In the beginning, Clang only emitted atomic IR for operations it knew
the
underlying microarch had instructions for, meaning it required
significant
knowledge of the target. Later, the backend acquired the ability to
lower
IR to libcalls. To avoid duplicating logic and improve logic locality,
we'd like to move as much as possible to the backend.
There are many ways to describe this change. For example, this change
reduces the variables Clang uses to decide whether to emit libcalls or
IR, down to only the atomic's size.
Having some kind of weird kernel-assisted ABI for these when the
native instructions are available appears to be (and should be) the
exception; OSs have been gradually opting in for years and the code
was getting silly.
So let LLVM decide whether it's possible/profitable to inline them by
default.
Patch by Phoebe Buckheister.
llvm-svn: 212598
