[LLVMdev] Alias Analyses

[Reid Spencer]

Hi Ben,

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 22:11 -0400, Ben Chambers wrote:
> Which alias analysis algorithms in opt are worth comparing against
> (for terms of precision)?  I know --anders-aa seems to give me pretty
> good results.  Online [1] it seemed to mention steensgaard's algorithm
> and some kind of data structure analysis, but neither of these are
> currently accepted by opt.  Is there some way to get them, or are they
> subsumed by the results of --anders-aa?

The Steensgaard and data structure analysis were removed from LLVM
several months ago due to patent issues. Seems the documentation doesn't
reflect that. Patches welcome. :)

Reid.

> 
> Thanks,
> Ben Chambers
> 
> [1] http://llvm.org/docs/AliasAnalysis.html
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