[llvm-dev] TableGen 'code' type to be eliminated

[Aaron Ballman via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 7:27 PM Paul C. Anagnostopoulos via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, my plan is to keep the reserved word 'code' as a synonym for 'string', and to continue printing code with the [{...}] brackets.

That'd work fine by me then, thanks!

~Aaron

>
> At 11/20/2020 07:19 PM, Thomas Lively wrote:
> >Would it be possible to keep "code" in the TableGen syntax as an alias for "string" while removing the distinction in TableGen backends? That would retain the documentation benefits of "code" in .td files. TBH, this is how I thought "code" and "string" already worked; I wasn't aware of the distinction.
>
> _______________________________________________
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev