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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Marc de Kruijf <dekruijf at cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > The LLVA and LLVM papers motivate the GetElementPtr instruction by arguing > that it abstracts implementation details, in particular pointer size, from > the compiler. While it does this fine for pointer addresses, it does not > manage it for address offsets. Consider the following code: > >

The LLVA and LLVM papers motivate the GetElementPtr instruction by arguing that it abstracts implementation details, in particular pointer size, from the compiler. While it does this fine for pointer addresses, it does not manage it for address offsets. Consider the following code: $ cat test.c int main() { int *x[2]; int **y = &x[1]; return (y - x); } $ llvm-gcc -O3 -c test.c