[LLVMdev] Global Variable Recall

[John Criswell]

On 9/10/13 1:50 PM, Rasha Omar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to call global variable by its name from the following code
>
>  for(Function::iterator i=F->begin();i!=F->end();++i)
>       {
>     BasicBlock*Bb =&*i;
>     GlobalVariable* GV = new GlobalVariable(type,false, 
> F->getLinkage(),0,  "F$"+Bb->getName());
>     GV->setInitializer(Constant::getNullValue (typ));
>     GList.push_back(GV);
>       }
>
> Could I solve that by mapping the global variables in Stringmap?

If you know the name of the GlobalVariable that you want to find, you 
can use the Module::getGlobalVariable() method to get a pointer to it:

http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Module.html#a17ebd56685ee19e7761ae577cd511e25

-- John T.

> I need to identify the global variable with its name in the IR to be 
> able to load and store its values.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -- 
> *Rasha Salah Omar
> Msc Student at E-JUST
> Demonestrator  at Faculty of Computers and Informatics
> Benha University*
>
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