When we initially implemented the C++20 synchronization library, we
reluctantly accepted for the implementation to be backported to C++03
upon request from the person who provided the patch. This was when we
were only starting to have experience with the issues this can create,
so we flinched. Nowadays, we have a much stricter stance about not
backporting features to previous standards.
We have recently started fixing several bugs (and near bugs) in our
implementation of the synchronization library. A recurring theme during
these reviews has been how difficult to understand the current code is,
and upon inspection it becomes clear that being able to use a few recent
C++ features (in particular lambdas) would help a great deal. The code
would still be pretty intricate, but it would be a lot easier to reason
about the flow of callbacks through things like
__thread_poll_with_backoff.
As a result, this patch drops support for the synchronization library
before C++20. This makes us more strictly conforming and opens the door
to major simplifications, in particular around atomic_wait which was
supported all the way to C++03.
This change will probably have some impact on downstream users, however
since the C++20 synchronization library was added only in LLVM 10 (~3
years ago) and it's quite a niche feature, the set of people trying to
use this part of the library before C++20 should be reasonably small.
When we initially implemented the C++20 synchronization library, we
reluctantly accepted for the implementation to be backported to C++03
upon request from the person who provided the patch. This was when we
were only starting to have experience with the issues this can create,
so we flinched. Nowadays, we have a much stricter stance about not
backporting features to previous standards.
We have recently started fixing several bugs (and near bugs) in our
implementation of the synchronization library. A recurring theme during
these reviews has been how difficult to understand the current code is,
and upon inspection it becomes clear that being able to use a few recent
C++ features (in particular lambdas) would help a great deal. The code
would still be pretty intricate, but it would be a lot easier to reason
about the flow of callbacks through things like
__thread_poll_with_backoff.
As a result, this patch deprecates support for the synchronization
library before C++20. In the next release, we can remove that support
entirely.
Instead of writing something like `XFAIL: use_system_cxx_lib && target=...`
to XFAIL back-deployment tests, introduce named Lit features like
`availability-shared_mutex-missing` to represent those. This makes the
XFAIL annotations leaner, and solves the problem of XFAIL comments
potentially getting out of sync. This would also make it easier for
another vendor to add their own annotations to the test suite by simply
changing how the feature is defined for their OS releases, instead
of having to modify hundreds of tests to add repetitive annotations.
This doesn't touch *all* annotations -- only annotations that were widely
duplicated are given named features (e.g. when filesystem or shared_mutex
were introduced). I still think it probably doesn't make sense to have a
named feature for every single fix we make to the dylib.
This is in essence a revert of 2659663, but since then the test suite
has changed significantly. Back when I did 2659663, the configuration
files we have for the test suite right now were being bootstrapped and
it wasn't clear how to provide these features for back-deployment in
that context. Since then, we have a streamlined way of defining these
features in `features.py` and that doesn't impact the ability for a
configuration file to stay minimal.
The original motivation for this change was that I am about to propose
a change that would touch essentially all XFAIL annotations for back-deployment
in the test suite, and this greatly reduces the number of lines changed
by that upcoming change, in addition to making the test suite generally
better.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D146359
Since those features are general properties of the environment, it makes
sense to use them from libc++abi too, and so the name libcpp-has-no-xxx
doesn't make sense.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126482
Now that Lit supports regular expressions inside XFAIL & friends, it is
much easier to write Lit annotations based on the triple.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104747
The synchronization library was marked as disabled on Apple platforms
up to now because we were not 100% sure that it was going to be ABI
stable. However, it's been some time since we shipped it in upstream
libc++ now and there's been no changes so far. This patch enables the
synchronization library on Apple platforms, and hence commits the ABI
stability as far as that vendor is concerned.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96790
This fixes a long standing issue where the triple is not always set
consistently in all configurations. This change also moves the
back-deployment Lit features to using the proper target triple
instead of using something ad-hoc.
This will be necessary for using from scratch Lit configuration files
in both normal testing and back-deployment testing.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102012
C++98 and C++03 are effectively aliases as far as Clang is concerned.
As such, allowing both std=c++98 and std=c++03 as Lit parameters is
just slightly confusing, but provides no value. It's similar to allowing
both std=c++17 and std=c++1z, which we don't do.
This was discovered because we had an internal bot that ran the test
suite under both c++98 AND c++03 -- one of which is redundant.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80926
- Add the new symbols to the ABI list on Darwin
- Add XFAIL markup to the tests that require dylib support on older platforms
- Add availability markup for back-deployment
