[LLVMdev] Pass to remove unused functions

[Chris Lattner]

On May 5, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Villmow, Micah wrote:

> Is there a way to mark all functions as internal from source via  
> some sort of attribute?

"static".  However, if you do that, they won't make it into the bc file.

-Chris

>
> Thanks for the tips,
> Micah
>
> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev- 
> bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Lattner
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Pass to remove unused functions
>
>
> On May 5, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Villmow, Micah wrote:
>
>
> I thought this pass would do it, but when I run it over my bc file  
> the output file is the same as the input file.
>
> that's probably because your symbols are not internal.
>
>
>
> The issue I guess  is a little different. When I link in the huge bc  
> file with the tiny bc file, I only want the resulting bc file to  
> have the function definitions that the tiny bc file requires and not  
> every function in the huge bc file.
>
> Any idea’s how to do this with the current llvm toolset?
>
> You have to roll your own using the lower level APIs.  You can move  
> functions between modules etc.  Alternatively, you can link the two  
> modules and mark the functions you don't want as internal, then use  
> globaldce.
>
> -Chris
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