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authormike-m <mikem.llvm@gmail.com>2010-05-06 23:45:43 +0000
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Overhauled llvm/clang docs builds. Closes PR6613.
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-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:56:56 -0500
-From: Vikram S. Adve <vadve@cs.uiuc.edu>
-To: Chris Lattner <lattner@cs.uiuc.edu>
-Subject: lowering the IR
-
-BTW, I do think that we should consider lowering the IR as you said. I
-didn't get time to raise it today, but it comes up with the SPARC
-move-conditional instruction. I don't think we want to put that in the core
-VM -- it is a little too specialized. But without a corresponding
-conditional move instruction in the VM, it is pretty difficult to maintain a
-close mapping between VM and machine code. Other architectures may have
-other such instructions.
-
-What I was going to suggest was that for a particular processor, we define
-additional VM instructions that match some of the unusual opcodes on the
-processor but have VM semantics otherwise, i.e., all operands are in SSA
-form and typed. This means that we can re-generate core VM code from the
-more specialized code any time we want (so that portability is not lost).
-
-Typically, a static compiler like gcc would generate just the core VM, which
-is relatively portable. Anyone (an offline tool, the linker, etc., or even
-the static compiler itself if it chooses) can transform that into more
-specialized target-specific VM code for a particular architecture. If the
-linker does it, it can do it after all machine-independent optimizations.
-This would be the most convenient, but not necessary.
-
-The main benefit of lowering will be that we will be able to retain a close
-mapping between VM and machine code.
-
---Vikram
-