llvm-6502/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
Chris Lattner 3ea934668b Changes commited for Nate Begeman:
Use a PowerPC specific prolog epilog inserter to control where spilled
callee save regs are placed on the stack.
Get rid of implicit return address stack slot, save return address reg
(LR) in appropriate slot
Improve code generated for functions that don't have calls or access
globals


Note from Chris: PowerPCPEI will eventually be eliminated, once the
functionality is merged into CodeGen/PrologEpilogInserter.cpp


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@15536 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2004-08-06 06:58:50 +00:00

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Currently unimplemented:
* cast fp to bool
* signed right shift of long by reg
Current bugs:
* ulong to double. ahhh, here's the problem:
floatdidf assumes signed longs. so if the high but of a ulong
just happens to be set, you get the wrong sign. The fix for this
is to call cmpdi2 to compare against zero, if so shift right by one,
convert to fp, and multiply by (add to itself). the sequence would
look like:
{r3:r4} holds ulong a;
li r5, 0
li r6, 0 (set r5:r6 to ulong 0)
call cmpdi2 ==> sets r3 <, =, > 0
if r3 > 0
call floatdidf as usual
else
shift right ulong a, 1 (we could use emitShift)
call floatdidf
fadd f1, f1, f1 (fp left shift by 1)
* linking llvmg++ .s files with gcc instead of g++
Codegen improvements needed:
* PowerPCPEI.cpp needs to save/restore regs in the opposite order
* setCondInst needs to know branchless versions of seteq/setne/etc
* cast elimination pass (uint -> sbyte -> short, kill the byte -> short)
* should hint to the branch select pass that it doesn't need to print the
second unconditional branch, so we don't end up with things like:
b .LBBl42__2E_expand_function_8_674 ; loopentry.24
b .LBBl42__2E_expand_function_8_42 ; NewDefault
b .LBBl42__2E_expand_function_8_42 ; NewDefault
Current hacks:
* lazy insert of GlobalBaseReg definition at front of first MBB
A prime candidate for sabre's "slightly above ISel" passes.
* cast code is huge, unwieldy. Should probably be broken up into
smaller pieces.
* visitLoadInst is getting awfully cluttered as well.
Currently failing tests:
* SingleSource
`- Regression
| `- casts (ulong to fp failure)
`- Benchmarks
| `- Shootout-C++ : most programs fail, miscompilations
`- UnitTests
| `- C++Catch
| `- SimpleC++Test
| `- ConditionalExpr (also C++)
* MultiSource
|- Applications
| `- burg: miscompilation
| `- siod: llc bus error
| `- hbd: miscompilation
| `- d (make_dparser): miscompilation
`- Benchmarks
`- MallocBench/make: miscompilation