llvm dev - May 2014 - [LLVMdev] How to count the number of **LLVM** instructions executed dynamically

Hi,

I wanted to count the number of "*LLVM*" instruction executed
dynamically in
any program.

Have already tried "lli -stats -force-interpreter filename.bc", but
it's not
giving any information related to instruction count.

lli --version output:-
  LLVM version 3.4svn
  DEBUG build with assertions.
  Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  Host CPU: corei7




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Dear Abhinash,

You may need to build an instrumentation pass to do this. Fortunately, 
such a pass should be trivial to write.

1) Your pass instruments each basic block to update a counter in a 
global variable with the number of instructions found in that basic block.

2) You add a call to a run-time library function at the end of the 
main() function of the program that prints the value in the global variable.

This may not work with a program that exits from a signal handler, but 
you can make it more sophisticated if you need to do so (e.g., by using 
atexit()).

Regards,

John Criswell

On 5/23/14, 8:03 PM, Abhinash Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to count the number of "*LLVM*" instruction executed
dynamically in
> any program.
>
> Have already tried "lli -stats -force-interpreter filename.bc",
but it's not
> giving any information related to instruction count.
>
> lli --version output:-
>    LLVM version 3.4svn
>    DEBUG build with assertions.
>    Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>    Host CPU: corei7
>
>
>
>
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Hi John,

Thanks for your suggestion.

I'm just curious to know whether "lli -stats" also does the same
thing or
not?
Because I found on the internet that this command used to give dynamic
instruction count as a output, along with some other details. 
Unfortunately, In my version of lli (version 3.4), it gives all detail
except instruction counts.



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