[LLVMdev] indirect calls tracking and control flow graph

[Petsas Athanasios]

Thank you! I 'll check this out too.


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:30 PM, John Criswell <criswell at illinois.edu>wrote:

>  Dear Petsas,
>
> For analyzing indirect function calls, your best bet is probably to use
> the CallGraph analysis pass that is part of DSA.  DSA is included in the
> poolalloc code; you can get directions on downloading poolalloc from the
> SVA web page: http://sva.cs.illinois.edu/docs/Install.html.
>
> The release_32 branch works with LLVM 3.2.  I think mainline poolalloc was
> recently updated to work with LLVM 3.4.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Criswell
>
>
>
> On 4/28/14 8:10 AM, Petsas Athanasios wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>  I would like to keep track of all the indirect calls that may caused from
> function
>  pointers inside a program. I need this in order to be able to construct
> the control
>  flow graph of all the indirect calls, that is which function is legal to
> call another
>  function.
>
>  Is there a module that implements this functionality in llvm? If not, is
> there a way to
> do it? Maybe through implementing a pass. I am new to llvm. Could you
> suggest me
>  a way to start doing this? Perhaps the llvm intermediate code can help
> me on this.
>  Do you know where this code is being produced? or what files or passes
> do I have
>  to modify for this?
>
>  Until now I have used this command to produce and study the llvm bitcode
> for a test
> program:
> clang -S -emit-llvm fpointers.c -c -o fpointers.bc.text
>
>  Thank you,
>
>   --
> Thanasis Petsas
> Distributed Computing Systems (DCS)
> Institute of Computer Science (ICS/FORTH)
> Heraklion, Crete
> Greece (GR)
>
> http://www.thanasispetsas.com/
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