[docs] Try to make it easier to find info about new PM vs legacy PM (#80834)
Seen several beginner questions popping up in discourse about how to implement and run custom passes. And then it turns out that they are following the old "Writing an LLVM Pass" guide that describe legacy passes, and then things are mixed up when they try to run that pass using opt that nowadays default to the new pass manager. This is an attempt to make it slightly clearer in the User Guides that there are two different "Writing an LLVM Pass" pages depending on which pass manager that should be used. This is done by renaming the legacy version of "Writing an LLVM Pass" as "Writing an LLVM Pass (legacy PM version)". Also reordered the links to put the link to the new pass manager documentation first. This patch also moves the warning text that cross references the description on how to write a pass for legacy/new PM to make sure it ends up already in the beginning of the descriptions. Also adding a new warning in the "Running a pass with opt" section of the legacy PM version of the guide, to inform that those examples are outdated.
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Optimizations
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:doc:`WritingAnLLVMPass`
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Information on how to write LLVM transformations and analyses.
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:doc:`WritingAnLLVMNewPMPass`
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Information on how to write LLVM transformations under the new pass
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manager.
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:doc:`WritingAnLLVMPass`
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Information on how to write LLVM transformations and analyses under the
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legacy pass manager.
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:doc:`Passes`
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A list of optimizations and analyses implemented in LLVM.
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Introduction --- What is a pass?
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================================
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.. warning::
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This document deals with the new pass manager. LLVM uses the legacy pass
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manager for the codegen pipeline. For more details, see
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:doc:`WritingAnLLVMPass` and :doc:`NewPassManager`.
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The LLVM pass framework is an important part of the LLVM system, because LLVM
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passes are where most of the interesting parts of the compiler exist. Passes
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perform the transformations and optimizations that make up the compiler, they
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@ -29,11 +34,6 @@ We start by showing you how to construct a pass, from setting up the build,
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creating the pass, to executing and testing it. Looking at existing passes is
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always a great way to learn details.
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.. warning::
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This document deals with the new pass manager. LLVM uses the legacy pass
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manager for the codegen pipeline. For more details, see
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:doc:`WritingAnLLVMPass` and :doc:`NewPassManager`.
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Quick Start --- Writing hello world
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===================================
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====================
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Writing an LLVM Pass
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====================
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========================================
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Writing an LLVM Pass (legacy PM version)
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========================================
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.. program:: opt
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Introduction --- What is a pass?
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================================
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.. warning::
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This document deals with the legacy pass manager. LLVM uses the new pass
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manager for the optimization pipeline (the codegen pipeline
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still uses the legacy pass manager), which has its own way of defining
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passes. For more details, see :doc:`WritingAnLLVMNewPMPass` and
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:doc:`NewPassManager`.
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The LLVM Pass Framework is an important part of the LLVM system, because LLVM
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passes are where most of the interesting parts of the compiler exist. Passes
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perform the transformations and optimizations that make up the compiler, they
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@ -34,13 +41,6 @@ We start by showing you how to construct a pass, everything from setting up the
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code, to compiling, loading, and executing it. After the basics are down, more
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advanced features are discussed.
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.. warning::
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This document deals with the legacy pass manager. LLVM uses the new pass
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manager for the optimization pipeline (the codegen pipeline
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still uses the legacy pass manager), which has its own way of defining
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passes. For more details, see :doc:`WritingAnLLVMNewPMPass` and
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:doc:`NewPassManager`.
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Quick Start --- Writing hello world
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===================================
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Running a pass with ``opt``
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---------------------------
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.. warning::
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This document deals with the legacy pass manager. The :program:`opt` tool no
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longer supports running legacy passes (except for certain hardcoded backend
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passes and when using bugpoint). So the examples below for loading and
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running legacy passes using :program:`opt` are deprecated and no longer
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guaranteed to work.
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Now that you have a brand new shiny shared object file, we can use the
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:program:`opt` command to run an LLVM program through your pass. Because you
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registered your pass with ``RegisterPass``, you will be able to use the
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