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From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sparse-llvm question
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:47:31 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 05:27:17PM +0000, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am hoping to reuse the Sparse-llvm component as a JIT compiler for C
> in an application.
Interesting.

>I was playing around with it a bit and hit an
> immediate issue. For instance compilation of a simple program like
> this fails:
> 
> const char ident[] = "";
> 
> Is there a list of what works and what doesn't anywhere?
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Dibyendu

I think that sparse-llvm have always been very experimental.
Here you can see that initialization of arrays is not implemented
but simple variable is, so the following seems to be fine:
	const char *ident = "";


Regards,
Luc Van Oostenryck