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

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anton Korobeynikov" <anton at korobeynikov.info>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: "Alexey Samsonov" <samsonov at google.com>, "LLVM Developers Mailing List" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 1:56:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Is it ok to nuke fpcmp and llvm-PerfectShuffle utils?
> 
> >> 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?
> It is building using configure + make. In good old days the perfect
> shuffle tables for PPC were generated through the normal build
> process
> like .td files. However, this was pretty useless - they do not change
> and thus perfectshuffle was excluded from the build process.

Agreed, but even if it is not built by default, we should have build rules for it; and given that more users and developers are moving to cmake-based builds, we should have build rules in cmake too.

 -Hal

> 
> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State
> University
> 

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory