diff --git a/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html b/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html index 8374bfac671..b8ac9e91049 100644 --- a/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html +++ b/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html @@ -491,10 +491,15 @@ class is the most general of all superclasses that you can use. Deriving from ModulePass indicates that your pass uses the entire program as a unit, refering to function bodies in no predictable order, or adding and removing functions. Because nothing is known about the behavior of ModulePass -subclasses, no optimization can be done for their execution. A module pass -can use function level passes (e.g. dominators) using getAnalysis interface - getAnalysis<DominatorTree>(Function), if the function pass -does not require any module passes.

+subclasses, no optimization can be done for their execution.

+ +

A module pass can use function level passes (e.g. dominators) using +the getAnalysis interface +getAnalysis<DominatorTree>(llvm::Function *) to provide the +function to retrieve analysis result for, if the function pass does not require +any module passes. Note that this can only be done for functions for which the +analysis ran, e.g. in the case of dominators you should only ask for the +DominatorTree for function definitions, not declarations.

To write a correct ModulePass subclass, derive from ModulePass and overload the runOnModule method with the