From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dibyendu Majumdar Subject: Adding an option to sparse to disable the IR simplifications Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:56:16 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from mail-it0-f51.google.com ([209.85.214.51]:37632 "EHLO mail-it0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751170AbdCVT4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:56:18 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-f51.google.com with SMTP id 190so29579710itm.0 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Linux-Sparse Hi, With the progress made with spars-llvm in recent weeks we are now beginning to hit bugs in the simplifications carried out by the linearizer. So it is useful I think to have an ability to turn off these modifications - perhaps by a command line argument. This will enable testing of sparse-llvm with and without the simplifications, and help identify issues caused by the latter phase. Thanks and Regards Dibyendu