[LLVMdev] bytecode reader

Le Anh Quang anh_quang.le at mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Mon Jun 23 16:05:45 PDT 2008


 Hi,
 I currently write a tool to parse the LLVM bytecode file (.bc file). So I
have some very basic questions:
- First, about the Abbreviation ID ( "0"=END_BLOCK, "1"=ENTER_SUBBLOCK...):
how to read these ID from the file stream ? I mean, I don't know, how many
bit length they are. It doesn't exist on the document.
- Second, how is the order to read the bytecode ? 
 For example 4 bytes after the LLVM IR magic nr.:  21 0C 00 00
 It describes the MODULE_BLOCK with its parameters, actually. But I don't
know how  
 to extract them from those bytes.

I hope that somebody can help me answer these questions.

Thanks and Regards, 
Quang






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