[LLVMdev] Free Variables In a Loop.

[John Criswell]

Rohith Goparaju wrote:
> Hi ,
>
>    I'm working on a project in which i need to find out all free 
> variables in a loop. I need to find all variables used inside a loop 
> and that are not declared(allocated) in the loop. I'm confused about 
> what symbol tables to use to get hold of such variables.

When you say "variables," are you talking about LLVM virtual registers 
or memory allocated by the alloca instruction?

Assuming the former, LLVM virtual registers are in SSA form, meaning 
that they are defined only once and that the virtual register 
representing the value and the instruction that generates that value are 
synonymous.  If you want to see if an SSA value is defined within a 
loop, you would use the LoopInfo pass to determine if the basic block 
containing the instruction  defining the value of interest belongs to 
the loop that interests you.

Information on LoopInfo can be found at 
http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1LoopInfo.html.

-- John T.

>
> Thanks,
> Rohith.