[LLVMdev] [LLVMDEV]How could I get function name in this situation?

songlh at cs.wisc.edu songlh at cs.wisc.edu
Wed Jan 26 13:28:10 PST 2011


> On 1/26/11 3:06 PM, songlh at cs.wisc.edu wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> -- John T.
>> Sorry, I am asking the second question.
>> "
>> how to determine, within an LLVM pass, what the
>> possible target(s) of an indirect function call might be?
>
> There are at least two solutions.
>
> The first is to use the CallGraph analysis pass.  It constructs a
> conservative call graph, meaning that any indirect function call is
> assumed to call any address-taken function.  For some applications, this
> is good enough, and for others, it isn't.
>
> If you need more precise results, you can use DSA.  It is part of the
> poolalloc project.  It is a points-to analysis that attempts to build a
> more accurate call-graph.  In some cases, it probably works well; in
> other cases, it may not do any better than the LLVM CallGraph analysis.
>
> You can get DSA by doing the following check-out:
>
> svn co https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/poolalloc/trunk poolalloc
>
> Directions on configuring it and examples of how to use it can be found
> in the SAFECode project: http://safecode.cs.illinois.edu.
>
> If you want to use DSA, please let me know, and I can point you to an
> example in SAFECode or the Poolalloc source code that uses the
> DSCallGraph interface.
>
> -- John T.
>

Could you please point me the DSA example in poolalloc project? I just
check that code out.

Thanks a lot!

linhai

>> "
>>
>> thanks a lot!
>>
>> Linhai
>>>
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