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   Writing an LLVM Compiler Backend
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   <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a>
   <ul>
     <li><a href="#Audience">Audience</a></li>
     <li><a href="#Prerequisite">Prerequisite Reading</a></li>
     <li><a href="#Basic">Basic Steps</a></li>
     <li><a href="#Preliminaries">Preliminaries</a></li>
   </ul>
   <li><a href="#TargetMachine">Target Machine</a></li>
   <li><a href="#TargetRegistration">Target Registration</a></li>
   <li><a href="#RegisterSet">Register Set and Register Classes</a>
   <ul>
     <li><a href="#RegisterDef">Defining a Register</a></li>
     <li><a href="#RegisterClassDef">Defining a Register Class</a></li>
     <li><a href="#implementRegister">Implement a subclass of TargetRegisterInfo</a></li>
   </ul></li>
   <li><a href="#InstructionSet">Instruction Set</a>
   <ul>
     <li><a href="#operandMapping">Instruction Operand Mapping</a></li>
     <li><a href="#implementInstr">Implement a subclass of TargetInstrInfo</a></li>
     <li><a href="#branchFolding">Branch Folding and If Conversion</a></li>
   </ul></li>
   <li><a href="#InstructionSelector">Instruction Selector</a>
   <ul>
     <li><a href="#LegalizePhase">The SelectionDAG Legalize Phase</a>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="#promote">Promote</a></li>
       <li><a href="#expand">Expand</a></li>
       <li><a href="#custom">Custom</a></li>
       <li><a href="#legal">Legal</a></li>
     </ul></li>
     <li><a href="#callingConventions">Calling Conventions</a></li>
   </ul></li>
   <li><a href="#assemblyPrinter">Assembly Printer</a></li>
   <li><a href="#subtargetSupport">Subtarget Support</a></li>
   <li><a href="#jitSupport">JIT Support</a>
   <ul>
     <li><a href="#mce">Machine Code Emitter</a></li>
     <li><a href="#targetJITInfo">Target JIT Info</a></li>
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   <p>Written by <a href="http://www.woo.com">Mason Woo</a> and
                 <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a></p>
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   <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
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 <p>
 This document describes techniques for writing compiler backends that convert
 the LLVM Intermediate Representation (IR) to code for a specified machine or
 other languages. Code intended for a specific machine can take the form of
 either assembly code or binary code (usable for a JIT compiler).
 </p>

 <p>
 The backend of LLVM features a target-independent code generator that may create
 output for several types of target CPUs &mdash; including X86, PowerPC, Alpha,
 and SPARC. The backend may also be used to generate code targeted at SPUs of the
 Cell processor or GPUs to support the execution of compute kernels.
 </p>

 <p>
 The document focuses on existing examples found in subdirectories
 of <tt>llvm/lib/Target</tt> in a downloaded LLVM release. In particular, this
 document focuses on the example of creating a static compiler (one that emits
 text assembly) for a SPARC target, because SPARC has fairly standard
 characteristics, such as a RISC instruction set and straightforward calling
 conventions.
 </p>

 </div>

 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="Audience">Audience</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The audience for this document is anyone who needs to write an LLVM backend to
 generate code for a specific hardware or software target.
 </p>

 </div>

 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="Prerequisite">Prerequisite Reading</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 These essential documents must be read before reading this document:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><i><a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html">LLVM Language Reference
     Manual</a></i> &mdash; a reference manual for the LLVM assembly language.</li>

 <li><i><a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html">The LLVM
     Target-Independent Code Generator</a></i> &mdash; a guide to the components
     (classes and code generation algorithms) for translating the LLVM internal
     representation into machine code for a specified target.  Pay particular
     attention to the descriptions of code generation stages: Instruction
     Selection, Scheduling and Formation, SSA-based Optimization, Register
     Allocation, Prolog/Epilog Code Insertion, Late Machine Code Optimizations,
     and Code Emission.</li>

 <li><i><a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/TableGenFundamentals.html">TableGen
     Fundamentals</a></i> &mdash;a document that describes the TableGen
     (<tt>tblgen</tt>) application that manages domain-specific information to
     support LLVM code generation. TableGen processes input from a target
     description file (<tt>.td</tt> suffix) and generates C++ code that can be
     used for code generation.</li>

 <li><i><a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html">Writing an LLVM
     Pass</a></i> &mdash; The assembly printer is a <tt>FunctionPass</tt>, as are
     several SelectionDAG processing steps.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 To follow the SPARC examples in this document, have a copy of
 <i><a href="http://www.sparc.org/standards/V8.pdf">The SPARC Architecture
 Manual, Version 8</a></i> for reference. For details about the ARM instruction
 set, refer to the <i><a href="http://infocenter.arm.com/">ARM Architecture
 Reference Manual</a></i>. For more about the GNU Assembler format
 (<tt>GAS</tt>), see
 <i><a href="http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/index.html">Using As</a></i>,
 especially for the assembly printer. <i>Using As</i> contains a list of target
 machine dependent features.
 </p>

 </div>

 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="Basic">Basic Steps</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 To write a compiler backend for LLVM that converts the LLVM IR to code for a
 specified target (machine or other language), follow these steps:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li>Create a subclass of the TargetMachine class that describes characteristics
     of your target machine. Copy existing examples of specific TargetMachine
     class and header files; for example, start with
     <tt>SparcTargetMachine.cpp</tt> and <tt>SparcTargetMachine.h</tt>, but
     change the file names for your target. Similarly, change code that
     references "Sparc" to reference your target. </li>

 <li>Describe the register set of the target. Use TableGen to generate code for
     register definition, register aliases, and register classes from a
     target-specific <tt>RegisterInfo.td</tt> input file. You should also write
     additional code for a subclass of the TargetRegisterInfo class that
     represents the class register file data used for register allocation and
     also describes the interactions between registers.</li>

 <li>Describe the instruction set of the target. Use TableGen to generate code
     for target-specific instructions from target-specific versions of
     <tt>TargetInstrFormats.td</tt> and <tt>TargetInstrInfo.td</tt>. You should
     write additional code for a subclass of the TargetInstrInfo class to
     represent machine instructions supported by the target machine. </li>

 <li>Describe the selection and conversion of the LLVM IR from a Directed Acyclic
     Graph (DAG) representation of instructions to native target-specific
     instructions. Use TableGen to generate code that matches patterns and
     selects instructions based on additional information in a target-specific
     version of <tt>TargetInstrInfo.td</tt>. Write code
     for <tt>XXXISelDAGToDAG.cpp</tt>, where XXX identifies the specific target,
     to perform pattern matching and DAG-to-DAG instruction selection. Also write
     code in <tt>XXXISelLowering.cpp</tt> to replace or remove operations and
     data types that are not supported natively in a SelectionDAG. </li>

 <li>Write code for an assembly printer that converts LLVM IR to a GAS format for
     your target machine.  You should add assembly strings to the instructions
     defined in your target-specific version of <tt>TargetInstrInfo.td</tt>. You
     should also write code for a subclass of AsmPrinter that performs the
     LLVM-to-assembly conversion and a trivial subclass of TargetAsmInfo.</li>

 <li>Optionally, add support for subtargets (i.e., variants with different
     capabilities). You should also write code for a subclass of the
     TargetSubtarget class, which allows you to use the <tt>-mcpu=</tt>
     and <tt>-mattr=</tt> command-line options.</li>

 <li>Optionally, add JIT support and create a machine code emitter (subclass of
     TargetJITInfo) that is used to emit binary code directly into memory. </li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 In the <tt>.cpp</tt> and <tt>.h</tt>. files, initially stub up these methods and
 then implement them later. Initially, you may not know which private members
 that the class will need and which components will need to be subclassed.
 </p>

 </div>

 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="Preliminaries">Preliminaries</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 To actually create your compiler backend, you need to create and modify a few
 files. The absolute minimum is discussed here. But to actually use the LLVM
 target-independent code generator, you must perform the steps described in
 the <a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html">LLVM
 Target-Independent Code Generator</a> document.
 </p>

 <p>
 First, you should create a subdirectory under <tt>lib/Target</tt> to hold all
 the files related to your target. If your target is called "Dummy," create the
 directory <tt>lib/Target/Dummy</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 In this new
 directory, create a <tt>Makefile</tt>. It is easiest to copy a
 <tt>Makefile</tt> of another target and modify it. It should at least contain
 the <tt>LEVEL</tt>, <tt>LIBRARYNAME</tt> and <tt>TARGET</tt> variables, and then
 include <tt>$(LEVEL)/Makefile.common</tt>. The library can be
 named <tt>LLVMDummy</tt> (for example, see the MIPS target). Alternatively, you
 can split the library into <tt>LLVMDummyCodeGen</tt>
 and <tt>LLVMDummyAsmPrinter</tt>, the latter of which should be implemented in a
 subdirectory below <tt>lib/Target/Dummy</tt> (for example, see the PowerPC
 target).
 </p>

 <p>
 Note that these two naming schemes are hardcoded into <tt>llvm-config</tt>.
 Using any other naming scheme will confuse <tt>llvm-config</tt> and produce a
 lot of (seemingly unrelated) linker errors when linking <tt>llc</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 To make your target actually do something, you need to implement a subclass of
 <tt>TargetMachine</tt>. This implementation should typically be in the file
 <tt>lib/Target/DummyTargetMachine.cpp</tt>, but any file in
 the <tt>lib/Target</tt> directory will be built and should work. To use LLVM's
 target independent code generator, you should do what all current machine
 backends do: create a subclass of <tt>LLVMTargetMachine</tt>. (To create a
 target from scratch, create a subclass of <tt>TargetMachine</tt>.)
 </p>

 <p>
 To get LLVM to actually build and link your target, you need to add it to
 the <tt>TARGETS_TO_BUILD</tt> variable. To do this, you modify the configure
 script to know about your target when parsing the <tt>--enable-targets</tt>
 option. Search the configure script for <tt>TARGETS_TO_BUILD</tt>, add your
 target to the lists there (some creativity required), and then
 reconfigure. Alternatively, you can change <tt>autotools/configure.ac</tt> and
 regenerate configure by running <tt>./autoconf/AutoRegen.sh</tt>.
 </p>

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   <a name="TargetMachine">Target Machine</a>
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 <p>
 <tt>LLVMTargetMachine</tt> is designed as a base class for targets implemented
 with the LLVM target-independent code generator. The <tt>LLVMTargetMachine</tt>
 class should be specialized by a concrete target class that implements the
 various virtual methods. <tt>LLVMTargetMachine</tt> is defined as a subclass of
 <tt>TargetMachine</tt> in <tt>include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h</tt>. The
 <tt>TargetMachine</tt> class implementation (<tt>TargetMachine.cpp</tt>) also
 processes numerous command-line options.
 </p>

 <p>
 To create a concrete target-specific subclass of <tt>LLVMTargetMachine</tt>,
 start by copying an existing <tt>TargetMachine</tt> class and header.  You
 should name the files that you create to reflect your specific target. For
 instance, for the SPARC target, name the files <tt>SparcTargetMachine.h</tt> and
 <tt>SparcTargetMachine.cpp</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 For a target machine <tt>XXX</tt>, the implementation of
 <tt>XXXTargetMachine</tt> must have access methods to obtain objects that
 represent target components.  These methods are named <tt>get*Info</tt>, and are
 intended to obtain the instruction set (<tt>getInstrInfo</tt>), register set
 (<tt>getRegisterInfo</tt>), stack frame layout (<tt>getFrameInfo</tt>), and
 similar information. <tt>XXXTargetMachine</tt> must also implement the
 <tt>getTargetData</tt> method to access an object with target-specific data
 characteristics, such as data type size and alignment requirements.
 </p>

