[LLVMdev] Tablegen question

[Dan Gohman]

On Jun 8, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Manjunath Kudlur wrote:
>
> Now, I can write a tablegen backend that can output a opcode->opcode
> map, which can be used by the pass. Is this and intended use case for
> Tablegen? Or, are tablegen backends supposed to be generic to all
> architecture backends?

In general, it's a design goal to structure CodeGen features as
target-independent code parameterized with target-specific data.
The degree to which this goal is met in LLVM CodeGen features today
varies, but features that have been implemented using TableGen have
been relatively successful.

Dan