[PATCH] D99121: [IR][InstCombine] IntToPtr Produces Typeless Pointer To Byte

Wed Mar 24 20:56:25 PDT 2021

dblaikie added a comment.

In D99121#2649546 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99121#2649546>, @ruiling wrote:

>> No, sorry I don't - I ran out of steam after the initial work, and haven't been able to get back into it. A few folks have picked up my slack in the last year or two & made some incremental progress.
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>> It'd be good to tag any workarounds somehow (I don't know how, exactly) to be sure they're cleaned up as things are sorted out.
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>> Long and the short of it: If these bugs matter to you, probably not worth waiting for the general fix (but more help would be appreciated if you wanted to work on the long term solution) & workarounds are probably reasonable.
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> Sounds we still need a long way to get there? Do we think the patch acceptable as a short-term solution?

Guess it's a tradeoff. Doesn't look like a load of code/complexity. - but equally, does it provide much value? Or is it enough to know it can eventually be addressed in a more general manner?

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