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<h1 class="title">Customizing LLVMC: Reference Manual</h1>
-<table class="docinfo" frame="void" rules="none">
-<col class="docinfo-name" />
-<col class="docinfo-content" />
-<tbody valign="top">
-<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th>
-<td>Mikhail Glushenkov &lt;<a class="reference" href="mailto:foldr&#64;codedegers.com">foldr&#64;codedegers.com</a>&gt;</td></tr>
-</tbody>
-</table>
+<div class="contents topic">
+<p class="topic-title first"><a id="contents" name="contents">Contents</a></p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><a class="reference" href="#introduction" id="id4" name="id4">Introduction</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#compiling-with-llvmc" id="id5" name="id5">Compiling with LLVMC</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#predefined-options" id="id6" name="id6">Predefined options</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#compiling-llvmc-plugins" id="id7" name="id7">Compiling LLVMC plugins</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#customizing-llvmc-the-compilation-graph" id="id8" name="id8">Customizing LLVMC: the compilation graph</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#describing-options" id="id9" name="id9">Describing options</a><ul>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#external-options" id="id10" name="id10">External options</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#conditional-evaluation" id="id11" name="id11">Conditional evaluation</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#writing-a-tool-description" id="id12" name="id12">Writing a tool description</a><ul>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#actions" id="id13" name="id13">Actions</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#language-map" id="id14" name="id14">Language map</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#more-advanced-topics" id="id15" name="id15">More advanced topics</a><ul>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#hooks-and-environment-variables" id="id16" name="id16">Hooks and environment variables</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#how-plugins-are-loaded" id="id17" name="id17">How plugins are loaded</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference" href="#debugging" id="id18" name="id18">Debugging</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="doc_author">
+<p>Written by <a href="mailto:foldr@codedgers.com">Mikhail Glushenkov</a></p>
+</div><div class="section">
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" id="introduction" name="introduction">Introduction</a></h1>
<p>LLVMC is a generic compiler driver, designed to be customizable and
extensible. It plays the same role for LLVM as the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gcc</span></tt> program
does for GCC - LLVMC's job is essentially to transform a set of input
@@ -31,36 +52,11 @@ abstract graph. The structure of this graph is completely determined
by plugins, which can be either statically or dynamically linked. This
makes it possible to easily adapt LLVMC for other purposes - for
example, as a build tool for game resources.</p>
-<p>Because LLVMC employs TableGen <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id7" id="id1" name="id1">[1]</a> as its configuration language, you
+<p>Because LLVMC employs <a class="reference" href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/TableGenFundamentals.html">TableGen</a> as its configuration language, you
need to be familiar with it to customize LLVMC.</p>
-<div class="contents topic">
-<p class="topic-title first"><a id="contents" name="contents">Contents</a></p>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><a class="reference" href="#compiling-with-llvmc" id="id10" name="id10">Compiling with LLVMC</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#predefined-options" id="id11" name="id11">Predefined options</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#compiling-llvmc-plugins" id="id12" name="id12">Compiling LLVMC plugins</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#customizing-llvmc-the-compilation-graph" id="id13" name="id13">Customizing LLVMC: the compilation graph</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#describing-options" id="id14" name="id14">Describing options</a><ul>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#external-options" id="id15" name="id15">External options</a></li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#conditional-evaluation" id="id16" name="id16">Conditional evaluation</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#writing-a-tool-description" id="id17" name="id17">Writing a tool description</a><ul>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#actions" id="id18" name="id18">Actions</a></li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#language-map" id="id19" name="id19">Language map</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#more-advanced-topics" id="id20" name="id20">More advanced topics</a><ul>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#hooks-and-environment-variables" id="id21" name="id21">Hooks and environment variables</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#how-plugins-are-loaded" id="id22" name="id22">How plugins are loaded</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#debugging" id="id23" name="id23">Debugging</a></li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id24" name="id24">References</a></li>
-</ul>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10" id="compiling-with-llvmc" name="compiling-with-llvmc">Compiling with LLVMC</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" id="compiling-with-llvmc" name="compiling-with-llvmc">Compiling with LLVMC</a></h1>
<p>LLVMC tries hard to be as compatible with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gcc</span></tt> as possible,
although there are some small differences. Most of the time, however,
you shouldn't be able to notice them:</p>
@@ -98,7 +94,7 @@ also possible to choose the work-in-progress <tt class="docutils literal"><span
the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-clang</span></tt> option.</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11" id="predefined-options" name="predefined-options">Predefined options</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" id="predefined-options" name="predefined-options">Predefined options</a></h1>
<p>LLVMC has some built-in options that can't be overridden in the
configuration libraries:</p>
<ul class="simple">
@@ -121,7 +117,7 @@ their standard meaning.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12" id="compiling-llvmc-plugins" name="compiling-llvmc-plugins">Compiling LLVMC plugins</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" id="compiling-llvmc-plugins" name="compiling-llvmc-plugins">Compiling LLVMC plugins</a></h1>
<p>It's easiest to start working on your own LLVMC plugin by copying the
skeleton project which lives under <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$LLVMC_DIR/plugins/Simple</span></tt>:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
@@ -174,7 +170,7 @@ $ make BUILTIN_PLUGINS=&quot;&quot;
</pre>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13" id="customizing-llvmc-the-compilation-graph" name="customizing-llvmc-the-compilation-graph">Customizing LLVMC: the compilation graph</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8" id="customizing-llvmc-the-compilation-graph" name="customizing-llvmc-the-compilation-graph">Customizing LLVMC: the compilation graph</a></h1>
<p>Each TableGen configuration file should include the common
definitions:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
@@ -242,7 +238,7 @@ debugging), run <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">llvmc</span> <spa
