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

[Duncan Sands]

> > 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.

In Ada, global variables should in general be default initialized to undef
(not zero) so this could also be useful for Ada.

Ciao,

Duncan.