tool or option for viewing LIR nodes

[Doug Simon]

As Gilles says, the -G options should work under --vm server. It helps if you post the complete command line you are using to see if we can spot a problem.

-Doug

On May 4, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Gilles Duboscq <duboscq at ssw.jku.at> wrote:

> The server vm that contains Graal (--vm server) should definitely pick up
> all -G options including -G:Dump= and -G:+PrintCFG.
> Since you are talking about unit tests i suppose you are using the
> GraalCompilerTest's method to explicitly trigger compilation.
> 
> I don't know how you are structuring your tests but there are some "Debug
> scopes" that need to be properly set up for these flags to work. Normally
> if you just make your test a subclass of GraalCompilerTest and then use its
> methods if should be fine.
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Vasanth Venkatachalam <
> Vasanth.Venkatachalam at amd.com> wrote:
> 
>> Christian,
>> 
>> Some more context to my question.
>> 
>> I've added a Graal backend for HSAIL code generation. I'm debugging the
>> codegen for a test case where running with the --vm server option produces
>> some incorrect results.
>> Thus I'd like to view the nodes that are produced when running with the mx
>> --vm server option.
>> 
>> It looks like the c1visualizer tool can't be used with --vm server. Is
>> there another tool that can help?
>> 
>> I had a similar issue with the IdealGraphVisualizer. The -G:Dump= option
>> isn't recognized when running with --vm server.
>> 
>> Vasanth
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: graal-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:
>> graal-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Christian Wimmer
>> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 12:22 PM
>> To: graal-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: tool or option for viewing LIR nodes
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>>