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January 21, 2015
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Compilation process How a program is born CocoaHeads Berlin, 2015
> whoami Twitter: @1101_debian Freenode: AlexDenisov Github: @AlexDenisov
Outline • Compilation process • LLVM/Clang • Q & A
Compilation Process
int main(){ return 0; } 0000000 cf fa ed fe
07 00 00 01 03 00 00 80 02 00 00 00 0000010 0f 00 00 00 38 03 00 00 85 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 0000020 19 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 5f 5f 50 41 47 45 5a 45 0000030 52 4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000040 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 38 01 00 00 0000070 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000080 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000a0 07 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000b0 5f 5f 74 65 78 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000c0 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000d0 98 0f 00 00 01 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000e0 98 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000f0 00 04 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000100 5f 5f 75 6e 77 69 6e 64 5f 69 6e 66 6f 00 00 00 0000110 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000120 a0 0f 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000130 a0 0f 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000150 5f 5f 65 68 5f 66 72 61 6d 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000160 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000170 e8 0f 00 00 01 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000180 e8 0f 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00001a0 19 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 5f 5f 4c 49 4e 4b 45 44 00001b0 49 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 00 00 00 00001c0 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00001d0 d8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 00 00 80 30 00 00 00 00001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
int main(){ return 0; } 0000000 cf fa ed fe
07 00 00 01 03 00 00 80 02 00 00 00 0000010 0f 00 00 00 38 03 00 00 85 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 0000020 19 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 5f 5f 50 41 47 45 5a 45 0000030 52 4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000040 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 38 01 00 00 0000070 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000080 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000a0 07 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000b0 5f 5f 74 65 78 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000c0 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000d0 98 0f 00 00 01 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000e0 98 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000f0 00 04 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000100 5f 5f 75 6e 77 69 6e 64 5f 69 6e 66 6f 00 00 00 0000110 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000120 a0 0f 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000130 a0 0f 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000150 5f 5f 65 68 5f 66 72 61 6d 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000160 5f 5f 54 45 58 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000170 e8 0f 00 00 01 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000180 e8 0f 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0000190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00001a0 19 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 5f 5f 4c 49 4e 4b 45 44 00001b0 49 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 00 00 00 00001c0 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00001d0 d8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 00 00 80 30 00 00 00 00001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Lexer Parser Semantic Analysis Code Generation Optimization Assembler Linker
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; }
Lexer
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; }
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } (KW ‘const’)
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } (KW ‘const’), (TYPE ‘float’)
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } (KW ‘const’), (TYPE ‘float’), (ID ‘factor'), (EQ ‘=‘), (NUM ’42.f’), (SEMI ‘;’)
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } (KW ‘const’), (TYPE ‘float’), (ID ‘factor'), (EQ ‘=‘), (NUM ’42.f’), (SEMI ‘;’), (TYPE ‘int’), (ID ‘calc’), (L_PAREN ‘(‘), (TYPE ‘float’), (ID 'x') (R_PAREN ‘)’), (L_BRACE ‘{‘), (KW ‘return’), (ID ‘factor’), (STAR ‘*’), (ID ‘x’), (SEMI ‘;’), (R_BRACE ‘}’), (EOF '')
Parser
(KW ‘return’) (ID ‘factor’) (STAR ‘*’) (ID ‘x’)
ReturnStmt return BinaryOperator * ReferenceDecl x ReferenceDecl factor (KW ‘return’)
(ID ‘factor’) (STAR ‘*’) (ID ‘x’)
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f FunctionDecl calc :
int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return BinaryOperator * ReferenceDecl x ReferenceDecl factor
Semantic Analysis
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f FunctionDecl calc :
int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return BinaryOperator * ReferenceDecl x ReferenceDecl factor
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f : ??? FunctionDecl
calc : int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return : ??? BinaryOperator * : ??? ReferenceDecl x : ??? ReferenceDecl factor : ???
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f : float FunctionDecl
calc : int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return : ??? BinaryOperator * : ??? ReferenceDecl x : float ReferenceDecl factor : float
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f : float FunctionDecl
calc : int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return : int BinaryOperator * : ??? ReferenceDecl x : float ReferenceDecl factor : float
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f : float FunctionDecl
calc : int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return : int BinaryOperator * : float ReferenceDecl x : float ReferenceDecl factor : float
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f : float FunctionDecl
calc : int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return : int BinaryOperator * : float ReferenceDecl x : float ReferenceDecl factor : float ???
