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.
Some polymorphic instructions don't return the controlling type
variable, so it has to be computed from the designated operand instead.
- Add a requires_typevar_operand() method to the operand constraints
which indicates that.
- Add a ctrl_typevar(dfg) method to InstructionData which computes the
controlling type variable correctly, and returns VOID for monomorphic
instructions.
- Use ctrl_typevar(dfg) to drive the level-1 encoding table lookups.
On ISAs with no instruction predicates, just emit an unimplemented!()
stub for the check_instp() function. It is unlikely that a finished ISA
will not have any instruction predicates.
An SSA value is usually biased towards a specific register class or a
stack slot, depending on the constraints of the instructions using it.
Represent this bias as an Affinity enum, and implement a merging
algorithm for updating an affinity to satisfy a new constraint.
Affinities will be computed as part of the liveness analysis. This is
not implemented yet.
Ensure that the set of register classes is closed under intersection.
Provide a RegClass::intersect() method which finds the register class
representing the intersection of two classes.
Generate a bit-mask of subclasses for each register class to be used by
the intersect() method.
Ensure that register classes are sorted topologically. This is also used
by the intersect() method.
Every encoding recipe must specify register constraints on input and
output values.
Generate recipe constraint tables along with the other encoding tables.
This set of available register units also manages register aliasing in
an efficient way.
Detect if the units in a register straddles mask words. The algorithm
for allocating multi-unit registers expect the whole register to be
inside a single mask word. We could handle this if necessary, but so far
no ISAs need it.
The intel, arm32, and arm32 targets were only defined in the meta
language previously. Add Rust implementations too.
This is mostly boilerplate, except for the unit tests in the
registers.rs files.
Give these crates each a more standard directory layout with sources in
a 'src' sub-sirectory and Cargo.toml in the top lib/foo directory.
Add license and description fields to each.
The build script for the cretonne crate now lives in
'lib/cretonne/build.rs' separating it from the normal library sources
under 'lib/cretonne/src'.
