llvm-project/mlir/g3doc/DeveloperGuide.md

Developer Guide

This document attempts to describe a few developer policies used in MLIR (such as coding standards used) as well as development approach (such as, testing methods).

Style guide

MLIR follows the LLVM style guide except:

• Adopts camelBack;

Pass name and other command line options

To avoid collision between options provided by different dialects, the naming convention is to prepend the dialect name to every dialect-specific passes and options in general. Options that are specific to a pass should also be prefixed with the pass name. For example, the affine dialect provides a loop tiling pass that is registered on the command line as -affine-tile, and with a tile size option that can be set with -affine-tile-size.