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125 lines
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Just some thoughts for the JITer:
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General issues:
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We are designing a JIT compiler, so we have to consider two things:
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- the quality of the generated code
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- the time needed to generate that code
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The current approach is to keep the JITer as simple as possible, and thus as
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fast as possible. The generated code quality will suffer from that.
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Register Allocation:
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With lcc you can assign a fixed register to a tree before register
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allocation. For example this is needed by call, which return the value always
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in EAX on x86. The current implementation works without such system, due to
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special forest generation.
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Different Register Sets:
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Most processors have more that one register set, at least one for floating
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point values, and one for integers. Should we support architectures with more
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that two sets? Does someone knows such an architecture?
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64bit Integer Values:
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I can imagine two different implementation. On possibility would be to treat
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long (64bit) values simply like any other value type. This implies that we
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call class methods for ALU operations like add or sub. Sure, this method will
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be be a bit inefficient.
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The more performant solution is to allocate two 32bit registers for each 64bit
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value. We add a new non terminal to the monoburg grammar called "lreg". The
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register allocation routines takes care of this non terminal and allocates two
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32 bit registers for them.
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Forest generation:
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Consider the following code:
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OPCODE: STACK LOCALS
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LDLOC.0 (5) [5,0]
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LDC.1 (5,1) [5,0]
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STLOC.0 (5) [1,0]
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STLOC.1 () [1,5]
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A simple forest generation generates:
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STLOC.0(LDC.1)
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STLOC.1(LDLOC.0)
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Which is wrong, since it stores the wrong value (1 instead of 5). Instead we
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must generate something like:
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STLOC.TMP(LDLOC.0)
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STLOC.0(LDC.1)
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STLOC.1(LDLOC.TMP)
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Where STLOC.TMP saves the value into a new temporary variable.
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We also need a similar solution for basic block boundaries when the stack depth
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is not zero. We can simply save those values to new temporary values. Consider
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the following basic block with one instruction:
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LDLOC.1
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This should generate a tree like:
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STLOC.TMP(LDLOC.1) Please notice that an intelligent register allocator can
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still allocate registers for those new variables.
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DAG handling:
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Monoburg can't handle DAGs, instead we need real trees as input for
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the code generator. So we have two problems:
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1.) DUP instruction: This one is obvious - we need to store the value
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into a temporary variable to solve the problem.
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2.) function calls: Chapter 12.8, page 343 of "A retargetable C compiler"
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explains that: "because listing a call node will give it a hidden reference
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from the code list". I don't understand that (can someone explain that?), but
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there is another reason to save return values to temporaries: Consider the
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following code:
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x = f(y) + g(z); // all functions return integers
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We could generate such a tree for this expression: STLOC(ADD(CALL,CALL))
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The problem is that both calls returns the value in the same register,
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so it is non trivial to generate code for that tree. We must copy one
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register into another one, which make register allocation more complex.
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The easier solution is store the result of function calls to
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temporaries. This leads to the following forest:
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STLOC(CALL)
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STLOC(CALL)
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STLOC(ADD (LDLOC, LDLOC))
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This is what lcc is doing, if I understood 12.8, page 342, 343?
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Possible Optimisations:
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Miguel said ORP does some optimisation on IL level, for example moving array
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bounds checking out of loops:
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for (i = 0; i < N; i++) { check_range (a, i); a [i] = X; }
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id transformed to:
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if (in_range (a, 0, N)) { for (i = 0; i < N; i++) a[i] = X; }
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else for (i = 0; i < N; i++) { check_range (a, i); a [i] = X; }
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The "else" is only to keep original semantics (exception handling).
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We need loop detection logic in order to implement this (dominator tree).
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AFAIK CACAO also implements this. |