This allows us to give names to constants in the constant pool and then use these names in the function body. The original behavior, specifiying the constant value as an instruction immediate, is still supported as a shortcut but some filetests had to change since the canonical way of printing the CLIF constants is now in the preamble.
This crate provides a straightforward way to create a
Cranelift IR function and fill it with
instructions translated from another language. It contains an SSA construction
module that provides convenient methods for translating non-SSA variables into
SSA Cranelift IR values via use_var and def_var calls.