[LLVMdev] LLVM Instruction to ICmpInst conversion

[Alexandru Ionut Diaconescu]

Hello !

I want some piece of advice regarding a LLVM pass. My particular problem is:

There is a method

bool patternDC::runOnFunction(Function &F) {
...
    if ( CC->operEquiv(icmpInstrArray[i], icmpInstrArray[j]) ) {...}
...
}

having the array elements of type Instruction* :
http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Instruction.html

The called method is

bool ifChecker::operEquiv(Instruction *I1, Instruction *I2)
{
...
}

BUT I want to use the methods from class ICmpInst : clasa
http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1ICmpInst.html  inside operEquiv. I
cannot do something like

ICmpInst** II1 = dyn_cast<ICmpInst*>(I1);

(a kind of instanceOf() from Java), having casting compilation problems.

The ICmpInst class is defined at line 913 from
http://llvm.org/doxygen/Instructions_8h_source.html
The inheritance diagram is at
http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1ICmpInst.html

I want to use the ICmpInst methods for objects of type Instruction. The
methods are hard to copy/replicate. What solution I better to use to solve
this problem? Should I use visitor pattern (about which I don't know much) ?

Thank you for any suggestion !
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