In this recipe, you will learn about LLVM's utility passes. As the name signifies, they are of much utility to users who want to understand certain things about LLVM that are not easy to understand by going through code. We will look into two utility passes that represent the CFG of a program.
You need to build and install LLVM, and install the graphviz
tool. You can download graphviz
from http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php, or install it from your machine's package manager, if it is in the list of available packages.
Perform the following steps:
Write the test code required for running the utility passes. This test code consists of
if
blocks, it will create a new edge in the CFG:$ cat utility.ll declare double @foo() declare double @bar() define double @baz(double %x) { entry: %ifcond = fcmp one double %x, 0.000000e+00 br i1 %ifcond, label %then, label %else then: ; preds = %entry %calltmp = call double @foo() br label...