[cfe-dev] changing -save-temps to keep bitcode?

[Bob Wilson]

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:06 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google.com <mailto:dnovillo at google.com>> wrote:
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> On Dec 15, 2014 5:23 PM, "David Blaikie" <dblaikie at gmail.com <mailto:dblaikie at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google.com <mailto:dnovillo at google.com>> wrote:
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> >> On 12/15/14 15:10, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
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> >>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:26:43AM -0800, Bob Wilson wrote:
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> >>>> Does anyone have interest in this or objections to it?
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> >>> Yes, please. Especially if it captures the bitcode *before* any of the
> >>> optimisations hit.
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> >> Agreed. On several occasions, I've found myself wondering how I can generate bitcode exactly as it leaves the parser, before any early cleanups and such.
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> > -mllvm -disable-llvm-optzns
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> > will produce the IR straight out of Clang's CodeGen. Skipping things like the AlwaysInliner and AddDiscriminator pass, etc.
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> Yes. Of course, i know that.
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> Ah, sorry - wasn't sure if you knew that particular one. I always forget it/have to look it up whenever I want to do that. 
> The point is that easier is better.
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> Sure enough - well, point to Bob, then: consider doing this kind of IR, rather than the usual -emit-llvm IR, to get something closer to the original/pure generated IR.

Sounds good. I agree that will be even more useful. Steven Wu has already written a patch to do something similar, so I’ll see if I get that done soon.
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