[llvm] [clang] Replace uses of CreatePointerBitCastOrAddrSpaceCast (NFC) (PR #68277)

Youngsuk Kim via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 5 17:09:18 PDT 2023


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@@ -2138,6 +2138,8 @@ class IRBuilderBase {
     return Insert(CastInst::CreatePointerCast(V, DestTy), Name);
   }
 
+  // With opaque pointers enabled, this is same as CreateAddressSpaceCast.
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JOE1994 wrote:

> If the types (= address spaces) are the same, CreatePointerBitCastOrAddrSpaceCast does nothing, while CreateAddressSpaceCast aborts. That is, they are equivalent iff the types are different.

Thank you for the clarification!

So `CreateAddrSpaceCast` and `CreatePointerBitCastOrAddrSpaceCast` aren't strict equivalents,
but it still seems that uses of `CreatePointerBitCastOrAddrSpaceCast` can be substituted with `CreateAddrSpaceCast`.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/68277


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