Currently custom code predicates can only really be used for
contextless checks tied to a single instruction (e.g. check the def
for hasOneUse). If you do want to inspect the input instructions in
the source pattern, you cannot without re-verifying the opcode and
type checks implied by the patterns, since this check was emitted
before any operand constraints. Really, these are pattern level
predicates that implicitly depend on the instruction and operand
checks.
Introduce a filtering function so the custom predicate is emitted
last. I'm not sure this is the most elegant solution. It seems like
this is really a different thing from the InstructionMatcher/IPM_
predicate kinds. I initially tried keeping this in a separate
predicate list, but that also seemed awkward.
This only half fixes the problem I'm trying to solve. The AMDGPU
pattern I'm attempting to port also uses the PredicateCodeUsesOperands
feature to allow checks on the source operands when the input pattern
is commuted. Really the emitter should reject the pattern since it
doesn't handle this case, but at this point it would be more
productive to just implement this.
I think it's worth documenting what the filter functions are for in a comment here.