[LLVMdev] llvm passes

[Ryan M. Lefever]

So, am I correct that the implication of what you're saying is that if 
pass X requires pass Y, then pass Y does not necessarily run to 
completion on every component of a program, before pass X runs. 
Furthermore, if those passes X and Y are both function passes, then when 
pass X runs on function F, the last function Y will have run on is 
function F.

Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Ryan M. Lefever wrote:
> Imagine you have a functionpass X, for example DominatorSet.  DominatorSet 
> runs on a function at a time and captures information about the current 
> function's dominator information in its instance variables.
> 
> Now you have ModulePass Y that runs and requires X to be run.  Because it 
> is a functionpass, X will be run on every function in the module before Y 
> starts.  Further, because X only has one set of instance variables, Y 
> could see, at most, information for one function.

I assumed that X would run to completion before pass Y ran and that pass 
X would have stored instance data for each function in some sort of list 
or map.  I think my confusion must be with what type of pass to use.  Am 
I correct that if I have a pass M that runs on each function but needs 
to collect data from every function before it can be used by another 
pass N, then M should be a ModulePass?

Regards,
Ryan

> 
> -Chris
> 

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