This instruction loads a stack limit from a global variable and compares
it to the stack pointer, trapping if the stack has grown beyond the
limit.
Also add a expand_flags transform group containing legalization patterns
for ISAs with CPU flags.
Fixes#234.
These sign bit manipulations need to use a -0.0 floating point constant
which we didn't have a way of materializing previously.
Add a ieee32.bits(0x...) syntax to the Python AST nodes that creates am
f32 immediate value with the exact requested bitwise representation.
Use the simplest expansion which materializes the bits of the floating
point constant as an integer and then bit-casts to the floating point
type. In the future, we may want to use constant pools instead. Either
way, we need custom legalization.
Also add a legalize_monomorphic() function to the Python targetISA class
which permits the configuration of a default legalization action for
monomorphic instructions, just like legalize_type() does for polymorphic
instructions.
The expansion of a heap_addr instruction depends on the type of heap and
its configuration, so this is handled by custom code.
Add a couple examples of heap access code to the language reference
manual.
The code to compute the address of a global variable depends on the kind
of variable, so custom legalization is required.
- Add a legalizer::globalvar module which exposes an
expand_global_addr() function. This module is likely to grow as we add
more types of global variables.
- Add a ArgumentPurpose::VMContext enumerator. This is used to represent
special 'vmctx' arguments that are used as base pointers for vmctx
globals.
When an instruction doesn't have a valid encoding for the target ISA, it
needs to be legalized. Different legalization strategies can be
expressed as separate XFormGroup objects.
Make the choice of XFormGroup configurable per CPU mode, rather than
depending on a hard-coded default.
Add a CPUMode.legalize_type() method which assigns an XFormGroup to
controlling type variables and lets you set a default.
Add a `legalize` field to Level1Entry so the first-level hash table
lookup gives us the configured default legalization action for the
instruction's controlling type variable.
ARM has all of these as scalar integer instructions. Intel has band_not
in SSE and as a scalar in BMI1.
Add the trivial legalization patterns that use a bnot instruction.
This instruction returns a `b1` value which is represented as the output
of a setCC instruction which is the low 8 bits of a GPR register. Use a
cmp+setCC macro recipe to encode this. That is not ideal, but we can't
represent CPU flags yet.
The meta language patterns sometimes need to refer to specific values of
enumerated immediate operands. The dot syntax provides a namespaced,
typed way of doing that: icmp(intcc.ult, a, x).
Add an ast.Enumerator class for representing this kind of AST leaf node.
Add value definitions for the intcc and floatcc immediate operand kinds.
The carry and borrow values are boolean, so we have to convert them to
an integer type with bint(c) before we can add them to the result.
Also tweak the default legalizer action for unsupported types: Only
attempt a narrowing pattern for lane types > 32 bits.
This was found by @angusholder's new type checks in the verifier.
