On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM Richard Biener
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM Antoni Boucher <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David.
> > My gccrs patch was merged, so I was wondering if you could please review
> > this patch again.
> >
> > It was also posted here on GitHub:
> > https://github.com/antoyo/libgccjit/pull/6
>
> Something in this context broke build:
>
> ./tm.texi:11390: warning: node next `Rust Language and ABI' in menu
> `Named Address Spaces' and in sectioning `JIT Language and ABI' differ
> ./tm.texi:11407: warning: node `Named Address Spaces' is next for `JIT
> Language and ABI' in sectioning but not in menu
> ./tm.texi:11407: warning: node `Rust Language and ABI' is prev for
> `JIT Language and ABI' in sectioning but not in menu
> ./tm.texi:11407: warning: node `Target Macros' is up for `JIT Language
> and ABI' in sectioning but not in menu
> ./tm.texi:5: node `Target Macros' lacks menu item for `JIT Language
> and ABI' despite being its Up target
> ./tm.texi:11418: warning: node prev `Named Address Spaces' in menu
> `Rust Language and ABI' and in sectioning `JIT Language and ABI'
> differ
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:3845: doc/gccint.info] Error 1

I'm going to push an obvious fix to unbreak things.

Richard.

>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Le 29/10/2024 à 17:04, David Malcolm a écrit :
> > > On Tue, 2024-10-29 at 07:59 -0400, Antoni Boucher wrote:
> > >> David: Arthur reviewed the gccrs patch and would be OK with it.
> > >>
> > >> Could you please take a look and review it?
> > >
> > > https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/pull/3195
> > > looks good to me; thanks!
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Le 2024-10-17 à 11 h 38, Antoni Boucher a écrit :
> > >>> Hi.
> > >>> Thanks for the review, David!
> > >>>
> > >>> I talked to Arthur and he's OK with having a file to include in
> > >>> both
> > >>> gccrs and libgccjit.
> > >>>
> > >>> I sent the patch to gccrs to move the code in a new file that we
> > >>> can
> > >>> include in both frontends:
> > >>> https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/pull/3195
> > >>>
> > >>> I also renamed gcc_jit_target_info_supports_128bit_int to
> > >>> gcc_jit_target_info_supports_target_dependent_type because a
> > >>> subsequent
> > >>> patch will allow to check if other types are supported like
> > >>> _Float16 and
> > >>> _Float128.
> > >>>
> > >>> Here's the patch for libgccjit updated to include this file.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks.
> > >>>
> > >>> Le 2024-06-26 à 17 h 55, David Malcolm a écrit :
> > >>>> On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 12:05 +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > >>>>> Excerpts from David Malcolm's message of März 5, 2024 4:09 pm:
> > >>>>>> On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 19:33 -0500, Antoni Boucher wrote:
> > >>>>>>> Hi.
> > >>>>>>> See answers below.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 18:04 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 17:27 -0500, Antoni Boucher wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>> Hi.
> > >>>>>>>>> This patch adds support for getting the CPU features in
> > >>>>>>>>> libgccjit
> > >>>>>>>>> (bug
> > >>>>>>>>> 112466)
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> There's a TODO in the test:
> > >>>>>>>>> I'm not sure how to test that gcc_jit_target_info_arch
> > >>>>>>>>> returns
> > >>>>>>>>> the
> > >>>>>>>>> correct value since it is dependant on the CPU.
> > >>>>>>>>> Any idea on how to improve this?
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Also, I created a CStringHash to be able to have a
> > >>>>>>>>> std::unordered_set<const char *>. Is there any built-in
> > >>>>>>>>> way
> > >>>>>>>>> of
> > >>>>>>>>> doing
> > >>>>>>>>> this?
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Thanks for the patch.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Some high-level questions:
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Is this specifically about detecting capabilities of the
> > >>>>>>>> host
> > >>>>>>>> that
> > >>>>>>>> libgccjit is currently running on? or how the target was
> > >>>>>>>> configured
> > >>>>>>>> when libgccjit was built?
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> I'm less sure about this part. I'll need to do more tests.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> One of the benefits of libgccjit is that, in theory, we
> > >>>>>>>> support
> > >>>>>>>> all
> > >>>>>>>> of
> > >>>>>>>> the targets that GCC already supports.  Does this patch
> > >>>>>>>> change
> > >>>>>>>> that,
> > >>>>>>>> or
> > >>>>>>>> is this more about giving client code the ability to
> > >>>>>>>> determine
> > >>>>>>>> capabilities of the specific host being compiled for?
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> This should not change that. If it does, this is a bug.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> I'm nervous about having per-target jit code.  Presumably
> > >>>>>>>> there's a
> > >>>>>>>> reason that we can't reuse existing target logic here -
> > >>>>>>>> can you
> > >>>>>>>> please
> > >>>>>>>> describe what the problem is.  I see that the ChangeLog
> > >>>>>>>> has:
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>           * config/i386/i386-jit.cc: New file.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> where i386-jit.cc has almost 200 lines of nontrivial
