[LLVMdev] How to create a CallInst that calls a standard c function like "printf"

[John Criswell]

Mary_nju wrote:
> SOS!!!
> It is really an emergency problem for me to resolve, if anyone knows the
> answer, please let me know, I will 
> appreciate it, thank you very much!
>   

The way to do this is to write code to do two things:

1) Write code that will insert a new function named printf that has no body.
2) Write code that will insert a call instruction (CallInst) that will 
call the printf function you created in step 1.

After running your transform, you should generate native code and then 
link against the C library.  The function with no body will be resolved 
during the final native code link.  The JIT will automatically do this 
for you.  If you're doing static compilation, you use llc to generate 
native assembly code from the bitcode (.bc file) and then use gcc to 
assembly the output and link it with standard libraries.

Looking at your code, you seem to have done this.  The only problem is 
that you named the function "myprintf" instead of "printf".

-- John T.
>
>
> Mary_nju wrote:
>   
>> I am working on a program based on LLVM. I want to modify the .bc file
>> throught C++ APIs provided by LLVM, but I don't know how to create a
>> CallInst that calls a standard c function like "printf", can anyone help
>> me with this problem?
>>
>> The file attached is the program I wrote, it can be compiled, however, the
>> result of the dump of the retrieved module is not correct(missing global
>> variable and will cause 'program use external function 'myprintf' which
>> could not be resolved') problem.
>>  http://old.nabble.com/file/p27210247/test.cpp test.cpp 
>>
>>     
> :-)
>