[LLVMdev] unoptimised LLVM, not in SSA form

[Chris Lattner]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Umar Janjua wrote:
> I am interested in obtaining LLVM IR without any optimization performed on
> it.( IR obtained from cfrontend's AST). Is this LLVM IR in SSA form?

You can do this, using "llvm-gcc -S".  The ".s" file it produces is an 
entirely unoptimized llvm file.  Note that this is not really suitable to 
source-to-source level transformations, but should have most of the 
information from the source.  If you add -g, you'll even get line number 
info.

> Secondly, I want to make a transformation on this unoptimized IR, and convert
> it back to C.  I believe llc -c does that.

Yup, llc -march=c

> Thirdly,  is it possible to use LLVM tool suite on LLVM IR that's not in SSA
> form, if we have such LLVM  so.

No, LLVM IR is always in SSA form.  If PHI nodes specifically are a 
problem for you, there are ways to produce LLVM code without any PHI nodes 
(e.g. create allocas and do load/stores into them).

-Chris

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