[LLVMdev] getting object from BitCastInst?

[John Criswell]

On 10/11/11 10:46 PM, ret val wrote:
> My pass is looking at StoreInsts acting on global variable that happen
> to be function pointers. From these StoreInsts I would like to get
> useful information(the function used if a direct assignment, function
> pointer used, etc) from the  getValueOperand() method. Looking through
> several examples I see that this can return several things like:
> GlobalVariable, Function, LoadInst or BitCastInst depending on how
> much "indirection" is used.
>
> In the case of BitCastInst my dump shows "%ptr.addr = alloca i8*,
> align 8", I would like to isolate this just to "ptr". Ive tried doing
> another dyn_cast to AllocaInt, but I couldn't find any relevant
> methods. How Can I do this?

First, remember that you can strip away pointer casts by using the 
stripPointerCasts() method of llvm::Value.  So, instead of using the 
code you have below, you can write:

if (LoadInst * load = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(rhs->stripPointerCasts()) {
     ...
}

Second, your question about the alloca is confusing.  In the instruction:

%ptr.addr = alloca i8*, align 8


... there is no SSA value named %ptr that is an operand of the alloca.

I'm guessing that you're trying to find the name of the C variable for 
which the alloca was generated when compiling from C source code to LLVM 
IR.  To do that, you'll need to use LLVM debug metadata.

-- John T.

>
>                                          BitCastInst *bitcastRHS =
> dyn_cast<BitCastInst>(rhs);
> 					if(bitcastRHS != NULL) {
> 						LoadInst *load = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(bitcastRHS->getOperand(0));
> 						if(load != NULL) {
> 							rhs = load->getPointerOperand();
> 							rhs->dump();
> 						}
> 					}
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