[llvm-commits] [llvm] r72361 - /llvm/trunk/tools/bugpoint/CrashDebugger.cpp

[Török Edwin]

On 2009-05-25 10:15, Duncan Sands wrote:
> Hi Edwin,
>
>   
>> Add -disable-global-remove option to bugpoint.
>> Sometimes when bugpointing a crash the bugpoint-reduced-simplified.bc reproduces
>> a totally different bug than the original one ("GV doesn't have initializer").
>> Although its useful to report that bug too, I need a way to reduce the original
>> bug, hence I introduced -disable-global-remove.
>>     
>
> it sounds like a bug in bugpoint.  Wouldn't it be better to fix bugpoint
> instead?
>   

Yes, I opened PR4255.
However  I don't think it is harmful to keep -disable-global-remove in
bugpoint even after the bug is fixed, there already are flags like
disable-loop-extraction, disable-simplifycfg.

Best regards,
--Edwin