 <p>
 For instance, for the SPARC target, the header file
 <tt>SparcTargetMachine.h</tt> declares prototypes for several <tt>get*Info</tt>
 and <tt>getTargetData</tt> methods that simply return a class member.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 namespace llvm {

 class Module;

 class SparcTargetMachine : public LLVMTargetMachine {
   const TargetData DataLayout;       // Calculates type size &amp; alignment
   SparcSubtarget Subtarget;
   SparcInstrInfo InstrInfo;
   TargetFrameInfo FrameInfo;

 protected:
   virtual const TargetAsmInfo *createTargetAsmInfo() const;

 public:
   SparcTargetMachine(const Module &amp;M, const std::string &amp;FS);

   virtual const SparcInstrInfo *getInstrInfo() const {return &amp;InstrInfo; }
   virtual const TargetFrameInfo *getFrameInfo() const {return &amp;FrameInfo; }
   virtual const TargetSubtarget *getSubtargetImpl() const{return &amp;Subtarget; }
   virtual const TargetRegisterInfo *getRegisterInfo() const {
     return &amp;InstrInfo.getRegisterInfo();
   }
   virtual const TargetData *getTargetData() const { return &amp;DataLayout; }
   static unsigned getModuleMatchQuality(const Module &amp;M);

   // Pass Pipeline Configuration
   virtual bool addInstSelector(PassManagerBase &amp;PM, bool Fast);
   virtual bool addPreEmitPass(PassManagerBase &amp;PM, bool Fast);
   virtual bool addAssemblyEmitter(PassManagerBase &amp;PM, bool Fast,
                                   std::ostream &amp;Out);
 };

 } // end namespace llvm
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>


 <div class="doc_text">

 <ul>
 <li><tt>getInstrInfo()</tt></li>
 <li><tt>getRegisterInfo()</tt></li>
 <li><tt>getFrameInfo()</tt></li>
 <li><tt>getTargetData()</tt></li>
 <li><tt>getSubtargetImpl()</tt></li>
 </ul>

 <p>For some targets, you also need to support the following methods:</p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>getTargetLowering()</tt></li>
 <li><tt>getJITInfo()</tt></li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 In addition, the <tt>XXXTargetMachine</tt> constructor should specify a
 <tt>TargetDescription</tt> string that determines the data layout for the target
 machine, including characteristics such as pointer size, alignment, and
 endianness. For example, the constructor for SparcTargetMachine contains the
 following:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 SparcTargetMachine::SparcTargetMachine(const Module &amp;M, const std::string &amp;FS)
   : DataLayout("E-p:32:32-f128:128:128"),
     Subtarget(M, FS), InstrInfo(Subtarget),
     FrameInfo(TargetFrameInfo::StackGrowsDown, 8, 0) {
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>Hyphens separate portions of the <tt>TargetDescription</tt> string.</p>

 <ul>
 <li>An upper-case "<tt>E</tt>" in the string indicates a big-endian target data
     model. a lower-case "<tt>e</tt>" indicates little-endian.</li>

 <li>"<tt>p:</tt>" is followed by pointer information: size, ABI alignment, and
     preferred alignment. If only two figures follow "<tt>p:</tt>", then the
     first value is pointer size, and the second value is both ABI and preferred
     alignment.</li>

 <li>Then a letter for numeric type alignment: "<tt>i</tt>", "<tt>f</tt>",
     "<tt>v</tt>", or "<tt>a</tt>" (corresponding to integer, floating point,
     vector, or aggregate). "<tt>i</tt>", "<tt>v</tt>", or "<tt>a</tt>" are
     followed by ABI alignment and preferred alignment. "<tt>f</tt>" is followed
     by three values: the first indicates the size of a long double, then ABI
     alignment, and then ABI preferred alignment.</li>
 </ul>

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 <p>
 You must also register your target with the <tt>TargetRegistry</tt>, which is
 what other LLVM tools use to be able to lookup and use your target at
 runtime. The <tt>TargetRegistry</tt> can be used directly, but for most targets
 there are helper templates which should take care of the work for you.</p>

 <p>
 All targets should declare a global <tt>Target</tt> object which is used to
 represent the target during registration. Then, in the target's TargetInfo
 library, the target should define that object and use
 the <tt>RegisterTarget</tt> template to register the target. For example, the Sparc registration code looks like this:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 Target llvm::TheSparcTarget;

 extern "C" void LLVMInitializeSparcTargetInfo() {
   RegisterTarget&lt;Triple::sparc, /*HasJIT=*/false&gt;
     X(TheSparcTarget, "sparc", "Sparc");
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 This allows the <tt>TargetRegistry</tt> to look up the target by name or by
 target triple. In addition, most targets will also register additional features
 which are available in separate libraries. These registration steps are
 separate, because some clients may wish to only link in some parts of the target
 -- the JIT code generator does not require the use of the assembler printer, for
 example. Here is an example of registering the Sparc assembly printer:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 extern "C" void LLVMInitializeSparcAsmPrinter() {
   RegisterAsmPrinter&lt;SparcAsmPrinter&gt; X(TheSparcTarget);
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 For more information, see
 "<a href="/doxygen/TargetRegistry_8h-source.html">llvm/Target/TargetRegistry.h</a>".
 </p>

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   <a name="RegisterSet">Register Set and Register Classes</a>
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 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 You should describe a concrete target-specific class that represents the
 register file of a target machine. This class is called <tt>XXXRegisterInfo</tt>
 (where <tt>XXX</tt> identifies the target) and represents the class register
 file data that is used for register allocation. It also describes the
 interactions between registers.
 </p>

 <p>
 You also need to define register classes to categorize related registers. A
 register class should be added for groups of registers that are all treated the
 same way for some instruction. Typical examples are register classes for
 integer, floating-point, or vector registers. A register allocator allows an
 instruction to use any register in a specified register class to perform the
 instruction in a similar manner. Register classes allocate virtual registers to
 instructions from these sets, and register classes let the target-independent
 register allocator automatically choose the actual registers.
 </p>

 <p>
 Much of the code for registers, including register definition, register aliases,
 and register classes, is generated by TableGen from <tt>XXXRegisterInfo.td</tt>
 input files and placed in <tt>XXXGenRegisterInfo.h.inc</tt> and
 <tt>XXXGenRegisterInfo.inc</tt> output files. Some of the code in the
 implementation of <tt>XXXRegisterInfo</tt> requires hand-coding.
 </p>

 </div>

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 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="RegisterDef">Defining a Register</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The <tt>XXXRegisterInfo.td</tt> file typically starts with register definitions
 for a target machine. The <tt>Register</tt> class (specified
 in <tt>Target.td</tt>) is used to define an object for each register. The
 specified string <tt>n</tt> becomes the <tt>Name</tt> of the register. The
 basic <tt>Register</tt> object does not have any subregisters and does not
 specify any aliases.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class Register&lt;string n&gt; {
   string Namespace = "";
   string AsmName = n;
   string Name = n;
   int SpillSize = 0;
   int SpillAlignment = 0;
   list&lt;Register&gt; Aliases = [];
   list&lt;Register&gt; SubRegs = [];
   list&lt;int&gt; DwarfNumbers = [];
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 For example, in the <tt>X86RegisterInfo.td</tt> file, there are register
 definitions that utilize the Register class, such as:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def AL : Register&lt;"AL"&gt;, DwarfRegNum&lt;[0, 0, 0]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 This defines the register <tt>AL</tt> and assigns it values (with
 <tt>DwarfRegNum</tt>) that are used by <tt>gcc</tt>, <tt>gdb</tt>, or a debug
 information writer (such as <tt>DwarfWriter</tt>
 in <tt>llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter</tt>) to identify a register. For register
 <tt>AL</tt>, <tt>DwarfRegNum</tt> takes an array of 3 values representing 3
 different modes: the first element is for X86-64, the second for exception
 handling (EH) on X86-32, and the third is generic. -1 is a special Dwarf number
 that indicates the gcc number is undefined, and -2 indicates the register number
 is invalid for this mode.
 </p>

 <p>
 From the previously described line in the <tt>X86RegisterInfo.td</tt> file,
 TableGen generates this code in the <tt>X86GenRegisterInfo.inc</tt> file:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 static const unsigned GR8[] = { X86::AL, ... };

 const unsigned AL_AliasSet[] = { X86::AX, X86::EAX, X86::RAX, 0 };

 const TargetRegisterDesc RegisterDescriptors[] = {
   ...
 { "AL", "AL", AL_AliasSet, Empty_SubRegsSet, Empty_SubRegsSet, AL_SuperRegsSet }, ...
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 From the register info file, TableGen generates a <tt>TargetRegisterDesc</tt>
 object for each register. <tt>TargetRegisterDesc</tt> is defined in
 <tt>include/llvm/Target/TargetRegisterInfo.h</tt> with the following fields:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 struct TargetRegisterDesc {
   const char     *AsmName;      // Assembly language name for the register
   const char     *Name;         // Printable name for the reg (for debugging)
   const unsigned *AliasSet;     // Register Alias Set
   const unsigned *SubRegs;      // Sub-register set
   const unsigned *ImmSubRegs;   // Immediate sub-register set
   const unsigned *SuperRegs;    // Super-register set
 };</pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 TableGen uses the entire target description file (<tt>.td</tt>) to determine
 text names for the register (in the <tt>AsmName</tt> and <tt>Name</tt> fields of
 <tt>TargetRegisterDesc</tt>) and the relationships of other registers to the
 defined register (in the other <tt>TargetRegisterDesc</tt> fields). In this
 example, other definitions establish the registers "<tt>AX</tt>",
 "<tt>EAX</tt>", and "<tt>RAX</tt>" as aliases for one another, so TableGen
 generates a null-terminated array (<tt>AL_AliasSet</tt>) for this register alias
 set.
 </p>

