llvm/lib/Target/WebAssembly
Dan Gohman d39c38d2bc [WebAssembly] Reapply r252858, with svn add for the new file.
Switch to MC for instruction printing.

This encompasses several changes which are all interconnected:
 - Use the MC framework for printing almost all instructions.
 - AsmStrings are now live.
 - This introduces an indirection between LLVM vregs and WebAssembly registers,
   and a new pass, WebAssemblyRegNumbering, for computing a basic the mapping.
   This addresses some basic issues with argument registers and unused registers.
 - The way ARGUMENT instructions are handled no longer generates redundant
   get_local+set_local for every argument.

This also changes the assembly syntax somewhat; most notably, MC's printing
does not use sigils on label names, so those are no longer present, and
push/pop now have a sigil to keep them unambiguous.

The usage of set_local/get_local/$push/$pop will continue to evolve
significantly. This patch is just one step of a larger change.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@252910 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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//===-- README.txt - Notes for WebAssembly code gen -----------------------===//

This WebAssembly backend is presently in a very early stage of development.
The code should build and not break anything else, but don't expect a lot more
at this point.

For more information on WebAssembly itself, see the design documents:
  * https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/README.md

The following documents contain some information on the planned semantics and
binary encoding of WebAssembly itself:
  * https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/AstSemantics.md
  * https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/BinaryEncoding.md

Interesting work that remains to be done:
* Write a pass to restructurize irreducible control flow. This needs to be done
  before register allocation to be efficient, because it may duplicate basic
  blocks and WebAssembly performs register allocation at a whole-function
  level. Note that LLVM's GPU code has such a pass, but it linearizes control
  flow (e.g. both sides of branches execute and are masked) which is undesirable
  for WebAssembly.
* Basic relooper to expose control flow as an AST.
* Figure out how to properly use MC for virtual ISAs. This may require some
  refactoring of MC.

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