[LLVMdev] Utilizing gperf for TableGen

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 1, 2008, at 1:51 AM, Wilhansen Li wrote:

> The output of TableGen (intrinsics.gen) seems a bit too clunky
> specifically the switching parts (input the string, output the enum).
> Moreover, the code makes MSVC barf due to its nesting limit which even
> applices to if-else statements.

Right, fixing the VC++ issue is straight-forward.  I will do it in the  
next couple of days if noone beats me to it.


> One one hand, gperf
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/gperf.html) offers a way to
> map strings to records without much difficulty (and it does its job
> efficiently).
>
> My point is, are there plans to utilize gperf for table generation?

Not that I know of.  Anton is working on a better and more aggressive  
implementation of this code in question though,

-Chris