Add EBB parameter and EBB argument to the langref glossary to clarify
the distinction between formal EBB parameter values and arguments passed
to branches.
- Replace "ebb_arg" with "ebb_param" in function names that deal with
EBB parameters.
- Rename the ValueDef variants to Result and Param.
- A bunch of other small langref fixes.
No functional changes intended.
This method was important back when result values couldn't be moved
between instructions. Now that results can be moved, value aliases do
everything we need.
Copy instructions are still used to break interferences in the register
allocator's coalescing phase, but there isn't really any reason to use a
copy instruction over a value alias anywhere else.
After and during register allocation, copy instructions are significant,
so we never want to "see through" them like the resolve_copies()
function did.
This is related to #166, but probably doesn't fix the underlying
problem.
A cursor now also remembers a current source location which will be
assigned to all new instructions created with the cursor.
The old layout::Cursor can't support source locations because it doesn't
have a reference to the full ir::Function.
The Cursor navigation methods all just depend on the cursor's position
and layout reference. Make a CursorBase trait that provides access to
this information with methods and implement the navigation methods on
top of that.
This makes it possible to have multiple types implement the cursor
interface.
When we're splitting an EBB argument, we insert a iconcat/vconcat
instruction that computes the original value from the new split
arguments.
The concat instruction can now define the original value directly, it is
not necessary to define a new value and alias the old one.
We don't want to distinguish between single-result and multiple-result
instructions any longer.
- Merge the simple_instruction() and complex_instruction() builder
methods into a single build() that can handle all cases.
- All format constructors now take a ctrl_type argument. Previously,
some would take a result_type argument.
- Instruction constructors no longer attempt to compute a single result
type. Just pass a ctrl_type and let the backend decide.
Fix one format constructor call in legalizer/split.rs which now takes a
ctrl_type instead of a result type.
The EBB argument splitting may generate concat-split dependencies when
it repairs branch arguments in EBBs that have not yet been fully
legalized. Add a branch argument simplification step that can resolve
these dependency chains.
This means that all split and concatenation instructions will be dead
after legalization for types that have no legal instructions using them.
When the legalizer splits a value into halves, it would previously stop
if the value was an EBB argument. With this change, we also split EBB
arguments and iteratively split arguments on branches to the EBB.
The iterative splitting stops when we hit the entry block arguments or
an instruction that isn't one of the concatenation instructions.
Legalizing some instructions may require modifications to the control
flow graph, and some operations need to use the CFG analysis.
The CFG reference is threaded through all the legalization functions to
reach the generated expansion functions as well as the legalizer::split
module where it will be used first.
The legalizer often splits values into parts with the vsplit and
isplit_lohi instructions. Avoid doing that for values that are already
defined by the corresponding concatenation instructions.
This reduces the number of instructions created during legalization, and
it simplifies later optimizations. A number of dead concatenation
instructions are left behind. They can be trivially cleaned up by a dead
code elimination pass.
