<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/139013>139013</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [DirectX] Pointer type bitcast must be have same size.
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            backend:DirectX
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          farzonl
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    DXILPrepare.cpp adds NoOp bitcasts that are causing problems in the validator

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/c7f350f1428df14e3114977b830ab4dcd3008983/llvm/lib/Target/DirectX/DXILPrepare.cpp#L216-L245

It is changing
```llvm
store float 2.000000e+00, ptr addrspace(3) getelementptr (float, ptr addrspace(3) @arrayofVecData.scalarized.1dim, i32 1), align 4
```
to:
```llvm
%2 = bitcast ptr addrspace(3) getelementptr (float, ptr addrspace(3) @arrayofVecData.scalarized.1dim, i32 1) to ptr addrspace(3)
store float 2.000000e+00, ptr addrspace(3) %2, align 4
```

commenting out these no ops resolves all 848 ptr bitcast errors.
</pre>
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