gcc experts,
I'm trying to use gcc lto with library archives, as the gcc comes with my system (RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.7) doesn't work with -flto (neither for my Ubuntu 14.10), so I build binutils && gcc from scratch.
Here is what I did:
1. Build binutils-2.22 with --enable-plugins
2. Build gcc-4.7.2 with --with-plugin-ld=/path/to/ld/built/in/step1 --enable-lto
3. Then for the following simple test:
// 1.c:
int foo(void)
{ return 0; }
// 2.c:
extern int foo(void)
int main(void)
{ return foo(); }
The following can get foo() inlined:
my_gcc -O3 -flto -c -o 1.o 1.c
my_gcc -O3 -flto -c -o 2.o 2.c
my_gcc -O3 -flto -o a.out 1.o 2.o
While the following can't:
my_gcc -O3 -flto -c -o 1.o 1.c
my_gcc -O3 -flto -c -o 2.o 2.c
my_ar cr --plugin <my_gcc>/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.7.2/liblto_plugin.so 1.a 1.o
my_ar cr --plugin <my_gcc>/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.7.2/liblto_plugin.so 2.a 2.o
gcc -O3 -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -o a.out 1.a 2.a
As the building system for the product I'm working on has to use archives, then what I can do to let lto work with library archive?
Your help will be much much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
When linking, the order in which the libraries are listed on the command line, matters. So when compiling from the archives, you should swap 1.a and 2.a:
gcc -O3 -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -o a.out 2.a 1.a
I tested with gcc 4.9.2 and the disassembly, obtained with objdump -d a.out, shows that foo() is being inlined.
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I want to evaluate an AVX2 program written in c-intrinsics using gcc 5.4.0 and clang 3.8 for compiling and using perf , valgrind and IACA for evaluating and analysis. I Exactly want the same optimization approach so I read this related question clang optimization and this page for gcc optimization option for gcc but I still doubted .
gcc -O2 and gcc -O3 is my basis and want the same in clang since Clang do auto-vectorization in -O2 and I don't want it when comparing the results with gcc -O2 and want it when -O3 is enabled in gcc. so the question is what command should I use in clang that is corresponded to these commands in gcc :
First:
compile :
gcc -Wall -O2 -march=native -masm=intel -c -S "%f"
build:
gcc -Wall -O2 -mavx2 -o "%e" "%f"
Second:
compile :
gcc -Wall -O3 -march=native -masm=intel -c -S "%f"
build:
gcc -Wall -O3 -mavx2 -o "%e" "%f"
I compile with the following command:
gcc -Wall -march=native -O3 -ffast-math -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -o waon main.o notes.o midi.o analyse.o fft.o hc.o snd.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lfftw3 -L/usr/local/lib -lsndfile -lm
I now would like to compile with Emscripten. How do I convert the above gcc command into an emcc command?
The command you have described in the question is linking rather than compiling. However in general you should just be able to replace gcc with emcc and it will do the right thing. In this case you will need to replace not only this linking command but also the commands used to compile the sources to the .o files.
It would probably be a good idea to take out the -march option.
It looks like your project is using libsndfile and FFTW. You will probably need to compile these libraries yourself using emscripten. Both of them are using autotools so with a bit of luck you can compile them with emscripten simply by adding the following parameters when you run the configure script:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/emscripten-libs CC=emcc
make && make install
Then when you link your program you can specify -L$HOME/emscripten-libs/lib instead of -L/usr/local/lib.
Make research about emsdk download&setup on your computer.
Download emsdk instruction
Next interest link is :
emcc or em++ instruction
https://emscripten.org/docs/tools_reference/emcc.html
When you setup emcc in command line you can see this project (i make emcc final look based on python script runner.py etc.):
c-cpp-to-javascript
Basic and useful example's :
Pretty analog with gcc :
Args:
-lGL for openGL
-s TOTAL_MEMORY=512MB --memory-init-file 1 Memory staff
--preload-file folderWithImages/--use-preload-plugins If you use assets
-I forInclude/someheader.h
-L libraryFolder/someLib.lib
-std=c11
Simple run:
./emcc -O2 a.cpp -o a.js
or
./emcc -O2 a.cpp -o a.html
Links:
./emcc -O2 a.cpp -o a.bc
./emcc -O2 b.cpp -o b.bc
./emcc -O2 a.bc b.bc -o project.js
Or :
to get JS
emcc -s WASM=1 myAdds.a myLib.a source1.c source2.cpp -o build.js
to get html
emcc -s WASM=1 myAdds.a myLib.a source1.c source2.cpp -o build.html
Link together the bitcode files:
emcc project.bc libstuff.bc -o allproject.bc
Compile the combined bitcode to HTML
emcc allproject.bc -o final.html
Important note :
You can't take an existing .a library and convert it. You must build lib with emcc also.
I have converted c program into assembly code using following commands in LLVM :
clang -emit-llvm matrix.c -c -o matrix.bc
llc -march=alpha matrix.bc -o matrix.s
Now how to convert matrix.s assembly file into executable file of alpha.
How to do that?
clang can also be used
clang matrix.s -L [additional library locations] -mllvm -Wall -g -L. -Wl,-pie -I. -I[additional include locations] -o [executable output]
Adjust the flags as your needs dictate.
EDIT
Without the need for other includes or libraries just call:
clang matrix.s -mllvm -Wall -g -Wl,-pie -o matrix.out
I use the following LLVM tools to convert a cpp project which is written in multiple files into "ONE" single assembly file.
clang *.cpp -S -emit-llvm
llvm-link *.s -S -o all.s
llc all.s -march=mips
Is there any way of doing this in GCC? In particular, is there any way of linking GCC generated assembly files into one assembly file? i.e., what is the equivalent of LLVM-LINK?
Perhaps LTO (Link Time Optimization) is what you want.
Then, compile each compilation unit with gcc -flto e.g.
gcc -flto -O -Wall -c src1.c
g++ -flto -O -Wall -c src2.cc
and use also -flto (and the same optimizations) to link them:
g++ -flto -O src1.o src2.o -lsomething
LTO works in GCC by putting, in each generated assembly file and object file, some representation of the internal GCC representations (like Gimple). See its documentation
You might want to use MELT to customize GCC (or simply use its probe to understand the Gimple, or try just gcc -fdump-tree-all).
I'm trying to create a shared library with my gcc. It's a gcc for vxworks (thats probably the problem...).
I use the gcc as following:
./gcc -shared -B/path/to/gnutools/bin -o test.so test.c
Result:
/path/to/ld: -r and -shared may not be used together
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
If I try the same with the linux gcc, there's no problem. So i guess the gcc for VxWorks automatically passes the -r (or -i, which is the same and results in the same) flag to the linker. Is there a way to suppress this?
Greetz
marty
PS: making it static is not really an alternative...
Try compile object file separately with -fPIC and then link:
gcc -Wall -fPIC -c -o test.o test.c
gcc -Wall -shared -o test.so test.o
Another suggestion is to use libtool (at least to figure out the correct flags).
A workaround may be to go directly with ld:
ld -shared -o test.so test.o -lc