[llvm-dev] distinguish program and temporary variables

[Mohammad Norouzi via llvm-dev]

thanks for your time and reply.


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> Look at the Doxygen documentation on the LLVM web site for documentation
> on the Value and Instruction classes.  They probably have methods for
> retrieving the Debug Metadata (and if they don't, one of their
> subclasses/superclasses does).  You can search through the LLVM source code
> for examples as well, plus I think there's a document that describes the
> format of the LLVM Debug Metadata on the LLVM web page.
>
>
what about DILocalVariable class? do you think it would provide any info
about the case?

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>> It sounds like you need to be analyzing Clang ASTs instead of LLVM IR.
>> The Clang AST represents a program in its original source form, so you can
>> tell what is a program variable, in what file it was defined, its original
>> source type, etc.
>>
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> I'm not sure about Clang ASTs but this is part of an llvm pass which
> analyzes llvm IR. So, i doubt if i can use Clang AST.
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> Why are you restricted to using LLVM IR?
>

I'm working on some part of a project. The whole project works on llvm ir.

Best,
Mohammad

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