[LLVMdev] ParseAssemblyString change of behaviour

[Jan Rehders]

Hi,

when upgrading my compiler from LLVM 2.1 to 2.4 I stumbled upon a  
change of behaviour in ParseAssemblyString. For an interactive  
toplevel I am generating .ll source and feeding it into  
ParseAssemblyString like this:

Module* parsedModule = ParseAssemblyString( code, targetModule,  
&errorInfo );

where targetModule is the module I expect all the LLVM code to go.  
Until 2.1 the globals, types and functions in code where added to  
targetModule. Since 2.2 this does not happen anymore.

The documentation still states that targetModule is "A module to add  
the assembly too.". Is the new behaviour a bug? If not why has this  
been changed?

And most important for me: how do I work around this? I intend to copy  
the types, globals and functions from the newly parsed module into my  
other module. Is this feasible or is there another recommended way?  
(Using the LLVM API instead of generating .ll source is not really  
practical for me at this time)

Jan