[LLVMdev] strange behaviour after extracting optimization pass code

[Ralf Karrenberg]

Hi,

I am expieriencing strange behaviour of llvm's optimization passes and I 
don't understand what I am doing wrong.
Basically all I've done is extracting code for optimization of a 
llvm-function in a llvm-module and put it into a separate function for 
better readability. The original code looks like follows (and works as 
expected):

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    std::string functionName = "main";
    llvm::Module* mod = some arbitrary valid modulepointer;
    llvm::ExistingModuleProvider mp(mod);
    llvm::FunctionPassManager fpm(&mp);
    fpm.add(new llvm::TargetData(mod));
    fpm.add(llvm::createInstructionCombiningPass());
    fpm.add(llvm::createReassociatePass());
    fpm.add(llvm::createGVNPass());
    fpm.add(llvm::createCFGSimplificationPass());
    fpm.run(*f);

    //...get execution engine
    //... call execEngine->getPointerToFunction()
    //... execute function
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Now if I extract exactly this code and put it into a different method 
like follows, it produces a giant pile of data garbage in the console 
and any calls receiving the module-pointer after the optimization lead 
to a segfault.

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void optimizeFunction(std::string functionName, llvm::Module* mod) {
    llvm::Function* f = mod->getFunction(functionName);

    llvm::ExistingModuleProvider mp(mod);
    llvm::FunctionPassManager fpm(&mp);
    fpm.add(new llvm::TargetData(mod));
    fpm.add(llvm::createInstructionCombiningPass());
    fpm.add(llvm::createReassociatePass());
    fpm.add(llvm::createGVNPass());
    fpm.add(llvm::createCFGSimplificationPass());
    fpm.run(*f);
}

    //in main function:
    std::string functionName = "main";
    llvm::Module* mod = some arbitrary valid modulepointer;
    optimizeFunction("main", mod);

    //...get execution engine
    //... call execEngine->getPointerToFunction()
    //... execute function
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Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance :)

Cheers,
Ralf