[LLVMdev] Setting the Type in the Alloca Inst

[Vikram S. Adve]

The type of the return value of alloca or malloc is automatically set by the
constructor (for the base class AllocationInst).  I can't tell without
seeing your code why this might be happening, but I suggest making sure that
the type of the AllocaInst is indeed the pointer type you are expecting

// For: Instruction* allocaInst = new AllocaInst(objectType, ...);
(gdb) p objectType->dump()
(gdb) p allocaInst->getType()->dump()	## should be of type
pointer-to-objectType

--Vikram

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvmdev-admin at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-admin at cs.uiuc.edu]On
> Behalf Of Karthik Pattabiraman
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:20 PM
> To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: [LLVMdev] Setting the Type in the Alloca Inst
>
>
> Previously the Constructor for the Alloca Instruction took the type of
> the returned value. But now it has been updated to take the type of the
> Pointer Operand. My question is: how do I set the type of the return
> value of Alloca ? My code uses the old form of the constructor, and when
> the pointer is passed to "replaceAllUsesWith()" of an Instruction
> Pointer,  an assert fails saying that the the types do not match. It
> used to work fine in the old code ? Am I making some mistake here, or is
> this because of the changes ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Karthik
>
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