Tutorials/pointers for IPA writing passes

Tutorials/pointers for IPA writing passes

[Sandeep K Chaudhary]

Hi,

Can someone please point out some tutorials for writing IPA passes in
GCC? I am struggling to achieve assignment calculations in GIMPLE pass
and I feel that an IPA pass can solve the issue. I don't have much
idea about IPA passes (simple_ipa_opt_pass or ipa_opt_pass) but can
learn and figure things out if I can tutorials/help.

Thanks a lot in advance !

Regards,
Sandeep.

Re: Tutorials/pointers for IPA writing passes

[Jan Hubicka]

Hi,
the overall description how IPA optimization is structured (describing difference in
between simple_ipa_opt_pass and ipa_opt_pass) is in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.2196v2.pdf
and also in lto.texi.
There is not exactly a tutrial, but generally simple_ipa_opt_pass is easier to start
with since you can directly touch function bodies, while ipa_opt_pass needs you 
to split everything into analysis/propagation/modification stages.
So you probably want to start with implementing simple_ipa_opt_pass that does what
you need while keeping in mind that you may later turn it intp ipa_opt_pass.

You can look at the existing simple_ipa_opt_passes to see how they are structured.
probably the easiest is pass_data_ipa_increase_alignment in tree-vectorizer.c that
consist of one function walking all variables.

Honza