Property definitions are currently defined in a PropertyDefinition array
and have a corresponding enum to index in this array. Unfortunately this
is quite error prone. Indeed, just today we found an incorrect merge
where a discrepancy between the order of the enum values and their
definition caused the test suite to fail spectacularly.
Tablegen can streamline the process of generating the property
definition table while at the same time guaranteeing that the enums stay
in sync. That's exactly what this patch does. It adds a new tablegen
file for the properties, building on top of the infrastructure that
Raphael added recently for the command options. It also introduces two
new tablegen backends: one for the property definitions and one for
their corresponding enums.
It might be worth mentioning that I generated most of the tablegen
definitions from the existing property definitions, by adding a dump
method to the struct. This seems both more efficient and less error
prone that copying everything over by hand. Only Enum properties needed
manual fixup for the EnumValues and DefaultEnumValue fields.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65185
llvm-svn: 367058
Summary:
We currently have man large arrays containing initializers for our command options.
These tables are tricky maintain as we don't have any good place to check them for consistency and
it's also hard to read (`nullptr, {}, 0` is not very descriptive).
This patch fixes this by letting table gen generate those tables. This way we can have a more readable
syntax for this (especially for all the default arguments) and we can let TableCheck check them
for consistency (e.g. an option with an optional argument can't have `eArgTypeNone`, naming of flags', etc.).
Also refactoring the related data structures can now be done without changing the hundred of option initializers.
For example, this line:
```
{LLDB_OPT_SET_ALL, false, "hide-aliases", 'a', OptionParser::eNoArgument, nullptr, {}, 0, eArgTypeNone, "Hide aliases in the command list."},
```
becomes this:
```
def hide_aliases : Option<"hide-aliases", "a">, Desc<"Hide aliases in the command list.">;
```
For now I just moved a few initializers to the new format to demonstrate the change. I'll slowly migrate the other
option initializers tables in separate patches.
Reviewers: JDevlieghere, davide, sgraenitz
Reviewed By: JDevlieghere
Subscribers: jingham, xiaobai, labath, mgorny, abidh, lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64365
llvm-svn: 365908
Jonas Devlieghere