[LLVMdev] Are ds-aa and steens-aa still in Poolalloc?

[Douglas do Couto Teixeira]

Hi John,

I'll take a look at the DSA implementation to see if I can understand
the code and fix it. Meanwhile, here is a patch to update the web
page.


Douglas

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:39 PM, John Criswell <criswell at illinois.edu> wrote:
> On 4/13/12 1:02 PM, Douglas do Couto Teixeira wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking at the LLVM's alias analysis documentation
>> (http://llvm.org/docs/AliasAnalysis.html#exist) and it seems that
>> poolalloc has ds-aa and steens-aa. However, I followed the
>> instructions to use these passes, but I wasn't able to use them. Also,
>> I found this: http://old.nabble.com/DSA-or-rDSA---td32576486.html
>> saying that they were removed from poolalloc. Is that true? If so,
>> should I submit a patch to update the webpage?
>
>
> Yes, ds-aa and -steens-aa were removed from poolalloc because we thought no
> one was using them, because we at Illinois weren't using them, and because
> nobody was maintaining them.  I believe one of our students also said they
> had become buggy.
>
> A patch to update the web page would be nice; a patch to bring -ds-aa back
> to life would be even better.
> :)
>
> -- John T.
>
>>
>>
>> Douglas
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