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Commit 50334319 authored by Min-Yih Hsu's avatar Min-Yih Hsu
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[M68k][TableGen](1/8) TableGen related changes

 - Add a new TableGen backend: CodeBeads
 - Add support to generate logical operand information

For the first item, it is currently a workaround of M68k's (complex)
instruction encoding. A typical architecture, especially CISC one like
X86, normally uses `MCInstrDesc::TSFlags` to carry instruction encoding
info. However, at the early days of M68k backend development, we found
it difficult to fit every possible encoding into the 64-bit
`MCInstrDesc::TSFlags`. Therefore CodeBeads was invented to provide
an alternative, arbitrary length container for instruciton encoding
info. However, in the long term we incline not to use a new TG
backend for less common pattern like what we encountered in M68k. A bug
has been created to host to discussion on migrating from CodeBeads to
more concise solution: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48792

The second item was also served for similar purpose. It created utility
functions that tell you the index of a `MachineOperand` in a
`MachineInst` given a logical operand index. In normal cases a logical
operand is the same as `MachineOperand`, but for operands using complex
addressing mode a logical operand might be consisting of multiple
`MachineOperand`. The TableGen-ed `getLogicalOperandIdx`, for instance,
can give you the mapping between these two concepts. Nevertheless, we
hope to remove this feature in the future if possible. Since it's not
really useful for the targets supported by LLVM now either.

Authors: myhsu, m4yers, glaubitz

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88385
parent a3fee399
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