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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Add a RegBank class for describing CPU register banks.
Define register banks for all the ISA stubs. The ARM32 floating point
bank in particular requires attention.
Use the inferred type variables to construct a type argument for builder
methods. This is for those instructions where the result types cannot be
computed from the result types.
Each instruction used in a pattern has constraints on the types of its
operands. These constraints are expressed as symbolic type variables.
Compute type variables for each variable used in a transformation
pattern. Some are free type variables, and some are derived from the
free type variables.
The type variables associated with variables can be used for computing
the result types of replacement instructions that don't support simple
forward type inference from their inputs.
The type sets computed by this patch are conservatively too large, so
they can't yet be used to type check patterns.
Add TypeVar constants representing the available type functions, and a
TypeVar.derived() static method which creates a derived TypeVar.
Keep the existing non-parametric methods for creating derived type
variables.
Add a method for converting a free type variable to a derived one.
A few operands have a fixed type assigned. Create a singleton type
variable for these exceptions. Most instructions are polymorphic, so
this is a little overhead.
Eliminate the Operand.typ field and replace it with an Operand.typevar
field which is always a TypeVar, but which only exists in VALUE
operands.
This method caused lots of import cycles when type checking.
Use isinstance() in the Operand constructor instead to decipher the
OperandSpec union type.
We want to separate the Python classes that make up the DSL used to
define the Cretonne language from the concrete definitions.
- cdsl.types defines the ValueType class hierarchy.
- base.types defines the concrete types.
