[LLVMdev] bytecode reader

Le Anh Quang anhquangbk at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 23 17:25:20 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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