[LLVMdev] Accessing instruction/operand names

[Tanya M. Lattner]

>
> I can retrieve the opcodeName() from the Instruction object, which is
> "load". I can also access the operand and use getName() to retrieve
> "x_addr". However, this instruction is storing into %2 - how do I access the
> name of that?
>
> Also, when an operand is a numbered temporary such as
>
> %3 = add i32 %2, %1		; <i32> [#uses=1]
>
> I'm also unable to access the name of it. Are these numberings no longer
> present in the bitcode? If not, is there any way to find out the name of
> which local variable it is referencing?

I agree with everyone else that you should not be using names to track 
anything. But if you want names, you can run 'opt -instnamer' to assign 
names to annymous values. I would only recommend using that for debugging 
purposes though.

-Tanya

>
> Thanks in advance - I've been stuck on this for a while.
>
> Best,
>
> James
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