The existing code attempting to bitcast from a value in the default globals AS
to i8 addrspace(0)* was triggering an assertion failure in our downstream fork.
I found this while compiling poppler for CHERI-RISC-V (we use AS200 for all
globals). The test case uses AMDGPU since that is one of the in-tree targets
with a non-zero default globals address space.
The new test previously triggered a "Invalid constantexpr bitcast!" assertion
and now correctly generates code with addrspace(1) pointers.
Reviewed By: rjmccall
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105972
This allows using annotation in a much more contexts than it currently has.
especially when annotation with template or constexpr.
Reviewed By: aaron.ballman
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88645
Summary:
Attribute annotations are recorded in a special global composite variable
that points to annotation strings and the annotated objects.
As a restriction of the LLVM IR type system, those pointers are all
pointers to address space 0, so let's insert an addrspacecast when the
annotated global is in a non-0 address space.
Since this addrspacecast is only reachable from the global annotations
object, this should allow us to represent annotations on all globals
regardless of which addrspacecasts are usually legal for the target.
Reviewers: rjmccall
Subscribers: cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71208
