llvm dev - Oct 2010 - [LLVMdev] How to assign a constant to a register?

On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:52 AM, leledumbo wrote:
>> 
>> No, you could throw it into a global if you know you're going to
want to
> use 5 at some point in the future randomly.
> 
> OK, I guess that's the way I should treat it. Load from global to
register,
> do operations, store it back.
I suppose, it'd be no different than doing this in a C file:

static const int five = 5;

and then using "five" all over the place instead of 5.

Why not just use ConstantInt::get() when you want the number 5?

-eric

> Why not just use ConstantInt::get() when you want the number 5? 
Because I'm not using LLVM libraries, I'm generating LLVM assembly
myself.
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On 20/10/10 11:37, leledumbo wrote:
>
>> Why not just use ConstantInt::get() when you want the number 5?
>
> Because I'm not using LLVM libraries, I'm generating LLVM assembly
myself.
In that case, why not output '5' when you want 5?

Ciao,

Duncan.