[LLVMdev] Passing a pointer to a function

[Anthony Danalis]

I am not an expert in this, but maybe what you are missing is a  
bitcast.  I'm attaching a simple function I use to pass strings to  
functions I've inserted in target programs:

     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     // convert an STL std::string into an LLVM GlobalVariable holding a
     // ConstantArray and then cast it to a PointerType so we can pass  
it
     // to a function call as an actual.
     Value *stringToPtr(std::string str, Module *mdl, Instruction  
*instr){
         Constant *strConstant;
         GlobalVariable *gv;

         strConstant = ConstantArray::get(std::string(str));
         gv =  new llvm::GlobalVariable(strConstant->getType(),
                                        true,
                                        GlobalValue::InternalLinkage,
                                        strConstant,
                                        "",
                                        mdl,
                                        false);
         PointerType *strPtrTy = PointerType::getUnqual(Type::Int8Ty);
         return CastInst::Create(Instruction::BitCast, gv, strPtrTy,  
"", instr);
     }


I hope it helps,
Anthony


On May 20, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Scott Ricketts wrote:

> I recently began hacking around with my first LLVM pass. The big
> picture is that I would like to insert function calls for each
> instruction type, and pass some parameters based on the instruction
> type. Then I will link the output to some C file that implements those
> functions.
>
> Things were going well until I started trying to make function calls
> with a pointer as a parameter. For example, I would like to do
> something like:
>
> void
> visitLoadInst(LoadInst &I) {
>  Value *P;
>  P = I.getPointerOperand();
>
>  CallInst::Create(load_fcall, P, "", &I);
> }
>
> Where load_fcall is build using a call to Module::getOrInsertFunction
> as in the example here:
>
> http://wiki.llvm.org/HowTo:_Insert_a_function_call
>
> My question is, what do I pass as the argument type for P above? The
> following seems to work, as long as there are no floating point ops:
>
> PointerType::getUnqual(IntegerType::get(32))
>
> So I tried using just a void pointer type, as in:
> PointerType::getUnqual(Type::VoidTy)
>
> But then Type.cpp throws this assertion.
> Assertion `ValueType != Type::VoidTy && "Pointer to void is not valid,
> use sbyte* instead!"' failed.
>
> I can try checking the type before building the function, as in:
>
> void
> visitLoadInst(LoadInst &I) {
>  Value *P;
>  P = I.getPointerOperand();
>
>  PointerType* PtrTy = (PointerType*)(P);
>
>  Constant* fcall;
>
>  if (PtrTy->getElementType()->isInteger()) {
>    fcall = buildFcallMem(*theModule, "load_int", Type::Int32Ty);
>    CallInst::Create(fcall, P, "", &I);
>  } else if (PtrTy->getElementType()->isInteger()){
>    fcall = buildFcallMem(*theModule, "load_float", Type::FloatTy);
>    CallInst::Create(fcall, P, "", &I);
>  }
> }
>
> But then I get segfaults or assertions fail in Type.h (it's a huge
> mess). I could be more specific, but I have tried several different
> approaches and am trying to be brief here.
>
> Perhaps I am overlooking an obvious approach. I will continue snooping
> through the code to attempt to learn what is going on, but if anyone
> could nudge me in the right direction or point out where I am
> completely off, that would probably be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
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