[LLVMdev] A newbie question about the class hierarchy

Reid Spencer reid at x10sys.com
Fri Apr 14 07:15:23 PDT 2006


Nia,

I improved the documentation with this patch:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-
Mon-20060410/034012.html
You can read it online, here:
http://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html#GlobalVariable

Please let me if you need further explanation in the documentation.

Reid.

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 18:19 +0800, Nai Xia wrote:
> Hi,
> I apologize if it is a rather stupid question, I am a newbie to LLVM.
> I notice a inconsistency between the current llvm1.6 doc and its source code.
> The doc states that the superclasses of GlobalVariable are GlobalValue, User, Value,
> however in the source code GlobalVariable has Constant as its super.
> I am just curious that why "variable" should be a subclass of "constant"? 
> 
> Regards,
> Nai
> 
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