[PowerPC] Refactor soft-float support, and enable PPC64 soft float
This change enables soft-float for PowerPC64, and also makes
soft-float disable all vector instruction sets for both 32-bit and
64-bit modes. This latter part is necessary because the PPC backend
canonicalizes many Altivec vector types to floating-point types, and
so soft-float breaks scalarization support for many operations. Both
for embedded targets and for operating-system kernels desiring
soft-float support, it seems reasonable that disabling hardware
floating-point also disables vector instructions (embedded targets
without hardware floating point support are unlikely to have Altivec,
etc. and operating system kernels desiring not to use floating-point
registers to lower syscall cost are unlikely to want to use vector
registers either). If someone needs this to work, we'll need to
change the fact that we promote many Altivec operations to act on
v4f32. To make it possible to disable Altivec when soft-float is
enabled, hardware floating-point support needs to be expressed as a
positive feature, like the others, and not a negative feature,
because target features cannot have dependencies on the disabling of
some other feature. So +soft-float has now become -hard-float.
Fixes PR26970.
Pull in r283061 from upstream clang trunk (by Hal Finkel):
[PowerPC] Enable soft-float for PPC64, and +soft-float -> -hard-float
Enable soft-float support on PPC64, as the backend now supports it.
Also, the backend now uses -hard-float instead of +soft-float, so set
the target features accordingly.
Fixes PR26970.
Reported by: Mark Millard
PR: 214433
[PowerPC] Add support for -mlongcall
The "long call" option forces the use of the indirect calling
sequence for all calls (even those that don't really need it). GCC
provides this option; This is helpful, under certain circumstances,
for building very-large binaries, and some other specialized use
cases.
Fixes PR19098.
Pull in r280041 from upstream clang trunk (by Hal Finkel):
[PowerPC] Add support for -mlongcall
Add support for GCC's PowerPC -mlongcall option; the backend supports
the corresponding target feature as of r280040.
Fixes PR19098.
all of the features in the current working draft of the upcoming C++
standard, provisionally named C++1y.
The code generator's performance is greatly increased, and the loop
auto-vectorizer is now enabled at -Os and -O2 in addition to -O3. The
PowerPC backend has made several major improvements to code generation
quality and compile time, and the X86, SPARC, ARM32, Aarch64 and SystemZ
backends have all seen major feature work.
Release notes for llvm and clang can be found here:
<http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>
<http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>
MFC after: 1 month
upcoming 3.3 release (branching and freezing expected in a few weeks).
Preliminary release notes can be found at the usual location:
<http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>
An MFC is planned once the actual 3.3 release is finished.
