[cfe-dev] patch for generalizing stdint for n-bit bytes

[Chris Lattner]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Ken Dyck wrote:
>
> TargetInfo allows you to override the type, width, and alignment of
> several type definitions that are synonyms for the standard integer
> types (i.e. wchar_t, char16, char32, intmax_t). It is possible, for
> example, to specify int as 16-bits wide, define wchar_t as int, and
> wchar_t as 32-bits wide. This is exactly the situation with MSP430
> because it overrides the width of int but not of wchar_t, and it leads
> to inconsistencies in limits.h and stdint.h.
>
> Are there any cases where you'd want to specify a width or alignment  
> for
> one of these typedefs that is different from the type that it denotes?
> If not, I propose that we remove the width and alignment members from
> TargetInfo and calculate their values from the type that they denote.

Works for me!

-Chris