vm server option generating different LIR nodes

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

Vasanth,

the gathered profiling information might be different between the "--vm server" and the "--vm graal" option. In general, linking to the generated "Client Compiler Visualizer" or "IdealGraphVisualizer" files can be very helpful.

- thomas

On May 6, 2013, at 5:04 PM, "Venkatachalam, Vasanth" <Vasanth.Venkatachalam at amd.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am  debugging a test case for my HSAIL backend that is giving the wrong result when run with -vm server option.
> 
> Using the Client Compiler Visualizer, I noticed that the nodes generated are different with the -vm server option, even before the "After LIR generation" phase.
> 
> Is there a reason why the nodes would be different when running with -vm server?
> 
> The nodes shown for the "After linear scan order" phase (right before LIR) look suspicious to me in that it looks like there's a dangling else block, so that the exit out of a loop isn't hitting some cleanup code that needs to be executed. I see this issue propagated down to the LIR, and since my codegen is matching up with the LIR, it inherits the dangling else which seems to be the culprit here.
> 
> Vasanth