[llvm-dev] How to contribute on LLVM project as beginner

[Neil Nelson via llvm-dev]

Built LLVM 8.0.1 for debug using -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON.

Put together a sequence using clang/utils/check_cfc on the compile list 
using the same compile parameters except for the -g and -o options that 
check_cfc provides.

2506 files were successfully processed by check_cfc out of a total of 2833.

Three was the maximum number of differences obtained with the possibly 
interesting types here.

4 of this type.
- push  + sh  %r
- mov   + v   %r
- sub   + b   $0

3 of this type.
- pq 66 + v   -0
- v  -0 + v   %r
- v  %r + llq 6d

1 each of these types.
- pq ef + pq  ea
- pq 68 + a   -0
- a  -0 + llq 6c

- pq 3a + vb  $0
- vb $0 + a   -0
- a  -0 + v   %r

- jmpq  + mov
- mov   + and
- and   + mov

Regards, Neil Nelson

On 7/24/19 4:41 AM, Greg Bedwell via llvm-dev wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 10:52, Oliver Stannard via llvm-dev 
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>
>     Your script looks OK, though you won't want to use
>     the -opt-bisect-limit= option until you've found a case where
>     code-generation changes. Instead, that's a tool which you could
>     use to narrow down the pass inside LLVM which is causing the change.
>
>     The problem is that your input code is far too simple to trigger
>     any interesting optimisations. I'd suggest starting with either
>     some code from the LLVM test suite
>     (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-test-suite), or some code generated
>     by csmith (https://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/). The former has the
>     advantage of being (mostly) real code people actually write, and
>     the latter can generate a large amount of complex code without any
>     external dependencies (so it's easy to build).
>
>
> A few other things to note:
>
> There's a tool in clang here ( 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/master/clang/utils/check_cfc ) 
> called check_cfc which uses the same basic idea as the script above.  
> It's designed to transparently wrap clang invocations so that any 
> differences in codegen will actually trigger a build failure.  There 
> are a few more details in these slides ( 
> https://llvm.org/devmtg/2015-04/slides/Verifying_code_gen_dash_g_final.pdf ). 
> Ultimately it doesn't matter which tools you use in order to find 
> bugs, but you may find it useful.
>
> We've got a meta-bug here to which we've been attaching 
> already-reported bugs in this area ( 
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37728 ) which might be a nice 
> place to start so that you can try replicating the results.  In 
> particular https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42138 is a bug that 
> one of our interns found recently using the check_cfc script with llvm 
> test-suite (and then reducing with creduce).  Unfortunately it was 
> right at the end of his internship so he didn't get a chance to try 
> and fix it. It might be a good starting point to have a go at 
> replicating the failure and then trying to figure out what's happening 
> and fixing it (assuming that it's still present).  I'm sure that there 
> are plenty of people in the community willing to help out with any 
> specific issues you run into along the way.
>
> Good luck, with whichever approach you take!
>
> -Greg
>
>
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