No instruction sets actually have single instructions for materializing
vector constants. You always need to use a constant pool.
Cretonne doesn't have constant pools yet, but it will in the future, and
that is how vector constants should be represented.
Instruction formats are now identified by a signature that doesn't
include the ordering of value operands relative to immediate operands.
This means that the BinaryRev instruction format becomes redundant, so
delete it. The isub_imm instruction was the only one using that format.
Rename it to irsub_imm to make it clear what it does now that it is
printed as 'irsub_imm v2, 45'.
An instruction format is now seen as having two separate operand lists:
immediates and values. Change InstructionFormat.typevar_operand to be a
pure index into the value list.
The per-instruction format low-level constructors in InstBuilder should
be independent of the relative ordering of value and immediate operands
in order to prepare for the future instruction format merger.
Reorder their arguments such that all the immediate operands are placed
before the value operands.
For instruction formats that use a value list representation, just take
a single ValueList argument. The value lists are created by the
individual instruction constructors. This means that the format
constructor doesn't care how many of the instructions operands are
'fixed' and how many are 'variable' arguments.
These two tuples contain operand indexes of the explicit value operands
and immediate operands respectively. We can no longer use the
instruction format value_operands field.
Now that variable arguments are always stored in a value list with the
fixed arguments, we no longer need the arcane [&[Value]; 2] return type.
Arguments are always stored contiguously, so just return a &[Value]
slice.
Also remove the each_arg() methods which were just trying to make it
easier to work with the old slice pair.
Make some changes that will make it easier to get rid of the
'value_operands' and 'members' fields in the Python InstructionFormat
class. This is necessary to be able to combine instruction formats that
all use a value list representation, but with different fixed value
operands. The goal is to eventually identify formats by a new signature:
(multiple_results, imm_kinds, num_value_operands)
Start by adding new fields:
- imm_members and imm_kinds are lists describing the format operands,
excluding any values and variable_args operands.
- num_value_operands is the number of fixed value operands, or None in a
has_value-list format.
Use these new members in preference to the old ones where possible.
With the Return and ReturnReg formats converted to using value lists for
storing their arguments, thee are no remaining instruction formats with
variable argument lists in boxed storage.
The Return and ReturnReg formats are also going to be merged since
they are identical now.
The Branch format also stores its fixed argument in the value list. This
requires the value pool to be passed to a few more functions.
Note that this actually makes the Branch and Jump variants of
InstructionData identical. The instruction format hashing does not yet
understand that all value operands are stored in the value list. We'll
fix that in a later patch.
Also convert IndirectCall, noting that Call and IndirectCall remain
separate instruction formats because they have different immediate
fields.
Add a new kind of instruction format that keeps all of its value
arguments in a value list. These value lists are all allocated out of
the dfg.value_lists memory pool.
Instruction formats with the value_list property set store *all* of
their value arguments in a single value list. There is no distinction
between fixed arguments and variable arguments.
Change the Call instruction format to use the value list representation
for its arguments.
This change is only the beginning. The intent is to eliminate the
boxed_storage instruction formats completely. Value lists use less
memory, and when the transition is complete, InstructionData will have a
trivial Drop implementation.
If func.locations has not been properly resized to have an entry for all
values, we should just full in the default location for the missing
values instead of crashing.
Add a Function::display() method which can include ISA-specific
information when printing the function.
If a test file has a unique ISA, use that in the `test cat`
implementation.
Add support for two new type variable functions: half_vector() and
double_vector().
Use these two instructions to break down unsupported SIMD types and
build them up again.
Insert conversion code that reconstructs the original function argument
types from the legalized ABI signature.
Add abi::legalize_abi_value(). This function is used when adapting code
to a legalized function signature.
These two methods can be use to rewrite the argument values to an EBB.
In particular, we need to rewrite the arguments to the entry block to be
compatible with a legalized function signature.
Reuse the put_ebb_arg() method in the implementation of
append_ebb_arg().
Add an abi module with code that is probably useful to all ISAs when
implementing this function.
Add a unit() method to RegClassData which can be used to index the
register units in a class.
This entry point will be used for controlling ABI conventions when
legalizing.
Provide an empty implementation for RISC-V and let the other ISAs crash
in legalization.
This is just the scaffolding. We still need to:
- Rewrite the entry block arguments to match the legalized signature.
- Rewrite call and return instructions.
- Implement the legalize_signature() function for all ISAs.
- Add shared generic types to help with the legalize_signature()
functions.
The List and Dict types are no longer implicitly available. They must be
imported from typing.
Type annotations must appear before the doc comment in a function. Also
fix type errors in these functions that weren't detected before.
Specify the location of arguments as well as the size of stack argument
array needed. The ABI annotations are optional, just like the value
locations.
Remove the Eq implementation for Signature which was only used by a
single parser test.
This is a bare-bones outline of the SSA coloring pass. Many features are
missing, including:
- Handling instruction operand constraints beyond simple register
classes.
- Handling ABI requirements for function arguments and return values.
- Generating shuffle code for EBB arguments.
