Philip Herron <redbrain@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Just around GENERIC question i've been grep'ing around the tree and > havent found much on how to setup strings. say i wanted to simply do: > > const char * = "foobar"; in C how would i represent this so far i > though yeah go through the usual: > > build_decl (VAR_DECL ....) etc with the nessecary TREE_STATIC etc. I > saw some golang code and saw the code to generate the type for const > char * i think: > > tree const_char_type = build_qualified_type(unsigned_char_type_node, > TYPE_QUAL_CONST); > tree ctype = build_pointer_type(const_char_type); > gpy_preserve_from_gc(ctype); > > Then i thought it would be simply DECL_INITIAL = build_string > (length,"foobar"); but i get some segfalut after i pass the stuff to > the middle end. So i dont think i done this quite right. I think you want build_fold_addr_expr(build_string(length, "foobar")). Ian
