llvm-project/llvm/docs
Nicolai Haehnle dfda9dcc1d TableGen: Allow !cast of records, cleanup conversion machinery
Summary:
Distinguish two relationships between types: is-a and convertible-to.
For example, a bit is not an int or vice versa, but they can be
converted into each other (with range checks that you can think of
as "dynamic": unlike other type checks, those range checks do not
happen during parsing, but only once the final values have been
established).

Actually converting initializers between types is subtle: even
when values of type A can be converted to type B (e.g. int into
string), it may not be possible to do so with a concrete initializer
(e.g., a VarInit that refers to a variable of type int cannot
be immediately converted to a string).

For this reason, distinguish between getCastTo and convertInitializerTo:
the latter implements the actual conversion when appropriate, while
the former will first try to do the actual conversion and fall back
to introducing a !cast operation so that the conversion will be
delayed until variable references have been resolved.

To make the approach of adding !cast operations to work, !cast needs
to fallback to convertInitializerTo when the special string <-> record
logic does not apply.

This enables casting records to a subclass, although that new
functionality is only truly useful together with !isa, which will be
added in a later change.

The test is removed because it uses !srl on a bit sequence,
which cannot really be supported consistently, but luckily
isn't used anywhere either.

Change-Id: I98168bf52649176654ed2ec61a29bdb29970cfe7

Reviewers: arsenm, craig.topper, tra, MartinO

Subscribers: wdng, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43753

llvm-svn: 326785
2018-03-06 13:48:39 +00:00
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CommandGuide Re-land [dsymutil] Upstream update feature 2018-02-08 10:48:54 +00:00
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PDB Update MSF File Documentation. 2018-01-12 21:42:39 +00:00
Proposals remove unreferenced footnotes 2018-01-05 00:24:55 +00:00
TableGen TableGen: Allow !cast of records, cleanup conversion machinery 2018-03-06 13:48:39 +00:00
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tutorial [docs] Add out-of-date warnings to the BuildingAJIT tutorial text. 2018-02-06 21:25:20 +00:00
AMDGPUUsage.rst [DebugInfo] Support DWARF v5 source code embedding extension 2018-02-23 23:01:06 +00:00
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AdvancedBuilds.rst [NFC] Remove apostrophe to use 'it' in the possessive form. 2018-01-26 18:43:57 +00:00
AliasAnalysis.rst [docs] AliasAnalysis: clarify that PartialAlias doesn't enforce 2017-07-15 09:09:24 +00:00
Atomics.rst fix some various typos in the doc 2016-07-02 19:28:40 +00:00
Benchmarking.rst Add some tips on benchmarking. 2017-05-24 16:39:12 +00:00
BigEndianNEON.rst
BitCodeFormat.rst [NFC] fix trivial typos in documents 2018-01-16 13:19:48 +00:00
BlockFrequencyTerminology.rst
BranchWeightMetadata.rst [Doc] Document prof metadata in LangRef 2017-06-15 15:57:12 +00:00
Bugpoint.rst [docs] Mention opt -metarenamer in the bugpoint docs 2017-11-15 18:05:19 +00:00
CFIVerify.rst Introduce the llvm-cfi-verify tool (resubmission of D37937). 2017-09-20 20:38:14 +00:00
CMake.rst build: add the ability to create a symlink for dsymutil 2018-02-28 23:00:50 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt [dsymutil][doc] Improve wording in manpage and rename file. 2017-11-02 18:44:54 +00:00
CMakePrimer.rst [docs] In the CMake primer, correct the description of the ARGV/ARGN variables. 2017-08-24 05:38:39 +00:00
CodeGenerator.rst [MC] Fix -stack-size-section on ARM 2018-01-17 09:01:29 +00:00
CodeOfConduct.rst [Conduct] Refine what "rare cases" means wrt violations outside our spaces. 2016-07-06 19:32:41 +00:00
CodingStandards.rst Coding Standards: Document library layering requirements & header isolation. 2018-02-01 21:03:35 +00:00
CommandLine.rst Remove references to response file argument in CommandLine.rst 2017-09-20 22:41:34 +00:00
