[LLVMdev] LLVM 2.9 Fails to Compile some CPU2006 Benchmarks on X86

[Bill Wendling]

On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Ghassan Shobaki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are using LLVM 2.9 (with the llvm-gcc front end) to compile and run the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks on x86.
> We are compiling and running the benchmarks on a an Intel Xeon E5540 processor running Ubuntu 10.10 (64-bit version).
> 
> For the native x86-64 target, we are using the following command-line arguments:
> -O3 -march=core2 -mtune=core2
> and are getting compile-time errors on the gamess and tonto benchmarks.
> 
> For the native x86-32 target, we are using the following command-line arguments:
> -O3 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -m32
> and are getting compile-time errors on gamess and tonto as well as run-time errors on gcc, cactus and povray.
> 
> Are these known errors? 

Not that I'm aware...

> If yes, are there any patches that fix them?
> 
> Are there any patches for LLVM 2.9 at all?
> If yes, where can I find them?
> 
We don't create patches for previous releases. Our release time table is rather aggressive, so it's not really worth it to have a 2.9.1 when 3.0 would come out quickly afterwards.

-bw