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Author SHA1 Message Date
Dan Gohman
bce8af97e3 Add an instruction shrinking pass.
When an instruction has multiple valid encodings, such as with and
without a REX prefix on x86-64, Cretonne typically picks the encoding
which gives the register allocator the most flexibility, which is
typically the longest encoding. This patch adds a pass that runs after
register allocation that picks the smallest encoding, working within the
constraints of the register allocator's choices. The result is smaller
and easier to read encodings.

In the future, we may want to merge this pass into the relaxation pass,
or possibly fold it into the final encoding step, however for now, a
discrete pass will suffice.
2018-04-19 17:04:56 -07:00
Dan Gohman
d7e13284b2 Mark emit_to_memory as unsafe, and introduce a safe emit. (#281)
* Mark emit_to_memory as unsafe, and provide a safe compile_and_emit.

Mark `Context::emit_to_memory` and `MemoryCodeSink::new` as unsafe, as
`MemoryCodeSink` does not perform bounds checking when writing to
memory.

Add a `Context::compile_and_emit` function which provides a convenient
interface for doing `compile` and `emit_to_memory` in one step, and
which can also provide a safe interface, since it allocates memory of
the needed size itself.

* Mention that `MemoryCodeSink` can't guarantee that the pointer is valid.
2018-04-18 06:35:47 -07:00
Dan Gohman
bf597b7abf Enable and fix several more clippy lints. 2018-04-17 17:05:03 -07:00
Dan Gohman
24fa169e1f Rename the 'cretonne' crate to 'cretonne-codegen'.
This fixes the next part of #287.
2018-04-17 09:46:56 -07:00