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[AMDGPU][MC] Enabled generic constant expressions as operands
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Authored by dp on Apr 16 2019, 4:17 AM.

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Summary

See bug 40873: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40873

Before this change assembler required constant expressions to start with a number, for example:

x = 1
v_or3_b32 v1, v2, v3, 1+x         // ok
v_or3_b32 v1, v2, v3, x+1         // error
v_ceil_f32 v1, abs(1+x)           // ok
v_ceil_f32 v1, abs(x+1)           // error

This fix enables to use arbitrary constant expressions with generic imm operands and operands of VOP modifiers like abs(...) and neg(...):

x = 1
v_or3_b32 v1, v2, v3, 1+x         // ok
v_or3_b32 v1, v2, v3, x+1         // ok
v_ceil_f32 v1, abs(1+x)           // ok
v_ceil_f32 v1, abs(x+1)           // ok

Some syntactic sugar constructs like hwreg(...) still expect constant expressions to start with a number; this will be fixed separately. See bug 40820: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40820

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dp created this revision.Apr 16 2019, 4:17 AM
dp added a reviewer: vpykhtin.Apr 23 2019, 2:19 AM
artem.tamazov accepted this revision.Apr 26 2019, 5:14 AM

LGTM. Recommendation: it would be nice if error message will be more descriptive (where is does not require too much work)

test/MC/AMDGPU/expressions.s
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Can we be more descriptive in the message? like "error: Floating-point expressions are not supported"?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 26 2019, 5:14 AM
dp marked an inline comment as done.Apr 26 2019, 6:11 AM
dp added inline comments.
test/MC/AMDGPU/expressions.s
9 ↗(On Diff #195347)

In theory we can improve error message by looking at the next token. If the token is a binary operator like '*' the whole thing looks like a floating-point expression which we do not support.

However, there are some issues with this approach:

  1. We have a lot of binary operators to check - see https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUOperandSyntax.html#binary-operators
  2. Operands do not have to be separated with commas, spaces are allowed as well. As a result, we may be unable to distinguish an expression from two separate operands, for example:
s_sub_u32 s0, -1.0 + 1     // assembled ok!

This code is equivalent to the following:

s_sub_u32 s0, -1.0, + 1
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