[LLVMdev] Re: global variable

[Chris Lattner]

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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Lan Bai wrote:

>> You probably want to pass Gv in as an argument to the call? I don't know 
>> what you're trying to do, so I can't help without more details.
>> 
>> No, Gv is not used as an argument to the call. The return value of the call 
>> is to be assigned to Gv. For example, I want
> %Gv = global uint0;
> %Gv = call my_func(Args);
>
> But now, I can only get:
> %Gv = global uint 0;
> %my_func = call %my_func(Args);

You need to emit a store instruction.  globals are memory, accessed with 
load/store instructions.  Try something like this:

V = new CallInst(...)
new StoreInst(V, GV);

-Chris

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