[llvm-commits] An addition operator for TableGen

[Jakob Stoklund Olesen]

On Jan 24, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> Please review the attached patch which adds an addition operator !add(a, b) to TableGen. I'd like to use this to cleanup the PPC register definitions (associated patch also attached). This patch is based on David Greene's !mul proposal.

Hi Hal,

I think it is great to add expressions to TableGen, but as Sean pointed out, the syntax proposed here is really gross.

Surely a gaggle of compiler engineers can do better!

/jakob