[LLVMdev] opt usage?
Chris Lattner
sabre at nondot.org
Fri Oct 13 12:44:43 PDT 2006
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Lewis, Brian T wrote:
> I'm new to the LLVM, so please forgive what might be a silly question.
> I'd like to use the opt bytecode-to-bytecode optimizer, but when I try
> running it to do, for example, dead code elimination (-dce) or global
> common subexpression elimination (-gcse), nothing much seems to happen:
>
> opt -gcse -dce -o bar-opt.bc bar.bc
> llvm2cpp -o bar-opt.cpp bar-opt.bc
> diff bar.bc bar-opt.bc
That should work. Depending on where you got the .bc files from, it could
be that there is no dead code or common subexpressions left...
Note that llvm-dis will give you much easier to read info about a .bc file
than llvm2cpp.
-Chris
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