[LLVMdev] Problem with missing support for non-zero contant initializers.

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> I'm working on a LLVM based compiler for the D programming language by
> Walter Bright.

Nifty.

> D allows static arrays up to 16MB in size. I'm initializing global
> static arrays with a constant initializer. But D requires that (per
> default) static arrays are initialized with the default initializer
> for the element type. For float this happens to be NaN, so I cannot
> use a 'zeroinitializer'.

Wow, this *is* bad.  I think the solution to this is to add a new 
ConstantFillArray node.  It would always have array type, would take a 
single Constant* value, and would give you the filled array with that 
constant.  Please file a bug if you're interested.

-Chris

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