Mehdi Amini a5574d611a Remove DataLayout from TargetLoweringObjectFile, redirect to Module
Summary:
This change is part of a series of commits dedicated to have a single
DataLayout during compilation by using always the one owned by the
module.

Reviewers: echristo

Subscribers: yaron.keren, rafael, llvm-commits, jholewinski

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11079

From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@242385 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-07-16 06:04:17 +00:00
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2015-07-06 21:41:59 +00:00
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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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