Similarly to how we've always handled parameter types, we
now recursively expand tuples in result types and separately
determine a result convention for each result.
The most important code-generation change here is that
indirect results are now returned separately from each
other and from any direct results. It is generally far
better, when receiving an indirect result, to receive it
as an independent result; the caller is much more likely
to be able to directly receive the result in the address
they want to initialize, rather than having to receive it
in temporary memory and then copy parts of it into the
target.
The most important conceptual change here that clients and
producers of SIL must be aware of is the new distinction
between a SILFunctionType's *parameters* and its *argument
list*. The former is just the formal parameters, derived
purely from the parameter types of the original function;
indirect results are no longer in this list. The latter
includes the indirect result arguments; as always, all
the indirect results strictly precede the parameters.
Apply instructions and entry block arguments follow the
argument list, not the parameter list.
A relatively minor change is that there can now be multiple
direct results, each with its own result convention.
This is a minor change because I've chosen to leave
return instructions as taking a single operand and
apply instructions as producing a single result; when
the type describes multiple results, they are implicitly
bound up in a tuple. It might make sense to split these
up and allow e.g. return instructions to take a list
of operands; however, it's not clear what to do on the
caller side, and this would be a major change that can
be separated out from this already over-large patch.
Unsurprisingly, the most invasive changes here are in
SILGen; this requires substantial reworking of both call
emission and reabstraction. It also proved important
to switch several SILGen operations over to work with
RValue instead of ManagedValue, since otherwise they
would be forced to spuriously "implode" buffers.
This commit changes the Swift mangler from a utility that writes tokens into a
stream into a name-builder that has two phases: "building a name", and "ready".
This clear separation is needed for the implementation of the compression layer.
Users of the mangler can continue to build the name using the mangleXXX methods,
but to access the results the users of the mangler need to call the finalize()
method. This method can write the result into a stream, like before, or return
an std::string.
to make sure we are not accessing the buffer before the output is ready. The Mangler is going to be buffered (for compression), and accessing the underlying buffer is a bug.
The drivers for this change are providing a simpler API to SIL pass
authors, having a more efficient of the in-memory representation,
and ruling out an entire class of common bugs that usually result
in hard-to-debug backend crashes.
Summary
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SILInstruction
Old New
+---------------+ +------------------+ +-----------------+
|SILInstruction | |SILInstruction | |SILDebugLocation |
+---------------+ +------------------+ +-----------------+
| ... | | ... | | ... |
|SILLocation | |SILDebugLocation *| -> |SILLocation |
|SILDebugScope *| +------------------+ |SILDebugScope * |
+---------------+ +-----------------+
We’re introducing a new class SILDebugLocation which represents the
combination of a SILLocation and a SILDebugScope.
Instead of storing an inline SILLocation and a SILDebugScope pointer,
SILInstruction now only has one SILDebugLocation pointer. The APIs of
SILBuilder and SILDebugLocation guarantees that every SILInstruction
has a nonempty SILDebugScope.
Developer-visible changes include:
SILBuilder
----------
In the old design SILBuilder populated the InsertedInstrs list to
allow setting the debug scopes of all built instructions in bulk
at the very end (as the responsibility of the user). In the new design,
SILBuilder now carries a "current debug scope" state and immediately
sets the debug scope when an instruction is inserted.
This fixes a use-after-free issue with with SIL passes that delete
instructions before destroying the SILBuilder that created them.
Because of this, SILBuilderWithScopes no longer needs to be a template,
which simplifies its call sites.
SILInstruction
--------------
It is neither possible or necessary to manually call setDebugScope()
on a SILInstruction any more. The function still exists as a private
method, but is only used when splicing instructions from one function
to another.
Efficiency
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In addition to dropping 20 bytes from each SILInstruction,
SILDebugLocations are now allocated in the SILModule's bump pointer
allocator and are uniqued by SILBuilder. Unfortunately repeat compiles
of the standard library already vary by about 5% so I couldn’t yet
produce reliable numbers for how much this saves overall.
rdar://problem/22017421
The other part of rdar://problem/21444126. This is a little trickier since SIL doesn't track uses of witness tables in a principled way. Track uses in SILGen by putting a "SILGenBuilder" wrapper in front of SILBuilder, which marks conformances from apply, existential erasure, and metatype lookup instructions as used, so we can avoid emitting shared Clang importer witnesses when they aren't needed.
Swift SVN r29544
This matches how dispatch_once works in C, dramatically cutting the cost of a global accessor by avoiding the runtime call in the hot path and giving the global a unique branch for the CPU to predict away. For now, only do this for Darwin; non-ObjC platforms don't necessarily expose their "done" value as ABI like ours do.
While we're here, change "once" to take a thin function pointer. We don't ever emit global initializers with context dependencies, and this simplifies the runtime glue between swift_once and dispatch_once/std::call_once a bit.
Swift SVN r28166
The set of attributes that make sense at the AST level is increasingly divergent from those at the SIL level, so it doesn't really make sense for these to be the same. It'll also help prevent us from accidental unwanted propagation of attributes from the AST to SIL, which has caused bugs in the past. For staging purposes, start off with SILFunctionType's versions exactly the same as the FunctionType versions, which necessitates some ugly glue code but minimizes the potential disruption.
Swift SVN r27022
