[llvm-dev] Referencing fields in initializers

[Jan Hoogerbrugge via llvm-dev]

Hi,

For an IR transformation pass I need to get all addresses of fields in an
global variable that refer
to global variables in their initializer.

For example, in this code I need the addresses of s.b[1] and s.c[0]:

  int foo, bar;

  struct S
  {
    int a;
    int *b[2];
    int *c[3];
  } s = {1, {0, &foo}, {&bar, 0, 0}};

I tried to achieve this by traversing the initializer and maintaining a
path of how I get to the
current position in the data structure. In the example s.b[1] corresponds
to path (1, 1) and
s.c[0] with path (2, 0). The paths are then uses as indices for
GetElementPtr. So I do
GetElementPtr s 1 1 and GetElementPtr s 2 0. This works in many cases but
it crashes
on cases where there are GetElementPtr operators in the tree on the path
leading
to the position where I want to take the address ("Invalid
GetElementPtrInst indices for type!").

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can find the places in initialized
global variables where
addresses of global variables are used for initialization?

Regards,
Jan.
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