[cfe-dev] Correspondence between AST and the CFG

[John McCall]

On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Prakash Prabhu wrote:

> Hi Ted,
> 
> I meant the latter. I was earlier under the impression that the CFG class, used in clang,  was a layer over the LLVM IR. Thanks for the clarification (and also the doc: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/InternalsManual.html#CFG).
> 
> One last question: is it possible to do basic block replication (and hence the underlying AST node duplication and the resulting LLVM IR generation) using the CFG class in clang, or is it a read-only structure, meant only for analysis and not transformation ?

It's meant solely for analysis;  we will eventually, but have not yet, write better APIs for transforming ASTs.

John.
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