[polly] r269806 - docs: Do not suggest the user to ignore aliasing

Tobias Grosser via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue May 17 12:42:19 PDT 2016


Author: grosser
Date: Tue May 17 14:42:19 2016
New Revision: 269806

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=269806&view=rev
Log:
docs: Do not suggest the user to ignore aliasing

Since a long time Polly can automatically generate run-time alias checks.

Modified:
    polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst

Modified: polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst?rev=269806&r1=269805&r2=269806&view=diff
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--- polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst (original)
+++ polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst Tue May 17 14:42:19 2016
@@ -106,16 +106,6 @@ By default both optimizers perform tilin
 wanted the option -polly-tiling=false can be used to disable it. (This option
 disables tiling for both optimizers).
 
-Ignore possible aliasing
-------------------------
-
-By default we only detect scops, if we can prove that the different array
-bases can not alias. This is correct do if we optimize automatically. However,
-without special user annotations like 'restrict' we can often not prove that
-no aliasing is possible. In case the user knows no aliasing can happen in the
-code the -polly-ignore-aliasing can be used to disable the check for possible
-aliasing.
-
 Import / Export
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