[LLVMdev] Idea for Google Summer Code : C Compiler for EFI Byte Code implement in LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:31 AM, 琬菁楊 wrote:

> What do you mean by "variable sized pointers"?  What does:
> 
> struct  S {void *X; };
> 
> return for sizeof(struct S); ?
> 
> I have surveyed the UEFI spec2.3.
> In my opinion, if the EBC VM is running on 32-bit processor, return value is 4
> if the EBC VM is running on 64-bit processor, return value is 8
> 
> If error out on any sizeof that include a pointer, does it means that no issue about pointer size determined at runtime??

Yes, if it is an error, it makes it much more feasible to implement.

-Chris
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