[PATCH] D16083: [bugpoint] Teach bugpoint to reduce MDNodes

Keno Fischer via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 11 13:55:09 PST 2016


>
> My intuition is that you're liable to change the crash (rather than
> reduce it) when touching arbitrary metadata like this.  Particularly
> with debug info, this stuff is fairly cross-referential, and a `null`
> reference can have some non-trivial meaning.
>

Well, the idea is that you run the verifier after doing the null
replacement.
As long as the Verifier understands the structure of debug info, the only
cost
you pay is a slightly longer reduction time.
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