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

[oota-llvm.git] / utils / bisect

diff --git a/utils/bisect b/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)