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| author | Stephen Hines <srhines@google.com> | 2013-05-02 16:19:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Stephen Hines <srhines@google.com> | 2013-05-02 16:19:29 -0700 |
| commit | 38578c4919ea18ceb27e29988b2d857afe6215bf (patch) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into merge-20130502
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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst index b5d4180..75415ab 100644 --- a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst +++ b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst @@ -1038,6 +1038,24 @@ for your target. It has the following strengths: are used to manipulate the input immediate (in this case, take the high or low 16-bits of the immediate). +* When using the 'Pat' class to map a pattern to an instruction that has one + or more complex operands (like e.g. `X86 addressing mode`_), the pattern may + either specify the operand as a whole using a ``ComplexPattern``, or else it + may specify the components of the complex operand separately. The latter is + done e.g. for pre-increment instructions by the PowerPC back end: + + :: + + def STWU : DForm_1<37, (outs ptr_rc:$ea_res), (ins GPRC:$rS, memri:$dst), + "stwu $rS, $dst", LdStStoreUpd, []>, + RegConstraint<"$dst.reg = $ea_res">, NoEncode<"$ea_res">; + + def : Pat<(pre_store GPRC:$rS, ptr_rc:$ptrreg, iaddroff:$ptroff), + (STWU GPRC:$rS, iaddroff:$ptroff, ptr_rc:$ptrreg)>; + + Here, the pair of ``ptroff`` and ``ptrreg`` operands is matched onto the + complex operand ``dst`` of class ``memri`` in the ``STWU`` instruction. + * While the system does automate a lot, it still allows you to write custom C++ code to match special cases if there is something that is hard to express. |
