[LLVMdev] Utilizing gperf for TableGen

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 3, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Wilhansen Li wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> This should be fixed now, please verify, thanks!
>>
>> -Chris
>
> The newer code that TableGen produces is indeed lower however, MSVC
> still throws the same error messages (and moreover, I don't think
> they're fixing it anytime soon.. I'll try to re-open this issue to
> them). Also, it seems that the new code produces an extraneous "if
> (0);" statement before each of the else-if chains. Normally, compilers
> would (and should) just optimize them away but it still counts agains
> MSVC's ``nesting limit''.

Alright, try this:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20071231/056771.html

-Chris