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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Kevin,<br>
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      In the LLVM IR, the function and the pointer to the function are
      the same thing.  Within an LLVM pass, if you have a pointer to a
      Function object:<br>
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      Function * F = M.getOrInsertFunction(...)<br>
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      ... then you can use F as a parameter to a call instruction:<br>
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      std::vector<Value *> args;<br>
      args.push_back (F);<br>
      CallInst * CI = CallInst::Create (AtExit, args, ...);<br>
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      Regards,<br>
      <br>
      John Criswell<br>
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      On 3/12/15 11:24 PM, Kevin Hu wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi David,
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        <div>Thanks very much.</div>
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        <div>I tried and the IR it produces is:</div>
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        <div>%call = call i32 @atexit(void ()* foo)</div>
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        <div>The problem is this still doesn't give me any clues how to
          produce the code inside my LLVM pass. How do I get the pointer
          to this foo function?</div>
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        <div>Any hints?</div>
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        <div>Thank you.</div>
        <div>Kevin Hu</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:09 PM, David
          Blaikie <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            <div dir="ltr">Easiest thing to do would be to write the
              equivalent C code, throw it through Clang, and look at the
              IR it produces.<br>
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                    <div class="h5">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:00 PM,
                      Kevin Hu <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                        <div dir="ltr">Dear all,
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                          <div>I'm writing an LLVM pass, and I want to
                            insert a call instruction that takes a
                            function pointer as a parameter. The effect
                            would be the same as following:</div>
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                          <div>atexit(foo);</div>
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                          <div>Where foo is a function I insert with
                            M.getOrInsertFunction(), which in LLVM is a
                            Function class.</div>
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                          <div>I searched for a while and did not come
                            up with a satisfying answer. Should I create
                            a Value class of pointer type, or a Int64Ty
                            for a pointer? How do I get the pointer to
                            the function I create? I also tried passing
                            foo as Function* in LLVM as parameter to
                            create CallInst directly, and I doesn't seem
                            to work.</div>
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                            <div>Any hints and enlightenment is
                              appreciated. Many thanks.</div>
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                            Regards,<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr">Yours,
                                <div>Kevin Hu</div>
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          <div dir="ltr">Yours,
            <div>X. Hu</div>
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John Criswell
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Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
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