[LLVMdev] variable sized structs in LLVM

[Reid Spencer]

Yes, for that you need TargetData:

http://illuvium.net/docs/doxygen/classllvm_1_1TargetData.html

Reid.

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:08 +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> Hi Reid, 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:08 -0700, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > The thing you're missing is that LLVM's primitive types have well known,
> > fixed sizes that are not target dependent. A ulong is 8 bytes. A uint is
> > 4 bytes. A ushort is 2 bytes. Etc. and always.
> 
> Don't aligning rules make it hard to compute the size of a
> whole struct from the sizes of it's members? 
> And what about pointers? 
> 
> cheers, 
> 
>     holger
> 
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