[LLVMdev] making emitInlineAsm protected

[Eric Christopher]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Reed Kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
> On 01/28/2014 06:29 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
>>
>> Uhhhh...
>>
>> -eric
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:56 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would like to make the following member of AsmPrinter be protected
>>>
>>>
>>> void EmitInlineAsm(StringRef Str, const MDNode *LocMDNode = 0,
>>>                         InlineAsm::AsmDialect AsmDialect =
>>>                             InlineAsm::AD_ATT) const;
>>>
>>> I have some stubs that I want to emit in MipsAsmParser .
>>>
>>> Are there any objections to doing this?
>>>
>>> Reed
>>>
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>
> Stubs to emit in MipsAsmPrinter
>
> I think you were one of the people that was against me emitting the inline
> asm earlier as part of the IR.
>
> Well, now I am starting to move that to the back end of code generation due
> to other issues that were not apparent when I first implemented this mips16
> hard float.
>
> Also, it was agreed at that time that it would be better if possible to do
> things this way.
>
>

Why not just note that you need to emit the functions as you output
and then emit them during MC?

-eric