[LLVMdev] The poor organization of TargetLowering (and related subclasses) is out of hand

[Nadav Rotem]

> On Jul 2, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> (Sorry for CC'ing piles of people, but didn't want folks to miss this in the mailing list churn.)
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> See the subject. The problem is in the target-independent code generator and especially in the x86 backend.
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> I would like to fix it. This will be a mechanical change just organizing code in a way that makes it easy and fast to find methods and related static helpers. It will not change any actual functionality. But it will pretty much completely break the utility of looking at only a single layer of blame. Fortunately we have nice tools like 'git blame' that can step incrementally back through time.
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> If anyone is radically opposed to me cleaning up TargetLowering.h, TargetLoweringBase.cpp, and X86ISelLowering.{h,cpp}, shout. Otherwise, I will clean this up with a vengence. I've CC'ed piles of folks who are actively contributing and might be seriously impacted to make sure I don't really make life horrible for folks.
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> -Chandler

+1. Good luck. If I remember correctly there is a circular dependency problem in TargetLowering.{h,cpp} and that’s why so much stuff goes into the .h file. It would be nice to see this problem goes away. Also, breaking X86ISelLowering.cpp into multiple files sounds like an excellent idea. Thanks for working on this Chandler!