[LLVMdev] Getting the pointer type from a Load/Store SDNode

[Christopher Lamb]

On Nov 22, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Christopher Lamb wrote:
>> I'm digging into this, but I'd like to know if it's feasible to  
>> get to the
>> pointer type from a Load/Store SDNode? This would relieve me from  
>> having to
>> put the address space information into those SDNodes.
>>
>> Is Load/StoreSDNode->getSrcValue()->getType() going to do what I  
>> want?
>> If not, I can't see another way of getting to the pointer type.
>
> Hrm, the codegen has a couple of interesting crazy issues.  For  
> example,
> it thinks there is a current PointerTy() that is always valid.
>
> I see a couple ways to handle this.  One is to require that the  
> targets
> custom expand the load/store to alternate address space at SDISel  
> time.
> This way they could do any crazy thing they want, including  
> lowering them
> into intrinsics, etc.

Forcing custom lowering for ISD::LOAD/STORE means that you lose lots  
of the information carried along with the Load/StoreSDNode that makes  
writing instruction patterns (particularly the ext/trunc predicates)  
simple.

Another possibility is to add a utility function to Load/StoreSDNodes  
that returns the address space of the pointer being used. For my use  
I think this way is probably best, though there's nothing preventing  
a target from doing custom lowering.

--
Christopher Lamb



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