<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#general">General Information</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#stl">The C++ Standard Template Library</a><!--
- <li>The <tt>-time-passes</tt> option
- <li>How to use the LLVM Makefile system
- <li>How to write a regression test
---> </li>
+ <li><a href="#stl">The C++ Standard Template Library</a></li>
+<!--
+ <li>The <tt>-time-passes</tt> option</li>
+ <li>How to use the LLVM Makefile system</li>
+ <li>How to write a regression test</li>
+
+-->
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#apis">Important and useful LLVM APIs</a>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#Statistic">The <tt>Statistic</tt> template & <tt>-stats</tt>
-option</a><!--
- <li>The <tt>InstVisitor</tt> template
- <li>The general graph API
---> </li>
+option</a></li>
+<!--
+ <li>The <tt>InstVisitor</tt> template
+ <li>The general graph API
+-->
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#common">Helpful Hints for Common Operations</a>
<li><a href="#schanges_replacing">Replacing an <tt>Instruction</tt>
with another <tt>Value</tt></a> </li>
</ul>
+ </li>
<!--
<li>Working with the Control Flow Graph
<ul>
<li>
<li>
</ul>
---> </li>
+-->
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#coreclasses">The Core LLVM Class Hierarchy Reference</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#Value">The <tt>Value</tt> class</a>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#User">The <tt>User</tt> class</a>
+ <li><a href="#Value">The <tt>Value</tt> class</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#Instruction">The <tt>Instruction</tt> class</a>
+ <li><a href="#User">The <tt>User</tt> class</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#GetElementPtrInst">The <tt>GetElementPtrInst</tt>
- class</a></li>
- </ul></li>
- <li><a href="#Module">The <tt>Module</tt> class</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Constant">The <tt>Constant</tt> class</a>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#GlobalValue">The <tt>GlobalValue</tt> class</a>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#BasicBlock">The <tt>BasicBlock</tt>class</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Function">The <tt>Function</tt> class</a></li>
- <li><a href="#GlobalVariable">The <tt>GlobalVariable</tt> class
- </a></li>
- </ul></li>
+ <li><a href="#Instruction">The <tt>Instruction</tt> class</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#GetElementPtrInst">The <tt>GetElementPtrInst</tt> class</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#Module">The <tt>Module</tt> class</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Constant">The <tt>Constant</tt> class</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#GlobalValue">The <tt>GlobalValue</tt> class</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#BasicBlock">The <tt>BasicBlock</tt>class</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Function">The <tt>Function</tt> class</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#GlobalVariable">The <tt>GlobalVariable</tt> class</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#Type">The <tt>Type</tt> class</a> </li>
<li><a href="#Argument">The <tt>Argument</tt> class</a></li>
- </ul></li>
- </ul></li>
- <li><a href="#SymbolTable">The <tt>SymbolTable</tt> class </a></li>
- <li>The <tt>ilist</tt> and <tt>iplist</tt> classes
- <ul>
- <li>Creating, inserting, moving and deleting from LLVM lists </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>Important iterator invalidation semantics to be aware of.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#SymbolTable">The <tt>SymbolTable</tt> class </a></li>
+ <li>The <tt>ilist</tt> and <tt>iplist</tt> classes
+ <ul>
+ <li>Creating, inserting, moving and deleting from LLVM lists </li>
+ </ul>
</li>
+ <li>Important iterator invalidation semantics to be aware of.</li>
</ol>
<div class="doc_author">
<li><a href="http://www.research.att.com/%7Ebs/C++.html">Bjarne Stroustrup's C++
Page</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.linux.com.cn/Bruce_Eckel/TICPPv2/Contents.htm">
+<li><a href="http://64.78.49.204/">
Bruce Eckel's Thinking in C++, 2nd ed. Volume 2 Revision 4.0 (even better, get
the book).</a></li>
<p>This function replaces all uses (within a basic block) of a given
instruction with a value, and then removes the original instruction. The
following example illustrates the replacement of the result of a particular
- <tt>AllocaInst</tt> that allocates memory for a single integer with an null
+ <tt>AllocaInst</tt> that allocates memory for a single integer with a null
pointer to an integer.</p>
<pre>AllocaInst* instToReplace = ...;<br>BasicBlock::iterator ii(instToReplace);<br>ReplaceInstWithValue(instToReplace->getParent()->getInstList(), ii,<br> Constant::getNullValue(PointerType::get(Type::IntTy)));<br></pre></li>
<li><tt>User::op_iterator</tt> - Typedef for iterator over the operand
list<br>
- <tt>User::op_const_iterator</tt> <tt>use_iterator op_begin()</tt> -
-Get an iterator to the start of the operand list.<br>
- <tt>use_iterator op_end()</tt> - Get an iterator to the end of the
+ <tt>op_iterator op_begin()</tt> - Get an iterator to the start of
+the operand list.<br>
+ <tt>op_iterator op_end()</tt> - Get an iterator to the end of the
operand list.
