Add a top-level STRTAB block containing a string table blob, and start storing
strings for module codes FUNCTION, GLOBALVAR, ALIAS, IFUNC and COMDAT in
the string table.
This change allows us to share names between globals and comdats as well
as between modules, and improves the efficiency of loading bitcode files by
no longer using a bit encoding for symbol names. Once we start writing the
irsymtab to the bitcode file we will also be able to share strings between
it and the module.
On my machine, link time for Chromium for Linux with ThinLTO decreases by
about 7% for no-op incremental builds or about 1% for full builds. Total
bitcode file size decreases by about 3%.
As discussed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/111732.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31838
llvm-svn: 300464
Summary:
When reading the metadata bitcode, create a type declaration when
possible for composite types when we are importing. Doing this in
the bitcode reader saves memory. Also it works naturally in the case
when the type ODR map contains a definition for the same composite type
because it was used in the importing module (buildODRType will
automatically use the existing definition and not create a type
declaration).
For Chromium built with -g2, this reduces the aggregate size of the
generated native object files by 66% (from 31G to 10G). It reduced
the time through the ThinLTO link and backend phases by about 20% on
my machine.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini, dblaikie, aprantl
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27775
llvm-svn: 289993
This program is for testing features that rely on multi-module bitcode files.
It takes a multi-module bitcode file, extracts one of the modules and writes
it to the output file.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26778
llvm-svn: 288201
This interface allows clients to write multiple modules to a single
bitcode file. Also introduce the llvm-cat utility which can be used
to create a bitcode file containing multiple modules.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26179
llvm-svn: 288195
We now expect each module's identification block to appear immediately before
the module block. Any module block that appears without an identification block
immediately before it is interpreted as if it does not have a module block.
Also change the interpretation of VST and function offsets in bitcode.
The offset is always taken as relative to the start of the identification
(or module if not present) block, minus one word. This corresponds to the
historical interpretation of offsets, i.e. relative to the start of the file.
These changes allow for bitcode modules to be concatenated by copying bytes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27184
llvm-svn: 288098
The functions getBitcodeTargetTriple(), isBitcodeContainingObjCCategory(),
getBitcodeProducerString() and hasGlobalValueSummary() now return errors
via their return value rather than via the diagnostic handler.
To make this work, re-implement these functions using non-member functions
so that they can be used without the LLVMContext required by BitcodeReader.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26532
llvm-svn: 286623
Summary:
Split ReaderWriter.h which contains the APIs into both the BitReader and
BitWriter libraries into BitcodeReader.h and BitcodeWriter.h.
This is to address Chandler's concern about sharing the same API header
between multiple libraries (BitReader and BitWriter). That concern is
why we create a single bitcode library in our downstream build of clang,
which led to r286297 being reverted as it added a dependency that
created a cycle only when there is a single bitcode library (not two as
in upstream).
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: dlj, mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26502
llvm-svn: 286566
