Stream: cranelift

Topic: x64: new `func_addr` lowering

view this post on Zulip Andrew Brown (May 17 2023 at 23:56):

@bjorn3, @Afonso Bordado, and any others that may be interested: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/6402 provides a new RIP-relative lowering to lea for CLIF's func_addr instruction.

x64: lower `LoadExtName` to a RIP-relative `LEA` by abrown · Pull Request #6402 · bytecodealliance/wasmtime
This change intends to add a new lowering for MachInst::LoadExtName (the pseudo-instruction behind CLIF's func_addr and symbol_addr) that uses RIP-relative addressing when the name is local to the ...

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