On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Will Hawkins <wh...@virginia.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Will Hawkins <wh...@virginia.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 05/17/2017 10:36 AM, Will Hawkins wrote:
>>>> As I started looking into this, it seems like PLUGIN_FINISH is where
>>>> my plugin will go. Everything is great so far. However, when plugins
>>>> at that event are invoked, they get no data. That means I will have to
>>>> look into global structures for information regarding the compilation.
>>>> Are there pointers to the documentation that describe the relevant
>>>> global data structures that are accessible at this point?
>>>>
>>>> I am looking through the source code and documentation and can't find
>>>> what I am looking for. I am happy to continue working, but thought I'd
>>>> ask just in case I was missing something silly.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again for all your help getting me started on this!
>>> FOR_EACH_BB (bb) is what you're looking for. That will iterate over the
>>> basic blocks.
>>
>> Thank you so much for your response!
>>
>> I just found this as soon as you sent it. Sorry for wasting your time!
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Assuming you're running late, you'll then want to walk each insn within
>>> the bb. So something like this
>>>
>>> basic_block bb
>>> FOR_EACH_BB (bb)
>>> {
>>> rtx_insn *insn;
>>> FOR_BB_INSNS (bb, insn)
>>> {
>>> /* Do something with INSN. */
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> Note that if you're running too late the CFG may have been released, in
>>> which case this code wouldn't do anything.
>
> This macro seems to require that there be a valid cfun. This seems to
> imply that the macro will work only where the plugin callback is
> invoked before/after a pass that does some optimization for a
> particular function. In particular, at PLUGIN_FINISH, cfun is NULL.
> This makes perfect sense.
>
> Since PLUGIN_FINISH is the place where diagnostics are supposed to be
> printed, I was wondering if there was an equivalent iterator for all
> translation units (from which I could derive functions, from which I
> could derive basic blocks) that just "FINISH"ed compiling?
Answering my own question for historical purposes and anyone else who
might need this:
FOR_EACH_VEC_ELT(*all_translation_units, i, t)
is exactly what I was looking for!
Sorry for the earlier spam and thank you for your patience!
Will
>
> The other way to approach the problem, I suppose, is to just
> accumulate those stats at the end of each pass execution phase and
> then simply print them when PLUGIN_FINISH is invoked.
>
> I'm sorry to make this so difficult. I am just wondering about the way
> that the community expects the plugins to be written in the most
> modular fashion.
>
> Thanks again for walking me through all this!
> Will
>
>>
>> I will just have to experiment to see exactly when the right time to
>> invoke this plugin to get the best data.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> Will
>>
>>>
>>> jeff
