[LLVMdev] Question about 'side-effect' and 'chain'

[Heyu Zhu]

Thank Duncan for your patient explaining. It gives me a great help to read
source
code of  ISellowering and  selectionDAG and  ISelDAG

Thanks



2009/12/6, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr>:
>
> Hi,
>
> 1 What side effects do operatios of  loads/stores/calls/returns have?
>> (maybe i don't understand concept of side effect )
>>
>
> suppose you do a store to a memory location, and then load from the
> memory location.  This is not the same as first doing the load and
> then only afterwards doing the store!  How to represent the order in the
> SDAG?  The SDAG is not a linear sequence of instructions like LLVM IR
> in a basic block.  In the SDAG things are related only via "uses", eg:
> node A uses a result of node B.  So to represent order relationships
> (this load must occur after that store), nodes are given an additional
> artificial result (the "chain"), just so it can be used by another node.
> So store nodes have a result, the chain, which can be used by a load.
> As a general rule, if node A uses a result of node B, then B has to be
> executed before A.  This, if a load uses the chain result of a store,
> then the load will occur after the store.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Duncan.
>
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