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[ARM] Promote small global constants to constant pools - fixed for PR30470 and PR30475
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Authored by jmolloy on Sep 23 2016, 2:16 AM.

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Hi Oliver,

This patch is very similar to that already approved but has been reengineered to support debug info. Debug info emission can emit a reference to a global we choose to promote. Previously this would cause a linker error (PR30475). This time, we use an ARMConstantPoolValue to track which global a constant pool entry came from so we can emit the right symbol in the backend.

Original commit message:

If a constant is unamed_addr and is only used within one function, we can save
on the code size and runtime cost of an indirection by changing the global's storage
to inside the constant pool. For example, instead of:

  ldr r0, .CPI0
  bl printf
  bx lr
.CPI0: &format_string
format_string: .asciz "hello, world!\n"

We can emit:

  adr r0, .CPI0
  bl printf
  bx lr
.CPI0: .asciz "hello, world!\n"

This can cause significant code size savings when many small strings are used in one
function (4 bytes per string).

This recommit contains fixes for a nasty bug related to fast-isel fallback - because
fast-isel doesn't know about this optimization, if it runs and emits references to
a string that we inline (because fast-isel fell back to SDAG) we will end up
with an inlined string and also an out-of-line string, and we won't emit the
out-of-line string, causing backend failures.

It also contains fixes for emitting .text relocations which made the sanitizer
bots unhappy.

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jmolloy updated this revision to Diff 72239.Sep 23 2016, 2:16 AM
jmolloy retitled this revision from to [ARM] Promote small global constants to constant pools - fixed for PR30470 and PR30475.
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olista01 accepted this revision.Sep 23 2016, 5:15 AM
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LGTM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 23 2016, 5:15 AM
Eugene.Zelenko closed this revision.Oct 4 2016, 1:49 PM
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Committed in rL282387.