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Diff the LLVM-IR between two Git commits of a Rust crate
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| set -e | |
| if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then | |
| echo "Usage: $0 <commit_A> <commit_B>" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| COMMIT_A=$1 | |
| COMMIT_B=$2 | |
| RUST_COMMIT_HASH=$(rustc --version --verbose | sed '3q;d' | cut -d' ' -f2) | |
| echo "Comparing LLVM-IR between $COMMIT_A..$COMMIT_B" | |
| echo "Rust toolchain commit hash: $RUST_COMMIT_HASH" | |
| mkdir -p /tmp/git-llvm-diff | |
| TREE_A="/tmp/git-llvm-diff/${RUST_COMMIT_HASH}_${COMMIT_A}" | |
| TREE_B="/tmp/git-llvm-diff/${RUST_COMMIT_HASH}_${COMMIT_B}" | |
| if [ ! -d "$TREE_A" ]; then | |
| mkdir "$TREE_A" | |
| git archive "$COMMIT_A" | tar -x -C "$TREE_A" | |
| fi | |
| if [ ! -d "$TREE_B" ]; then | |
| mkdir "$TREE_B" | |
| git archive "$COMMIT_B" | tar -x -C "$TREE_B" | |
| fi | |
| get_ll_mapping() { | |
| local tree=$1 | |
| cd "$tree" | |
| RUSTFLAGS="-C lto=off --emit=llvm-ir --emit=asm -Z location-detail=none" cargo build --release --all-targets --benches --message-format=json | jq -r 'select(.reason == "compiler-artifact" and .executable != null) | "\(.target.name)\t\(.executable).ll"' | |
| } | |
| echo "Building COMMIT_A..." | |
| declare -A LL_FILES_A | |
| while IFS=$'\t' read -r target_name ll_path; do | |
| LL_FILES_A["$target_name"]="$ll_path" | |
| done < <(get_ll_mapping "$TREE_A") | |
| echo "Building COMMIT_B..." | |
| declare -A LL_FILES_B | |
| while IFS=$'\t' read -r target_name ll_path; do | |
| LL_FILES_B["$target_name"]="$ll_path" | |
| done < <(get_ll_mapping "$TREE_B") | |
| echo "Diffing LLVM-IR..." | |
| for target in "${!LL_FILES_A[@]}"; do | |
| file_a="${LL_FILES_A[$target]}" | |
| file_b="${LL_FILES_B[$target]}" | |
| if [ -n "$file_b" ]; then | |
| printf "\033[1;34m========== llvm-diff: $target: ==========\033[0m\n" | |
| if [ -f "$file_a" ] && [ -f "$file_b" ]; then | |
| llvm-diff "$file_a" "$file_b" 2>&1 || true | |
| else | |
| echo "Warning: .ll file missing for $target" | |
| echo "Checked: $file_a" | |
| echo " and $file_b" | |
| fi | |
| echo "" | |
| else | |
| echo "Target '$target' exists in Commit A but not in Commit B." | |
| fi | |
| done |
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