[LLVMdev] updated code size comparison

Bill Wendling wendling at apple.com
Thu Dec 17 13:53:28 PST 2009


On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:26 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 12/16/2009 03:21 AM, John Regehr wrote:
>> Hopefully the results are more fair and useful now.  Again, feedback is
>> appreciated.
> 
> I would also avoid testcases using volatile.  Smaller code on these 
> testcases is often a sign of miscompilation rather than optimization. 
> For example, 
> http://embed.cs.utah.edu/embarrassing/src_harvested_dec_09/076389.c is 
> miscompiled on GCC 3.4 and SunCC 5.10.
> 
Perhaps just leaving out those volatile tescases which are miscompiled on other platforms, since not every volatile testcase fails for all compilers. :-)

-bw






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