[haskell-llvm] Generating a structure at runtime

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Nathan Howell wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Henning Thielemann <schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>       The Haskell-llvm package is concerned with generating compilable LLVM bitcode. unsafeGetElementPtr cannot warrant
>       this. unsafeGetElementPtr is unnecessary if you cast the pointers. I would prefer this way.
> 
> 
> Cast my struct to a char* and calculate the alignment and layout manually?

I see, this is the problem. But you have to construct the Struct at 
run-time somehow, right? Then you should also be able to construct the 
right type for the struct-pointer that you pass to (unsafe)getElementPtr.