AST VariableDecl factor : float FloatLiteral 42.f : float FunctionDecl
calc : int ParameterDecl x : float ReturnStmt return : int BinaryOperator * : float ReferenceDecl x : float ReferenceDecl factor : float ImplicitCast ftoi : int
Code Generation
@factor = constant float 42.0 define calc(float %x) { entry:
movf %x, %r1 movf @factor, %r2 %r3 = fmul %r1, %r2 movf %r3, %r0 ret }
Optimization
@factor = constant float 42.0 define calc(float %x) { entry:
movf %x, %r1 movf @factor, %r2 %r3 = fmul %r1, %r2 movf %r3, %r0 ret }
@factor = constant float 42.0 define calc(float %x) { entry:
%r0 = fmul @factor, %x ret }
Assembler
_calc: push {r7, lr} mov r7, sp mov r1, #36175872
orr r1, r1, #1073741824 bl ___mulsf3 bl ___fixsfsi pop {r7, lr} mov pc, lr .section __TEXT,__const .globl _factor @ @factor .align 2 _factor: .long 1109917696 @ float 42
Linker
> clang -c calc.c -o calc.o const float factor =
42.f; int calc(float x) { return factor * x; }
extern int calc(float); int main() { printf(“%d\n”, calc(2.f)); return 0;
} > clang -c main.c -o main.o
> nm main.o U _calc 0000000000000000 T _main U _printf
> nm main.o U _calc 0000000000000000 T _main U _printf
> ld -lc calc.o main.o -o main > nm main 0000000000001f30 T _calc 0000000000001fc8 S _factor 0000000000001f60 T _main U _printf
LLVM & Clang
Lexer Parser Semantic Analysis Code Generation Optimization Assembler Linker
Optimization Assembler Linker Optimization Assembler Linker Code Generation Semantic
Analysis Parser Lexer Code Generation Semantic Analysis Parser Lexer
Optimization Assembler Linker Code Generation Semantic Analysis Parser Lexer
Code Generation Semantic Analysis Parser Lexer
Lexer Parser Semantic Analysis Code Generation Clang Optimization Assembler
LLVM Linker OS
libclangLex
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } > clang -cc1 -dump-tokens calc.c
const 'const' [StartOfLine] Loc=<calc.c:1:1> float 'float' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:1:7> identifier 'factor'
[LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:1:13> equal '=' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:1:20> numeric_constant '42.f' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:1:22> semi ';' Loc=<calc.c:1:26> int 'int' [StartOfLine] Loc=<calc.c:3:1> identifier 'calc' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:3:5> l_paren '(' Loc=<calc.c:3:9> float 'float' Loc=<calc.c:3:10> identifier 'x' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:3:16> r_paren ')' Loc=<calc.c:3:17> l_brace '{' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:3:19> return 'return' [StartOfLine] [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:4:3> identifier 'factor' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:4:10> star '*' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:4:17> identifier 'x' [LeadingSpace] Loc=<calc.c:4:19> semi ';' Loc=<calc.c:4:20> r_brace '}' [StartOfLine] Loc=<calc.c:5:1> eof '' Loc=<calc.c:6:1>
libclangParse/ libclangSema
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } > clang -cc1 -ast-dump calc.c
TranslationUnitDecl <<invalid sloc>> <invalid sloc> |-VarDecl <calc.c:1:1, col:22> col:13 used
factor 'const float' cinit | `-FloatingLiteral <col:22> 'float' 4.200000e+01 `-FunctionDecl <line:3:1, line:5:1> line:3:5 calc 'int (float)' |-ParmVarDecl <col:10, col:16> col:16 used x 'float' `-CompoundStmt <col:19, line:5:1> `-ReturnStmt <line:4:3, col:19> `-ImplicitCastExpr <col:10, col:19> 'int' <FloatingToIntegral> `-BinaryOperator <col:10, col:19> 'float' '*' |-ImplicitCastExpr <col:10> 'float' <LValueToRValue> | `-DeclRefExpr <col:10> 'const float' lvalue Var 'factor' 'const float' `-ImplicitCastExpr <col:19> 'float' <LValueToRValue> `-DeclRefExpr <col:19> 'float' lvalue ParmVar 'x' 'float'
libclangCodeGen
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } > clang -S -emit-llvm calc.c
@factor = constant float 4.200000e+01, align 4 define i32 @calc(float
%x) #0 { entry: %x.addr = alloca float, align 4 store float %x, float* %x.addr, align 4 %0 = load float* %x.addr, align 4 %mul = fmul float 4.200000e+01, %0 %conv = fptosi float %mul to i32 ret i32 %conv }
libclangCodeGen + opt
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } > clang -S -emit-llvm -O1 calc.c
@factor = constant float 4.200000e+01, align 4 define i32 @calc(float
%x) #0 { entry: %mul = fmul float %x, 4.200000e+01 %conv = fptosi float %mul to i32 ret i32 %conv }
libLLVMAsmPrinter
const float factor = 42.f; int calc(float x) { return
factor * x; } > clang -S -arch arm -O0 calc.c
_calc: push {r7, lr} mov r7, sp mov r1, #36175872
orr r1, r1, #1073741824 bl ___mulsf3 bl ___fixsfsi pop {r7, lr} mov pc, lr .section __TEXT,__const .globl _factor @ @factor .align 2 _factor: .long 1109917696 @ float 42
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