[LLVMdev] Question about use-def chain

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:22 AM, 신건철 wrote:

> Programmers’ manual says we can  
> iterate over a use-def chain by op_iterator.
> It works fine except for load and store instruction of stack  
> variables.
>
> For example, a simple bitcode is like the below.
> i = alloca i32
> store i32 0, i32* %i, align 4
> %tmp1 = load i32* %i, align 4
>
> If I apply a use-def chain to load instruction, I get alloca  
> instruction.
> I think store instruction is a correct use-def chain.
> Am I right?
> Is there any other method to iterate over a use-def chain in this  
> case?

You should try out Owen's MemDepAnalysis interface, which returns the  
load/store that another load/store depends on.  Note that this is a  
fuzzy query: it depends on the precision of alias analysis.

-Chris
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