On 25/12/2018 19:14, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 2018-12-02 11:26, Jonas Maebe wrote:
The LLVM version of the code generator has been significantly improved
in the mean time:
The LLVM code generator on the debug_eh branch now also works with
Linux/ARM, although only with the hard float EABI for now (compiler
compiled with -dFPC_ARMHF).
Obligatory vipribench results (on gcc113.fsffrance.org, an APM X-Gene
Mustang board -- that's an AArch64 board, but it can also run 32 bit ARM
programs):
* FPC (-O2): Time: 5107ms = 2839240 pkts/s = 4245 MB/s
* FPC+LLVM (clang 7.0 -O2): Time: 5063ms = 3357693 pkts/s = 5020 M B/s
Higher optimization levels don't make a noticeable difference in either
case.
Some notes about the FPC LLVM ARM Linux version:
* You have to use -Cg when compiling dynamic libraries, or they won't
link (it's not necessary for all units, just for the main library source
file)
* there are still a few bugs with bitpacked records that contain 64 bit
values
* the compiler does not yet generate call frame information for the
entry/exit code of assembler routines, which means that exceptions will
not propagate through them and instead terminate the program
immediately. In particular, overflow exceptions from 64 bit
multiplication/division trigger this behaviour because they're
implemented via assembler helpers in the RTL
Jonas
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