[LLVMdev] variable sized structs in LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Aaron Gray wrote:
>> As you mention above, you should use malloc and cast the return value.  If 
>> you want to get the desired size in a target-independent way (always good), 
>> you should do something like this:

...

> Chris you should maybe add this example to the getelementptr documentation.

This isn't really appropriate for the reference manual, but I added it to 
the "Source Language Implementation Notes" of my web page here:

http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/SizeOf-OffsetOf-VariableSizedStructs.txt

Hope this helps!

-Chris

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