[llvm-dev] infer correct types from the pattern

[Rail Shafigulin via llvm-dev]

>
> That is kind of hard to answer satisfactorily.  I had done compiler
> development for 8 years before moving on to LLVM, so the understanding of
> how compilers work was not a problem.  The rest was essentially reading the
> code and writing my own.  The beginnings are slow and painful, but the more
> information you absorb, the faster it becomes.
>
> There are some general principles of compiler development, namely that you
> start having a lot of high-level information about the program structure,
> and then the "granularity" increases: the level of detail in the
> representation increases at the cost of losing the high-level information.
> For example, early on, loops and loop nests may be structured nicely,
> making them easy to optimize, but then some branches may become folded, or
> optimized and the CFG may no longer be so clear. So, you perform loop nest
> optimizations before that happens.  Then you run passes that are not
> concerned with the high-level structures, then you run passes that look
> into even more details, and so on.  In case of LLVM, first you have a bunch
> of passes that do target-independent things on the LLVM IR, then the
> influence of target-dependent information (like TTI) increases, then you
> have the selection DAG, then the DAG is legalized, then instructions are
> selected.  After that you have MI with SSA, then register allocation begins
> and you have MI without SSA, then the register allocation ends and you have
> physical registers.  Then machine functions get prolog and epilog, then the
> instructions are lowered to the MC layer, then that is printed (in text
> format, or encoded) into the output stream.  Each of these stages has
> certain properties and the passes that run there utilize (and usually
> preserve) these properties.  The actual details are basically only visible
> in the sources, but if you have a general idea about what is happening,
> these details will be fairly understandable.
>
> The TableGen?  That was a painstaking trial and error. :)
>
>
> -Krzysztof
>
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>

Thanks!

-- 
Rail Shafigulin
Software Engineer
Esencia Technologies
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