[LLVMdev] Turning on/off instruction extensions

Pablo Barrio
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:21:56 -0000

Ok you convinced me, I'll switch to 3.0 as soon as it comes out. This
vectorizer seems like the kind of thing I'm looking for.

On 29/11/2011, at 16:39, James Molloy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There are a *lot* of changes (around 15000 commits if I recall Chris'
> keynote) between 2.9 and 3.0/trunk. It does sound like you're on a lost
> cause at the moment - you can't ignore those patching errors.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at
cs.uiuc.edu] On
> Behalf Of Pablo Barrio
> Sent: 29 November 2011 15:29
> To: Hal Finkel
> Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Turning on/off instruction extensions
>
> Sorry, the previous mail was unreadable:
>
> On 28/11/2011, at 18:52, Hal Finkel wrote:
>
>> First, grab the trunk versions of llvm and clang. This is detailed on
>> http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
>>
>> Then you apply the patch. On a Unix-like system, this is something
like:
>> cd llvm
>> patch -p1 < /path/to/the-patch-file.diff
>>
>
> I tried to apply the patch to llvm 2.9 (not the trunk) but it shows a lot
of
> "... hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file ...". Is it safe to
ignore these
> errors? Is it impossible to apply this patch to LLVM 2.9? Do you have a
> version of the vectorizer patch compatible with LLVM and Clang 2.9?
>
> Right now I cannot switch to the trunk version.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Pablo
>
>
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