[LLVMdev] How to associate extra comments to a MachineInstruction ?

[Eric Christopher]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Jeroen Dobbelaere
<Jeroen.Dobbelaere at synopsys.com> wrote:
>> From: Eric Christopher
>> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] How to associate extra comments to a
>> MachineInstruction ?
>>
>> Should be spelled like this yes?
>>
>> Asm->OutStreamer.AddComment("foo")
>> Asm->EmitFoo();
>>
>> -eric
>
>
> That  should work at the moment that you are emitting the instructions.
>

Yep.

> But what would you do when you are manipulating a MachineBasicBlock and want to
> annotate some instructions there ? (way before the assembler jumps in)
> The annotation belongs to the instruction and other manipulations that are performed later (like reordering of instructions)
> should keep the annotation (iff the instruction itself is kept).
>

Not really a way to do it so far. There's a set of specific comments
to put on, but...

-eric

> Greetings,
>
> Jeroen
>
>>
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jeroen Dobbelaere
>> <Jeroen.Dobbelaere at synopsys.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > is there a convenient way to associate/add a comment to a
>> MachineInstruction, so that
>> > in the produced assembly file, the comment is added next to the
>> instruction ?
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > Jeroen Dobbelaere
>> >
>> >
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