[LLVMdev] quantitative comparison of correctness of llvm-gcc 2.x versions

Vikram S. Adve vadve at cs.uiuc.edu
Tue Nov 18 12:32:38 PST 2008


Thanks, John!  If you advertise the paper, it would be valuable if you  
included links to these updated results too.

This is really nice work, btw.

--Vikram
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://llvm.org/~vadve



On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:25 PM, John Regehr wrote:

> Please link to the graphs if that seems appropriate-- I will leave  
> them
> there and hopefully also update them as new versions of LLVM come out.
> It would be great if these graphs can serve as an advertisement for  
> LLVM
> as well as an advertisement for my work.  I hope to create analogous
> graphs for gcc 4.x sometime, and also to stress-test the x64 ports  
> of both
> compiler families.
>
> There is a large amount of work remaining in our program generator,  
> which
> at present does not even output structs or pointers.  The goal is  
> for it
> to emit the full range of constructs found in normal C programming
> practice without compromising on the "almost strictly conforming"  
> thing.
>
> John Regehr
>
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Vikram S. Adve wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, the data in the paper doesn't show that, through no
>> fault of the authors :-(.  It might be nice to add a qualification  
>> and
>> a pointer to this graph along with the paper, if John doesn't object.
>>
>> --Vikram
>> Associate Professor, Computer Science
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> http://llvm.org/~vadve
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:08 AM, John Regehr wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/compiler_correctness/llvm_gcc_x86/
>>>>
>>>> I think these graphs speak for themselves.  Feedback is welcome.
>>>
>>> Hey, it looks like we made some progress. ;-)
>>>
>>> Would you mind if I added your paper to llvm.org/pubs?
>>>
>>> -Chris
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