Add a new kind of MachineOperand: MO_RegisterMask.
authorJakob Stoklund Olesen <stoklund@2pi.dk>
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:22:00 +0000 (19:22 +0000)
committerJakob Stoklund Olesen <stoklund@2pi.dk>
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:22:00 +0000 (19:22 +0000)
commit7739cad69d2590f556afc9fc3048f967b5a3f4f6
tree0b94e1e1d7db58d9d497876c3a21d4d9e85188d9
parent1857b51ef57697992afe3955f5f90e79612142d8
Add a new kind of MachineOperand: MO_RegisterMask.

Register masks will be used as a compact representation of large clobber
lists.  Currently, an x86 call instruction has some 40 operands
representing call-clobbered registers.  That's more than 1kB of useless
operands per call site.

A register mask operand references a bit mask of call-preserved
registers, everything else is clobbered.  The bit mask will typically
come from TargetRegisterInfo::getCallPreservedMask().

By abandoning ImplicitDefs for call-clobbered registers, it also becomes
possible to share call instruction descriptions between calling
conventions, and we can get rid of the WINCALL* instructions.

This patch introduces the new operand kind.  Future patches will add
RegMask support to target-independent passes before finally the fixed
clobber lists can be removed from call instruction descriptions.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@148250 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
docs/CodeGenerator.html
docs/ReleaseNotes.html
include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineInstrBuilder.h
include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineOperand.h
lib/CodeGen/MachineInstr.cpp