[cfe-dev] Making clang work with opaque pointers

[Aaron Ballman via cfe-dev]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 2:27 AM David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Aaron - any ideas on who, if anyone, might be able to help out on this?

I've CCed in some folks who may be able to help (but I am not certain
whether they've got the bandwidth or not).

~Aaron

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> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 4:46 PM Arthur Eubanks via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> As part of the opaque pointers migration, we need to make the clang frontend not depend on PointerType's pointee type. There are a couple random places that need to be fixed up to not use PointerType::getElementType and Type::getPointerElementType(), but the biggest issue is (I believe) clang::CodeGen::Address (and LValue/RValue?).
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>> I had a very preliminary attempt in https://reviews.llvm.org/D103465 but am not super familiar with the clang frontend. Is there anybody more familiar with clang who'd be willing to make clang work with opaque pointers?
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