[llvm-commits] LSR Overkill For Strides?

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Reid Spencer wrote:

> Chris,
>
> I'm wondering if you could look at this patch to  
> LoopStrengthReduce.cpp.
> It's the third (last change set) I'm asking about.
>
> I've converted the stride comparisons to use APInt. It seems unlikely
> that strides will be > 64 bits. Is this overkill?

Without looking at the patch, if it has to do with sizeof(void*), it  
is safe to assume that all pointers (and thus differences between  
pointers) are <= 64-bits in size.

-Chris