<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>TableGen Deficiencies — LLVM 8 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/llvm-theme.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" id="documentation_options" data-url_root="../" src="../_static/documentation_options.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/language_data.js"></script> <link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" /> <link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" /> <link rel="next" title="Debugging JIT-ed Code With GDB" href="../DebuggingJITedCode.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="TableGen Language Introduction" href="LangIntro.html" /> <style type="text/css"> table.right { float: right; margin-left: 20px; } table.right td { border: 1px solid #ccc; } </style> </head><body> <div class="logo"> <a href="../index.html"> <img src="../_static/logo.png" alt="LLVM Logo" width="250" height="88"/></a> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" accesskey="I">index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../DebuggingJITedCode.html" title="Debugging JIT-ed Code With GDB" accesskey="N">next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="LangIntro.html" title="TableGen Language Introduction" accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Home</a> | </li> <li><a href="../index.html">Documentation</a>»</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" accesskey="U">TableGen</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="body" role="main"> <div class="section" id="tablegen-deficiencies"> <h1>TableGen Deficiencies<a class="headerlink" href="#tablegen-deficiencies" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <div class="contents local topic" id="contents"> <ul class="simple"> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction" id="id1">Introduction</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#known-problems" id="id2">Known Problems</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="introduction"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1">Introduction</a><a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Despite being very generic, TableGen has some deficiencies that have been pointed out numerous times. The common theme is that, while TableGen allows you to build Domain-Specific-Languages, the final languages that you create lack the power of other DSLs, which in turn increase considerably the size and complexity of TableGen files.</p> <p>At the same time, TableGen allows you to create virtually any meaning of the basic concepts via custom-made back-ends, which can pervert the original design and make it very hard for newcomers to understand it.</p> <p>There are some in favour of extending the semantics even more, but making sure back-ends adhere to strict rules. Others suggesting we should move to more powerful DSLs designed with specific purposes, or even re-using existing DSLs.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="known-problems"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Known Problems</a><a class="headerlink" href="#known-problems" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>TODO: Add here frequently asked questions about why TableGen doesn’t do what you want, how it might, and how we could extend/restrict it to be more use friendly.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../DebuggingJITedCode.html" title="Debugging JIT-ed Code With GDB" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="LangIntro.html" title="TableGen Language Introduction" >previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Home</a> | </li> <li><a href="../index.html">Documentation</a>»</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >TableGen</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright 2003-2020, LLVM Project. Last updated on 2020-09-07. Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.8.4. </div> </body> </html>