[LLVMdev] PR400 - alignment for LD/ST

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Christopher Lamb wrote:
> Ok. This got a little over my head, but what I take away is:
>
> 1. I'll submit a patch for just the alias parameter on loads and stores. The 
> alias parameter indicates the final alignment of the load or store (nothing 
> to do with base+imm or base+offset addressing).
>
> 2. The more sophisticated alignment information for vectorization of 
> loads/stores will likely have to be implemented as an analysis pass and 
> wouldn't need to be represented in the BC or assembly.

Ok I think this makes sense.  We can always make the information more rich 
later down the line.  Thanks!

-Chris

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