[Haskell-cafe] LLVM, getElementPtr?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Lally Singh wrote:

> Hey all, I'm trying to get started generating LLVM code, but I'm
> getting a rather cryptic error.

Btw. there is haskell-llvm at projects.haskell.org

> buildReaderFun :: String -> CodeGenModule (Function (IO ()))
> buildReaderFun nm = do
>  puts <- newNamedFunction ExternalLinkage "puts" :: TFunction (Ptr
> Word8 -> IO Word32)
>  greetz <- createStringNul nm
>  func <- createFunction ExternalLinkage $ do
>    tmp <- getElementPtr0 greetz (0 :: Word32, ())

You have to add a type annotation to greetz like
    (greetz :: Array D42 Word8)
  which limits your string to a length of 42 bytes.

If you do not know the length, better use withStringNul.
I implemented the current behavior, because the former implementation was 
unsafe.

>    call puts  tmp -- Throw away return value.
>    ret ()
>  return func
>
> My attempts at figuring out what type-level has to do with this, and
> how to satisfy it have so far proven unsuccessful.

type-level provides type level integers, and thus allows for static 
checking of sizes, such as the number of bits of an integer type.