compiler: mark string parameters as readonly

Strings are readonly, but the compiler doesn't always know this. Marking
them as readonly in the frontend allows the compiler to optimize based
on this knowledge.

This provides some small code size benefits. I didn't measure running
speed.
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Ayke van Laethem
2025-10-10 14:17:34 +02:00
committed by Ron Evans
parent 3be7100e89
commit 7460734522
5 changed files with 25 additions and 12 deletions
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@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ func (c *compilerContext) getFunction(fn *ssa.Function) (llvm.Type, llvm.Value)
nocapture := c.ctx.CreateEnumAttribute(llvm.AttributeKindID("nocapture"), 0)
llvmFn.AddAttributeAtIndex(i+1, nocapture)
}
if paramInfo.flags&paramIsReadonly != 0 && paramInfo.llvmType.TypeKind() == llvm.PointerTypeKind {
// Readonly pointer parameters (like strings) benefit from being marked as readonly.
readonly := c.ctx.CreateEnumAttribute(llvm.AttributeKindID("readonly"), 0)
llvmFn.AddAttributeAtIndex(i+1, readonly)
}
}
// Set a number of function or parameter attributes, depending on the