 <p>
 The <tt>Register</tt> class is commonly used as a base class for more complex
 classes. In <tt>Target.td</tt>, the <tt>Register</tt> class is the base for the
 <tt>RegisterWithSubRegs</tt> class that is used to define registers that need to
 specify subregisters in the <tt>SubRegs</tt> list, as shown here:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class RegisterWithSubRegs&lt;string n,
 list&lt;Register&gt; subregs&gt; : Register&lt;n&gt; {
   let SubRegs = subregs;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 In <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.td</tt>, additional register classes are defined for
 SPARC: a Register subclass, SparcReg, and further subclasses: <tt>Ri</tt>,
 <tt>Rf</tt>, and <tt>Rd</tt>. SPARC registers are identified by 5-bit ID
 numbers, which is a feature common to these subclasses. Note the use of
 '<tt>let</tt>' expressions to override values that are initially defined in a
 superclass (such as <tt>SubRegs</tt> field in the <tt>Rd</tt> class).
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class SparcReg&lt;string n&gt; : Register&lt;n&gt; {
   field bits&lt;5&gt; Num;
   let Namespace = "SP";
 }
 // Ri - 32-bit integer registers
 class Ri&lt;bits&lt;5&gt; num, string n&gt; :
 SparcReg&lt;n&gt; {
   let Num = num;
 }
 // Rf - 32-bit floating-point registers
 class Rf&lt;bits&lt;5&gt; num, string n&gt; :
 SparcReg&lt;n&gt; {
   let Num = num;
 }
 // Rd - Slots in the FP register file for 64-bit
 floating-point values.
 class Rd&lt;bits&lt;5&gt; num, string n,
 list&lt;Register&gt; subregs&gt; : SparcReg&lt;n&gt; {
   let Num = num;
   let SubRegs = subregs;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 In the <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.td</tt> file, there are register definitions that
 utilize these subclasses of <tt>Register</tt>, such as:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def G0 : Ri&lt; 0, "G0"&gt;,
 DwarfRegNum&lt;[0]&gt;;
 def G1 : Ri&lt; 1, "G1"&gt;, DwarfRegNum&lt;[1]&gt;;
 ...
 def F0 : Rf&lt; 0, "F0"&gt;,
 DwarfRegNum&lt;[32]&gt;;
 def F1 : Rf&lt; 1, "F1"&gt;,
 DwarfRegNum&lt;[33]&gt;;
 ...
 def D0 : Rd&lt; 0, "F0", [F0, F1]&gt;,
 DwarfRegNum&lt;[32]&gt;;
 def D1 : Rd&lt; 2, "F2", [F2, F3]&gt;,
 DwarfRegNum&lt;[34]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The last two registers shown above (<tt>D0</tt> and <tt>D1</tt>) are
 double-precision floating-point registers that are aliases for pairs of
 single-precision floating-point sub-registers. In addition to aliases, the
 sub-register and super-register relationships of the defined register are in
 fields of a register's TargetRegisterDesc.
 </p>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="RegisterClassDef">Defining a Register Class</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The <tt>RegisterClass</tt> class (specified in <tt>Target.td</tt>) is used to
 define an object that represents a group of related registers and also defines
 the default allocation order of the registers. A target description file
 <tt>XXXRegisterInfo.td</tt> that uses <tt>Target.td</tt> can construct register
 classes using the following class:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class RegisterClass&lt;string namespace,
 list&lt;ValueType&gt; regTypes, int alignment,
                     list&lt;Register&gt; regList&gt; {
   string Namespace = namespace;
   list&lt;ValueType&gt; RegTypes = regTypes;
   int Size = 0;  // spill size, in bits; zero lets tblgen pick the size
   int Alignment = alignment;

   // CopyCost is the cost of copying a value between two registers
   // default value 1 means a single instruction
   // A negative value means copying is extremely expensive or impossible
   int CopyCost = 1;
   list&lt;Register&gt; MemberList = regList;

   // for register classes that are subregisters of this class
   list&lt;RegisterClass&gt; SubRegClassList = [];

   code MethodProtos = [{}];  // to insert arbitrary code
   code MethodBodies = [{}];
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>To define a RegisterClass, use the following 4 arguments:</p>

 <ul>
 <li>The first argument of the definition is the name of the namespace.</li>

 <li>The second argument is a list of <tt>ValueType</tt> register type values
     that are defined in <tt>include/llvm/CodeGen/ValueTypes.td</tt>. Defined
     values include integer types (such as <tt>i16</tt>, <tt>i32</tt>,
     and <tt>i1</tt> for Boolean), floating-point types
     (<tt>f32</tt>, <tt>f64</tt>), and vector types (for example, <tt>v8i16</tt>
     for an <tt>8 x i16</tt> vector). All registers in a <tt>RegisterClass</tt>
     must have the same <tt>ValueType</tt>, but some registers may store vector
     data in different configurations. For example a register that can process a
     128-bit vector may be able to handle 16 8-bit integer elements, 8 16-bit
     integers, 4 32-bit integers, and so on. </li>

 <li>The third argument of the <tt>RegisterClass</tt> definition specifies the
     alignment required of the registers when they are stored or loaded to
     memory.</li>

 <li>The final argument, <tt>regList</tt>, specifies which registers are in this
     class.  If an <tt>allocation_order_*</tt> method is not specified,
     then <tt>regList</tt> also defines the order of allocation used by the
     register allocator.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 In <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.td</tt>, three RegisterClass objects are defined:
 <tt>FPRegs</tt>, <tt>DFPRegs</tt>, and <tt>IntRegs</tt>. For all three register
 classes, the first argument defines the namespace with the string
 '<tt>SP</tt>'. <tt>FPRegs</tt> defines a group of 32 single-precision
 floating-point registers (<tt>F0</tt> to <tt>F31</tt>); <tt>DFPRegs</tt> defines
 a group of 16 double-precision registers
 (<tt>D0-D15</tt>). For <tt>IntRegs</tt>, the <tt>MethodProtos</tt>
 and <tt>MethodBodies</tt> methods are used by TableGen to insert the specified
 code into generated output.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def FPRegs : RegisterClass&lt;"SP", [f32], 32,
   [F0, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12, F13, F14, F15,
    F16, F17, F18, F19, F20, F21, F22, F23, F24, F25, F26, F27, F28, F29, F30, F31]&gt;;

 def DFPRegs : RegisterClass&lt;"SP", [f64], 64,
   [D0, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, D8, D9, D10, D11, D12, D13, D14, D15]&gt;;
 &nbsp;
 def IntRegs : RegisterClass&lt;"SP", [i32], 32,
     [L0, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7,
      I0, I1, I2, I3, I4, I5,
      O0, O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O7,
      G1,
      // Non-allocatable regs:
      G2, G3, G4,
      O6,        // stack ptr
     I6,        // frame ptr
      I7,        // return address
      G0,        // constant zero
      G5, G6, G7 // reserved for kernel
     ]&gt; {
   let MethodProtos = [{
     iterator allocation_order_end(const MachineFunction &amp;MF) const;
   }];
   let MethodBodies = [{
     IntRegsClass::iterator
     IntRegsClass::allocation_order_end(const MachineFunction &amp;MF) const {
       return end() - 10  // Don't allocate special registers
          -1;
     }
   }];
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 Using <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.td</tt> with TableGen generates several output files
 that are intended for inclusion in other source code that you write.
 <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.td</tt> generates <tt>SparcGenRegisterInfo.h.inc</tt>,
 which should be included in the header file for the implementation of the SPARC
 register implementation that you write (<tt>SparcRegisterInfo.h</tt>). In
 <tt>SparcGenRegisterInfo.h.inc</tt> a new structure is defined called
 <tt>SparcGenRegisterInfo</tt> that uses <tt>TargetRegisterInfo</tt> as its
 base. It also specifies types, based upon the defined register
 classes: <tt>DFPRegsClass</tt>, <tt>FPRegsClass</tt>, and <tt>IntRegsClass</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.td</tt> also generates <tt>SparcGenRegisterInfo.inc</tt>,
 which is included at the bottom of <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.cpp</tt>, the SPARC
 register implementation. The code below shows only the generated integer
 registers and associated register classes. The order of registers
 in <tt>IntRegs</tt> reflects the order in the definition of <tt>IntRegs</tt> in
 the target description file. Take special note of the use
 of <tt>MethodBodies</tt> in <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.td</tt> to create code in
 <tt>SparcGenRegisterInfo.inc</tt>. <tt>MethodProtos</tt> generates similar code
 in <tt>SparcGenRegisterInfo.h.inc</tt>.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>  // IntRegs Register Class...
   static const unsigned IntRegs[] = {
     SP::L0, SP::L1, SP::L2, SP::L3, SP::L4, SP::L5,
     SP::L6, SP::L7, SP::I0, SP::I1, SP::I2, SP::I3,
     SP::I4, SP::I5, SP::O0, SP::O1, SP::O2, SP::O3,
     SP::O4, SP::O5, SP::O7, SP::G1, SP::G2, SP::G3,
     SP::G4, SP::O6, SP::I6, SP::I7, SP::G0, SP::G5,
     SP::G6, SP::G7,
   };

   // IntRegsVTs Register Class Value Types...
   static const MVT::ValueType IntRegsVTs[] = {
     MVT::i32, MVT::Other
   };

 namespace SP {   // Register class instances
   DFPRegsClass&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DFPRegsRegClass;
   FPRegsClass&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FPRegsRegClass;
   IntRegsClass&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IntRegsRegClass;
 ...
   // IntRegs Sub-register Classess...
   static const TargetRegisterClass* const IntRegsSubRegClasses [] = {
     NULL
   };
 ...
   // IntRegs Super-register Classess...
   static const TargetRegisterClass* const IntRegsSuperRegClasses [] = {
     NULL
   };
 ...
   // IntRegs Register Class sub-classes...
   static const TargetRegisterClass* const IntRegsSubclasses [] = {
     NULL
   };
 ...
   // IntRegs Register Class super-classes...
   static const TargetRegisterClass* const IntRegsSuperclasses [] = {
     NULL
   };
 ...
   IntRegsClass::iterator
   IntRegsClass::allocation_order_end(const MachineFunction &amp;MF) const {
      return end()-10  // Don't allocate special registers
          -1;
   }

   IntRegsClass::IntRegsClass() : TargetRegisterClass(IntRegsRegClassID,
     IntRegsVTs, IntRegsSubclasses, IntRegsSuperclasses, IntRegsSubRegClasses,
     IntRegsSuperRegClasses, 4, 4, 1, IntRegs, IntRegs + 32) {}
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="implementRegister">Implement a subclass of</a>
   <a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#targetregisterinfo">TargetRegisterInfo</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The final step is to hand code portions of <tt>XXXRegisterInfo</tt>, which
 implements the interface described in <tt>TargetRegisterInfo.h</tt>. These
 functions return <tt>0</tt>, <tt>NULL</tt>, or <tt>false</tt>, unless
 overridden. Here is a list of functions that are overridden for the SPARC
 implementation in <tt>SparcRegisterInfo.cpp</tt>:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>getCalleeSavedRegs</tt> &mdash; Returns a list of callee-saved registers
     in the order of the desired callee-save stack frame offset.</li>

 <li><tt>getCalleeSavedRegClasses</tt> &mdash; Returns a list of preferred
     register classes with which to spill each callee saved register.</li>

 <li><tt>getReservedRegs</tt> &mdash; Returns a bitset indexed by physical
     register numbers, indicating if a particular register is unavailable.</li>

 <li><tt>hasFP</tt> &mdash; Return a Boolean indicating if a function should have
     a dedicated frame pointer register.</li>

 <li><tt>eliminateCallFramePseudoInstr</tt> &mdash; If call frame setup or
     destroy pseudo instructions are used, this can be called to eliminate
     them.</li>

 <li><tt>eliminateFrameIndex</tt> &mdash; Eliminate abstract frame indices from
     instructions that may use them.</li>

 <li><tt>emitPrologue</tt> &mdash; Insert prologue code into the function.</li>

 <li><tt>emitEpilogue</tt> &mdash; Insert epilogue code into the function.</li>
 </ul>

 </div>

 <!-- *********************************************************************** -->
 <div class="doc_section">
   <a name="InstructionSet">Instruction Set</a>
 </div>

 <!-- *********************************************************************** -->
 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 During the early stages of code generation, the LLVM IR code is converted to a
 <tt>SelectionDAG</tt> with nodes that are instances of the <tt>SDNode</tt> class
 containing target instructions. An <tt>SDNode</tt> has an opcode, operands, type
 requirements, and operation properties. For example, is an operation
 commutative, does an operation load from memory. The various operation node
 types are described in the <tt>include/llvm/CodeGen/SelectionDAGNodes.h</tt>
 file (values of the <tt>NodeType</tt> enum in the <tt>ISD</tt> namespace).
 </p>

