Hello,
I have some LLVM IR that are function definitions, and I would like to be able to obtain the machine code bytes literally of the body of the function of the LLVM IR. I know that because the LLVM IR statements may not one to one correspond to the machine code, and that’s ok. I just want to be able to have a function that is inline, so no arguments and no return type. And then I want to map that function to machine code bytes.
One way to do this would be to just compile the object and then disassemble it. I would like to not have to do this as I think it is dirty. So far, disassembler CLI interfaces are not really very interactive in allowing me to obtain what I need without reaching into them to use an internal API. I guess if I can’t do it with llvm MC, I will have to use capstone or something else.
In my LLVM API usage, I am able to compile down to object code. So I have a working pipeline, but I would have preferred to augment this pipeline to allow me to reach into the object programmatically. Originally, I would have liked to compile just into a buffer and then retrieve the bytes out. LLVM doesn’t make this accessible, as there are no plugins that run at machine code emission time.
I was wondering though if perhaps there is a way to pass assembler to LLVM MC and obtain the bytes that that assembler would produce. Because, then I can compile to assembler with my pipeline instead and then pass that to llvm mc.
Is there a way to do this with LLVM MC?