Hui Zhang
2015-Feb-02 16:32 UTC
[LLVMdev] question about the 3th and 4th arguments in the registration function
Hello,
I'm a little confused about the 3th and 4th arguments in the registration
function, explained here:
http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html
e.g
static RegisterPass<Hello> X("hello", "Hello World
Pass",
false /* Only looks at CFG */,
false /* Analysis Pass */);
"Lastly, we *register our class*
<http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html#writing-an-llvm-pass-registration>
Hello, giving it a command line argument “hello”, and a name “Hello World
Pass”. The last two arguments describe its behavior: if a pass walks CFG
without modifying it then the third argument is set to true; if a pass is
an analysis pass, for example dominator tree pass, then true is supplied as
the fourth argument."
In this simple "Hello" pass, it only look at all the functions and
print
out their name. So what's the difference between 3th and 4th argument here
??
And since Hello pass didn't modify the module but analized it(as I
understand), shouldn't both of them be true instead of false in the example
??
thanks
--
Best regards
Hui Zhang
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Hui Zhang
2015-Feb-03 19:03 UTC
[LLVMdev] question about the 3th and 4th arguments in the registration function
Is there anyone who can clear my confusion ? thanks ! On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Hui Zhang <wayne.huizhang at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > I'm a little confused about the 3th and 4th arguments in the registration > function, explained here: > http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html > > e.g > > static RegisterPass<Hello> X("hello", "Hello World Pass", > false /* Only looks at CFG */, > false /* Analysis Pass */); > > > "Lastly, we *register our class* > <http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html#writing-an-llvm-pass-registration> > Hello, giving it a command line argument “hello”, and a name “Hello World > Pass”. The last two arguments describe its behavior: if a pass walks CFG > without modifying it then the third argument is set to true; if a pass is > an analysis pass, for example dominator tree pass, then true is supplied > as the fourth argument." > > In this simple "Hello" pass, it only look at all the functions and print > out their name. So what's the difference between 3th and 4th argument here > ?? > > And since Hello pass didn't modify the module but analized it(as I > understand), shouldn't both of them be true instead of false in the example > ?? > > thanks > > -- > Best regards > > > Hui Zhang >-- Best regards Hui Zhang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20150203/8edd67dc/attachment.html>
John Criswell
2015-Feb-03 19:20 UTC
[LLVMdev] question about the 3th and 4th arguments in the registration function
On 2/3/15 2:03 PM, Hui Zhang wrote:> Is there anyone who can clear my confusion ?First, the Hello pass may not be setting the third and fourth arguments as it could be. Second, regarding their use, the third argument tells the LLVM PassManager that this pass never modifies a function's control-flow graph while the fourth argument indicates that the pass never modifies the LLVM IR at all. An analysis pass can (and probably should) set the third and fourth arguments to true. A transform (i.e., optimization) pass that never modifies the CFG, even though it may modify other parts of a function, can safely set the third argument to true and the fourth argument to false. The third and fourth arguments help the PassManager optimize pass scheduling. Many analysis passes rely on the CFG and must be rerun if it is altered. This is why the third argument exists; it tells the PassManager that the CFG is unmodified and that analysis passes using the CFG do not need to be invalidated. The fourth argument tells the PassManager that a pass never modifies the program at all and can be safely run with other analysis passes. In short, the arguments work exactly as described; the Hello example pass may not be setting them optimally, though. Regards, John Criswell> > thanks ! > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Hui Zhang <wayne.huizhang at gmail.com > <mailto:wayne.huizhang at gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a little confused about the 3th and 4th arguments in the > registration function, explained here: > http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html > > e.g > > static RegisterPass<Hello> X("hello", "Hello World Pass", > false /* Only looks at CFG */, > false /* Analysis Pass */); > > > "Lastly, we /register our class/ > <http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html#writing-an-llvm-pass-registration> > Hello, giving it a command line argument “hello”, and a name > “Hello World Pass”. The last two arguments describe its behavior: > if a pass walks CFG without modifying it then the third argument > is set to true; if a pass is an analysis pass, for example > dominator tree pass, then true is supplied as the fourth argument." > > In this simple "Hello" pass, it only look at all the functions and > print out their name. So what's the difference between 3th and 4th > argument here ?? > > And since Hello pass didn't modify the module but analized it(as I > understand), shouldn't both of them be true instead of false in > the example ?? > > thanks > > -- > Best regards > > > Hui Zhang > > > > > -- > Best regards > > > Hui Zhang > > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev-- John Criswell Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/criswell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20150203/00716018/attachment.html>