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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/10/17 9:39 AM, Dipanjan Das via
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From the documentation, I can't understand the difference
between AllocaInst::getType() vs AllocaInst::getAllocatedType()
methods. Can anyone please enlighten me?<br>
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The AllocaInst instruction allocates stack memory. The value that
it returns is always a pointer to memory.<br>
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You should run an experiment to double-check this, but I believe
AllocaInst::getType() returns the type of the value that is the
result of the alloca while AllocaInst::getAllocatedType() returns
the type of the value that is allocated. For example, if the alloca
allocates a struct {int ; int}, then getAllocatedType() returns a
struct type and getType() return a "pointer to struct" type.<br>
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John Criswell<br>
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<p>Thanks & Regards,</p>
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