llvm-project/mlir/lib/Rewrite
Jeff Niu e179532284 [mlir] Remove types from attributes
This patch removes the `type` field from `Attribute` along with the
`Attribute::getType` accessor.

Going forward, this means that attributes in MLIR will no longer have
types as a first-class concept. This patch lays the groundwork to
incrementally remove or refactor code that relies on generic attributes
being typed. The immediate impact will be on attributes that rely on
`Attribute` containing a type, such as `IntegerAttr`,
`DenseElementsAttr`, and `ml_program::ExternAttr`, which will now need
to define a type parameter on their storage classes. This will save
memory as all other attribute kinds will no longer contain a type.

Moreover, it will not be possible to generically query the type of an
attribute directly. This patch provides an attribute interface
`TypedAttr` that implements only one method, `getType`, which can be
used to generically query the types of attributes that implement the
interface. This interface can be used to retain the concept of a "typed
attribute". The ODS-generated accessor for a `type` parameter
automatically implements this method.

Next steps will be to refactor the assembly formats of certain operations
that rely on `parseAttribute(type)` and `printAttributeWithoutType` to
remove special handling of type elision until `type` can be removed from
the dialect parsing hook entirely; and incrementally remove uses of
`TypedAttr`.

Reviewed By: lattner, rriddle, jpienaar

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130092
2022-07-31 20:01:31 -04:00
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ByteCode.cpp [mlir] Remove types from attributes 2022-07-31 20:01:31 -04:00
ByteCode.h Adjust "end namespace" comment in MLIR to match new agree'd coding style 2021-12-08 06:05:26 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt [mlir] (NFC) Clean up bazel and CMake target names 2022-06-13 16:24:15 +00:00
FrozenRewritePatternSet.cpp Fix more clang-tidy cleanups in mlir/ (NFC) 2021-12-22 20:53:11 +00:00
PatternApplicator.cpp [mlir] (NFC) run clang-format on all files 2022-07-14 13:32:13 -07:00