similar to: [LLVMdev] GlobalValue type

Orgoton Baberek wrote: > I tried to get the Type for a global value, but it always returns me a > PointerType. This is ok, expect that I want to know what type is being pointed > at. How do I do this? > You can utilize the doxygen docs (http://llvm.org/doxygen/hierarchy.html) to find which methods of classes give you the information you want. For example, you can look up the

Hi all, An oddity that has existed for a long time in the IR is that PointerType derives from SequentialType. Per subject I propose to make PointerType derive from Type for a couple of reasons: - Values of type PointerType are unlike the other SequentialTypes (arrays and vectors) in that they do not hold values of the element type. By moving PointerType we can unify certain aspects of how the

Thanks David. I ended up trying this over the weekend (see https://github.com/llvm-project/llvm-project/compare/ master...pcc:pointertype). It ended up being a net reduction in code size so seems like a useful cleanup even independent of the typeless pointer work, I'll see if I can send a patch to the list. FWIW I think this directly helps towards the migration because we would have a clearer

Seems pretty plausible to me - my only question would be whether it's worth the churn to do this intermediate step before finishing off typeless pointers (granted, I've stalled out on that for nearly a year, admittedly - but good to have extra hands/incentives - there's still a fair bit of work to do though, so understandable if it might not be useful to block progress on other things

Hi, I was playing with the Constant::getAllOnesValue() method and found that it doesn't handlesPointerTypes correctly. When receiving a "i32*" argument, it was returning with some big integer vector, such as <12113216 x i32>. When you call this method passing a PointerType, the following code is executed: 00152 VectorType *VTy = cast<VectorType>(Ty);00153 return

Nick Lewycky <nicholas <at> mxc.ca> writes: > > Pedro Ferreira wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to write a LLVM backend for a school project using only > > custom code (as with the CBackend) and I'm having difficulties > > handling the PHI nodes from LLVM asm code. Is there any pass we can do > > before my custom Module Pass to

Hi John, I’d like to address some points in your message. > Practically speaking, this is going to break every out-of-tree frontend, backend, or optimization pass that supports SIMD types. My understanding is that the policy in LLVM development is that we do not let considerations for downstream and out-of-tree codebases affect the pace of development. The C++ API is explicitly unstable.

Hi, I am helping with the effort to implement scalable vectors in the codebase in order to add support for generating SVE code in the Arm backend. I would like to propose a refactor of the Type class hierarchy in order to eliminate issues related to the misuse of SequentialType::getNumElements(). I would like to introduce a new class FixedVectorType that inherits from

Hi Daniel, > Type *allocated_type = ptr_type->dereference(); // this is the > operation that doesn't seem to exist. Type *allocated_type = ptr_type->getElementType(); Ciao, Duncan.

I recently began hacking around with my first LLVM pass. The big picture is that I would like to insert function calls for each instruction type, and pass some parameters based on the instruction type. Then I will link the output to some C file that implements those functions. Things were going well until I started trying to make function calls with a pointer as a parameter. For example, I would

Hi all, I am working on my Master's project in security and I am trying to iterate over the argument list of the function. Basically I need to do following things : 1. Check data type of each argument of the argument list of the function. 2. Based on its data type like character array or integer array, pointer, int, char, take different action. 3. I have added following code to check its

Hi, I just wanted to give an update on the progress of this work. This morning I merged a patch to add the new vector types. I have added a FixedVectorType, as proposed below. I also added a ScalableVectorType. I found during my work that it is useful to be able to query isa<ScalableVectorType>(Ty). Additionally, I was concerned that it would become commonplace to take

Hi, I am a Mtech student at IIT,Bombay and presently studying llvm as a part of my Seminar work.Currently,i am writing a simple pass that would detect function pointer call,use and declarations in the src program. I could detect function pointer calls using the getCalledFunction(). However,i am stuck in identifying function pointer declaration and use. is there a way one can distinguish between

Dan Gohman wrote: > On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Hans Wennborg wrote: > >> Here is another change I'd like to suggest to the BasicAliasAnalysis. >> >> LLVM fails to remove the dead store in the following code: >> >> %t = type { i32 } >> >> define void @f(%t* noalias nocapture %stuff ) { >> %p = getelementptr inbounds %t* %stuff, i32 0,

Nicolai, My plan is to remove getNumElements() as soon as possible. Hopefully within the next few weeks. I just made a patch on my machine that marks it deprecated, and it generates a ton of warnings. Given that some build bots build with -Werror, I don't think we can mark it deprecated unless all the usages are first removed. It occurs to me now that it might be good to mark it

After discussing with Nick Lewycky in the IRC channel, here comes a less aggressive patch. We were worried that a constant pointer could alias with a GlobalValue. Also, if one pointer could be a GlobalValue and the other a GlobalAlias with the GlobalValue as aliasee. However, I was not able to produce a test where this happens wihout the getUnderlyingObject() returning the same value. It

On 2/25/13 1:44 PM, teja tamboli wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on my Master's project in security and I am trying to > iterate over the argument list of the function. Basically I need to do > following things : Interesting. Just out of curiosity, can you tell us what your project is about? > > 1. Check data type of each argument of the argument list of the

I am trying to parse LLVM IR from a bit code file. I went through the following steps. hello.cpp #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "Hello world!" << "\n"; return 0;} dump.cpp #include <llvm/IR/Module.h>#include <llvm/IRReader/IRReader.h>#include <llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h>#include <llvm/Support/SourceMgr.h> using

On Jan 16, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Talin wrote: > OK here's the patch for real this time :) > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Talin <viridia at gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a work in progress of the union patch. Note that the test > "union.ll" does not work, so you probably don't want to check this > in as is. However, I'd be interested in any

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith < dexonsmith at apple.com> wrote: > > On 2017-Apr-04, at 12:12, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:08 PM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote: >>