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Re: LLVM 16 (opaque pointers)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io>
Date: 2023-10-13T14:55:10Z
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  1. jit: Adjust back-patch of f90b4a84 to 12 and 13.

  2. Log LLVM library version in configure output.

  3. jit: Changes for LLVM 17.

  4. jit: Supply LLVMGlobalGetValueType() for LLVM < 8.

  5. jit: Support opaque pointers in LLVM 16.

  6. jit: Reference function pointer types via llvmjit_types.c.

Hi,

On 2023-10-13 11:06:21 +0200, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 04:31:20PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I also don't think we should add the mem2reg pass outside of -O0 - running it
> > after a real optimization pipeline doesn't seem useful and might even make the
> > code worse? mem2reg is included in default<O1> (and obviously also in O3).
> 
> My understanding was that while mem2reg is included everywhere above
> -O0, this set of passes won't hurt. But yeah, if you say it could
> degrade the final result, it's better to not do this. I'll update this
> part.

It's indeed included anywhere above that, but adding it explicitly to the
schedule means it's excuted twice:

echo 'int foo(int a) { return a / 343; }' | clang-16 -emit-llvm -x c -c -o - -S -|sed -e 's/optnone//'|opt-17 -debug-pass-manager -passes='default<O1>,mem2reg' -o /dev/null 2>&1|grep Promote
Running pass: PromotePass on foo (2 instructions)
Running pass: PromotePass on foo (2 instructions)

The second one is in a point in the pipeline where it doesn't help. It also
requires another analysis pass to be executed unnecessarily.

Greetings,

Andres Freund