Re: [PATCH 0/2] normalize bb's label names for testing

[Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:44:36AM +0800, Christopher Li wrote:
> 
> It is private to the back end. If you consider test-linearize as one of
> the back end, it compile the C code into readable text form. it is fine
> to use it. I assume the label ID is only make sense for test-linearize,
> not for other back end?

I use it for test-linearize, test-unssa and others stuff I'll coming up
with in the coming weeks I hope. So nothing I consider as 'private',
external or out-of-tree.
 
> I am also OK with just introduce one more field ID for basic blocks.
> There are far less basic blocks than instructions. So even size of basic
> block bump up by a integer is not a big deal.
Yes, I think so too.
But anyway, I already sent a patch which reuse the 'priv' member with
an union. It will always be very easy to remove the union later if needed.
 
> > Sure.
> > But it should be noted that this filtering stuff *could* be useful for other
> > things to (but I have no such uses).
> 
> We can always deal with it when such usage actually come up.
Absolutely.

Luc