From e70de1f462ca26c17f39d36c91e4784ff035f90d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Silva Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:39:46 +0000 Subject: [docs] Guide prospective TableGen backend writers. Boilerplate is often the hardest part of getting started with these kinds of things, so throw them a bone. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@173969 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst b/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst index 526795f..4fe4bb9 100644 --- a/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst +++ b/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst @@ -791,6 +791,10 @@ Expressions used by code generator to describe instructions and isel patterns: TableGen backends ================= +Until we get a step-by-step HowTo for writing TableGen backends, you can at +least grab the boilerplate (build system, new files, etc.) from Clang's +r173931. + TODO: How they work, how to write one. This section should not contain details about any particular backend, except maybe ``-print-enums`` as an example. This should highlight the APIs in ``TableGen/Record.h``. -- cgit v1.1