[llvm-dev] Bugpoint Redesign

[David Greene via llvm-dev]

"Finkel, Hal J. via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:

>> I've always just generated .ll files and linked them manually before
>> starting the bugpoint process.  I'd think it would be straightforward to
>> have bugpoint/whatever take a set of input files and do the link step
>> itself.
>
> You linked them with llvm-link? That can change the result because of 
> inlining, etc.

True.  It's been a very long time since I've done this (like a decade).

> I've also created wrapper scripts to link in other .ll files, etc. but
> the problem is that, often, I don't know in which .ll file is the
> miscompiled code. Maybe I should have automated this a long time ago,
> but I've always ended up writing shell scripts to try to iterate over
> all of the .ll files and run bugpoint on each one in turn (linking in
> the remaining ones) to try to find the one being miscompiled. One
> problem, of course, is that this scales poorly - a binary search would
> be better.

Yes, this would be nice functionality to have.

                       -David