CompileCudaWithLLVM.rst [Docs] Update docs to indicate that CUDA compilation is supported on Windows. 2017-01-05 16:54:28 +00:00
CompilerWriterInfo.rst Fix broken links to the Itanium CXX ABI 2017-09-12 00:19:11 +00:00
Contributing.rst [Docs] Add LLVM for Grad Students to Contributing page. 2018-03-02 14:35:02 +00:00
Coroutines.rst fix trivial typos in documents; NFC 2017-07-02 12:44:27 +00:00
CoverageMappingFormat.rst [Coverage] Use gap regions to select better line exec counts 2017-09-18 23:37:28 +00:00
DebuggingJITedCode.rst
DeveloperPolicy.rst Fixed broken links in docs. 2017-09-22 21:10:37 +00:00
Docker.rst Made a script to build docker images easier to use. 2017-07-06 12:46:51 +00:00
ExceptionHandling.rst [Doc] Guideline on adding exception handling support for a target 2018-01-24 09:53:01 +00:00
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Extensions.rst [AArch64] Add support for secrel add/load/store relocations for COFF 2018-03-01 20:42:28 +00:00
FAQ.rst fix some typos in the doc 2016-07-28 09:28:58 +00:00
FaultMaps.rst Fix the docs build 2017-02-07 20:36:03 +00:00
FuzzingLLVM.rst [llvm-opt-fuzzer] Introduce llvm-opt-fuzzer for fuzzing optimization passes 2017-11-10 12:19:08 +00:00
GarbageCollection.rst Tidy up example of getting the pointer size. 2016-10-14 05:45:46 +00:00
GetElementPtr.rst [docs] Update code block for compatibility with Sphinx 1.5.1 2017-11-06 11:47:24 +00:00
GettingStarted.rst [NFC] fix trivial typos in comments and documents 2018-01-29 05:17:03 +00:00
GettingStartedVS.rst [MC] Fix regression tests on Windows when git “core.autocrlf” is set to true. 2017-11-17 21:59:43 +00:00
GlobalISel.rst [globalisel] Add very brief docs summarizing the ISel part of the LLVMDev tutorial. 2017-10-23 17:18:44 +00:00
GoldPlugin.rst [docs] As of binutils 2.21.51.0.2, ld.bfd supports plugins too, represent this in docs 2017-06-23 13:54:10 +00:00
HowToAddABuilder.rst Added more info on silent master to the doc. 2017-07-05 20:45:44 +00:00
HowToBuildOnARM.rst
HowToCrossCompileBuiltinsOnArm.rst [docs][ARM] Add HowTo for cross compiling and testing compiler-rt builtins 2017-11-07 09:40:05 +00:00
HowToCrossCompileLLVM.rst
HowToReleaseLLVM.rst docs: Fix formatting in HowToReleaseLLVM 2017-09-19 03:27:26 +00:00
HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.rst
HowToSubmitABug.rst [docs] Fix mention of GCC frontend 2018-01-15 17:11:22 +00:00
HowToUseAttributes.rst Fix RST docs AttributeList heading underline 2017-03-21 17:05:00 +00:00
HowToUseInstrMappings.rst [docs] Fixing Sphinx warnings to unclog the buildbot 2016-07-20 12:16:38 +00:00
InAlloca.rst [docs] Fixing Sphinx warnings to unclog the buildbot 2016-07-20 12:16:38 +00:00
LLVMBuild.rst Fix LLVMBuild.txt typo. NFC 2017-04-03 18:21:50 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
LangRef.rst Support for the mno-stack-arg-probe flag 2018-02-23 13:46:25 +00:00
Lexicon.rst [Lexicon] Add "GEP" 2017-08-18 15:35:53 +00:00
LibFuzzer.rst [libFuzzer] Include TEMP_MAX_LEN in Fuzzer::PrintStats. 2018-02-22 19:00:17 +00:00
LinkTimeOptimization.rst [docs] Typos and whitespace fixed in LTO docs. 2016-11-29 18:00:31 +00:00
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MIRLangRef.rst [MIR] Update MIRLangRef with documentation on bundled instructions 2018-01-10 17:53:16 +00:00
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MarkedUpDisassembly.rst [docs] Fixing Sphinx warnings to unclog the buildbot 2016-07-20 12:16:38 +00:00
MemorySSA.rst [NFC] fix trivial typos in comments and documents 2018-01-26 08:15:29 +00:00
MergeFunctions.rst [docs] Fixing Sphinx warnings to unclog the buildbot 2016-07-20 12:16:38 +00:00
NVPTXUsage.rst [CodeGen] Unify MBB reference format in both MIR and debug output 2017-12-04 17:18:51 +00:00
OptBisect.rst Remove opt-bisect support for "cases" in favor of debug counters 2017-03-11 01:41:03 +00:00
Packaging.rst
Passes.rst Another try to commit 323321 (aggressive instruction combine). 2018-01-25 12:06:32 +00:00
Phabricator.rst [docs] Tweak update to Phabricator docs about setting repository for diffs uploaded via web 2018-01-12 15:44:35 +00:00
