[llvm-dev] InstAlias with tied operands - can it be supported?

[Florian Hahn via llvm-dev]

Hi,

On 04/01/2018 02:23, via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I defined checkEarlyTargetMatchPredicate() to explicitly check for the 
> tied operands, and it worked.
> 
> I could define an alias like: InstAlias<"oldOP $rd, $rd, $rs1", (NEWOP 
> $rd, $rs1)>
> 

I think for some new Arm SVE instruction there is a related problem. 
Some instructions come with a constraint that the destination register 
must be the same as the first source data register. The example below is 
invalid, because z1 != z2.

   add z1, p0/m, z2, z3


Sander's approach to fixing that was adding a `tied` constraint, as well 
as extending the AsmMatcher to enforce those constraints during assembly 
parsing. The patch is here: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41446

I am not entirely sure if that would help your usecase, but I thought it 
might be helpful and it would be great if we could come up with a single 
way to handle those tied constraints :)

Cheers,
Florian