[llvm-dev] Building aggregate types with dynamically sized elements

[Christer Swahn via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I'm looking into ways to represent complex aggregate types whose members
and/or sub-members may be dynamically sized. This would conceptually
correspond to a C struct containing other structs and arrays, and some of
those arrays would have a length that is not known in compile time.

LLVM IR allows me to do this for a top-level array (using 0 as its LLVM
data type length and manually computing its needed allocation size).

As far as I understand, if I want to represent structs containing dynamic
arrays containing structs and so on, I will have to roll my own data size
computation, element pointer computation and so on. This however seems to
be a significant risk to portability and alignment handling.

Does anyone here have any experience with similar use cases, or any advice
on how to handle this?

Thanks
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