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Rather than each rewrite being an opaque function, with separate lists
of rewrites for each backend, instead put all the rewrites into a
single list then have each backend define which of those rewrites it
wants to use and in what order.
For example, rather than having
let rewrite_defs_ocaml = [
...
("rewrite_undefined", rewrite_undefined_if_gen false);
...
]
we would now have
let all_rewrites = [
...
("undefined", Bool_rewriter (fun b -> Basic_rewriter (rewrite_undefined_if_gen b)));
...
]
let rewriters_ocaml = [
...
("undefined", [Bool_arg false]);
...
]
let rewrite_defs_ocaml =
List.map (fun (name, args) -> (name, instantiate_rewrite (List.assoc name all_rewrites) args)) rewriters_ocaml
This means we can introspect on the arguments required for each
rewrite, allowing a :rewrite command in the interactive mode which can
parse the arguments required for each rewrite, so we can invoke the
above rewrite as
sail> :rewrite undefined false
with completion for the rewrite name based on all_rewrites, and hints
for any arguments.
The idea behind this is if we want to generate a very custom slice of
a specification, we can set it up as a sequence of interpreter
commands, e.g.
...
:rewrite split execute
:slice_roots execute_LOAD
:slice_cuts rX wX
:slice
:rewrite tuple_assignments
...
where we slice a spec just after splitting the execute function. This
should help in avoiding an endless proliferation of additional options
and flags on the command line.
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