[LLVMdev] (GEP) Index validity

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> Regardless of any limitations posed by a GEP instruction, I
> argue that "i8 2" is a perfectly valid index for a struct.

Why?  What value does that provide?  Struct indices are not allowed to  
be variable, so picking any width constant (that isn't too small) is  
fine.  What problem are you trying to solve here?

-Chris