[PATCH] Re-add DataLayout convenience functions for getting pointer size
Eli Friedman
eli.friedman at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 19:01:05 PDT 2013
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Matt Arsenault <arsenm2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 22, 2013, at 18:48 , Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Also, I'm not sure I really like the general design of these APIs;
>> what is the benefit of using them over getTypeSizeInBits()?
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> getTypeSizeInBits doesn't return the same thing for vectors of pointers. It would return n * the pointer size, when you want just the pointer size.
Okay... assume we have getScalarTypeSizeInBits().
-Eli
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