<div dir="ltr">All,<br><br>I am building my own language with llvm as the base.<br><br>I was working on string concatenation (where a string is just an array of characters cast to a pointer to a character (i8*) ). Given two strings, it is possible to determine the length of new string by summing the number of characters until the null terminator and adding one.<br>
<br>Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use the c-api to store this. As the length of the new string is not a compile-time constant (e.g. stored in a Value*), I cannot determine at compile-time what length the llvm array-type will be? Therefore, I cannot create the GlobalVariable since I do not know the type.<br>
<br>One possible solution I thought of was linking to the malloc function and calling that, but I'm sure there's a better way. If any of you have implemented a similar sort of string concatenation, I would much appreciate any advice that you could give.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Billy</div>