[PATCH] D76007: [TableGen][GlobalISel] Account for HwMode in RegisterBank register sizes

Tue Mar 29 09:08:55 PDT 2022

lewis-revill added a comment.

In D76007#3412653 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D76007#3412653>, @arsenm wrote:

> In D76007#3310559 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D76007#3310559>, @lewis-revill wrote:
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>> In D76007#3308144 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D76007#3308144>, @arsenm wrote:
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>>> Register banks do not have sizes. A register bank mapping is a bank plus a size/offset that you can change based on the target's size, not part of the bank itself.
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>> Right. But before this patch there was a max size associated to the bank itself, which is queried by the verifier. And if we want to keep that concept of a maximum size surely we should have it be accurate? So for different hardware modes it should be possible for it to be different.
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> Why is there a maximum size concept? What is it used for? I haven't noticed thisb efore

It's purely used for the verifier (and for similar assertions about type sizes in backends).

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