[LLVMdev] Modifying Named Structure Types

[Joe Yan]

Is there a way of iterating through all the named types, or do I instead
need to make new named types as I encounter them?

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Joe Yan <jyan2 at umd.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to write a module pass that traverses through named structure
> > types defined and modifies the type of certain fields in these named
> types.
> > Is there any simple way of doing this? I am not quite sure how to get the
> > LLVMContext's pImpl working from a pass since LLVMContextImpl is
> > forward-declared.
>
> Mutating types is unsupported, and generally a bad idea.  Make a new
> named type, then replace all the values which use that type with
> values which use the new type.
>
> -Eli
>
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