[llvm-dev] Why do backend pass definitions call a seperate function just to call the constructor?

[Ahmed Samara via llvm-dev]

Things like this in `lib/Target/ARM/ARMExpandPseudoInsts.cpp`

FunctionPass *llvm::createARMExpandPseudoPass() {
>   return new ARMExpandPseudo();
> }


And other functions have basically the same style.

What's the point of doing it this way instead of just calling `new
ARMExpandPseudo` in any place that you would have called this function?

-- 
Ahmed Samara
M.S. Computer Engineering
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