JF Bastien e428ba798e WebAssembly: handle more than int32 argument/return
Summary: Also test 64-bit integers, except shifts for now which are broken because isel dislikes the 32-bit truncate that precedes them.

Reviewers: sunfish

Subscribers: llvm-commits, jfb

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11699

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@243822 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-08-01 04:48:44 +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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