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| author | Sean Silva <silvas@purdue.edu> | 2013-01-30 20:39:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Sean Silva <silvas@purdue.edu> | 2013-01-30 20:39:46 +0000 |
| commit | e70de1f462ca26c17f39d36c91e4784ff035f90d (patch) | |
| tree | 86d6c4b2d4ac10812ffe944fea696fa5a3943a2c /docs | |
| parent | aa57893e84ba7a35948fcaa99812ba88e58f4797 (diff) | |
[docs] Guide prospective TableGen backend writers.
Boilerplate is often the hardest part of getting started with these
kinds of things, so throw them a bone.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@173969 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst b/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst index 526795f53d..4fe4bb986a 100644 --- a/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst +++ b/docs/TableGenFundamentals.rst @@ -791,6 +791,10 @@ Expressions used by code generator to describe instructions and isel patterns: TableGen backends ================= +Until we get a step-by-step HowTo for writing TableGen backends, you can at +least grab the boilerplate (build system, new files, etc.) from Clang's +r173931. + TODO: How they work, how to write one. This section should not contain details about any particular backend, except maybe ``-print-enums`` as an example. This should highlight the APIs in ``TableGen/Record.h``. |