From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:39:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add a new helper method.
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d25824e4ca45b7269aacaa92f02a5e9fa8a8e5c;p=oota-llvm.git

add a new helper method.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@26618 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp
index b6761a616cd..7c400aa515d 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp
@@ -222,6 +222,20 @@ GlobalVariable *Module::getGlobalVariable(const std::string &Name,
   return 0;
 }
 
+/// getNamedGlobal - Return the first global variable in the module with the
+/// specified name, of arbitrary type.  This method returns null if a global
+/// with the specified name is not found.
+///
+GlobalVariable *Module::getNamedGlobal(const std::string &Name) {
+  // FIXME: This would be much faster with a symbol table that doesn't
+  // discriminate based on type!
+  for (global_iterator I = global_begin(), E = global_end();
+       I != E; ++I)
+    if (I->getName() == Name) 
+      return I;
+  return 0;
+}
+
 
 
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