<p> Together, these methods make up the iterator based interface to
the operands of a <tt>User</tt>.</p></li>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
<div class="doc_subsubsection">
- <a name="m_Value">Important Public Methods</a>
+ <a name="m_Constant">Important Public Methods</a>
</div>
-
<div class="doc_text">
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">Important Subclasses of Constant </div>
+<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
- <hr> Important Subclasses of Constant
- <p> </p>
+ <li>ConstantSInt : This subclass of Constant represents a signed integer
+ constant.
<ul>
- <li>ConstantSInt : This subclass of Constant represents a signed
-integer constant.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>int64_t getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
-this constant. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>ConstantUInt : This class represents an unsigned integer.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>uint64_t getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value
-of this constant. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>ConstantFP : This class represents a floating point constant.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>double getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
-this constant. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>ConstantBool : This represents a boolean constant.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>bool getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
-this constant. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>ConstantArray : This represents a constant array.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>const std::vector<Use> &getValues() const</tt>:
-Returns a Vecotr of component constants that makeup this array. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>ConstantStruct : This represents a constant struct.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>const std::vector<Use> &getValues() const</tt>:
-Returns a Vecotr of component constants that makeup this array. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>GlobalValue : This represents either a global variable or a
- function. In either case, the value is a constant fixed address
- (after linking).
- </li>
+ <li><tt>int64_t getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
+ this constant. </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>ConstantUInt : This class represents an unsigned integer.
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>uint64_t getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
+ this constant. </li>
</ul>
</li>
+ <li>ConstantFP : This class represents a floating point constant.
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>double getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
+ this constant. </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>ConstantBool : This represents a boolean constant.
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>bool getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of this
+ constant. </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>ConstantArray : This represents a constant array.
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>const std::vector<Use> &getValues() const</tt>: Returns
+ a vector of component constants that makeup this array. </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>ConstantStruct : This represents a constant struct.
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>const std::vector<Use> &getValues() const</tt>: Returns
+ a vector of component constants that makeup this array. </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>GlobalValue : This represents either a global variable or a function. In
+ either case, the value is a constant fixed address (after linking).
