fix is_single_fp_element for s390x and x86 - #161987
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| // Match GCC and Clang in allowing trailing padding. This does appear to violate the | ||
| // specification, but is well-established in both compilers. | ||
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| // e.g. `#[repr(C, align(4))] struct Foo(f16)` is passed as `Reg::f32()`. |
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I've done some further research into this. AFAICT it seems that Clang and GCC, while they do use larger loads/stores than needed, do (coincidentally?) end up doing the right thing with the full struct size is <= 8 bytes (specifically, loading e.g. a 8 byte struct as a f16, when the struct is a f16 followed by 6 bytes of padding, will mean the f16 ends up in the right place in the register anyway). The only difference between Clang/GCC's behaviour and the ABI spec is that structs which contain a single f16/f32/f64 that are larger than 8 bytes won't get passed in a floating point register. In summary, the problem is that Clang/GCC don't ignore the trailing padding when they should.
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cc @uweigand in general on this PR but here in particular
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(Re-reading the spec again, it does say "[...] load the argument value left-aligned into floating-point register [...]", which is probably why GCC/Clang load all the bytes instead of just the bytes of the floating-point value (of course it doesn't matter whether the padding bytes are loaded or not as they're padding, except when there's so much padding the full size of the values doesn't fit in the register). I'm guessing overaligned structs weren't considered one way or another when writing this part of the spec)
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| // On s390x trailing padding is allowed in practice by GCC and Clang, | ||
| // although this violates the specification. |
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After giving this a lot of thought, I don't think this wording is correct. Clang/GCC allowing trailing padding isn't the issue here, the issue is that Clang/GCC don't allow trailing padding if it makes the struct larger than 8 bytes, whereas the ABI spec doesn't give any limit on the size of the struct. For structs <= 8 bytes both Clang/GCC's behaviour and my interpretation of the ABI spec are the same in practice (Clang/GCC use suboptimally large loads/stores, but end up with the same result).
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I've tried to rephrase it
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I'll leave it as a draft because I'm not really sure who to assign here, and I'd like some feedback from the s390x target maintainer anyway. |
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In #161950 (comment) we discovered that the old
is_single_fp_elementis incorrect in a number of ways.f16orf128So, in practice each target does something slightly different here, and I've split the function into two.
cc @beetrees