[LLVMdev] llvm-stress for fuzzing llvm

[Joey Gouly]

Hi Nadav,

Great tool!

Attached is a relatively small patch to add random vector types.

Thanks,
Joey

On 26 February 2012 11:51, Rotem, Nadav <nadav.rotem at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Compiling lots of 'junk' helps in catching bugs.  I added a new tool
> (located under llvm/tools/llvm-stress) for generating random LL files.  The
> tool can be used to test different llvm components using various
> compilation flags.  Until now, I only found bugs in the codegen, and not in
> general llvm optimizations. This probably means that the generated tests
> are currently too simple for the higher-level optimizations.
>
> The command line below generates a random ll file, and llc compiles this
> file. It often crashes.
>
> ./llvm-stress -seed $RANDOM -o tmp.ll -size 1000 ; ./llc tmp.ll
> -mcpu=corei7-avx -mattr=+avx -o /dev/null
>
> The "-seed" flag sets the initial seed to be used by the random function.
>  I implemented a simple portable 'random' function so that the result
> should be identical on all platforms. The initial seed also appears in the
> name of the generated function.  The "-size" parameter sets the size of the
> generated random file.
>
> Nadav
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