[LLVMdev] inserting blocks into a Function

[Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:22:26PM -0500, Chris Lattner wrote:

> BasicBlock *SplitBlockPredecessors(BasicBlock *BB, const char *Suffix,
>                                     const std::vector<BasicBlock*> &Preds);
> 
> Basically, given a BB with multiple predecessors, it inserts (and returns) 
> a new block, moving the predecessors in Preds to the new block and leaving 
> the rest to the old block.  The loop-simplify pass uses this to do 
> preheader insertion and other fun stuff.

Great! SplitBlockPredecessors is exactly the function that I was
thinking of ... hadn't noticed the LoopSimplify pass before ...
although the pass I am working on is different, I can leave the
preheader insertion to LoopSimplify and forget about it.

I was wondering, the above function seems general enough to be
available as a utility function by itself ... but since I am not a
compiler guy myself, dunno if anyone actually ends up needing such a
function. Anyway, the LoopSimplify code's been quite helpful as a
quick intro to handling side-effects when modifying the CFG.

Thanks!
Sameer.
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