[LLVMdev] Adding instructions to MachineBlock

[Manjunath Kudlur]

You are right, there are other approaches possible. In my case, I want
to retain some vector operations. So I translated all LLVM vector
instructions to machine vector instructions. Then I am writing this
phase to selectively translate some vector instructions to scalar
counter parts. But I feel the question is independent of this issue. I
am basically trying to add a new instruction with a def to a register.
BB->insert is failing because RegInfo->getRegUseDefListHead(getReg())
returns 0xffffffff.

Manjunath

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Manjunath Kudlur<keveman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am writing a MachineFunction pass that converts vector instructions
>> to a sequence of scalar instructions.
>
> Why?  That really isn't the level you want to be doing that sort of
> thing normally.  Usually, legalization turns illegal vector operations
> into legal scalar operations.
>
> -Eli
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