[LLVMdev] Create superblock in LLVM IR

[Andrew Trick]

On Sep 17, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com> wrote:

> Last time I asked here about superblocks (which we were using in the
> first version of ThreadSanitizer instrumentation) Tobias Grosser has
> suggested to use RegionInfo:
> 
>   did you have a look at the RegionInfo pass? It currently detects some
>   kind of refinded SESE regions. I use them in Polly and as far as I know
>   the Intel OpenCL SDK also uses them in some way. It is not SEME, but it
>   may either fit your needs or we may think about extending it.
> 
>   If you want to give it a try you can use:
> 
>   opt -view-regions-only file.ll
> 
>   It would be great if we could have just a single RegionInfo analysis
>   that can then be used by other passes to detect and/or generate the kind
>   of regions they need.

The superblock formation that Tomas is doing will create lots of single-entry multiple-exit-block regions.
-Andy