Questions on 'proc point splitting' again

[David Spitzenberg]

On 03/03/2016 11:32 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:

>> Given a CmmGraph, is there a possibility to annotate information to a
>> single node within this graph? I.e. I want to annotate to certain
>> CmmCalls that they where introduced by 'proc point splitting'. I would
>> like to slightly modifiy the generation of LLVM IR for such Calls later on.
>>
> My guess here would be to map the CmmGraph (which is simply a type
> synonym for `GenCmmGraph CmmNode` to something of type `GenCmmGraph
> AnnCmmNode` where AnnCmmNode carries a CmmNode along with whatever other
> information you'd like to preserve.
> 
> This then poses the question of what you'd like to *do* with this graph,
> since you'll be unable to use much of the GHC's existing machinery.
> My (possibly mistaken) impression is that we don't have a terribly great
> story in GHC for working with arbitrarily annotated Cmm graphs.

Thank you very much, Ben. Basically, I just want the annotation to be
propagated all the way down to the backend-code generation (llvmGen in
this case). At the moment, I can't find any need to modify the map you
suggest in between. So using the existing machinery shouldn't be
necessary to do any work on the map itself. Propagating this newly
introduced map to where I want to use it seems harder, though.

I'm going to have a look at it and put some more questions to you, if I
struggle to find a way to propagate the map.

Regards,

David