StripDeadPrototypes.cpp

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//===-- StripDeadPrototypes.cpp - Remove unused function declarations ----===//
//
// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This pass loops over all of the functions in the input module, looking for
// dead declarations and removes them. Dead declarations are declarations of
// functions for which no implementation is available (i.e., declarations for
// unused library functions).
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
#include "llvm/Transforms/IPO/StripDeadPrototypes.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
 
using namespace llvm;
 
#define DEBUG_TYPE "strip-dead-prototypes"
 
STATISTIC(NumDeadPrototypes, "Number of dead prototypes removed");
 
static bool stripDeadPrototypes(Module &M) {
  bool MadeChange = false;
 
  // Erase dead function prototypes.
  for (Function &F : llvm::make_early_inc_range(M)) {
    // Function must be a prototype and unused.
    if (F.isDeclaration() && F.use_empty()) {
      F.eraseFromParent();
      ++NumDeadPrototypes;
      MadeChange = true;
    }
  }
 
  // Erase dead global var prototypes.
  for (GlobalVariable &GV : llvm::make_early_inc_range(M.globals())) {
    // Global must be a prototype and unused.
    if (GV.isDeclaration() && GV.use_empty())
      GV.eraseFromParent();
  }
 
  // Return an indication of whether we changed anything or not.
  return MadeChange;
}
 
PreservedAnalyses StripDeadPrototypesPass::run(Module &M,
                                               ModuleAnalysisManager &) {
  if (stripDeadPrototypes(M))
    return PreservedAnalyses::none();
  return PreservedAnalyses::all();
}