I borrow some ideas from clang's ABIInfo.h and TargetInfo.cpp.
LLVMType is replaced with ArgType, which is similar to clang's ABIArgInfo,
and I also merge attrs of FnType into it.
Now ABI implementation doesn't need to insert hidden return pointer
to arg_tys of FnType. Instead it is handled in foreign.rs.
This change also fixes LLVM assertion failure when compiling MIPS target.
- Made naming schemes consistent between Option, Result and Either
- Changed Options Add implementation to work like the maybe monad (return None if any of the inputs is None)
- Removed duplicate Option::get and renamed all related functions to use the term `unwrap` instead
The changes in these commits improve the IR codegen by removing unnecessary copies for certain function call arguments and stopping to allocate return values for functions returning nil. They reduce compile times by about 10% in total.
By using "void" instead of "{}" as the LLVM type for nil, we can avoid
the alloca/store/load sequence for the return value, resulting in less
and simpler IR code.
This reduces compile times by about 10%.
This Adds a bunch of tests for passing and returning structs
of various sizes to C. It fixes the struct return rules on unix,
and on windows for structs of size > 8 bytes. Struct passing
on unix for structs under a certain size appears to still be broken.
ABIInfo provides a method to translate the type of foreign function.
The foreign trans uses the method to get ABI-specific type and
uses the result to generate LLVM instructions for wrapper and shim functions.
