[google] LIPO regression tests and bug fixes (issue4444076)

[Xinliang David Li]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > It seems that majority of testcases are independent of lipo. We could probably
>> > enjoy more of testing on mainline, so could you please take those working on
>> > mainline and make mainline patch and let me know what of the tests are not working
>> > there?
>>
>> Actually those test cases are cloned from tree-prof directory into the
>> lipo sub-directory. The difference is that lipo.exp file passes
>> additional -fripa flag.  The missing tests for LIPO are ones with
>> multiple source with non trivial module group testing -- I have not
>> added those yet.
>
> Hmm, the tests looked familiar so I wondered how redundant they are ;)
> Well, any tests that you do have for PDO and are not in mainlie are welcome.
>>
>> >
>> > We probably ought to fix the pass name... We already have "ipa-profile" for profile
>> > propagation.  What about "gcov", unless we could come with something better?
>>
>> Yes -- tree_profile_ipa and ipa_profile confuses many people.
>
> If we won't get better idea, I would go with gcov.

Maybe it is better to change ipa-profile to something like
ipa_freq_prop.   Gcov is the name for coverage --- though it is
related to profiling and FDO, and it can so be confusing.

David

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> Honza
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