Don't use assertions to enforce the limits on SIMD lanes in a type, Type is too
fundamental for that. Instead, the Vector-forming by() method returns an
Optional<Type>, and None if the requested SIMD vector is not valid.
Same for Type::half_vector().
These are bitwise exact conversions from string to immediates, implementing the
inverse of the Display trait.
Only accept hexadecimal floating point numbers to avoid issues with rounding
when converting decimal numbers to binary.
The src/tools directory contains the cretonne-tools crate which will build
binaries for testing cretonne.
The src/libctonfile directory contains the ctonfile library crate which
provides reading and writing of .cton files.
Use a simple quadratically probed, open addressed hash table. We could use a
parfect hash function, but it would take longer to compute in Python, and this
is not in the critical path performancewise.
A function owns instructions and extended basic blocks. References to these
entities are implemented as opaque structs indexing into the functions internal
tables. This avoids fighting Rust's ownership checking and it also makes
references 4 bytes on all platforms.
SSA values are identified similarly, but with an optimization for the first
value produced by an instruction. Very few instructions will produce more than
one value, and there is an extended value table for those.
Generate nice doc comments for the Opcode enum variants that 'cargo doc'
will pick up.
Include a `Display` trait implementation that prints the lower
snake-case version of the opcode name.
Clarify the textual encoding of floating point numbers.
Don't allow decimal floating point since conversion to/from binary can produce
rounding problems on some (buggy) systems.
Add new immediate types for floating point and vector immediates.
Use new immediates to define the constant value instructions in meta.
Split the fconst instruction into two: f32const and f64const. This prevents
confusion about the interpretation of 64 immediate bits when generating an f32
constant.
Add an immvector ImmediateType. This immediate type is variable length, and
provides all the bits of a SIMD vector directly.
The Cretonne meta language is used to describe Cretonne instructions, both the
target independent ones in the base instruction set and real target
instructions.
Start by providing type definitions matching langref, and begin the meta
language reference using autodoc to pull in the PYthon definitions.
