[clang] [llvm] [llvm] Deprecate Type::getPointerTo() (PR #113331)

Youngsuk Kim via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Oct 22 07:55:44 PDT 2024


https://github.com/JOE1994 created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/113331

Replace remaining uses of `llvm::Type::getPointerTo()` and deprecate it.

It's no longer needed with opaque pointers in LLVM. It may rather confuse new contributors that LLVM has typed pointers.

>From 01755acec5beb6884d7c3dbcc7e250952feaac15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Youngsuk Kim <youngsuk.kim at hpe.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:40:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [llvm] Deprecate Type::getPointerTo()

Replace remaining uses of `llvm::Type::getPointerTo()` and deprecate it.

It's no longer needed with opaque pointers in LLVM.
It may rather confuse new contributors that LLVM has typed pointers.
---
 clang/lib/CodeGen/CGObjCMac.cpp       | 28 ++++++++++++---------------
 llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h           |  3 ++-
 llvm/tools/bugpoint/CrashDebugger.cpp |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGObjCMac.cpp b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGObjCMac.cpp
index 30f3911a8b03c2..5f1ea351481479 100644
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGObjCMac.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGObjCMac.cpp
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ class ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
   /// GcReadWeakFn -- LLVM objc_read_weak (id *src) function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getGcReadWeakFn() {
     // id objc_read_weak (id *)
-    llvm::Type *args[] = { ObjectPtrTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *args[] = {CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     llvm::FunctionType *FTy =
       llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy, args, false);
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(FTy, "objc_read_weak");
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ class ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
   /// GcAssignWeakFn -- LLVM objc_assign_weak function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getGcAssignWeakFn() {
     // id objc_assign_weak (id, id *)
-    llvm::Type *args[] = { ObjectPtrTy, ObjectPtrTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *args[] = {ObjectPtrTy, CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     llvm::FunctionType *FTy =
       llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy, args, false);
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(FTy, "objc_assign_weak");
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ class ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
   /// GcAssignGlobalFn -- LLVM objc_assign_global function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getGcAssignGlobalFn() {
     // id objc_assign_global(id, id *)
-    llvm::Type *args[] = { ObjectPtrTy, ObjectPtrTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *args[] = {ObjectPtrTy, CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     llvm::FunctionType *FTy =
       llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy, args, false);
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(FTy, "objc_assign_global");
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ class ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
   /// GcAssignThreadLocalFn -- LLVM objc_assign_threadlocal function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getGcAssignThreadLocalFn() {
     // id objc_assign_threadlocal(id src, id * dest)
-    llvm::Type *args[] = { ObjectPtrTy, ObjectPtrTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *args[] = {ObjectPtrTy, CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     llvm::FunctionType *FTy =
       llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy, args, false);
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(FTy, "objc_assign_threadlocal");
@@ -401,8 +401,7 @@ class ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
   /// GcAssignIvarFn -- LLVM objc_assign_ivar function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getGcAssignIvarFn() {
     // id objc_assign_ivar(id, id *, ptrdiff_t)
-    llvm::Type *args[] = { ObjectPtrTy, ObjectPtrTy->getPointerTo(),
-                           CGM.PtrDiffTy };
+    llvm::Type *args[] = {ObjectPtrTy, CGM.UnqualPtrTy, CGM.PtrDiffTy};
     llvm::FunctionType *FTy =
       llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy, args, false);
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(FTy, "objc_assign_ivar");
@@ -419,7 +418,7 @@ class ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
   /// GcAssignStrongCastFn -- LLVM objc_assign_strongCast function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getGcAssignStrongCastFn() {
     // id objc_assign_strongCast(id, id *)
-    llvm::Type *args[] = { ObjectPtrTy, ObjectPtrTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *args[] = {ObjectPtrTy, CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     llvm::FunctionType *FTy =
       llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy, args, false);
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(FTy, "objc_assign_strongCast");
@@ -554,7 +553,7 @@ class ObjCTypesHelper : public ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
 
   /// ExceptionTryEnterFn - LLVM objc_exception_try_enter function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getExceptionTryEnterFn() {
-    llvm::Type *params[] = { ExceptionDataTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *params[] = {CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(
       llvm::FunctionType::get(CGM.VoidTy, params, false),
       "objc_exception_try_enter");
@@ -562,7 +561,7 @@ class ObjCTypesHelper : public ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
 
