[LLVMdev] Determing C Types

[Bill Wendling]

If what you're trying to do is use LLVM as a target-independent bitcode representation, you should be aware that it's not made for that purpose. In fact, it's specifically *not* target-independent, no matter what the types are.

For you initial question, you cannot map back from LLVM IR to C types, because the two have little to do with each other.

-bw

On Apr 16, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Ryan Taylor <ryta1203 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So what I would like to do is redefine the widths for the types, making the type widths more portable and less target dependent, is this possible within llvm?
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Ryan Taylor <ryta1203 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to determine the type of an arbitrary int? For example, find whether it is a char, short, int, long, long, etc?
> 
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