[PATCH 0/4] s390 improvements

[Ulrich Weigand]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 10:14 AM, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > In the end, it's probably OK for low-level code like libffi to make certain
> > assumptions on the behavior of the toolchain.  I'm not quite sure whether
> > this actually gets us any significant benefit in this case.  Does it really
> > matter whether ffi_prep_args is called from ffi_call_int vs. ffi_call_SYSV?
> 
> I think it's the indirect call back to ffi_prep_args that I find ugliest,
> and for most targets, totally unnecessary.

Ah, OK.  Yes, there's no need for the call to be indirect.  I guess in the
original implementation on old S/390, there's no real difference between a
direct and an indirect call, but where we have brasl, we should really use
it and do a direct call.

> >> It's true that the load of %r15 is now a nop.  It hadn't been at one point in
> >> my development; ffi_prep_args had had more than 5 parameters, and so there was
> >> extra stack allocated.  I suppose if ffi_prep_args were inlined, one could be
> >> certain of this (since there will be no function calls) and document it as such.
> > 
> > If we do use such tricks, this version may actually be preferable.
> 
> I'll post that version shortly.  If you still don't like it, then I'll
> try another tack whereby we simply avoid the indirect call.

I guess the new version is fine with me.  Thanks for working on this!

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU/Linux compilers and toolchain
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