[LLVMdev] Memory allocation (or deallocation) model?

[Chris Lattner]

Yes, if/when an instruction is inserted into a block it is owned by  
that block.  If you remove the instruction you have to delete it or  
reinsert it into another block.

-Chris

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On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer at earthlink.net 
 > wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 18:56 -0800, Chris Lattner wrote:
>
>> Other IR objects (like instructions) have very simple ownership.  An
>> instruction is owned by its basic block, a bb is owned by the  
>> function, a
>> function is owned by thet module.
>
> If an instruction is initially allocated with its Instruction
> *insertAtEnd parameter defaulted to null, and then later appended to a
> BasicBlock, will the BasicBlock take ownership of the Instruction?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
>
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