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<p>This document seeks to dispel the mystery and confusion surrounding LLVM's
GetElementPtr (GEP) instruction. Questions about the wiley GEP instruction are
- probably the most frequently occuring questions once a developer gets down to
+ probably the most frequently occurring questions once a developer gets down to
coding with LLVM. Here we lay out the sources of confusion and show that the
GEP instruction is really quite simple.
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<p>In this example, <tt>idx1</tt> computes the address of the second integer
- in the array that is in the structure in %MyVar, that is <tt>MyVar+4</tt>. The
- type of <tt>idx1</tt> is <tt>i32*</tt>. However, <tt>idx2</tt> computes the
- address of <i>the next</i> structure after <tt>%MyVar</tt>. The type of
- <tt>idx2</tt> is <tt>{ [10 x i32] }*</tt> and its value is equivalent
- to <tt>MyVar + 40</tt> because it indexes past the ten 4-byte integers
- in <tt>MyVar</tt>. Obviously, in such a situation, the pointers don't
- alias.</p>
+ in the array that is in the structure in <tt>%MyVar</tt>, that is
+ <tt>MyVar+4</tt>. The type of <tt>idx1</tt> is <tt>i32*</tt>. However,
+ <tt>idx2</tt> computes the address of <i>the next</i> structure after
+ <tt>%MyVar</tt>. The type of <tt>idx2</tt> is <tt>{ [10 x i32] }*</tt> and its
+ value is equivalent to <tt>MyVar + 40</tt> because it indexes past the ten
+ 4-byte integers in <tt>MyVar</tt>. Obviously, in such a situation, the
+ pointers don't alias.</p>
+
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