[PATCH] D120666: [docs] Add note about interaction between clang plugins and -clear-ast-before-backend
Arthur Eubanks via Phabricator via cfe-commits
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Mon Feb 28 09:38:34 PST 2022
aeubanks updated this revision to Diff 411825.
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clang/docs/ClangPlugins.rst
Index: clang/docs/ClangPlugins.rst
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--- clang/docs/ClangPlugins.rst
+++ clang/docs/ClangPlugins.rst
@@ -200,3 +200,14 @@
PluginASTAction::ActionType getActionType() override {
return AddAfterMainAction;
}
+
+Interaction with ``-clear-ast-before-backend``
+----------------------------------------------
+
+If the main AST action is codegen, having any plugins that run after the
+codegen action automatically turns off ``-clear-ast-before-backend``, which
+saves peak memory by clearing the Clang AST after generating IR and before
+running IR optimizations. Use ``CmdlineBeforeMainAction`` or
+``AddBeforeMainAction`` as ``getActionType`` to run plugins before the codegen
+action and still have access to peak memory savings from
+``-clear-ast-before-backend``.
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