[LLVMdev] Scheduler Roadmap

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Dave,

>>> Actually, we don't have any problem releasing tests.  We have done so
>>> before when sending patches.  The problem is the people we got the
>>> tests from.  Some are from proprietary test suites, others are from
>>> sensitive codes, etc.  It's often not up to us at all.
>>
>> I completely understand. Why don't we start by having you prepare LLVM
>> IR files, and associated outputs, for x86_64 from your frontends only
>> from open-source codes. As a first step, you could even just generate
>> LLVM IR files for us from the codes in the LLVM test suite. We could
>> setup a buildbot based on those files (which I believe would be easy to
>> do), and then we can actively test trunk LLVM against those files.
>
> I like this idea.  It'll work for C/C++ but not Fortran.  Since there is
> no Fortran ABI one has to link with our Fortran compiler&  libraries to
> get an executable that actually works.

if you provide a bunch of IR for Fortran, it can at least be checked that
the optimizers/codegen don't crash on it.

Ciao, Duncan.