[LLVMdev] PROPOSAL: IR representation of detailed struct assignment information

[Renato Golin]

On 30 August 2012 21:30, Krzysztof Parzyszek <kparzysz at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> I guess I'm late to the party, but another possibility would be to model
> structure types as lists of members with their offsets from the beginning of
> the parent aggregate.  This would require extensive changes to LLVM, so I'm
> not sure if it's an option.

This has been proposed already, and could also be used by bitfields,
but the changes were too many and was not accepted.

I think the biggest reason against was that it was strongly based on
C++ semantics and not generic enough to be considered IR material.

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cheers,
--renato

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