LLVM get constant integer back from Value*

Question

I create a llvm::Value* from a integer constant like this:

llvm::Value* constValue = llvm::ConstantInt::get( llvmContext , llvm::APInt( node->someInt() ))         


        

Answer 1

Given llvm::Value* foo and you know that foo is actually a ConstantInt, I believe that the idiomatic LLVM code approach is to use dyn_cast as follows:

if (llvm::ConstantInt* CI = dyn_cast(foo)) {
  // foo indeed is a ConstantInt, we can use CI here
}
else {
  // foo was not actually a ConstantInt
}

If you're absolutely sure that foo is a ConstantInt and are ready to be hit with an assertion failure if it isn't, you can use cast instead of dyn_cast.

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P.S. Do note that cast and dyn_cast are part of LLVM's own implementation of RTTI. dyn_cast acts somewhat similarly to the standard C++ dynamic_cast, though there are differences in implementation and performance (as can be read here).