Add a small utility called bisect that enables commandline bisecting on a counter.

This is something that I have found to be very useful in my work and I
wanted to contribute it back to the community since several people in
the past have asked me for something along these lines. (Jakob, I know
this has been a while coming ; )]

The way you use this is you create a script that takes in as its first
argument a count. The script passes into LLVM the count via a command
line flag that disables a pass after LLVM has run after the pass has
run for count number of times. Then the script invokes a test of some
sort and indicates whether LLVM successfully compiled the test via the
scripts exit status. Then you invoke bisect as follows:

bisect --start=<start_num> --end=<end_num> ./script.sh "%(count)s"

And bisect will continually call ./script.sh with various counts using
the exit status to determine success and failure.

llvm-svn: 214610

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/utils/bisect b/llvm/utils/bisect
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import os
+import sys
+import argparse
+import subprocess
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+
+parser.add_argument('--start', type=int, default=0)
+parser.add_argument('--end', type=int, default=(1 << 32))
+parser.add_argument('command', nargs='+')
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+start = args.start
+end = args.end
+
+print("Bisect Starting!")
+print("Start: %d" % start)
+print("End: %d" % end)
+
+last = None
+while start != end and start != end-1:
+    count = start + (end - start)/2
+    print("Visiting Count: %d with (Start, End) = (%d,%d)" % (count, start, end))
+    cmd = [x % {'count':count} for x in args.command]
+    print cmd
+    result = subprocess.call(cmd)
+    if result == 0:
+        print("    PASSES! Setting start to count")
+        start = count
+    else:
+        print("    FAILS! Setting end to count")
+        end = count
+
+print("Last good count: %d" % start)