[LLVMdev] Making LLVM safer in out-of-memory situations

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Mann" <rmann at latencyzero.com>
> To: "Vaidas Gasiunas" <vaidas.gasiunas at sap.com>
> Cc: "LLVM Dev" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:24:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Making LLVM safer in out-of-memory situations
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> On Dec 12, 2013, at 04:25 , Gasiunas, Vaidas
> <vaidas.gasiunas at sap.com> wrote:
> 
> > To address these requirements we have developed a set of patches
> > improving performance and malfunction safety of certain compiler
> > passes and would be interested in contributing them at some point.
> > Before proposing concrete changes, we would like to know what the
> > general interest is with respect to making LLVM safer in
> > out-of-memory situations.
> 
> I'm in favor! I can't imagine we shouldn't be able to craft fixes
> that don't otherwise adversely affect LLVM.

I also agree, handling low memory situations gracefully is important in a number of different environments.

 -Hal

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory