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Hi,

I am trying to write a pass and add it into the LLVM optimizer so to insert functions for optimization before and after every function call.
For example, I create a test file test.c. There is a function f1() just printing out “Print f1”, which is called in the main function. That’s all the test.c do. Now I want to insert optimazation function opt_begin() before f1() and opt_end() after by adding the command line of my pass in the compilation option of llvm-gcc. Does anyone have any idea about how to implement this? I would really appreciate if anyone can help me out, since I was stuck by this question for really a long time.

Jian

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Dear Jian,

Can you be more specific about what you don’t understand? Do you not know how to write an LLVM pass that can be loaded into opt, or do you not understand the API that an LLVM pass uses to instrument code?

In any event, make sure to read . It describes how to write a skeleton LLVM pass. – John T. On 7/15/11 4:42 PM, Jian Cai wrote: