[llvm-dev] What is relationship between Operator and Instruction?

[周书林 via llvm-dev]

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestions.
I have learnt the basic IR structures in simple programs, but not all the
objects could be generated. As I mentioned, about the Operators and
ConstantExprs. I only got GEPOperator objects from .bc of MySQL. So is
there any reference to learn about the relationship between those classes
in IR?

Sincerely,
Shulin

rahul utkoor <rahulutkoor4887 at gmail.com> 于2021年6月10日周四 下午5:25写道：

> Hello,
> Since you are starting to learn IR, I recommend you to start with one
> simple program, compile the program, genreate CFG and understand the
> hierarchy of types/operands/instructions.
> It helped me to understand the compilation pipeline in a quick way.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rahul Utkoor
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun, 2021, 2:08 pm 周书林 via llvm-dev, <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am learning the IR in LLVM and trying to do some analysis. Now I am
>> doing a dataflow analysis via the def-use chain provided by Users.
>>
>> In my opinion, the Users of a Value should be an instruction. However,
>> when I iterate the User of a Value, sometimes I get an Operator, like
>> GEPOperator, or an ConstantExpr.
>> I am quite confused about these situations. My question is, what is
>> Operator in IR? and what is the difference between Operator and
>> Instruction? Why can I get a GEPOperator as an Operand in a instruction
>> rather than two instruction( a gep instruction and the next User
>> instruction) ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Shulin
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