The strided MemRef RFC discusses a normalized descriptor and interaction with library calls (https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/forum/#!topic/mlir/MaL8m2nXuio).
Lowering of nested LLVM structs as value types does not play nicely with externally compiled C/C++ functions due to ABI issues.
Solving the ABI problem generally is a very complex problem and most likely involves taking
a dependence on clang that we do not want atm.
A simple workaround is to pass pointers to memref descriptors at function boundaries, which this CL implement.
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This is useful in several cases, for example a user may want to sugar the syntax of a string(as we do with custom operation syntax), or avoid many nested ifs for parsing a set of known keywords.
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This allows for proper forward declaration, as opposed to leaking the internal implementation via a using directive. This also allows for all pattern building to go through 'insert' methods on the OwningRewritePatternList, replacing uses of 'push_back' and 'RewriteListBuilder'.
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Per tacit agreement, individual dialects should now live in lib/Dialect/Name
with headers in include/mlir/Dialect/Name and tests in test/Dialect/Name.
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