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[SR-14453] Remove UseSwiftCall/enable_swiftcall frontend option #56809

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typesanitizer opened this issue Apr 6, 2021 · 7 comments
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[SR-14453] Remove UseSwiftCall/enable_swiftcall frontend option #56809

typesanitizer opened this issue Apr 6, 2021 · 7 comments
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compiler The Swift compiler in itself good first issue Good for newcomers task

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Previous ID SR-14453
Radar rdar://problem/76283411
Original Reporter @typesanitizer
Type Task
Status Resolved
Resolution Done
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Component/s Compiler
Labels Task, StarterBug
Assignee @jirid
Priority Medium

md5: 9b96fff3e1854e58c4eae34c5381cf53

Issue Description:

From what I can tell, it isn't being used anywhere; we've been using the swiftcall convention for several years now.

  1. Remove enable_swiftcall from FrontendOptions.td

  2. Remove UseSwiftCall from FrontendOptions.h and other places it is mentioned.

This shouldn't require any new test cases.

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@swift-ci create

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As a bonus, if you're interested in deleting code, you can try to see if there are other options which aren't being used anywhere.

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jirid commented Apr 21, 2021

theindigamer (JIRA User) is this jirid@c03c40f what you're looking for? I did not find the option in FrontendOptions.h, I did find it in IRGenOptions.h and removing it did not break the build for me.

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jirid commented May 16, 2021

#37397

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jirid commented May 21, 2021

I went through `FrontendOptions.h` and `IRGenOptions.h` and found 2 options that might be removable.

FrontendOptions.h:
DebugTimeExpressionTypeChecking
jirid@b6776e2

IRGenOptions.h:
DisableLLVMSLPVectorizer
jirid@ed72797

I prepared 2 independent branches with the changes. The default test suite passes after the removal. theindigamer (JIRA User) please let me know whether you consider these removals valid and would like me to open pull requests.

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Hmm, that's weird. I think for the first one at least, I thought compiler engineers used it for debugging. Maybe there's a bug somewhere and that variable should actually be used.

For the second one, Clang does support that as an option. So it seems like a bug that it's not being used anywhere. I'll get back to you on Monday/Tuesday on whether these two should be removed or not.

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@jirid, the DisableLLVMSLPVectorizer flag can be removed.

The two flags DebugTimeFunctionBodies and DebugTimeExpressionTypeChecking on FrontendOptions should be set when the FrontendOptions are getting parsed (they are not currently set). Then, in ParseTypeCheckerArgs, the type-checker options should copy the value from the FrontendOpts instead of parsing the arguments directly.

@swift-ci swift-ci transferred this issue from apple/swift-issues Apr 25, 2022
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