[LLVMdev] Multi basic block regions

Evan Cheng evan.cheng at apple.com
Thu Jan 10 16:05:24 PST 2008


On Jan 10, 2008, at 2:05 AM, Pertti Kellomäki wrote:

> The open projects page at <http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html>
> lists superblock formation as a possible idea for profile-guided
> transformations. Is anyone working on formation of regions
> consisting of multiple basic blocks? I don't recall any posts on
> llvmdev to that effect.
>
> It would be quite useful to have a general facility for grouping basic
> blocks within a function, as that could be reused for traces,
> superblocks, hyperblocks, etc.

Yes it would, especially for ia64. I am not aware of anyone working on  
this area using llvm though.

Evan

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