Getting the address of an Operand from LLVM IR

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Hello There,

Is it possible to retrieve the memory address of an operand in LLVM IR.
If so, How to do it.

I know that we cannot determine the absolute address . Can we can at least retrieve the relative address of a variable/operand in an instruction.

Thank You in advance.

Regards,
Bernard

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Hi,

LLVM IR is too high level to give that kind of information. Stack frames haven’t been created yet and we’re a million miles from generating relocations. There’s no guarantee that a pointer type in LLVM IR actually becomes a pointer when instruction selected!

Cheers,

James