[LLVMdev] Disable loop unroll pass

[Shuxin Yang]

Hi, Gang:

   I don't want to discuss Open64 internal in LLVM mailing list. Let us 
only focus on the design per se.
As your this mail and your previous mail combined give me a impression 
that :

    The only reason you introduce the specific operator for HW loop in 
Scalar Opt simply  because
you have hard time in figure out the trip count in CodeGen.

    This might be true for Open64's CodeGen (I don't want to discuss 
this issue on this mailling list), but
in general it is not true for other compilers.

    I'm dubious about "It greatly simplify the design".  The downstream 
passes need to be fully aware
of this new operator, which doesn't make things any simpler.

Thanks
Shuxin

On 11/22/2012 02:56 PM, Gang Yu wrote:
> Hi shuxin,
>
> Promote while-loop to do-loop is the job of loop induction recognized, 
> not this transformation. The scalar transform for hwloop in optimizer 
> is for that it is a trouble to discriminate trip counting code with 
> the real production code stuff and do the elimination in cg,  we have 
> to write customized code to handle this general stuff in ervey 
> targets. So, we take the help from optimizer DCE,  make the trip count 
> code hidden in emitted whirl, that greatly simply the design, 
> especially interact with cg unroll, you can see the code, we add 
>  validity check functionality , but the code reduced, more stable.
>
> Gang
>