Summary:
The problem:
When an operand had bits explicitly set to "1" (as in the InitValue.td test case attached), the decoder was ignoring those bits, and the DecoderMethod was receiving an input where the bits were still zero.
The solution:
We added an "InitValue" variable that stores the initial value of the operand based on what bits were explicitly initialized to 1 in TableGen code. The generated decoder code then uses that initial value to initialize the "tmp" variable, then calls fieldFromInstruction to read the values for the remaining bits that were left unknown in TableGen.
This is mainly useful when there are variations of an instruction that differ based on what bits are set in the operands, since this change makes it possible to access those bits in a DecoderMethod. The DecoderMethod can use those bits to know how to handle the input.
Patch by Nicolas Guillemot
Reviewers: craig.topper, dsanders, fhahn
Reviewed By: dsanders
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63741
llvm-svn: 368458
Michael Liao