In my project work, I have been working on developing a language server to perform static analysis on the C/C++ source code. This process requires LLVM-IR which is analysed to perform static analysis checks. I have been using the below command to generate the LLVM-IR code for my C/C++ program. Which is hard coded and called via system() command.
clang -O3 -emit-llvm hello.c -c -o hello.bc.
This above usage opens for security vulnerability, hence needs to be avoid. My current task is to use the C/C++ API provided by the LLVM infrastructure to convert source file to LLVM-IR in the standalone process.
Being new to the LLVM repository, I am finding hard to find the API usage and example program for the same. I would appreciate if anyone would help how to proceed in solving the problem.
Thanks in advance.