[llvm-dev] How to split immediate in assembly output?

Konstantin Vladimirov via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Mar 30 08:38:51 PDT 2016


Hi,

I am writing simple pattern in td that uses immediate and shall print
it in assembler in two parts. Say for input immediate i:
i1 = i << 2
i2 = i & 3

I want something like (simplified tablegen pseudocode):

def MYINSN  :  Insn<(outs MyOut:$r0), (ins MyReg:$r1, MyImm32:$i),
     "prefix $i1 body $r0, $r1, $i2",
     [(... some pattern here)]>;

In Insn pattern whole string goes to AsmString property.

How can I do it with tablegen? Any examples from existing backends?

P.S. Of course I can do custom node with one more parameter and write
pattern matching in DAGToDAG selection, etc. I just wonder: may be
there is some surprising tablegen magic to do it quickly in-place? In
GCC md patterns allows C-code snippets for such cases, but in LLVM I
can not find such possibility.

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With best regards, Konstnatin


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