[LLVMdev] MachineMemOperands

David Greene dag at cray.com
Wed Dec 2 15:03:46 PST 2009


On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:26, Chris Lattner wrote:

> > Yes, I've written all that support.  But that doesn't cover
> > MachineMemOperands.  AFAIK there's no machine-independent way to tell
> > which instruction operands make up a MachineMemOperand.  And even then,
> > that would only tell you about the compoenents that make up the address,
> > not the data itself.  Note that having a machine-independent way to
> > associate MachineOperands with MachineMemOperands would also be highly
> > useful, but that will come later.
>
> Again, you're saying that you need something without explaining what for.

No, no, I don't need this particular mapping.  What I need is information to
determine whether a MachineMemOperand is of vector type.  Hence the EVT
would be useful.  I don't care right now which MachineOperands it aggregates.

                             -Dave



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