[LLVMdev] build a machine instruction by itself

[Jakob Stoklund Olesen]

On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Reed Kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:

> I want to have some functions that create machine instructions, not specifying which machine function or basic block or iterator they are part of.

All machine instructions must be created by a machine function. It provides the context for memory allocation etc.

> And then I want to use that result when adding that instruction to a basic block.
> 
> I'm pretty sure you can do this but we have not done this in the Mips port so far. We just use instruction builder.
> 
> Anyone know how to do this best, or can point me to some code where this is done?

Did you look at BuildMI?

/jakob