58 +00:00
Timer.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
TimeValue.cpp
ToolOutputFile.cpp
Triple.cpp Make NaCl naming consistent. The triple OSType is called NaCl and is represented 2012-12-04 18:37:26 +00:00
Twine.cpp
Valgrind.cpp
YAMLParser.cpp Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib. 2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
YAMLTraits.cpp Fix how YAML I/O detects flow sequences. 2013-01-04 19:32:00 +00:00

Design Of lib/System
====================

The software in this directory is designed to completely shield LLVM from any
and all operating system specific functionality. It is not intended to be a
complete operating system wrapper (such as ACE), but only to provide the
functionality necessary to support LLVM.

The software located here, of necessity, has very specific and stringent design
rules. Violation of these rules means that cracks in the shield could form and
the primary goal of the library is defeated. By consistently using this library,
LLVM becomes more easily ported to new platforms since the only thing requiring
porting is this library.

Complete documentation for the library can be found in the file:
  llvm/docs/SystemLibrary.html
or at this URL:
  http://llvm.org/docs/SystemLibrary.html

While we recommend that you read the more detailed documentation, for the
impatient, here's a high level summary of the library's requirements.

 1. No system header files are to be exposed through the interface.
 2. Std C++ and Std C header files are okay to be exposed through the interface.
 3. No exposed system-specific functions.
 4. No exposed system-specific data.
 5. Data in lib/System classes must use only simple C++ intrinsic types.
 6. Errors are handled by returning "true" and setting an optional std::string
 7. Library must not throw any exceptions, period.
 8. Interface functions must not have throw() specifications.
 9. No duplicate function impementations are permitted within an operating
    system class.

To accomplish these requirements, the library has numerous design criteria that
must be satisfied. Here's a high level summary of the library's design criteria:

 1. No unused functionality (only what LLVM needs)
 2. High-Level Interfaces
 3. Use Opaque Classes
 4. Common Implementations
 5. Multiple Implementations
 6. Minimize Memory Allocation
 7. No Virtual Methods