+ </li>
</ul>
</div>
<li><tt>isLosslesslyConvertableTo (const Type *Ty) const</tt>: Return true if
this type can be converted to 'Ty' without any reinterpretation of bits. For
example, uint to int or one pointer type to another.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
-<br>
- <p>Derived Types</p>
-
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ <a name="m_Value">Important Derived Types</a>
+</div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+<ul>
+ <li>SequentialType : This is subclassed by ArrayType and PointerType
<ul>
- <li>SequentialType : This is subclassed by ArrayType and PointerType
- <ul>
- <li><tt>const Type * getElementType() const</tt>: Returns the type of
-each of the elements in the sequential type. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>ArrayType : This is a subclass of SequentialType and defines
-interface for array types.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>unsigned getNumElements() const</tt>: Returns the number of
-elements in the array. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>PointerType : Subclass of SequentialType for pointer types. </li>
- <li>StructType : subclass of DerivedTypes for struct types </li>
- <li>FunctionType : subclass of DerivedTypes for function types.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>bool isVarArg() const</tt>: Returns true if its a vararg
- function</li>
- <li><tt> const Type * getReturnType() const</tt>: Returns the
- return type of the function.</li>
- <li><tt>const Type * getParamType (unsigned i)</tt>: Returns
- the type of the ith parameter.</li>
- <li><tt> const unsigned getNumParams() const</tt>: Returns the
- number of formal parameters.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
+ <li><tt>const Type * getElementType() const</tt>: Returns the type of each
+ of the elements in the sequential type. </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>ArrayType : This is a subclass of SequentialType and defines interface for
+ array types.
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>unsigned getNumElements() const</tt>: Returns the number of
+ elements in the array. </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>PointerType : Subclass of SequentialType for pointer types. </li>
+ <li>StructType : subclass of DerivedTypes for struct types </li>
+ <li>FunctionType : subclass of DerivedTypes for function types.
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>bool isVarArg() const</tt>: Returns true if its a vararg
+ function</li>
+ <li><tt> const Type * getReturnType() const</tt>: Returns the
+ return type of the function.</li>
+ <li><tt>const Type * getParamType (unsigned i)</tt>: Returns
+ the type of the ith parameter.</li>
+ <li><tt> const unsigned getNumParams() const</tt>: Returns the
+ number of formal parameters.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
-
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_text">
<p>This subclass of Value defines the interface for incoming formal
-arguments to a function. A Function maitanis a list of its formal
+arguments to a function. A Function maintains a list of its formal
arguments. An argument has a pointer to the parent Function.</p>
</div>
the beginning or end of the sequence for both const and non-const. It is
important to keep track of the different kinds of iterators. There are
three idioms worth pointing out:</p>
-<table class="doc_table">
+<table>
<tr><th>Units</th><th>Iterator</th><th>Idiom</th></tr>
<tr>
- <td>Planes Of name/Value maps</td><td>PI</td>
- <td><tt><pre>
+ <td align="left">Planes Of name/Value maps</td><td>PI</td>
+ <td align="left"><pre><tt>
for (SymbolTable::plane_const_iterator PI = ST.plane_begin(),
-PE = ST.plane_end(); PI != PE; ++PI ) {
+ PE = ST.plane_end(); PI != PE; ++PI ) {
PI->first // This is the Type* of the plane
PI->second // This is the SymbolTable::ValueMap of name/Value pairs
- </pre></tt></td>
+ </tt></pre></td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>All name/Type Pairs</td><td>TI</td>
- <td><tt><pre>
+ <td align="left">All name/Type Pairs</td><td>TI</td>
+ <td align="left"><pre><tt>
for (SymbolTable::type_const_iterator TI = ST.type_begin(),
TE = ST.type_end(); TI != TE; ++TI )
TI->first // This is the name of the type
TI->second // This is the Type* value associated with the name
- </pre></tt></td>
+ </tt></pre></td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>name/Value pairs in a plane</td><td>VI</td>
- <td><tt><pre>
+ <td align="left">name/Value pairs in a plane</td><td>VI</td>
+ <td align="left"><pre><tt>
for (SymbolTable::value_const_iterator VI = ST.value_begin(SomeType),
VE = ST.value_end(SomeType); VI != VE; ++VI )
VI->first // This is the name of the Value
VI->second // This is the Value* value associated with the name
- </pre></tt></td>
+ </tt></pre></td>
</tr>
</table>
+
<p>Using the recommended iterator names and idioms will help you avoid
making mistakes. Of particular note, make sure that whenever you use
value_begin(SomeType) that you always compare the resulting iterator
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