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

[Trevor Harmon]

On Feb 25, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Trevor Harmon wrote:

> Is there perhaps some structured mechanism for retrieving the output
> of an LLVM pass? That is, something better than just parsing the
> output of "opt"...

On rereading the opt documentation, I see:

"In a few cases, it will ... generate a file with the analysis output,  
which is usually done when the output is meant for another program."

I suppose the format of this file is totally dependent on the  
analyzer, but what about the location of the file? Is there some  
convention on where analyzers send their output? Otherwise I'm not  
sure how the other program can find the output, unless of course the  
analyzer simply dumps the file to a hard-coded location (/tmp?).

Trevor