[LLVMdev] (GEP) Index validity

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> Hi Chris & Evan,
>
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:34:03PM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> Why?  What value does that provide?  Struct indices are not allowed  
>> to
>> be variable, so picking any width constant (that isn't too small) is
>> fine.  What problem are you trying to solve here?
> The current code only allows 32 bit constants. My patch allows any  
> width
> constant to be used, but it seems Evan doesn't agree with that.


Hey Matthijs,

I understand what you're trying to do.  Why do you want this?  What  
value does it add?  Do you need a struct with more than 2^32 fields?

-Chris