[LLVMdev] new IA64 backend

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Andrew Lenharth wrote:
>> This was in my plan to implement, but unfortunately I won't have time to
>> play with this for a while. :(
>
> Right, but once the MI are RAed, you want to be able to do a post-pass
> scheduling also.  So you need to be able to take a MBB and produce a
> DAG.  A scheduler obviously wouldn't care how it came about having a
> DAG.  And it is easier to do the lift from a MBB to a DAG than to change
> the entire ISelPattern process at the moment.  Baby steps.

Oh right, for post-pass scheduling I completely agree.

-Chris

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