ProgrammersManual.rst [docs] Use dbgs() instead of errs() for DEBUG() 2017-12-25 14:16:07 +00:00
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ReleaseNotes.rst Add release note on change to memcpy/memmove/memset builtin signatures 2018-02-05 19:39:38 +00:00
ReleaseProcess.rst [docs] Make ReleaseProcess.rst 80 column. NFCI 2018-01-18 14:57:55 +00:00
ReportingGuide.rst fix some various typos in the doc 2016-07-02 19:28:40 +00:00
ScudoHardenedAllocator.rst [docs] Update Scudo documentation 2018-01-04 18:31:22 +00:00
SegmentedStacks.rst [docs] Fixing Sphinx warnings to unclog the buildbot 2016-07-20 12:16:38 +00:00
SourceLevelDebugging.rst [docs] Update code block for compatibility with Sphinx 1.5.1 2017-11-06 11:47:24 +00:00
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StackMaps.rst [StackMaps] Increase the size of the "location size" field 2017-04-28 04:48:42 +00:00
Statepoints.rst [docs] change a few code-blocks to llvm from text 2017-07-26 14:11:23 +00:00
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TestingGuide.rst Revert "lit.py: Add new %{shared_output(LABEL)} substitution" 2017-10-14 04:01:27 +00:00
TypeMetadata.rst Fixed broken links in docs. 2017-09-22 21:10:37 +00:00
Vectorizers.rst docs: Remove reference to a deprecated flag 2018-01-23 20:22:37 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMBackend.rst [Docs] Fix typo in scheduler model documentation. enumemation->enumeration 2017-12-10 09:14:35 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMPass.rst Fixed dead links in WritingAnLLVMPass.rst 2017-11-06 09:51:39 +00:00
XRay.rst [XRay][compiler-rt] Reduce XRay log spam 2017-12-13 06:37:13 +00:00
XRayExample.rst [XRay][compiler-rt] Reduce XRay log spam 2017-12-13 06:37:13 +00:00
XRayFDRFormat.rst [XRay][tools] Support tail-call exits before we write them in the runtime 2017-09-18 06:08:46 +00:00
YamlIO.rst [YAML] Add support for non-printable characters 2017-12-18 17:38:03 +00:00
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README.txt

LLVM Documentation
==================

LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is mostly meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation
system to create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and
updated after every commit. Manpage output is also supported, see below.

If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_HTML=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-html
    $BROWSER <build-dir>/docs//html/index.html

The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//html/Foo.html` <-> `http://llvm.org/docs/Foo.html`.

If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax.

Manpage Output
===============

Building the manpages is similar to building the HTML documentation. The
primary difference is to use the `man` makefile target, instead of the
default (which is `html`). Sphinx then produces the man pages in the
directory `<build-dir>/docs/man/`.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_MAN=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-man
    man -l >build-dir>/docs/man/FileCheck.1

The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//man/Foo.1`.
These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
viewable online (as noted above) at e.g.
`http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/Foo.html`.

Checking links
==============

The reachability of external links in the documentation can be checked by
running:

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx linkcheck

Doxygen page Output
==============

Install doxygen <http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html> and dot2tex <https://dot2tex.readthedocs.io/en/latest>.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN=On <llvm-top-src-dir>
    make doxygen-llvm # for LLVM docs
    make doxygen-clang # for clang docs

It will generate html in
    
    <build-dir>/docs/doxygen/html # for LLVM docs
    <build-dir>/tools/clang/docs/doxygen/html # for clang docs