I have a simple gimple question. I am trying to introduce an array
into a gimple stream and create a pointer to that array.
I can create the array with:
array_type = build_array_type_nelts (char_type_node, 256);
array_var = create_tmp_var (array_type, "spill");
I can create a pointer to an array with:
ptr_type = build_pointer_type (array_type);
ptr_var = create_tmp_var (ptr_type, "spill");
But if I try to create an assignment to get the pointer to point to
the array I get a verify_gimple error.
I have tried:
stmt = gimple_build_assign (ptr_var, array_var);
and
stmt = gimple_build_assign (ptr_var, ADDR_EXPR, array_var);
but neither of those work. I also tried making the pointer be a
pointer to char instead of a pointer to array of char but that didn't
seem to work either. Can someone help me with the magic formula to
generate gimple code that causes ptr_var to point to array_var?
Is ADDR_EXPR the right way to get the address of the array instead of
the value in a gimple_build_assign call?
Steve Ellcey
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