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    Add a simple register allocator to WebCore for x86_64 · 1f71579f
    benjamin@webkit.org authored
    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125771
    
    Reviewed by Geoffrey Garen.
    
    Source/WebCore: 
    
    Add a brain dead register allocator to simplify the use of registers
    when writting code generators.
    
    RegisterAllocator has two purposes:
    -make it easy to name registers properly.
    -make it hard to reuse a register accidentally.
    
    A helper class LocalRegister is also defined to provide an easy
    way to work with registers within a C++ scope. For example:
        LocalRegister elementPointer(allocator);
        assembler.load(address, elementPointer);
    
    RegisterAllocator makes no attempt at optimizing register allocations, but it reduces
    implicit dependencies by returning used register at the end of the queue, making it less
    likely they will be reused before their last instruction is executed.
    
    The current implementation only support unix x86_64, it only uses caller saved registers.
    
    * WebCore.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:
    * cssjit/RegisterAllocator.h: Added.
    (WebCore::RegisterAllocator::allocateRegister): Provides any available register.
    To restrict runtime exploitation of compiler bugs, the method crashes in release
    if the register pool is empty.
    
    (WebCore::RegisterAllocator::reserveRegister): Reserve a particular register.
    (WebCore::RegisterAllocator::returnRegister): Return a previously allocated or reserved register.
    
    (WebCore::RegisterAllocator::allocatedRegisters):
    (WebCore::LocalRegister::LocalRegister):
    (WebCore::LocalRegister::~LocalRegister):
    (WebCore::LocalRegister::operator JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID):
    (WebCore::RegisterAllocator::RegisterAllocator):
    
    Source/WTF: 
    
    * wtf/Platform.h: Add a new flag "CSS_SELECTOR_JIT" to guard
    an experimental JIT compiler in WebCore.
    
    
    git-svn-id: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk@160697 268f45cc-cd09-0410-ab3c-d52691b4dbfc
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