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@@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ 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. 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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