+ ...
+</pre></div>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="analysisgroup">Implementing Analysis Groups</a>
+</div>
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>Now that we understand the basics of how passes are defined, how they are
+used, and how they are required from other passes, it's time to get a little bit
+fancier. All of the pass relationships that we have seen so far are very
+simple: one pass depends on one other specific pass to be run before it can run.
+For many applications, this is great, for others, more flexibility is
+required.</p>
+
+<p>In particular, some analyses are defined such that there is a single simple
+interface to the analysis results, but multiple ways of calculating them.
+Consider alias analysis for example. The most trivial alias analysis returns
+"may alias" for any alias query. The most sophisticated analysis a
+flow-sensitive, context-sensitive interprocedural analysis that can take a
+significant amount of time to execute (and obviously, there is a lot of room
+between these two extremes for other implementations). To cleanly support
+situations like this, the LLVM Pass Infrastructure supports the notion of
+Analysis Groups.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ <a name="agconcepts">Analysis Group Concepts</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>An Analysis Group is a single simple interface that may be implemented by
+multiple different passes. Analysis Groups can be given human readable names
+just like passes, but unlike passes, they need not derive from the <tt>Pass</tt>
+class. An analysis group may have one or more implementations, one of which is
+the "default" implementation.</p>
+
+<p>Analysis groups are used by client passes just like other passes are: the
+<tt>AnalysisUsage::addRequired()</tt> and <tt>Pass::getAnalysis()</tt> methods.
+In order to resolve this requirement, the <a href="#passmanager">PassManager</a>
+scans the available passes to see if any implementations of the analysis group
+are available. If none is available, the default implementation is created for
+the pass to use. All standard rules for <A href="#interaction">interaction
+between passes</a> still apply.</p>
+
+<p>Although <a href="#registration">Pass Registration</a> is optional for normal
+passes, all analysis group implementations must be registered, and must use the
+<A href="#registerag"><tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt></a> template to join the
+implementation pool. Also, a default implementation of the interface
+<b>must</b> be registered with <A
+href="#registerag"><tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt></a>.</p>
+
+<p>As a concrete example of an Analysis Group in action, consider the <a
+href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a>
+analysis group. The default implementation of the alias analysis interface (the
+<tt><a
+href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structBasicAliasAnalysis.html">basicaa</a></tt>
+pass) just does a few simple checks that don't require significant analysis to
+compute (such as: two different globals can never alias each other, etc).
+Passes that use the <tt><a
+href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a></tt>
+interface (for example the <tt><a
+href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structGCSE.html">gcse</a></tt> pass), do
+not care which implementation of alias analysis is actually provided, they just
+use the designated interface.</p>
+
+<p>From the user's perspective, commands work just like normal. Issuing the
+command '<tt>opt -gcse ...</tt>' will cause the <tt>basicaa</tt> class to be
+instantiated and added to the pass sequence. Issuing the command '<tt>opt
+-somefancyaa -gcse ...</tt>' will cause the <tt>gcse</tt> pass to use the
+<tt>somefancyaa</tt> alias analysis (which doesn't actually exist, it's just a
+hypothetical example) instead.</p>
+
+</div>