[LLVMdev] Whole-function isel

[Dietmar Ebner]

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.

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dietmar


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