[LLVMdev] IR type safety

Renato Golin rengolin at systemcall.org
Tue Sep 21 15:59:24 PDT 2010


On 21 September 2010 23:00, Eugene Toder <eltoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Btw arguably this is not a type safety problem -- either way the code
> is "safe" since you can't access a value using incompatible view (e.g.
> pointer as double).

Hi Eugene, Scott,

Point taken. The type system is safe, it's just not nominal. As Scott
said, if you need a nominal type system, you have to use something
else.

Thanks!

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--renato

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