[PATCH] D16258: [PGO] Profile Summary Index profile writer and reader support

[David Li via llvm-commits]

davidxl added inline comments.

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Comment at: include/llvm/ProfileData/InstrProf.h:751
@@ +750,3 @@
+  // Reserved fields for future
+  uint64_t Reserved[5];
+  /// Number of Cutoff entries
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davidxl wrote:
> xur wrote:
> > vsk wrote:
> > > I'm not sure about this Reserved field. IMO any new future functionality should come with a format version bump, even if the on-disk layout stays the same. That means we can teach the reader to skip straight to NumEntries for v4 files.
> > Do we need to use uint64_t for TotalNumFunctions and TotalNumBlocks. Will uint32_t enough? 
> Yes it is true that the version number will always bump up when new functionality is added -- however keeping the same layout can greatly simplify the reader change. 
> 
> To remove the reserved field, I think it might be better to split the summary into two parts: summary header plus the Summary entry array. I will make that change and remove the reserved fields.
uint64_t is consistently used in all fields in the header.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D16258