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    <p>Your use of "-O0" here is causing the problem.  In newer versions
      of clang, passing "-O0" to the compiler attaches the "optnone"
      attribute to each function, to avoid optimization during LTO.  You
      can use "-O2 -Xclang -disable-llvm-passes" to dump IR intended for
      optimization, but without running any optimization passes.</p>
    <p>-Eli<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/15/2019 8:14 PM, hameeza ahmed via
      llvm-dev wrote:<br>
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            <div>Thank You..</div>
            <div>I used following command to generate .bc or .ll</div>
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              -O0 -emit-llvm -S -o vec4.ll vecsum.c</div>
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              -O0 -emit-llvm -S -o vec7.ll vecsum.c<br>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:49 AM Sanjoy Das <<a
            href="mailto:sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It
          is hard to tell what's going on from the information you have<br>
          provided.  How are you generating vec.bc?  This could either
          be a<br>
          regression in scalar evolution or a change in some
          optimization pass<br>
          that is resulting in a different vec.bc.<br>
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          -- Sanjoy<br>
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          On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 1:42 PM hameeza ahmed via llvm-dev<br>
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          wrote:<br>
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          > Hello,<br>
          ><br>
          > I am trying to use scalar evolution pass using following
          command;<br>
          ><br>
          > opt -analyze -mem2reg -indvars -loop-simplify
          -scalar-evolution < vec.bc<br>
          > when vec.bc is generated using newer version of LLVM i.e
          LLVM 6 and 7 i get following message in the end;<br>
          > Determining loop execution counts for: @main<br>
          > Loop %8: Unpredictable backedge-taken count.<br>
          > Loop %8: Unpredictable max backedge-taken count.<br>
          > Loop %8: Unpredictable predicated backedge-taken count.<br>
          > which means it is unable to compute iteration count.<br>
          ><br>
          > However, when .bc file is generated using LLVM 4.0 i am
          getting following;<br>
          ><br>
          > Determining loop execution counts for: @main<br>
          > Loop %4: backedge-taken count is 512<br>
          > Loop %4: max backedge-taken count is 512<br>
          > Loop %4: Predicated backedge-taken count is 512<br>
          >  Predicates:<br>
          ><br>
          > Loop %4: Trip multiple is 513<br>
          ><br>
          > means correct computation of loop count...<br>
          > Why is that happening with newer version of LLVM?<br>
          ><br>
          > Please help.<br>
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