llvm dev - Nov 2016 - Annotate LLVM IR instruction to use later in a machine pass

Hello.
     How do you recommend to annotate an LLVM IR instruction with some info in a
middle-tier pass (namely LoopVectorize.cpp) that should be printed in the back
end, in a
MachineFunctionPass, etc?

     Basically, what I did so far is to create an InlineAsm instruction just
before the
respective LLVM IR instruction in order to transmit the extra-info to the back
end and
used [Target]InstrPrinter.cpp to retrieve this extra-info and print it
accordingly.

     This is not necessarily the best solution since we can have LLVM stores
that get
lowered to several machine instructions, like the following LLVM instruction:
         store <8 x i16> <i16 2, i16 2, i16 2, i16 2, i16 2, i16 2, i16
2, i16 2>, <8 x
i16>* inttoptr (i16 100 to <8 x i16>*)

   Thank you,
     Alex