[LLVMdev] llvm::Type as llvm::Value in metadata

[Marcus Frenkel]

Hi all,

I've a question about something that's bothering me for quite some time now: why is a llvm::Function seen as a llvm::Value (in a sense that llvm::Function is a subclass of llvm::Value), but llvm::Type is not? Should they not - technically seen - be equal?

And to ask a concrete question: is there any way to store a reference to a llvm::Type within the LLVM metadata? As far as I know, the MD nodes take only llvm::Values, so I see no way of storing a reference to a type; it would be a nice thing to be able to store such informations, e.g. when using the metadata to store some more user-specific informations about the module.

Hope someone has a nice idea about this!


Greetings

Marcus