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
DAG arguments can optionally be named:
(dag node, node:$name)
With this change, the node is also optional:
(dag node, node:$name, $name)
The missing node is treated as an UnsetInit, so the above is equivalent
to:
(dag node, node:$name, ?:$name)
This syntax is useful in output patterns where we currently require the
types of variables to be repeated:
def : Pat<(subc i32:$b, i32:$c), (SUBCCrr i32:$b, i32:$c)>;
This is preferable:
def : Pat<(subc i32:$b, i32:$c), (SUBCCrr $b, $c)>;
llvm-svn: 177843
Add a Value named "NAME" to each Record. This will be set to the def or defm
name when instantiating multiclasses. This will replace the #NAME# processing
hack once paste functionality is in place.
llvm-svn: 142518
as the operator of the dag. Specifically, this allows parsing things
like (F.x 4) in addition to just (a 4).
Unfortunately, this runs afoul of an idiom being used by llvmc. It
is using dags like (foo [1,2,3]) to represent a list of stuff being
passed into foo. With this change, this is parsed as a [1,2,3]
subscript on foo instead of being the first argument to the dag.
Cope with this in the short term by requiring a "-llvmc-temp-hack"
argument to tblgen to get the old parsing behavior.
llvm-svn: 115742
Nicolai Haehnle