How to insert external global variable declarations and pointer assignment statements through GCC plugin GIMPLE pass

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Abhijit Nandy" <abhijit.nandy@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for the pointers. I have been trying to make a simple VAR_DECL
> using the following call :
>
> tree type_node = make_node(POINTER_TYPE);
> //TYPE_NAME(type_node) = type_id;
> tree var_decl = build0(VAR_DECL, type_node);

Use build_decl.

> testcode.c:33:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault

When you get a segmentation fault, your first step should be to use the
debugger to find out what went wrong.  That will normally point you in
the right direction.

Ian