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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How to specify address of an extern variable in llvm bitcode? </span><br>
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Say, I have an int variable declared as <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">extern int key;</span></div>
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and the address of the variable is 0x7f4c2dacf000</div>
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Is there a way to modify the llvm bitcode to specify the variable's address?</div>
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<div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size:12pt">Thanks,
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