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Does anyone know what the guidelines are supposed to be for properly initializing a pass? Looking around, we seem to have three styles of pass registration in use. INITIALIZE_PASS(...) INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(...) INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(...) ... INITIALIZE_PASS_END(...) static RegisterPass<FooPass> X(...); (This is the one encouraged in the docs, but seemingly the least widely used

Let me rephrase to make sure I understand. Once we have this settled, I'll update the comments in the file to summarize and possibly update the docs. On 08/21/2015 10:27 AM, Owen Anderson wrote: > The macro versions should be preferred, as they reduce static initializaters. Makes sense. But the tradeoff is that they need to be baked into the list of known passes so that someone knows to call them? So, if you have a pass which isn't part of LLVM itself, you should prefer RegisterPass? Seems to make sense. Is there also an implicit assumption here that a...