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> On 2015-Jan-05, at 12:59, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> tools/llvm-lto should get you pretty close. 

Be aware that unless you tell `llvm-lto` to hang on to specific
symbols, LTO can dead-strip them after -internalize.

Try adding -exported-symbol=_main if you're hitting this.

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 8:32 PM, David Callahan <dcallahan at fb.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am new to the LLVM dev community so forgive a perhaps obvious question. I am looking at bug 17623 which is an LTO/optimizer interaction bug.  I am working on a Mac with Xcode installed but have also built the 3.6 LLVM binaries (from a few month old local branch).
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> The default version of âldâ from Apple supports an option â-save-tempsâ which I believe saves bitcode both before and after the optimizer (and the bug is visible as a difference between these two)
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> ~/llvm-install/bin/clang -flto -O2 -c -o bug17623.o bug17623.c
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> "/usr/bin/ld" -demangle -dynamic -arch x86_64 -macosx_version_min 10.10.0 -lSystem /Users/dcallahan/llvm-install/bin/..\
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> /lib/clang/3.6.0/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.osx.a -save-temps -o bug36 bug17623.o
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> (this produces bug36.lto.bc and bug36.lto.opt.bc)
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> However, if I use âoptâ to try and duplicate the actions run by âldâ, as in:
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> ~/llvm-install/bin/opt -O2 -o bug36.opt.bc bug36.lto.bc
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> This generates a different (much cleaner and correct!) output.
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> So my questions are:
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> 1.     Is it feasible to get âoptâ to reproduce the behavior of âldâ?
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> 2.     Assuming I am just missing some parameters to âoptâ, how do I determine what they should be?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
> 
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