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

[Chris Lattner]

In that case, Ada should just use UndefValue, which should work  
today.  :)

-Chris

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On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:

>>> 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.
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