[cfe-dev] question about adding qualifiers

[John McCall]

On May 15, 2010, at 12:13 PM, kartik kumar wrote:
> I know that these locations are accessed through the address space qualifiers of the language that we add to the existing compiler, but how are these qualifiers digested by a compiler frontend like clang. Do I just pick a number for following representation and tell clang that this is some location of the hardware that I am going to support and make it print some instructions in the LLVM IR ?

Yes, that is pretty much exactly what you should do.  You would then need to teach your backend how to deal with the address spaces you've chosen.

John.