[LLVMdev] Creating a global variable in JIT context

[Victor Zverovich]

Do you use load to get the value of V? If not then you probably return i32*
instead of i32.

Victor

On 16 February 2010 11:26, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to create a global variable initialized to zero, and return
> its value from a newly created function, in JIT context. I'm keeping
> all types as i32 for the moment, and I only have the one module
> object.
>
> This is the code I have for creating the global variable:
>
>        const Type *type = Type::getInt32Ty(getGlobalContext());
> //      Constant *zerov = Constant::getNullValue(type);
>        Constant *zerov = Constant::getIntegerValue(type, APInt(32, 0));
>        V = new GlobalVariable(getGlobalContext(), type, 0,
> GlobalValue::PrivateLinkage, zerov, name);
>
> And these are the error messages given by verifyFunction:
>
> Function return type does not match operand type of return inst!
>  ret i32* @x i32Referencing global in another module!
>  ret i32* @xBroken module found, compilation aborted!
>
> Any idea of what I might be doing wrong? Is this the right way to be
> going about it in the first place?
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