[LLVMdev] How to know if an instruction is "usable"

[Giacomo Tagliabue]

Thanks! I checked that module. If I use dominates(const Instruction
*Def,const Instruction *User) it will automatically check everything, so I
don't have to handle the case with instructions in the same BB, right?
Thanks,
GT


On 25 April 2013 12:17, Krzysztof Parzyszek <kparzysz at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> On 4/25/2013 12:06 PM, Giacomo Tagliabue wrote:
>
>> Thanks,
>> So, how do I check if a block dominates another one?
>>
>
> In IR use analysis DominatorTree from "include/llvm/Analysis/**Dominators.h".
>  For machine instructions, use MachineDominatorTree
> from "include/llvm/CodeGen/**MachineDominators.h".
>
> Both of them implement function "dominates" that takes two blocks
> (BasicBlock* or MachineBasicBlock*) and returns a boolean value indicating
> whether one dominates the other.  A block will always dominate itself, so
> this case needs to be handled separately to determine relative position
> between the def and the use instruction.
>
>
> -Krzysztof
>
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