[LLVMdev] ValueSymbolTable's mutators are private?

[Samuel Crow]

Solved on IRC.  GlobalVariable can also be a constant if you specify a flag in 
its constructor.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Samuel Crow <samuraileumas at yahoo.com>
> To: Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>
> Cc: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Fri, July 9, 2010 3:18:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] ValueSymbolTable's mutators are private?
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I was thinking that CreateValueName() was the way to add a  symbol to a symbol 

> table.  Perhaps I'm thinking about this wrong.   Here's what I've got:
> 
> I've got a string generated by the parser which is  constant.  I need to add it 
>
> to the symbol table so that, on starting  the second pass of my compiler, I can 
>
> dump all of the string constants to be  generated as code.  I have a name, a 
>type 
>
> (ConstantStruct since the  length is stored internally to the structure), and 
>no 
>
> place to put it.   I thought that since the Module created by my compiler has a 
>
> symbol table, I  could generate it as a global.  I already have a 
>reverse-lookup 
>
> StringMap allocated to get the name on the second pass.  Should I just  make 
> another StringMap for all of my variable names and declared  constants?  That 
> seems to me what a symbol table is used for  though.
> 
> --Sam
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Chris  Lattner <clattner at apple.com>
> > To: Samuel  Crow <samuraileumas at yahoo.com>
> >  Cc: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> > Sent: Fri,  July 9, 2010 3:03:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] ValueSymbolTable's  mutators are private?
> > 
> > 
> > On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:02 PM,  Samuel Crow wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Why  are ValueSymbolTable's mutators all private?  I can't seem to  find a  
>way 
>
> >to 
> >
> > > add a symbol to the table without using one  of  them.  It looks like a bug 
>to 
>
> >me 
> >
> > >  since there is no way to use it  otherwise.
> > 
> > The mutators  are things like Value::setName()
> > 
> > -Chris
> 
> 
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