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-rw-r--r--lib/Target/X86/X86InstrInfo.td10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/X86InstrInfo.td b/lib/Target/X86/X86InstrInfo.td
index 9953b052cf..8a6ff54c77 100644
--- a/lib/Target/X86/X86InstrInfo.td
+++ b/lib/Target/X86/X86InstrInfo.td
@@ -533,8 +533,16 @@ def VASTART_SAVE_XMM_REGS : I<0, Pseudo,
imm:$regsavefi,
imm:$offset)]>;
+// Dynamic stack allocation yields _alloca call for Cygwin/Mingw targets. Calls
+// to _alloca is needed to probe the stack when allocating more than 4k bytes in
+// one go. Touching the stack at 4K increments is necessary to ensure that the
+// guard pages used by the OS virtual memory manager are allocated in correct
+// sequence.
+// The main point of having separate instruction are extra unmodelled effects
+// (compared to ordinary calls) like stack pointer change.
+
def MINGW_ALLOCA : I<0, Pseudo, (outs), (ins),
- "call __alloca",
+ "# dynamic stack allocation",
[(X86MingwAlloca)]>;
}