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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - [DebugInfo] pointless pointer_type"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36328">36328</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>[DebugInfo] pointless pointer_type
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Windows NT
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>LLVM Codegen
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>paul_robinson@playstation.sony.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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        <pre>It looks like Clang will add 'void *' to the retainedTypes even if
there are no references to it elsewhere in the metadata.

######################
$ cat t.c
void k(void *);
void g() {
  int count = 2;
  k((void *)&count);
}
$ clang -c -g t.c -S -emit-llvm
######################

In the IR, I see:

!0 = distinct !DICompileUnit(..., retainedTypes: !3)
!3 = !{!4}
!4 = !DIDerivedType(tag: DW_TAG_pointer_type, baseType: null, size: 64)

But there are no other uses of !4.
If I change 'void *' to 'int *' the pointer_type goes away.

Note that k() is not described in the metadata, regardless.</pre>
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