[LLVMdev] Is it safe to insert instructions in batches into BBs?

[Marcello Maggioni]

Il 18/09/2013 03:40, Óscar Fuentes ha scritto:
> Marcello Maggioni <marcello at codeplay.com> writes:
>
>> I'm getting a very strange behaviour while adding already created
>> instructions in batches into basicblocks instead of creating and
>> inserting them immediately.
>>
>> Because I need to insert instructions in a certain specific order
>> inside multiple different BBs I found it easy to use the IRBuilder to
>> create instructions without inserting them into a BB, storing them
>> somewhere (vector, map ... etc) and later on inserting all of them in
>> one go into their positions in the BBs.
> [snip]
>> So , in the end, is it safe to add instructions like in the first
>> method I mentioned or actually the only safe way is to use the second
>> way? In case it should be safe, what could be the cause of the random
>> breakages?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marcello
>>
>> PS = Some of the instructions I'm adding are using one the output
>> value of the other.
> Does your module pass the verifier? (llvm::verifyModule)
>
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Yes, it does. I get no complaints by the module verifier, and the CFG at 
the IR level looks fine.

If I try to print the CFG at Machine level though in some occasions the 
graph is not shown (probably another one of the strange breakages I get 
together with the RegisterInfo one)

Marcello