Summary:
The new rules are straightforward. The main rules to keep in mind
are:
1. NAME is an implicit template argument of class and multiclass,
and will be substituted by the name of the instantiating def/defm.
2. The name of a def/defm in a multiclass must contain a reference
to NAME. If such a reference is not present, it is automatically
prepended.
And for some additional subtleties, consider these:
3. defm with no name generates a unique name but has no special
behavior otherwise.
4. def with no name generates an anonymous record, whose name is
unique but undefined. In particular, the name won't contain a
reference to NAME.
Keeping rules 1&2 in mind should allow a predictable behavior of
name resolution that is simple to follow.
The old "rules" were rather surprising: sometimes (but not always),
NAME would correspond to the name of the toplevel defm. They were
also plain bonkers when you pushed them to their limits, as the old
version of the TableGen test case shows.
Having NAME correspond to the name of the toplevel defm introduces
"spooky action at a distance" and breaks composability:
refactoring the upper layers of a hierarchy of nested multiclass
instantiations can cause unexpected breakage by changing the value
of NAME at a lower level of the hierarchy. The new rules don't
suffer from this problem.
Some existing .td files have to be adjusted because they ended up
depending on the details of the old implementation.
Change-Id: I694095231565b30f563e6fd0417b41ee01a12589
Reviewers: tra, simon_tatham, craig.topper, MartinO, arsenm, javed.absar
Subscribers: wdng, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47430
llvm-svn: 333900
In historical reason, tblgen is not strictly required to be free from memory leaks.
For now, I mark them as XFAIL, they could be fixed, though.
llvm-svn: 194353
This was done through the aid of a terrible Perl creation. I will not
paste any of the horrors here. Suffice to say, it require multiple
staged rounds of replacements, state carried between, and a few
nested-construct-parsing hacks that I'm not proud of. It happens, by
luck, to be able to deal with all the TCL-quoting patterns in evidence
in the LLVM test suite.
If anyone is maintaining large out-of-tree test trees, feel free to poke
me and I'll send you the steps I used to convert things, as well as
answer any painful questions etc. IRC works best for this type of thing
I find.
Once converted, switch the LLVM lit config to use ShTests the same as
Clang. In addition to being able to delete large amounts of Python code
from 'lit', this will also simplify the entire test suite and some of
lit's architecture.
Finally, the test suite runs 33% faster on Linux now. ;]
For my 16-hardware-thread (2x 4-core xeon e5520): 36s -> 24s
llvm-svn: 159525
of runs without leak checking. We add -vg to the triple for non-checked runs,
or -vg_leak for checked runs. Also use this to XFAIL the TableGen tests, since
tablegen leaks like a sieve. This includes some valgrindArgs refactoring.
llvm-svn: 99103
Nicolai Haehnle