[llvm-dev] Must string literals be declared as a global variable in LLVM IR?

[Eli Friedman via llvm-dev]

On 1/22/2019 12:48 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> If you want a pointer to a value, it has to be located somewhere in
>> memory.  There are basically three places memory can be allocated in a
>> program: on the stack (alloca),
> Even I can alloca a chuck of memory, there is not a way to put the
> string constant to it? Sounds likely there is not way to avoid the
> initialization of the global variables. Is it?

You can always write a sequence of byte stores to store each character. 
Of course, that's not very efficient for long strings.

-Eli

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