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authorVedant Kumar <vsk@apple.com>2017-11-15 18:05:19 +0000
committerVedant Kumar <vsk@apple.com>2017-11-15 18:05:19 +0000
commit5e1ec5bedebae038400ffa32ca30fbbcf150fe20 (patch)
tree318a17dbb4499f0d7812a812ac7370cdcb8efbf1 /docs
parent9c19935acce7a9e54ffc775bcae1b388feab449a (diff)
[docs] Mention opt -metarenamer in the bugpoint docs
Thanks to arsenm and davide for the suggestion! git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@318318 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -151,8 +151,10 @@ non-obvious ways. Here are some hints and tips:
optimizations to be randomized and applied to the program. This process will
repeat until a bug is found or the user kills ``bugpoint``.
-* ``bugpoint`` can produce IR which contains long names. To simplify the names,
- run ``opt -strip -instnamer`` over the IR.
+* ``bugpoint`` can produce IR which contains long names. Run ``opt
+ -metarenamer`` over the IR to rename everything using easy-to-read,
+ metasyntactic names. Alternatively, run ``opt -strip -instnamer`` to rename
+ everything with very short (often purely numeric) names.
What to do when bugpoint isn't enough
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