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

For those using the C++ API of LLVM, you can rely on IRBuilder's CreateGlobalStringPtr :

Builder.CreateGlobalStringPtr(StringRef("Hello, world!"));

This will be represented as i8* in the final LLVM IR.