[LLVMdev] Moving towards a singular pointer type

Reid Kleckner rnk at google.com
Fri Feb 6 22:58:01 PST 2015


On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
wrote:
>
> It also wouldn't be too hard to accept the old .ll syntax, since the
>> upgrade path mostly discards information.
>>
>
> I agree here. If only because of th eregression test suite, and the
> *incredible* tediousness of updating the pointers. The auto-upgrade for
> this kind of thing is essentially perfect.
>

I think we should definitely script an update of the test suite if we do
this. I really don't want to deal with reading old style IR in 98% of
existing tests.
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