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Re: [tree-ssa, LNO] Analysis of scalar evolutions and data dependences
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:36:06PM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
> I really don't think this is the right way to go because the dumps
> change if we suddenly use an extra temporary during gimplification,
> or delete a PHI and recycle an SSA_NAME that wasn't recycled before,
> or due to addresses of temporary variables changing, etc etc.
>
If an analyzer does not dump data that is susceptible to change
independently of its behavior, the diffing of the dump could be a good
strategy for testing.
> Instead I would ask that you look into how to expand the testing
> infrastructure to allow you do write tests more reasonably without
> just diffing the dump files.
>
Okay, I will try to find a better strategy for testing the analyzers
outputs.