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authorLuc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>2021-04-10 20:55:15 +0200
committerLuc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>2021-04-17 15:52:10 +0200
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TODO: add some notes about pseudos being typeless
Pseudos are untyped. It's usually OK because their type can nevertheless be retrieved in a simple way. But it also complicates things and worse in some cases the type is completely lost. Tell a bit more about it in the TODO file. Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
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IR
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+* pseudos are untyped, it's usually OK but often it complicates things:
+
+ - PSEUDO_REGs are defined by instructions and their type is normally
+ retrievable via this defining instruction but in some cases they're not:
+ for example, pseudos defined by ASM output.
+ - PSEUDO_ARGs are considered as defined by OP_ENTRY and are used like
+ this for liveness trackability but their type can't simply be
+ retrieved via this instruction like PSEUDO_REGs are (with ->def->type).
+ - PSEUDO_VALs are completely typeless.
+
+ Maybe a few bits should be used to store some kind of low-level type.
* OP_SET should return a bool, always
* add IR instructions for va_arg() & friends
* add a possibility to import of file in "IR assembly"