[PATCH] D86167: [opt][NewPM] Add basic-aa in legacy PM compatibility mode

[Yuanfang Chen via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

ychen added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/tools/opt/NewPMDriver.cpp:351
+  // For compatibility with legacy pass manager.
+  // basic-aa was always available in the legacy pass manager,
+  // unless -disable-basic-aa was specified.
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aeubanks wrote:
> ychen wrote:
> > I think it is helpful to be specific here, saying something like "AAResultsWrapperPass` by default provide basic-aa in legacy PM."
> > 
> > Could we combine this code with the `if (!AAPipeline.empty())` code above? If the AAPipeline is empty, we could make it "basic-aa".
> Added comment.
> 
> I don't want to change the semantics of any tests using `opt -passes=foo`, this is purely for compatibility with tests using `opt -foo-pass`.
> 
> And actually I think having to explicitly specify basic-aa makes more sense than implicitly adding it, so I like the NPM way of doing it. But that's a different discussion.
That makes sense. Does it mean this code is temporary? i.e once we switch to NPM, we will remove this code and mass-adding `basic-aa` to relevant tests? If so, then sounds good to me.


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