Stella Laurenzo 2bb252852c [mlir] Add GlobalOp, GlobalLoadConstOp to ml_program.
The approach I took was to define a dialect 'extern' attribute that a GlobalOp can take as a value to signify external linkage. I think this approach should compose well and should also work with wherever the OpaqueElements work goes in the future (since that is just another kind of attribute). I special cased the GlobalOp parser/printer for this case because it is significantly easier on the eyes.

In the discussion, Jeff Niu had proposed an alternative syntax for GlobalOp that I ended up not taking. I did try to implement it but a) I don't think it made anything easier to read in the common case, and b) it made the parsing/printing logic a lot more complicated (I think I would need a completely custom parser/printer to do it well). Please have a look at the common cases where the global type and initial value type match: I don't think how I have it is too bad. The less common cases seem ok to me.

I chose to only implement the direct, constant load op since that is non side effecting and there was still discussion pending on that.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124318
2022-05-18 23:08:28 -07:00
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