The LLVM dialect type system has been closed until now, i.e. did not support
types from other dialects inside containers. While this has had obvious
benefits of deriving from a common base class, it has led to some simple types
being almost identical with the built-in types, namely integer and floating
point types. This in turn has led to a lot of larger-scale complexity: simple
types must still be converted, numerous operations that correspond to LLVM IR
intrinsics are replicated to produce versions operating on either LLVM dialect
or built-in types leading to quasi-duplicate dialects, lowering to the LLVM
dialect is essentially required to be one-shot because of type conversion, etc.
In this light, it is reasonable to trade off some local complexity in the
internal implementation of LLVM dialect types for removing larger-scale system
complexity. Previous commits to the LLVM dialect type system have adapted the
API to support types from other dialects.
Replace LLVMIntegerType with the built-in IntegerType plus additional checks
that such types are signless (these are isolated in a utility function that
replaced `isa<LLVMType>` and in the parser). Temporarily keep the possibility
to parse `!llvm.i32` as a synonym for `i32`, but add a deprecation notice.
Reviewed By: mehdi_amini, silvas, antiagainst
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94178
MLIR supports terminators that have the same successor block with different
block operands, which cannot be expressed in the LLVM's phi-notation as the
block identifier is used to tell apart the predecessors. This limitation can be
worked around by branching to a new block instead, with this new block
unconditionally branching to the original successor and forwarding the
argument. Until now, this transformation was performed during the conversion
from the Standard to the LLVM dialect. This does not scale well to multiple
dialects targeting the LLVM dialect as all of them would have to be aware of
this limitation and perform the preparatory transformation. Instead, do it as a
separate pass and run it immediately before the translation.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75619
Alex Zinenko