[LLVMdev] metadata as function arguments

[Joey Gouly]

That's metadata for arguments to calling a function, you tried to attach
metadata to the arguments of a declaration of a function.


On 11 February 2013 22:58, Niko Zarzani <koni10 at hotmail.it> wrote:

>  > > I have written them by hand in the .s file in the same way of the IR
> > > reference (http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#named-metadata) :
> > >
> > > define i32 @function(i32 %argInt, metadata !3) nounwind {
> >
> > This seems wrong. "metadata" is a type (like i32), and the exclamation
> > mark is only used to refer to metadata nodes, not to declare functions
> > with them.
>
> I'm only interested in attaching a metadata string to a function with
> wirtten its precondition...Since here in the IR reference (
> http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#metadata-nodes-and-metadata-strings)
> there is written:
>
> Metadata can be used as function arguments. Here llvm.dbg.value function
> is using two metadata arguments:
>
> call void @llvm.dbg.value(metadata !24, i64 0, metadata !25)
>
>
> I thought that maybe writing them as a function argument and then reading
> them could work... there is any other way to do that?
>
> Thank you :)
>
>
> Niko
>
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