[LLVMdev] Controlling the order of a FunctionPass

[John Criswell]

Trevor Harmon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like my FunctionPasses to be invoked in reverse call graph  
> order (callees before callers). However, "Writing an LLVM Pass" notes  
> that "FunctionPass's do not require that they are executed in a  
> particular order." Is there any way at all to specify an ordering?
>
> If this is not possible, I'm thinking of a workaround in which my  
> runOnFunction method does not actually process the function but  
> instead copies the Function object to a "work set". When runOnFunction  
> has been invoked for all functions, I would then perform the analysis  
> on each saved function in the order that I desire. Does this sound  
> like the right approach? (Note that my pass is analysis-only -- it  
> does not modify the functions.)
>   

If you write your pass as a ModulePass, then you can iterate over the 
functions in any order that you want.

Unless writing your pass as a CallGraphSCCPass gets you the right 
iteration order, writing your pass as a ModulePass looks like the proper 
way to do this.  FunctionPass'es are supposed to do only local analysis 
and are required to be completely independent; a FunctionPass should not 
record information between invocations of its runOnFunction() method.

-- John T.

> Thanks,
>
> Trevor
>
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