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Newbie Question .. (sorry if its redundant/silly) ..<BR>
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As I've started to develop Stacker, I had assumed that simply adding BasicBlocks to a function in sequence would imply that there is an implicit unconditional branch from the end of one basic block to the start of the next block. Based on the assertion checks that I get when I tried this, I assume that it is required to place a terminating instruction at the end of every basic block even if that should simply be a branch to the start of the next block. Is this indeed the case?<BR>
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If it is, it would be "user friendly" to simply supply the branch instruction. That is, provide a method on Function that appends a BasicBlock to the end of the block list. If the existing final basic block doesn't have a terminating instruction, simply add one that points to the block being appended. Is this the RightThing(tm) or are there good reasons this can't or shouldn't be done? <BR>
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The method I'm thinking of is something like:<BR>
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<PRE>Function::chainBasicBlock( BasicBlock* bb )
{
BasicBlock& previous = this->back();
TerminatorInst* terminator = previous.getTerminator();
if ( ! terminator )
{
BranchInst* branch = new BranchInst(bb);
previous.push_back( branch );
}
BranchList.push_back( bb );
}
Reid</PRE>
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