[LLVMdev] Enhancing TableGen

[David A. Greene]

Bill Wendling <wendling at apple.com> writes:

> On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:03 PM, David A. Greene wrote:
>> 
>>>> How about a less massive and complicated scheme?  I think we can
>>>> make some good improvements to the current spec that will help
>>>> with the MIC work.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to defer MIC work until it's finalized. But yes, incremental
>>> refinement is always welcome.
>> 
>> Ok.  I'd like to do some of this incremental work to prepare for MIC.  I
>> will do this in small batches and please do keep telling me when I'm
>> heading off track.  :)
>> 
> As the release enginerd, I would encourage you to hold off any changes
> to TableGen until after Friday, if they can wait. :-) Of course, Jakob
> gets the final say on whether they go in or not.

If I can get the for loop done, it would benefit all targets even if
it's just used for top-level defs.  It would be a nice 3.0 feature, I
think.

What do you think, Jakob?

I would not do any other major changes before the branch.  Doing
otherwise would be mostly insane.  :)

                              -Dave