[LLVMdev] Passing ConstantDataArray to GetElementPtrInst

[jsrduck]

Hi, I'm having a hard time finding an answer to what I assume is a very basic
idea. I'm trying to produce this llvm code using the LLVM api: 

  %myString = alloca [13 x i8], i32 13 
  store [13 x i8] c"Hello world.\00", [13 x i8]* %myString 
  %tmp1 = getelementptr [13 x i8]* %myString, i32 0, i32 0 
  %tmp2 = call i32 (i8*, ...)* @printf( i8* %tmp1 ) nounwind 

A simple Hello World example. But I can't seem to figure out what I'm
supposed to pass to the GetElementPtrInst. For example, this snippet: 

   std::vector<llvm::Value*> args; 
   auto strValue =
llvm::ConstantDataArray::getString(llvm::getGlobalContext(),
llvm::StringRef("Hello world.")); 
   std::vector<llvm::Value*> index_vector; 
   index_vector.push_back(Builder.getInt32(0)); 
   index_vector.push_back(Builder.getInt32(0)); 
   auto valueAsPtr = Builder.CreateGEP(strValue, index_vector, "tmp1"); 
   args.push_back(valueAsPtr); 
   Builder.CreateCall(TheModule->getFunction("printf"), args, "callprintf"); 

Note that this is summarized, I already have the IRBuilder, etc initialized.
I've also tried this with a LoadInstr that loads the ConstantDataArray (I
just inserted strValue into the example code to simplify things, I get the
same error either way). 

If I run this code, LLVM asserts in the CreateGEP call with the error
message "Non-pointer type for constant GetElementPtr expression" since the
type I passed to CreateGEP is an Array type. Callstack: 

> Lexer.exe!llvm::ConstantExpr::getGetElementPtr(llvm::Constant * C,
> llvm::ArrayRef<llvm::Value *> Idxs, bool InBounds, llvm::Type *
> OnlyIfReducedTy) Line 2005 C++ 
  Lexer.exe!llvm::ConstantFolder::CreateGetElementPtr(llvm::Constant * C,
llvm::ArrayRef<llvm::Value *> IdxList) Line 133 C++ 
 
Lexer.exe!llvm::IRBuilder<1,llvm::ConstantFolder,llvm::IRBuilderDefaultInserter<1>
>::CreateGEP(llvm::Value * Ptr, llvm::ArrayRef<llvm::Value *> IdxList, const
llvm::Twine & Name) Line 1021 C++ 


Shockingly, I have been unable to find examples of anyone else doing this.
Everyone else seems to create a global variable to hold the string value,
and then passes that Global variable to CreateGEP. I know the llvm code I'm
trying to create works correctly, I just can't seem to produce it using the
tools, and I'm not sure why. 

Thanks, 
Jordan 



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