MachineOperand type

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Hi all,

I have a question about the types of MachineOperand. There are 12 different types of MachineOperand such as MO_Register, MO_Immediate and so on. Some of the names are self-explanatory such as MO_Register and MO_Immediate. Some of them are a little confusing such as MO_FrameIndex, MO_ConstantPoolIndex and so on. For example, what is the different between MO_ExternalSymbol and MO_GlobalAddress? Are these two types orthogonal? I found that memset and memcpy are MO_ExternalSymbol and printf and fprintf and so on are MO_GlobalAddress.

Thanks a lot in advance. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Bin

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GlobalAddress is used to refer to something that exists in IR, such as a global variable. ExternalSymbol is used to refer to something that isn't in the IR because it was synthesized by codegen, such as __addsi3.

-Chris

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Yes, codegen does synthesize memcpy in some cases, also memset.

-Chris