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LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries

You're reading from   LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries Design powerful and reliable compilers using the latest libraries and tools from LLVM

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838824952
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Build System and LLVM-Specific Tooling
2. Chapter 1: Saving Resources When Building LLVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring LLVM's Build System Features 4. Chapter 3: Testing with LLVM LIT 5. Chapter 4: TableGen Development 6. Section 2: Frontend Development
7. Chapter 5: Exploring Clang's Architecture 8. Chapter 6: Extending the Preprocessor 9. Chapter 7: Handling AST 10. Chapter 8: Working with Compiler Flags and Toolchains 11. Section 3: "Middle-End" Development
12. Chapter 9: Working with PassManager and AnalysisManager 13. Chapter 10: Processing LLVM IR 14. Chapter 11: Gearing Up with Support Utilities 15. Chapter 12: Learning LLVM IR Instrumentation 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing a donut recipe in TableGen

With the knowledge from previous sections, it's time to write our own donut recipe! We'll proceed as follows:

  1. The first file to create is Kitchen.td. It defines the environment for cooking, including measuring units, equipment, and procedures, to name but a few aspects. We are going to start with the measuring units, as follows:
    class Unit {
      string Text;
      bit Imperial;
    }

    Here, the Text field is the textual format showing on the recipe, and Imperial is just a Boolean flag marking whether this unit is imperial or metric. Each weight or volume unit will be a record inheriting from this class—have a look at the following code snippet for an example of this:

    def gram_unit : Unit {
      let Imperial = false;
      let Text = "g";
    }
    def tbsp_unit : Unit {
      let Imperial = true;
      let Text = "tbsp";
    }

    There are plenty of measuring units we want to create, but...

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