[LLVMdev] 64-bit Attributes?

[Kostya Serebryany]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi Kostya,
>
> > Today, llvm/Attributes.h defines 'Attributes' as 'unsigned'.
> > This bit vector is fully packed, and I am probably not the only one who
> wants to
> > add bits to it.
> > Is there a strong reason not to define Attributes as uint64_t?
> > At first glance this seems doable, and the IR reader/writer will not
> need to be
> > changed at all (or at least, not significantly).
>
> probably attributes should become a (pointer to) a more complicated data
> structure.


that would be a bigger change...
Does anyone else feel such need?
(I need just one extra bit for AddressSanitizer/SAFEcode :))


> For example, I would like to get rid of the zext/sext parameter
> attributes and replace with "z/sexted_from(type)" where type is an
> arbitrary
> integer type.


You mean, other than i8/i16/i32/i64?

--kcc


> This will never fit into 64 bits.  Maybe now is the time to
> think of a more powerful representation for attributes.
>
> Ciao, Duncan.
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