[LLVMdev] Programmatic compilation of C++ file into bitcode

[Trevor Harmon]

I'm building a static analysis tool on top of LLVM. It needs to take  
in a C++ source file and have LLVM translate it into bitcode. In other  
words, it basically needs to do this:

   llvmc hello.cpp -emit-llvm -O0 -S -g

Except that instead of writing the bitcode to a file, it needs to load  
it into memory (presumably as an instance of Module) for further  
processing and analysis. So my goal is to do essentially what llvmc  
does, but programmatically by invoking the LLVM API directly.

I thought I could use lib/CompilerDriver/Main.cpp as a guide, but  
after studying the code and associated docs, I'm stumped. Much of the  
logic is woven through TableGen'd drivers, so I can't even figure out  
how the command line options are fed into the LLVM API.

Any suggestions? Thanks,

Trevor