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<div dir="ltr">The error still persists despite adding the following cast:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">filenmConst = ConstantExpr::getBitCast(filenmConst, Type::getInt8PtrTy(M.getContext()));<br>
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<div dir="ltr">That's why I had omitted this line from code earlier.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr">Thanks,</div>
<div style="direction: ltr">Chaitra</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Tim Northover <t.p.northover@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 1, 2020 12:53<br>
<b>To:</b> Niddodi, Chaitra<br>
<b>Cc:</b> llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-dev] Creating a global variable for a struct array
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<div class="PlainText">On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 16:01, Niddodi, Chaitra <chaitra@illinois.edu> wrote:<br>
> //create global variable to hold filename string<br>
> Constant *filenmInit = ConstantDataArray::getString(M.getContext(), "myfile.txt");<br>
> Constant *filenmConst = new GlobalVariable(M, filenmInit->getType(), false,<br>
> GlobalVariable::ExternalLinkage, filenmInit, ".filenm");<br>
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filenmConst's LLVM type is "[12 x i8]*" (or similar if I've<br>
miscounted), but I assume the slot in the struct is i8*. So you need<br>
either a bitcast or a getelementptr constant expression to convert it.<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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Tim.<br>
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