Improvement to the Odin calling conventions to pass certain things by "implicit reference" (const & in C++)

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gingerBill
2019-07-27 10:20:11 +01:00
parent 540730c0be
commit f3bffb9810
3 changed files with 11 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -2084,6 +2084,14 @@ void set_procedure_abi_types(CheckerContext *c, Type *type) {
Type *original_type = e->type;
Type *new_type = type_to_abi_compat_param_type(c->allocator, original_type, type->Proc.calling_convention);
type->Proc.abi_compat_params[i] = new_type;
switch (type->Proc.calling_convention) {
case ProcCC_Odin:
case ProcCC_Contextless:
if (is_type_pointer(new_type) & !is_type_pointer(e->type)) {
e->flags |= EntityFlag_ImplicitReference;
}
break;
}
}
}

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@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ enum EntityFlag {
EntityFlag_NotExported = 1<<14,
EntityFlag_Static = 1<<16,
// EntityFlag_Reference = 1<<17,
EntityFlag_ImplicitReference = 1<<17, // NOTE(bill): equivalent to `const &` in C++
EntityFlag_CVarArg = 1<<20,
EntityFlag_AutoCast = 1<<21,

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@@ -3004,9 +3004,8 @@ irValue *ir_emit_call(irProcedure *p, irValue *value, Array<irValue *> args, Pro
if (are_types_identical(arg_type, new_type)) {
// NOTE(bill): Done
} else if (!are_types_identical(original_type, new_type)) {
if (is_type_pointer(new_type) && !is_type_pointer(original_type)) {
if (e->flags&EntityFlag_Value) {
if (e->flags&EntityFlag_ImplicitReference) {
args[i] = ir_address_from_load_or_generate_local(p, args[i]);
} else if (!is_type_pointer(arg_type)) {
args[i] = ir_copy_value_to_ptr(p, args[i], original_type, 16);