This patch moves the registration to a method in the MLIRContext: getOrCreateDialect<ConcreteDialect>()
This method requires dialect to provide a static getDialectNamespace()
and store a TypeID on the Dialect itself, which allows to lazyily
create a dialect when not yet loaded in the context.
As a side effect, it means that duplicated registration of the same
dialect is not an issue anymore.
To limit the boilerplate, TableGen dialect generation is modified to
emit the constructor entirely and invoke separately a "init()" method
that the user implements.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85495
This adds a minimal out-of-tree dialect template which can be used to start work on a standalone dialect implementation without having to integrate it in the main LLVM tree.
It mostly sets up the directory structure and provides CMakeLists.txt files to build a dialect library, an opt-like tool to operate on that dialect as well as tests. It could be expanded in the future to add examples of more user-defined operations, types, attributes, generated enums, transforms, etc. and linked to a tutorial.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77133
Mehdi Amini