This patch implements a tablegen-driven Instruction Compression
mechanisms for generating RISCV compressed
instructions (C Extension) from the expanded instruction form.
This tablegen backend processes CompressPat declarations in a
td file and generates all the compile-time and runtime checks
required to validate the declarations, validate the input
operands and generate correct instuctions.
The checks include validating register operands, immediate
operands, fixed register operands and fixed immediate operands.
Example: class CompressPat<dag input, dag output> { dag Input = input; dag Output = output; list<Predicate> Predicates = []; } let Predicates = [HasStdExtC] in { def : CompressPat<(ADD GPRNoX0:$rs1, GPRNoX0:$rs1, GPRNoX0:$rs2), (C_ADD GPRNoX0:$rs1, GPRNoX0:$rs2)>; } The result is an auto-generated header file 'RISCVGenCompressEmitter.inc' which exports two functions for compressing/uncompressing MCInst instructions, plus some helper functions: bool compressInst(MCInst& OutInst, const MCInst &MI, const MCSubtargetInfo &STI, MCContext &Context); bool uncompressInst(MCInst& OutInst, const MCInst &MI, const MCRegisterInfo &MRI, const MCSubtargetInfo &STI);
RISCVELFStreamer.h should go first, as it is the counterpart to RISCVELFStreamer.cpp ('main module header')