[LLVMdev] Enumerating machine functions

[Lorenzo De Carli]

Hi Duncan,

thanks for your reply. So if I understand correctly MachineFunction
objects are converted to machine code one at a time, and each object
is "thrown away" after having been converted. Seems that the only way
to achieve what I have in mind is to write the machine code for all
the functions to a file, and then load it and process it in a separate
tool (possibly based on LLVM-mc). Is this correct?

Thanks,
Lorenzo


On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
>> I have a doubt about running passes on machine code. We are
>> implementing a transformation on machine code that consists in
>> analyzing a series of functions, extracting some aggregate properties,
>> and then using the extracted information to optimize each functions.
>>
>> I am not familiar with LLVM internals, so I am not sure how to
>> implement each step. From the documentation, it seems that the only
>> way to work on the machine-dependent representation is to write a
>> MachineFunctionPass. However, such pass would be run separately on
>> every function, while what we need is pretty much a ModulePass running
>> on machine code, or some way to enumerate all the MachineFunction
>> objects. Is there any way to achieve this?
>
> one of the design goals of LLVM codegen is to be able to codegen one function
> at a time, so the front-end can generate a function, codegen it, then throw
> away the function before moving onto the next function.
>
> Ciao, Duncan.
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