llvm-6502/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
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Currently unimplemented:
* cast fp to bool
* signed right shift of long by reg
Current bugs:
* large fixed-size allocas not correct, although should
be closer to working. Added code in PPCRegisterInfo.cpp
to do >16bit subtractions to the stack pointer.
* 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:
* no alias analysis causes us to generate slow code for Shootout/matrix
* 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:
.LBBl42__2E_expand_function_8_21: ; LeafBlock37
cmplwi cr0, r29, 11
bne cr0, $+8
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
| `- 2003-05-22-VarSizeArray
`- Benchmarks
| `- Shootout-C++ : most programs fail, miscompilations
`- UnitTests
| `- C++Catch
| `- SimpleC++Test
`- ConditionalExpr
`- casts
`- sumarray2d: large alloca miscompiled
`- test_indvars
* MultiSource
|- Applications
| `- burg: miscompilation
| `- siod: llc bus error
| `- hbd: miscompilation
| `- d (make_dparser): miscompilation
`- Benchmarks
`- MallocBench/make: branch target too far