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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 |
commit | d0713f94af4d2dbd97ab251a43e3d290a13e860e (patch) | |
tree | 7dce19d408bfdbfbd5c7fc764dc156c400d403d4 | |
parent | e0a54f88a0d8b8d68b2b9d44b0eb5e234e0cac74 (diff) | |
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Add a new BasicBlockPass::doInitialization/Finalization(Function &) pair of
methods that may be useful for BasicBlockPasses.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@3689 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
-rw-r--r-- | docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html | 67 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/llvm/Pass.h | 27 |
2 files changed, 77 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html b/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html index 353fe6e..aee1663 100644 --- a/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html +++ b/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html @@ -25,13 +25,19 @@ </ul> <li><a href="#FunctionPass">The <tt>FunctionPass</tt> class</a> <ul> - <li><a href="#doInitialization">The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method</a> + <li><a href="#doInitialization_mod">The <tt>doInitialization(Module + &)</tt> method</a> <li><a href="#runOnFunction">The <tt>runOnFunction</tt> method</a> - <li><a href="#doFinalization">The <tt>doFinalization</tt> method</a> + <li><a href="#doFinalization_mod">The <tt>doFinalization(Module + &)</tt> method</a> </ul> <li><a href="#BasicBlockPass">The <tt>BasicBlockPass</tt> class</a> <ul> + <li><a href="#doInitialization_fn">The <tt>doInitialization(Function + &)</tt> method</a> <li><a href="#runOnBasicBlock">The <tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt> method</a> + <li><a href="#doFinalization_fn">The <tt>doFinalization(Function + &)</tt> method</a> </ul> </ul> <li><a href="#registration">Pass Registration</a> @@ -424,8 +430,8 @@ may overload three virtual methods to do their work. All of these methods should return true if they modified the program, or false if they didn't.<p> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> -</ul><h4><a name="doInitialization"><hr size=0>The <tt>doInitialization</tt> -method</h4><ul> +</ul><h4><a name="doInitialization_mod"><hr size=0>The +<tt>doInitialization(Module &)</tt> method</h4><ul> <pre> <b>virtual bool</b> doInitialization(Module &M); @@ -433,10 +439,11 @@ method</h4><ul> The <tt>doIninitialize</tt> method is allowed to do most of the things that <tt>FunctionPass</tt>'s are not allowed to do. They can add and remove -functions, get pointers to functions, etc. The <tt>doInitialize</tt> method is -designed to do simple initialization type of stuff that does not depend on the -functions being processed. The <tt>doInitialization</tt> function call is not -scheduled to overlap with any other pass executions.<p> +functions, get pointers to functions, etc. The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method +is designed to do simple initialization type of stuff that does not depend on +the functions being processed. The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method call is not +scheduled to overlap with any other pass executions (thus it should be very +fast).<p> A good example of how this method should be used is the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/LowerAllocations_8cpp-source.html">LowerAllocations</a> @@ -457,7 +464,7 @@ transformation or analysis work of your pass. As usual, a true value should be returned if the function is modified.<p> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> -</ul><h4><a name="doFinalization"><hr size=0>The <tt>doFinalization</tt> method</h4><ul> +</ul><h4><a name="doFinalization_mod"><hr size=0>The <tt>doFinalization(Module &)</tt> method</h4><ul> <pre> <b>virtual bool</b> doFinalization(Module &M); @@ -493,10 +500,26 @@ As such, they are <b>not</b> allowed to do any of the following:<p> <tt>BasicBlockPass</tt>'s are useful for traditional local and "peephole" optimizations. They may override the same <a -href="#doInitialization"><tt>doInitialization</tt></a> and <a -href="#doFinalization"><tt>doFinalization</tt></a> methods that <a -href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>'s have, but also have a -<tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt> method:<p> +href="#doInitialization_mod"><tt>doInitialization(Module &)</tt></a> and <a +href="#doFinalization_mod"><tt>doFinalization(Module &)</tt></a> methods that <a +href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>'s have, but also have the following virtual methods that may also be implemented:<p> + +<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> +</ul><h4><a name="doInitialization_fn"><hr size=0>The +<tt>doInitialization(Function &)</tt> method</h4><ul> + +<pre> + <b>virtual bool</b> doInitialization(Function &F); +</pre><p> + +The <tt>doIninitialize</tt> method is allowed to do most of the things that +<tt>BasicBlockPass</tt>'s are not allowed to do, but that +<tt>FunctionPass</tt>'s can. The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method is designed +to do simple initialization type of stuff that does not depend on the +BasicBlocks being processed. The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method call is not +scheduled to overlap with any other pass executions (thus it should be very +fast).<p> + <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> </ul><h4><a name="runOnBasicBlock"><hr size=0>The <tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt> method</h4><ul> @@ -511,6 +534,22 @@ parameter, and are not allowed to modify the CFG. A true value must be returned if the basic block is modified.<p> +<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> +</ul><h4><a name="doFinalization_fn"><hr size=0>The <tt>doFinalization(Function +&)</tt> method</h4><ul> + +<pre> + <b>virtual bool</b> doFinalization(Function &F); +</pre</p> + +The <tt>doFinalization</tt> method is an infrequently used method that is called +when the pass framework has finished calling <a +href="#runOnBasicBlock"><tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt></a> for every BasicBlock in the +program being compiled. This can be used to perform per-function +finalization.<p> + + + <!-- *********************************************************************** --> </ul><table width="100%" bgcolor="#330077" border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0> <tr><td align=center><font color="#EEEEFF" size=+2 face="Georgia,Palatino"><b> @@ -1164,6 +1203,6 @@ href="#Pass"><tt>Pass</tt></a>, only the other way around.<p> <address><a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></address> <!-- Created: Tue Aug 6 15:00:33 CDT 2002 --> <!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Thu Sep 5 15:06:01 CDT 2002 +Last modified: Thu Sep 12 11:46:40 CDT 2002 <!-- hhmts end --> </font></body></html> diff --git a/include/llvm/Pass.h b/include/llvm/Pass.h index cdd0030..d2cbb7e 100644 --- a/include/llvm/Pass.h +++ b/include/llvm/Pass.h @@ -250,15 +250,36 @@ private: /// 3. Optimizations conform to all of the contstraints of FunctionPass's. /// struct BasicBlockPass : public FunctionPass { + /// doInitialization - Virtual method overridden by subclasses to do + /// any neccesary per-module initialization. + /// + virtual bool doInitialization(Module &M) { return false; } + + /// doInitialization - Virtual method overridden by BasicBlockPass subclasses + /// to do any neccesary per-function initialization. + /// + virtual bool doInitialization(Function &F) { return false; } + /// runOnBasicBlock - Virtual method overriden by subclasses to do the /// per-basicblock processing of the pass. /// virtual bool runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB) = 0; - /// To run this pass on a function, we simply call runOnBasicBlock once for - /// each function. + /// doFinalization - Virtual method overriden by BasicBlockPass subclasses to + /// do any post processing needed after all passes have run. /// - virtual bool runOnFunction(Function &F); + virtual bool doFinalization(Function &F) { return false; } + + /// doFinalization - Virtual method overriden by subclasses to do any post + /// processing needed after all passes have run. + /// + virtual bool doFinalization(Module &M) { return false; } + + + // To run this pass on a function, we simply call runOnBasicBlock once for + // each function. + // + bool runOnFunction(Function &F); /// To run directly on the basic block, we initialize, runOnBasicBlock, then /// finalize. |