This patch removes the `type` field from `Attribute` along with the
`Attribute::getType` accessor.
Going forward, this means that attributes in MLIR will no longer have
types as a first-class concept. This patch lays the groundwork to
incrementally remove or refactor code that relies on generic attributes
being typed. The immediate impact will be on attributes that rely on
`Attribute` containing a type, such as `IntegerAttr`,
`DenseElementsAttr`, and `ml_program::ExternAttr`, which will now need
to define a type parameter on their storage classes. This will save
memory as all other attribute kinds will no longer contain a type.
Moreover, it will not be possible to generically query the type of an
attribute directly. This patch provides an attribute interface
`TypedAttr` that implements only one method, `getType`, which can be
used to generically query the types of attributes that implement the
interface. This interface can be used to retain the concept of a "typed
attribute". The ODS-generated accessor for a `type` parameter
automatically implements this method.
Next steps will be to refactor the assembly formats of certain operations
that rely on `parseAttribute(type)` and `printAttributeWithoutType` to
remove special handling of type elision until `type` can be removed from
the dialect parsing hook entirely; and incrementally remove uses of
`TypedAttr`.
Reviewed By: lattner, rriddle, jpienaar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130092
The current Parser library is solely focused on providing API for
the textual MLIR format, but MLIR will soon also provide a binary
format. This commit renames the current Parser library to AsmParser to
better correspond to what the library is actually intended for. A new
Parser library is added which will act as a unified parser interface
between both text and binary formats. Most parser clients are
unaffected, given that the unified interface is essentially the same as
the current interface. Only clients that rely on utilizing the
AsmParserState, or those that want to parse Attributes/Types need to be
updated to point to the AsmParser library.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129605
