[LLVMdev] Is it ok to nuke fpcmp and llvm-PerfectShuffle utils?

[Hal Finkel]

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> From: "Alexey Samsonov" <samsonov at google.com>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: "LLVM Developers Mailing List" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:43:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Is it ok to nuke fpcmp and llvm-PerfectShuffle utils?
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> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Hal Finkel < hfinkel at anl.gov >
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alexey Samsonov" < samsonov at google.com >
> > To: "LLVM Developers Mailing List" < llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu >
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:30:12 PM
> > Subject: [LLVMdev] Is it ok to nuke fpcmp and llvm-PerfectShuffle
> > utils?
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> > They are not used in the regression test suite anymore, and are not
> > even built in CMake build tree.
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> You cannot nuke llvm-PerfectShuffle... that is the utility used to
> generate the lib/Target/ARM64/ARM64PerfectShuffle.h,
> lib/Target/ARM/ARMPerfectShuffle.h and
> lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPerfectShuffle.h files.
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> Ouch, indeed... Is it ok it has no build rules?

I think that it should have build rules. If nothing else, can you file a bug report on this?

> If yes, we can just
> break the dependency between test suite and this utility.

I don't understand why the test suite depends on llvm-PerfectShuffle explicitly; I suspect breaking the dependency would be fine.

 -Hal

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> Alexey Samsonov, Mountain View, CA

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Hal Finkel
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Argonne National Laboratory