 <p>
 TableGen uses the following target description (<tt>.td</tt>) input files to
 generate much of the code for instruction definition:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>Target.td</tt> &mdash; Where the <tt>Instruction</tt>, <tt>Operand</tt>,
     <tt>InstrInfo</tt>, and other fundamental classes are defined.</li>

 <li><tt>TargetSelectionDAG.td</tt>&mdash; Used by <tt>SelectionDAG</tt>
     instruction selection generators, contains <tt>SDTC*</tt> classes (selection
     DAG type constraint), definitions of <tt>SelectionDAG</tt> nodes (such as
     <tt>imm</tt>, <tt>cond</tt>, <tt>bb</tt>, <tt>add</tt>, <tt>fadd</tt>,
     <tt>sub</tt>), and pattern support (<tt>Pattern</tt>, <tt>Pat</tt>,
     <tt>PatFrag</tt>, <tt>PatLeaf</tt>, <tt>ComplexPattern</tt>.</li>

 <li><tt>XXXInstrFormats.td</tt> &mdash; Patterns for definitions of
     target-specific instructions.</li>

 <li><tt>XXXInstrInfo.td</tt> &mdash; Target-specific definitions of instruction
     templates, condition codes, and instructions of an instruction set. For
     architecture modifications, a different file name may be used. For example,
     for Pentium with SSE instruction, this file is <tt>X86InstrSSE.td</tt>, and
     for Pentium with MMX, this file is <tt>X86InstrMMX.td</tt>.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 There is also a target-specific <tt>XXX.td</tt> file, where <tt>XXX</tt> is the
 name of the target. The <tt>XXX.td</tt> file includes the other <tt>.td</tt>
 input files, but its contents are only directly important for subtargets.
 </p>

 <p>
 You should describe a concrete target-specific class <tt>XXXInstrInfo</tt> that
 represents machine instructions supported by a target machine.
 <tt>XXXInstrInfo</tt> contains an array of <tt>XXXInstrDescriptor</tt> objects,
 each of which describes one instruction. An instruction descriptor defines:</p>

 <ul>
 <li>Opcode mnemonic</li>

 <li>Number of operands</li>

 <li>List of implicit register definitions and uses</li>

 <li>Target-independent properties (such as memory access, is commutable)</li>

 <li>Target-specific flags </li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 The Instruction class (defined in <tt>Target.td</tt>) is mostly used as a base
 for more complex instruction classes.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>class Instruction {
   string Namespace = "";
   dag OutOperandList;       // An dag containing the MI def operand list.
   dag InOperandList;        // An dag containing the MI use operand list.
   string AsmString = "";    // The .s format to print the instruction with.
   list&lt;dag&gt; Pattern;  // Set to the DAG pattern for this instruction
   list&lt;Register&gt; Uses = [];
   list&lt;Register&gt; Defs = [];
   list&lt;Predicate&gt; Predicates = [];  // predicates turned into isel match code
   ... remainder not shown for space ...
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 A <tt>SelectionDAG</tt> node (<tt>SDNode</tt>) should contain an object
 representing a target-specific instruction that is defined
 in <tt>XXXInstrInfo.td</tt>. The instruction objects should represent
 instructions from the architecture manual of the target machine (such as the
 SPARC Architecture Manual for the SPARC target).
 </p>

 <p>
 A single instruction from the architecture manual is often modeled as multiple
 target instructions, depending upon its operands. For example, a manual might
 describe an add instruction that takes a register or an immediate operand. An
 LLVM target could model this with two instructions named <tt>ADDri</tt> and
 <tt>ADDrr</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 You should define a class for each instruction category and define each opcode
 as a subclass of the category with appropriate parameters such as the fixed
 binary encoding of opcodes and extended opcodes. You should map the register
 bits to the bits of the instruction in which they are encoded (for the
 JIT). Also you should specify how the instruction should be printed when the
 automatic assembly printer is used.
 </p>

 <p>
 As is described in the SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 8, there are three
 major 32-bit formats for instructions. Format 1 is only for the <tt>CALL</tt>
 instruction. Format 2 is for branch on condition codes and <tt>SETHI</tt> (set
 high bits of a register) instructions.  Format 3 is for other instructions.
 </p>

 <p>
 Each of these formats has corresponding classes in <tt>SparcInstrFormat.td</tt>.
 <tt>InstSP</tt> is a base class for other instruction classes. Additional base
 classes are specified for more precise formats: for example
 in <tt>SparcInstrFormat.td</tt>, <tt>F2_1</tt> is for <tt>SETHI</tt>,
 and <tt>F2_2</tt> is for branches. There are three other base
 classes: <tt>F3_1</tt> for register/register operations, <tt>F3_2</tt> for
 register/immediate operations, and <tt>F3_3</tt> for floating-point
 operations. <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt> also adds the base class Pseudo for
 synthetic SPARC instructions.
 </p>

 <p>
 <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt> largely consists of operand and instruction
 definitions for the SPARC target. In <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt>, the following
 target description file entry, <tt>LDrr</tt>, defines the Load Integer
 instruction for a Word (the <tt>LD</tt> SPARC opcode) from a memory address to a
 register. The first parameter, the value 3 (<tt>11<sub>2</sub></tt>), is the
 operation value for this category of operation. The second parameter
 (<tt>000000<sub>2</sub></tt>) is the specific operation value
 for <tt>LD</tt>/Load Word. The third parameter is the output destination, which
 is a register operand and defined in the <tt>Register</tt> target description
 file (<tt>IntRegs</tt>).
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>def LDrr : F3_1 &lt;3, 0b000000, (outs IntRegs:$dst), (ins MEMrr:$addr),
                  "ld [$addr], $dst",
                  [(set IntRegs:$dst, (load ADDRrr:$addr))]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The fourth parameter is the input source, which uses the address
 operand <tt>MEMrr</tt> that is defined earlier in <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt>:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>def MEMrr : Operand&lt;i32&gt; {
   let PrintMethod = "printMemOperand";
   let MIOperandInfo = (ops IntRegs, IntRegs);
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The fifth parameter is a string that is used by the assembly printer and can be
 left as an empty string until the assembly printer interface is implemented. The
 sixth and final parameter is the pattern used to match the instruction during
 the SelectionDAG Select Phase described in
 (<a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html">The LLVM
 Target-Independent Code Generator</a>).  This parameter is detailed in the next
 section, <a href="#InstructionSelector">Instruction Selector</a>.
 </p>

 <p>
 Instruction class definitions are not overloaded for different operand types, so
 separate versions of instructions are needed for register, memory, or immediate
 value operands. For example, to perform a Load Integer instruction for a Word
 from an immediate operand to a register, the following instruction class is
 defined:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>def LDri : F3_2 &lt;3, 0b000000, (outs IntRegs:$dst), (ins MEMri:$addr),
                  "ld [$addr], $dst",
                  [(set IntRegs:$dst, (load ADDRri:$addr))]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 Writing these definitions for so many similar instructions can involve a lot of
 cut and paste. In td files, the <tt>multiclass</tt> directive enables the
 creation of templates to define several instruction classes at once (using
 the <tt>defm</tt> directive). For example in <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt>, the
 <tt>multiclass</tt> pattern <tt>F3_12</tt> is defined to create 2 instruction
 classes each time <tt>F3_12</tt> is invoked:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>multiclass F3_12 &lt;string OpcStr, bits&lt;6&gt; Op3Val, SDNode OpNode&gt; {
   def rr  : F3_1 &lt;2, Op3Val,
                  (outs IntRegs:$dst), (ins IntRegs:$b, IntRegs:$c),
                  !strconcat(OpcStr, " $b, $c, $dst"),
                  [(set IntRegs:$dst, (OpNode IntRegs:$b, IntRegs:$c))]&gt;;
   def ri  : F3_2 &lt;2, Op3Val,
                  (outs IntRegs:$dst), (ins IntRegs:$b, i32imm:$c),
                  !strconcat(OpcStr, " $b, $c, $dst"),
                  [(set IntRegs:$dst, (OpNode IntRegs:$b, simm13:$c))]&gt;;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 So when the <tt>defm</tt> directive is used for the <tt>XOR</tt>
 and <tt>ADD</tt> instructions, as seen below, it creates four instruction
 objects: <tt>XORrr</tt>, <tt>XORri</tt>, <tt>ADDrr</tt>, and <tt>ADDri</tt>.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 defm XOR   : F3_12&lt;"xor", 0b000011, xor&gt;;
 defm ADD   : F3_12&lt;"add", 0b000000, add&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt> also includes definitions for condition codes that
 are referenced by branch instructions. The following definitions
 in <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt> indicate the bit location of the SPARC condition
 code. For example, the 10<sup>th</sup> bit represents the 'greater than'
 condition for integers, and the 22<sup>nd</sup> bit represents the 'greater
 than' condition for floats.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def ICC_NE  : ICC_VAL&lt; 9&gt;;  // Not Equal
 def ICC_E   : ICC_VAL&lt; 1&gt;;  // Equal
 def ICC_G   : ICC_VAL&lt;10&gt;;  // Greater
 ...
 def FCC_U   : FCC_VAL&lt;23&gt;;  // Unordered
 def FCC_G   : FCC_VAL&lt;22&gt;;  // Greater
 def FCC_UG  : FCC_VAL&lt;21&gt;;  // Unordered or Greater
 ...
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 (Note that <tt>Sparc.h</tt> also defines enums that correspond to the same SPARC
 condition codes. Care must be taken to ensure the values in <tt>Sparc.h</tt>
 correspond to the values in <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt>. I.e.,
 <tt>SPCC::ICC_NE = 9</tt>, <tt>SPCC::FCC_U = 23</tt> and so on.)
 </p>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="operandMapping">Instruction Operand Mapping</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The code generator backend maps instruction operands to fields in the
 instruction.  Operands are assigned to unbound fields in the instruction in the
 order they are defined. Fields are bound when they are assigned a value.  For
 example, the Sparc target defines the <tt>XNORrr</tt> instruction as
 a <tt>F3_1</tt> format instruction having three operands.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def XNORrr  : F3_1&lt;2, 0b000111,
                    (outs IntRegs:$dst), (ins IntRegs:$b, IntRegs:$c),
                    "xnor $b, $c, $dst",
                    [(set IntRegs:$dst, (not (xor IntRegs:$b, IntRegs:$c)))]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The instruction templates in <tt>SparcInstrFormats.td</tt> show the base class
 for <tt>F3_1</tt> is <tt>InstSP</tt>.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class InstSP&lt;dag outs, dag ins, string asmstr, list&lt;dag&gt; pattern&gt; : Instruction {
   field bits&lt;32&gt; Inst;
   let Namespace = "SP";
   bits&lt;2&gt; op;
   let Inst{31-30} = op;
   dag OutOperandList = outs;
   dag InOperandList = ins;
   let AsmString   = asmstr;
   let Pattern = pattern;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p><tt>InstSP</tt> leaves the <tt>op</tt> field unbound.</p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class F3&lt;dag outs, dag ins, string asmstr, list&lt;dag&gt; pattern&gt;
     : InstSP&lt;outs, ins, asmstr, pattern&gt; {
   bits&lt;5&gt; rd;
   bits&lt;6&gt; op3;
   bits&lt;5&gt; rs1;
   let op{1} = 1;   // Op = 2 or 3
   let Inst{29-25} = rd;
   let Inst{24-19} = op3;
   let Inst{18-14} = rs1;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>F3</tt> binds the <tt>op</tt> field and defines the <tt>rd</tt>,
 <tt>op3</tt>, and <tt>rs1</tt> fields.  <tt>F3</tt> format instructions will
 bind the operands <tt>rd</tt>, <tt>op3</tt>, and <tt>rs1</tt> fields.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class F3_1&lt;bits&lt;2&gt; opVal, bits&lt;6&gt; op3val, dag outs, dag ins,
            string asmstr, list&lt;dag&gt; pattern&gt; : F3&lt;outs, ins, asmstr, pattern&gt; {
   bits&lt;8&gt; asi = 0; // asi not currently used
   bits&lt;5&gt; rs2;
   let op         = opVal;
   let op3        = op3val;
   let Inst{13}   = 0;     // i field = 0
   let Inst{12-5} = asi;   // address space identifier
   let Inst{4-0}  = rs2;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>F3_1</tt> binds the <tt>op3</tt> field and defines the <tt>rs2</tt>
 fields.  <tt>F3_1</tt> format instructions will bind the operands to the <tt>rd</tt>,
 <tt>rs1</tt>, and <tt>rs2</tt> fields. This results in the <tt>XNORrr</tt>
 instruction binding <tt>$dst</tt>, <tt>$b</tt>, and <tt>$c</tt> operands to
 the <tt>rd</tt>, <tt>rs1</tt>, and <tt>rs2</tt> fields respectively.
 </p>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="implementInstr">Implement a subclass of </a>
   <a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#targetinstrinfo">TargetInstrInfo</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The final step is to hand code portions of <tt>XXXInstrInfo</tt>, which
 implements the interface described in <tt>TargetInstrInfo.h</tt>. These
 functions return <tt>0</tt> or a Boolean or they assert, unless
 overridden. Here's a list of functions that are overridden for the SPARC
 implementation in <tt>SparcInstrInfo.cpp</tt>:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>isMoveInstr</tt> &mdash; Return true if the instruction is a register to
     register move; false, otherwise.</li>

