[LLVMdev] LLVM supports Unicode?

[geovanisouza92 at gmail.com]

Thanks, Bagel and Erik!

Your replies help me so much!


2011/8/28 Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+cl at mega-nerd.com>

> geovanisouza92 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm trying create a new programming language, and I want that it have
> > Unicode support (support for read and manipulate rightly the source-code
> and
> > string literals).
>
> LLVM IR iteself only supports one string ty, which is an array of
> i8 (8 bit integers). In your compile you can use utf-8 and any
> utf8 string literal can be stored in an i8 array in the LLVM IR.
>
> For example, the LLVM backend for the DDC compiler [0] does this:
>
>   @str = internal constant [4 x i8] c"bar\00", align 8
>
>
> HTH,
> Erik
>
> [0] http://disciple.ouroborus.net/
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