llvm-c: Add LLVMPrintTypeToString

Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1963

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@193149 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

diff --git a/include/llvm-c/Core.h b/include/llvm-c/Core.h
index f9717cc..a48ea7e 100644 (file)
--- a/include/llvm-c/Core.h
+++ b/include/llvm-c/Core.h
@@ -723,6 +723,14 @@ LLVMContextRef LLVMGetTypeContext(LLVMTypeRef Ty);
 void LLVMDumpType(LLVMTypeRef Val);
 
 /**
+ * Return a string representation of the type. Use
+ * LLVMDisposeMessage to free the string.
+ *
+ * @see llvm::Type::print()
+ */
+char *LLVMPrintTypeToString(LLVMTypeRef Val);
+
+/**
  * @defgroup LLVMCCoreTypeInt Integer Types
  *
  * Functions in this section operate on integer types.

diff --git a/lib/IR/Core.cpp b/lib/IR/Core.cpp
index 7d52386..16af733 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/IR/Core.cpp
+++ b/lib/IR/Core.cpp
@@ -224,6 +224,16 @@ void LLVMDumpType(LLVMTypeRef Ty) {
   return unwrap(Ty)->dump();
 }
 
+char *LLVMPrintTypeToString(LLVMTypeRef Ty) {
+  std::string buf;
+  raw_string_ostream os(buf);
+
+  unwrap(Ty)->print(os);
+  os.flush();
+
+  return strdup(buf.c_str());
+}
+
 /*--.. Operations on integer types .........................................--*/
 
 LLVMTypeRef LLVMInt1TypeInContext(LLVMContextRef C)  {