[LLVMdev] Whole-function isel

[Evan Cheng]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:37 AM, Dietmar Ebner wrote:

> Evan Cheng wrote:
>> That's unfortunate. What kind of licensing issues are there?
> i've talked to our supporting company and they agreed to release the
> code to interested parties. it's not a copyleft license but the code
> can be used freely for private and research purposes.
>
>
> be warned that the code is merely a prototype implementation and not
> ready for inclusion in LLVM. it also requires a cost augmented graph
> grammar. for our ARM implementation, we could derive a basic set of
> rules directly from the LLVM tablegen description, but additional
> handwritten rules (e.g., replacing the c++ written address mode
> selection) were necessary. the implementation has been ported from
> another private backend which is still evident in some places.
>
>
> if you're still interested in the code, i could prepare a small  
> package
> to play with along with some useful instructions. if you think that a
> PBQP based approach would be useful for LLVM and has a chance for
> inclusion, i would be willing to bring the code in shape and make
> changes where necessary.

Sounds like it's probably not going to be part of llvm then. :-(

Are there parts that might be introduced back?

Thanks,

Evan

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