This is a prototype to access the IR from the components of the Clang Static Analyzer.
This involves architectural changes and there is a related discussion here on cfe-dev: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-August/066426.html.
There are many important and useful analyses in the LLVM layer that we can use during the path
sensitive analysis. Most notably, the "readnone" and "readonly" function
attributes which can be used to identify "pure" functions (those without side
effects). Here, I am using the pureness info from the IR to avoid invalidation
of any variables during conservative evaluation (when we evaluate a pure
function).
Aren't documentation comments in LLVM ///?