On 2013-09-03, at 13:31 , Michele Scandale <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09/03/2013 07:08 PM, Tom Stellard wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:45:21PM -0400, Erik Schnetter wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, removing the address space definitions means that overloaded 
>>> functions do not use address spaces for name mangling. This is bad, because 
>>> OpenCL C's run-time library defines many functions with signatures that 
>>> differ only in their address spaces. Clang also contains test cases that 
>>> explicitly assume that e.g. the "global" address space is number 1, and the 
>>> "constant" address space is number 2.
>>> 
>> 
>> The name mangling works fine when compiling libclc
>> (http://libclc.llvm.org/) for the R600 target.  I'm guessing that this
>> is because R600 defines its own address space map.  Would it work to add
>> an address space map to whatever target you are using?  Or maybe a
>> default address space map that targets like R600 can override.
> 
> I'm in a quite long discussion about this topic:
> - beginning of the discussion
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130715/084011.html
> - last part of the discussion where a small brief is reported
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130819/086907.html
> - my last patch that introduces target independent mangling with the option 
> for
> targets to require mangling based on the address space map
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130826/087185.html
> 
> I'd appreciate any feedback about what has been discussed.


Michele

I agree with the reasoning in these threads, and with the proposed solutions. I 
like the patch. OpenCL would the override this setting 
(UseAddrSpaceMapMangling) for all targets, in the same way it already overrides 
e.g. sizeof(long).

-erik

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