[LLVMdev] Complex constant expressions?

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Neil Booth wrote:
>> What would be a good technique for accomplishing this?

> The APFloat functionality I wrote is the only means I'm aware of
> in LLVM, via the return value.  APFloat is derived from C code I

Right. Use of APFloat and AP[S]Int directly is the way to do this.  It 
would be useful to extend APSInt to capture information about overflow.

> If LLVM's APFloat wrapper isn't conveying the info it is given
> by APFloat, it needs to be improved :)

No, it doesn't.  The LLVM constant classes are intended for the optimizer 
and IR, not for a front-end to use.

-Chris

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