[LLVMdev] changing function type

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Ryan M. Lefever wrote:
> Is there any way to change the type of a function in LLVM without
> creating a copy of the function and replacing all references of the old
> function with the new function.

Nope.

> For example, if I wanted to remove a
> parameter from the function, how could I accomplish that?

You'd have to do what you describe above.  Check out the 
IPO/DeadArgElim.cpp transformation, which does just this.

-Chris

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