Add helper for ultimate aliasee resoltion

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@48255 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp
index dae22e48ae..d66d351bc2 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include "llvm/GlobalAlias.h"
 #include "llvm/DerivedTypes.h"
 #include "llvm/Module.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/SmallPtrSet.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/LeakDetector.h"
 using namespace llvm;
 
@@ -230,3 +231,18 @@ const GlobalValue *GlobalAlias::getAliasedGlobal() const {
   return 0;
 }
 
+const GlobalValue *GlobalAlias::resolveAliasedGlobal() const {
+  SmallPtrSet<const GlobalValue*, 1> Visited;
+
+  const GlobalValue *GV = getAliasedGlobal();
+  Visited.insert(GV);
+
+  while (const GlobalAlias *GA = dyn_cast<GlobalAlias>(GV)) {
+    GV = GA->getAliasedGlobal();
+
+    if (!Visited.insert(GV))
+      return NULL;
+  }
+
+  return GV;
+}