This fixes code generation for string initializer such as: static char *foo = "Foo !\n"; It's the same fix Ben proposed earlier with the small difference that we now use LLVMTypeOf() instead of symbol_type() to resolve the type. The generated LLVM IR looks as follows: [penberg@tux sparse]$ ./sparse-llvm foo.c |llvm-dis ; ModuleID = '<stdin>' @"<noident>" = private global [7 x i8] c"Foo !\0A\00" @foo = private global [7 x i8]* @"<noident>" Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>