The copy/spill/fill instructions will be used by the register allocator
for splitting live ranges. The copy instruction is also useful when
rewriting values:
If a primary value is rewritten as a secondary result, a copy
instruction can be used instead:
a = foo x
=>
t, vx1 = call ...
a = copy vx1
Since a primary value must be the first value of an instruction, this
doesn't work:
a = foo x
=>
t, a = call ...
These refer to external functions and function signatures declared in
the preamble. Since we're already using the type names 'Signature' and
'Function', these entity references don't folow the usual EntityData /
Entity naming convention.
The isplit_lohi instruction breaks an integer into two halves. This will
typically be used to get the two halves of an `i64` value on 32-bit
CPUs.
The iconcat_lohi is the reverse operation. It reconstructs the `i64`
from the low and high bits.
This was supposed to make verification fast, but WebAssembly is no longer in
this form since it's blocks can produce values.
Also, computing a flow graph and dominator tree is really fast anyway.
It is possible to return multiple values from a function, so ReturnData contains
a VariableArgs instance.
We don't want return instructions to appear as 'return (v1)', so tweak the
printing of VariableArgs so the parantheses are added externally.
Naming is interesting here. Since 'truncate' refers to removing the least
significant digits, use 'ireduce' instead. The 'extend' use is fairly
established. Don't abbreviate, avoid unfortunate modern vernacular.
This instruction uses two type variables: input and output. Make sure that our
parser can handle it. The output type variable annotation is mandatory.
Add a ValueTypeSet::example() method which is used to provide better diagnostics
for a missing type variable.
Add new intcc and floatcc operand types for the immediate condition codes on
these instructions.
Add new IntCompare and FloatCompare instruction formats.
Add a generic match_enum() parser function that can match any identifier-like
enumerated operand kind that implements FromStr.
Define the icmp and fcmp instructions in case.py. Include documentation for the
condition codes with these two instructions.
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.
