Summary:
When we encode an instruction, we need to know the number of bytes being
emitted to determine the fixups in `X86MCCodeEmitter::emitImmediate`.
There are only two callers for `emitImmediate`: `emitMemModRMByte` and
`encodeInstruction`.
Before this patch, we kept track of the current byte being emitted
by passing a reference parameter `CurByte` across all the `emit*`
funtions, which is ugly and unnecessary. For example, we don't have any
fixups when emitting prefixes, so we don't need to track this value.
In this patch, we use `StartByte` to record the initial status of the
streamer, and use `OS.tell()` to get the current status of the streamer
when we need to know the number of bytes being emitted. On one hand,
this eliminates the parameter `CurByte` for most `emit*` functions, on
the other hand, this make things clear: Only pass the parameter when we
really need it.
Reviewers: craig.topper, pengfei, MaskRay
Reviewed By: craig.topper, MaskRay
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits, annita.zhang
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78419
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