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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2005-10-17 01:40:33 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2005-10-17 01:40:33 +0000
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Document -view-isel-dags and -view-sched-dags
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@@ -828,6 +828,15 @@ SelectionDAG-based instruction selection consists of the following steps:
<p>After all of these steps are complete, the SelectionDAG is destroyed and the
rest of the code generation passes are run.</p>
+<p>One great way to visualize what is going on here is to take advantage of a
+few LLC command line options. In particular, the <tt>-view-isel-dags</tt>
+option pops up a window with the SelectionDAG input to the Select phase for all
+of the code compiled (if you only get errors printed to the console while using
+this, you probably <a href="ProgrammersManual.html#ViewGraph">need to configure
+your system</a> to add support for it). The <tt>-view-sched-dags</tt> option
+views the SelectionDAG output from the Select phase and input to the Scheduler
+phase.
+</p>
</div>
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