[LLVMdev] parallel loop metadata simplification

[Pekka Jääskeläinen]

On 03/01/2013 11:05 PM, Redmond, Paul wrote:
> I have discovered that you can provide a custom inserter to IRBuilder (who
> knew!). This has basically solved all my problems and allowed me to generate
> the proper metadata with minimal changes to clang codegen. Currently it adds
> the metadata to all loads and stores but I don't think this is a problem and
> can be refined later if necessary.

Good. I do not see why allocas should cause problems/special handling
here: if the programmer is declaring a loop as "parallel" and still
writes/reads a stack object in such a way that it adds loop-carried 
dependencies, it's a programmer-error (it's not a parallel loop).

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--Pekka