[LLVMdev] MergeInClobberRanges

[David Greene]

On Monday 07 April 2008 21:02, Evan Cheng wrote:
> Funny I just ran into a situation where the imprecise information
> inhibits a coalescing. If you have made changes related to this, I'd
> love to have it.

I have a change that sets the definition index as the index from the
range being merged in.  Right now it doesn't handle overlapping
ranges perfectly.  I need to do more work there.

                                                 -Dave

> Thanks,
>
> Evan
>
> On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Evan Cheng wrote:
> > On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:09 PM, David Greene wrote:
> >> Why does LiveInterval::MergeInClobberRanges set the definition index
> >> as unknown?  Why would the definition index not be the definition
> >> index
> >> for the range merged in from the other interval?  I suppose if two
> >> ranges
> >> overlap it's not clear what to set the def index to.  Perhaps it
> >> should result
> >> in two separate ranges with different def indices.
> >
> > Right. The coalescer is being very conservative when it comes to
> > dealing with sub- / super- registers so it's not keeping very precise
> > information. Feel free to make it better! :-)
> >
> > Evan
> >
> >>                                                  -Dave
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