 <li><tt>isLoadFromStackSlot</tt> &mdash; If the specified machine instruction is
     a direct load from a stack slot, return the register number of the
     destination and the <tt>FrameIndex</tt> of the stack slot.</li>

 <li><tt>isStoreToStackSlot</tt> &mdash; If the specified machine instruction is
     a direct store to a stack slot, return the register number of the
     destination and the <tt>FrameIndex</tt> of the stack slot.</li>

 <li><tt>copyRegToReg</tt> &mdash; Copy values between a pair of registers.</li>

 <li><tt>storeRegToStackSlot</tt> &mdash; Store a register value to a stack
     slot.</li>

 <li><tt>loadRegFromStackSlot</tt> &mdash; Load a register value from a stack
     slot.</li>

 <li><tt>storeRegToAddr</tt> &mdash; Store a register value to memory.</li>

 <li><tt>loadRegFromAddr</tt> &mdash; Load a register value from memory.</li>

 <li><tt>foldMemoryOperand</tt> &mdash; Attempt to combine instructions of any
     load or store instruction for the specified operand(s).</li>
 </ul>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="branchFolding">Branch Folding and If Conversion</a>
 </div>
 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 Performance can be improved by combining instructions or by eliminating
 instructions that are never reached. The <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> method
 in <tt>XXXInstrInfo</tt> may be implemented to examine conditional instructions
 and remove unnecessary instructions. <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> looks at the end of
 a machine basic block (MBB) for opportunities for improvement, such as branch
 folding and if conversion. The <tt>BranchFolder</tt> and <tt>IfConverter</tt>
 machine function passes (see the source files <tt>BranchFolding.cpp</tt> and
 <tt>IfConversion.cpp</tt> in the <tt>lib/CodeGen</tt> directory) call
 <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> to improve the control flow graph that represents the
 instructions.
 </p>

 <p>
 Several implementations of <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> (for ARM, Alpha, and X86) can
 be examined as models for your own <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> implementation. Since
 SPARC does not implement a useful <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt>, the ARM target
 implementation is shown below.
 </p>

 <p><tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> returns a Boolean value and takes four parameters:</p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>MachineBasicBlock &amp;MBB</tt> &mdash; The incoming block to be
     examined.</li>

 <li><tt>MachineBasicBlock *&amp;TBB</tt> &mdash; A destination block that is
     returned. For a conditional branch that evaluates to true, <tt>TBB</tt> is
     the destination.</li>

 <li><tt>MachineBasicBlock *&amp;FBB</tt> &mdash; For a conditional branch that
     evaluates to false, <tt>FBB</tt> is returned as the destination.</li>

 <li><tt>std::vector&lt;MachineOperand&gt; &amp;Cond</tt> &mdash; List of
     operands to evaluate a condition for a conditional branch.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 In the simplest case, if a block ends without a branch, then it falls through to
 the successor block. No destination blocks are specified for either <tt>TBB</tt>
 or <tt>FBB</tt>, so both parameters return <tt>NULL</tt>. The start of
 the <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> (see code below for the ARM target) shows the
 function parameters and the code for the simplest case.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>bool ARMInstrInfo::AnalyzeBranch(MachineBasicBlock &amp;MBB,
         MachineBasicBlock *&amp;TBB, MachineBasicBlock *&amp;FBB,
         std::vector&lt;MachineOperand&gt; &amp;Cond) const
 {
   MachineBasicBlock::iterator I = MBB.end();
   if (I == MBB.begin() || !isUnpredicatedTerminator(--I))
     return false;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 If a block ends with a single unconditional branch instruction, then
 <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> (shown below) should return the destination of that
 branch in the <tt>TBB</tt> parameter.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
   if (LastOpc == ARM::B || LastOpc == ARM::tB) {
     TBB = LastInst-&gt;getOperand(0).getMBB();
     return false;
   }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 If a block ends with two unconditional branches, then the second branch is never
 reached. In that situation, as shown below, remove the last branch instruction
 and return the penultimate branch in the <tt>TBB</tt> parameter.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
   if ((SecondLastOpc == ARM::B || SecondLastOpc==ARM::tB) &amp;&amp;
       (LastOpc == ARM::B || LastOpc == ARM::tB)) {
     TBB = SecondLastInst-&gt;getOperand(0).getMBB();
     I = LastInst;
     I-&gt;eraseFromParent();
     return false;
   }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 A block may end with a single conditional branch instruction that falls through
 to successor block if the condition evaluates to false. In that case,
 <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> (shown below) should return the destination of that
 conditional branch in the <tt>TBB</tt> parameter and a list of operands in
 the <tt>Cond</tt> parameter to evaluate the condition.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
   if (LastOpc == ARM::Bcc || LastOpc == ARM::tBcc) {
     // Block ends with fall-through condbranch.
     TBB = LastInst-&gt;getOperand(0).getMBB();
     Cond.push_back(LastInst-&gt;getOperand(1));
     Cond.push_back(LastInst-&gt;getOperand(2));
     return false;
   }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 If a block ends with both a conditional branch and an ensuing unconditional
 branch, then <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> (shown below) should return the conditional
 branch destination (assuming it corresponds to a conditional evaluation of
 '<tt>true</tt>') in the <tt>TBB</tt> parameter and the unconditional branch
 destination in the <tt>FBB</tt> (corresponding to a conditional evaluation of
 '<tt>false</tt>').  A list of operands to evaluate the condition should be
 returned in the <tt>Cond</tt> parameter.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
   unsigned SecondLastOpc = SecondLastInst-&gt;getOpcode();

   if ((SecondLastOpc == ARM::Bcc &amp;&amp; LastOpc == ARM::B) ||
       (SecondLastOpc == ARM::tBcc &amp;&amp; LastOpc == ARM::tB)) {
     TBB =  SecondLastInst-&gt;getOperand(0).getMBB();
     Cond.push_back(SecondLastInst-&gt;getOperand(1));
     Cond.push_back(SecondLastInst-&gt;getOperand(2));
     FBB = LastInst-&gt;getOperand(0).getMBB();
     return false;
   }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 For the last two cases (ending with a single conditional branch or ending with
 one conditional and one unconditional branch), the operands returned in
 the <tt>Cond</tt> parameter can be passed to methods of other instructions to
 create new branches or perform other operations. An implementation
 of <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> requires the helper methods <tt>RemoveBranch</tt>
 and <tt>InsertBranch</tt> to manage subsequent operations.
 </p>

 <p>
 <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> should return false indicating success in most circumstances.
 <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> should only return true when the method is stumped about what to
 do, for example, if a block has three terminating branches. <tt>AnalyzeBranch</tt> may
 return true if it encounters a terminator it cannot handle, such as an indirect
 branch.
 </p>

 </div>

 <!-- *********************************************************************** -->
 <div class="doc_section">
   <a name="InstructionSelector">Instruction Selector</a>
 </div>
 <!-- *********************************************************************** -->

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 LLVM uses a <tt>SelectionDAG</tt> to represent LLVM IR instructions, and nodes
 of the <tt>SelectionDAG</tt> ideally represent native target
 instructions. During code generation, instruction selection passes are performed
 to convert non-native DAG instructions into native target-specific
 instructions. The pass described in <tt>XXXISelDAGToDAG.cpp</tt> is used to
 match patterns and perform DAG-to-DAG instruction selection. Optionally, a pass
 may be defined (in <tt>XXXBranchSelector.cpp</tt>) to perform similar DAG-to-DAG
 operations for branch instructions. Later, the code in
 <tt>XXXISelLowering.cpp</tt> replaces or removes operations and data types not
 supported natively (legalizes) in a <tt>SelectionDAG</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 TableGen generates code for instruction selection using the following target
 description input files:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>XXXInstrInfo.td</tt> &mdash; Contains definitions of instructions in a
     target-specific instruction set, generates <tt>XXXGenDAGISel.inc</tt>, which
     is included in <tt>XXXISelDAGToDAG.cpp</tt>.</li>

 <li><tt>XXXCallingConv.td</tt> &mdash; Contains the calling and return value
     conventions for the target architecture, and it generates
     <tt>XXXGenCallingConv.inc</tt>, which is included in
     <tt>XXXISelLowering.cpp</tt>.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 The implementation of an instruction selection pass must include a header that
 declares the <tt>FunctionPass</tt> class or a subclass of <tt>FunctionPass</tt>. In
 <tt>XXXTargetMachine.cpp</tt>, a Pass Manager (PM) should add each instruction
 selection pass into the queue of passes to run.
 </p>

 <p>
 The LLVM static compiler (<tt>llc</tt>) is an excellent tool for visualizing the
 contents of DAGs. To display the <tt>SelectionDAG</tt> before or after specific
 processing phases, use the command line options for <tt>llc</tt>, described
 at <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#selectiondag_process">
 SelectionDAG Instruction Selection Process</a>.
 </p>

 <p>
 To describe instruction selector behavior, you should add patterns for lowering
 LLVM code into a <tt>SelectionDAG</tt> as the last parameter of the instruction
 definitions in <tt>XXXInstrInfo.td</tt>. For example, in
 <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt>, this entry defines a register store operation, and
 the last parameter describes a pattern with the store DAG operator.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def STrr  : F3_1&lt; 3, 0b000100, (outs), (ins MEMrr:$addr, IntRegs:$src),
                  "st $src, [$addr]", [(store IntRegs:$src, ADDRrr:$addr)]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>ADDRrr</tt> is a memory mode that is also defined in
 <tt>SparcInstrInfo.td</tt>:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def ADDRrr : ComplexPattern&lt;i32, 2, "SelectADDRrr", [], []&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The definition of <tt>ADDRrr</tt> refers to <tt>SelectADDRrr</tt>, which is a
 function defined in an implementation of the Instructor Selector (such
 as <tt>SparcISelDAGToDAG.cpp</tt>).
 </p>