   /// ExceptionTryExitFn - LLVM objc_exception_try_exit function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getExceptionTryExitFn() {
-    llvm::Type *params[] = { ExceptionDataTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *params[] = {CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(
       llvm::FunctionType::get(CGM.VoidTy, params, false),
       "objc_exception_try_exit");
@@ -570,7 +569,7 @@ class ObjCTypesHelper : public ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
 
   /// ExceptionExtractFn - LLVM objc_exception_extract function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getExceptionExtractFn() {
-    llvm::Type *params[] = { ExceptionDataTy->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *params[] = {CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy,
                                                              params, false),
                                      "objc_exception_extract");
@@ -587,7 +586,7 @@ class ObjCTypesHelper : public ObjCCommonTypesHelper {
   /// SetJmpFn - LLVM _setjmp function.
   llvm::FunctionCallee getSetJmpFn() {
     // This is specifically the prototype for x86.
-    llvm::Type *params[] = { CGM.Int32Ty->getPointerTo() };
+    llvm::Type *params[] = {CGM.UnqualPtrTy};
     return CGM.CreateRuntimeFunction(
         llvm::FunctionType::get(CGM.Int32Ty, params, false), "_setjmp",
         llvm::AttributeList::get(CGM.getLLVMContext(),
@@ -6055,9 +6054,7 @@ ObjCNonFragileABITypesHelper::ObjCNonFragileABITypesHelper(CodeGen::CodeGenModul
       Int8PtrTy, PropertyListPtrTy);
 
   // ImpnfABITy - LLVM for id (*)(id, SEL, ...)
-  llvm::Type *params[] = { ObjectPtrTy, SelectorPtrTy };
-  ImpnfABITy = llvm::FunctionType::get(ObjectPtrTy, params, false)
-                 ->getPointerTo();
+  ImpnfABITy = CGM.UnqualPtrTy;
 
   // struct _class_t {
   //   struct _class_t *isa;
@@ -6472,8 +6469,7 @@ void CGObjCNonFragileABIMac::GenerateClass(const ObjCImplementationDecl *ID) {
                                    llvm::GlobalValue::ExternalLinkage, nullptr,
                                    "_objc_empty_vtable");
     else
-      ObjCEmptyVtableVar =
-        llvm::ConstantPointerNull::get(ObjCTypes.ImpnfABITy->getPointerTo());
+      ObjCEmptyVtableVar = llvm::ConstantPointerNull::get(CGM.UnqualPtrTy);
   }
 
   // FIXME: Is this correct (that meta class size is never computed)?
diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h b/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h
index 2f53197df19998..4c9becf80686fb 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h
@@ -471,8 +471,9 @@ class Type {
   static Type *getWasm_FuncrefTy(LLVMContext &C);
 
   /// Return a pointer to the current type. This is equivalent to
-  /// PointerType::get(Foo, AddrSpace).
+  /// PointerType::get(Ctx, AddrSpace).
   /// TODO: Remove this after opaque pointer transition is complete.
+  [[deprecated("Use PointerType::get instead")]]
   PointerType *getPointerTo(unsigned AddrSpace = 0) const;
 
 private:
diff --git a/llvm/tools/bugpoint/CrashDebugger.cpp b/llvm/tools/bugpoint/CrashDebugger.cpp
index e1a732f4b01921..7dbbf73679584f 100644
--- a/llvm/tools/bugpoint/CrashDebugger.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/bugpoint/CrashDebugger.cpp
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static void RemoveFunctionReferences(Module *M, const char *Name) {
   auto *NewValElemTy = OldUsedVal->getType()->getElementType();
   auto *NewValTy = ArrayType::get(NewValElemTy, Used.size());
   auto *NewUsedVal = ConstantArray::get(NewValTy, Used);
-  UsedVar->mutateType(NewUsedVal->getType()->getPointerTo());
+  UsedVar->mutateType(PointerType::getUnqual(M->getContext()));
   UsedVar->setInitializer(NewUsedVal);
 }
 



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