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What's the RightWay(tm) to get a named type? I want to use the Module's symbol table as a repository for named types. But, it doesn't have a way to get the type out unless you already know what it is (i.e. the addTypeName() method). Similarly the SymbolTable class's lookup() method requires a type as well. The Type class also didn't have anything obvious. I want something

LLVMers, On the way to resolving bug 122, I am committing my SymbolTable rewrite. If you are working on anything that uses the SymbolTable, I suggest you read the documentation in include/llvm/SymbolTable.h. The changes I've committed reduce the use of Type::TypeTy. This static member will go away in the future, so please do not propagate new code that uses it. There is no reason to use it in order to access the "type plane" in the new SymbolTable. There are some corner cases where its still needed elsewhere, however. Here's a quickie summary o...