[PATCH] D17946: Add a flag to the LLVMContext to disable name for Value other than GlobalValue

Rafael EspĂ­ndola via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Mar 8 05:52:50 PST 2016


This looks like a good idea, but you should delete the PreserveName
option in a followup commit :-)

On 7 March 2016 at 20:09, Mehdi AMINI via llvm-commits
<llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> joker.eph added a comment.
>
> Note: this would make the first template parameter of the IR builder "PreserveName" obsolete.
> Some passes such as SROA were doing:
>
>   /// \brief Provide a typedef for IRBuilder that drops names in release builds.
>   #ifndef NDEBUG
>   typedef llvm::IRBuilder<true, ConstantFolder, IRBuilderPrefixedInserter<true>>
>       IRBuilderTy;
>   #else
>   typedef llvm::IRBuilder<false, ConstantFolder, IRBuilderPrefixedInserter<false>>
>       IRBuilderTy;
>   #endif
>   }
>
> I thought about applying this runtime check in the IRBuilder itself, but many passes are not going through the IRBuilder and creates value directly.
>
>
> http://reviews.llvm.org/D17946
>
>
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