[LLVMdev] tablegen nomenclature

[Jakob Stoklund Olesen]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Reed Kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:

> What would you call elements of the form:
> 
> xyz:$abc   -- variables seems to be the name in the tablegen code
> 
> ???
> 
> They are not mentioned in the tablegen users guide but of course used 
> heavily.

It's part of the DAG syntax. The part after the colon is called the variable name. It's just a string.

> xyx must be a def and exist?

Yes.

/jakob