Before this patch, running the x64 new backend would require both
compiling with --features experimental_x64 and running with
`use_new_backend`.
This patches changes this behavior so that the runtime flag is not
needed anymore: using the feature flag will enforce usage of the new
backend everywhere, making using and testing it much simpler:
cargo run --features experimental_x64 ;; other CLI options/flags
This also gives a hint at what the meta language generation would look
like after switching to the new backend.
Compiling only with the x64 codegen flag gives a nice compile time speedup.
* Manually rename BasicBlock to BlockPredecessor
BasicBlock is a pair of (Ebb, Inst) that is used to represent the
basic block subcomponent of an Ebb that is a predecessor to an Ebb.
Eventually we will be able to remove this struct, but for now it
makes sense to give it a non-conflicting name so that we can start
to transition Ebb to represent a basic block.
I have not updated any comments that refer to BasicBlock, as
eventually we will remove BlockPredecessor and replace with Block,
which is a basic block, so the comments will become correct.
* Manually rename SSABuilder block types to avoid conflict
SSABuilder has its own Block and BlockData types. These along with
associated identifier will cause conflicts in a later commit, so
they are renamed to be more verbose here.
* Automatically rename 'Ebb' to 'Block' in *.rs
* Automatically rename 'EBB' to 'block' in *.rs
* Automatically rename 'ebb' to 'block' in *.rs
* Automatically rename 'extended basic block' to 'basic block' in *.rs
* Automatically rename 'an basic block' to 'a basic block' in *.rs
* Manually update comment for `Block`
`Block`'s wikipedia article required an update.
* Automatically rename 'an `Block`' to 'a `Block`' in *.rs
* Automatically rename 'extended_basic_block' to 'basic_block' in *.rs
* Automatically rename 'ebb' to 'block' in *.clif
* Manually rename clif constant that contains 'ebb' as substring to avoid conflict
* Automatically rename filecheck uses of 'EBB' to 'BB'
'regex: EBB' -> 'regex: BB'
'$EBB' -> '$BB'
* Automatically rename 'EBB' 'Ebb' to 'block' in *.clif
* Automatically rename 'an block' to 'a block' in *.clif
* Fix broken testcase when function name length increases
Test function names are limited to 16 characters. This causes
the new longer name to be truncated and fail a filecheck test. An
outdated comment was also fixed.
This avoids a lot of dereferences, and InstructionFormat are immutable
once they're created. It removes a lot of code that was keeping the
FormatRegistry around, just in case we needed the format. This is more
in line with the way we create Instructions, and make it easy to
reference InstructionFormats in general.
This avoids doing multiple unpacking of the InstructionData for a single
legalization, improving readability and reducing size of the generated
code. For instance, icmp had to unpack the format once per IntCC
condition code.
This adds a `DummyConstant` structure that is converted to something like `let const0 = pos.func.dfg.constants.insert(...)` in `gen_legalizer.rs`. This allows us to create constants during legalization with something like `let ones = constant(vec![0xff; 16])` and then use `ones` within a `def!` block, e.g.: `def!(a = vconst(ones))`. One unfortunate side-effect of this change is that, because the names of the constants in `ConstPool` are dynamic, the `VarPool` and `SymbolTable` structures that previously operated on `&'static str` types now must operate on `String` types; however, since this is a change to the meta code-generation, it should result in no runtime performance impact.
