Say I have the following C structure definition:

struct stringStructure
{
    char *stringVariable;
};

For the above, Clang produces the following LLVM IR:

%struct.stringStructure = type { i8* }

...which includes everything in my definition except the variable identifier stringVariable.

I'd like to find some way to export the identifier into the generated LLVM IR, so that I can refer to it by name from my application (which uses the LLVM C++ API).

I've tried adding the annotate attribute, as follows:

    char *stringVariable __attribute__((annotate("stringVariable")));

...but the annotation doesn't seem to make it through (the structure is still just defined as type { i8* }).

Any ideas?