[llvm-dev] How to get the address of a global variable in LLVM?

[Tim Northover via llvm-dev]

On 28 April 2017 at 14:32, Jonathan Roelofs via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> You need a load instruction since your function takes an i32, not an
> i32*.... A global's value in llvm is its address, not the numeric data it
> contains.

I suspect he actually wants to make his function take an "i8*" and
bitcast his pointer to that type before calling it. [*]

Tim.

[*] Keeping it as an i32/i64 and using ptrtoint instead of bitcast
would also work, but be less portable and elegant.