[LLVMdev] LLVM and OpenMP

[Devang Patel]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Wojciech Matyjewicz wrote:

> As you have noticed, loops aren't represented directly in the LLVM IR.
> However, there are analysis passes which may be helpful to  
> "reconstruct"
> them. For example: LoopInfo pass detects natural loops (as sets of  
> basic
> blocks) and ScalarEvolution pass finds loop induction variables (and
> also does many other things). Using them and some own solutions it
> should be possible to detect most loops that are potential candidates
> for parallelization. Is this what you would like to achieve


Right now, one big missing piece in this puzzle is - dependence  
analysis.

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Devang