<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I noticed that the TableGen code emitter generator assumes that the instruction fields are declared in the instruction format in the same order that operands are defined. This seems like a bad dependence to me, and that TableGen should match the name of field declared in the instruction with the name of the operand in order to determine which operand of the MI to use</DIV><DIV>.</DIV><DIV>See CodeEmitterGen.cpp:170 and neighborhood.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Unfortunately there are naming discrepancies between the instruction format fields and the operand names in all existing code emitters that use TableGen, which would require some significant renaming cleanup.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thoughts on binding operand names to instruction field names for the code emitter?</DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Christopher Lamb</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>