[LLVMdev] new annotations in IR?

[Mark Brown]

Close, metadata has already been attached to Clang's VarDecls. I do not know
what this would be in LLVM, my first guess just just Value(since its kind of
a goto object for everything I need).

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:55 AM, James Molloy <James.Molloy at arm.com> wrote:

>  Hi Mark,****
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> I don’t know anything about Clang’s annotations or attributes, but from
> what you describe it sounds like you want to attach metadata to Values?***
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> Try searching for “metadata” instead, that should get you more results J**
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> Cheers,****
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> James****
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> *From:* llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Mark Brown
> *Sent:* 22 September 2011 07:46
> *To:* llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> *Subject:* [LLVMdev] new annotations in IR?****
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> With recent work a plugin can now Annotate a VarDecl at the AST level, how
> can this be used in a Pass at the IR level? What classes are responsible for
> their manipulation? I assumed it would be part of Value, or something common
> like it, but I do not see any mentions of Annotation or Attribute.
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> Thank you****
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