Can you clarify what you mean by "different kinds of immediates"? Are
you
talking about a fixed immediate like "1" or an immediate that requires
a
predicate to check the value?
~Craig
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:10 AM David Greene via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
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> We've defined some instruction aliases for our target but are having
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> trouble with the assembler. According to the documentation
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> (https://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#instruction-aliases) LLVM has
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> the capability of defining aliases with different kinds of operands. We
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> use that capability to define, for example, different alises based on
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> the kind of immediate seen.
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> However, it seems that the generated assembler can't distinguish these
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> different kinds of immediates and ends up encoding the wrong operation,
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> leading to incorrect assembly.
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> Is this a known limitation? Are we perhaps missing some option to the
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> InstAlias class (UseInstAsmMatchConverter?), some option to TableGen or
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> perhaps we can add some custom code to pick the right MC instruction?
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> I'm thinking AsmMatchConverter might be what we need but a quick search
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> didn't locate any documentation of what this is and how to use it.
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> Thanks in advance for the help!
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>
>
> David
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