[LLVMdev] About instrumenting/rewriting X86 instructions

[John Criswell]

On 12/25/12 3:11 AM, guitarfeng wrote:
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I plan to use LLVM to instrument/rewrite X86 instructions during the
> compilation of a program.
> For example, insert checking target instructions before jmp
> instructions, or rewrite a instruction to prevent code using a specific
> register.

Sorry that no one has responded to your inquiry.  It's probably due to 
the fact that it's the holiday season in the U.S. and elsewhere, so 
hardly anyone's around.

Just out of curiousity, what are you trying to implement?  It may be 
better to implement your transform at the LLVM IR level than at the 
codegen level.

>
> I think the work should be done at the CodeGen phase, but I'm not quite
> clear how can I start.
> Can anyone give me some suggestion?

I'm doing something similar (I'm extending a control-flow integrity 
(CFI) implementation from LeHigh).  The first thing I think you should 
do is to learn how to write and run a MachineFunctionPass (an LLVM pass 
that operates on the machine code IR).  You can find directions on that 
at http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html and 
http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#code-generator.

Finally, you'll want to read the doxygen docs on MachineInstr, 
MachineBasicBlock, and MachineFunction.

-- John T.

>
> Thanks very much,
> Zf
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>
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