<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Lorin<br><br></div>You might want to take a look at the CreateGlobalStringPtr method in the IRBuilder class. It should allow you to insert the string and construct the appropriate GEP automatically.<br><br><a href="http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1IRBuilder.html#ab81bf85457770dc76f2e536f201db219">http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1IRBuilder.html#ab81bf85457770dc76f2e536f201db219</a><br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Snehasish<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Tim Northover via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Lorin,<br>
<br>
On 8 April 2017 at 05:18, Lorin Atzberger via llvm-dev<br>
<span class=""><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> return llvm::ConstantExpr::<wbr>getGetElementPtr(nullptr,c,<br>
> const_ptr_14_indices);<br>
<br>
</span>You need to be using the GlobalVariable as the base of the GEP, not<br>
the ConstantDataArray. Then since it's been initialized to the string<br>
you want, your GEP will pick up the first element of that string. The<br>
ConstantDataArray isn't a pointer (it's an [N x i8], notionally in<br>
registers).<br>
<br>
Cheers.<br>
<br>
Tim.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Snehasish Kumar<br>School of Computing Science<div>Simon Fraser University</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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