 <p>
 In <tt>lib/Target/TargetSelectionDAG.td</tt>, the DAG operator for store is
 defined below:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def store : PatFrag&lt;(ops node:$val, node:$ptr),
                     (st node:$val, node:$ptr), [{
   if (StoreSDNode *ST = dyn_cast&lt;StoreSDNode&gt;(N))
     return !ST-&gt;isTruncatingStore() &amp;&amp;
            ST-&gt;getAddressingMode() == ISD::UNINDEXED;
   return false;
 }]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>XXXInstrInfo.td</tt> also generates (in <tt>XXXGenDAGISel.inc</tt>) the
 <tt>SelectCode</tt> method that is used to call the appropriate processing
 method for an instruction. In this example, <tt>SelectCode</tt>
 calls <tt>Select_ISD_STORE</tt> for the <tt>ISD::STORE</tt> opcode.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 SDNode *SelectCode(SDValue N) {
   ...
   MVT::ValueType NVT = N.getNode()-&gt;getValueType(0);
   switch (N.getOpcode()) {
   case ISD::STORE: {
     switch (NVT) {
     default:
       return Select_ISD_STORE(N);
       break;
     }
     break;
   }
   ...
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The pattern for <tt>STrr</tt> is matched, so elsewhere in
 <tt>XXXGenDAGISel.inc</tt>, code for <tt>STrr</tt> is created for
 <tt>Select_ISD_STORE</tt>. The <tt>Emit_22</tt> method is also generated
 in <tt>XXXGenDAGISel.inc</tt> to complete the processing of this
 instruction.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 SDNode *Select_ISD_STORE(const SDValue &amp;N) {
   SDValue Chain = N.getOperand(0);
   if (Predicate_store(N.getNode())) {
     SDValue N1 = N.getOperand(1);
     SDValue N2 = N.getOperand(2);
     SDValue CPTmp0;
     SDValue CPTmp1;

     // Pattern: (st:void IntRegs:i32:$src,
     //           ADDRrr:i32:$addr)&lt;&lt;P:Predicate_store&gt;&gt;
     // Emits: (STrr:void ADDRrr:i32:$addr, IntRegs:i32:$src)
     // Pattern complexity = 13  cost = 1  size = 0
     if (SelectADDRrr(N, N2, CPTmp0, CPTmp1) &amp;&amp;
         N1.getNode()-&gt;getValueType(0) == MVT::i32 &amp;&amp;
         N2.getNode()-&gt;getValueType(0) == MVT::i32) {
       return Emit_22(N, SP::STrr, CPTmp0, CPTmp1);
     }
 ...
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="LegalizePhase">The SelectionDAG Legalize Phase</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The Legalize phase converts a DAG to use types and operations that are natively
 supported by the target. For natively unsupported types and operations, you need
 to add code to the target-specific XXXTargetLowering implementation to convert
 unsupported types and operations to supported ones.
 </p>

 <p>
 In the constructor for the <tt>XXXTargetLowering</tt> class, first use the
 <tt>addRegisterClass</tt> method to specify which types are supports and which
 register classes are associated with them. The code for the register classes are
 generated by TableGen from <tt>XXXRegisterInfo.td</tt> and placed
 in <tt>XXXGenRegisterInfo.h.inc</tt>. For example, the implementation of the
 constructor for the SparcTargetLowering class (in
 <tt>SparcISelLowering.cpp</tt>) starts with the following code:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 addRegisterClass(MVT::i32, SP::IntRegsRegisterClass);
 addRegisterClass(MVT::f32, SP::FPRegsRegisterClass);
 addRegisterClass(MVT::f64, SP::DFPRegsRegisterClass);
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 You should examine the node types in the <tt>ISD</tt> namespace
 (<tt>include/llvm/CodeGen/SelectionDAGNodes.h</tt>) and determine which
 operations the target natively supports. For operations that do <b>not</b> have
 native support, add a callback to the constructor for the XXXTargetLowering
 class, so the instruction selection process knows what to do. The TargetLowering
 class callback methods (declared in <tt>llvm/Target/TargetLowering.h</tt>) are:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>setOperationAction</tt> &mdash; General operation.</li>

 <li><tt>setLoadExtAction</tt> &mdash; Load with extension.</li>

 <li><tt>setTruncStoreAction</tt> &mdash; Truncating store.</li>

 <li><tt>setIndexedLoadAction</tt> &mdash; Indexed load.</li>

 <li><tt>setIndexedStoreAction</tt> &mdash; Indexed store.</li>

 <li><tt>setConvertAction</tt> &mdash; Type conversion.</li>

 <li><tt>setCondCodeAction</tt> &mdash; Support for a given condition code.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 Note: on older releases, <tt>setLoadXAction</tt> is used instead
 of <tt>setLoadExtAction</tt>.  Also, on older releases,
 <tt>setCondCodeAction</tt> may not be supported. Examine your release
 to see what methods are specifically supported.
 </p>

 <p>
 These callbacks are used to determine that an operation does or does not work
 with a specified type (or types). And in all cases, the third parameter is
 a <tt>LegalAction</tt> type enum value: <tt>Promote</tt>, <tt>Expand</tt>,
 <tt>Custom</tt>, or <tt>Legal</tt>. <tt>SparcISelLowering.cpp</tt>
 contains examples of all four <tt>LegalAction</tt> values.
 </p>

 </div>

 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 <div class="doc_subsubsection">
   <a name="promote">Promote</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 For an operation without native support for a given type, the specified type may
 be promoted to a larger type that is supported. For example, SPARC does not
 support a sign-extending load for Boolean values (<tt>i1</tt> type), so
 in <tt>SparcISelLowering.cpp</tt> the third parameter below, <tt>Promote</tt>,
 changes <tt>i1</tt> type values to a large type before loading.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 setLoadExtAction(ISD::SEXTLOAD, MVT::i1, Promote);
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 <div class="doc_subsubsection">
   <a name="expand">Expand</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 For a type without native support, a value may need to be broken down further,
 rather than promoted. For an operation without native support, a combination of
 other operations may be used to similar effect. In SPARC, the floating-point
 sine and cosine trig operations are supported by expansion to other operations,
 as indicated by the third parameter, <tt>Expand</tt>, to
 <tt>setOperationAction</tt>:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 setOperationAction(ISD::FSIN, MVT::f32, Expand);
 setOperationAction(ISD::FCOS, MVT::f32, Expand);
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 <div class="doc_subsubsection">
   <a name="custom">Custom</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 For some operations, simple type promotion or operation expansion may be
 insufficient. In some cases, a special intrinsic function must be implemented.
 </p>

 <p>
 For example, a constant value may require special treatment, or an operation may
 require spilling and restoring registers in the stack and working with register
 allocators.
 </p>

 <p>
 As seen in <tt>SparcISelLowering.cpp</tt> code below, to perform a type
 conversion from a floating point value to a signed integer, first the
 <tt>setOperationAction</tt> should be called with <tt>Custom</tt> as the third
 parameter:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 setOperationAction(ISD::FP_TO_SINT, MVT::i32, Custom);
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 In the <tt>LowerOperation</tt> method, for each <tt>Custom</tt> operation, a
 case statement should be added to indicate what function to call. In the
 following code, an <tt>FP_TO_SINT</tt> opcode will call
 the <tt>LowerFP_TO_SINT</tt> method:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 SDValue SparcTargetLowering::LowerOperation(SDValue Op, SelectionDAG &amp;DAG) {
   switch (Op.getOpcode()) {
   case ISD::FP_TO_SINT: return LowerFP_TO_SINT(Op, DAG);
   ...
   }
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 Finally, the <tt>LowerFP_TO_SINT</tt> method is implemented, using an FP
 register to convert the floating-point value to an integer.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 static SDValue LowerFP_TO_SINT(SDValue Op, SelectionDAG &amp;DAG) {
   assert(Op.getValueType() == MVT::i32);
   Op = DAG.getNode(SPISD::FTOI, MVT::f32, Op.getOperand(0));
   return DAG.getNode(ISD::BIT_CONVERT, MVT::i32, Op);
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 <div class="doc_subsubsection">
   <a name="legal">Legal</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The <tt>Legal</tt> LegalizeAction enum value simply indicates that an
 operation <b>is</b> natively supported. <tt>Legal</tt> represents the default
 condition, so it is rarely used. In <tt>SparcISelLowering.cpp</tt>, the action
 for <tt>CTPOP</tt> (an operation to count the bits set in an integer) is
 natively supported only for SPARC v9. The following code enables
 the <tt>Expand</tt> conversion technique for non-v9 SPARC implementations.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 setOperationAction(ISD::CTPOP, MVT::i32, Expand);
 ...
 if (TM.getSubtarget&lt;SparcSubtarget&gt;().isV9())
   setOperationAction(ISD::CTPOP, MVT::i32, Legal);
   case ISD::SETULT: return SPCC::ICC_CS;
   case ISD::SETULE: return SPCC::ICC_LEU;
   case ISD::SETUGT: return SPCC::ICC_GU;
   case ISD::SETUGE: return SPCC::ICC_CC;
   }
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="callingConventions">Calling Conventions</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 To support target-specific calling conventions, <tt>XXXGenCallingConv.td</tt>
 uses interfaces (such as CCIfType and CCAssignToReg) that are defined in
 <tt>lib/Target/TargetCallingConv.td</tt>. TableGen can take the target
 descriptor file <tt>XXXGenCallingConv.td</tt> and generate the header
 file <tt>XXXGenCallingConv.inc</tt>, which is typically included
 in <tt>XXXISelLowering.cpp</tt>. You can use the interfaces in
 <tt>TargetCallingConv.td</tt> to specify:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li>The order of parameter allocation.</li>

 <li>Where parameters and return values are placed (that is, on the stack or in
     registers).</li>

