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Remove the "special case" for zero-length arrays, and rephrase this
paragraph to be more precise. llvm-svn: 86572
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<p>Note that 'variable sized arrays' can be implemented in LLVM with a zero
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length array. Normally, accesses past the end of an array are undefined in
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LLVM (e.g. it is illegal to access the 5th element of a 3 element array). As
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a special case, however, zero length arrays are recognized to be variable
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length. This allows implementation of 'pascal style arrays' with the LLVM
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type "<tt>{ i32, [0 x float]}</tt>", for example.</p>
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<p>Except when the <tt>inbounds</tt> keyword is present, there is no limitation
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on indexing beyond the end of the array implied by the static type (though
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any loads or stores must of course be within the bounds of the allocated
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object!). This means that single-dimension 'variable sized array' addressing
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can be implemented in LLVM with a zero length array type. An implementation
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of 'pascal style arrays' in LLVM could use the type
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"<tt>{ i32, [0 x float]}</tt>", for example.</p>
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<p>Note that the code generator does not yet support large aggregate types to be
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used as function return types. The specific limit on how large an aggregate
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