[llvm-dev] Is there a way to pass Optimization passes to clang?

[Phil Tomson via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:06 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk
> wrote:

> On 2 Dec 2015, at 19:00, Phil Tomson <phil.a.tomson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a feeling this would get rather tricky given that there are
> several libraries linked in to the final executable as well. It would have
> to look something like:
> >
> > clang -c file.c -emit-llvm > opt -... > llc ... > as > ld (libs to link
> in)
>
> You don’t need as (llc can emit .o files).


How do you get llc to emit a .o file (I seem to only be able to get it to
output a .s file)?


> Hopefully, your build system has different CC / CXX / LD values, so the
> final link is separate too.
>



>
> > Someone above mentioned modifying PassManagerBuilder and rebuilding
> clang - I'd guess there's a list of optimization passes performed somewhere
> that PassManagerBuilder references, but I haven't been in the optimization
> pass area of LLVM much yet. Any pointers on that approach?
>
> You can take a look in BackendUtil.cpp for how the passes are constructed
> for clang.  Note that it is quite complex and depends a lot on your
> language options...
>
> David
>
>
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