 <li>Which registers may be used.</li>

 <li>Whether the caller or callee unwinds the stack.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 The following example demonstrates the use of the <tt>CCIfType</tt> and
 <tt>CCAssignToReg</tt> interfaces. If the <tt>CCIfType</tt> predicate is true
 (that is, if the current argument is of type <tt>f32</tt> or <tt>f64</tt>), then
 the action is performed. In this case, the <tt>CCAssignToReg</tt> action assigns
 the argument value to the first available register: either <tt>R0</tt>
 or <tt>R1</tt>.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 CCIfType&lt;[f32,f64], CCAssignToReg&lt;[R0, R1]&gt;&gt;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>SparcCallingConv.td</tt> contains definitions for a target-specific
 return-value calling convention (RetCC_Sparc32) and a basic 32-bit C calling
 convention (<tt>CC_Sparc32</tt>). The definition of <tt>RetCC_Sparc32</tt>
 (shown below) indicates which registers are used for specified scalar return
 types. A single-precision float is returned to register <tt>F0</tt>, and a
 double-precision float goes to register <tt>D0</tt>. A 32-bit integer is
 returned in register <tt>I0</tt> or <tt>I1</tt>.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def RetCC_Sparc32 : CallingConv&lt;[
   CCIfType&lt;[i32], CCAssignToReg&lt;[I0, I1]&gt;&gt;,
   CCIfType&lt;[f32], CCAssignToReg&lt;[F0]&gt;&gt;,
   CCIfType&lt;[f64], CCAssignToReg&lt;[D0]&gt;&gt;
 ]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The definition of <tt>CC_Sparc32</tt> in <tt>SparcCallingConv.td</tt> introduces
 <tt>CCAssignToStack</tt>, which assigns the value to a stack slot with the
 specified size and alignment. In the example below, the first parameter, 4,
 indicates the size of the slot, and the second parameter, also 4, indicates the
 stack alignment along 4-byte units. (Special cases: if size is zero, then the
 ABI size is used; if alignment is zero, then the ABI alignment is used.)
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def CC_Sparc32 : CallingConv&lt;[
   // All arguments get passed in integer registers if there is space.
   CCIfType&lt;[i32, f32, f64], CCAssignToReg&lt;[I0, I1, I2, I3, I4, I5]&gt;&gt;,
   CCAssignToStack&lt;4, 4&gt;
 ]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>CCDelegateTo</tt> is another commonly used interface, which tries to find a
 specified sub-calling convention, and, if a match is found, it is invoked. In
 the following example (in <tt>X86CallingConv.td</tt>), the definition of
 <tt>RetCC_X86_32_C</tt> ends with <tt>CCDelegateTo</tt>. After the current value
 is assigned to the register <tt>ST0</tt> or <tt>ST1</tt>,
 the <tt>RetCC_X86Common</tt> is invoked.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def RetCC_X86_32_C : CallingConv&lt;[
   CCIfType&lt;[f32], CCAssignToReg&lt;[ST0, ST1]&gt;&gt;,
   CCIfType&lt;[f64], CCAssignToReg&lt;[ST0, ST1]&gt;&gt;,
   CCDelegateTo&lt;RetCC_X86Common&gt;
 ]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 <tt>CCIfCC</tt> is an interface that attempts to match the given name to the
 current calling convention. If the name identifies the current calling
 convention, then a specified action is invoked. In the following example (in
 <tt>X86CallingConv.td</tt>), if the <tt>Fast</tt> calling convention is in use,
 then <tt>RetCC_X86_32_Fast</tt> is invoked. If the <tt>SSECall</tt> calling
 convention is in use, then <tt>RetCC_X86_32_SSE</tt> is invoked.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def RetCC_X86_32 : CallingConv&lt;[
   CCIfCC&lt;"CallingConv::Fast", CCDelegateTo&lt;RetCC_X86_32_Fast&gt;&gt;,
   CCIfCC&lt;"CallingConv::X86_SSECall", CCDelegateTo&lt;RetCC_X86_32_SSE&gt;&gt;,
   CCDelegateTo&lt;RetCC_X86_32_C&gt;
 ]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>Other calling convention interfaces include:</p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>CCIf &lt;predicate, action&gt;</tt> &mdash; If the predicate matches,
     apply the action.</li>

 <li><tt>CCIfInReg &lt;action&gt;</tt> &mdash; If the argument is marked with the
     '<tt>inreg</tt>' attribute, then apply the action.</li>

 <li><tt>CCIfNest &lt;action&gt;</tt> &mdash; Inf the argument is marked with the
     '<tt>nest</tt>' attribute, then apply the action.</li>

 <li><tt>CCIfNotVarArg &lt;action&gt;</tt> &mdash; If the current function does
     not take a variable number of arguments, apply the action.</li>

 <li><tt>CCAssignToRegWithShadow &lt;registerList, shadowList&gt;</tt> &mdash;
     similar to <tt>CCAssignToReg</tt>, but with a shadow list of registers.</li>

 <li><tt>CCPassByVal &lt;size, align&gt;</tt> &mdash; Assign value to a stack
     slot with the minimum specified size and alignment.</li>

 <li><tt>CCPromoteToType &lt;type&gt;</tt> &mdash; Promote the current value to
     the specified type.</li>

 <li><tt>CallingConv &lt;[actions]&gt;</tt> &mdash; Define each calling
     convention that is supported.</li>
 </ul>

 </div>

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 <div class="doc_section">
   <a name="assemblyPrinter">Assembly Printer</a>
 </div>
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 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 During the code emission stage, the code generator may utilize an LLVM pass to
 produce assembly output. To do this, you want to implement the code for a
 printer that converts LLVM IR to a GAS-format assembly language for your target
 machine, using the following steps:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li>Define all the assembly strings for your target, adding them to the
     instructions defined in the <tt>XXXInstrInfo.td</tt> file.
     (See <a href="#InstructionSet">Instruction Set</a>.)  TableGen will produce
     an output file (<tt>XXXGenAsmWriter.inc</tt>) with an implementation of
     the <tt>printInstruction</tt> method for the XXXAsmPrinter class.</li>

 <li>Write <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo.h</tt>, which contains the bare-bones declaration
     of the <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo</tt> class (a subclass
     of <tt>TargetAsmInfo</tt>).</li>

 <li>Write <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo.cpp</tt>, which contains target-specific values
     for <tt>TargetAsmInfo</tt> properties and sometimes new implementations for
     methods.</li>

 <li>Write <tt>XXXAsmPrinter.cpp</tt>, which implements the <tt>AsmPrinter</tt>
     class that performs the LLVM-to-assembly conversion.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 The code in <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo.h</tt> is usually a trivial declaration of the
 <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo</tt> class for use in <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo.cpp</tt>.
 Similarly, <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo.cpp</tt> usually has a few declarations of
 <tt>XXXTargetAsmInfo</tt> replacement values that override the default values
 in <tt>TargetAsmInfo.cpp</tt>. For example in <tt>SparcTargetAsmInfo.cpp</tt>:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 SparcTargetAsmInfo::SparcTargetAsmInfo(const SparcTargetMachine &amp;TM) {
   Data16bitsDirective = "\t.half\t";
   Data32bitsDirective = "\t.word\t";
   Data64bitsDirective = 0;  // .xword is only supported by V9.
   ZeroDirective = "\t.skip\t";
   CommentString = "!";
   ConstantPoolSection = "\t.section \".rodata\",#alloc\n";
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The X86 assembly printer implementation (<tt>X86TargetAsmInfo</tt>) is an
 example where the target specific <tt>TargetAsmInfo</tt> class uses an
 overridden methods: <tt>ExpandInlineAsm</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 A target-specific implementation of AsmPrinter is written in
 <tt>XXXAsmPrinter.cpp</tt>, which implements the <tt>AsmPrinter</tt> class that
 converts the LLVM to printable assembly. The implementation must include the
 following headers that have declarations for the <tt>AsmPrinter</tt> and
 <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt> classes. The <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt> is a
 subclass of <tt>FunctionPass</tt>.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 #include "llvm/CodeGen/AsmPrinter.h"
 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunctionPass.h"
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 As a <tt>FunctionPass</tt>, <tt>AsmPrinter</tt> first
 calls <tt>doInitialization</tt> to set up the <tt>AsmPrinter</tt>. In
 <tt>SparcAsmPrinter</tt>, a <tt>Mangler</tt> object is instantiated to process
 variable names.
 </p>

 <p>
 In <tt>XXXAsmPrinter.cpp</tt>, the <tt>runOnMachineFunction</tt> method
 (declared in <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>) must be implemented
 for <tt>XXXAsmPrinter</tt>. In <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>,
 the <tt>runOnFunction</tt> method invokes <tt>runOnMachineFunction</tt>.
 Target-specific implementations of <tt>runOnMachineFunction</tt> differ, but
 generally do the following to process each machine function:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li>Call <tt>SetupMachineFunction</tt> to perform initialization.</li>

 <li>Call <tt>EmitConstantPool</tt> to print out (to the output stream) constants
     which have been spilled to memory.</li>

 <li>Call <tt>EmitJumpTableInfo</tt> to print out jump tables used by the current
     function.</li>

 <li>Print out the label for the current function.</li>

 <li>Print out the code for the function, including basic block labels and the
     assembly for the instruction (using <tt>printInstruction</tt>)</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 The <tt>XXXAsmPrinter</tt> implementation must also include the code generated
 by TableGen that is output in the <tt>XXXGenAsmWriter.inc</tt> file. The code
 in <tt>XXXGenAsmWriter.inc</tt> contains an implementation of the
 <tt>printInstruction</tt> method that may call these methods:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>printOperand</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printMemOperand</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printCCOperand (for conditional statements)</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printDataDirective</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printDeclare</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printImplicitDef</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printInlineAsm</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printLabel</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printPICJumpTableEntry</tt></li>

 <li><tt>printPICJumpTableSetLabel</tt></li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 The implementations of <tt>printDeclare</tt>, <tt>printImplicitDef</tt>,
 <tt>printInlineAsm</tt>, and <tt>printLabel</tt> in <tt>AsmPrinter.cpp</tt> are
 generally adequate for printing assembly and do not need to be
 overridden.
 </p>

 <p>
 The <tt>printOperand</tt> method is implemented with a long switch/case
 statement for the type of operand: register, immediate, basic block, external
 symbol, global address, constant pool index, or jump table index. For an
 instruction with a memory address operand, the <tt>printMemOperand</tt> method
 should be implemented to generate the proper output. Similarly,
 <tt>printCCOperand</tt> should be used to print a conditional operand.
 </p>

 <p><tt>doFinalization</tt> should be overridden in <tt>XXXAsmPrinter</tt>, and
 it should be called to shut down the assembly printer. During
 <tt>doFinalization</tt>, global variables and constants are printed to
 output.
 </p>

 </div>

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   <a name="subtargetSupport">Subtarget Support</a>
 </div>
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 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 Subtarget support is used to inform the code generation process of instruction
 set variations for a given chip set.  For example, the LLVM SPARC implementation
 provided covers three major versions of the SPARC microprocessor architecture:
 Version 8 (V8, which is a 32-bit architecture), Version 9 (V9, a 64-bit
 architecture), and the UltraSPARC architecture. V8 has 16 double-precision
 floating-point registers that are also usable as either 32 single-precision or 8
 quad-precision registers.  V8 is also purely big-endian. V9 has 32
 double-precision floating-point registers that are also usable as 16
 quad-precision registers, but cannot be used as single-precision registers. The
 UltraSPARC architecture combines V9 with UltraSPARC Visual Instruction Set
 extensions.
 </p>

 <p>
 If subtarget support is needed, you should implement a target-specific
 XXXSubtarget class for your architecture. This class should process the
 command-line options <tt>-mcpu=</tt> and <tt>-mattr=</tt>.
 </p>

