//===- TableGenBackends.h - Declarations for LLVM TableGen Backends -------===// // // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information. // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // This file contains the declarations for all of the LLVM TableGen // backends. A "TableGen backend" is just a function. See below for a // precise description. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #ifndef LLVM_UTILS_TABLEGEN_TABLEGENBACKENDS_H #define LLVM_UTILS_TABLEGEN_TABLEGENBACKENDS_H #include // A TableGen backend is a function that looks like // // EmitFoo(RecordKeeper &RK, raw_ostream &OS /*, anything else you need */ ) // // What you do inside of that function is up to you, but it will usually // involve generating C++ code to the provided raw_ostream. // // The RecordKeeper is just a top-level container for an in-memory // representation of the data encoded in the TableGen file. What a TableGen // backend does is walk around that in-memory representation and generate // stuff based on the information it contains. // // The in-memory representation is a node-graph (think of it like JSON but // with a richer ontology of types), where the nodes are subclasses of // Record. The methods `getClass`, `getDef` are the basic interface to // access the node-graph. RecordKeeper also provides a handy method // `getAllDerivedDefinitions`. Consult "include/llvm/TableGen/Record.h" for // the exact interfaces provided by Record's and RecordKeeper. // // A common pattern for TableGen backends is for the EmitFoo function to // instantiate a class which holds some context for the generation process, // and then have most of the work happen in that class's methods. This // pattern partly has historical roots in the previous TableGen backend API // that involved a class and an invocation like `FooEmitter(RK).run(OS)`. // // Remember to wrap private things in an anonymous namespace. For most // backends, this means that the EmitFoo function is the only thing not in // the anonymous namespace. // FIXME: Reorganize TableGen so that build dependencies can be more // accurately expressed. Currently, touching any of the emitters (or // anything that they transitively depend on) causes everything dependent // on TableGen to be rebuilt (this includes all the targets!). Perhaps have // a standalone TableGen binary and have the backends be loadable modules // of some sort; then the dependency could be expressed as being on the // module, and all the modules would have a common dependency on the // TableGen binary with as few dependencies as possible on the rest of // LLVM. namespace llvm { class raw_ostream; class RecordKeeper; void EmitMapTable(RecordKeeper &RK, raw_ostream &OS); // Defined in DecoderEmitter.cpp void EmitDecoder(RecordKeeper &RK, raw_ostream &OS, const std::string &PredicateNamespace); } // namespace llvm #endif