[flang-dev] [EXTERNAL] [LLVM Flang] Code gen option: `-emit-fir` vs `-emit-mlir`

[Mehdi AMINI via flang-dev]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 8:22 AM Perry-Holby, Alexis via flang-dev <
flang-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Andrzej,
>
> For my two cents, I have a mild preference for -emit-fir.  When I see
> -emit-mlir I think it implies that only the standard dialect will be
> present (i.e. no fir in there).


FYI: the standard dialect is shrinking and the goal is for it to disappear
entirely.


>   That could just be me though.  Like I said, mine is a mild preference
> and switching wouldn't cause me much issue.
>
> -- Alexis
>
>
> On 9/9/21, 8:03 AM, "flang-dev on behalf of Andrzej Warzynski via
> flang-dev" <flang-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org on behalf of
> flang-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     We have recently started working on adding code-gen support in the
> Flang
>     driver. Our first PR is available on GitHub [1] and implements the
>     "parse tree --> MLIR" step.
>
>     What should be the corresponding option in `flang-new`? `bbc` uses
>     `-emit-fir` [2], but `-emit-mlir` would probably be more accurate.
>     Indeed, currently the generated output uses multiple MLIR dialects
>     (rather than just FIR).
>
>     Please comment either here or on GitHub.
>
>     Thank you,
>     -Andrzej
>
>     [1] https://github.com/flang-compiler/f18-llvm-project/pull/1008
>     [2]
>
> https://github.com/flang-compiler/f18-llvm-project/blob/fir-dev/flang/tools/bbc/bbc.cpp#L87-L90
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