Use a new StackSlots struct to keep track of a function's stack slots
instead of just an entity map. This let's us build more internal data
structures for tracking the stack slots if necessary.
Start by adding a make_spill_slot() function that will be used by the
register allocator.
Add a StackSlotKind enumeration to help keep track of the different
kinds of stack slots supported:
- Incoming and outgoing function arguments on the stack.
- Spill slots and locals.
Change the text format syntax for declaring a stack slot to use a kind
keyword rather than just 'stack_slot'.
Enumerate a set of special purposes for function arguments that general
purpose code needs to know about. Some of these argument purposes will
only appear in the signature of the current function, representing
things the prologue and epilogues need to know about like the link
register and callee-saved registers.
Get rid of the 'inreg' argument flag. Arguments can be pre-assigned to a
specific register instead.
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.
We will track live ranges separately for each SSA value, rather than per
virtual register like LLVM does.
This is the basis for a register allocator, so place it in a new
regalloc module.
Rewrite Builder uses in test cases to use this method and construct a
new builder for each instruction. This pattern allows us to change the
InstBuilder trait to a one-shot implementation that can only create a
single instruction.
Don't re-export the Builder struct, it is less important than the
InstBuilder trait, and we may get more implementations.
All of the instruction format an opcode methods are emitted as an
InstBuilder trait instead of adding them to the Bulder struct directly.
The methods only make use of the InstBuilderBase methods to create new
instructions.
This makes it possible to reuse the InstBuilder trait for different ways
of inserting instructions.
These two tables are used to keep track of type signatures of function
calls as well as external function references used in direct function
calls.
Also add an ExtFuncData struct representing an external function that
can be called directly.
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'.