Alberto Barbaro via llvm-dev
2019-Nov-15 13:07 UTC
[llvm-dev] Help to understand a store instruction
Hi all, Yesterday I managed to obtain the IR of libpng and while I was going through the code I found out that within the function png_write_sig[1] the signature is created using a store instruction like the following: store i64 727905341920923785, i64 %2, align 8, !dbg, !40041. %2 is the array... That massive number is the hexadecimal representation of the png signature but with the bytes in reverse order. Can someone explain me why? If seen other similar instructions and the integer value on the left was not reversed... I can only think about little and big endian... Thanks in advance Alberto [1] https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtbase/src/3rdparty/libpng/pngwutil.c.html#png_write_sig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20191115/0438344a/attachment.html>