[llvm-dev] Checking when Register Allocation has been performed

[Matthias Braun via llvm-dev]

> On Jan 16, 2018, at 11:31 PM, Martin J. O'Riordan <MartinO at theheart.ie> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Matthias,
>  
> I have both a pre-RA and a post-RA scheduler, and I had thought that I could track “has RA happened?” by setting a flag in my pre-RA scheduler as it completes - my suspicion (which you have confirmed) was that “#vregs == 0” was not a safe assumption.  What I cannot be sure of, is what passes execute after my pre-RA scheduler but before RA, and what passes execute after RA but before my post-RA scheduler since this is largely target-independent.  If any of those passes trigger a custom lowering action (frame setup for example), and it requires additional scratch registers, then my code generation strategy needs to change.  As it happens, I know that frame lowering always occurs post-RA so that is not a real example, but is it possible that another pass between pre-RA and post-RA scheduling could trigger lowering actions?  If not, then setting a flag in my pre-RA scheduler will solve the problem perfectly.
Do you have a specific callback in TargetInstrInfo or similar in mind? I would expect them to either be used pre-ra or post-ra but not both...

- Matthias

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