[LLVMdev] Introducing LLBrowse: A graphical browser for LLVM modules

[Chuck Zhao]

I am interested, too.

Thank you

Chuck

On 2/12/2011 5:42 AM, Raghu Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Talin,
>
> This looks interesting..! Can you email me your tool?
> Cheers,
> Raghu.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Renato Golin"<rengolin at systemcall.org>
> To: "Talin"<viridia at gmail.com>
> Cc: "LLVM Developers Mailing List"<llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 1:31:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Introducing LLBrowse: A graphical browser for LLVM	modules
>
>
>
>
> Nice! I'm interested... would also be nice to cross this with llvm diff, eh? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Renato
> On 12-Feb-2011 7:28 AM, "Talin"<  viridia at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I've written a little GUI application that displays an LLVM module as an
>> expandable tree, which can be useful for examining the module's contents.
>> Some features:
>>
>> - Based on wxWidgets, so it's completely cross-platform.
>> - CMake build script can locate both LLVM and wxWidgets installations
>> automatically.
>> - Loads either .ll or .bc files.
>> - Supports browsing of LLVM types, variables, functions, aliases, and
>> metadata. I'm working on supporting a more structured view of DWARF DIEs,
>> but that is not complete.
>> - Tree nodes are created lazily as needed.
>> - The tree node system is highly extensible, each different LLVM object
>> type is represented by a tree node class, adding new node classes is
>> extremely easy.
>> - The code is very straightforward and easy to read.
>> - All image resources are embedded in the final executable, so the
>> compiles program is just a single binary file, very easily installed.
>>
>> This is still a work in progress, but I think it's ready for people to start
>> hacking on.
>>
>> If there is interest, I can check the code into the llvm.org svn somewhere -
>> I just need to know where to put it. Otherwise, I'm happy to email a zip
>> archive to folks who are interested. I'm willing to release the code under
>> whatever license is most convenient.
>>
>> Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:
>>
>> [image: llbrowse.png]
>>
>> And here's what the node class for displaying variables looks like, as an
>> example:
>>
>> class VariableItem : public TreeItemBase {
>> public:
>> VariableItem(const llvm::Module* module, const llvm::GlobalVariable* var)
>> : module_(module), var_(var) {}
>>
>> // Overrides
>>
>> int GetIcon() const;
>> wxString GetCaption() const;
>> void CreateChildren(wxTreeCtrl* tree, const wxTreeItemId&  id);
>> bool CanCreateChildren() const;
>> void ShowDetails(DetailsView* detailsView);
>>
>> private:
>> const llvm::Module* const module_;
>> const llvm::GlobalVariable* const var_;
>> };
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> -- Talin
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