Hello,
Inside my ModulePass I would like to insert an MPX bounds check instruction. As far as I know, this is not yet supported by LLVM (please tell me if I am mistaken).
I’m creating my bounds check instruction with InLineAsm::get(). My question has to do with the hasSideEffects argument of that function.
I’m not that familiar with instruction selection and the backends, but from looking around I think hasSideEffects=True causes a memory fence.
The bounds check instruction doesn’t modify any registers or memory so I would like to try to avoid this. However, when I changed it to hasSideEffects=false one of my bounds check instructions was removed. I verified this by inspecting the resulting binary with both hasSideEffects=false and hasSideEffect=true.
How can I insert an InLineAsm that definitely won’t be removed and does not cause a memory fence? Or is there a better way? Alternate suggestions or ideas for creating the MPX bounds checks are also welcome.
Thank you,
Scott A Carr
PhD Candidate
Purdue University