[clang] [lld] [llvm] [mlir] [IR] Introduce `T<address space>` to `DataLayout` to represent flat address space if a target supports it (PR #108786)

[Alex Voicu via cfe-commits]

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@@ -3050,6 +3050,19 @@ as follows:
     address space 0, this property only affects the default value to be used
     when creating globals without additional contextual information (e.g. in
     LLVM passes).
+``T<address space>``
+    Specifies the address space for a target's 'flat' address space. Note this
+    is not necessarily the same as addrspace 0, which LLVM sometimes refers to
+    as the generic address space. The flat address space is a generic address
+    space that can be used access multiple segments of memory with different
+    address spaces. Access of a memory location through a pointer with this
+    address space is expected to be legal but slower compared to the same memory
+    location accessed through a pointer with a different address space. This is
+    for targets with different pointer representations which can be converted
+    with the addrspacecast instruction. If a pointer is converted to this
+    address space, optimizations should attempt to replace the access with the
+    source address space. The absence of this specification indicates the target
+    does not have such a flat address space to optimize away.
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AlexVlx wrote:

I don't think the latter has to be true, as there can be some degree of nesting for address spaces (for example, some targets have the constant AS simply be global + additional guarantees, but the two can physically / conceptually alias).

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/108786