[llvm-dev] Potential ambiguity in the grammar of LLVM IR assembly

Manuel Jacob via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed May 25 18:59:00 PDT 2016


On 2016-05-26 02:42, Tim Northover via llvm-dev wrote:
> On 25 May 2016 at 16:10, Robin Eklind via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> declare void @foo() unnamed_addr
>> global i32 42
> 
> Doesn't a global have to be named? The syntax in the IR reference
> doesn't make it optional:
> 
>     @<GlobalVarName> = [Linkage] [Visibility] [DLLStorageClass]
> [ThreadLocal] ...

That was changed quite recently: 
http://reviews.llvm.org/rL269096#c4361726

I guess that means that the grammar is not ambiguous here anymore (if it 
was before).

-Manuel

> Cheers.
> 
> Tim.
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