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Author : Colin Schmidt ([email protected])
Date : February 24, 2014
Version : (under version control)
This repository contains a new target for LLVM RISC-V. It supports the latest version of the ISA 2.0. This backend currently only supports assembly generation and riscv64-unknown-*-gcc must be used to assemble and link the executable.
The backend is structured similarly to most other LLVM backends and tries to use
the tablegen format as much as possible. The description of the instructions
are found in RISCVInstFormats.td, and RISCVInstrInfo*.td. The registers are
described in RISCVRegisterInfo.td and the calling convention is described in
RISCVCallingConv.td.
The instructions are defined using the LLVM IR DAG format, and simple
instructions that use pre-existing LLVM IR operations should be very easy to
add. The instructions are divided into separate files based on their extension,
e.g. atomic operations are defined in RISCVInstInfoA.td. Instructions
implemented with these patterns are simply matched against the programs LLVM IR
DAG for selection. More complicated instructions can use C++ to perform custom
lowering of the LLVM IR in RISCVISelLowering.cpp. Combining of multiple LLVM IR
nodes into single target instructions is also possible using C++ in
the same file. In general RISCVISelLowering.cpp sets up the lowering based on
the ISA and the specific subtargets features.
This backend does not include all features of a backend but is focused on generating assembly in an extensible way such that adding new ISA extensions and using them should be relatively painless. As the RISC-V support develops the backend may provide more features.
The compiler is fairly robust with similar performance to riscv64-unknown-*-gcc, so it use in any and all projects is encouraged.
Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
The LLVM RISCV backend is built just as the normal LLVM system.
$ git clone -b RISCV [email protected]:riscv/riscv-llvm.git
$ git submodule update --init
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/opt/riscv
$ make
$ make install
Now if /opt/riscv is on your path you should be able to use clang and LLVM with
RISC-V support.
Using the llvm-riscv is fairly simple to build a full executable however you need riscv-64-unknown-*-gcc to do the assembling and linking. An example of compiling hello world:
$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello World!\n");
}
$ clang -target riscv -mriscv=RV64IAMFD -S hello.c -o hello.S
$ riscv-64-unknown-elf-gcc -o hello.riscv hello.S