> > >>>>>>>> code.
> > >>>>>>>> Where
> > >>>>>>>> did
> > >>>>>>>> this come from?  Did you base it on existing code in our
> > >>>>>>>> source
> > >>>>>>>> tree,
> > >>>>>>>> making modifications to fit the new internal API, or did
> > >>>>>>>> you
> > >>>>>>>> write
> > >>>>>>>> it
> > >>>>>>>> from scratch?  In either case, how onerous would this be
> > >>>>>>>> for
> > >>>>>>>> other
> > >>>>>>>> targets?
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> This was mostly copied from the same code done for the Rust
> > >>>>>>> and D
> > >>>>>>> frontends.
> > >>>>>>> See this commit and the following:
> > >>>>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?
> > >>>>>>> p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=b1c06fd9723453dd2b2ec306684cb806dc2b4f
> > >>>>>>> bb
> > >>>>>>> The equivalent to i386-jit.cc is there:
> > >>>>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?
> > >>>>>>> p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=22e3557e2d52f129f2bbfdc98688b945dba28d
> > >>>>>>> c9
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> [CCing Iain and Arthur re those patches; for reference, the
> > >>>>>> patch
> > >>>>>> being
> > >>>>>> discussed is attached to :
> > >>>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/jit/2024q1/001792.html ]
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> One of my concerns about this patch is that we seem to be
> > >>>>>> gaining
> > >>>>>> code
> > >>>>>> that's per-(frontend x config) which seems to be copied and
> > >>>>>> pasted
> > >>>>>> with
> > >>>>>> a search and replace, which could lead to an M*N explosion.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> That's certainly the case with the configure/make rules. Itself
> > >>>>> I
> > >>>>> think
> > >>>>> is copied originally from the {cpu_type}-protos.h machinery.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> It might be worth pointing out that the c-family of front-ends
> > >>>>> don't
> > >>>>> have separate headers because their per-target macros are
> > >>>>> defined in
> > >>>>> {cpu_type}.h directly - for better or worse.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> Is there any real difference between the per-config code for
> > >>>>>> the
> > >>>>>> different frontends, or should there be a general "enumerate
> > >>>>>> all
> > >>>>>> features of the target" hook that's independent of the
> > >>>>>> frontend?
> > >>>>>> (but
> > >>>>>> perhaps calls into it).
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> As far as I understand, the configure parts should all be
> > >>>>> identical
> > >>>>> between tm_p, tm_d, tm_rust, ..., so would benefit from being
> > >>>>> templated
> > >>>>> to aid any other front-ends adding in their own per target
> > >>>>> hooks.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> Am I right in thinking that (rustc with default LLVM backend)
> > >>>>>> has
> > >>>>>> some
> > >>>>>> set of feature strings that both (rustc with
> > >>>>>> rustc_codegen_gcc) and
> > >>>>>> gccrs are trying to emulate?  If so, is it presumably a goal
> > >>>>>> that
> > >>>>>> libgccjit gives identical results to gccrs?  If so, would it
> > >>>>>> be
> > >>>>>> crazy
> > >>>>>> for libgccjit to consume e.g. config/i386/i386-rust.cc ?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I don't know whether libgccjit can just pull in directly the
> > >>>>> implementation of the rust target hooks here.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Sorry for the delay in responding.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I don't want to be in the business of maintaining a copy of the
> > >>>> per-
> > >>>> target code for "jit", and I think it makes sense for libgccjit
> > >>>> to
> > >>>> return identical information compared to gccrs.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> So I think it would be ideal for jit to share code with rust for
> > >>>> this,
> > >>>> rather than do a one-time copy-and-paste followed by a ongoing
> > >>>> "keep
> > >>>> things updated" treadmill.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Presumably there would be Makefile.in issues given that e.g.
> > >>>> Makefile
> > >>>> has i386-rust.o listed in:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> # Target specific, Rust specific object file
> > >>>> RUST_TARGET_OBJS= i386-rust.o linux-rust.o
> > >>>>
> > >>>> One approach might be to move e.g. the i386-rust.cc code into,
> > >>>> say,  a
> > >>>> i386-rust-and-jit.inc file and #include it from i386-rust.cc and
> > >>>> i386-
> > >>>> jit.cc (with a similar approach for other targets)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Antoni, Arthur, would you each be OK with that?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>     The per-frontend target
> > >>>>> hooks usually also make use of code specific to that front-end
> > >>>>> -
> > >>>>> TARGET_CPU_CPP_BUILTINS and others can't be used by a non-c-
> > >>>>> family
> > >>>>> front-end without adding a plethora of stubs, for example.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Whether or not libgccjit wants to give identical information as
> > >>>>> as
> > >>>>> rust
> > >>>>> I think is a decision for you as the maintainer of its API.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Also a question for Antoni and Arthur: is that desirable for the
> > >>>> two
> > >>>> gcc rust approaches?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks
> > >>>> Dave
> > >>
> > >
> >

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