Re: sparse-llvm results from trying to compile a largish program

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>]

On 13 March 2017 at 19:34, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> I tried to compile a Lua implementation using sparse-llvm. This
> particular implementation is called 'minilua' as it is a cut down
> version of Lua 5.1.5 created by Mike Pall for the LuaJIT project.
>
> I had to change all static initializations of course as these are
> unsupported in sparse-llvm. I also had to add support for casting
> floating point values to integer type in 'op_cast' implementation.
>
> sparse-llvm managed to consume the program after these changes but
> there were many LLVM errors reported, which indicates that the
> generated code is incorrect.
>
> I have saved the results from this exercise here:
>
> https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/dmr_c/tree/master/tests/minilua
>
> Hopefully this will help in analysing the errors and deciding how to fix them.
>

I have fixed a bunch of issues in my repository - and the updated
error list now is much reduced! Please see the link above for the
remaining errors and the generated code.

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu