[LLVMdev] Moving instructions from functions

[Misha Brukman]

2009/7/29 Amr Yehia <yehia at iss.rwth-aachen.de>

> I want to move a block of instructions from its original function, form
> a new function, and place these instructions in the new function.
> these blocks of instructions are not bound by Basic Blocks, i mean i can
> cut Basic Blocks and move only part of it to the new function.
>
> I guess the solution can be either clone the whole function and start
> deleting instructions from the two functions (from source and from
> destination).
> or i can cut basic blocks and start cloning them to the new function,
> then delete them from the original function.
> both ways are not straight forward, i wanted to check if there is an
> easier straight forward way to do this.


Take a look at llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/Utils/FunctionUtils.h .
If you just want to extract a couple BasicBlocks, you can use
ExtractCodeRegion().

If you want to extract code that lives inside a BasicBlock, first split the
block into several smaller blocks, and then call ExtractBasicBlock() on the
block you want to extract.
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