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authorAlexander Kornienko <alexfh@google.com>2013-04-03 14:07:16 +0000
committerAlexander Kornienko <alexfh@google.com>2013-04-03 14:07:16 +0000
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@@ -1038,6 +1038,24 @@ for your target. It has the following strengths:
are used to manipulate the input immediate (in this case, take the high or low
16-bits of the immediate).
+* When using the 'Pat' class to map a pattern to an instruction that has one
+ or more complex operands (like e.g. `X86 addressing mode`_), the pattern may
+ either specify the operand as a whole using a ``ComplexPattern``, or else it
+ may specify the components of the complex operand separately. The latter is
+ done e.g. for pre-increment instructions by the PowerPC back end:
+
+ ::
+
+ def STWU : DForm_1<37, (outs ptr_rc:$ea_res), (ins GPRC:$rS, memri:$dst),
+ "stwu $rS, $dst", LdStStoreUpd, []>,
+ RegConstraint<"$dst.reg = $ea_res">, NoEncode<"$ea_res">;
+
+ def : Pat<(pre_store GPRC:$rS, ptr_rc:$ptrreg, iaddroff:$ptroff),
+ (STWU GPRC:$rS, iaddroff:$ptroff, ptr_rc:$ptrreg)>;
+
+ Here, the pair of ``ptroff`` and ``ptrreg`` operands is matched onto the
+ complex operand ``dst`` of class ``memri`` in the ``STWU`` instruction.
+
* While the system does automate a lot, it still allows you to write custom C++
code to match special cases if there is something that is hard to
express.