Understanding assert in SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp

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#1

Hi,
I am new to LLVM. I am experimenting with a toy backend. I don’t understand

“LowerFormalArguments didn’t return a valid chain” in SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp file. What is the interface here? What does it mean by returning a Chain?

Thanks
Jen.

#2

Have you read http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#instruction-selection-section ? That covers the general DAG representation and the meaning of a “chain”.

In general, if you don’t understand how something in SelectionDAG is supposed to work, I’d suggest looking at other targets, and using the dumping options frequently.

-Eli

#3

Thanks, I’ll check it out. Is the interface that functions mutate DAG and return Chain nodes and we can traverse DAG using Chain? How do I traverse DAG in BFS order?