(*===-- llvm_bitreader.mli - LLVM OCaml Interface -------------*- OCaml -*-===*
 *
 *                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
 *
 * This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
 * License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
 *
 *===----------------------------------------------------------------------===*)

(** Bitcode reader.

    This interface provides an OCaml API for the LLVM bitcode reader, the
    classes in the Bitreader library. *)

exception Error of string

(** [get_module context mb] reads the bitcode for a new module [m] from the
    memory buffer [mb] in the context [context].  Returns [m] if successful, or
    raises [Error msg] otherwise, where [msg] is a description of the error
    encountered. See the function [llvm::getBitcodeModule]. *)
val get_module : Llvm.llcontext -> Llvm.llmemorybuffer -> Llvm.llmodule

(** [parse_bitcode context mb] parses the bitcode for a new module [m] from the
    memory buffer [mb] in the context [context]. Returns [m] if successful, or
    raises [Error msg] otherwise, where [msg] is a description of the error
    encountered. See the function [llvm::ParseBitcodeFile]. *)
val parse_bitcode : Llvm.llcontext -> Llvm.llmemorybuffer -> Llvm.llmodule