Branch instruction arguments were defined and used inconsistently across
different instructions, in both the spec and the implementation. In
particular, conditional and unconditional branch instructions were using
different syntax in the implementation. This led to the IR we produce not
being accepted by the parser. Update the printer to use common syntax: `(`
list-of-SSA-uses `:` list-of-types `)`. The motivation for choosing this
syntax as opposed to the one in the spec, `(` list-of-SSA-uses `)` `:`
list-of-types is double-fold. First, it is tricky to differentiate the label
of the false branch from the type while parsing conditional branches (which is
what apparently motivated the implementation to diverge from the spec in the
first place). Second, the ongoing convergence between terminator instructions
and other operations prompts for consistency between their operand list syntax.
After this change, the only remaining difference between the two is the use of
parentheses. Update the comment of the parser that did not correspond to the
code. Remove the unused isParenthesized argument from parseSSAUseAndTypeList.
Update the spec accordingly. Note that the examples in the spec were _not_
using the EBNF defined a couple of lines above them, but were using the current
syntax. Add a supplementary example of a branch to a basic block with multiple
arguments.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 221162655
It is unclear why vector types were not allowed to have "index" as element
type. Index values are integers, although of unknown bit width, and should
behave as such. Vectors of integers are allowed and so are tensors of indices
(for indirection purposes), it is more consistent to also have vectors of
indices.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 220630123
Arithmetic and comparison instructions are necessary to implement, e.g.,
control flow when lowering MLFunctions to CFGFunctions. (While it is possible
to replace some of the arithmetics by affine_apply instructions for loop
bounds, it is still necessary for loop bounds checking, steps, if-conditions,
non-trivial memref subscripts, etc.) Furthermore, working with indirect
accesses in, e.g., lookup tables for large embeddings, may require operating on
tensors of indexes. For example, the equivalents to C code "LUT[Index[i]]" or
"ResultIndex[i] = i + j" where i, j are loop induction variables require the
arithmetics on indices as well as the possibility to operate on tensors
thereof. Allow arithmetic and comparison operations to apply to index types by
declaring them integer-like. Allow tensors whose element type is index for
indirection purposes.
The absence of vectors with "index" element type is explicitly tested, but the
only justification for this restriction in the CL introducing the test is
"because we don't need them". Do NOT enable vectors of index types, although
it makes vector and tensor types inconsistent with respect to allowed element
types.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 220614055
This binary operation is applicable to integers, vectors and tensors thereof
similarly to binary arithmetic operations. The operand types must match
exactly, and the shape of the result type is the same as that of the operands.
The element type of the result is always i1. The kind of the comparison is
defined by the "predicate" integer attribute. This attribute requests one of:
- equals to;
- not equals to;
- signed less than;
- signed less than or equals;
- signed greater than;
- signed greater than or equals;
- unsigned less than;
- unsigned less than or equals;
- unsigned greater than;
- unsigned greater than or equals.
Since integer values themselves do not have a sign, the comparison operator
specifies whether to use signed or unsigned comparison logic, i.e. whether to
interpret values where the foremost bit is set as negatives expressed as two's
complements or as positive values. For non-scalar operands, pairwise
per-element comparison is performed. Comparison operators on scalars are
necessary to implement basic control flow with conditional branches.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 220613566
"shape_cast" only applies to tensors, and there are other operations that
actually affect shape, for example "reshape". Rename "shape_cast" to
"tensor_cast" in both the code and the documentation.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 218528122
This CL only converts the document to the g3doc format and does some minor
typesetting, e.g. removing unicode ellipsis and mdash symbols, replace single
quotes with backticks to trigger tt-type dispay, etc. The original document
is located at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KoVYgp-m-dgAyKwqRne2c72j0FoxpsdNgfa9DTfWGgw/view
Links to the sections of the same document are updated to point to the anchors
in the converted document whereas links to external documents are kept as is.
Cross-links between LangRef.md and Rationale.md are updated to point to the
relevant anchors in the g3doc files.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 218527560
Jacques Pienaar