Where are those complex aliase analysis passes like steens-aa now?

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hi,
The llvm alias analysis doc mentioned that llvm have various alias analysis passes, e.g. steens-aa; but I can’t find it in llvm 2.0. Are these passes obsoleted? Thanks.
-Wei Jiang

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hi,
    The llvm alias analysis doc mentioned that llvm have various alias
analysis passes, e.g. steens-aa; but I can't find it in llvm 2.0. Are
these passes obsoleted? Thanks.

I think that Steensgaard was part of the data structure analysis which
has been moved out of llvm. We currently have -basicaa,
-globalsmodref-aa, and anders-aa. The latter two are in the
lib/Analysis/IPA directory.

Reid.

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The ds-aa and steens-aa passes are all available in the llvm-poolalloc project, in lib/DSA. They were moved there because Microsoft holds a patent on parts of the underlying pointer analysis strategy. anders-aa is still in mainline llvm.

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