LLVM Essentials

Emitting LLVM IR for loop

Similar to the if-else statement, loops can also be emitted using LLVM API's, with slight modification of the code. For example, we want to have LLVM IR for the following Loops:

for(i=1; i< b; i++)  {body}

The loop has induction variable i, which has some initial value that updates after each iteration. The induction variable is updated after each iteration by a step value that is 1 in the preceding example. Then there is a loop ending condition. In the preceding example, 'i=1' is the initial value, 'i<b' is the end condition of the loop, and 'i++' is the step value by which the induction variable 'i' is incremented after every iteration of the loop.

Before writing a function to create a loop, some Value and BasicBlock need ...