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=b1c06fd9723453dd2b2ec306684cb806dc2b4fbb
> The equivalent to i386-jit.cc is there:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=22e3557e2d52f129f2bbfdc98688b945dba28dc9

[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.

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).

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 ?

Dave

> 
> > 
> > I'm not at expert at target hooks (or at the i386 backend), so if
> > we
> > do
> > go with this approach I'd want someone else to review those parts
> > of
> > the patch.
> > 
> > Have you verified that GCC builds with this patch with jit *not*
> > enabled in the enabled languages?
> 
> I will do.
> 
> > 
> > [...snip...]
> > 
> > A nitpick:
> > 
> > > +.. function:: const char * \
> > > +              gcc_jit_target_info_arch (gcc_jit_target_info
> > > *info)
> > > +
> > > +   Get the architecture of the currently running CPU.
> > 
> > What does this string look like?
> > How long does the pointer remain valid?
> 
> It's the march string, like "znver2", for instance.
> It remains valid until we free the gcc_jit_target_info object.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks again; hope the above makes sense
> > Dave
> > 
> 

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