When expanding a load into two loads, use nuw for the add that computes
the offset from the base of the second load, because the original load
doesn't straddle the address space.
It turns out there's already a dedicated helper function for doing this,
`getObjectPtrOffset`.
This is in target-independent code, however in practice it only seems to
affact WebAssembly code, because WebAssembly load and store
instructions' constant offsets don't perform wrapping, so constant
folding often depends on the nuw flag being present.
This was noticed in the development of #119204.
Multivalue feature of WebAssembly has been standardized for several
years now. I think it makes sense to be able to enable it in the feature
section by default for our clang/llvm-produced binaries so that the
multivalue feature can be used as necessary when necessary within our
toolchain and also when running other optimizers (e.g. wasm-opt) after
the LLVM code generation.
But some WebAssembly toolchains, such as Emscripten, do not provide both
mulvalue-returning and not-multivalue-returning versions of libraries.
Also allowing the uses of multivalue in the features section does not
necessarily mean we generate them whenever we can to the fullest, which
is a different code generation / optimization option.
So this makes the lowering of multivalue returns conditional on the use
of 'experimental-mv' target ABI. This ABI is turned off by default and
turned on by passing `-Xclang -target-abi -Xclang experimental-mv` to
`clang`, or `-target-abi experimental-mv` to `clang -cc1` or `llc`.
But the purpose of this PR is not tying the multivalue lowering to this
specific 'experimental-mv'. 'experimental-mv' is just one multivalue ABI
we currently have, and it is still experimental, meaning it is not very
well optimized or tuned for performance. (e.g. it does not have the
limitation of the max number of multivalue-lowered values, which can be
detrimental to performance.) We may change the name of this ABI, or
improve it, or add a new multivalue ABI in the future. Also I heard that
WASI is planning to add their multivalue ABI soon. So the plan is,
whenever any one of multivalue ABIs is enabled, we enable the lowering
of multivalue returns in the backend. We currently have only
'experimental-mv' in the repo so we only check for that in this PR.
Related past discussions:
#82714https://github.com/WebAssembly/tool-conventions/pull/223#issuecomment-2008298652
This reverts commit 6e6bf9f81756ba6655b4eea8dc45469a47f89b39.
It turned out the multivalue feature had active outside users and it
could cause some disruptions to them, so I'd like to investigate more
about the workarounds before doing this.
We plan to enable multivalue in the features section soon (#80923) for
other reasons, such as the feature having been standardized for many
years and other features being developed (e.g. EH) depending on it. This
is separate from enabling Clang experimental multivalue ABI (`-Xclang
-target-abi -Xclang experimental-mv`), but it turned out we generate
some multivalue code in the backend as well if it is enabled in the
features section.
Given that our backend multivalue generation still has not been much
used nor tested, and enabling the feature in the features section can be
a separate decision from how much multialue (including none) we decide
to generate for now, I'd like to temporarily disable the actual
generation of multivalue in our backend. To do that, this adds an
internal flag `-wasm-emit-multivalue` that defaults to false. All our
existing multivalue tests can use this to test multivalue code. This
flag can be removed later when we are confident the multivalue
generation is well tested.
fixed: #59095
Update libcall signatures to use multivalue return rather than returning via a pointer
when the multivalue features is enabled in the WebAssembly backend.
Reviewed By: tlively
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D146271
