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      1 //===- Passes.h - Parsing, selection, and running of passes -----*- C++ -*-===//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 /// \file
     10 ///
     11 /// Interfaces for producing common pass manager configurations and parsing
     12 /// textual pass specifications.
     13 ///
     14 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     15 
     16 #ifndef LLVM_TOOLS_OPT_PASSES_H
     17 #define LLVM_TOOLS_OPT_PASSES_H
     18 
     19 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
     20 
     21 namespace llvm {
     22 class ModulePassManager;
     23 
     24 /// \brief Parse a textual pass pipeline description into a \c ModulePassManager.
     25 ///
     26 /// The format of the textual pass pipeline description looks something like:
     27 ///
     28 ///   module(function(instcombine,sroa),dce,cgscc(inliner,function(...)),...)
     29 ///
     30 /// Pass managers have ()s describing the nest structure of passes. All passes
     31 /// are comma separated. As a special shortcut, if the very first pass is not
     32 /// a module pass (as a module pass manager is), this will automatically form
     33 /// the shortest stack of pass managers that allow inserting that first pass.
     34 /// So, assuming function passes 'fpassN', CGSCC passes 'cgpassN', and loop passes
     35 /// 'lpassN', all of these are valid:
     36 ///
     37 ///   fpass1,fpass2,fpass3
     38 ///   cgpass1,cgpass2,cgpass3
     39 ///   lpass1,lpass2,lpass3
     40 ///
     41 /// And they are equivalent to the following (resp.):
     42 ///
     43 ///   module(function(fpass1,fpass2,fpass3))
     44 ///   module(cgscc(cgpass1,cgpass2,cgpass3))
     45 ///   module(function(loop(lpass1,lpass2,lpass3)))
     46 ///
     47 /// This shortcut is especially useful for debugging and testing small pass
     48 /// combinations. Note that these shortcuts don't introduce any other magic. If
     49 /// the sequence of passes aren't all the exact same kind of pass, it will be
     50 /// an error. You cannot mix different levels implicitly, you must explicitly
     51 /// form a pass manager in which to nest passes.
     52 bool parsePassPipeline(ModulePassManager &MPM, StringRef PipelineText,
     53                        bool VerifyEachPass = true);
     54 
     55 }
     56 
     57 #endif
     58