[llvm-dev] Fwd: bugpoint can't automatically select a safe interpreter!

[Cranmer, Joshua via llvm-dev]

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> From: llvm-dev [mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of Justin
> Bogner via llvm-dev
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 11:44
> To: Jay Foad via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Fwd: bugpoint can't automatically select a safe
> interpreter!
> 
> Bugpoint's user interface is notoriously complex. I'm not sure why it's going
> the safe interpreter route instead of reducing the crash, but I'd recommend
> trying the custom scripts approach in this article for reducing something like
> this:

IIRC, bugpoint tries to initialize the execution environment (i.e., using the JIT) before checking if the codegen phases crashes. So if you have a target that doesn't support JIT execution, you're stuck using custom scripts instead.