[LLVMdev] Re: Indirect function call

[Nai Xia]

Sorry, again for my noise. :(
The paper -- "The LLVM Instruction Set and Compilation Strategy"  thoroughly discussed the issue 
although not mentioned in details in "Ref Manual".

On Sunday 21 May 2006 12:21, Nai Xia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The "LLVM Language Reference Manual" mentions about "indirect function call". 
> I am just curious about what exactly is the __syntax__ of them and how I can 
> get the callee of an indirect callsite.
> From my point of view, there is hardly any cases where indirect calls are 
> needed, because anywhere we use a "fptr" in C, it could just be represented 
> in LLVM IR like this: 
> 
> %tmp = load void ()** %fptr
> call void ()* %tmp( ) 
> 
> So what is indirect call used for?
> 

-- 
Regards,
Nai