<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I'm looking for some feedback on the changes represented in the attached patches, which I'll describe below.</div>
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<div>I'm sending this to both the LLVM and Clang list because it affects both, though the main focus here is LLVM.<br clear="all"></div>
<div>Basically, I've partially implemented some changes for choosing multiple alternative constraints largely on the LLVM side.</div>
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<div>The Clang change is to output the multiple constraints using a '|' character in the constraint strings to delimit the alternatives.</div>
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<div>The LLVM change is as follows.</div>
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<div>In an earlier attempt, I just hacked up SelectionDAGBuilder::visitInlineAsm, and pretty much used the same logic in TargetLowering::ComputeConstraintToUse/ChooseConstraint. But then I discovered that InlineAsm::ParseConstraints was called in a couple of other places, and in one of those places (IsOperandAMemoryOperand in AddrModeMatcher.cpp), there wasn't a DAG pointer handy (at least I don't think there is, as I'm not too familiar yet with LLVM internals), which meant that I needed to handle multiple alternative constraints in other places besides just SelectionDAGBuilder::visitInlineAsm.</div>
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<div>Basically I see that there are three layers of contraint info classes, SDISelAsmOperandInfo -> AsmOperandInfo -> ConstraintInfo. Therefore, I implemented a different scheme, putting a ParseConstraints function in TargetLowering that returns a vector of AsmOperandInfo objects, and which will do the constraint selection without needing the DAG. I'm assuming the value info in the operands from the callsite object is sufficient to choose the constraints. I also added some other virtual functions to TargetLowering to allow the different targets to handle the target-specific contraints. At present, I only overrode the getSingleConstraintMatchWeight function in X86TargetLowering, and just for one constraint letter, as an example.</div>
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<div>In the three places where the original InlineAsm::ParseConstraints was called (CodeGenPrepare.cpp, AddrModeMatcher.cpp, and SelectionDAGBuilder), I replaced the calls with calls to TargetLowering::ParseConstraints, and revised the loops over the constraints accordingly, which were still needed to set up SDISelAsmOperandInfo objects or get other information the code was looking for. SelectionDAGBuilder::visitInlineAsm I especially reordered bit at the front, to make things work. I left in a little bit of overlap in the setting of the CallOperandVal member in the first for loop, which I could factor out, as I really just need the output and input counts.</div>
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<div>Bascially, I wanted to get some feedback before I went too much farther down this road. I think the main work left is to add support for all or some subset of both the generic and target-specific constraints, and to write tests for them all.</div>
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<div>Since I had trouble with running tests on a Windows box, I set up a Linux box so I could run the regression tests. The tests still pass with these changes.</div>
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<div>So, my main question is, am I on the right track? And either way, specific information on problems would be appreciated too.</div>
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<div>Another question concerns the weighting I used for choosing the constraints. Bascially I pretty much used the same prioritization used in TargetLowering::ComputeConstraintToUse/ChooseConstraint, which will chose memory operands over register. I would have thought a register operand would have been a better choice over memory, but then that raises the question of whether you can know what's already in a register when this instruction is reached. I haven't gotten deep enough to know yet. I assume it's like this because it is more likely to be a correct fit, if not optimal.</div>
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<div>It seems that if the value info in the operands from the callsite object is sufficient to choose the constraints, the ComputeConstraintToUse/ChooseConstraint function could also use this scheme, probably just calling the same get weight functions, to be a bit more efficient. I left it alone for now, because I know it works as it is.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div>-John</div>
<div><br>-- <br>John Thompson<br><a href="mailto:John.Thompson.JTSoftware@gmail.com">John.Thompson.JTSoftware@gmail.com</a><br><br></div>