forward declarations of global values

Hi,

Is it possible to use forward declarations for global variables when emitting llvm IL from C++ ? I.e. if I have a global array, but I
can’t determine its size until after the llvm IL code which uses it is emitted.

thanks

Zoltan

The way clang deals with such constructs is that it emits a
placeholder global for the declaration, then when it sees a definition
that has a different LLVM type, it creates a new global definition,
takes the name of the old global declaration, replaces all the uses of
the old global declaration with a bitcast of the new global
declaration, then erases the old global declaration.

-Eli