[LLVMdev] Machine Level IR text-based serialization

James Molloy james at jamesmolloy.co.uk
Tue Apr 21 14:25:46 PDT 2015


+1, I'd love this to happen!
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 at 22:17, Philip Reames <listmail at philipreames.com>
wrote:

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> On 04/21/2015 10:12 AM, Alex L wrote:
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>  Hi,
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> I'm Alex, and last summer I was working on the code coverage support for pgo for LLVM and clang at Apple.
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> I'm currently interning at Apple again, and I'm planning to work on a project that was suggested to me by Bob Wilson.
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> I plan on developing a text-based, human readable format that allows LLVM to
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> serialize the machine level IR (The data structures like MachineFunction, etc. from CodeGen).
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> The motivation for this project is that it will enable easier testing of the CodeGen passes,
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> and will allow developers to run tests that invoke just a single CodeGen pass,
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> or that start from a specific pass (llc's -start-after option).
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>  This is very needed.  Thank you for working on this.
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>  I would be interested in hearing from other people who might be working on a similar
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> project or have ide
> as in which direction this project should go. I will be posting
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> an initial proposal for the format in a couple of days.
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>
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> Philip
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