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Assembly output	Generate assembly output
Backend	Overview of backend passes
Backtracking in PHV allocation and table placement	Description of PHV allocation and table placement phases of compilation
Control Plane API Generation
MAU/PPU resource allocation	Content related to resource allocation inside MAU/PPU
▼Midend	Overview of midend passes
BFN::AlpmImplementation	Set of passes that implement ALPM
BFN::AnnotateWithInHash	Set of passes that annotate specific assignment statements with the @in_hash annotation
▼BFN::ArchTranslation	Set of passes that normalize variations in the architectures
BFN::PortableSwitchTranslation	Set of passes that translate PSA architecture
BFN::SimpleSwitchTranslation	Set of passes that translate v1model architecture
BFN::T2naArchTranslation	Set of passes that translate T2NA architecture
BFN::TnaArchTranslation	Set of passes that translate TNA architecture
BFN::CheckDesignPattern	Set of passes that check for design patterns
BFN::ElimCasts	Set of passes that simplify the complex expressions with multiple casts into simpler expressions
BFN::RemoveActionParameters	Set of passes that specialize the p4c/frontends/RemoveActionParameters class
BFN::RemoveSelectBooleans	Set of passes that convert boolean values in select statements to bit<1> values. The node is also transformed to IR:BFN:ReinterpretCasts
BFN::RewriteFlexibleStruct	Set of passes that moves flexible annotation from structure to its fields
BFN::SimplifyEmitArgs	Set of passes that simplify headers and emits
DesugarVarbitExtract	Set of passes that rewrite usage of varbit
P4::SimplifyIfStatement	Set of passes that simplify if statements
P4::SimplifyNestedIf	Set of passes that simplify nested if statements in the deparser control block
Overview of bf-p4c	Overview of passes performed by the bf-p4c binary
PHV allocation	Content related to PHV allocation
▼Parser & deparser	Content related to parser and deparser
DeparserCopyOpt	Decaf : a deparser optimization of copy assigned fields
DesugarVarbitExtract	Set of passes that rewrite usage of varbit
ExtractChecksum	Extracts checksum from translated checksum extern
▼LowerParser	Replace field-based parser and deparser IR with container-based parser and deparser IR
LowerDeparserIR	Replace deparser IR with lowered version that references containers instead of fields
▼LowerParserIR	Generates a lowered version of the parser IR in this program and swaps it in for the existing representation
AllocateParserChecksums	Allocates parser checksums
ParserCopyProp	PassManager that governs parser copy propagation
P4::SimplifyNestedIf	Set of passes that simplify nested if statements in the deparser control block
ParserCopyProp	PassManager that governs parser copy propagation
ResetInvalidatedChecksumHeaders	Reset fields that are used in deparser checksum operations and were invalidated
▼Post-midend	Overview of post-midend passes
Packing of bridged and fixed-size headers	Overview of passes that adjust packing of bridged headers
Stateful ALU Overview	Content related to stateful ALU
Table placement	Content related to table placement