BIGV file format

[Doug Simon]

Hi Alex,

Are you able to provide more information about the tool you are developing/using that reads the BIGV format? This may help guide us in terms of what's important.

-Doug

> On 12 Jun 2017, at 10:18, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At this point in time, there is no documentation of the format other than the code (including BinaryGraphPrinter[1]). What's more, we are currently changing the format to improve the encoding.
> 
> @Jaroslav: As part of the format changes, I think it wouldn't hurt to document the format (e.g., docs/BIGV.md).
> 
> -Doug
> 
> [1] https://github.com/graalvm/graal/blob/c3411d374452a7000e80c6000aa3ee0e8d8c4d41/compiler/src/org.graalvm.compiler.printer/src/org/graalvm/compiler/printer/BinaryGraphPrinter.java
> 
>> On 12 Jun 2017, at 08:52, Alexander Senier <alexander.senier at tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I need to extend an existing tool to read the graphs output by Graal.
>> The BinaryParser class in IGV and Graals BinaryGraphPrinter give some
>> hints what to do, but I was wondering whether the format is documented
>> somewhere?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>> 
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