How can I implement a string data type in LLVM?

Question

I have been looking at LLVM lately, and I find it to be quite an interesting architecture. However, looking through the tutorial and the reference material, I can\'t see any ex

Answer 1

[To follow up on other answers which explain what strings are, here is some implementation help]

Using the C interface, the calls you'll want are something like:

LLVMValueRef llvmGenLocalStringVar(const char* data, int len)
{
  LLVMValueRef glob = LLVMAddGlobal(mod, LLVMArrayType(LLVMInt8Type(), len), "string");

  // set as internal linkage and constant
  LLVMSetLinkage(glob, LLVMInternalLinkage);
  LLVMSetGlobalConstant(glob, TRUE);

  // Initialize with string:
  LLVMSetInitializer(glob, LLVMConstString(data, len, TRUE));

  return glob;
}