[LLVMdev] Indexing backwards through a structure

[David Given]

Given a structure like this (using C syntax rather than LLVM because I'm
still not fluent with LLVM assembly):

struct Object
{
  int i1;
  int i2;
  int i3;
};

Then, if I have an int* pointer which I know is pointing to the i3
element, what's the best way of recovering a pointer to the structure as
a whole?

My fallback option is to cast the pointer to an int64, use getelementptr
to determine the offset of the i3 element, subtract, cast back to a
pointer, etc. However this feels very clunky to me and I'd like a
cleaner way of doing it.

Any suggestions?

(The actual use case: I have an object with embedded vtables; given a
pointer to one of the vtables, I need to get the pointer to the actual
object instance. Does LLVM has any built-in support for doing this sort
of thing?)

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