This feature has never been used since its introduction, more than 3
years ago, in David Given's commit c93cb69 of May 8, 2013. The commit
was for "PowerPC and M68K work". I am not undoing the entire commit.
I am only removing the stackadjust and stackoffset() feature.
This commit removes the feature from my branch kernigh-linuxppc. This
removal includes the mach/proto/ncg parts. The default branch already
removed most of the feature, but kept the mach/proto/ncg parts. That
removal happened in commit 81778b6 of May 13, 2013 (which was a merge;
git diff af0dede81778b6). The branch dtrg-experimental-powerpc
merged the default branch but without the removal. That merge was
commit 4703db0f of Sep 15, 2016 (git diff 8c94b134703db0). My branch
kernigh-linuxppc is off branch dtrg-experimental-powerpc, so I can no
longer get the removal by merging default.
David Given described the stackadjust feature in
https://sourceforge.net/p/tack/mailman/message/30814691/
The instruction stackadjust would add a value to the offset, and the
function stackoffset() would return this offset. One would use this
to track sp - fp, then omit the frame pointer by not keeping fp in a
register.
mcg can track individual hop inputs and outputs (needed for live range
analysis!); the register allocator now puts the basic blocks into the right
order in preparation for live range analysis.
to make special nodes like NOP work properly). Realise that the way I'm dealing
with the instruction selector is all wrong; I need to physically copy chunks of
tree to give to burg (so I can terminate them correctly).
inasmuch as it looks better before register allocation. Basic blocks now know
their own successors and predecessors (after a certain point in the IR
processing).
functions. Not convinced that semantic types are actually working --- there are
still problems with earlier statements leaving things in the wrong registers.
instructions can be turned on and off based on their parameters. New lexer
using a lexer. Now quite a lot of the way towards being a real instruction
selector.
Upon enabling the check, mach/powerpc/ncg/table fails to build as ncgg
gives many errors of "Previous rule impossible on empty stack". David
Given reported this problem in 2013:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tack/mailman/message/30814694/
Commit c93cb69 commented out the error in util/ncgg/cgg.y to disable
the Hall check. This commit enables it again. In ncgg, the Hall
check is checking that a rule is possible with an empty fake stack.
It would be possible if ncg can coerce the values from the real stack
to the fake stack. The powerpc table defined coercions from STACK to
{FS, %a} and {FD, %a}, but the Hall check didn't understand the
coercions and rejected each rule "with FS" or "with FD".
This commit removes the FS and FD tokens and adds a new group of FSREG
registers for single-precision floats, while keeping FREG registers
for double precision. The registers overlap, with each FSREG
containing one FREG, because it is the same register in PowerPC
hardware. FS tokens become FSREG registers and FD tokens become FREG
registers. The Hall check understands the coercions from STACK to
FSREG and FREG. The idea to define separate but overlapping registers
comes from the PDP-11 table (mach/pdp/ncg/table).
This commit also removes F0 from the FREG group. This is my attempt
to keep F0 off the fake stack, because one of the stacking rules uses
F0 as a scratch register (FSCRATCH).
calculated incorrectly because of overflow errors.
Replace it with an extended RELOPPC relocation which understands addis/ori
pairs; add an la pseudoop to the assembler which generates these and the
appropriate relocation. Make good.
--HG--
branch : dtrg-experimental-powerpc-branch
cf/cf_loop.c and share/put.c tried to read the next pointer in an
element of a linked list after freeing the element. ud/ud_copy.c
tried to read beyond the end of the _defs_ array: it only has
_nrexpldefs_ elements, not _nrdefs_ elements.
These bugs caused core dumps on OpenBSD. Its malloc() put _defs_ near
the end of a page, so reading beyond the end crossed into an unmapped
page. Its free() wrote junk bytes and changed the next pointer to
0xdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdf.
and generate invalid calls to the optimisers.
Previously ego would generate a temporary file template that looked like
/tmp/ego.A.BB.XXXXXX, call mktemp() on it to randomise the XXXXXX, and then
replace A and BB with data.
However, it used strrchr to find the A and B. Which would fine, except when
mktemp produced an A or a B in the randomised part...
This code was written on 4 March 1991. I was 16.
This needed lots of refactoring to ego --- not all platforms have ego descr
files, and ego will just crash if you invoke it without one. I think originally
it was never intended that these platforms would be used at -O2 or above.
Plats now only specify the ego descr file if they have one.
the number of types of relocation possible in the object file. (Now,
hopefully, working.)
Also change the object serialiser/deserialiser to never try to read or
write raw structures; it's way safer this way and we don't need the
performance boost any more.
--HG--
branch : default-branch
