[LLVMdev] Code morphing pass

[Speziale Ettore]

Hello,

> <xor>
>  <alternative>(xor r1 r2)</alternative>
>  <alternative>
>    (and (or register1 register2) (not (and register1 register2)))
>  </alternative>
> </xor>
>
> Parsing the string inside the alternative blocks I should be able to
> build basic blocks that contain a sequence of instruction semantically
> equivalent to the original one. And here is my question :)
>
> Is there any way of doing this using the LLVM infrastructure in a
> simpler or more efficient way?

You can write a TableGen tool to lex and parse your file. The syntax
of the config file will be different, but in this way you have only to
implement semantic analysis.

Bye,
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