[LLVMdev] pointer-sized integer type

Benjamin Smedberg benjamin at smedbergs.us
Sat Dec 1 17:26:04 PST 2007


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Anton Korobeynikov wrote:
> Benjamin,
> 
>> It seems that LLVM bytecode doesn't have a builtin type for "pointer-sized
>> integer". 
> You should use TargetData to provide a size of pointer.

Sorry, perhaps I was not clear. When JITting code it's not hard to figure
out the size of a pointer and use the equivalent integer type. I mean, is it
possible to create architecture-independent LLVM assembly/bytecode that has
an "integer that's the same size as a pointer"?

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Benjamin Smedberg
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