 <p>
 TableGen uses definitions in the <tt>Target.td</tt> and <tt>Sparc.td</tt> files
 to generate code in <tt>SparcGenSubtarget.inc</tt>. In <tt>Target.td</tt>, shown
 below, the <tt>SubtargetFeature</tt> interface is defined. The first 4 string
 parameters of the <tt>SubtargetFeature</tt> interface are a feature name, an
 attribute set by the feature, the value of the attribute, and a description of
 the feature. (The fifth parameter is a list of features whose presence is
 implied, and its default value is an empty array.)
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class SubtargetFeature&lt;string n, string a,  string v, string d,
                        list&lt;SubtargetFeature&gt; i = []&gt; {
   string Name = n;
   string Attribute = a;
   string Value = v;
   string Desc = d;
   list&lt;SubtargetFeature&gt; Implies = i;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 In the <tt>Sparc.td</tt> file, the SubtargetFeature is used to define the
 following features.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 def FeatureV9 : SubtargetFeature&lt;"v9", "IsV9", "true",
                      "Enable SPARC-V9 instructions"&gt;;
 def FeatureV8Deprecated : SubtargetFeature&lt;"deprecated-v8",
                      "V8DeprecatedInsts", "true",
                      "Enable deprecated V8 instructions in V9 mode"&gt;;
 def FeatureVIS : SubtargetFeature&lt;"vis", "IsVIS", "true",
                      "Enable UltraSPARC Visual Instruction Set extensions"&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 Elsewhere in <tt>Sparc.td</tt>, the Proc class is defined and then is used to
 define particular SPARC processor subtypes that may have the previously
 described features.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 class Proc&lt;string Name, list&lt;SubtargetFeature&gt; Features&gt;
   : Processor&lt;Name, NoItineraries, Features&gt;;
 &nbsp;
 def : Proc&lt;"generic",         []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"v8",              []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"supersparc",      []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"sparclite",       []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"f934",            []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"hypersparc",      []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"sparclite86x",    []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"sparclet",        []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"tsc701",          []&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"v9",              [FeatureV9]&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"ultrasparc",      [FeatureV9, FeatureV8Deprecated]&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"ultrasparc3",     [FeatureV9, FeatureV8Deprecated]&gt;;
 def : Proc&lt;"ultrasparc3-vis", [FeatureV9, FeatureV8Deprecated, FeatureVIS]&gt;;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 From <tt>Target.td</tt> and <tt>Sparc.td</tt> files, the resulting
 SparcGenSubtarget.inc specifies enum values to identify the features, arrays of
 constants to represent the CPU features and CPU subtypes, and the
 ParseSubtargetFeatures method that parses the features string that sets
 specified subtarget options. The generated <tt>SparcGenSubtarget.inc</tt> file
 should be included in the <tt>SparcSubtarget.cpp</tt>. The target-specific
 implementation of the XXXSubtarget method should follow this pseudocode:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 XXXSubtarget::XXXSubtarget(const Module &amp;M, const std::string &amp;FS) {
   // Set the default features
   // Determine default and user specified characteristics of the CPU
   // Call ParseSubtargetFeatures(FS, CPU) to parse the features string
   // Perform any additional operations
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

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 <div class="doc_section">
   <a name="jitSupport">JIT Support</a>
 </div>
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 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 The implementation of a target machine optionally includes a Just-In-Time (JIT)
 code generator that emits machine code and auxiliary structures as binary output
 that can be written directly to memory.  To do this, implement JIT code
 generation by performing the following steps:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li>Write an <tt>XXXCodeEmitter.cpp</tt> file that contains a machine function
     pass that transforms target-machine instructions into relocatable machine
     code.</li>

 <li>Write an <tt>XXXJITInfo.cpp</tt> file that implements the JIT interfaces for
     target-specific code-generation activities, such as emitting machine code
     and stubs.</li>

 <li>Modify <tt>XXXTargetMachine</tt> so that it provides a
     <tt>TargetJITInfo</tt> object through its <tt>getJITInfo</tt> method.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 There are several different approaches to writing the JIT support code. For
 instance, TableGen and target descriptor files may be used for creating a JIT
 code generator, but are not mandatory. For the Alpha and PowerPC target
 machines, TableGen is used to generate <tt>XXXGenCodeEmitter.inc</tt>, which
 contains the binary coding of machine instructions and the
 <tt>getBinaryCodeForInstr</tt> method to access those codes. Other JIT
 implementations do not.
 </p>

 <p>
 Both <tt>XXXJITInfo.cpp</tt> and <tt>XXXCodeEmitter.cpp</tt> must include the
 <tt>llvm/CodeGen/MachineCodeEmitter.h</tt> header file that defines the
 <tt>MachineCodeEmitter</tt> class containing code for several callback functions
 that write data (in bytes, words, strings, etc.) to the output stream.
 </p>

 </div>

 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="mce">Machine Code Emitter</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 In <tt>XXXCodeEmitter.cpp</tt>, a target-specific of the <tt>Emitter</tt> class
 is implemented as a function pass (subclass
 of <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>). The target-specific implementation
 of <tt>runOnMachineFunction</tt> (invoked by
 <tt>runOnFunction</tt> in <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>) iterates through the
 <tt>MachineBasicBlock</tt> calls <tt>emitInstruction</tt> to process each
 instruction and emit binary code. <tt>emitInstruction</tt> is largely
 implemented with case statements on the instruction types defined in
 <tt>XXXInstrInfo.h</tt>. For example, in <tt>X86CodeEmitter.cpp</tt>,
 the <tt>emitInstruction</tt> method is built around the following switch/case
 statements:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 switch (Desc-&gt;TSFlags &amp; X86::FormMask) {
 case X86II::Pseudo:  // for not yet implemented instructions
    ...               // or pseudo-instructions
    break;
 case X86II::RawFrm:  // for instructions with a fixed opcode value
    ...
    break;
 case X86II::AddRegFrm: // for instructions that have one register operand
    ...                 // added to their opcode
    break;
 case X86II::MRMDestReg:// for instructions that use the Mod/RM byte
    ...                 // to specify a destination (register)
    break;
 case X86II::MRMDestMem:// for instructions that use the Mod/RM byte
    ...                 // to specify a destination (memory)
    break;
 case X86II::MRMSrcReg: // for instructions that use the Mod/RM byte
    ...                 // to specify a source (register)
    break;
 case X86II::MRMSrcMem: // for instructions that use the Mod/RM byte
    ...                 // to specify a source (memory)
    break;
 case X86II::MRM0r: case X86II::MRM1r:  // for instructions that operate on
 case X86II::MRM2r: case X86II::MRM3r:  // a REGISTER r/m operand and
 case X86II::MRM4r: case X86II::MRM5r:  // use the Mod/RM byte and a field
 case X86II::MRM6r: case X86II::MRM7r:  // to hold extended opcode data
    ...
    break;
 case X86II::MRM0m: case X86II::MRM1m:  // for instructions that operate on
 case X86II::MRM2m: case X86II::MRM3m:  // a MEMORY r/m operand and
 case X86II::MRM4m: case X86II::MRM5m:  // use the Mod/RM byte and a field
 case X86II::MRM6m: case X86II::MRM7m:  // to hold extended opcode data
    ...
    break;
 case X86II::MRMInitReg: // for instructions whose source and
    ...                  // destination are the same register
    break;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 The implementations of these case statements often first emit the opcode and
 then get the operand(s). Then depending upon the operand, helper methods may be
 called to process the operand(s). For example, in <tt>X86CodeEmitter.cpp</tt>,
 for the <tt>X86II::AddRegFrm</tt> case, the first data emitted
 (by <tt>emitByte</tt>) is the opcode added to the register operand. Then an
 object representing the machine operand, <tt>MO1</tt>, is extracted. The helper
 methods such as <tt>isImmediate</tt>,
 <tt>isGlobalAddress</tt>, <tt>isExternalSymbol</tt>, <tt>isConstantPoolIndex</tt>, and
 <tt>isJumpTableIndex</tt> determine the operand
 type. (<tt>X86CodeEmitter.cpp</tt> also has private methods such
 as <tt>emitConstant</tt>, <tt>emitGlobalAddress</tt>,
 <tt>emitExternalSymbolAddress</tt>, <tt>emitConstPoolAddress</tt>,
 and <tt>emitJumpTableAddress</tt> that emit the data into the output stream.)
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 case X86II::AddRegFrm:
   MCE.emitByte(BaseOpcode + getX86RegNum(MI.getOperand(CurOp++).getReg()));

   if (CurOp != NumOps) {
     const MachineOperand &amp;MO1 = MI.getOperand(CurOp++);
     unsigned Size = X86InstrInfo::sizeOfImm(Desc);
     if (MO1.isImmediate())
       emitConstant(MO1.getImm(), Size);
     else {
       unsigned rt = Is64BitMode ? X86::reloc_pcrel_word
         : (IsPIC ? X86::reloc_picrel_word : X86::reloc_absolute_word);
       if (Opcode == X86::MOV64ri)
         rt = X86::reloc_absolute_dword;  // FIXME: add X86II flag?
       if (MO1.isGlobalAddress()) {
         bool NeedStub = isa&lt;Function&gt;(MO1.getGlobal());
         bool isLazy = gvNeedsLazyPtr(MO1.getGlobal());
         emitGlobalAddress(MO1.getGlobal(), rt, MO1.getOffset(), 0,
                           NeedStub, isLazy);
       } else if (MO1.isExternalSymbol())
         emitExternalSymbolAddress(MO1.getSymbolName(), rt);
       else if (MO1.isConstantPoolIndex())
         emitConstPoolAddress(MO1.getIndex(), rt);
       else if (MO1.isJumpTableIndex())
         emitJumpTableAddress(MO1.getIndex(), rt);
     }
   }
   break;
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 In the previous example, <tt>XXXCodeEmitter.cpp</tt> uses the
 variable <tt>rt</tt>, which is a RelocationType enum that may be used to
 relocate addresses (for example, a global address with a PIC base offset). The
 <tt>RelocationType</tt> enum for that target is defined in the short
 target-specific <tt>XXXRelocations.h</tt> file. The <tt>RelocationType</tt> is used by
 the <tt>relocate</tt> method defined in <tt>XXXJITInfo.cpp</tt> to rewrite
 addresses for referenced global symbols.
 </p>

 <p>
 For example, <tt>X86Relocations.h</tt> specifies the following relocation types
 for the X86 addresses. In all four cases, the relocated value is added to the
 value already in memory. For <tt>reloc_pcrel_word</tt>
 and <tt>reloc_picrel_word</tt>, there is an additional initial adjustment.
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 enum RelocationType {
   reloc_pcrel_word = 0,    // add reloc value after adjusting for the PC loc
   reloc_picrel_word = 1,   // add reloc value after adjusting for the PIC base
   reloc_absolute_word = 2, // absolute relocation; no additional adjustment
   reloc_absolute_dword = 3 // absolute relocation; no additional adjustment
 };
 </pre>
 </div>

 </div>

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 <div class="doc_subsection">
   <a name="targetJITInfo">Target JIT Info</a>
 </div>

 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>
 <tt>XXXJITInfo.cpp</tt> implements the JIT interfaces for target-specific
 code-generation activities, such as emitting machine code and stubs. At minimum,
 a target-specific version of <tt>XXXJITInfo</tt> implements the following:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li><tt>getLazyResolverFunction</tt> &mdash; Initializes the JIT, gives the
     target a function that is used for compilation.</li>

 <li><tt>emitFunctionStub</tt> &mdash; Returns a native function with a specified
     address for a callback function.</li>

 <li><tt>relocate</tt> &mdash; Changes the addresses of referenced globals, based
     on relocation types.</li>

 <li>Callback function that are wrappers to a function stub that is used when the
     real target is not initially known.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>
 <tt>getLazyResolverFunction</tt> is generally trivial to implement. It makes the
 incoming parameter as the global <tt>JITCompilerFunction</tt> and returns the
 callback function that will be used a function wrapper. For the Alpha target
 (in <tt>AlphaJITInfo.cpp</tt>), the <tt>getLazyResolverFunction</tt>
 implementation is simply:
 </p>

 <div class="doc_code">
 <pre>
 TargetJITInfo::LazyResolverFn AlphaJITInfo::getLazyResolverFunction(
                                             JITCompilerFn F) {
   JITCompilerFunction = F;
   return AlphaCompilationCallback;
 }
 </pre>
 </div>

 <p>
 For the X86 target, the <tt>getLazyResolverFunction</tt> implementation is a
 little more complication, because it returns a different callback function for
 processors with SSE instructions and XMM registers.
 </p>

 <p>
 The callback function initially saves and later restores the callee register
 values, incoming arguments, and frame and return address. The callback function
 needs low-level access to the registers or stack, so it is typically implemented
 with assembler.
 </p>

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