[LLVMdev] Target data question

[Kenneth Uildriks]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Dan Gohman <gohman at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Kenneth Uildriks wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Dan Gohman <gohman at apple.com> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, yes.  See PR4542.  Progress has been made recently
>>> though -- the optimizers are now ready.  The main things left to do
>>> is to update the documentation and update the testsuite to account
>>> for the change in the meaning of a module without a targetdata string.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
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>> So in the near future, the optimizers won't do any target-specific
>> transformations in the absence of module target data?
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> As near as when someone steps up to do the work :-). I'm not
> actively working on this myself right now.
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> Dan
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>
I uncovered a few cases where optimizers still crash when the target
data pass isn't registered, and I'll send patches as I can.