[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] Extend llvm to fix global addresses

David Blaikie dblaikie at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 15:23:10 PST 2011


> We've spoken to several people who do write drivers and
> other code like the above, and they seem pretty enthusiastic about the
> idea.  If you have input about how best to design this, at any of the levels
> Peter spelled out, that would be interesting.

I'm curious what the particular benefits/differences would be between
this language feature & the existing solution (casting constant
integer values to pointers). This wasn't clear to me from the original
post.

Perhaps some (even straw man) example code?

- David




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