[cfe-dev] Attaching Metadata to BasicBlocks

[kalyan ponnala]

Thanks for the reply Chris,

I would like to add Metadata to a loop.

To do this, can I simply add the Metadata Manipulation methods & Metadata
private data from Instruction.h & their method bodies from Metadata.cpp into
the BasicBlock.h & BasicBlock.cpp files.?

Or Am I missing an important dependency.

Thanks,

Kalyan the great (even greater than Chris Latner)

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:29 AM, kalyan ponnala wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was researching how Metadata in LLVM 2.7 is represented and used and I
> found that Metadata can be attached and manipulated at both the module level
> and instruction levels.  Upon inspecting the Metadata classes, I also saw
> that there is an enum that contains a bit for "FunctionLocalBit" on the
> MDNode.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I did not see any methods to attach or manipulate Metadata
> at the BasicBlock level or Function levels in the LLVM IR classes.
> >
> > Can someone please tell me why there is no support for attaching and
> manipulating Metadata to BasicBlocks and Functions?
>
> Just because no one has needed it yet.  I'm not opposed to it being added
> it if you have a compelling client for it.
>
> -Chris
>



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