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<p>Welcome to Chapter 7 of the "<a href="index.html">Implementing a language
with LLVM</a>" tutorial. In chapters 1 through 6, we've built a very
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-<div class="doc_section"><a name="why">Why is this a hard problem?</a></div>
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To understand why mutable variables cause complexities in SSA construction,
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<p>The 'trick' here is that while LLVM does require all register values to be
in SSA form, it does not require (or permit) memory objects to be in SSA form.
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<p>Now that we know the sort of problem we want to tackle, lets see what this
looks like in the context of our little Kaleidoscope language. We're going to
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The symbol table in Kaleidoscope is managed at code generation time by the
(* Set up the optimizer pipeline. Start with registering info about how the
* target lays out data structures. *)
- TargetData.add (ExecutionEngine.target_data the_execution_engine) the_fpm;
+ DataLayout.add (ExecutionEngine.target_data the_execution_engine) the_fpm;
<b>(* Promote allocas to registers. *)
add_memory_to_register_promotion the_fpm;</b>
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<p>With our current framework, adding a new assignment operator is really
simple. We will parse it just like any other binary operator, but handle it
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<p>Adding var/in is just like any other other extensions we made to
Kaleidoscope: we extend the lexer, the parser, the AST and the code generator.
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Here is the complete code listing for our running example, enhanced with mutable
(* Set up the optimizer pipeline. Start with registering info about how the
* target lays out data structures. *)
- TargetData.add (ExecutionEngine.target_data the_execution_engine) the_fpm;
+ DataLayout.add (ExecutionEngine.target_data the_execution_engine) the_fpm;
(* Promote allocas to registers. *)
add_memory_to_register_promotion the_fpm;
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