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As part of the Opaque Pointers upgrade documentation, LLVM says that the function LLVMGetGEPSourceElementType() can be used to obtain element type information in lieu of LLVMGetElementType(), however, this function actually returns the struct type, not the field type. The GEP instruction does store the information we need, however, this is not exposed in the C API. It seems like they accidentally exposed the wrong field, because one would never need the struct type since one must already pass it directly to the GEP instruction, so one will always have it handy, whereas one will usually not have the field type handy.
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The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
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