llvm dev - Sep 2008 - [LLVMdev] Some thoughts on metadata, debug info, TBAA, annotations etc

Hi All,

I'd like to propose some extensions to LLVM that will make it  
substantially faster at manipulating debug info, and will make the  
general annotation mechanisms in LLVM much richer:
http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/EmbeddedMetadata.txt

Thoughts welcome,

-Chris

Having a clean mechanism for TBAA would be valuable (long term) for  
our parallelization project.  Different high-level parallel languages  
have rich "non-aliasing" information available, usually encoded (or  
encodable) as pointer types, and we would like to be able to  
communicate these down to the LLVM passes.

--Vikram
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://llvm.org/~vadve




On Sep 19, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to propose some extensions to LLVM that will make it
> substantially faster at manipulating debug info, and will make the
> general annotation mechanisms in LLVM much richer:
> http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/EmbeddedMetadata.txt
>
> Thoughts welcome,
>
> -Chris
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