[cfe-commits] [llvm-commits] [PATCH] Inline assembly dialect attribute for IR

[Chandler Carruth]

Why two bits? Couldn't we say that there are two dialects, the default is
ATT, and there is a bit to select the intel dialect?

Do you expect us to ever need to have the IR model more dialects?


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Chad Rosier <mcrosier at apple.com> wrote:

> Ping.
>
> On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Chad Rosier wrote:
>
> > All,
> > Following up on my previous post about MS-style inline assembly [1], the
> attached patches add support for a new inline assembly dialect function
> attribute.  This new attribute is intended to be used by the backend to
> determine how the inline asm string should be parsed/printed.  The llvm
> patch adds the attdialect and inteldialect attributes and also adds a test
> case to ensure the IR is correctly parsed, but there is no functional
> change at this time.  The clang patch adds the attdialect attribute to
> GNU-style inline assembly statements with a test case.  There was some
> discussion of adding an asmdialect attribute that accepted an optional
> argument (e.g., asmdialect "intel", asmdialect "att"), but this looks to
> add a great deal of complexity to the attribute handling with minimal
> benefit.
> >
> > Chad
> >
> > [1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2012-August/052356.html)
> >
> >
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