tool or option for viewing LIR nodes

[Christian Wimmer]

On 05/03/2013 09:23 AM, Venkatachalam, Vasanth wrote:
> Is there a tool or option that would allow us to view the LIR nodes that Graal generates for a program?

Yes.

Graal can output the graph, LIR, register allocator liveness 
information, and machine code in the format required by the Client 
Compiler Visualizer. As the name implies, the tool was originally 
written to visualize the data structures of the Java HotSpot client 
compiler.

You can get it here: https://java.net/projects/c1visualizer/

The output is controlled the same ways as the output to the Ideal Graph 
Visualizer, i.e., the -G:Dump= flag.  In addition, I think you have to 
also pass -G:+PrintCFG

The tool is file-based, i.e., you get .cfg files in your working 
directory that you can load with the c1visualizer.

-Christian