Add a C API for EDSCs in other languages + python
This CL adds support for calling EDSCs from other languages than C++.
Following the LLVM convention this CL:
1. declares simple opaque types and a C API in mlir-c/Core.h;
2. defines the implementation directly in lib/EDSC/Types.cpp and
lib/EDSC/MLIREmitter.cpp.
Unlike LLVM however the nomenclature for these types and API functions is not
well-defined, naming suggestions are most welcome.
To avoid the need for conversion functions, Types.h and MLIREmitter.h include
mlir-c/Core.h and provide constructors and conversion operators between the
mlir::edsc type and the corresponding C type.
In this first commit, mlir-c/Core.h only contains the types for the C API
to allow EDSCs to work from Python. This includes both a minimal set of core
MLIR
types (mlir_context_t, mlir_type_t, mlir_func_t) as well as the EDSC types
(edsc_mlir_emitter_t, edsc_expr_t, edsc_stmt_t, edsc_indexed_t). This can be
restructured in the future as concrete needs arise.
For now, the API only supports:
1. scalar types;
2. memrefs of scalar types with static or symbolic shapes;
3. functions with input and output of these types.
The C API is not complete wrt ownership semantics. This is in large part due
to the fact that python bindings are written with Pybind11 which allows very
idiomatic C++ bindings. An effort is made to write a large chunk of these
bindings using the C API but some C++isms are used where the design benefits
from this simplication. A fully isolated C API will make more sense once we
also integrate with another language like Swift and have enough use cases to
drive the design.
Lastly, this CL also fixes a bug in mlir::ExecutionEngine were the order of
declaration of llvmContext and the JIT result in an improper order of
destructors (which used to crash before the fix).
PiperOrigin-RevId: 231290250
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