Add !callees metadata

This patch adds a new kind of metadata that indicates the possible callees of
indirect calls.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37354

llvm-svn: 315944

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/IR/MDBuilder.cpp b/llvm/lib/IR/MDBuilder.cpp
index 84bad318591..54783e884e9 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/IR/MDBuilder.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/IR/MDBuilder.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 #include "llvm/IR/MDBuilder.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Metadata.h"
 using namespace llvm;
 
@@ -95,6 +96,13 @@ MDNode *MDBuilder::createRange(Constant *Lo, Constant *Hi) {
   return MDNode::get(Context, {createConstant(Lo), createConstant(Hi)});
 }
 
+MDNode *MDBuilder::createCallees(ArrayRef<Function *> Callees) {
+  SmallVector<Metadata *, 4> Ops;
+  for (Function *F : Callees)
+    Ops.push_back(createConstant(F));
+  return MDNode::get(Context, Ops);
+}
+
 MDNode *MDBuilder::createAnonymousAARoot(StringRef Name, MDNode *Extra) {
   // To ensure uniqueness the root node is self-referential.
   auto Dummy = MDNode::getTemporary(Context, None);