[cfe-dev] sizeof(long) in OpenCL C

[David Tweed]

On 08/30/2013 07:00 PM, David Tweed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> | I notice that, with the patch applied, "long" has 64 bits, but
> __INTPTR_TYPE__ is still defined as "long int" on ARM. This is now wrong; it
> needs to be set to "int" instead. Do you have pointers for
> | correcting this in clang?
>
> Unfortunately not; implementation (even such simple things as choice of
> size) of pointers for OpenCL devices is one of those "implementations may
> make different choices" areas where things don't map cleanly to the standard
> clang front-end.

| Uhm.. Implementation defined types makes type size enforcing complex. If the
| mapping must be direct I think there is no solution.

What I meant was: pointers within the context of OpenCL may not necessarily be implemented in the same way as on the "underlying" target. As such, embedding an assumption that the pointer type is the same within the common clang code is probably the wrong way to do things to be useful as common code. (Of course there it may actually be the same for some ways of implementing OpenCL, just that it need not always be.) I think Erik's later patch introducing a distinct PointerWidth seems like a suitable mechanism.

| If the relationship is just between implementation defined type and (sign,
| bitwidth) then the mapping can be done on the fly looking for the pair (sign,
| bitwidth) in the native types map, picking a compatible type.
| The fact that there is no direct control on the mapping can be an issue.

I don't quite understand what you mean here; as above the key thing I was mentioning was that the size of a pointer used when working as a OpenCL compiler may be different from the one that would be chosen when working as a C compiler, so simply making the "C compiler" pointer width expressed in terms of types defined identically in OpenCL and C is not the way to go.

Cheers,
Dave

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