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gsview</span></tt> installed for this to work properly.</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14" id="describing-options" name="describing-options">Describing options</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9" id="describing-options" name="describing-options">Describing options</a></h1>
<p>Command-line options that the plugin supports are defined by using an
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OptionList</span></tt>:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
@@ -293,7 +289,7 @@ output.</li>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="section">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15" id="external-options" name="external-options">External options</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10" id="external-options" name="external-options">External options</a></h2>
<p>Sometimes, when linking several plugins together, one plugin needs to
access options defined in some other plugin. Because of the way
options are implemented, such options should be marked as
@@ -308,7 +304,7 @@ for. Example:</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16" id="conditional-evaluation" name="conditional-evaluation"><span id="case"></span>Conditional evaluation</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11" id="conditional-evaluation" name="conditional-evaluation"><span id="case"></span>Conditional evaluation</a></h1>
<p>The 'case' construct is the main means by which programmability is
achieved in LLVMC. It can be used to calculate edge weights, program
actions and modify the shell commands to be executed. The 'case'
@@ -386,7 +382,7 @@ one of its arguments returns true. Example: <tt class="docutils literal"><span c
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17" id="writing-a-tool-description" name="writing-a-tool-description">Writing a tool description</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12" id="writing-a-tool-description" name="writing-a-tool-description">Writing a tool description</a></h1>
<p>As was said earlier, nodes in the compilation graph represent tools,
which are described separately. A tool definition looks like this
(taken from the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">include/llvm/CompilerDriver/Tools.td</span></tt> file):</p>
@@ -428,7 +424,7 @@ below).</li>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="section">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18" id="actions" name="actions">Actions</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13" id="actions" name="actions">Actions</a></h2>
<p>A tool often needs to react to command-line options, and this is
precisely what the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">actions</span></tt> property is for. The next example
illustrates this feature:</p>
@@ -486,7 +482,7 @@ Example: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(unpack_values</span> <s
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19" id="language-map" name="language-map">Language map</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14" id="language-map" name="language-map">Language map</a></h1>
<p>If you are adding support for a new language to LLVMC, you'll need to
modify the language map, which defines mappings from file extensions
to language names. It is used to choose the proper toolchain(s) for a
@@ -509,9 +505,9 @@ multiple output languages, for nodes &quot;inside&quot; the graph the input and
output languages should match. This is enforced at compile-time.</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20" id="more-advanced-topics" name="more-advanced-topics">More advanced topics</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15" id="more-advanced-topics" name="more-advanced-topics">More advanced topics</a></h1>
<div class="section">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21" id="hooks-and-environment-variables" name="hooks-and-environment-variables"><span id="hooks"></span>Hooks and environment variables</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16" id="hooks-and-environment-variables" name="hooks-and-environment-variables"><span id="hooks"></span>Hooks and environment variables</a></h2>
<p>Normally, LLVMC executes programs from the system <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt>. Sometimes,
this is not sufficient: for example, we may want to specify tool names
in the configuration file. This can be achieved via the mechanism of
@@ -539,7 +535,7 @@ the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">case</span></tt> expression (
</pre>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22" id="how-plugins-are-loaded" name="how-plugins-are-loaded"><span id="priorities"></span>How plugins are loaded</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17" id="how-plugins-are-loaded" name="how-plugins-are-loaded"><span id="priorities"></span>How plugins are loaded</a></h2>
<p>It is possible for LLVMC plugins to depend on each other. For example,
one can create edges between nodes defined in some other plugin. To
make this work, however, that plugin should be loaded first. To
@@ -555,50 +551,27 @@ with 0. Therefore, the plugin with the highest priority value will be
loaded last.</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23" id="debugging" name="debugging">Debugging</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18" id="debugging" name="debugging">Debugging</a></h2>
<p>When writing LLVMC plugins, it can be useful to get a visual view of
the resulting compilation graph. This can be achieved via the command
-line option <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--view-graph</span></tt>. This command assumes that Graphviz <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id8" id="id5" name="id5">[2]</a> and
-Ghostview <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id9" id="id6" name="id6">[3]</a> are installed. There is also a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--dump-graph</span></tt> option that
-creates a Graphviz source file(<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">compilation-graph.dot</span></tt>) in the
+line option <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--view-graph</span></tt>. This command assumes that <a class="reference" href="http://www.graphviz.org/">Graphviz</a> and
+<a class="reference" href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/">Ghostview</a> are installed. There is also a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--dump-graph</span></tt> option that
+creates a Graphviz source file (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">compilation-graph.dot</span></tt>) in the
current directory.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24" id="references" name="references">References</a></h1>
-<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id7" rules="none">
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-<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1" name="id7">[1]</a></td><td>TableGen Fundamentals
-<a class="reference" href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/TableGenFundamentals.html">http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/TableGenFundamentals.html</a></td></tr>
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-<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id8" rules="none">
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-<tbody valign="top">
-<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id5" name="id8">[2]</a></td><td>Graphviz
-<a class="reference" href="http://www.graphviz.org/">http://www.graphviz.org/</a></td></tr>
-</tbody>
-</table>
-<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id9" rules="none">
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-<tbody valign="top">
-<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id6" name="id9">[3]</a></td><td>Ghostview
-<a class="reference" href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/">http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/</a></td></tr>
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