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Learn LLVM 17

You're reading from   Learn LLVM 17 A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631346
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Kai Nacke Kai Nacke
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics of Compiler Construction with LLVM
2. Chapter 1: Installing LLVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Structure of a Compiler 4. Part 2: From Source to Machine Code Generation
5. Chapter 3: Turning the Source File into an Abstract Syntax Tree 6. Chapter 4: Basics of IR Code Generation 7. Chapter 5: IR Generation for High-Level Language Constructs 8. Chapter 6: Advanced IR Generation 9. Chapter 7: Optimizing IR 10. Part 3: Taking LLVM to the Next Level
11. Chapter 8: The TableGen Language 12. Chapter 9: JIT Compilation 13. Chapter 10: Debugging Using LLVM Tools 14. Part 4: Roll Your Own Backend
15. Chapter 11: The Target Description 16. Chapter 12: Instruction Selection 17. Chapter 13: Beyond Instruction Selection 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Instruction selection via the selection DAG

Creating machine instructions from the IR is a very important task in the backend. One common way to implement it is to utilize a DAG:

  1. First, we must create a DAG from the IR. A node of the DAG represents an operation and the edges model control and data flow dependencies.
  2. Next, we must loop over the DAG and legalize the types and operations. Legalization means that we only use types and operations that are supported by the hardware. This requires us to create a configuration that tells the framework how to deal with non-legal types and operations. For instance, a 64-bit value could be split into two 32-bit values, the multiplication of two 64-bit values could be changed to a library call, and a complex operation such as count population could be expanded into a sequence of simpler operations for calculating this value.
  3. After, pattern matching is utilized to match nodes in the DAG and replace them with machine instructions...
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