[LLVMdev] Fetching the functions in C files

[Eli Bendersky]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Amiir H. Ashouri <
> amirhossein.ashouri at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks Markus.
>>
>> Having llvm-as to turn the extracted function.bc file to .ll caused an
>> error saying:
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> llvm-as is for converting bitcode (.bc) to readable LLVM IR (.ll)
> llvm-dis is for the other direction
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I'm sorry, this is exactly reversed. Typo :)

llvm-dis is for .bc --> .ll
llvm-as is for .ll --> .bc


> Eli
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>> *llvm-as-3.4: function_bc:1:1: error: expected top-level entity*
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>> *BC! #AI29bEBB2I (some more binary)*
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>> This error is just the same error that I received while using
>> llvm-extract on a .c file (not .bc or .ll).
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>> Do I have to include other things in the command ? I mean generating a
>> function.ll without anything as header, Module ID, etc might be wrong.
>> right ?
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>> -Amir
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>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Markus Timpl <tima0900 at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> You can use llvm-dis to turn .bc files into .ll files.
>>> Am 22.10.2014 01:44 schrieb "Amir H. Ashouri" <
>>> amirhossein.ashouri at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the answer John.
>>>>
>>>> I checked the llvm-extract and it works, but my concern is if the
>>>> output of the extract could be saved as .ll instead of .bc. Sort of
>>>> human-readable format so that I can parse it. Otherwise, it is better to
>>>> parse the foo.ll file right away instead of using the extract tool.
>>>>
>>>> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Amir
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:02 PM, John Criswell <jtcriswel at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>  On 10/21/14, 5:27 PM, Amir H. Ashouri wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Just subscribed to the mailing list.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I was wondering how I am going to fetch each functions of a specific
>>>>> source code file (c/c++) using the LLVM framework. For instance, I would
>>>>> like to apply certain passes using llvm-opt on certain functions not the
>>>>> whole file.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I would appreciate any hints or idea leading me about the starting
>>>>> point.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You might be able to use the llvm-extract tool to pull out the
>>>>> functions you want into a separate bitcode file and then use opt to
>>>>> optimize them.  You'd then need to create a second bitcode file that
>>>>> contains the remaining functions (using llvm-extract again).  Finally,
>>>>> you'd take the optimized bitcode file and the bitcode file containing the
>>>>> other functions and link them together using clang and libLTO or the
>>>>> llvm-link tool.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> John Criswell
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>  -Amir
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> --
>>>>> John Criswell
>>>>> Assistant Professor
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